Rough Rider June 23, 2015 by USS Theodore Roosevelt

ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

TUESDAY EDITION

STUNTIN’ LIKE MY DADDY Son Follows in Father’s Footsteps

1,000 POUND CHALLENGE TR’S CREW SHOW OFF THEIR WEIGHT-LIFTING PROWESS

YOUR THOUGHTS ON general quarters

June 23, 2015

1,000-LB CHALLENGE TR’SCREWSHOWOFF Story by MC3 Taylor L. Jackson

THEIR PROWESS

ower-lifting enthusiasts aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) will have the opportunity to show off their strength in an upcoming weightlifting competition sponsored by the ship’s Morale, Welfare and Recreation (MWR) team. On July 11 and 12, competitors will have two attempts to bench press, squat and dead lift as much as they can. To complete the challenge, the total amount of weight lifted must be at least 1,000 pounds. Each participant who completes the challenge will receive a t-shirt signifying their membership in the 1,000-lb Club. “The 1,000-lb Club was created to give all the power lifters on board a chance to see what they can do,” said Nathan Owen, TR’s fit boss. “There are a lot of guys here that like to lift heavy weights but they

don’t get the chance to max out that often, so this is a good way for them to challenge themselves.” Nearly 100 people participated in the last competition and Owen expects an even larger turnout this time around. Preparation is an important factor and participants are encouraged to make sure they are ready before sign ups. “There’s limited space and time available for this competition,” said Owen. “Anyone who wants to do this should try all of the lifts beforehand to be sure they’ll be able to meet the requirements. We don’t want anybody getting hurt so if you don’t think you’re ready, sit this one out and train more for the next one.” Females aboard can also participate in the event by doing the same exercises in a 500 pound competition. Interior Communications Electrician 2nd Class Laura

Auer participated in the last 500-lb Club challenge and was one of four females to complete it. “Fitness competitions are great motivators,” said Auer. “I’m really looking forward to see how I’ve improved since the last one.” Auer placed first among the female participants last year, lifting a combined 535 pounds. With the next competition approaching, Auer encourages other women aboard to begin their strength training. “It’s really important to represent women in these competitions,” said Auer. “A lot of women have a negative view of weight lifting, but it’s an important part of physical fitness.” With the competition just a few short weeks away, TR Sailors are looking forward to showing off their weight lifting prowess. Electrician’s Mate 1st Class Alexander Bryans is ready to try his luck at joining the 1000-lb Club. “It’s my first time doing this, and I know I’m ready to break a thousand,” said Bryans. “I’m definitely motivated, and I believe you can do anything you want if you put your mind to it.” To sign up for a spot, visit the MWR ticket window. There are limited time slots available, so if you think you can lift a grand, sign up today.

in SONFATHER’S FOLLOWS FOOTSTEPS Story by MC3 Taylor Stinson

hat are the odds that among the 5,000 Sailors aboard an aircraft carrier, a father and son would wind up on the same ship? For Lt. Cmdr. Shaun Dennis and his son, Aviation Boatswain’s Mate Airman Shaun Dennis, it seems the odds have landed in their favor while on deployment aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Lt. Cmdr. Dennis is attached to Commander, Carrier Strike Group 12 (CCSG 12), which places him onboard TR with his son, who works in TR’s Air Department. It can seem obvious why the Navy was an option for Airman Dennis - his father is a career-Navy man and he grew up in Hampton, Virginia, minutes down the road from the world’s largest naval base in Norfolk. “I went to him about going into the Navy and he said, ‘Well, I’m not going to force you but give it some thought,’ and he let me know the real details about what goes on in the fleet,” said Airman Dennis. “So I

guess there was a part of me that based my decision off of him, but I mostly went in with the mindset to get my education.” Airman Dennis enlisted in the Navy in June 2013 as an aviation boatswain’s mate. Aviation boatswain’s mates launch and recover aircraft. They also perform organizational maintenance on catapults, arresting gear, barricades and associated flight deck launch and recovery equipment. “My job is easily the hardest thing about being in the Navy,” said Airman Dennis. “My job is very busy and I’m working about 20-hour days, with little sleep, so it definitely keeps your mind busy, but it’s exhausting. I launch and recover aircraft. I also do a lot of maintenance with the aircraft so that keeps me up. Maintenance takes the bigger part of my day because after flying it’s [maintenance] for the rest of the day.” Even with long working hours, Airman Dennis

focuses on his goals and is motivated by his father’s presence to stand out among the ranks. “There’s a bit of a higher standard for me but I am pretty good at adjusting to what I do in different situations,” said Airman Dennis. “I had people on the ship come up to me and tell me, ‘Oh your dad is on the ship, you better tighten up,’ or something like that, but it’s easy for me. I just keep doing what I’m told and I know I am going to do well.” Airman Dennis received his enlisted aviation warfare specialist qualification earlier this month and requested that his father be the one to pin him. “I never obtained my air pin,” said Lt. Cmdr. Dennis. “I was an enlisted guy but on the surface side, electrician’s mate, so it wasn’t a priority to obtain that qualification and certainly not as early in my career back then. It definitely feels awesome to share this experience with my son.” Although the details of each other’s careers may vary, Airman Dennis is intent on following his father’s footsteps towards becoming an officer. “I know that my father is going to be the one that I go to when I put in a package for the officer’s program or the [U.S. Naval Academy],” said Airman Dennis. “He’s been a big influence thus far, advising me to experience the enlisted side first. I know that if I go the officer route, I will have experienced both sides.” Airman Dennis is working on an application for

the Seaman to Admiral-21 Commissioning Program, (STA-21), as well as to the Academy. The STA-21 program offers Sailors an opportunity to receive a four-year college education of their choice, as long as the school is Navy Reserves Officer Training Corps (NROTC) affiliated. The program, unlike some other commissioning programs, allots $10,000 per fiscal year for tuition and books. The Academy is a four-year coeducational federal service academy located in Annapolis, Maryland. “I’ve put in a package recently for the Naval Academy but I didn’t have any college credits or aviation warfare qualifications, so I am going to try again the second time around now that I have my air warfare pin,” said Airman Dennis. “I’m also hoping to get my surface warfare pin and finish up a couple more college credits before trying again.” Lt. Cmdr. Dennis is proud to be the one his son looks to for guidance as his career progresses. “It’s an honor,” said Lt. Cmdr. Dennis. “I definitely wanted him to blaze his own trail. He’s doing it the right way in my opinion. I wanted him to see what real work was, so going enlisted and him choosing a tough rate, I think he appreciates that hard work. Him possibly going the officer route and coming to me for guidance, it makes it an open book test. He has all the answers so I think that whichever route he chooses he will do well. I am truly honored either way.”

YOUR THOUGHTS ON

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GENERAL QUA

My favorite thing about General Quarters is watching everyone interact and become a team, because if something were to go down we all have to have the same understanding of each other. It’s a team effort, so I hate when you see people wandering around, not in battle dress, and not wanting to be part of the team. MM1 OSMOND K. SHORT

Training is good. When it comes down to it, the stuff we’re trained to do is what we really need to know. EMFN ANDY GARCIA

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I love seeing how well people can come together as a group to get the task done, but I hate waiting around. MMFA RYAN T. DURNIL

I like that I’ve learned everybody’s role in the locker since I’ve been in [a locker]. It’s comforting to know that we have people stationed at different places for different things and know what they’re doing. RP2 MICHAEL K. JUDGE

RTERS

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I’ve been on the ship for two months, and get to meet all sorts of different people that I otherwise wouldn’t have met during GQ, and sometimes you see the same people and get to know them pretty well. HN GRACE JOAN LAYUGAN

I like the problem solving that comes with it; actually figuring out what to do, especially with a new scenario instead of the same old one and getting used to it. MM3 TAYLOR HUSON

I’m on DCTT and I have to do a lot to qualify up to that. I stood [under instruction] for two months. I had to learn how to train people and that was difficult. It was hard for me to do. MM2 JA’RIUS JEFFERSON

I’m in DCTT down in DC central. I love the training; helping Sailors learn their communication skills between the lockers and DC Central. I see what the DCA and CHENG get to see and that itself is a unique perspective. But I don’t actually see what’s going on in the lockers and I’m totally dependent on communication, which leads to what we need to improve on: communication. ATC GAMAL C. WILLIAMS

What your family and friends are saying.

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Mike Garcia Its a lot of hard work, when I was onboard I was in repair 4 #1 hosemen, stay safe out there TR!

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Raquel Maris May you all be safe, God Bless you all be well my dear nephew.

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Denim D. Jentzen When I was on TR, I was assigned to the aft flightdeck battle dressing station. Learned so much with that group of guys!

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

MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2015

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A.M.E. Opens in Defiant Show of Unity LAPSES AT PRISON MAY HAVE AIDED KILLERS’ ESCAPE

CHARLESTON, S.C. — The Emanuel A.M.E. Church has survived antebellum laws barring black worship, an angry white mob that burned down its original edifice, and the execution of its founder and dozens of others planning a slave revolt. So when a white gunman fatally shot nine of its members, including the head pastor, at a Bible study last week, there was only one way, church leaders said, to respond: by pressing forward. In a display of unity, resolve and defiance, “Mother Emanuel,” as people here call the church, opened its doors for its Sunday service, just four days after three men and six women were left in a bloody pile in its basement. The pews were packed here, with whites sitting next to blacks, locals next to visitors. Similar gatherings spanned the country, as churchgoers mourned and prayed and honored the lives lost Wednesday evening. They hoped to show that the suspect’s reported goal of setting off a race war had failed miserably. “I want you to know, because

the doors of Mother Emanuel” are open, the Rev. Norvel Goff Sr., a presiding elder in the African Methodist Episcopal Church, said in a rousing sermon on Sunday, “it sends a message to every demon in hell and on earth.” Later, with his voice roaring, Goff added, “Some wanted to divide the race — black and white and brown — but no weapon formed against us shall prosper.” In this city — where steeples dot the skyline, earning Charleston the nickname Holy City — worship normally contained within church walls spilled into the streets on Sunday. Large banners hung from the buildings near Emanuel. “Holy City . . . Let Us Be the Example of Love That Conquers Evil,” read one. At 10 a.m., church bells across the city began to toll. Nine minutes passed, one minute for each victim. Hundreds of people, most of them white, had gathered a block from Emanuel, in Marion Square, by that time, all of them in silence but for the chattering of some children. They clutched programs with lyrics to some of

the sturdiest of hymns, “Amazing Grace” and “How Great Thou Art,” for a gathering organized by Awaken Church, an interdenominational congregation. The family of Dylann Roof, the 21-year-old charged with murder in the killings, attended a service Sunday at St. Paul’s Lutheran Church in downtown Columbia, S.C. “They are shattered,” Bishop Herman R. Yoos told the congregation at a later service. “But their faith is strong.” In the front pews of Emanuel, Nikki R. Haley, the Indian-American Republican governor of this state, sat among Democrats — Rep. Maxine Waters of California, who is black, and Mayor Joseph P. Riley Jr. of Charleston, who is white — and Sen. Tim Scott of South Carolina, who is black and a fellow Republican. In the back of the church, an unlikely pairing sat next to each other — Rick Santorum, the conservative Catholic and Republican presidential hopeful, and DeRay McKesson, a liberal activist who is black and gay. JOHN ELIGON and RICHARD FAUSSET

A Confederate Flag Is a Test for G.O.P. Hopefuls WASHINGTON — The massacre of nine African-Americans in a storied Charleston church last week, which thrust the issues of race relations and gun rights into the center of the 2016 presidential campaign, has now brought back another familiar, divisive question in the emerging contest for the Republican nomination: what to do with the Confederate battle flag that flies on the grounds of the South Carolina Capitol. The leading Republican candidates for 2016, seeking to win the state’s primary, the first in the South, are treading delicately. They do not want to offend the conservative white voters who venerate the most recognizable emblem of the Confederacy and who say it is a symbol of their heritage. Jeb Bush issued a statement on Saturday saying he was confident that South Carolina “will do the right thing.” As Florida’s governor, Bush in 2001 ordered the Confeder-

ate flag to be taken from its display outside his state’s Capitol “to a museum where it belonged.” Sen. Marco Rubio, also of Florida, told reporters he thought the state would “make the right choice for the people of South Carolina.” But neither candidate would state whether he wanted South Carolina to stop the state-sanctioned display of a flag that is a searing reminder of slavery. Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin begged off from questions about the flag, and none of the candidates on Sunday’s political television programs were willing to say flatly whether it should continue to fly. The most prominent Democratic contender, Hillary Rodham Clinton, said in 2007 that the flag should be removed. “The politics of race rests at the most sensitive nerve of the G.O.P.,” said Bruce Haynes, a Republican strategist and South Carolina native. “All Republicans want to

grow their share of the black vote. But it’s the chicken and the egg.” The one high-profile Republican who spoke unambiguously about the flag is no longer running for president. Mitt Romney said in a Twitter message on Saturday, “Remove it now to honor #Charleston victims.” Mike Huckabee, the former Arkansas governor and current G.O.P. presidential hopeful, told NBC’s “Meet the Press” on Sunday that no one from outside the state should dictate what South Carolina did with the flag. In 2000, a bipartisan accord was reached in South Carolina to move the flag to a Confederate memorial near the Capitol. “That compromise was widely accepted,” said Sen. Lindsey Graham of South Carolina, a Republican hopeful. “But in light of what has happened, that has to be revisited because the shooter is so associated with the flag.” JONATHAN MARTIN

DANNEMORA, N.Y. — By the time David Sweat and Richard W. Matt engineered their escape from the maximum-security prison here, corrections officers were rarely shining lights over the faces of inmates during hourly bed checks, making it hard to know whether a living, breathing person was inside a cell. The catwalks and tunnels that made their getaway possible were no longer being inspected regularly. And no one was inside two of the 35-foot-high guard towers when Sweat and Matt, convicted killers, climbed out of a manhole outside the prison walls and fled into the night. No single lapse or mistake in security enabled the two men to break out of the Clinton Correctional Facility, long considered one of the most secure prisons in the nation. But it is now clear that an array of oversights, years in the making, set the stage for the prison break a little over two weeks ago and for the ensuing manhunt, which this weekend zeroed in on a possible sighting of the men in Friendship, N.Y., 350 miles southwest of the prison. At Clinton, a sense of complacency had taken hold, current and retired corrections officers said, that in some ways might have been understandable. There had not been an escape from the 170-year-old prison in decades, and officials say no one had ever broken out of the maximum-security section. “As the months go by, years go by, things get less strict,” said Keith Provost, a retired corrections officer who had worked at the prison. Linda Foglia, a spokeswoman for the State Department of Correction s and Community Supervision, said three agencies — the New York inspector general’s office, the Clinton County district attorney’s office and the State Police — were conducting “top to bottom” investigations of security practices at the prison. “The various investigations will determine what, if any, lapses occurred, and at that point, all appropriate action will be taken and corrective reforms will be instituted,” she said. (NYT)

INTERNATIONAL

In Brief Netanyahu Rebuffs Restarting Talks Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel on Sunday rebuffed the French idea of restarting the Israeli-Palestinian peace process with international support and the backing of a United Nations Security Council resolution. Speaking at a news conference with France’s foreign minister, Laurent Fabius, Netanyahu said: “Peace will only come from direct negotiations between the parties, without preconditions. It will not come from U.N. resolutions that are sought to be imposed from the outside.” Earlier on Sunday, Netanyahu had told his cabinet ministers, “We strongly reject attempts to force international diktat on us in regard to both security and peace.” (NYT)

Taliban and Afghans Dispute City’s Status After Taliban insurgents said Sunday that they were on the verge of taking their first city, Kunduz in the far north of Afghanistan, officials there expressed alarm as residents began to flee the area. But the central government in Kabul said there was no cause for concern. The Afghan government also announced Sunday that it had retaken the administrative center of Yamgan District, in northern Badakhshan Province, from the Taliban. But that only deepened the government’s credibility problem because just a week earlier officials in Kabul had claimed that they had already retaken Yamgan. (NYT)

Jazeera Anchor Held An Egyptian-British journalist working for the television news network Al Jazeera remained in German custody on Sunday pending a court ruling on the validity of an Egyptian arrest warrant that served as grounds for his detention at a Berlin airport over the weekend. The journalist, Ahmed Mansour, 52, was detained in Germany, on charges that he tortured an unidentified lawyer in Tahrir Square during the uprising against President Hosni Mubarak in 2011. It appears to be the first time that a Western government has complied with one of Egypt’s requests. (NYT)

MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2015

China Websites Flouting Laws on Illicit Drugs SHANGHAI — Ordering illegal drugs from China is as easy as typing on a keyboard. On guidechem.com, over 150 Chinese companies sell alpha-PVP, also known as flakka, a stimulant that is illegal in the United States but not in China, and was blamed for 18 recent deaths in Florida. The e-commerce portal Qinjiayuan sells air-conditioners, trampolines and a banned hallucinogen known as spice, which set off a devastating spike in United States emergency room visits in April. The stimulant mephedrone, sometimes sold as “bath salts,” is banned in China but for sale at the Nanjing Takanobu Chemical Company for about $1,400 a pound. “I can handle this for you legally or illegally,” a company salesman said by phone when asked about shipping the product from China. “How much do you want?” In a country that has perfected Internet censorship, the open online drug market is a blatant example of what international law enforcement officials say is China’s reluctance to take action as it has

emerged as a major player in the global supply of synthetic drugs. While China says it has made thousands of arrests and “joined hands” with foreign law enforcement agencies, officials from several countries say authorities have shown little interest in combating what they see as the drug problems of other countries. “They just didn’t see what was in it for them to look into their own industries exporting these chemicals,” said Jorge Guajardo, the former Mexican ambassador to China. China’s chemical factories and drug traffickers have exploited this opportunity, turning the nation into a leading producer and exporter of synthetic drugs, including methamphetamine, as well as the compounds used to manufacture them, according to seizure and trafficking route data compiled by American and global law enforcement agencies. China is now the source of a majority of the ingredients needed to manufacture methamphetamine by Mexican drug traffickers, who produce 90 percent of the meth

consumed in the United States, according to the Drug Enforcement Administration. As governments around the world have stepped up regulation of these so-called precursor chemicals, the Mexican cartels have increasingly turned to Chinese factories. Guajardo, Mexico’s ambassador from 2007 to 2013, said his efforts to persuade Chinese authorities to restrict the export of these chemicals, which are banned in Mexico, came to naught. “In all my time there, the Chinese never showed any willingness to cooperate on stemming the flow of precursors into Mexico,” he said. But Chinese officials say the government is committed to international cooperation against drug traffickers. “We aim to help and support other countries in any way we can,” Liu Yuejin, the assistant minister of public security, has said publicly. In response to faxed questions, the Chinese Foreign Ministry denied any issues in law enforcement cooperation with Mexico. DAN LEVIN

Few Echo Pope’s Environment Plea in Sermons On the first Sunday after Pope Francis issued a landmark document on the environment, Roman Catholics attending Mass in Kenya, France, Mexico, Peru and the United States said they were thankful that he is using his pulpit to address climate change, pollution and global inequality. But few priests or bishops — other than in parts of Latin America — used their pulpits on Sunday to pass on the pope’s message, according to parish visits, interviews with Catholic leaders and reports from Catholics. Despite the urgent call to action in Francis’ document and the international attention it received, it will take some time to know whether Catholic clergy are familiar or comfortable enough with its themes to preach them to the faithful. It traditionally takes months for papal teaching documents, known as encyclicals, to be read, understood and disseminated. And this one, “Laudato Si’” or “Praise Be to You: On Care for Our Common Home,” is nearly 200 pages, and intricately weaves spiritual and moral teachings with economic, scientific and political analysis. It includes a forceful denuncia-

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tion of a global economic system that the pope says plunders the resources of the poor for the benefit of the rich, leaving the poor to suffer the consequences, including the effects of climate change. Word that Francis was to release an encyclical on the environment emerged months ago. So some priests were primed to preach on it. “Here in Peru, we see that the glaciers are disappearing,” the Rev. Alberto Mercado said in his homily to about 400 congregants during the 11:30 a.m. Mass at St. Joseph the Worker Church in Lima. “Sometimes, I travel in the bus and I see people polluting and throwing their garbage on

Pope Francis visited Turin, Italy, on Sunday, as some priests preached his message on climate change, pollution and inequality.

the road. Small things also accumulate and the pope himself says that this world is becoming an ‘immense pile of filth.’ ” But in parishes in Mumbai, Lagos and Rome; the pope’s hometown Buenos Aires, Argentina, and Santiago, Chile; Rhode Island and North Carolina, the encyclical went unmentioned at Mass. “For us, the encyclical is very important,” said Sister Solange, a Dominican nun from the Saint-Pierredes-Canons abbey in France. She pointed at the gift shop next to the Notre-Dame de la Garde basilica in Marseille. “We wanted to buy a hard copy of it, but it isn’t available yet!” LAURIE GOODSTEIN

MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2015 3

NATIONAL

Arresting a Cardiac Crisis With Help From a Cow’s Heart Herbert Auspitz, 93, was fading fast. He had a fatal disease with a prognosis worse than that of most cancers: severe aortic valve stenosis. It is a narrowing of the valve that controls blood flow from the heart. There is no way to prevent it, and there are no drugs to treat it. His doctors thought he was too likely to die if they cracked open his ribs and stopped his heart while they cut out his old valve and sewed in a new one. This time, though, they had a new option. They replaced his valve using a method recently approved by federal regulators for people who are inoperable or at high risk from open-heart surgery. They inserted a new valve made from the lining of a cow’s heart through a catheter, then opened it like an umbrella. After the procedure at the Hospital of the University of Pennsylvania in Philadelphia, Auspitz said, “I’m very very very grateful.” But even as speedier treatment has helped slash the toll from

heart attacks in the past decade, the number of deaths from heart failure caused by aortic valve disease has risen 35 percent, in large part because more people are living long enough to develop it. More than 8,000 Americans die from the disease annually. It is an illness of aging, and an estimated 100,000 Americans are too old or sick for surgery and with a seriously narrowed valve. Recent studies in very sick patients have found the new procedure prolonged lives, offering new hope that the death toll from narrowing valves can be reduced. The procedure, called TAVR, for transcatheter aortic valve replacement, is now being tested on a much larger pool of generally younger patients at intermediate risk. Some cardiologists say they worry it will be used in such cases before the evidence is in. Others say it will replace surgery for almost everyone who needs an aortic valve, not just for the most fragile. Henry Kissinger, 92, the former

secretary of state, has had the procedure. “I was getting out of breath more easily, and my cardiologist said something had to happen,” he said in a telephone interview. “He said I would be in a wheelchair if I didn’t have it, and my survival rate in a year would be only 50-50. “I am more energetic, people tell me I look better, and I feel much less tired,” Kissinger said. He described the procedure as easier and less debilitating than the openheart bypass surgery he had previously. “There’s no comparison.” There is some question about whether the process of inserting the new valves loosens debris that can cause strokes. One large study found a higher stroke rate in patients receiving valves without surgery compared with those receiving valves with surgery. Another large study did not find this effect. The valves also tend to leak slightly around the edges. New designs are ameliorating this problem, but not solving it.

Justice’s Tolerance Seen in Sacramento Roots SACRAMENTO — In 1987, a package arrived on the desk of Laurence H. Tribe, a Harvard law professor who had just lost a Supreme Court case on gay rights. It contained the legal opinions of Anthony M. Kennedy, a straitlaced, conservative Republican jurist from Sacramento who hardly seemed sympathetic to that cause. The package was sent by one of the most influential men in the California capital then, Gordon Schaber, a law school dean who had enlisted a young Kennedy to teach night classes and nurtured his career. Now Schaber was angling for President Ronald Reagan to elevate his friend to the Supreme Court, and he wanted the Harvard professor’s support. “Gordon Schaber said that Tony Kennedy was entirely comfortable with gay friends,” said Tribe, who later testified to urge the Senate to confirm Kennedy. “He said he never regarded them as inferior in any way or as people who should be ostracized, and I did think that was a good signal of where he was on these matters.” Now, as the Supreme Court prepares to rule on whether to grant a constitutional right to same-sex marriage, Kennedy, a onetime altar boy, has emerged as an un-

Examples Surrounded Kennedy, a Key Vote on Gay Marriage likely gay rights icon. At 78, he has advanced legal equality for gays more than any other American jurist, making his friend Schaber, who died in 1997 look prescient. In three landmark opinions, including the 2013 decision overturning a ban on federal benefits for married same-sex couples, he has invoked human dignity with “a sense of empathy and sensitivity that is unusual,” said Prof. Arthur Leonard, an expert on gay rights law at New York Law School. If, as many analysts expect, the court this month does extend same-sex marriage rights nationwide, Kennedy will get much of the credit. Those who know him well cite a mix of factors in explaining his thinking: His views on privacy and liberty, his belief in marriage as a stabilizing force, his concern for the children of same-sex couples and his custom — in the words of one good friend, Judge Alex Kozinski of the United States

Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit — of “stepping into the skin” of those his decisions affect. “I think it’s been an evolution,” said Kozinski. “Maybe what happened is the world around him changed, and the evolution has not been so much in his own thinking, as in the world we live in.” Kennedy now has a gay clerk, Joshua Matz, who wrote a 2012 law review article with Tribe titled “The Constitutional Inevitability of Same-Sex Marriage.” And at the McGeorge School of Law campus in Sacramento — where Kennedy taught part time for 23 years — an openly gay colleague, Larry Levine, says the justice has helped him get tickets to oral arguments in gay rights cases before the Supreme Court. Paul T. Cappuccio, who was not openly gay when he was a clerk for Kennedy in the 1980s, is now general counsel of Time Warner Inc. “He takes liberty very seriously,” Cappuccio said. “Sure, I think it could be natural that one’s life experiences can have an impact. But I think it would be belittling of Justice Kennedy to say he might vote to recognize a constitutional right to same-sex marriage just because he knows people who are gay.” SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

Dr. Reginald Blaber, who runs the cardiovascular disease program at Our Lady of Lourdes Medical Center in Camden, N.J., said the hospital lost money on the procedure, although the hospital offers it so it can give patients the best treatment. “It’s a hard proposition when $32,500 goes right out the door to Edwards,” the valve manufacturer, Blaber said. The hospital gets about $40,000 from Medicare, which is fine if there are no complications. But older patients, in their late 80s and 90s, often end up with four-, five- or even seven-day hospital stays. “We could lose $25,000,” Blaber said. Still, excitement is growing. “I think the future is that everyone who needs a valve will get a transcatheter valve,” said Dr. Catherine M. Otto, an echocardiologist at the University of Washington who does not do the procedure. “It’s going to become the standard.” GINA KOLATA

In Brief Few States Prepared On Health Subsidies As the Supreme Court prepares to rule on whether to block health insurance subsidies in 34 states that use the federal insurance exchange, Pennsylvania and Delaware are the best prepared. They have submitted detailed plans for creating their own exchanges by next year. But in the vast majority of states that rely on HealthCare.gov, there is little or no evidence that anyone has a plan to preserve the subsidies that help more than six million residents of those states afford their premiums. (NYT)

Cuba Door Still Stuck Six months after President Obama cracked open a more than five-decade stalemate with Cuba, businesses and advocates for engagement are increasingly finding that genuine normalization is still more aspiration than reality. Myriad laws and regulations, most important the United States trade embargo against Cuba, continue to restrict commerce between the two countries. Removing the embargo requires a vote from Congress. (NYT)

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BUSINESS

E.C.B. Plays Dual Role in Greece’s Debt Crisis ATHENS — As Greece’s standoff with its creditors enters the final stretch, the European Central Bank finds itself in the awkward position of being both the country’s savior and its scold. Europe’s central bank has been the lender of last resort for Greece, keeping its banking system — if not the country itself — from collapse. But the E.C.B. has also been among the most recalcitrant of its creditors, pushing Greece to the verge of default by refusing to offer relief on its heavy debts. This tension in many ways mirrors Europe’s broader dilemma of how to handle Greece. Should lending lines to the country be renewed, in the interest of keeping the eurozone intact? Or should Greece, having demanded too much from Europe, not be bailed out again? On Monday, this will be the fo-

cus of discussion when eurozone officials gather in Brussels for an emergency summit meeting. Greece delivered new proposals for a bailout deal to the top European leaders over the weekend. But time is running out. Frantic depositors pulled over a billion euros a day from Greece’s banks late last week, leading the E.C.B. on Friday to bolster the banking system for the second time in three days. Greek bankers say that the banks will soon have to close if this uncertainty continues. Greece is just about broke and must pay $1.8 billion to the International Monetary Fund by June 30. So far, it has refused European demands that it cut spending and amend its labor laws in return for a release of frozen funds. The E.C.B.’s exposure to Greece now stands at 150 billion euros, or $170 billion, according to Deutsche

Bank. Of that, 122 billion euros is propping up the banking sector through an emergency lifeline and other funding, and 27 billion euros is longer-term Greek bonds. At 83 percent of the gross domestic product of Greece, the bet is substantial. It is larger than the lifelines doled out to other bailedout countries like Cyprus and Ireland, relative to the size of their economies, and it underscores the lengths to which Europe has gone to keep Greece afloat. “The E.C.B. is playing a critical role,” said Mark Wall, the chief economist at Deutsche Bank in London. “It is the primary financier of the Greek banking system — which is the pressure point for Greece as a whole. Without the E.C.B., there is nothing to avert a collapse of the Greek banks.” LANDON THOMAS Jr. and PETER EAVIS

Swift Scolds Apple Over Streaming Music Service Taylor Swift spoke out last year about the economics behind Spotify. Now, she has taken aim at Apple over its decision not to pay musicians during a trial period for its new music service. In a letter Sunday posted on her Tumblr page called “To Apple, Love Taylor,” Swift addressed a situation that has sent shock waves through the music industry. Apple, which has announced a subscription streaming service to compete with Spotify, Rhapsody and Deezer, says no royalties will be paid during a three-month period in which customers can try it free.

Swift called the policy “shocking, disappointing and completely unlike this historically progressive company,” and said she was not speaking just for herself. “These are the echoed sentiments of every artist, writer and producer in my social circles who are afraid to speak up publicly because we admire and respect Apple so much,” she wrote. “We simply do not respect this particular call.” The new service, Apple Music, is set to become available worldwide on June 30. Besides its longstanding iTunes download store, it will include a $10 streaming subscription plan,

a free Internet radio station and a media platform that will let artists upload songs, videos and other content for fans. Unlike Spotify, which lets customers listen free or pay monthly fees to eliminate ads, Apple’s subscription feature will have no permanent free level. The public letter from Swift — who will not be offering her most recent album, “1989,” through Apple’s new service because of its terms — comes after independent music groups around the world have complained that the company’s terms were unfair. Apple declined to comment. BEN SISARIO

In Brief Altice Makes Offer For French Telecom Altice, the cable and mobile services provider led by Patrick Drahi, has offered to pay about $11.3 billion in cash for its rival Bouygues Telecom, according to a person familiar with the discussions. The deal would combine two of France’s largest mobile providers — Numericable-SFR and Bouygues Telecom — and oust Orange as France’s largest cellphone company. The transaction would change the telecommunications landscape in France, reducing the main mobile providers from four to three. Word of the potential combination comes just over a year after Bouygues Telecom lost out to Altice in a very public bidding war to acquire SFR from the French media conglomerate Vivendi. Altice paid more than 13.5 billion euros for the SFR business last year and combined it with Numericable, its cable arm. (NYT)

Myerson Takes Over Microsoft Devices Three Microsoft executives saw their responsibilities multiply last week when the company announced that it was consolidating its engineering efforts, leading to the departure of several senior executives. The one executive whose job will expand the most is Terry Myerson, in a change that will cement his position as the company’s most powerful product leader. Myerson will also oversee every prominent gadget Microsoft is known for, including Surface. (NYT)

Comcast and NBC Open Cross-Promotional Advertising Strategy When Microsoft wanted to promote its Surface Pro 3 tablet during the last holiday season, it turned to NBCUniversal for help. Together, the companies came up with a sweeping marketing campaign, with pieces showing up across NBCUniversal’s broadcast and cable channels, social media platforms, websites and within the company’s shows. Andy Cohen — who is the host of a nightly talk show on Bravo, one of NBCUniversal’s cable channels — appeared in spots during the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade on NBC with the tablet, which he

used to solve holiday-related problems. The tablet made appearances during NBC’s “Today” show and “The Soup,” a show on the company’s E! channel. NBCUniversal and its parent, Comcast, have been giving their own television shows and movies this kind of corporate cross-promotion. But in the last 18 months, the media conglomerate has opened the marketing strategy, which it calls Symphony, to outside advertisers like Microsoft. The idea is to give marketers the ability to use Comcast’s television channels, websites, theme parks

and talent for ad campaigns. In addition to Microsoft, NBCUniversal has teamed up with 20th Century Fox to market the movie “Night at the Museum 3,” with Disney to promote “Frozen,” and with Chase bank as well. The media company hopes to sign up two marketers this year and plans to promote the cross-promotion strategy at the annual advertising festival in Cannes next week. Marketers said Symphony allowed them to leverage NBCUniversal’s size to reach the millions of consumers. NBCUniversal and marketers declined to disclose the

cost of a Symphony promotion, but industry analysts say the real appeal for both the advertiser and NBCUniversal may be much simpler: money. Advertisers may be getting a discount to sign up for the multiplatform strategy. “To be as blunt as possible about it, the advertiser feels that they’re getting a better deal,” said Brian Wieser, a media analyst at Pivotal Research. “It’s really about getting more for less. If you’re the buyer or you’re the seller, it’s about getting more than you otherwise would have seen in terms of revenue.” SYDNEY EMBER

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BUSINESS

SurveyMonkey Seeks Boss to Oversee Growth Insurance Firms PALO ALTO, Calif. — On the first day back to work after the death of Dave Goldberg, the chief executive of SurveyMonkey, employees at the Silicon Valley company gathered to mourn. “Let’s be up front,” Bennett Porter, the head of marketing communications, said. “This is going to hurt. Everyone is going to cry.” Since that meeting on May 4, SurveyMonkey’s leadership has had to navigate the process of replacing Goldberg, while running a company on the cusp of significant growth — and managing the emotions of its 550 employees. Goldberg, 47, who had led SurveyMonkey since 2009, had died the previous weekend while on vacation with friends in Mexico. Married to Sheryl Sandberg, the chief operating officer of Facebook, he was a popular figure in Silicon Valley who had gained national celebrity through his wife’s best-selling book “Lean In.” Goldberg also built SurveyMonkey into a company valued at $2 billion that was expected to double its number of workers in the next two years. There has been an intense effort to keep employees focused on their jobs, aided by the good will Goldberg had engendered over the years. Zander Lurie, a longtime friend

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and executive at the sports camera company GoPro, has stood in as temporary executive chairman. The board of directors is expected to name a new chief executive within two months. SurveyMonkey’s top executives have had to avoid “strategic paralysis from a culture of mourning, and emotional revolt from telling people ‘get over it,’ ” said Jeffrey A. Sonnenfeld, a professor at the Yale School of Management. “There is a way to take a loss and make it into strength.” SurveyMonkey was started in 1999 and remained small for a decade, offering online and email surveys on various topics. Today, SurveyMonkey receives three million survey responses, with an average of 29 million questions

The company’s headquarters. SurveyMonkey, started in 1999, remained small for a decade, offering online surveys on various topics.

answered, in 55 languages every day. Corporations use SurveyMonkey to gauge employee happiness, retailers to sell new products and private equity firms to judge whether to buy companies. At the company’s first regularly scheduled all-hands meeting on May 12, Tim Maly, chief financial and operating officer, discussed quarterly financial results, while Selina Tobaccowala, president and chief technical office, talked about strategy, topics Goldberg would have broached. At the end of the meeting, Maly took off his fleece to show a T-shirt that read “#makedaveproud.” It is now standard Friday clothing for many employees. QUENTIN HARDY

Cigna Rejects an Overture From Rival Anthem The world of American health insurance may soon become even smaller, with the biggest companies seeking to become even bigger. A scramble has broken out within the industry as various providers jockey for position and make overtures to rivals. Anthem Inc. made the first public move, unveiling a $47 billion takeover bid for Cigna on Saturday after months of negotiations had stalled. On Sunday, Cigna fired back, rejecting the bid as “inadequate and not in the best interest of Cigna’s shareholders.” But others have been maneuvering as well. UnitedHealth Group, the biggest American health insurer by revenue, made a preliminary approach to Aetna, a person briefed on the matter said. And a number of companies have indicated their interest in buying Humana, one of the smaller major insurers but with a valuable Medicare franchise. Among those

companies that had expressed interest is Anthem, though the bigger insurance provider is focused on combining with Cigna, people briefed on the company’s plans said. Another is Cigna. The Affordable Care Act has been driving the flurry of merger discussions.Passage of the law in 2010 transformed the health insurance industry by expanding the government Medicaid program for low-income people in many states and giving insurers access to millions of additional customers through state marketplaces. Other parts of the health care industry, from drug manufacturers to device makers, have seen enormous amounts of merger activity. But the insurance sector has lain relatively dormant for the past three years, after a brief flurry of deals by the big insurers. Government programs like Medicare and Medicaid are increasingly turning to private health plans to offer coverage,

and insurers view these markets as potential growth areas. “There’s a huge revenue opportunity,” said Ana Gupte, an analyst who follows the industry for Leerink Partners. But as insurers shift to these new markets, they are under more pressure to reduce their costs. Consumers who buy individual coverage through the marketplaces are extremely sensitive to price, and government programs like Medicare and Medicaid are heavily regulated. These markets tend to be less profitable. The combinations offer insurers the ability to reduce their administrative costs as well as to strike better deals with health systems, Gupte said. By having more customers in a specific geographic market, the insurer is better able to negotiate with hospitals and doctors. “They need more market share locally to do that,” she said. MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and REED ABELSON

Their industry already upended with the passage of the federal health care law, insurance companies are facing another upheaval if the Supreme Court rules that millions of Americans are not eligible for subsidies to help defray the cost of their coverage. The court is expected to decide by the end of June or in early July whether it agrees with the plaintiffs in King v. Burwell that the language in the Affordable Care Act allows the government to offer subsidies only in those states that have established their own insurance marketplaces. About 6.4 million people who have insurance could be affected if the court rules with the plaintiffs. Without financial assistance, millions of them would probably drop their policies. And insurers would scramble to rethink the assumptions they made in setting their prices, and even whether to continue selling individual policies. “Anything that impacts who’s signing up creates a lot of risk for the carrier, and lots of uncertainty and challenges in the future,” said David V. Axene, a health actuary in Murrieta, Calif. If the court agrees with the plaintiffs, people living in the 34 states that chose to have the federal government run their exchange would no longer be eligible for assistance. There are three more states that rely on HealthCare.gov as their platform, and their status is unclear. According to an analysis from the consultant Avalere, consumers would have to pay an average of $3,300 more a year in 2015 if they no longer received the tax credits. People like Joyce Bell, 64, of Tequesta, Fla., say they could no longer afford coverage. “I wouldn’t have insurance,” Bell said. Large for-profit insurance companies have benefited from the law. Household names like Anthem, Aetna and UnitedHealthcare are actively selling coverage through the marketplaces. The subsidies represent a core component of the market. If people in most states do not have help in paying for coverage, “the next natural question is can insurance market reform survive,” said Elizabeth Carpenter, a director at Avalere. REED ABELSON

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ARTS

A Play on Wilde Runs Afoul of Kremlin A plan to stage an American theater company’s gay-themed play in Moscow, with support from the United States government, has stalled amid tensions between the two nations and at a time of Kremlin hostility toward homosexuality. The Moscow New Drama Theater, a well-regarded company in Russia, had been planning to present the 1997 play, “Gross Indecency: The Three Trials of Oscar Wilde,” this fall, with Russian actors directed by the play’s writer, Moisés Kaufman, who is the artistic director of the New York-based Tectonic Theater Project. But Kaufman said he had recently been informed by New Drama Theater that the Russian government had barred the Moscow company from accepting foreign funds for artistic productions, prompting indefinite postponement of the collaboration. Kaufman said he believed the real issue was the subject of the play, which is a dramatization of court transcripts from the 1895 prosecutions of Wilde, an Irish writer accused of sexual relationships with men. The play has been staged in New York and Los Angeles. Writing in The New York Times, the critic Ben Brantley called it “absolutely gripping” and “the must-see sleeper of the Off Off Broadway season.” “The opportunity to re-enact the Oscar Wilde trials in Moscow at this time would have been in-

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Moisés Kaufman wrote the play “Gross Indecency.” credibly relevant, and also would have led to the kind of dialogue that is so sorely needed there at this time,” Kaufman said. Kaufman said he knew there was a risk that at some point the Russian government would seek to squelch the project, but that he did not expect it to be so early. The Russian company was to begin rehearsals in August, and performances were set for October. Viacheslav Dolgachev, the artistic director of the Moscow theater, said the project had been postponed, not canceled, and declined to comment further. Dolgachev is a respected theater artist. In 2008, he directed a production of “The Seagull” in New York. A spokesman for the State Department said the agency had

provided a grant for the Moscow production as part of its effort “to promote American voices through theater and other artistic mediums,” and he said the production had been canceled. “We are naturally disappointed this project did not go forward, but will continue to promote U.S.-Russian cultural exchange, which is an important component of our bilateral relationship,” said the spokesman, Mark Toner. The Russian government did not comment. Moscow has a vibrant theater scene that offers sometimes pointed criticism of Russian life, but Russian theater directors are confronting growing challenges. One theater, the Satirikon, is producing “All Shades of Blue,” a play about a Russian teenager coming out and the turmoil it causes in his family. The newspaper Izvestia reported on Friday that prosecutors had inquired about the play, and productions at a half-dozen other Moscow theaters, as they looked for evidence of obscenity, immorality or pornography. The Russian culture minister, Vladimir Medinsky, recently argued for the primacy of homegrown work. “If a state does not feed and does not create its own culture, it will be fed by someone else,” he wrote in Izvestia. “And then at the end of the day, one will end up feeding a foreign army.” MICHAEL PAULSON and SOPHIA KISHKOVSKY

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Bringing an Opera Back to Life He was described as a black Wagner in the late 19th century, went on to write more than 20 operas and formed the Negro Grand Opera Company, which he once conducted at Carnegie Hall. But after the pioneering African-American composer H. Lawrence Freeman died in 1954, he fell into obscurity, with his works unpublished, unrecorded and, for decades, unperformed. Until now. Freeman’s opera “Voodoo,” about a love triangle on a plantation in post-Civil War Louisiana, will be given its first performances since 1928 on Friday and Saturday at the Miller Theater at Columbia University. The revival offers a glimpse of a nearly forgotten chapter of African-American operatic achievement, and another chance for Freeman to claim the place in musical history he had always sought against long odds, lengthened by discrimination. “Voodoo” might have remained a historical footnote had Freeman’s family not placed his papers and scores in Columbia University’s Rare Book and Manuscript Library in 2007. The collection interested scholars, who were drawn to his accounts of the Harlem Renaissance, and came to fascinate Annie Holt, a graduate student who cataloged it. A year later, Holt helped start a small opera company of her own, Morningside Opera, with the vague idea of someday mounting one of Freeman’s operas. That is how the strains of “Voodoo,” in which passages of Wagnerian grandeur alternate with spirituals and a cakewalk, came to be heard again for the first time in decades last week in practice rooms at the Convent Avenue Baptist Church in Harlem, where Morningside Opera and its partners in the production, Harlem Opera Theater and the Harlem Chamber Players, ran through the work. The rehearsal drew Alberta Grannum Zuber, 88, who joined the Freeman family when one of her sisters married the composer’s son, Valdo. Zuber sang a small role in Freeman’s Egyptian-theme opera “The Martyr” in 1947. As she listened to the singers bring “Voodoo” back to life, Zuber said she did not think that Freeman ever doubted that he would be remembered for posterity. “I think he felt it in his bones,” she said. MICHAEL COOPER

JOURNAL

MONDAY, JUNE 22, 2015

Yoga’s Day Arrives, in India and Beyond deep in his practice. After bending and twisting through most of a 35-minute session in unison with more than 35,000 participants, many in identical white T-shirts, he delved into the crowd of children, who touched his feet reverently. When he beckoned, and not a moment before, they rushed to him, touching the scarf he had used to wipe his brow. “When he touched my hand, it was like nothing I’ve ever felt before,” said Shubhangi Tiwari, amid a gaggle of students afterward. It was the culmination of a holiday hyped for weeks by the government, and one for which Modi lobbied the United Nations to recognize in a visit to New York last year. “I believe that from the 21st of June, through

NEW DELHI — It was a rare sight — after a brief speech to inaugurate International Yoga Day on Sunday, Prime Minister Narendra Modi descended from a huge stage in front of the presidential palace and took off his glasses and his shoes. Modi took his place before a sea of schoolchildren and others, mats arranged in a checkerboard as far as the eye could see, to begin what was billed as the largest yoga demonstration in a single venue in history. Reporters pounced, and a camera lens shattered on the ground. Muscular men wearing International Yoga Day T-shirts held back the crowd. Some volunteers formed a chain around onlookers. To this, Modi appeared impervious, lost

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Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi during a mass yoga program on Sunday. the International Day of Yoga, it is not just the beginning of a day but the beginning of a new age through which we will achieve greater heights of peace, good will and train the human spirit,” Modi said in his speech. Some groups representing Muslims, India’s largest minority, have bristled against that message, calling it a threat to secularism, or saying that they should not be compelled to chant “Om,” a sound sacred in Hinduism. “Since ancient times India was the guru of the world,” said Vikash Chandra, a lawyer who has been practicing yoga since 1992. Yoga Day in Delhi, which was captured by over 24 staterun TV cameras and broadcast all over the nation, would help them reclaim it, he said. There were also Yoga Day events across the world, including in Paris; Beijing; Osaka, Japan; Seoul, South Korea; and New York. In India, local news media reported the expense at anywhere from nearly $5 million to more than $15 million. Though critics have questioned it, the participants defended it. Pavan Kumar Dubey, a 55-year-old inspector general with the Border Security Force, said he believed yoga could bring peace worldwide. “How much money will be saved when the defenses between the countries come down?” he asked. Of his own job, he said: “We’ll find something else to do.”NIDA NAJAR

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CARAT 2015 Exercise Series Begins in the Philippines From Commander, Task Force 73 Public Affairs

PUERTO PRINCESA, Philippines (NNS) -Members of the U.S. Navy and Marine Corps along with their Armed Forces of the Philippines (AFP) counterparts kicked off the 2015 Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) exercise series during an opening ceremony in Puerto Princesa, Philippines, June 22. The AFP have participated in CARAT since the exercise series began in 1995 and this year’s training reflects more than two decades of increasingly sophisticated training ashore, at sea, and in the air. “CARAT remains a practical way to address shared maritime security priorities, enhance our capabilities, and improve interoperability between our forces,” said Rear Adm. William Merz, commander, Task Force 74. “We look forward to operating alongside our

Philippine partners as we celebrate the 21st anniversary of the CARAT exercise series.” CARAT Philippines will take place from June 2226 on the ground in Puerto Princesa and in the waters and airspace of the Sulu Sea. The exercise will focus on combined operations at sea, mobile dive and salvage training, coastal riverine operations, and maritime patrol and reconnaissance and will feature the inaugural

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participation of littoral combat ship USS Fort Worth (LCS 3) along with rescue and salvage ship USNS Safeguard (T-ARS-50) and forwarddeployed P-3 Orion aircraft. Additionally, personnel from both nations will also exchange best practices on naval tactics during a series of military seminars ashore. Numerous civil action projects, community service events, and joint military band engagements are also planned in the local Puerto

Princesa community. “We are pleased to host our U.S. Navy partners in Puerto Princesa City this year for CARAT Philippines 2015,” said Rear Adm. Leopoldo Alano, commander of the Philippine Fleet. “This is a great training opportunity for both nations to gain valuable experience and increase our interoperability.” Now in its 21st year, CARAT is the premier naval engagement in South and Southeast Asia. The bilateral and multilateral exercises provide a regional venue to develop strong maritime partnerships that contribute to the greater peace and stability of the region. Following CARAT Philippines, additional bilateral phases of CARAT will occur from July through November 2015 with Bangladesh, Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Singapore and Thailand.

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PACIFIC OCEAN (June 17, 2015) Sailors from the deck department aboard the amphibious dock landing ship USS Ashland (LSD-48) ready the receiving bell for a probe from the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Tippecanoe (T-AO-199) during an underway replenishment. Ashland is assigned to the Bonhomme Richard Expeditionary Strike Group and is on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of operations. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication 3rd Class David A. Cox/Released)

SYDNEY (June 17, 2015) The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Mustin (DDG 89) transits Sydney Harbor as it prepares to moor for a port visit. Mustin is on patrol in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility in support of security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class David Flewellyn/Released)

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To travel, get an education and to be more disciplined.

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Meeting different challenges and leading

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I used to fly single-engine planes.

SHOUT OUT: To the TR Security Team for the day-to-day duties of keeping the ship safe. Best professional team!

WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

Tuesday

JUNE 23, 2015

Staff Commanding Officer

Times Ch 66

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Ch 68

0900

GETAWAY

GET HARD

IRON MAN

1100

WAR HORSE

THIS IS 40

THE GODFATHER

1400

PREMIUM RUSH

NEIGHBORS

EDGE OF TOMORROW

1600

K-19

MIRROR MIRROR

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

1830

BULLET TO THE HEAD

MOM’S NIGHT OUT

THE MAZE RUNNER

2030

GETAWAY

GET HARD

IRON MAN

2230

WAR HORSE

THIS IS 40

THE GODFATHER

0130

PREMIUM RUSH

NEIGHBORS

EDGE OF TOMORROW

0330

K-19

MIRROR MIRROR

DAWN OF THE PLANET OF THE APES

0600

BULLET TO THE HEAD

MOM’S NIGHT OUT

THE MAZE RUNNER

Capt. Daniel Grieco Executive Officer

Capt. Jeff Craig Public Affairs Officer

Lt. Cmdr. Reann Mommsen Media Officer

Lt. j.g. Jack Georges Senior Editor

MCC Adrian Melendez Editor

MC2 Chris Brown MC2 Danica M. Sirmans Layout and Design

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wednesday

JUNE 24, 2015

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LUCY

PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES

WAR OF THE WORLDS

1100

GONE GIRL

FORREST GUMP

CASINO ROYALE

1400

BRICK MANSIONS

MUPPETS MOST WANTED

THE CONJURING

1600

GET ON UP

WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER

IRON MAN 3

1830

INTO THE STORM

ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES

THE RAVEN

2030

LUCY

PLANES, TRAINS AND AUTOMOBILES

WAR OF THE WORLDS

2230

GONE GIRL

FORREST GUMP

CASINO ROYALE

0130

BRICK MANSIONS

MUPPETS MOST WANTED

THE CONJURING

0330

GET ON UP

WHAT’S YOUR NUMBER

IRON MAN 3

0600

INTO THE STORM

ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES

THE RAVEN

0900

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