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he Afloat Training Group (ATG), along with Sailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), conducted training August 4-8 during the in-port portion of Tailored Ship’s Training Availability (TSTA) in preparation for TSTA phases I/II/III and TSTA Final Evaluation Period (FEP).

“The main reason we are undergoing the in-port TSTA process is for us to correct CART II (Command Assessment of Readiness and Training) discrepancies by holding certain training and drills, and to prepare us for TSTA I/II/III and FEP,” said Lt. Cmdr. Zavean Ware, the training officer aboard TR. During TSTA I/II/III and TSTA FEP, ATG will oversee numerous events including navigation drills, general quarters and man overboard drills, as well as underway replenishments and flight operations.

“Every carrier undergoes TSTA before deployment,” said Ware.

“TSTA phases are the processes that ramp us up and help us prepare for the final evaluation and ultimately our deployment next year.”

USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77), currently deployed, is the most recent carrier to undergo TSTA. The ship scored more than 97 percent through more than 300 events.

“We’re going to try to outdo the previous carriers on the East Coast,” said Ware. “The Rough Rider status is to be the best, and this is just part of the process to get us to the top. The key to accomplishing this is to stay focused and stay positive.”

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he Navy’s unmanned X-47B returned to carrier operations aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Aug. 17 and completed a series of tests, operating safely and seamlessly with manned aircraft.

Building on lessons learned from its first test period aboard TR in November 2013, the X-47B team is now focused on perfecting deck operations and performing maneuvers with manned aircraft in the flight pattern.

“Today we showed that the X-47B could take off, land and fly in the carrier pattern with manned aircraft while maintaining normal flight deck operations,” said Capt. Beau Duarte, program manager for the Navy’s Unmanned Carrier Aviation office. “This is key for the future Carrier Air Wing.”

The first series of manned/unmanned operations began this morning when the ship launched an F/A-18 and an X-47B. After an eight-minute flight, the X-47B executed an arrested landing, folded its wings and taxied out of the landing area. The deck-based operator used newly developed deck handling control to manually move the aircraft out of the way of other aircraft, allowing the F/A-18 to touch down close behind the X-47B’s recovery.

This cooperative launch and recovery sequence will be repeated multiple times over the course of the planned test periods. The X-47B performed multiple arrested landings, catapults, flight deck taxiing and deck refueling operations.

“For this test period, we really focused on integration with manned aircraft,” said Lt. Cmdr Brian Hall, X-47B flight test director. “We re-engineered the tailhook retract actuator and updated operating software to expedite wingfold during taxi, both of which reduce time in the landing area post-recovery. Our goal was to minimize the time in the landing area and improve the flow with manned aircraft in the landing pattern.”

“The X-47B’s air vehicle performance, testing efficiency and safety technologies and procedures developed and tested throughout the program’s execution have paved the way for the Navy’s future carrier-based unmanned system capability,” said Rear Adm. Mat Winter, who oversees the Program Executive Office for Unmanned Aviation and Strike Weapons.

The X-47B will remain aboard CVN 71 for the duration of the underway period. It will perform additional cooperative deck and flight operations with F/A-18s and complete night deck handling and flying quality evaluations.

The Navy will continue X-47B flight operations over the next year to refine the concept of operations to demonstrate the integration of unmanned carrier-based aircraft within the carrier environment and mature technologies for the future Unmanned Carrier Launched Airborne Surveillance and Strike system.

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Bank Overseer Is Now Facing Major Penalty The giant consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers occupies a position of trust on Wall Street, acting as a shadow regulator of sorts that promises the government an impartial look inside the world’s biggest banks.

But the firm — hired by the banks it examines — has landed in the regulatory spotlight for obscuring some of the same misconduct it was supposed to unearth, according to confidential documents and interviews with people briefed on the matter.

New York State’s financial regulator is poised to announce a settlement with PricewaterhouseCoopers, according to the interviews, taking aim at the consulting firm for watering down a report about one of the world’s biggest banks, Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ. The regulator, Benjamin M. Lawsky, will impose a $25 million penalty against PricewaterhouseCoopers and prevent one of its consulting units from taking on certain assignments from New York-regulated banks for two years, a reputational blow that could cause some banking clients to leave.

The firm, which is accused of lacking the objectivity and integrity expected of consultants but not actually breaking the law, agreed to pay the fine and accept the two-year sidelining of its regulatory consulting unit.

The bank’s effort to sanitize the report, detailed in the interviews and the documents reviewed by The New York Times, offers a lens into Wall Street’s multibillion-dollar consulting industry. The industry, which includes the PricewaterhouseCoopers and another giant accounting firm, Deloitte, has long defended the quality and independence of its work. Yet Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi’s relationship with PricewaterhouseCoopers illustrated the potential conflicts.

When questions arose about whether to dig deeper into the bank’s transactions, a partner at PricewaterhouseCoopers cautioned about the fallout: “If you find something at this point,” the partner wrote in an email, “it will open a whole other can of worms.”

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Youth Shot Six Times, Autopsy Shows FERGUSON, Mo. — Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager whose death at the hands of police sparked protests around the nation, was shot at least six times, including twice in the head, a preliminary private autopsy performed on Sunday found.

One of the bullets entered the top of Brown’s skull, suggesting his head was bent forward when it struck him and caused a fatal injury, said Dr. Michael M. Baden, the former chief medical examiner for the City of New York, who flew to Missouri on Sunday at the family’s request to conduct the separate autopsy.

Brown, 18, was also shot four times in the right arm, Baden said, adding that all the bullets were fired from the front.

The bullets did not appear to have been shot from very close range because no gunshot powder was present on his body.

However, that determination could change if it turns out that there is gunshot residue on Brown’s clothing.

Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. said Sunday that the Justice

Department would conduct its own autopsy, in addition to the one performed by local officials and this private one because, a department spokesman said, of “the extraordinary circumstances involved in this case and at the request of the Brown family.”

The preliminary autopsy results are the first time that some of the critical information resulting in Brown’s death has been made public. Thousands of protesters demanding information and justice for what was viewed as a reckless shooting took to the streets here in rallies that ranged from peaceful to violent.

Brown died last week in a confrontation with a police officer here in this suburb of St. Louis.

The police department has come under harsh criticism for refusing to clarify the circumstances of the shooting and for responding to protests with military-style operational gear.

“People have been asking: how many times was he shot? This information could have been released on Day 1,” Baden said on Sunday after performing the au-

topsy. “They don’t do that, even as feelings built up among the citizenry that there was a cover-up.

We are hoping to alleviate that.”

Baden said that while Brown was shot at least six times, only three bullets were recovered from his body. But he has not yet seen the X-rays showing where the bullets were found, which would clarify the autopsy results.

Nor has he had access to witness and police statements.

Baden provided a diagram of the entry wounds, and noted that the six shots produced numerous wounds. Some of the bullets entered and exited several times, including one that left at least five different wounds.

“This one here looks like his head was bent downward,” he said, indicating the wound at the very top of Brown’s head. “It can be because he’s giving up, or because he’s charging forward at the officer.”

He stressed that his information does not assign blame or justify the shooting.

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In Torn Gaza, if Roof Stands, It’s Now Home GAZA CITY — Signs of the displaced are everywhere in Gaza.

Tiny sandals are scattered on the doormat of a lawyer’s office above downtown Gaza City’s main street: The tiny feet belong to the children who have been living inside since July 20. Upstairs, in the dental laboratory where Mohamed Efranji fashions crowns and veneers, there are trays of onions, potatoes, red peppers and tomatoes to feed three families who now call it home.

At the Rimal Salon at the edge of the Beach refugee camp, two hairdressers have brought their 10 younger siblings to stay. Last Tuesday, their mother was making macaroni on a camp stove in a room where brides usually primp. Around the corner, a blanket blocking a doorway revealed a closed Internet cafe where 13 more people have set up house in two rooms that lack running water and working electric outlets.

Scores of families have hung sheets and scarves from every available tree and pole to create shady spaces on the grounds of Al Shifa Hospital; in the unauthorized camp, a 3-month-old slept in a wire crib lined with cardboard.

On Sunday, more than 235,000 people were still crammed into 81 of the United Nations’ 156 schools, where classes are supposed to start next Sunday. “The chances of that,” acknowledged Scott Anderson, deputy director of the agency that runs them, “are zero.”

After a month of fierce fighting between Israel and Palestinian militants that killed more than 1,900 Gaza residents, the extension of a temporary cease-fire through Monday is a great relief. But with an estimated 11,000 homes destroyed and many more severely damaged, Gaza’s housing and humanitarian crises are just beginning, and the uncertainty over the timing and terms

for a more durable truce makes recovery planning elusive.

The destruction has been far more severe than in previous rounds of Israeli attacks, especially in Shejaiya, the northern border town of Beit Hanoun and the southeastern village of Khuza’a, where little at all is left.

Palestinian leaders plan to ask international donors for $6 billion at a conference scheduled for September, but there are many challenges money cannot solve.

The Hamas-run government that ruled Gaza resigned in June, but the Palestinian Authority has yet to take control of its ministries. So who will assess damage or coordinate reconstruction?

“Our fate at the end will be in the street,” lamented Alia Kamal Elaf, a 35-year-old mother of eight who has been staying at a school since fleeing Shejaiya at the onset of Israel’s ground incursion on July 17. JODI RUDOREN

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Kurds Move Ukraine Says Army Controls Center of Luhansk DONETSK, Ukraine — The To Retake Dam Ukrainian The Ukrainian military on Sunday

ALQOSH, Iraq — Seizing on the momentum of focused American airstrikes in recent days, Kurdish forces moved to retake the strategic Mosul Dam on Sunday night, in their most significant challenge yet to the Sunni militants’ advance in northern Iraq.

The American assaults hit 10 armed vehicles, seven Humvees, two armored personnel carriers and one checkpoint belonging to fighters of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, the United States Central Command said Sunday.

In the past two days, United States forces have conducted 30 airstrikes across Iraq, officials said, with many of them focused around the dam, which militants captured after routing the Kurdish forces 10 days ago. A statement from the National Security Council in Washington on Sunday said that the bombings were ordered by President Obama to help the Iraqi forces “retake and establish control over the Mosul Dam.” Obama, the statement added, also officially informed Congress that he had authorized the American airstrikes in Iraq, consistent with the War Powers Resolution.

As of late Sunday, Kurdish government officials said fighting around the dam, Iraq’s largest, was continuing, despite reports that the site had been retaken.

“We do not control the entire dam yet,” said Fuad Hussein, a spokesman for Massoud Barzani, the Iraqi Kurdish president, in a televised statement.

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moved into the heart of the separatist hub of Luhansk for the first time, officials said, chipping at one of the cornerstones of the pro-Russia rebels’ disintegrating virtual state.

Ukrainian officials said army units had raised the national flag over a police station in central Luhansk, the eastern city that, along with Donetsk, has been a center of rebel activity and an important destination for Russian fighters and aid. Other parts of Luhansk, however, were still said to be under rebel control.

The claim could not be independently confirmed, though a photograph of the flag and police station was circulating on social media, and the report was consistent with the progress of fighting there going into the weekend.

Along with increased Ukrainian pressure on rebel positions in Donetsk, the army’s move into Luhansk focused attention on the profound reversal of the separatists’ fortunes since they declared

Army has tightened its siege on Donetsk in recent weeks.

A firefighter douses a fire in a suburb of Donetsk on Sunday after artillery shells fell in the area.

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independence in April. Interviews across eastern Ukraine portray a rapid breakdown in discipline in the rebel ranks. Many fighters have abandoned their uniforms in favor of civilian clothes, and three senior leaders have left the war zone in recent days.

Even as Ukrainian officials in Kiev celebrated the developments, and as international foreign ministers met in Berlin to try to ease the crisis with Russia, there was increased worry that the Kremlin would take the reb-

els’ disintegration as an incentive to intervene more forcefully in Ukraine,.

“It’s a case of being very, very, very careful what you wish for,” said Cliff Kupchan, an analyst with the Washington-based Eurasia Group, speaking of Western officials who have endorsed the Ukrainian military option. If President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia believes “the rebels are about to get routed, we do have a problem,” Kupchan said.

ANDREW E. KRAMER

Treatment Center Opens After Ebola Patients Taken Away Doctors Without Borders began accepting patients on Sunday at what is intended to be the organization’s largest-ever Ebola treatment center, near Liberia’s capital, Monrovia.

The opening came a day after an improvised holding center at a former school in the West Point neighborhood of Monrovia was overrun by protesters who broke through the gates and carried

away patients and supplies.

On Sunday, the community’s elders and leadership apologized for the disturbance, and public health workers hoped to reopen the West Point center on Monday, said Samuel Tarplah, 48, a nurse who ran it. “I believe we will get all the patients back,” he added.

The new Doctors Without Borders treatment unit, a series of large white tents on the grounds

of the Eternal Love Winning Africa mission hospital in Paynesville, is designed to hold an initial 120 patients and then to be expanded to accept up to 400.

“I think it will be full very fast, and the situation will continue to get worse,” said Lindis Hurum, a project coordinator for Doctors Without Borders in Monrovia. “In general, it is a very difficult and alarming situation.”

(NYT)

In Brief Floods Strand Thousands

Rally Opposes Democracy

15 Missing as Boat Sinks

Floods set off by heavy rains in the Himalayas have inundated nearly 1,500 villages in northern India, killing at least 28 people and leaving thousands homeless, officials said Sunday. The latest rains have caused landslides and floods in many parts of India and Nepal, where at least 90 people have been killed since Thursday. Torrents swept away at least 12 people in the Bahraich district of Uttar Pradesh, officials said. Six others drowned when their boat capsized in the Rapti River.

More rain is forecast in Uttar Pradesh and the neighboring state of Uttarakhand, resulting in new flood warnings. Three army helicopters were used to drop food and water to the people marooned in shelters.

(Reuters)

Tens of thousands of people marched in Hong Kong on Sunday to express their opposition to a pro-democracy movement that has threatened to bring Asia’s biggest financial center to a standstill if the government does not open up the nomination process for electing the city’s top leader. The contrast with a rally held July 1 by pro-democracy organizers was stark. Most of the participants in Sunday’s rally were organized into groups corresponding to Chinese hometowns, schools or, in some cases, employers, easily identifiable with their matching T-shirts and hats. Middle-aged and elderly people dominated Sunday’s march, while young people dominated last month’s march.

(NYT)

A boat carrying foreign tourists sank in central Indonesia, leaving 15 people missing, officials said Sunday. The boat was on its way from Lombok Island to Komodo Island carrying 20 foreign tourists, four Indonesian crew members and an Indonesian guide when it sank about 6 p.m. on Saturday, said Budiawan, who runs the search and rescue agency in Mataram. Ten people, including at least six of the foreigners, were rescued, said Budiawan, who like many Indonesians uses a single name. Among those rescued were two people each from New Zealand and Spain, and one each from Britain and France. It was not immediately clear who the other four rescued people were.

(AP)

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Seeking New Start and Finding Steep Cost LOUISVILLE, Ky. — When the financial crisis crippled the construction industry seven years ago, Joe DeGrella’s contracting company failed, leaving him looking for what he hoped would be the last job he would ever need.

He took each step in line with the advice of the federal government: He met with an unemployment counselor who provided him with a list of job titles the Labor Department determined to be in high demand, he picked from among colleges that offered government-certified job-training courses, and he received a federal retraining grant.

In 2009, DeGrella, began a course at Daymar College — a for-profit vocational institute in Louisville — to become a cardiology technician. Daymar officials told him he would have a well-paying job within weeks of graduation.

But after two years of studying cardiovascular physiology and the mechanics of electrocardiograms, DeGrella, now 57, found himself jobless and $20,000 in debt. He

moved into his sister’s basement and now works at an AutoZone.

Millions of unemployed Americans like DeGrella have trained for new careers as part of the Workforce Investment Act, a $3.1 billion federal program that was reauthorized by Congress last month with little public discussion about its effectiveness. Like DeGrella, many have not found a new career.

Instead, an extensive analysis of the program by The New York Times shows, many graduates wind up significantly worse off than when they started — mired in unemployment and debt from training for positions that do not exist, and they end up working elsewhere for the minimum wage.

The Times examination, based on state and federal documents, school and court records, and interviews, shows that some of the retraining institutions advertise graduation and job-placement rates that do not hold up to scrutiny.

The idea of dividing responsibility between federal and state

officials was to give local and state authorities more power in helping the unemployed. But the unemployed who sign up for training are often left to navigate a bureaucratic maze with almost no guidance.

There is no mechanism for students to check in with counselors to gauge their progress or determine whether the training program is a good match. States say they investigate complaints and audit programs with poor outcomes, but students say they tend not to register formal complaints.

DeGrella said he was among many at Daymar who were unable to find jobs and who now owe thousands of dollars. Daymar, which declined to comment, is being sued by Kentucky’s attorney general for misleading students.

“I’ve worked hard my whole life,” said DeGrella, who also once managed a manufacturing company. “I’m just angry that I was trying to improve myself and my situation, and end up $20,000 in debt.”

TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

Treatment in U.S. Is a Rare Chance to Study Ebola ATLANTA — Nancy Writebol wanted barbecued chicken and fried okra instead of hospital food for dinner on Friday, so her sons went out and got it, and had it passed to her isolation room in the special containment unit at Emory University Hospital.

Writebol, 59, is one of two American missionaries who contracted the Ebola virus while working at a hospital in Liberia. She was flown to the United States on Aug. 5 strapped to a stretcher, receiving oxygen and encased head-to-toe in a white spacesuit meant to protect others from the deadly infection.

The other missionary, Dr. Kent Brantly, is also on the mend. On

Friday, he sent out a statement saying that he was “recovering in every way.” But he added, “There are still a few hurdles to clear before I can be discharged.”

The care they are receiving is expected to greatly improve their odds of recovery. And they are providing a rare opportunity to study the disease with testing not available in Africa. Their doctors are hoping the scrutiny will yield information that could be used to help patients in Africa and reduce the high death rates there.

“We hope to learn a great deal from them,” said Dr. Bruce S. Ribner, who is leading the team of infectious disease specialists treat-

ing the two. “But the focus now is to help them survive.”

Before leaving Liberia, Writebol and Brantly began receiving the experimental treatment ZMapp, but it is not clear whether that has played a role in their recovery.

The plight of the missionaries helped draw attention to a deadly outbreak that had been spreading for months in West Africa. Writebol’s sons, Jeremy, 35, and Brian, 33, said they and their mother wondered whether her illness might have been part of a divine plan.

“Maybe God brought suffering to our family,” Jeremy said, “to use it, we hope, to help thousands of others.”

DENISE GRADY

Arizona Loose With Its Rules in Executions, Records Show PHOENIX — In an execution in 2010 in Arizona, the presiding doctor was supposed to connect the intravenous line to the convict’s arm — a procedure written into the state’s lethal injection protocol and considered by many doctors as the easiest and best way to attach a line. Instead he chose to use a vein in an upper thigh, near the groin.

“It’s my preference,” the doctor said later in a deposition, testifying anonymously because of his

role as a five-time executioner.

For his work, he received $5,000 to $6,000 per day — in cash — with two days for practice before each execution.

That improvisation is not unusual for Arizona, where corrections officials and medical staff members routinely deviate from the state’s written rules for conducting executions, state records and court filings show. Sometimes they improvise even while a con-

vict is strapped to a table in the execution chamber and waiting for the drugs coursing through his veins to take effect.

Last month, Arizona again deviated from its execution protocol, and things did not go as planned: The convicted murderer Joseph R. Wood III took nearly two hours to die — during which he received 13 more doses of lethal drugs than the two doses set out by the state’s rules.

(NYT)

In Brief In Alaska, Odd Split Over Taxes on Oil Many Alaskans chart state history along a timeline of before oil and after. Now a proposal to shake up the way oil companies are taxed — headed for a vote Tuesday in a referendum — has stirred a passionate debate. At stake is the fate of major tax breaks and incentives for the oil industry, part of a system that was pushed through the Legislature last year by Gov. Sean Parnell, who billed it as a way to stimulate new drilling in the aging oil fields of the North Slope. Critics say the measure excessively benefits oil interests, and are seeking to reinstate a previous tax package known as ACES, or Alaska’s Clear and Equitable Share, signed into law in 2007.

(NYT)

Obama Returning Briefly From Vacation In a rare move for President Obama, he planned a break in the middle of his Martha’s Vineyard vacation to return to Washington on Sunday night for meetings with Vice President Joseph R. Biden Jr. and other advisers on the U.S. military campaign in Iraq and tensions between police and protesters in Ferguson, Mo. Obama has received multiple briefings on both issues while on vacation. The White House also had already announced Obama’s plans to return to Washington before the U.S. airstrikes in Iraq began and before the shooting of a teenager in Ferguson that sparked protests.

(AP)

More Charges Due In Amish Kidnapping More charges are expected soon against a northern New York couple accused of kidnapping two young Amish sisters and sexually abusing them, a prosecutor said Sunday. Computer hard drives and other potential evidence were still being collected Sunday from the home of Stephen Howells Jr. and Nicole Vaisey, said Mary Rain, district attorney for St. Lawrence County. They were arrested Friday and charged with kidnapping with the intent to physically or sexually abuse the 7-year-old and 12-year-old sisters. Howells, 39, and Vaisey, 25, are being held without bail.

(AP)

BUSINESS

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Hurdle to Insights in Data Is ‘Janitor Work’ Technology revolutions come in measured, sometimes foot-dragging steps. The lab science and marketing enthusiasm tend to underestimate the bottlenecks to progress that must be overcome with hard work and practical engineering.

The field known as “big data” offers a contemporary case study. The catchphrase stands for the modern abundance of digital data from many sources — the web, sensors, smartphones and corporate databases — that can be mined with clever software for discoveries and insights.

Its promise is smarter, data-driven decision making in every field. That is why data scientist is the economy’s hot new job.

Yet far too much handcrafted work — what data scientists call “data wrangling,” “data munging” and “data janitor work” — is

still required. Data scientists, according to interviews and expert estimates, spend from 50 percent to 80 percent of their time mired in this more mundane labor of collecting and preparing unruly digital data, before it can be explored for useful nuggets.

“Data wrangling is a huge — and surprisingly so — part of the job,” said Monica Rogati, vice president for data science at Jawbone, whose sensor-filled wristband and software track activity, sleep and food consumption, and suggest dietary and health tips based on the numbers. “It’s something that is not appreciated by data civilians,” Rogati said. “At times, it feels like everything we do.”

Several start-ups are trying to break through these big data bottlenecks by developing software to automate the gathering, clean-

ing and organizing of disparate data, which is plentiful but messy.

The modern Wild West of data needs to be tamed somewhat so it can be recognized and exploited by a computer program.

“It’s an absolute myth that you can send an algorithm over raw data and have insights pop up,” said Jeffrey Heer, a professor of computer science at the University of Washington and a co-founder of Trifacta, a San Francisco-based start-up.

Data experts try to automate as many steps in the process as possible.

“But practically, because of the diversity of data, you spend a lot of your time being a data janitor, before you can get to the cool, sexy things that got you into the field in the first place,” said Matt Mohebbi, a data scientist and co-founder of Iodine.

STEVE LOHR

Authors’ Amazon Campaign Spreads to Europe BERLIN — Taking a page from their colleagues across the Atlantic, over 1,000 writers from Germany, Austria and Switzerland have united to vent their frustration over the tactics Amazon is using against the Bonnier Group and the authors who are published under its name.

The writers, backed by several hundred artists and readers, have signed an open letter to Amazon, accusing it of manipulating its recommended reading lists and lying to customers about the availability of books as retaliation in a dispute over e-book prices.

“Amazon’s customers have, until now, had the impression that these lists are not manipulated and they

could trust Amazon. Apparently that is not the case,” according to the letter, which was to be sent to Amazon and was to appear in leading publications in Austria, Germany and Switzerland on Monday.

“Amazon manipulates recommendation lists. Amazon uses authors and their books as a bargaining chip to exact deeper discounts.”

Signed by leading German-language authors like Elfriede Jelinek, a recipient of the Nobel Prize in Literature in 2004, and the popular crime novelists Ingrid Noll and Nele Neuhaus, the letter accused Amazon of taking longer to deliver books published by Bonnier, making false statements about whether

the books were available and pulling the authors of those books from recommended reading lists.

The dispute with Bonnier, based in Sweden, echoes a fight between Amazon and the publisher Hachette in the United States.

In response, Amazon pointed at publishers. Bonnier “offers most of its titles under conditions that make it significantly more expensive for us to sell a digital version, as compared to a printed edition,” Amazon said by email. “E-books can and should be offered cheaper than printed books, and this should also go for the prices at which booksellers buy from publishers.”

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In Brief ‘The Expendables 3’ Fumbles Its Mission Did prerelease piracy kill “The Expendables 3,” or was the culprit old-fashioned franchise fatigue? Lionsgate and Millennium Films had no easy answer on Sunday as they tabulated weekend ticket sales for the ensemble action movie, which appeared to take in just $16.2 million at North American theaters, almost 50 percent less than “The Expendables 2” in 2012. A nearly complete version of “The Expendables 3” was stolen in late July, most likely from an independent special-effects finishing firm, and leaked online. Despite legal efforts by Lionsgate to stop its spread, it was downloaded about five million times before its release on Friday, according to piracy-tracking services. (NYT)

Commuter Car Gets 84 Miles to Gallon Your next commuter car could have two seats, three wheels and get 84 miles to the gallon. Elio Motors wants to revolutionize American roads with the car, which is the same length as a Honda Fit but half the weight. With a starting price of $6,800, it is also less than half the cost. Elio plans to start making the cars next fall at a former General Motors plant in Shreveport, La. Already, more than 27,000 people have reserved one. Elio hopes to make 250,000 cars a year by 2016. Because it has three wheels — two in front and one in the rear — the Elio is actually classified as a motorcycle by the U.S. government. (AP)

Atop People Magazine, a New Editor, and a Fan, in His Element Last Monday, Jess Cagle, the new editor of People magazine, had just returned from a meeting in London with representatives of the royal family when he heard about Robin Williams’s death.

He ripped up the coming cover on Kate Middleton and ordered a 12-page spread on the comedian.

The next morning, on an hour of sleep, he appeared on “Good Morning America” and filmed a special for “20/20.” Then he learned that Lauren Bacall had died.

For Cagle, who grew up a Hollywood-obsessed pop culture fanatic in Abilene, Tex., steering the

country’s leading celebrity magazine through such a hectic week was a dream come true.

“It’s like Superman. It’s like Coca-Cola,” said Cagle about People.

“It was my window to the world.”

His bosses are now looking to Cagle to turn that passion into profits. People and other celebrity magazines have struggled as fans turn to their smartphones for gossip about Beyoncé and Jay Z. In the first half of 2014, People posted 15 percent declines in newsstand sales and a 20 percent drop in total circulation. Still, when People’s parent company, Time Inc.,

gave Cagle the reins in January, it was handing over the crown jewel.

People generates more revenue than any of the company’s more than 90 magazines and 45 websites, netting $1.49 billion in 2013, according to the magazine industry consultant John Harrington.

Norman Pearlstine, the chief content officer for Time Inc., praised Cagle for his “golden gut” news instincts. He credited Cagle with knowing that his readers would like covers of the Cleveland kidnapping victim Michelle Knight, and Bindi, the daughter of Steve Irwin, the star of “The

Crocodile Hunter,” who died after being stung by a stingray.

And Cagle, 49, still has plenty on his plate. He must name a top editor for People.com. He plans to build up People’s video content and expand its mobile offering.

And in December, he will appear in the first People Magazine Awards show on NBC. Despite all the activity, Cagle remains calm about what lies ahead.

“I certainly don’t think that I am responsible for the survival of Time,” he said. “It feels exciting, rather than a lot of pressure.”

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Tech Giants Pursue the Bank-Free Merger MOUNTAIN VIEW, Calif. — When deciding whether Google should spend millions or even billions of dollars in acquiring a new company, its chief executive, Larry Page, asks whether the acquisition passes the toothbrush test: Is it something you will use once or twice a day, and does it make your life better?

The criterion shuns traditional measures of valuing a company like earnings, discounted cash flow or even sales. Instead, Page is looking for usefulness above profitability, and long-term potential over near-term financial gain.

Google’s toothbrush test highlights the autonomy of Silicon Valley’s biggest corporate acquirers — and the marginalized role investment banks are playing in the latest boom in technology deals.

Many of the biggest technology companies are going it alone when striking large mergers and acquisitions. Companies like Google, Facebook and Cisco Systems are leaning on their corporate development teams to identify targets, conduct due diligence and negotiate terms instead of relying on Wall Street bankers.

Deals with unadvised buyers are increasing rapidly. The acquiring company did not use an investment bank in 69 percent

and banks is the belief among many tech executives that some advisers do not know what companies like Google and Facebook are looking for.

“Bankers do two things well: financial evaluation and negotiation,” said Richard E. Climan, a partner at LIZ GRAUMAN/THE NEW YORK TIMES the law firm Weil, Gotshal & Manges who ofof U.S. technology acquisitions ten works with companies to comworth over $100 million this year, plete deals where no banks are inaccording to Dealogic. That num- volved. “But there’s a feeling that investment bankers might not be ber was 27 percent 10 years ago.

When Apple bought Beats Elec- so important on the evaluation of tronics for $3 billion this year, it early-stage tech companies.”

Often, when big tech companies eschewed the help of deal advisers.

When Facebook spent $2.3 billion are looking to grow through acquifor the virtual reality company Oc- sitions, it is the culture and vision, ulus VR in March, it did so without not the earnings and revenue, that the help of bankers. And when Goo- are of paramount importance. And gle acquired the mapping compa- for Facebook and Google — shareny Waze for $1 billion last year, no holder darlings that are flush with cash and run by well-connected bank got a cut of the fees.

The diminished reliance on in- entrepreneurs — it is easier than vestment banks comes as tech- ever to get by without bankers.

“The most important thing is nology deal making is booming.

More than $100 billion in such that soft stuff,” said Amin Zoufodeals have been announced in the noun, Facebook’s vice president United States this year, the most of corporate development. “And since 2000, according to Dealogic. that soft stuff is more challenging At the heart of the disconnect for a bank or an adviser to tap inDAVID GELLES between technology companies to.”

The View From #Ferguson Ferguson, Mo., was just a place — a working-class suburb of St. Louis — before an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot and killed by the police, before protests and The Media looting erupted, equaTion before local forces David Carr responded with armored vehicles, tear gas and rubber bullets, and Ferguson became #Ferguson.

Last Wednesday night, my Twitter feed began to explode with videos, photographs and messages, all depicting the mayhem happening smack dab in the middle of America.

The story had already received its share of attention, but now it was breaking in a new and scary way, with reporters arrested, protesters gassed, stun grenades exploding and a line of police in riot gear confronting protesters.

The chaos was evident by about 8 p.m. Eastern time. I turned on CNN and found a trib-

ute to Lauren Bacall mixed with wall-to-wall coverage of the rescue effort in northern Iraq.

But the web crackled with one story and one story only. It wasn’t long before cable news made adjustments and a huge story — a militarized response to a mostly nonviolent exercise of free speech — took center stage.

For that you can thank Twitter, which is often derided as a platform for banalities but has become much more than that in the age of always-on information.

As a kind of constantly changing kaleidoscope, Twitter provides enough visibility to show that something significant is underway. And news organizations are beginning to look at how to use Twitter in continuing ways.

While much of mainstream media leaves communities of color unmoved — these are audiences that are underrepresented in terms of broadband access as well — Twitter is a place many black

users rely on for information.

Julie Bosman has been on the ground for The New York Times and posting to Twitter.

On Wednesday night, she was approached by a young black man in the neighborhood. “New York Times?” he asked. “Yes,” she said, introducing herself. “I follow you on Twitter,” he said.

On Thursday, after the chaos, there was a huge in-migration of news media. Perhaps even absent the conflagration on Twitter, journalists would have shown up.

Perhaps cable news would have turned hard toward the story, and the kind of coverage that eventually drew the attention of the president and the governor of Missouri would have taken place.

Perhaps all the things that led to the security situation in Ferguson being handed over to cooler heads would have ensued. But nothing much good was happening in Ferguson until it became a hashtag.

Distillers Stockpile Bourbon in Hopes Of a Big Payday LOUISVILLE, Ky. — In a business where patience is part of the process, Kentucky bourbon makers are making a big bet by stashing away their largest stockpiles in more than a generation.

To put it in bartenders’ lingo: Distillers are putting up the tab for millions of rounds of bourbon years before they are even ordered. The production poses an inherent risk, but hitting the moment right — a big supply meshing with big demand — could mean a serious payday for companies big and small.

Missing the target would leave bourbon makers awash with supply and leave future production in question, particularly for craft distilleries that have seen a surge in popularity.

“People keep asking us, ‘When will the bubble burst?’ ” said Eric Gregory, president of the Kentucky Distillers’ Association.

For most in the business, the answer is not anytime soon.

Large companies are banking on continued international demand from places such as China and a culture in the United States that now has a taste for bourbon, which has to be aged at least two years in new charred oak barrels.

“We are busier than I ever could have imagined,” said Chris Morris, master distiller at Brown-Forman Corporation, producer of Woodford Reserve and Old Forester bourbons.

Last year, Kentucky distilleries filled 1.2 million barrels of bourbon — the most since 1970, according to the Kentucky Distillers’ Association. Inventory has topped 5 million barrels for the first time since 1977, the group said.

Production has surged by over 150 percent in the past 15 years in Kentucky — home to 95 percent of the world’s bourbon production.

Straight bourbon whiskey ages a minimum of two years, though the average maturity is four years or older. Many super-premium brands age six years or longer, which are the toughest to stock in bars, restaurants and liquor stores.

“Bourbon as a category is on fire,” said Bill Thomas, a Washington, D.C., bar owner whose establishments include Jack Rose Dining Saloon. “Every week, there’s stuff that’s out of stock.”

(AP)

ARTS

MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2014

Barbarians at Auction Gates? Not to Worry In one striking example, Jean-Michel Basquiat’s “Warrior” sold three times at auction between 2005 and 2012, the painting’s price soaring during those seven years by 450 percent, to nearly $9 million.

In another, at Christie’s this May, an Alex Israel sky painting drew over $1 million, more than 10 times what paintings from this series fetched when they were created less than two years ago.

Such soaring prices and quick resales, especially of work by emerging artists, have fueled a perception that a new breed of collectors, fond of flipping art as they would a stock, have overtaken the market. In this view, widely held in the art world, work once valued for its lofty, aesthetic appeal has become a mere commodity, just another asset class for hedge-fund millionaires and others to cash in.

But separate statistical analyses conducted for The New York Times by two companies that specialize in evaluating art market data indicate that the hand wringing may be premature.

At the request of The Times, Tutela Capital S.A., a consultancy in Brussels, and Beautiful Asset Advisors, a New York company, reviewed art market data from 1995 through 2013 to see whether there had been a noticeable shortening in the time owners held onto art. The discussion of the issue has largely focused on the postwar and contemporary markets,

vestor has long haunted the art market. “And if it wasn’t them, then, at the turn of the century, it was American industrialists. It’s a cycle, it’s repeating, and in a way it’s very reassuring.

I don’t think it’s something that we necessarily need to be frightened of, because PETER DOIG we’ve seen this story before.”

Peter Doig’s “White Canoe,” above, sold Artists said that twice in two years, skyrocketing in price. frequent resales of their works can where there is the perception that generate creativity-stifling presa commodities trading approach sure to produce more of the same to feed the market. And the pace has become prevalent.

The data indicate that contem- can be unsettling.

From 2006 to 2007, Peter Doig’s porary works appearing at auction within three years of their painting “White Canoe” sold creation are not coming to auc- twice, drawing about $10 million tion faster than in the past, and at auction the second time around, that such flipping remains very the most paid for one of his works much the exception. Though more at the time. “I was very nervous” works come up for sale each year, after the sale, Doig said in an interthe percentage of these works was view from his home in Trinidad. “I essentially the same last year, less felt that things would change for me, that people would talk about than 2 percent, as in 2007.

“If it’s not the hedge funds or that rather than the work.”

“It made it more difficult to paint venture capitalists, then in the ’80s it was the Japanese,” said for me,” he added. “I became more Thomas Galbraith, the managing cynical. I just wondered why I was director of auctions at Paddle8, doing it: ‘Am I doing it to make rich an online auction house. He said people richer?’ ” LORNE MANLY and ROBIN POGREBIN the scourge of the speculative in-

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Rough Edges Unite 2 Singers EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — It’s difficult to think of Eminem — perhaps the most transformational pop music figure of the 2000s, and still a multiplatinum star — as a supMusic plicant in need of Review a handout. But in 2014, he is merely Jon Caramanica a galaxy-size cult favorite, a 41-yearold white rapper far from the center of pop culture, leaning heavily on reputation and largely failing to innovate.

What has saved him from just being a prodigiously gifted relic is Rihanna. The last two times he’s topped the Billboard Hot 100, it’s been with her at his side: “Love the Way You Lie,” in 2010, and “The Monster,” last year. Both are songs with turmoil at their core, by a pair of artists with often differing ideas of how to communicate it.

These songs don’t make the case for an album of duets, but they are sufficient pretext for the megastars to take a brief sojourn around the country together, one which arrived at MetLife Stadium here on Saturday night.

For Eminem, who’s become reclusive in recent years, both during and after his struggles with drugs, this was an increasingly rare high-profile occasion.

For Rihanna, one of the most photographed pop stars of the day, this was like a cute, mildly distracting side project.

Like Eminem, Rihanna has become darker as she’s evolved, but she never had his pep. As a result, his solo set was more frenetic than hers, teasing the crowd about illicit substances one minute, then delivering a searing performance of “Not Afraid,” about his battles with addiction.

The pairing was most intriguing early on: Rihanna singing the triumphant “Run This Town” while Eminem rapped the sneering “Renegade,” which worked; Rihanna singing the blank “Live Your Life” giving way to Eminem rapping the devious “Crack a Bottle,” which almost did.

What was most noticeable was what they each denied the other.

Rihanna was without her natural sensuality, and Eminem didn’t have his raw rage. They were two strangers, both itching to retreat to their own dark corners.

MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2014 7

JOURNAL

On Corner, a Keeper of a Toy Gorilla presides over a lot where nothing but thick weeds and mint leaves has risen from the ground in decades. Tantalizing to developers, delightful to passers-by and mysterious to all, it has sat more or less unchanged as the storefronts around it fill with trendy restaurants and boutiques, a familiar yet unrecognized vestige of the days when Williamsburg was known as a Puerto Rican neighborhood.

The lot’s story is that of a handyman named Luis Rivera, a pair of stuffed gorillas and a sprightly, emphatic and litigious octogenarian retiree called Carmen Bonilla.

With developers snapping up old buildings for millions of dollars and a Whole Foods opening down the street, an undeveloped cor-

The Williamsburg property, worth by one estimate just over $8 million, sits on a prime corner of North First Street and Bedford Avenue, that hub of all things hip. It comes with plenty of private parking. It even boasts a miniature herb garden, tended by a local folk artist.

Its current inhabitant is a life-size stuffed gorilla by the name of Coco.

Some days, Coco wears a dark suit and a striped tie. His sunglass lenses read, “I NEED R3HAB”; an empty bottle of New Amsterdam gin sits in front of him. Other days, leaning against a rusting Nissan Sentra, he sports nothing but an orange T-shirt that is not quite generous enough to hide his drooping belly.

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Carmen Bonilla tends to her display of Coco the gorilla in a Williamsburg lot. ner lot on Bedford Avenue is not long for this world. Rivera, who bought the lot for cheap in 1983 and never built anything there, is dead, and his relatives are deciding whether to sell or develop the lot themselves.

But in the meantime, it is Bonilla’s to manage as she pleases. As she has done since first befriending Rivera in 1992, most days she crosses the street from the senior residence she lives in to tend her mint and dress Coco in new finery: a secondhand suit she bought at the flea market for $15, old sneakers she scored for $35.

“I put this here for the kids, because the kids, they enjoy,” Bonilla said, stepping sure-footedly through the weeds. “That’s the way you’ve got to live — because I’m no better than nobody. Love each other, help each other.”

What would she do if the lot became an apartment building or sold to a developer?

Her hands flared out, her chin jerked forward.

“They don’t care about the people who are living here before,” she said. “And they chase the people who live here before out.”

“How come the Spanish and the white people can’t live together?” Bonilla said. “We’re supposed to live together.”

VIVIAN YEE

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OPINION

MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2014

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

Europe’s Recurring Malaise No one should be surprised that the economy of the eurozone is once more going in reverse.

This is an entirely predictable outcome of the misguided policies that European leaders stubbornly insist on pursuing, despite all evidence that they are exactly the wrong medicine.

The acute phase of the financial crisis in Greece, Spain, Ireland and other European countries ended months ago. But the European Union’s insistence, led by Germany, that governments reduce their deficits by cutting spending and raising taxes has continued to impede further recovery. In addition, the European Central Bank has been slow in lowering interest rates and buying bonds, both of which would help. And Europe has allowed problems in its banking sector to fester — witness the emergency bailout of one of Portugal’s biggest banks.

The numbers tell the story. In the second quarter of the year, the 18-country euro area registered no growth, down from a 0.2 percent increase in output in the first three months of the year. The economies of Germany and Italy contracted 0.2 percent, while France registered no growth for the second quarter in a row. Other data released recently provides little reason for hope that conditions will get better soon. The inflation rate in the eurozone fell to 0.4 percent in July, down from 1.6 percent in the same month a year earlier. Industrial production fell 0.3 percent in June.

Big changes are plainly needed. As other central banks around the world have done, the European Central Bank should be buying government and other bonds to drive down in-

terest rates and encourage banks to lend more to businesses and consumers. The bank’s president, Mario Draghi, has argued that governments must adopt more pro-growth policies. He’s right, but he cannot ignore his own responsibility. There is little to no risk that more aggressive central bank policies would cause runaway inflation, given that prices are increasing at a far slower pace than the central bank’s target of just below 2 percent.

It’s true that monetary policy alone will not be sufficient to revive the eurozone economy.

Fiscal policy must also be rethought and reworked. The E.U. (encouraged by Germany) has demanded that nations like France and Italy reduce their budget deficits, while at the same time undertaking “structural reforms” that make it easier for entrepreneurs to start businesses and for companies to fire workers.

But it is politically difficult, not to mention counterproductive, for governments to do both of those things at a time when the eurozone unemployment rate (11.5 percent in June) is so high. Governments need more flexibility.

If anything, they should be taking advantage of low bond yields — Germany can borrow money for 10 years at an interest rate of about 1 percent, and France can borrow at 1.4 percent — to increase spending to kick-start their economies. Once the laggards get going again, their leaders can more easily make the case to their legislatures and citizens for tough economic reforms. But far greater patience is needed, as well as a big change in attitude in Germany and among the E.U.’s senior leadership.

A Critical New Role for the World Bank A federal trial in Brooklyn is focusing anew on illicit money flows. Until now, federal crackdowns have targeted European banks that laundered dirty money into dollars for drug cartels and for sanctioned countries, like Iran. The Brooklyn case involves a bank headquartered in Jordan, called Arab Bank, which plaintiffs say handled transactions for people or organizations it knew were linked to terrorist attacks from 2001 to 2004.

Opening arguments were last Thursday, but the case is already reverberating through the banking industry — and not in ways that would make the world a better place.

As The Times recently reported, bank lawyers say that developments in the case could reinforce an unfortunate trend: the departure of several banks from the business of arranging remittances for immigrant workers, on the grounds that the legal risk of inadvertently handling dirty money has become too high.

That would threaten years of progress, spearheaded by the World Bank, to lower the fees on hundreds of billions of dollars in remittances from migrant workers in rich countries to their families in poor countries.

It is crucial for the World Bank not to let

that happen. The answer is not to require that banks stay in the game, enduring tighter scrutiny; it is for the World Bank itself to step into the breach and become a remittance center.

The World Bank could pool deposits from banks and nonbank money transfer agents and parcel them to recipient banks, using its formidable certification protocols to verify that the money is coming from and going to legitimate parties. Such pooling could also reduce exchange fees, a big cost to migrants.

Equally important, the World Bank could use its relationships with regulators worldwide to enhance the remittance system’s integrity.

Other efforts to foster remittances are helpful, including a recent law signed by President Obama to streamline the regulation of nonbank money transfer businesses. But only the World Bank can broadly transform remittances.

It should do so quickly. Throughout its history, the World Bank has changed. It has gone from making loans to governments to investing in private-sector projects, and from offering loans to making grants and providing insurance. The bank should now rise to the challenges posed by remittances — a critical tool in the fight against world poverty.

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PAUL KRUGMAN

Why We Fight A century has passed since the start of World War I, which many people at the time declared was “the war to end all wars.”

Unfortunately, wars just kept happening.

And with the headlines from Ukraine getting scarier, this seems like a good time to ask why.

Once upon a time wars were fought for fun and profit, but in his famous 1910 book “The Great Illusion,” the British journalist Norman Angell argued that “military power is socially and economically futile.”

As Angell pointed out, in an interdependent world (which already existed in the age of steamships, railroads, and the telegraph), war would necessarily inflict severe economic harm even on the victor. We might add that modern war is very, very expensive. For example, by any estimate, the eventual costs of the Iraq war will end up being well over $1 trillion, that is, many times Iraq’s entire G.D.P. So the thesis of “The Great Illusion” was right: Modern nations can’t enrich themselves by waging war. Yet wars keep happening. Why? One answer is that leaders may not understand the arithmetic. It’s only a guess, but it seems likely that Vladimir Putin thought that he could overthrow Ukraine’s government, or at least seize a large chunk of its territory, on the cheap — a bit of deniable aid to the rebels, and it would fall into his lap.

And for that matter, remember when the Bush administration predicted that overthrowing Saddam and installing a new government would cost only $50 billion or $60 billion?

The larger problem, however, is that governments all too often gain politically from war, even if the war in question makes no sense.

Recently, Justin Fox of the Harvard Business Review suggested that the roots of the Ukraine crisis may lie in the faltering performance of the Russian economy. As he noted, Putin’s hold on power partly reflects a long run of rapid economic growth. But Russian growth has been sputtering — and you could argue that the Putin regime needed a distraction.

True to form, Putin’s approval ratings have soared since the Ukraine crisis began.

No doubt it’s an oversimplification to say that the confrontation in Ukraine is all about shoring up an authoritarian regime that is stumbling on other fronts. But there’s surely some truth to that story — and that raises some scary prospects for the future.

Most immediately, we have to worry about escalation in Ukraine. All-out war would be hugely against Russia’s interests — but Putin may feel that letting the rebellion collapse would be an unacceptable loss of face.

And if authoritarian regimes without deep legitimacy are tempted to rattle sabers when they can no longer deliver good performance, think about the incentives China’s rulers will face if and when that nation’s economic miracle comes to an end — something many economists believe will happen soon.

Starting a war is a very bad idea. But it keeps happening anyway.

SPORTS

MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2014

Williams’s New Hat Is Federer’s Old Crown MASON, Ohio — There are not many gaps in Serena Williams’s theoretical trophy case, the shelves of which would already be bending under the weight of 61 WTA Tour singles titles.

Still, the 62nd was a new one, with the top-ranked Williams beating No. 11 Ana Ivanovic, 6-4, 6-1, on Sunday afternoon to win the Western & Southern Open for the first time. The event was the most important American tournament to have eluded her.

Roger Federer had no such gap to fill and added a sixth Cincinnati Masters title to his collection when he defeated David Ferrer, 6-3, 1-6, 6-2, in the men’s final later in the day. It was the third-ranked Federer’s 22nd title in the Masters Series and his 80th singles title over all.

Williams had an outstanding day of serving, even by her standards.

Of her first serves that landed in,

41 percent (12 of 29) were aces.

Ivanovic was able to return only 46 percent of Williams’s total serves in the match (24 of 52).

“Definitely at some point of the match, I actually felt quite embarrassed walking from one side to the other for returns,” Ivanovic said with a self-deprecating giggle. “Yeah, we are lucky to have someone like her in our game.”

Williams started slowly, needing to stave off three break points when already trailing in the first set, 3-1. But she went on to win 11 of the final 13 games in the match.

“What makes her Serena is this ability to click,” Patrick Mouratoglou, Williams’s coach, said. “The level comes suddenly and stays there for 11 games.”

Through her performances at the lead-up events, Williams also clinched the United States Open Series bonus challenge for a sec-

ond consecutive year, making her eligible for a $1 million bonus should she be crowned the Open champion in New York.

These accolades on their own they do little to salvage this year for Williams, who despite five titles has been dissatisfied with her results at the three Grand Slam events so far, losing before the quarterfinals each time.

Williams and Mouratoglou have discussed changes to her schedule intended to put a greater focus on the Grand Slam events.

“At the end of the day, I definitely want to be able to win majors and then just pick and choose really carefully around the tournaments,” said Williams, who will turn 33 next month. “So make sure I’m super healthy. Although 32 is the new 22, it’s still 32. Or 33 in a couple weeks.”

BEN ROTHENBERG

Yankees’ Pitchers Help End Trip on Upbeat Note ST. PETERSBURG, Fla. — The grim and near silent atmosphere in the visitors’ clubhouse Friday, when the hitting instructor Kevin Long noted that morale was low, suggested the dreary reality facing the Yankees.

After two losses in Baltimore and a shutout defeat here Friday that extended their losing streak to five games, one more loss in the sequence could easily have doomed the fragile 2014 Yankees.

But it did not come, and what started out as a disastrous trip turned into something less odious.

The Yankees prevailed Saturday behind Derek Jeter’s winning hit in the ninth, and on Sunday

YANKEES 4, RAYS 2

they got magnificent pitching to beat the Tampa Bay Rays, 4-2. Two wins in a row may not be enough to salvage a postseason berth, but as left fielder Brett Gardner noted, it could have been so much worse.

“It’s better than losing your last seven,” Gardner said.

The Yankees managed to pass the Toronto Blue Jays in the standings, but they still trail the Baltimore Orioles by seven games in the American League East, and are three and a half games behind the Seattle Mariners in the race for the league’s second wild card.

The formula for success Sunday

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is one the Yankees have turned to in many of their victories this season. With stingy pitching and a number of well-timed hits, the Yankees did just enough to win.

Gardner was part of a two-out rally in the fifth, knocking in two runs with a base hit before Jacoby Ellsbury, who was 0 for 17 during the five-game trip entering the inning, had another run-scoring single to give the Yankees a 3-1 lead.

The pitching, including starter Hiroki Kuroda and three relievers, did most of the work from there. Kuroda allowed only two runs and four hits in six and twothirds innings to improve to 8-8.

DAVID WALDSTEIN

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In Brief Park Wins in Playoff Inbee Park successfully defended her title in the L.P.G.A. Championship in Pittsford, N.Y., beating Brittany Lincicome on the first hole of a playoff Sunday to end the United States’ major streak at three. On the playoff hole on Monroe Golf Club’s par-4 18th, Lincicome chipped 6 feet past the hole and failed to convert for bogey. Park, the winner last year at Locust Hill in a playoff, chipped to 3 feet and sank her par putt for her fifth major title and fourth in the last two seasons.

(AP)

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SPORTS JOURNAL

MONDAY, AUGUST 18, 2014

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For Jumper With One Leg, Debate Is Athletic vs. Prosthetic

BENJAMIN KILB FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Markus Rehm won the long jump at Germany’s nationals.

LEVERKUSEN, Germany — Markus Rehm, a long jumper, rocked forward and back and then took 18 strides down the track before he planted and took off, his body soaring some 25 feet through the air and landing with a splash of sand.

That last step before takeoff is always crucial, and it is even more critical for Rehm than other jumpers. After all, Rehm does not shove off the track with his right foot; rather, he pushes with a carbon-fiber prosthetic blade.

Rehm, 25, had his right leg amputated below the knee after a boating accident when he was 14. He has emerged as a world-class athlete anyway, winning Germany’s national championships last month. His situation is inspiring and somewhat unusual, yet at the same time altogether familiar.

With echoes from the case of Oscar Pistorius, the double-amputee sprinter from South Africa who forced officials to consider how to draw the line between able-bodied and disabled athletes, Rehm now finds himself in the same arena of confusion.

Using the same brand of prosthesis as Pistorius, Rehm beat 13 able-bodied athletes in the long jump competition at nationals. It was a dream, he said, but even while soaking in the moment atop the medal stand, he also knew that “a big conversation was about to start.”

A few days later, the governing body for German track and field announced that it would not nominate Rehm to its roster for the European championships — an honor that was all but guaranteed to the national champion.

Despite approving Rehm’s participation, officials said they could not be sure Rehm’s prosthetic leg did not give him an advantage. Without conclusive data, they opted to leave Rehm out of Europe’s showcase event, which ended Sunday in Zurich.

“It’s really a shame they weren’t brave enough to nominate me,” Rehm said in an interview last week.

Rehm still may try to compete in the 2016 Summer Olympics. His winning jump at the national meet — 8.24 meters, or just over 27 feet — surpassed an Olympic standard that was set for long jumpers trying to qualify for the 2012 Games and would have won the silver medal at the European event.

Most of his competitors’ attention has focused on Rehm’s takeoff, specifically whether his blade, manufactured by the Icelandic company Ossur, would act like a spring, essentially giving him a boost off the board.

“The prosthetic seems 15 centimeters longer than the other leg,” said Sebastian Bayer, who finished fifth.

“My legs are both the same length.”

Rehm refuted that assertion, noting

that while his prosthesis is a few centimeters longer than his natural leg, that is because humans run leaning forward on their toes, so the prosthetic must flex longer during the stride.

Rehm was also critical of the testing approach the German federation, known as the D.L.V. took, saying that it only analyzed the takeoff and ignored other important elements.

Clemens Prokop, the president of the D.L.V., said the federation was “currently reviewing” whether Rehm would retain his national title.

Jarryd Wallace, an American amputee sprinter, said he admired Rehm’s accomplishments and agreed that governing bodies needed to more clearly define who can compete in what competition. But he added that a strict dividing line — para-athletes sticking to competing in para-athlete events — would not be unreasonable.

“Just because you have great success in one type of competition doesn’t mean you go looking for another kind, and I don’t believe people should switch back and forth just because they can,” Wallace said.

He added: “Think of it this way: Usain Bolt is putting up times no one else on the planet seems to match.

Does that mean that he now thinks he should go try to find better competition on Mars?”

SAM BORDEN

James’s Return to Cleveland Was Negotiated by an Old Friend CLEVELAND — When Rich Paul was a boy, he would ride the bus here to the center of his hometown to treat himself to a $1 hot dog.

One morning this month, he drove his Mercedes to the Ritz-Carlton Hotel and was halfway through his steak and eggs when his phone started dancing on the tablecloth.

The news was out: The Cleveland Cavaliers were trading their young stars Andrew Wiggins and Anthony Bennett, and a future pick, to the Minnesota Timberwolves for Kevin Love, the superstar forward and the man LeBron James called after announcing he was coming home. They had won a gold medal together at the London Olympics, and James believed they shared a high basketball I.Q. The Cavaliers were remaking themselves for a title run.

For Paul, everything had fallen into place. The city that had turned on its favorite son had fallen back in love. Now, Paul could smile.

After all, he was on a pretty good run. The first contract he had ever negotiated had become the biggest

sports story of the year, and Paul, James’s agent, had played a big part in his homecoming.

James’s decision to return to Cleveland involved many factors, on and off the basketball court. But at the heart of James’s homecoming is a promise made 12 years ago between a teenage basketball phenom and a self-made businessman selling throwback jerseys out of the trunk of his car.

In an interview, James, 29, recalled those talks with Paul long before either of them was on the sports radar, let alone at its center.

“He used to listen to me and how I was going to get out of the inner city and make a difference, and I used to listen to him say how he was going to get out and make a difference,” James said. “Those conversations turned to how we are going to do it, and then to, why not do it together? I wanted him to be with me.”

They first crossed paths in the Akron-Canton Airport as they were about to board a flight to Atlanta.

James, captivated by Paul’s

Warren Moon throwback jersey, asked where he got it.

Paul was selling jerseys out of his car and was going to Rich Paul Atlanta to buy more. He gave James his connection, and he told him to drop his name for a discount.

When James returned from Atlanta, he called Paul to thank him, and they had the first of many conversations. “We hit it off instantly,” James said. “Every time I was doing something, I’d call Rich and ask if he can make it, and he’d say, ‘I’ll be right there,’ and he was.”

Paul would eventually go to work for James’s agent, Leon Rose, who had negotiated the star’s extension with the Cavs in 2006. In 2012, Paul told James he was ready to strike out on his own. Soon, Klutch Sports Group was open for business, and its first client was the most coveted in all of sports: LeBron James.

This summer, after James chose to become a free agent, Paul called David Griffin, the Cavs’ general manager. Not everyone within James’s inner circle had been comfortable with how he had left four years ago, announcing he was “taking his talents to South Beach.”

Paul told Griffin that James was interested in returning. On July 6, Cleveland’s owner, Dan Gilbert, flew to South Florida to meet with James. Gilbert assured him the Cavs had the resources to build a championship team. Finally, on the morning of June 11, Paul picked up the phone and called Gilbert. “Dan, congratulations,” he told him.

“LeBron is coming home.”

James has been lauded for his faithfulness to his roots. But Paul deserves some of the credit for making the return possible.

“The organization wants to win a championship for the city and Northeast Ohio, and LeBron wants to win more championships,” Griffin said. “But we wouldn’t be where we are today if Rich hadn’t handled things the way he did.”JOE DRAPE

NAVYNEWS

Navy Announces FY-15 Senior Enlisted Continuation Board The fiscal year 2015 (FY-15) performance-based Senior Enlisted Continuation board (SECB) will convene Oct. 27 according to a Navy message released Aug. 14.

“The SECB is a performance based board intended to ensure our mess meets and maintains our high standards of ethics and professional conduct,” said Manpower, Personnel, Training and Education Fleet Master Chief (AW/SW) April D. Beldo.

“Using the criteria laid out in the precepts, the board will review an individual’s record and decide to either ‘select’ or ‘not-select’ for continuation.

Quite simply this is about quality.

There are no preset numbers, but for every person not selected for continuation, there is a vacancy created in which we can promote a new chief into next year.”

The performance indicators are detailed in the board precept and on the NPC continuation page at www.npc. navy.mil/boards/enlistedcontinuation.

As outlined in NAVADMIN 180/14, active component (AC) and Full Time Support (FTS) E-7 to E-9

From Navy Personnel Command Public Affairs

Sailors with at least 19 years of active service computed from their active duty service date as of Feb. 28, 2014 and three-years’ time-in-rate (TIR) as of June 30, 2014; and selected Reserve (SELRES) and Voluntary Training Unit (VTU) E-7 to E-9 Sailors with at least 20 years qualifying service as of Feb. 28, 2014, and three-years TIR by June 30, 2014, will be considered by the board.

The Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center will publish the names of board-eligible Sailors Aug. 29. The names will be posted to the Navy Enlisted Advancement System website at https://neasos.cnet.navy. mil, and individuals can view their board eligibility profile sheet on Navy Knowledge Online(https://wwwa.nko. navy.mil).

Commands will be able to review their FY-15 SECB listing for accuracy.

If an eligible candidate is not listed, commands must contact NPC to make the required adjustment. Sept.

22 is the last day for commands to resolve eligibility issues.

Letters to the board must be received

by Oct. 6. See NAVADMIN 180/14 for submission procedures and mailing addresses.

Board results will be posted on BUPERS On-Line for command access only, and commanding officers will be notified via a Personal For NAVADMIN when this occurs.

AC/FTS Sailors who are not selected for continuation must transfer to the Fleet Reserve or retire by Aug. 31, 2015, unless operationally waived by

the Deputy Chief of Naval Personnel.

SELRES/VTU Sailors must transfer by Sept. 1, 2015. Sailors with an approved operational waiver must transfer by Nov. 30.

For more information, read the message at the NPC website at www. npc.navy.mil, visit the NPC enlisted continuation page at www.npc.navy. mil/boards/enlistedcontinuation or call the NPC Customer Service Center at 1-866-U-ASK-NPC (1-866-8275672).

Chief Religious Programs Specialist Cecille Marrero, assigned to the chaplain’s office at Naval Air Facility Atsugi, stands in formation during the closing remarks of a chief pinning ceremony at the base’s Cinema 77. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Barry A. Riley.

USS Abraham Lincoln Sailors Volunteer

By Mass Communication Specialist 1st Class Leeanna Shipps, USS Abraham Lincoln Media Department Nearly 1,700 Sailors assigned to divided throughout the region. is not free.”

Jamison Ditto, Newport News the Nimitz-class aircraft carrier One of the assistant coordinators Engineering department’s Park superintendent, expressed his USS Abraham Lincoln (CVN for weapons department’s COMREL Damage Controlman 3rd Class Sarah gratitude for having such a large 72) volunteered at more than 25 at Lafayette Park in Norfolk, was Sepulveda volunteered at the Norfolk group of volunteers. locations over a 70-mile area in the Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Society for the Prevention of Cruelty “It’s a lot of money saved because Hampton Roads region during an all- Courtney Dorsey. to Animals, a private no-kill humane we don’t have the staff we need for day community relations (COMREL) “It was awesome to be a part of society dedicated to fostering the these projects,” Ditto said. event, Aug. 15. this experience,” Dorsey said. “I am human-animal bond to ensure that Reactor department cleaned up a This marks the third COMREL grateful I had the opportunity to every adoptable companion animal mile of beach at Fort Monroe under Lincoln has coordinated throughout come out and volunteer alongside my finds a home. the supervision of Ranger Aaron the Hampton Roads region since shipmates during this event.”

“I love helping animals. It’s just Firth of the National Park Service. the ship arrived to Newport News More than 120 Sailors assigned one way I can give back to the “We cannot keep parks like this Shipbuilding in February 2013. to Lincoln’s aviation intermediate community,” Sepulveda said. clean and maintained without the Lincoln Sailors volunteered more maintenance department (AIMD) Quarter Master Seaman time Lincoln Sailors are volunteering than 4,000 hours during this event. volunteered at Mount Trashmore Apprentice Quincee Miller, currently today,” Firth said.

Capt. Ronald Ravelo, Lincoln’s Park, a world-renowned park assigned to training department, At the end of the day, Lincoln commanding officer, visited various encompassing 165 acres, comprised volunteered at the Mariners’ Sailors were happy to help in any way COMREL locations alongside of two man-made mountains, two Museum. She helped clear scrap they could.

Command Master Chief Gregg lakes, two playgrounds, a skate park, metal, organize debris, and fill three “It was impressive coming up here Webber, to thank the crew for their a vert ramp, and multi-use paths. and a half construction dumpsters seeing all the Sailors happy to be volunteerism.

“It’s an honor and a privilege to with recyclable material. here,” Webber said. “They are actually “The ability for us to be out here be in such a place where children “COMRELs are great because the having a good time. They are forming and help beautify the community have a secure environment to community can depend on us to be stronger bonds, which translates into and to contribute in such a positive play and learn things in life,” said there if they need help,” said Miller. the workforce. This is a great way manner to the region is obviously a Master Chief Avionics Maintenance Air department came out in force to give back to the community and big deal,” Ravelo said. “I thank all the Technician Jean Previllon, AIMD with over 190 Sailors covering three environment.”

Sailors who took the time to come leading chief petty officer. “It is also different locations to include Mount Lincoln is the fifth ship of the out.” an opportunity for Sailors to learn Trashmore Park, Newport News Nimitz class to undergo a RCOH, a The all-day event included and realize what the enlistment oath Park, and the Virginia Peninsula major life-cycle milestone. volunteers from 18 departments really means. To learn that freedom Foodbank.

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Staff

Commanding Officer Capt. Daniel Grieco Executive Officer Capt. Jeffrey Craig

ARABIAN GULF (Aug. 13, 2014) Sailors clean an F/A-18C Hornet, attached to the Golden Warriors of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 87 on the flight deck of the aircraft carrier USS George H.W. Bush (CVN 77). George H.W. Bush is supporting maritime security operations and theater security cooperation efforts in the U.S. 5th Fleet area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Joshua Card.

Public Affairs Officer Lt. Cmdr. Reann Mommsen Media Officer Ensign Jack Georges NPASE Detachment Officer Lt. j.g. Courtney Callaghan Senior Editor MCC Adrian Melendez Editor MC3 John Drew MC2 Katie Lash

NEW LONDON, Conn. (Aug. 13, 2014) Sonar Technician (Submarine) 2nd Class Robert Culbertson hugs his five year old son moments after the Virginia-class attack submarine USS New Hampshire (SSN 778) returns to homeport at Submarine Base New London in Groton, Conn., following a six-month deployment. New Hampshire conducted operations in the U.S. European Command area of responsibility. U.S. Navy photo by John Narewski.

PEARL HARBOR (Aug. 14, 2014) Capt.

Michael P. Donnelly, commanding officer of the amphibious transport dock ship USS Denver (LPD 9), passes through ceremonial sideboys at the conclusion of the ship’s decommissioning ceremony at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Denver officially inactivates Sep. 30 after almost 46 years of service. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Laurie Dexter.

PEARL HARBOR (Aug. 14, 2014) Traditional Hawaiian dancers greet the crew of the guided-missile destroyer USS Preble (DDG 88) upon the ship’s arrival at its new homeport at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. Preble replaced the guided-missile frigate USS Reuben James (FFG 57), which was decommissioned July 18, 2013.

Preble will serve as a middle Pacific surface combatant to aid and reinforce maritime operations. U.S. Navy photo

by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Johans Chavarro.

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MAN WITH THE IRON FISTS

DELIVERY MAN

PARANOIA

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ZERO DARK THIRTY

ICE AGE

DIVERGENT

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THE CAMPAIGN

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GOD’S NOT DEAD

FROZEN

I, FRANKENSTEIN

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DELIVERY MAN

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