VOLUME XVI JUNE 1, 2017

IKE CSG news

Ike Celebrates Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month Navy News

US Tests Missile Defense Amid North Korea Tensions world news

Study Backs Focus on Academics in Preschool Sports & entertainment

Mets Find Unlikely Anchor for Bullpen IKENEWSCSG JUNE 1, 2017 PG. 2

Ike Celebrates Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage Month

By Mass Communcation Specialist Seaman Devin A. Lowe

Capt. Paul C. Spedero, commanding officer of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike), and Lt. Cmdr. Tzu Chen cut the cake during an Asian-American and Pacific-Islander Celebration. (Photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Neo Greene III)

The Multi-Cultural Committee held an “This month is about celebrating the celebration.” Asian-American and Pacific Islander Heritage integral role of many Asian-Americans and The Navy is a diverse community comprised Month presentation on the aft mess decks Pacific Islanders who helped shape this nation,” of a variety of ancestries and backgrounds. aboard the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. said Chief Information Systems Technician These type of celebrations highlight the vast Eisenhower (CVN 69) (Ike), May 30. Angel Osouna, master of ceremonies for the tapestry of cultures and backgrounds, and help Sailors filled the seats on the Ike’s aft mess event. “While many Asian-American and boost morale and unity throughout the ship. decks to participate in the event, uniting to Pacific Island communities have roots that “Events like this are important because it share in the celebration of Asian-American span the globe, many of their success stories spreads culture and heritage,” said Fireman and Pacific Islander customs and ancestry. are truly American.” Destiny Oliveros. “It’s about connecting “The point is to get exposure to the In 1992, May was designated Asian- people and bringing them together.” heritage and culture of the Asian-American American and Pacific Islander Heritage Additionally, Oliveros said that the and Pacific Island communities,” said Capt. Month to recognize the achievements and presentation inspired acceptance in the Paul Spedero Jr., Ike’s commanding officer. contributions made to American History by workplace. “Most importantly, however, it gives us the Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders from “When the Navy holds ceremonies like this, opportunity to reflect on the sacrifices that more than 56 ethnic groups. it makes me feel more comfortable in working Asian-Americans and Pacific Islanders have Through many generations, Asian- with everyone,” Oliveros said. “It makes me made while serving our country.” Americans and Pacific Islanders have feel accepted, like people really want to learn The presentation also celebrated the established themselves in America’s story, more about me.” achievements of prominent Asian-American contributing their service and loyalty to our The celebration consisted of several and Pacific Islander figures. Commander, nation despite difficult beginnings. presentations, including a demonstration of U.S. Pacific Command, Adm. Harry Harris, “The Asian-Americans and Pacific a traditional Asian greeting, the bow. This is Jr. is the highest ranking Asian-American in Islanders have distinguished themselves in one of many ways performers educated the the U.S. Navy and Florence Smith Finch was America’s community,” said Lt. Cmdr. Tzu audience. the first U.S. Coast Guard Women’s Reserve Chen, guest speaker for the presentation, “I “It is about diversity and fun,” said Spedero. member to receive the Asian-Pacific Campaign am blessed for the opportunity to be a part of “However, it’s mostly about recognizing the ribbon. the United States Navy and to be a part of this sacrifices made.” NAVYNEWS JUNE 1, 2017 PG. 3

US Tests Missile Defense Amid North Korea Tensions

The Pentagon on Tuesday conducted a successful test On Tuesday, Mr. Moon said he was demanding an tremendous success for Adm. Syring and his team,” said of a system designed to shoot down an intercontinental investigation of a mobile missile-defense system known as Rep. Mike Rogers (R., Ala.), chairman of the House Armed ballistic missile, U.S. defense officials said, a demonstration the Terminal High Altitude Area Defense system, or Thaad, Services Committee’s subpanel on strategic forces. “The that came amid rising tensions over North Korea’s nuclear installed by the U.S. in South Korea. Mr. Moon said during dictator in North Korea surely understands that the United weapons program. the presidential campaign in the spring that he would review States will not allow itself or its allies to be subject to his The successful missile-defense test marked the second the process under which the previous administration agreed threats.” U.S. military display in as many days, following a joint to install Thaad, which is fiercely opposed by China, but he The U.S. now has conducted 17 tests of the ground- U.S. and South Korean exercise on Monday in which U.S. appears to have softened his view amid continued North based missile defense system, and nine have succeeded, B-1B bombers flew near the Military Demarcation Line that Korean missile launches. according to the Missile Defense Agency. divides North and South Korea. The Monday flyover came On Tuesday, however, Mr. Moon said that his defense There was no immediate reaction from North Korea, just hours after North Korea test-launched a short-range ministry didn’t inform him that four more launchers had but Pyongyang condemned Monday’s B1 bomber flight by missile, its third launch in less than three weeks and one that been brought into South Korea in addition to two existing the U.S. and South Korea. it claimed was more precise than any it has fired. ones that had been previously announced, calling the “The U.S. imperialists’ ever-more reckless military Both the B1 bomber flyover and Tuesday’s U.S. missile- discovery “very shocking,” according to a spokesman for the provocation clearly proves that their talk about ‘dialogue’ defense test were previously scheduled, but have taken on presidential office. is nothing but hypocrisy to disarm the DPRK and their an air of urgency and immediacy in light of North Korea’s U.S. officials didn’t respond to a request for comment wild ambition to eliminate the DPRK with nukes remains continued testing of missiles and warheads with a goal of on Mr. Moon’s assertion, but Capt. Davis, the Pentagon unchanged even a bit,” it said, using the acronym for North reaching the continental U.S. spokesman, said Tuesday that the Thaad deployment Korea’s formal name, the Democratic People’s Republic of The Pentagon said that in Tuesday’s test, it successfully process had been “very transparent.” Similar U.S. mobile Korea. intercepted a mock weapon launched from a site on Kwajalein systems contain six launchers. North Korea accused the U.S. of staging a “nuclear- Atoll in the Marshall Islands. A U.S. “interceptor” was fired Separately, Mr. Moon said in a phone call with Japanese bomb-dropping drill” with the bombers, which it sees as from Vandenberg Air Force Base, Calif., interrupting the Prime Minister Shinzo Abe that he supported more pressure a new provocation in addition to the presence of the USS flight of the mock ICBM over the Pacific Ocean, according and sanctions on North Korea after the latest missile test Carl Vinson and the USS Ronald Reagan, two aircraft to defense officials. and that “now is not the time for dialogue” with Pyongyang, carriers that are operating near the Korean Peninsula. Officials said Tuesday marked the first live-fire test on a according to his spokesman. The message was an apparent Tuesday’s missile-defense test came as Mr. Trump target closely resembling the characteristic of an ICBM. hardening of his position on North Korea. and his foreign policy and national security team grapple “This test demonstrates that we have a capable, credible Two weeks ago, Pyongyang test-fired a missile that it with how to counter North Korean leader Kim Jong Un’s deterrent against a very real threat,” said Vice Adm. Jim later called the Hwasong-12, which analysts said could fly behavior.Mr. Kim has launched a series of test missiles into Syring, director of the Missile Defense Agency, in a statement. 2,800 miles—considerably farther than its previous missiles the Pacific, but has yet to test an intercontinental-range Capt. Jeff Davis, a Pentagon spokesman, said that while and far enough to reach the U.S. military base on Guam. missile capable of reaching the continental U.S. the test wasn’t timed to the current tensions in North Korea, About a week later came the Polaris-2 missile, fueled by a The last test of the ground-based system, in June 2014, “in a broad sense, obviously, North Korea is one of the solid rather than a liquid fuel—meaning it requires much was successful, but three tests before that—in July 2013, reasons why we have this capability.” He also named Iran as less time to prepare for launch, giving Pyongyang more December 2010 and January 2010—all failed. a concern. flexibility and stealth. That could pose more of a challenge The causes of the failures, according to the missile President Donald Trump has vowed that North Korea to missile-defense systems. agency, ranged from technical problems involving software won’t achieve the capability of launching a nuclear missile Tuesday’s U.S. exercise tested what is known as the and sensors to major faults such as a rocket booster failing to able to reach the U.S. He has turned to China in a diplomatic ground-based midcourse defense system, or GMD, one of separate from the “kill vehicle,” the term for the part of the effort to head it off, while also establishing an increasing four main antimissile system components. Others include interceptor that zeroes in on the incoming missile, according American military presence in the region. U.S. Aegis warships, the Thaad mobile launchers and to defense officials. However, the Trump administration’s strategy of pressure Patriot batteries. The Defense Department has logged better results from and military threats has run into complications from South Officials said initial indications were that the test “met tests involving the ship-based system and Thaad launchers. Korea’s new president, Moon Jae-in. The new leader has said its primary objective,” but that experts would more closely A compilation earlier this year showed that, overall, the he wants to seek greater engagement with the North and has evaluate the system’s performance. military succeeded in 75 of 92 missile-defense tests since questioned some of Seoul’s cooperation with Washington. The test drew praise from a key lawmaker. “This is a 2001. (WALL STREET JOURNAL)

ESWS Question of the Day EAWS Question of the Day EIWS Question of the Day DC Question of the Day What is used to measure the amount of What class of mishap results if the total cost What is a type of imagery produced Heat transfer through ___ occurs when exposure/radiation personnel receive? of reportable material property damage is as a result of electromagnetic heat is carried along with heated gases. $1,000,000 or more? radiations emitted or reflected from a given target surface?

a. A thermoluminescent dosimeter a. a. Radar a. Conduction b. A geiger counter b. Class B b. Electro-optical b. Convection c. A radio isotope counter c. Class C c. Infra-red c. Radiation d. An internal thermoreactor d. Class D d. X-Ray d. Microwaves

WORLDNEWS JUNE 1, 2017 PG. 6

Wind Power Buffeted by Energy Politics Study Backs Focus on Academics in Preschool

Wind farms, with their rapid geographic A group of students at Woodside charges a disservice. spread and technological advances, are reshaping Community School in Queens peered up The study found that by the end of the electric system, defying skepticism that at their teacher one morning, as she used an kindergarten, children who had attended they are steady or reliable enough to displace overhead projector to display a shape. one year of “academic-oriented preschool” conventional power plants. It looked like a basic geometry lesson outperformed peers who had attended less “The fuel of choice right now, certainly for one might find in any grade school, except for academic-focused preschools by, on average, us, is wind,” said Ben Fowke, the chief executive the audience: They were preschoolers, seated the equivalent of two and a half months of of Xcel Energy. cross-legged on a comfy rug. learning in literacy and math. Now politics, not skepticism, may be wind “What attributes would tell me this is a “Simply dressing up like a firefighter or power’s biggest barrier. Under new leadership square?” asked the teacher, Ashley Rzonca. building an exquisite Lego edifice may not be with ties to conventional energy interests, the A boy named Mohammed raised his enough,” said Bruce Fuller, the lead author Energy Department is scrambling to complete hand, “A square has four angles and four equal of the study, conducted by researchers at the an internal study in the next month that could sides.” University of California, Berkeley. “If you lead to an upending of the policies that fostered As school reformers push to expand can combine creative play with rich language, the rapid spread of solar and wind. publicly funded prekindergarten and enact formal conversations and math concepts, In ordering the study, Energy Secretary more stringent standards, more students are that’s more likely to yield the cognitive gains Rick Perry directed his department to determine being exposed at ever younger ages to formal we observed.” whether federal subsidies that encourage wind math and phonics lessons. That has worried The study comes amid rapid expansions and solar energy are putting conventional power some education experts and frightened parents of taxpayer-funded preschool in cities like plants at a disadvantage and threatening the who believe that children of that age should be Washington, San Antonio and New York. grid’s stability. playing with blocks, not sitting still as a teacher The new wave of preschools provide The study has been praised by trade groups explains a shape’s geometric characteristics. playtime, but their major goal is academic representing the nuclear and coal industries. But But a new national study suggests “kindergarten readiness,” and the study could it is being conducted without inviting comment preschools that do not mix enough fiber into provide ammunition for policy makers who from many of those potentially affected. their curriculum may be doing their young want to keep on that course. (AP) A group of trade organizations representing clean-energy interests delivered a report to the department in May arguing renewables do not threaten grid reliability and subsidies are not to blame for the economic troubles of coal and Blind Spots in Tirade Against Germany nuclear plants. Among the subsidies the department is examining is a production tax credit that allows The last time relations between the United response to Chancellor Angela Merkel’s peppery most wind farms to shave pennies off the price States and Europe were this bad, during the buildup remarks, at a political rally in Munich on Sunday, when of each kilowatt-hour they send to the grid. to the invasion of Iraq in 2003, the George W. Bush she said Europe could no longer rely on the United Though flattening demand for electricity and administration decided to “punish France, ignore States as a partner. Europeans, she said, needed to “take cheap natural gas are the main forces depressing Germany and forgive Russia,” in a phrase attributed to our fate into our own hands.” wholesale energy prices, the credit means that the national security adviser at the time, Condoleezza France also runs a substantial trade surplus with wind producers can often offer their power to Rice. the United States and it falls short of the military the market at the lowest price. President Trump has flipped the formula, spending benchmark set by NATO, though by less in Perry has raised the possibility of federal punishing Germany while largely ignoring France. both cases than Germany. Yet Trump has spared France intervention in energy markets to protect coal The difference this time is trade. Germany runs the kind of vitriol he has given the Germans — largely, and nuclear plants. While he backed state a yawning trade surplus with the United States, which officials say, because France spends more on its defense control of market policies as the governor of Trump administration officials say Germany has than Germany. Texas, he said in April that “the boot’s on the widened by exploiting a weak euro to put American When Trump met France’s new president, other foot now.” exports at a disadvantage. That is driving a wedge Emmanuel Macron, for the first time in Brussels last Energy experts say that without the credit between the two countries. week, he lavished praise on him for his election victory. and other favorable subsidies, mandates and “We have a MASSIVE trade deficit with “All over the world they’re talking about it,” he said. market policies in place, wind development and Germany, plus they pay FAR LESS than they should There is no such rapport between Trump and the production will be threatened. When the credit on NATO & military,” an angry Trump said on brainy, button-down Merkel. has periodically expired, installations nearly Tuesday. “Very bad for U.S. This will change.” The two have a businesslike relationship, officials ground to a halt, only to resume again with its Trump’s campaign against Germany overlooks on both sides said. But Merkel, several officials said, renewal. Congressional estimates put the cost of the benefits in the German-American trade relationship has concluded there was little prospect of closing the the credit at $3.1 billion last year, and the figure and overstates Germany’s ability to do much about it. gap with Trump on issues like trade, Russia or the Paris is expected to reach $4 billion this year. German companies employ roughly 700,000 climate accord. Her defiant tone on Sunday was driven “There’s no question: if the P.T.C. goes people in the United States. Carmakers like BMW in part by her run for re-election. In Germany, Trump away, that’s a big number,” said Robert F. and Mercedes-Benz have huge American assembly is a deeply unpopular figure. Shapiro, a lawyer at Chadbourne & Parke in plants, which export vehicles to China and Latin Whatever the motivation, it seemed to register Washington, who focuses on project finance America. BMW’s factory in Spartanburg, S.C., is the with Trump. “I think it just stuck in his craw,” said and energy. “New plants would have to meet largest single exporter, by dollar value, in the American Jackson Janes, the president of the American Institute a tougher test, a market-price test, that can’t be automotive industry. for Contemporary German Studies at the Johns masked in part by that subsidy.” (NYT) Trump’s latest offensive appeared to be in Hopkins University (NYT) SPORTS ENTERTAINMENT JUNE 1, 2017 PG. 7

Mets Find Unlikely Anchor for Bullpen

Ask any hitter about changes in the modern with a 90-mile-an-hour fastball when others didn’t,” “I wouldn’t say that’s how I wanted to pitch; I game, and almost always, you will hear some version he said. “For me it was kind of like, ‘I don’t know, I probably would have thrown more conventionally of this: Every reliever throws 99 miles an hour. The just go out there and throw strikes.’ ” like everybody else on my team if I had tried to do prevalence of hard throwers has far-reaching impact While the average fastball makes about 2,200 that,” Sewald said. “I think I just slowly got into bad on health, roster construction, offense and more, but revolutions per minute, Sewald said his makes about habits and formed a lower angle, stepping across my it is usually a bit overstated. Just look at Paul Sewald. 2,400. That means the pitch does not drop at the body — and now it works for me.” As the Mets churn through bullpen arms at same rate as most fastballs, making it appear to hop, It is working well enough to make Sewald a a record pace (3.88 relievers per game through or rise, to the hitter. reliable option for a team that never expected to Monday), Sewald has earned a coveted place in need him so badly. (AP) the late innings, working a 1-2-3 eighth in a two- run win over Milwaukee on Monday, a day after working the seventh and eighth innings of a victory Strickland and Harper in Pittsburgh. Suspended for Brawl The Mets have already lost closer Jeurys Familia to injury and Hansel Robles to ineffectiveness. Three Giants reliever Hunter Strickland other relievers, Fernando Salas, Josh Smoker and received a six-game suspension Tuesday, and Washington’s was penalized Neil Ramirez, have combined for a 6.91 earned run four games, for their roles in a benches- average. Sewald throws his fastball with about two-thirds clearing brawl at AT&T Park a day earlier. Then there is Sewald, who was not on the of his pitches. He throws his slider about one-third Each was also fined an undisclosed amount, Mets’ 40-man roster at the start of the season. In 14 of the time. A small leftover sliver belongs to his Major League announced. M.L.B. said both players planned to appeal. appearances, he has a 2.21 E.R.A., 24 and changeup, and the man with more victories than any Strickland hit Harper in the hip with a pitch 4 walks in 20 ⅓ innings. And his average fastball, other living — Greg Maddux — believes he in the eighth inning of Monday’s game, according to FanGraphs, is 91.2 miles per hour. should use it more. a 3-0 Nationals victory, and Harper, the Washington slugger, charged the mound, Until last summer, Sewald did not know why Maddux’s encouragement has helped Sewald trading punches to the head with Strickland. his fastball worked. But when his rate rose believe in the changeup, and he said he wants to use The two players’ bad blood stems from after the Mets drafted him — in the 10th round in it more against left-handers, who have hit him well. two home runs Harper hit off Strickland in the 2014 playoffs, when the Giants 2012 — Sewald could not explain it. His best attribute of all is a deceptive drop-and-drive went on to capture their third World Series “I didn’t really know why sometimes I got away delivery. championship in five years. (AP)

SUDOKU DIFFICULTY KENKEN DIFFICULTY TODAY IN HISTORY 1900 - Sailors and Marines from USS Newark (C 1) and USS Oregon (BB 3) arrive at Peking (now known as Beijing), China, to protect U.S. and foreign diplomatic legations during the Boxer Rebellion.

1918 - USS President Lincoln is torpedoed and sunk by German submarine, (U 90). Twenty-six lives are lost.

1919 - Curtiss flying boat NC 4 lands at Plymouth, England, concluding the first transatlantic flight.

1944 - USS England (DE 635), assisted by

Fill the grid with digits 1-6 without repeating a digit in any row or column. The six destroyers and destroyer escorts, sinks digits within each bolded box will produce the target number shown by using sixth Japanese submarine in less than two addition, subtraction, multiplication or division, as indicated. weeks. GREATEREACHDAY JUNE 1, 2017 PG. 8

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