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ndependent Duty Corpsmen (IDC) attached to the Afloat Training Group (ATG) came aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) to evaluate the ship’s Sailors and Medical Training Team (MTT) on emergency medical techniques Aug. 7.

ATG evaluated Sailors’ ability to apply basic first aid during a mass casualty drill that simulated multiple simultaneous injuries.

All Sailors received assessments based upon their level of knowledge of emergency response procedures.

“Every Sailor needs to have basic medical training,” said Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Chris Lockhart. “Anyone could get hurt at any time. Medical can’t get to every space on the ship fast enough. You want to do, and know, all you can to sustain someone’s life.”

The training is one piece in a training pipeline to prepare Sailors and certify the ship for deployment.

“I’m not a corpsman, but I feel confident enough to know that I can handle an emergency if it happens in my shop - at least until medical arrives to take over the situation,” said Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Stephane Belcher, who has been stretcher bearer qualified since October 2013. “I think it’s really important training to have because you never know what might happen.”

Every Sailor aboard TR needs to attend stretcher bearer training prior to deployment. Stretcher bearer training will also be available nightly on the mess decks and in Medical to further enhance the process.

“If you don’t have basic medical knowledge, then you are failing yourself and failing your shipmates,” said Lockhart. “How can you save the ship if you can’t save yourself and those around you?”

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n July 29, 1967, the aircraft carrier USS Forrestal (CVA 59) experienced the worst U.S. aircraft carrier fire since World War II. As the sun descended upon the horizon, smoke billowed across a chaotic flight deck. Corpsmen worked through their exhaustion, tending to their wounded shipmates strewn on the mangled flight deck.

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) recently conducted a drill called a flight deck 50 that prepares Sailors to respond to similar emergencies.

A flight deck 50 simulates 50 casualties on the flight deck to train Sailors on proper medical and firefighting techniques in order to prepare them for the most severe situations imaginable.

“We are basically preparing for the worst thing to happen,” said Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Cody DuPont.

Regardless of department or ship, Sailors throughout the Navy have an important role to play in emergency response.

“With the flight deck 50, all available stretcher bearers, all of Medical and all of Air Department are involved,” said DuPont. “Air Department is responsible for putting out the fires and helping to collect casualties. Then they move them down the aircraft elevator to the safety of the hanger bay so they can get triaged and receive further care

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from Medical.”

The Navy uses lessons learned from Forrestal’s fire to measure the effectiveness of their emergency response.

“With the tragedy that happened on the Forrestal, they had over 100 casualties. We need to train ourselves for ‘what if this happened to us?’ By simulating this, we can find out where our weaknesses are, so we can train, and make those strengths. We are testing people to see how well they take the pressure,” said DuPont.

Sailors involved in flight deck 50 training understand the gravity of the scenarios, said DuPont.

“They have worked long hours, and yet they still manage to be motivated and dedicated, and they pull through,” said DuPont. “They understand what’s at stake.

This is their family, these are their shipmates onboard, and everyone needs to step up their game and do the best to save their friends’ lives.”

The Forrestal fire is history, but flight deck 50 drills help Sailors prepare for the worst to avoid reliving the past tragedy.

“If this was to happen in real life, it would be very tragic,” said DuPont. “We have to keep that in mind and think that this is the real thing. We need to do our best, put our best foot forward and give it 110% because this is our family and we can’t let them down.”

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Shared Vision, Varying Styles WASHINGTON — When violence last week erupted after a police shooting in Missouri, President Obama and Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. huddled on Martha’s Vineyard. But as the News most powerful Analysis two African-Americans in the nation confront its enduring racial divide, they come at it from fundamentally different backgrounds and points of view.

Holder, 63, is the one leaning forward on the issues underlying the crisis in Ferguson, Mo. A child of the civil rights era, he grew up shaped by the images of violence in Selma. Now in high office, he pushes for policy changes and is to fly on Wednesday to Ferguson to personally promise justice.

Obama, 53, is the one seemingly holding back, as if seeking to understand how events could get so out of hand. He was too young and removed to experience the turmoil of the 1960s, growing up in a white household in Hawaii and Indonesia. As he now seeks balance in an unbalanced time, he wrestles with the ghosts of history that his landmark election, however heady, failed to exorcise.

The differences between the two men have drawn criticism in recent days, as some African-Americans praise Holder for his outspokenness and lament or even lambaste Obama for his caution. Michael Eric Dyson, a prominent author and Georgetown University professor, called the president’s public statement on Monday a “stunning epic failure” that seemed to blame black men rather than armed police.

“This is a community aflame with a passion to know the truth and Obama is treating it dispassionately and with distance,” Dyson said. “There is no blood flowing through the veins with empathy.”

On the other hand, Dyson said, “Eric feels it in his gut. It rises to his brain. It’s expressed on his tongue.” Holder, he added, is “an up and down race man who understands the moral consequences of the law on the lives of black people.”

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Witness Accounts Differ on Shooting FERGUSON, Mo. — As a county grand jury prepared to hear evidence on Wednesday in the shooting death of a black teenager by a white police officer that touched off 10 days of unrest here, witnesses have given investigators sharply conflicting accounts of the killing.

Some of the accounts seem to agree on how the fatal altercation initially unfolded: with a struggle between the officer, Darren Wilson, and the teenager, Michael Brown. Wilson was inside his patrol car at the time, while Brown, who was unarmed, was leaning in through an open window.

Many witnesses also agreed on what happened next: Wilson’s firearm went off inside the car, Brown ran away, the officer got out of his car and began firing toward Brown, and then Brown stopped and faced the officer.

Some witnesses say Brown, 18, moved toward Wilson, possibly in a threatening manner, when the officer shot him dead. But others say that Brown was not moving and may even have had his hands up when he was killed.

The accounts of what witnesses have told law enforcement officials come from some of those witnesses themselves, law enforcement authorities and others in Ferguson. Many of them spoke on the condition of anonymity because they did not want to be identified discussing a continuing investigation.

The new details on the witness accounts emerged as Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. was scheduled to visit Ferguson on Wednesday to meet with F.B.I. agents who have been conducting a civil rights investigation into the shooting.

Holder and top Justice Department officials were weighing whether to open a broader civil rights investigation to look at Ferguson’s police practices at large, according to law enforcement officials who spoke on the condition of anonymity. No decisions have been made on whether to open the investigation.

The issue came up after news reports revealed a 2009 case in which a man said that four police officers beat him and then

charged him with damaging government property — by getting blood on their uniforms.

As clashes between the police and street protesters continued late Tuesday, federal authorities learned the results of an autopsy performed on Brown by military coroners that showed that he had been shot six times.

The Brown family has scheduled a funeral for Monday.

In a statement on Tuesday night, Gov. Jay Nixon expressed sympathy for the Brown family and praised residents for “standing against armed and violent instigators.” But Nixon also said that “a vigorous prosecution must now be pursued.”

“The democratically elected St. Louis County prosecutor and the Attorney General of the United States, each have a job to do,” Nixon said. “Their obligation to achieve justice in the shooting death of Michael Brown must be carried out thoroughly, promptly, and correctly; and I call upon them to meet those expectations.”

FRANCES ROBLES and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Iraqis Hope for New Results From Next Premier BAGHDAD — The last time the United States pushed Iraqis to choose a new prime minister who could unite the country to confront a sectarian civil war was in 2006, and the Iraqis chose Nuri Kamal al-Maliki. The result was another civil war. This time they have chosen Haider Haider al-Abadi. al-Abadi Both men come from the same Shiite Islamist movement whose members, after decades of clandestine opposition to Saddam Hussein and the Sunni elite, were asked to govern Iraq in an inclusive way that accommodated the Sunnis they considered their former tormentors.

So far, that has proved elusive, but this time hope rests on a be-

lief that Abadi is a different type of Islamist: one whose education, big-city upbringing and decades of living in Britain can surmount what have seemed the reflexive positions of Iraqi Shiite Islamists to be suspicious of Sunni ambitions and to see conspiracies around every corner.

In some ways, though, he is solidly in line with the traditional sectarian views held by Shiite Islamists in Iraq. Abadi insisted a few years after Shiites took power during the American occupation that they could not soon be expected to support a reconciliation program with the country’s Sunni minority.

Before Iraq’s national elections in 2010, Abadi fretted anew that Baathists, Hussein’s old ruling party, were “building new coalitions” to restore their power. And speaking to an American diplomat in Baghdad, Abadi worried that if the Iraqi public did not ben-

efit fully from Iraq’s new democracy, then army officers might “launch a coup d’état.”

These sentiments, illustrated in several American diplomatic cables that were made public by WikiLeaks, reflect the scarred psyche of the Shiite Islamist movement that shaped much of Abadi’s life. For his political activities, Abadi was driven to exile in Britain, and two of his brothers were executed by Hussein’s administration.

Whether Abadi can overcome this history will help determine whether he can establish partnerships with Iraq’s Sunnis and Kurds and forge a more inclusive government. President Obama has demanded a less divisive leader as the price of more robust support to fight the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, which threatens to break the country apart.

TIM ARANGO and MICHAEL R. GORDON

INTERNATIONAL

Islamists Claim They Beheaded U.S. Journalist The Islamic State in Iraq and Syria posted a video on Tuesday that it said showed the beheading of James Foley, an American journalist who was kidnapped in Syria nearly two years ago, according to a transcript released by the SITE Intelligence Group.

The authenticity of the video could not be verified, and a telephone call placed to Foley’s family was not immediately returned.

YouTube later took down the 4-minute, 40-second video.

Titled “A Message to America,” the video shows Foley kneeling in a deserted landscape, clad in an orange jumpsuit. Standing to his left is a masked ISIS fighter, who says that Foley’s execution is in retaliation for the American airstrikes against the extremist group in Iraq.

“I call on my friends, family and loved ones to rise up against my real killers — the U.S. government — for what will happen to me is only a result of their complacent criminality,” Foley says in the video, which was uploaded to the online account of the al-Furqan Media Foundation.

Foley, 40, a freelance journalist who was working for GlobalPost, an online publication based in Boston, as well as Agence France-Presse, went missing on Nov. 22, 2012, in Syria.

The video concludes with the fighter threatening to kill Steven Sotloff, another American national who was being held alongside Foley. Sotloff is seen kneeling in the same position, in the same landscape and wearing the same orange-colored jumpsuit. “The life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision,” says the fighter.

Reached by telephone, Phil Barboni, the chief executive and a co-founder of GlobalPost, said that the newsroom and Foley’s family were trying to establish the veracity of the footage.

Foley, who was last seen in Binesh, Syria, was also abducted in Libya in 2011, where he was held for several weeks after running into government troops loyal to Col. Muammar el-Qaddafi’s crumbling regime. He was among dozens of journalists who went missing in 2012 and 2013 in Syria.

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Room at the Top of Ukraine’s Fading Rebellion DONETSK, Ukraine — To outward appearances, Fyodor D. Berezin is the picture of a senior military commander. He wears camouflage, has body guards and gives orders as the newly named deputy defense minister of the separatist Donetsk People’s Republic. Yet, just four months Fyodor D. ago he was an Berezin obscure author of 18 science fiction novels, one play and a dozen or so short stories.

In an interview, Berezin said he was as surprised as anybody by his rapid promotion through the rebel ranks. “Reality became scarier than science fiction,” he said. “I live in my books now.”

In the real war in eastern

Ukraine, it is an inauspicious time to hold a high command in the separatist forces. Under relentless pounding by the Ukrainian military, their rebellion is crumbling. Government troops have advanced to the outskirts of Donetsk, and over the weekend broke into Luhansk.

In the wake of these and other setbacks, President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia appears to be maneuvering for a face-saving settlement, analysts say.

Step one has been a change in leadership. Aleksandr Borodai, a Muscovite and Russian citizen, stepped down as prime minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic, to make way for a Ukrainian, Aleksandr Zakharchenko, who had led a police advocacy group.

In the Luhansk region, Valery Bolotov, a Russian citizen, announced last week he had “temporarily resigned” as prime minister

and left for Russia for medical treatment, and was replaced by Igor Plotnitskiy, a former public health inspector in Ukraine.

Igor Girkin, a former colonel in the Federal Security Service who led the Russian military takeover of Crimea before arriving in eastern Ukraine, resigned as defense minister of the Donetsk People’s Republic. Vladimir Kononov, a local resident and former judo instructor, took his place.

The only remaining senior Russian here is Vladimir Antyufeyev, a reputed spy who is now the first deputy prime minister.

Their increasingly erratic leadership has been met with a breakdown in discipline in rebel ranks and signs of possible pro-Ukrainian resistance in Donetsk. There, unknown assailants sprayed a minivan of rebels with bullets over the weekend.

ANDREW E. KRAMER

Gaza Rockets and Israeli Response Break Cease-Fire JERUSALEM — The latest short-term cease-fire between Israel and Palestinian militants in the Gaza Strip collapsed Tuesday as rockets from Gaza reached Tel Aviv and Jerusalem and Israel resumed airstrikes in Gaza. But the most telling move came in Cairo, where Israel yanked its team from talks aimed at a more durable truce.

Analysts said Israel’s leadership may well have calculated that it is preferable to let the conflict continue at a low simmer rather than give concessions that might be seen as rewarding militants.

“My approach would be not to go for any agreement with Hamas, because any agreement would give them something, and that’s a mistake,” said Dan Meridor, a former Israeli minister who served in several governments.

“If the deal is seen by people as a victory for Hamas, that’s bad for us, it’s bad for the future, and bad for deterrence.”

Israel walking away from the talks leaves Hamas with little to show for its war effort. Gaza is devastated: some 2,000 residents were killed, most of them civilians, and perhaps 100,000 ren-

dered homeless as entire neighborhoods were reduced to rubble.

Buoyed in the Palestinian public for having achieved more militarily than in previous violent exchanges with Israel, Hamas is nonetheless under extreme pressure to deliver a tangible change to daily life in Gaza. During the war, the rising death toll put pressure on Israel. But during the cease-fire Hamas finds itself with diminished leverage, and so has restored to threatening and provoking Israel.

ISABEL KERSHNER and JODI RUDOREN

In Brief President Declares Ebola Curfew Liberia’s president, Ellen Johnson Sirleaf, declared a curfew and ordered security forces to quarantine a slum home to at least 50,000 people late Tuesday as the West African country battled to stop the spread of Ebola in the capital. Sirleaf announced that a curfew is going into place from 9 p.m. to 6 a.m.

Security forces will be ensuring no one goes in or out of West Point, a slum in Monrovia where angry residents attacked an Ebola observation center over the weekend.

(AP)

Release Is Ordered for Activist A court in the northeastern state of Manipur in India has ordered the release of Irom Sharmila, an activist imprisoned on charges of attempted suicide.

She began a hunger strike nearly 14 years ago — an

act intended to protest the impunity given to armed forces — but has been kept alive through a feeding tube. The judge in the case ruled there was no evidence she was attempting suicide because she had not rejected the feeding tube. Her struggle began after she saw the armed forces kill civilians in her village near Imphal in 2000 after an explosion. (NYT)

‘Idol’ Contestant Acquitted A former “Canadian Idol” contestant was acquitted Tuesday of conspiring to facilitate terrorism, with Superior Court Justice Charles Hackland finding insufficient evidence that he intended to join a plot. Khurram Syed Sher, 32, of Ontario, was arrested in 2010, accused of agreeing with two men to send cash abroad, take paramilitary training, make and use explosives, and scout targets in Canada. (AP)

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On the Menu, Soup and Hint of Partisanship WASHINGTON — A generation ago, here in the Senate Dining Room, Sens. Mike Mansfield, D-Mont., and George Aiken, R-Vt., met most mornings to have breakfast, a scene almost unimaginable in today’s polarized climate.

Comity has been eroding for years in Washington, where the 113th Congress is on track to become one of the least productive in history. But to see the fractured chamber in a more personal way, one has only to tuck into a club sandwich in the restaurant, a genteel throwback.

“The lack of sitting down over lunch to get to know your colleagues is indicative of the hyper-partisanship that surrounds the Senate these days,” said Jim Manley, a former longtime Senate Democratic aide.

But along with its more exclusive, senators-only counterpart across the hall, the dining room can feel more like a tourist attraction for special guests than a place to get acquainted or cut a deal.

When former Sen. Christopher J. Dodd, D-Conn., was first elected to the chamber in 1980, he recalled, he would show up in the senators-only dining room on any given afternoon to find some of the titans of the Senate — Edward M. Kennedy and Daniel Patrick Moynihan on the Democratic side, and Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond on the Republican side, for instance — eating lunch and carrying on about topics that “ranged from the silly and ridiculous to the very substantive and important.”

The dining room, Dodd said, was a place for true political education laced with raucous “boy school”-style hazing.

“It was a liberating space, and members need a liberating space where they can say what they think with their colleagues. I regret that it doesn’t exist today,” Dodd said.

It has not for some time. “In the last seven or so years of my service, that room became nothing more than a vacant room,” said

Dodd, who retired at the end of his fifth term in 2010 and is chairman and chief executive of the Motion Picture Association of America.

The reasons for the dining-room decline are reflective of the causes of the general polarization of Congress. Many lawmakers no longer move their families to Washington, and Mondays and Fridays are often devoted to traveling to and from their home districts.

Both Democrats and Republicans have caucus luncheons nearly every day the Senate is in session.

And the increased demands of near-constant fund-raising often force members to spend their breakfast and lunch hours wooing donors.

“Considering how pressed we are for time, locking in a whole lunch is a lot,” said Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse, D-R.I., who ate with constituents in the Senate Dining Room many mornings this summer before taking them onto the Senate floor for a quick tour.

ASHLEY PARKER

In Washington, There Is Little Desire for Vote on Iraq WASHINGTON — Mingling with Senate Democrats at the White House earlier this summer, President Obama had a tart comeback to the suggestion that he should seek a vote of Congress before deepening American military involvement in Iraq.

“Guys, you can’t have it both ways here,” Obama told the group, according to Sen. Tim Kaine of Virginia. “You can’t be ducking and dodging and hiding under the table when it comes time to vote, and then complain about the president not coming to you” for authorization.

The president’s comments were tinged with humor, Kaine said, but

they reflected a serious reality that administration officials say has informed Obama’s decision not to seek authorization to carry out airstrikes against militants in Iraq: Most lawmakers have little appetite for such a vote.

“This is not about an imperial presidency, it’s about a Congress that’s reluctant to cast tough votes on U.S. military action,” Kaine said.

Last year, the president abruptly backed away from plans to carry out strikes against Syria and said he wanted congressional approval first. Congress never acted on the request, and Obama did not take any military action against

the Syrian government.

After authorizing an air campaign against militants in Iraq, Obama has yet to seek or receive a vote in Congress for what he described as a potentially long-term mission. The change in approach was dictated partly by circumstance: The situation in Iraq, where thousands of members of religious minorities were facing slaughter or starvation and American personnel were threatened by the swift advance of the Sunni fighters, was arguably more urgent than the one in Syria a year ago. And Congress is in the midst of a five-week summer break.

JULIE HIRSCHFELD DAVIS

In Virginia, Ex-Governor’s Sister and Wife Are Trial Focus RICHMOND, Va. — To save Bob McDonnell, the former governor of Virginia, his defense lawyers appear intent on humiliating him.

The Republican is portrayed as an amiable innocent at sea amid stronger women who either led him astray or failed to rescue him.

On the second day of his defense, McDonnell sat impassively in U.S. District Court here as his lawyers painted him as bedeviled by two Maureens — one his

younger sister, who made the money in the family but failed to stop him from taking a loan that could land him in prison, and the other his wife, who badgered him and invited in the businessman who would become his undoing.

“She seemed enamored with him, infatuated,” Kathleen Scott, special assistant to the first lady, said of Ms. McDonnell’s feelings for the businessman, the vitamin magnate Jonnie R. Williams Sr.,

whose $160,000 in secretive loans and gifts are the crux of the corruption trial. “I think he made her feel special.”

Prosecutors claim the couple was nearly broke and used the governor’s office to promote Williams’s dietary supplements, in exchange for loans and gifts, including a Rolex watch and a New York shopping spree.

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In Brief Governor Is Booked Gov. Rick Perry was defiant Tuesday as he was booked on abuse of power charges, telling dozens of cheering supporters outside a Texas courthouse that he would “fight this injustice with every fiber of my being.” He flashed a grin in his mug shot — then headed to a nearby Austin eatery for ice cream. The Republican, who is mulling a second presidential run in 2016, was indicted after carrying out a threat to veto funding for state public corruption prosecutors. He has dismissed the case as a political ploy, and supporters chanting his name and holding signs — some declaring “Stop Democrat Games” and “Rick is Right” — greeted him upon arriving at the Travis County Courthouse in Austin.

(AP)

Jury to Take Up Death Linked to a Chokehold Amid weeks of protests and calls for federal intervention, the Staten Island district attorney announced on Tuesday that he would open a grand jury investigation into the death of an unarmed black man during an arrest last month, a process that could lead to indictments of the police officers involved. Widely distributed videos of the confrontation showed Eric Garner, 43, struggling for breath as an officer clung to his neck and back. The New York medical examiner ruled Garner’s death a homicide. The district attorney, Daniel M. Donovan Jr., cited the autopsy, as well as an investigation by his office, in his decision to impanel a grand jury beginning in September. (NYT)

Police Say Teenagers Planned an Attack Investigators acting on a tip arrested two students who were said to be planning to target three staff members and kill as many people as possible at a suburban Los Angeles school, the police said Tuesday. School officials notified detectives, who began watching the 16- and 17-year-old boys and monitoring their online activity, said Chief Arthur Miller of the South Pasadena police. The boys did not have weapons, but were researching weapons, explosives and tactical techniques, the police said.

(AP)

BUSINESS

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THE MARKETS

Standard Chartered Is Fined $300 Million which he said required the bank to “remediate anti-money laundering compliance problems.”

An independent monitor recently detected that the bank’s computer systems failed to flag wire transfers flowing from areas of the world considered vulnerable to money-laundering, according to Lawsky’s order. The order did not specify the number of transactions, but a person briefed on the matter said that it was “in the millions.”

The settlement represents a rare regulatory strike against corporate recidivism. Historically, when banks have struggled to keep their regulatory promises, they have returned to business as usual without much of a rebuke.

Yet Lawsky, two people briefed on the matter said, is considering an effort to routinely dou-

ble-check banks’ transactions for signs of money-laundering, a step that could portend other actions against Wall Street banks.

At Standard Chartered, Lawsky’s office traced much of the problem to the bank’s Hong Kong subsidiary and its branches in the United Arab Emirates. The breadth of the errors prompted Lawsky to take aim at both of those business units.

Under the deal, Standard Chartered’s New York branch must indefinitely suspend its processing of payments in dollars for “highrisk retail business clients” in Hong Kong. The suspension is expected to focus on a universe of about 300 clients, the people briefed on the matter said, a not insignificant number.

BEN PROTESS and CHAD BRAY

Uber Hires Former Political Strategist to Obama Uber wants your vote of support. And it has hired a campaign manager to win you over.

Uber, the fast-growing private car start-up, announced on Tuesday that it had hired the political strategist David Plouffe to be its senior vice president of policy and strategy. The move further signaled the grand aspirations of companies like Uber, which are challenging entrenched industries and running into resistance from some local governments.

Plouffe, who ran President Obama’s 2008 campaign, said he planned to run Uber’s communication efforts much like a political race, pushing to woo consumers and regulators alike.

Uber, which allows consum-

ers to summon private rides via a smartphone app, operates in more than 170 cities globally, the company said. But it has tussled with regulators in its race to gain traction in new cities.

The hiring of a politically skilled executive has practically become a sign of adolescence for tech start-ups, marking the moment when they realize that navigating government can be essential.

Airbnb, the home-sharing start-up that has often clashed with regulators, hired David Hantman, a former vice president of public policy at Yahoo, to be its head of global public policy.

More established tech companies have also bolstered their

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Increase in Home Construction Lifts Retailer’s Growth After a harsh winter, the nation’s modest housing recovery appears to be back on track.

Home construction increased sharply in July, the Commerce Department reported on Tuesday, as Home Depot announced a strong quarter.

The government said housing starts last month were up nearly 16 percent over June, and almost 22 percent over 12 months ago.

For Home Depot, the uptick in demand gave earnings a lift.

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Last month’s housing starts were at an annual rate of 1.093 million units, the highest reading since November. Single-family housing starts in July increased 8.3 percent over the revised June figure of 606,000, and were at a rate of 656,000. The July rate for multifamily housing was 423,000, showing the strongest level of starts since 2006.

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It took a $667 million fine and a promise to behave for the British bank Standard Chartered to emerge from the regulatory spotlight. All it took to return there was its failure to keep that promise.

In a settlement announced on Tuesday by New York State’s financial regulator, Standard Chartered will pay a $300 million fine and suspend an important business activity because of its failure to weed out transactions prone to money-laundering, a punishing reminder of settlements in 2012.

Those settlements resolved accusations that Standard Chartered processed transactions for Iran and other blacklisted countries The New York regulator, Benjamin M. Lawsky, again penalized Standard Chartered for running afoul of the 2012 settlement,

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RadioShack Struggles in a Wireless World In 1971, Steve Jobs and Steve Wozniak hawked tiny machines called Blue Boxes that allowed long-distance phone calls to be made free by mimicking certain tones.

“If it hadn’t been for the Blue Boxes, there wouldn’t have been an Apple,” Jobs once said, according to Walter Isaacson’s biography, “Steve Jobs.”

The parts for the original Blue Box came from RadioShack.

RadioShack once held a central place in the world of technology, selling one of the first mass-market computers (the TRS-80) nearly 40 years ago.

But the digital revolution left it behind long ago. After nine decades in the business, the company’s pulse in the electronic mar-

ketplace has grown faint.

Its stock price is so low — it closed at 63 cents on Tuesday — that it may face delisting by the New York Stock Exchange.

When it tried this spring to stop the hemorrhaging with plans to close 1,100 of its stores, its lenders balked. Some analysts predict the company could run out of cash as early as next year.

“It’s been death by 1,000 cuts,” said Anthony C. Chukumba, an analyst at BB&T Capital Markets. “I just don’t see anything the company is doing that is likely to really stop the bleeding.”

The company declined to make any executives available for interviews for this article.

Three market shifts in recent years have eroded RadioShack’s

relevance to consumers: changes in retailing convenience, the evolution of wireless and the diminution of the market for the bits and parts that form the inner workings of many a device.

Today, the appetite for those parts is a fraction of what it once was. “It used to be if you had a consumer electronic and it broke, you could open it up and figure out how to fix it yourself,” Chukumba said. “Now, I challenge you to open up your iPhone.”

Another major market shift blasted the foundation off RadioShack’s bedrock strategy: to be as convenient as possible.

But today nothing can be as convenient as shopping on your sofa in your slippers.

ELIZABETH A. HARRIS

Stars’ Scents Add to Slide at Company in Cosmetics So much for the sweet smell of success.

Elizabeth Arden, the beauty company, blamed its celebrity fragrance lines featuring Justin Bieber and Taylor Swift, among others, for a steep drop in sales in the fiscal fourth quarter.

Its earnings report delivered a bleak picture — recording Arden’s worst quarterly decline in a decade — for a company that has tried to appeal to a younger clientele by teaming up with pop stars and by retooling some of its signature salons. Along with “Someday,” a soft, musky scent in Bieber’s line, Elizabeth Arden also has fragrances from the rapper Nicki Minaj and Britney Spears.

Net sales fell close to 30 percent to $191 million for the three months that ended June 30, the company’s worst quarterly decline in a decade. For the year, net sales fell to $1.1 billion from $1.3 billion in 2013.

The immediate future does not look too bright, either. The company warned that the first quarter of fiscal 2015 “will continue to be challenged by the same factors that affected recent quarters.”

Elizabeth Arden relies more heavily on sales of its fragrances than rivals like Estée Lauder and has a large presence in mass-market stores like Walmart. Fragrances make up 75 percent of the company’s sales,

while its own brand of cosmetics accounts for 25 percent.

And unlike the high-end fragrances at department stores, celebrity lines stock the shelves at retailers like Walmart and Kohl’s whose budget-conscious customers have not recovered from the recession.

“The celebrity fragrance market is still a good market,” said Jason Gere, a consumer product analyst at KeyBanc Capital Markets “Right now, it seems to be buckling a little bit with the weaker consumer out there.”

The earnings report sent the company’s stock plummeting more than 23 percent.

RACHEL ABRAMS

Ballmer Quits Microsoft Board, Citing Outside Duties SEATTLE — Steven A. Ballmer’s era at Microsoft has come to a full stop.

Ballmer, the company’s former chief executive, on Tuesday resigned as a member of Microsoft’s board. Ballmer said in a resignation letter that a combination of new responsibilities, including his ownership of the Los Angeles Clippers, made him too busy to serve on the board. He also said he was pleased with the direction Microsoft was taking under its new chief executive, Satya Nadella.

Ballmer’s departure from the board was expected by many people inside and outside the company after he was pressured by the

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board last year to speed up his retirement from Microsoft.

Many people had predicted that Ballmer would leave the board, partly because Nadella is faced with the challenge of reinvigorating the company, which could involve unwinding some of Ballmer’s earlier decisions. Nadella has already made bolder moves than Ballmer to create services for devices made by Microsoft’s competitors, like the iPad. In May, Nadella struck a partnership with Salesforce.com, run by Marc Benioff, with whom Ballmer had a frosty relationship.

Under the leadership of Ballmer, who became chief executive in

2000, Microsoft had solid growth in profits and revenue. But it fumbled a number of important new initiatives in mobile and Internet search, disappointing investors.

With Ballmer gone and the recent addition of new directors, Rick Sherlund, an analyst at Nomura Securities, predicted that the dynamics of the Microsoft board could change meaningfully in the near future.

“This was a board that took a lot of direction from Steve Ballmer for quite a few years,” said Sherlund, who was among those who had predicted Ballmer would leave the board.

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: Home Depot Inc., up $4.64 to $88.23.

The home improvement retailer reported a 14 percent jump in quarterly profit and raised its annual guidance.

Lennar Corp., up $1.25 to $38.80.

The home construction industry experienced a rebound in July, rising to its fastest pace in eight months.

Aeropostale Inc., up 63 cents to $3.87.

The apparel retailer said its former C.E.O., Julian Geiger, will immediately move back into the position.

TJX Cos., up $4.66 to $58.56. The discount retailer reported better-than-expected quarterly financial results and raised its full-year earnings forecast.

Elizabeth Arden Inc., down $4.56 to $15.05. The beauty products company reported worse-than-expected quarterly financial results and set cautious guidance for 2015.

American Woodmark Corp., up $5.55 to $36.88. The cabinet maker reported a boost in quarterly profit and revenue, with the results beating expectations.

Urban Outfitters Inc., up $1.67 to $38.59. The clothing retailer reported a drop in quarterly profit, but the results met expectations.

(AP)

FOOD

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Slow-Cooked Brisket Is Star of New York’s Barbecue Scene As smoke from the oak-burning barbecue pits swirled around his head, Nestor Laracuente lit a Marlboro Red, inhaled hard and puffed out his own cumulus cloud. A pitmaster at Hometown Bar-B-Que in Red Hook, Brooklyn, Laracuente says nicotine and heavy metal music help him stay awake through the marathon Tuesday-through-Sunday graveyard shifts he spends monitoring the combination of heat, meat and smoke that it takes to produce extraordinary barbecued brisket.

He prodded one plump, crusty hunk of beef with rubber-gloved fingers to feel where it was in its 11-to-14-hour cooking process. “You want it soft and balloon-like,” he said — not bouncy, like party balloons, but relaxed, like morning-after balloons.

During all the years when New York was a city of embarrassing or better-than-nothing barbecue, pork ribs and pulled pork were the most palatable options. Then along came the Texas Trinity — brisket, beef ribs and spicy beef sausage — turned out in authentic fashion at restaurants like Hill Country Barbecue Market and Fette Sau. Now, suddenly, the spotlight — and the obsessive attention of cooks like Laracuente — have narrowed in on brisket alone. And New York is even starting to develop something new: a local style of serving it.

For home cooks, the challenges are smaller.

Unlike most cuts, brisket is not done when it hits a certain temperature. Yes, the meat will

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Patience, more than anything, is what makes extraordinary brisket. be cooked through at 180 degrees. It will also be fibrous. A brisket needs to spend a certain amount of time at that temperature, as the fat renders into drippiness and the collagen softens into nothingness. Be patient. That’s what makes extraordinary brisket. JULIA MOSKIN SLOW-SMOKED BRISKET

Time: 8 to 16 hours Yield: At least 12 servings 1 whole beef brisket ‚ cup black peppercorns › to ‚ cup coarse salt Hardwood charcoal 3 cups wood chips soaked at least 1 hour

1. Remove brisket from any packaging and dry with paper towels. Place fat side up and use a sharp knife to trim the fat on the top to an even sheath about ›-inch thick.

2. Coarsely grind the peppercorns in a grinder or a coffee mill. Sift through a strainer to remove any fine pepper dust, leaving only pieces. You should have about › cup pepper.

Combine with an equal amount of coarse salt and rub all over the brisket. Set on a rack in a sheet pan and cook, or cover loosely with foil and refrigerate for up to 36 hours.

3. Remove and clean the grates of a charcoal grill or smoker. Half-fill a chimney starter with charcoal, light it and let burn down until gray with ashes. Dump the charcoal on one side of grill and close lid. When temperature settles at 225 to 250 degrees, place half of the wood chips over the coals. Return grate to grill and lay brisket on it, fat side up. Cover.

4. Cook at about 225 degrees for 4 to 6 hours, or until the internal temperature of the meat’s thickest part reaches 170 to 180 degrees. At this point, you can continue cooking it on the grill, or in a 225-degree oven. In either case, remove brisket from grill and wrap in unwaxed parchment or butcher paper. Then wrap well in foil.

Return to grill or place in oven.

5. When the meat is done, set aside for at least 30 minutes to let juices settle.

6. Serve the old-fashioned way with slices of white bread, or with pinto beans, potato salad and coleslaw.

Putting Recipes Front and Center The small food magazine is a species on the rise. A number have arrived in recent years, like Lucky Peach, with its smarts and swagger, and Kinfolk, an ethereal and arty vision of Cookbooks food as lifestyle.

Short Stack Emily is a simpler WEinstEin production, and a more unusual one: a food publication that is honest-to-goodness about cooking. There are no photo shoots set at picnics, no impeccably bohemian homes whose occupants make fabulous jam.

There are no wild travelogues or quirky interviews or ruminations on the magic of gathering friends around the table.

There are only recipes, and good ones at that.

Short Stack is a year-old series of small, boldly designed booklets that fall somewhere between magazines and cookbooks. Nick Fauchald, the Short Stack publisher and a co-founder, said the booklets were inspired by the recipe pamphlets that food brands and appliance companies put out in the 1940s and ’50s. Ten book-

lets, called editions, have been released so far. Each is written by a different author who creates a collection of recipes that feature a specific ingredient.

Most of those authors are not chefs, but cookbook writers or recipe developers for magazines who are constantly creating recipes with the home cook in mind.

With recipe developers at the helm, it should be no surprise that the Short Stack recipes are consistently clear and precise, the descriptions vivid. That’s especially helpful considering there are no photos of the finished dishes; whimsical illustrations, which are often less than useful, dot the pages instead.

But solid recipes alone do not make great cookbooks. The recipes have to entice cooks to get into the kitchen in the first place, and deliver satisfying results once they do. Short Stack largely

succeeds here, too.

Creamy risotto studded with tender corn kernels may sound too heavy for summer heat. But the version from the writer Jessica Battilana’s corn edition was pleasingly light for risotto, a result of folding whipped cream into the mixture just before serving.

Not every edition is packed with gems: When so many different authors are in play, there is bound to be some unevenness from book to book. Some authors push their chosen ingredients to places that are intriguing, but can also seem odd or unnecessarily fussy. Others lean too heavily on the familiar.

Short Stack is a small project, each booklet modest in scope and size. But the editions are well-designed and plucky, and flush with ideas — a little gift to home cooks who get their hands on them.

In Brief Butters that Heat Up Without Melting Chili Lab Chili Butters are what the name suggests: Each jar contains ghee (clarified butter) with a dose of chile and more. They come in three flavors: the sharp Forager’s Blend, a heavy hitter with flavors of earth and smoke; the Grove Blend that delivers a sweet, citrusy note along with heat; and the Garden Blend, with currants and tomatoes that lend it a fruitier yet vibrant complexity. The butters are shelf-stable until opened and so are good picnic take-alongs. The Chili Lab Chili Butters are sold at Greene Grape Provisions, 767 Fulton Street, Fort Greene, Brooklyn, 718-233-2799, greenegrape.com; and from thechililab.com. (NYT)

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JOURNAL

A Trove of Diaries Meant to Be Read by Others ordinary people who set down their experiences on paper is at the heart of what inspired Saverio Tutino, a foreign correspondent and devoted chronicler, to start the archive in 1984. Since then, more than 7,000 personal memoirs have made their way to Pieve Santo Stefano, now known as the City of Diaries.

Some were brought here by their authors; others by heirs of the diarists. Yet others were discovered in attics or at flea markets, then turned in because their story struck a chord with their readers.

“Tutino believed that everyone is one of many, and together we become history,” said Loretta Veri, the archive’s former director.

Tutino, who died three years ago, “used to say

PIEVE SANTO STEFANO, Italy — The rich and famous, the important and powerful, can always have their say. But what of the bulk of humanity who suffer the whims of history, whose everyday labors give it life?

The answer, at least in Italy, can be found in this small Tuscan town, which has become Italy’s repository of lives recounted.

Some of those lives are hastily scribbled on scraps of paper. Others fill leather-bound journals with lazy longhand. Still others come tidily typewritten. They are among the thousands of diaries, letters, autobiographies and punctilious notes that line the shelves of the National Diary Archive Foundation.

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that we are privileged to hear the rustle of others, that paper voices always made a sound.”

From the start, it took a $1,332 prize and the promise of publication to persuade so many diverse diarists to entrust their private musings to complete strangers.

“Say the word ‘prize,’ and Italians go crazy,” Mario Perrotta, an Italian actor, author and playwright, wrote in a book about the archive.

Anyone can compete for the prize, which is awarded each September to the most compelling read. The dozens of entries are vetted by reading groups that consist of townspeople here as well as residents of neighboring cities.

Often, archive officials say, transcribing diaries can be challenging: deciphering scribbles or making sense of reflections written in different dialects.

Take Vincenzo Rabito’s autobiography, which came by way of 1,027 densely typed pages; a Sicilian road worker, he wrote between 1968 and 1975. The autobiography covers decades, and touches on the epochal moments of Italian 20th-century history using a lively narrative tone that belied Rabito’s third-grade education.

“It’s a wall of words, apparently impenetrable,” Veri said, but so captivating in tone and in content that it won the prize in 2000 and was later republished by Einuadi, a major Italian publisher, becoming a best seller.

The archive’s undisputed star is Clelia Marchi, a barely educated peasant from Mantua who began to meticulously scribble her life story on a pristine white matrimonial bedsheet when she was 72.

Two years later, in 1986, she took the sheet to Pieve Santo Stefano, confident that her enterprise would be granted the respect it deserved. The incipit begins, “Dear people, treasure this sheet, which has some of my life and of my husband.” She told her story, she said using her local dialect, with “ghanca una busia,” not even one lie.

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OPINION

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

Prime Minister Modi Fumbles on Pakistan India’s prime minister, Narendra Modi, fumbled an early test of leadership this week when he canceled a high-level meeting with Pakistan. There are no two countries in the world that need to talk, and talk regularly, more than these nuclear-armed South Asian neighbors.

Modi raised expectations that he would work harder at resolving cross-border differences when he invited Pakistan’s prime minister, Nawaz Sharif, along with other regional leaders to his inauguration in May. The photo of the two men shaking hands came to symbolize the promise of that moment.

But that photo seemed a fading memory when, on Monday, India canceled foreign-secretary-level talks that were scheduled to take place on Aug. 25. The proximate cause was India’s anger over a meeting that Pakistan’s ambassador to India held with a separatist leader from Kashmir, the territory over which the two countries have fought three wars.

But there were other factors. Since Modi took office, violations of a 2003 cease-fire along the India-Pakistan border in Kashmir have grown more frequent, 30 by India’s count, 57

by Pakistan’s. In his toughest statement on Pakistan to date, Modi last week charged that Pakistan “has lost the strength to fight a conventional war but continues to engage in the proxy war of terrorism.”

Pakistan may not have helped matters by scheduling a meeting with the separatist leader from Kashmir before the talks with India, especially if, India was undertaking “serious initiatives to move bilateral ties forward.” Pa-

kistan has had regular contact with Kashmiri separatist leaders over the years, and previous Indian prime ministers lived with the practice.

A more plausible excuse is India’s mounting irritation with the border violations and the possibility that they could disrupt elections in Kashmir expected in October and November. These are unquestionably problems in a volatile region, and both sides are justified in calling for the shooting to stop. India also has legitimate concerns about the willingness of Pakistan, especially its army, to tolerate if not encourage anti-India attacks by extremist groups, like the 2008 bombing in Mumbai.

But canceling the meeting was an overreaction on India’s part, especially when it could have served as an opportunity to discuss grievances and press for a solution. Absent such an airing, there is a tendency on both sides to escalate the tensions, with the Indian news media emphasizing Modi’s willingness to take a tough stand and Pakistan asserting it was not “subservient” to India.

There will always be political excuses not to take risks. Both leaders have challenges at home, but Modi is in the strongest political position, while Sharif is facing street protests led by politicians seeking his ouster.

What is needed is a meeting between the leaders to establish a continuing dialogue.

Next month’s United Nations General Assembly meeting in New York offers a good venue.

It would be foolish and dangerous to let this episode destroy the chance for a more stable relationship.

The Right to Cheat and Maim?

In 2010, the Government Accountability Office found that nearly two-thirds of the 50 largest violators of federal wage and hour laws won new federal contracts for work ranging from food processing to cloud computing and that 20 of the 50 largest violators of workplace safety laws were also federal contractors.

Those findings were echoed in a report in 2013 by the Democratic staff of the Senate Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions. That report found that, from 2007-12, 49 major federal contractors were cited 1,776 times for substantial wage and safety violations and paid $196 million in penalties and assessments. Those same employers were awarded $81 billion in federal contracts in 2012.

It would seem noncontroversial to advise federal procurement officials to steer clear of companies with repeated and egregious violations. But when President Obama signed an executive order in late July to that effect, the pushback from industry was immediate, notably from the Associated Builders and Contractors, whose members do 60 percent of federal construction jobs, and from the International Franchise Association, whose members run concessions at federal venues.

Under existing law, federal officials can bar contracts to companies with serious labor law violations. Obama’s order helps to execute the law by requiring bidders to disclose their labor-law violations going back three years and by putting an official at each federal agency in charge of tracking the disclosures.

If a company has not had any violations, it simply checks a box attesting to that fact. If a company reports violations, procurement officials are to look for evidence of pervasive, repeated, willful or serious wrongdoing in weighing whether to deny a contract.

In addition, the order does not take effect until 2016. Before then, the regulations and guidance are subject to public comment.

It would be outlandish for industry groups to argue that procurement officials and the public do not have the right to know about a contractor’s compliance with federal labor laws or defend practices that hurt workers.

The contractors who oppose the order seem to have forgotten that they are bidding for taxpayer dollars. They are not entitled to contracts; they must qualify. And when they obtain a contract, they are working for the people, not the other way around.

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Alone Again, Naturally Washington Affectations can be dangerous, as Gertrude Stein said.

When Barack Obama first ran for president, he theatrically cast himself as the man alone on the stage. From his address in Berlin to his acceptance speech in Chicago, he eschewed ornaments and other politicians, conveying the sense that he was above the grubby political scene, unearthly and apart.

He began “Dreams From My Father” with a description of his time living on the Upper East Side while he was a student at Columbia, savoring his lone-wolf existence. His only “kindred spirit” was a silent old man who lived in the apartment next door. Obama carried groceries for him but never asked his name.

But what started as an affectation has turned into an affliction.

A front-page article in The Times chronicled how the president’s disdain for politics has alienated many of his most stalwart Democratic supporters on Capitol Hill.

First the president couldn’t work with Republicans because they were too obdurate.

Then he tried to chase down reporters with subpoenas. Now he finds members of his own party an unnecessary distraction.

The president who was elected because he was a hot commodity is now a wet blanket.

The extraordinary candidate turns out to be the most ordinary of men, frittering away precious time on the links. Unlike L.B.J., who devoured problems as though he were being chased by demons, Obama’s main galvanizing impulse was to get himself elected.

Almost everything else just seems like too much trouble.

The 2004 speech that vaulted Obama into the White House turned out to be wrong. He misdescribed the country he wanted to lead.

There is a liberal America and a conservative America. And the red-blue divide has only gotten worse in the last six years.

The man whose singular qualification was as a uniter turns out to be singularly unequipped to operate in a polarized environment.

So The One who got elected as the most exciting politician in American history is The One from whom we must never again expect excitement?

Why should the president neutralize himself? Why doesn’t he do something bold and thrilling? Get his hands dirty?

The Constitution was premised on a system full of factions and polarization. If you’re a fastidious pol who deigns to heal and deal only in a holistic, romantic, unified utopia, the Oval Office is the wrong job for you. The sad part is that this is an ugly, confusing and frightening time at home and abroad, and the country needs its president to illuminate and lead, not sink into some petulant expression of his aloofness, where he regards himself as a party of his own.

Once Obama thought his isolation was splendid. But it turned out to be unsplendid.

SPORTS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 20, 2014

Deal May Be Near in Career-Ending Attack One of the most violent on-ice incidents in National Hockey League history seemed headed to resolution more than 10 years after it took place, as lawyers on Tuesday prepared an out-of-court settlement to a $68 million lawsuit brought by Steve Moore, a former player, against Todd Bertuzzi, the opponent who attacked him during a game and ended his career.

Terms of the potential settlement were not disclosed, but if a deal is reached, it will avoid a civil trial scheduled to begin Sept. 8.

Commissioner Gary Bettman; John McCaw, the former owner of the Vancouver Canucks; and other league and team officials were expected to testify in a trial that would have shone a spotlight on professional hockey’s culture of violence and vigilante retribution.

“The settlement is firm and

binding,” Bertuzzi’s lawyer, Geoff Adair, said Tuesday afternoon.

The case has hung like a cloud over the league since Bertuzzi attacked Moore from behind during the third period of a game in Vancouver between the Canucks and Moore’s Colorado Avalanche on March 8, 2004.

Bertuzzi, then 29, resumed his career after a 15-month suspension and is still an active player.

Moore, a 25-year-old rookie at the time of the attack, never played again.

“I lost my entire career in my rookie year,” Moore told The Canadian Press in March, as the 10th anniversary of the incident approached and the long-delayed civil trial lay several months in the future. “I can’t recover anything else. I can’t recover my career, the experience of living out my dream from the time I was 2› years old

of playing in the N.H.L.” Moore’s lawsuit contended that he was deliberately attacked because of an unpenalized check he threw in a previous game that gave Vancouver captain Markus Naslund a concussion.

Canucks Coach Marc Crawford, General Manager Brian Burke and several Canucks players criticized Moore after Naslund’s injury, which sidelined Naslund for three games. One player, Brad May, said “there is definitely a bounty” on Moore’s head.

Bertuzzi apologized for his actions in the months following the incident, but has rarely spoken of it in subsequent years. He recently became a free agent after playing five seasons with the Detroit Red Wings. Bertuzzi has earned about $30 million in salary in the decade since the attack.

JEFF Z. KLEIN

Owner Says He’ll Sell Islanders to Investment Group The Islanders’ owner, Charles B. Wang, announced Tuesday that he would sell the team to Jonathan Ledecky, a former owner of a minority stake in the Washington Capitals, and Scott Malkin, a London-based investor.

Wang said in a statement that he would initially sell the group led by Ledecky and Malkin a “substantial minority interest,” pending N.H.L. approval, and that Ledecky and Malkin would become majority owners of the Islanders in two years.

Financial details were not announced.

Wang had been listening to offers for the team since at least

March. One of the suitors, Andrew Barroway, a hedge fund manager, thought he had a handshake deal to buy the Islanders for $420 million. Last week, he filed suit against Wang, accusing him of reneging on the sale and raising his asking price to $548 million so that he could pursue an agreement with another buyer.

Barroway is seeking $10 million in damages.

The sale to the Ledecky-Malkin group comes a year before the Islanders are to move to Brooklyn to play at Barclays Center.

In 2001, Ledecky sold his stake in the Capitals and later pursued an unsuccessful bid for the Wash-

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Malkin is the chairman of Value Retail, which develops retail villages in Europe and Asia. Both he and Ledecky had been shopping separately for a hockey team.

Wang acquired the Islanders in 2000 for $187.5 million in a partnership with Sanjay Kumar; at the time, they were chairman and president, respectively, of the software company Computer Associates. But in 2006, Kumar pleaded guilty to charges of conspiracy, fraud and obstruction of justice in a fraud case involving the company. He sold his stake to Wang and is serving a 12-year prison sentence.

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In Brief Chicago Advances In World Series Joshua Houston struck out five in five innings, and Jackie Robinson West of Chicago beat Pearland, Tex., 6-1, in an elimination game on Tuesday in the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa. On Thursday night, Chicago will face the loser of Wednesday’s game between Las Vegas and Philadelphia. (AP) n Juan Garza pitched five strong innings to lead Mexico past Venezuela, 11-1, in an elimination game at the Little League Series. (AP)

N.H.L. Concussion Cases Consolidated A federal panel ruled that all concussion-related lawsuits brought by retired N.H.L. players would be consolidated into a single suit and heard by the United States District Court in St. Paul, Minn. Former N.H.L. players have filed about half a dozen concussion-related suits across the United States, with more former players expected to file. (NYT)

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Astros’ Altuve Is Providing Outsize Production Sports Illustrated, The Houston Astros may be the most data-driven organization in baseball, or at least the one most willing to try new ideas. Yet there are no statistical models that would project the on smallest player in basEball the majors to be the game’s best hitter.

Tyler That is what Jose Kepner Altuve is. Before Tuesday’s game at Yankee Stadium, Altuve was leading the major leagues, at .339. He led the majors in hits with 173, and led the American League in stolen bases with 46.

Altuve is also 5 feet 6, matching San Diego’s Alexi Amarista as the game’s shortest player, according to Baseball-Reference. com.

“He’s an anomaly,” said David Stearns, the Astros’ assistant general manager. “He’s tough to explain, other than the fact he works as hard or harder than anyone, he’s got freakish handeye skills, he loves baseball and he wants to be great.”

The Astros also have a 5-6 Class AA second baseman, Tony Kemp, who was hitting .313 with 37 steals this season, through Monday. Their Class AAA second baseman, Ronald Torreyes, is listed at 5-10, but Stearns said he was much shorter.

Have the Astros discovered a

Houston second baseman Jose Altuve is 5 feet 6 but was leading the major leagues in batting average and hits. Altuve with Jake Marisnick. like the kind of player like Derek Jeter and Alex Rodriguez,” Altuve said. “They’re JEROME MIRON/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS pretty tall and they can do everything. But as a scout, market inefficiency in undersize you have to give credit to a little second basemen? Probably not. guy, too. See what they have.”

More likely, Altuve is an outlier.

Altuve, who could become the Leverage comes from height, first Astro to win a batting crown, said John Mallee, the Astros’ hitbrings a set of extremes. Before ting coach, and smaller players Tuesday, he had seen only 3.17 are often not strong enough to pitches per plate appearance, the generate the bat speed to hit confewest in the majors. Yet he put sistent line drives. the highest percentage of pitches “But is there a stereotype that in play (27.3 percent), and only unduly casts them as not bigDetroit’s Victor Martinez has league suitable? Probably,” Stearns said. “You’re still awed by the been tougher to strike out.

Altuve could become the guys who look the part and fill out first player to lead his league in the uniform.” batting average, hits and steals Altuve, 24, signed with the since Ichiro Suzuki for Seattle in Astros from Venezuela before 2001. He was on pace for 224 hits the 2007 season, when he was 16. and 59 steals before Tuesday’s He signed for only $15,000. All he game. Only one player in the last has done since then is hit: a .327 average in the minors, an All-Star 100 years has reached totals that high in both categories in a single selection in his first full major season: Willie Wilson for Kansas league season (2012), and now City in 1980. this. “I think most of the people

Notre Dame Football Loses a Bit of Its Luster SOUTH BEND, Ind. — A celebration was planned Tuesday for the once and future king of college football.

As Notre Dame embarked on its 127th season, it unveiled new uniforms provided by Under Armour as part of what was billed as the most valuable apparel deal in college sports history. The gold and blue is slick yet traditional.

But at the last minute, Notre Dame and Under Armour pulled Athletic Director Jack Swarbrick and Kevin Plank, the Under Armour founder, from the festivities.

Instead, the university remained partly in damage-control mode carrying over from Friday, when it was revealed that four football players — all probable starters — were suspected of being among several students who had cheated in class.

The issue is also notable because Notre Dame football de-

mands unusually rigorous academic performance compared with other top programs.

The scandal could even be evidence that college sports have passed a point of no return. If it could happen at Notre Dame, the thinking goes, it could happen anywhere.

In fact, cheating is not new here; the starting quarterback Everett Golson was suspended last fall for what he called “poor judgment on a test.” But Notre Dame’s supporters embrace the belief that the program has not fallen prey to the forces that have left other universities with tattered academic reputations.

“It’s man bites dog when it happens here,” said John Gaski, a business professor and alumnus who serves on the faculty board on athletics.

Notre Dame announced Friday in a statement that four players

were being held out of practice and competition, though not suspended, pending an investigation into “suspected academic dishonesty.” The university also notified the N.C.A.A. and pledged to vacate any tainted wins — which could include some from its 2012 season, its most successful in nearly two decades.

The scandal’s consequences could be confined to the field — where Notre Dame may lose key players, including wide receiver DaVaris Daniels and cornerback KeiVarae Russell, as it plays what some say is one of college football’s toughest schedules.

Paul McGinn, a professor who heads the faculty senate said he doubted the university’s academics had been tarnished substantially. “I’d be shocked beyond belief,” he said. “It’s just not something I think could or would happen here.”

MARC TRACY

Then It’s Back To Junior High

SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Mo’ne Davis arrived for infield practice on Tuesday with yet another accomplishment, having appeared on the cover of Sports Illustrated before entering eighth grade.

After batting practice, Davis graciously signed T-shirts, balls, even drinking cups for a gaggle of children. Two months after her 13th birthday, Davis has become perhaps the most captivating athlete in the United States. She is only the 18th girl to have played in 68 years of the Little League World Series and the first female pitcher to have thrown a shutout.

Davis will pitch again Wednesday for the Taney Dragons of Philadelphia against a power-hitting team from Las Vegas. Davis is driving the ratings for ABC and ESPN during the series and had been featured atop the front page of The Philadelphia Inquirer for five consecutive days.

“She’s the most talked-about baseball player on earth right now,” said Mark Hyman, an author and an assistant professor of sports management at George Washington University. “More people are talking about her than Derek Jeter. That’s a lot for a 13-year-old kid.”

Davis’s coaches have begun to try to ease pressure and expectation, striking a balance between making her available to tell her engaging story and protecting her so that she can enjoy herself while trying to help her team win a championship.

“We want her to be able to relax and have fun,” said Pete Lupacchino, a volunteer host of the Taney Dragons. “I give her all the credit in the world. For somebody who is 13 years old and has been as composed as she is, that’s really amazing.”

Rick Wolff, a sports psychologist and radio host who studies the psychological pressures of athletic competition, said, “This is a lot of pressure to put on a 13-yearold kid. We like to pretend Little League baseball is the same as the major leagues. It’s not. What if she disappoints or disappears from the face of the earth and is relegated to the whatever-happened-to columns? How do you deal with that?”

JERÉ LONGMAN

NAVYNEWS

NWC Symposium Examines Career Opportunities

By Daniel L. Kuester, U.S. Naval War College Public Affairs

The U.S. Naval War College (NWC) hosted its first Ethics Symposium of the 2014-15 academic year as part of the convocation events held Aug. 18 at the college.

The event is held three times a year for each class with the aim of instilling a broad ethical understanding for students at the school.

The keynote speaker for the event was Rear Adm. Margaret Klein, senior advisor to the secretary of defense for military professionalism, who addressed meeting ethical challenges in a society that is constantly changing.

“An evolving profession is one that survives and thrives, by seeing change as an opportunity to broaden your thinking and your experience,” Klein said to the students. “And there is a bit of a moral imperative for us to evolve, because we serve society and it’s the nation’s values and rights that we defend.”

The theme of serving society and maintaining a social trust with the public is one echoed by the organizer of the event, Martin Cook, professor of leadership and ethics and Stockdale chair of military professional ethics at the NWC.

Cook said that the event is importEthical incompetence can threaten Klein serves as senior advisor to ant for future military leaders because and even ruin careers as fast, or faster Secretary of Defense Chuck Hagel for ethics is often seen as an issue of than technical incompetence, accordmilitary professionalism. personal integrity and not professioning to Cook.

She reports directly to him on alism.

“We [the U.S. military] are firing issues related to military ethics, “When we talk about ethics with senior officers about every other character and leadership. Her role is Navy people, they want to talk about week for personal misconduct,” he to evaluate service professional depersonal character and integrity, and said, “for doing things that would be velopment programs already in place obviously that’s important,” said Cook. funny if it weren’t so sad. We need to and recommend the best practices for “But it’s hardly the overall picture. You broaden the understanding of what adaptation and adoption across the can be the nicest guy in the world and being ethical is.” department. still be incompetent, and if you are incompetent, you are not professionally ethical.”

Professionals from all fields must maintain their level of knowledge and development to preserve their social trust, said Cook.

“For most Navy people this is a relatively new concept, they don’t really think of themselves in these terms. They use the term professional, but that usually means that they are competent,” he added.

During her remarks, Klein underscored Cook’s point.

Klein said that teaching ethics to military students is part of an effort “to place moral competence on the The ethics symposium was a one-day event that brought together military and civilian speaksame plane as tactical or technical ers to discuss ethics and its importance in leadership with NWC students. U.S. Navy photo by competence.”

Chief Mass Communication Specialist James E. Foehl.

Assistant Secretary of the Navy Visits RTC Assistant Secretary of the Navy for Manpower & Reserve Affairs, the Honorable Juan Garcia III, visited Recruit Training Command (RTC) to tour and attend the weekly PassIn-Review (PIR) recruit graduation, Aug. 15.

As Assistant Secretary of the Navy, Garcia acts on matters pertaining to manpower and personnel policy within the Department of the Navy including issues affecting active duty and reserve Sailors, Marines and civilians.

Prior to the graduation, Garcia ate breakfast in the USS Arizona ship barracks galley and then toured USS Trayer (BST 21), a 210-foot Arleigh Burke-class destroyer simulator, the largest in the Navy. Trayer is home to Battle Stations 21, and is the capstone event that culminates the recruits’ eight weeks of training during boot camp. Each recruit must complete 17 scenarios during a 12-hour overnight period. The scenarios encompass all training learned during boot camp from firefighting to preventing and stopping flooding in a compartment.

There are also casualty evacuations, watch standing, onloading and

By Brian Walsh, Recruit Training Command Public Affairs Specialist offloading supplies and line handling. see parents in attendance that get “I wish I could share with the to observe this transformation that entire country the capping ceremony recruit division commanders do in a after Battle Stations, where over 700 very short period of time.” exhausted Sailors drilled, fought fires, Garcia and Andrews also spoke prevented flooding and practiced at the Navy Recruiting Command’s attending to injured shipmates all Leadership Symposium that night,” said Garcia. “The look on assembled all senior leaders from the their face, when they took off their 26 Navy Recruiting Districts (NRD), cap that says ‘recruit’ and then don the Recruiting School (NORU) their Navy ball cap to officially and headquarters. The theme for become Navy Sailors; it is priceless.” the symposium was; Supporting Rear Adm. Annie Andrews, Recruiters, Working Smarter, Making commander, Navy Recruiting Mission. The symposium provided Command (NRC) and former a forum to clearly communicate commanding officer of RTC, also long term strategic challenges and attended the PIR in the Midway promises to have both an immediate Ceremonial Drill Hall. Rear Adm. and lasting positive impact on the Richard Brown, commander, recruiting mission and quality of life Naval Service Training Command for the recruiting nation.

(NSTC) and Capt. Doug Pfeifle, the “I really enjoyed having all the commanding officer of RTC also commanding officers, command attended the PIR. The special guest master chiefs and chief recruiters for the ceremony was New Zealand throughout the nation come together Naval Attache Cmdr. Sean Stewart. and see the fruits of their labor,” said “It is certainly great being back Andrews. “Observing this graduation at Recruit Training Command is the capstone of all the hard work and to not only see the faces of the they put into this process. I remain recruits that are now Sailors, but to motivated with all of the great work also witness their transformation,” that is done here and the partnership said Andrews, “It’s also inspiring to among Military Entrance Processing

Command (MEPCOM), Navy Recruiting Command and Recruit Training Command.”

According to Garcia, serving as the reviewing officer reinforced his belief that the newest generation of Sailors are ready for any tasks that will come their way in the fleet.

“I hope these Sailors walk away with the belief that any doubts they had of their ability to meet the Navy’s threshold were eliminated by their demonstration today,” said Garcia.

NSTC oversees 98 percent of initial officer and enlisted accessions training for the Navy, as well as the Navy’s Citizenship Development program. NSTC includes RTC, the Naval Reserve Officers Training Corps (NROTC) at more than 160 colleges and universities, Officer Training Command Newport, and Navy Junior Reserve Officers Training Corps (NJROTC) and Navy National Defense Cadet Corps (NNDCC) citizenship development programs at more than 600 high schools worldwide.

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WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

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MOM’S NIGHT OUT

CHERNOBYL DIARIES

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NEED FOR SPEED

THINK LIKE A MAN

PACIFIC RIM

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VAMPIRE ACADEMY

MEN IN BLACK 3

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MYSTIC RIVER

THE SITTER

TRANSFORMERS 2: REVENGE OF THE FALLEN

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A HAUNTED HOUSE 2

TRANSFORMERS (Cont.)

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THE INCREDIBLES

THE POSSESSION

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MOM’S NIGHT OUT

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A HAUNTED HOUSE 2

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THE INCREDIBLES

THE POSSESSION

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