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ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

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PREPARE TO FIRE

AUGUST 21, 2014 • DAILY

PACFIRE PRACTICE MAKES PERFECT

SEEK AND DESTROY

TR TESTS RAM FOR FIRST TIME

PREPARE TO Story by MCSN Kris Lindstrom

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he day fell quiet after an hour loading ammunition into the close-in weapon system (CIWS) Phalanx for a pre-aim calibration firing exercise (PACFIRE). The local control station operator sat patiently within the shack beside the CIWS mount. Her eyes pierced the monitor as she waited for the command to fire the 75-round-per-second weapon. The Sailor’s heartbeat quickened as the command came in, “batteries release.” Mere seconds of ear-piercing blasts from the CIWS’s roaring barrels shattered the days calm.

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) frequently practices firing CIWS to ensure it’s functional and effective. The Navy calls this practice PACFIRE. “The purpose of the PACFIRE is for us to track where the rounds land to make sure it is shooting where we want it to shoot,” said Fire Controlman (FC) 2nd Class Danielle Murry, a qualified local control station operator. “We have to test out the firing cutouts and test out the mount position accuracy. We also have to do a dry fire, in which it pretends to fire rounds to make sure it can send the firing voltage up to the gun.”

CIWS has the ability to fire without an operator, but the human element is crucial for safety and precision, said Murry.

“We have manual, auto and surface fire. If we put it in auto, the CIWS can’t distinguish if the target is friendly or not friendly,” said Murry. “That’s why we need an operator to determine [enemy targets] and not shoot down friendly targets.”

FCs may fire the weapon during PACFIRE, but the command to fire comes from officers within the combat direction center (CDC) and pilot house.

“I get commands from the [tactical action officer] who gets the commands from the [commanding officer],” said Murry. “I don’t shoot until they tell me to shoot.”

PACFIRE helps FCs test the weapons and test themselves in order to effectively defend the ship if necessary. In the unlikely circumstance that CIWS needs to take action, the conditioned weapon and operator can be ready to defend the ship.

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SEEK&DESTROY

he aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) tested its Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) system Aug. 19 - 20 for the first time since the system’s installation.

TR tested RAM launcher one on the forward part of the ship as part of Combat System Ship Qualification Trial (CSSQT) Phase III. “[RAM testing] gives you an overall picture of the functionality of the weapon system and its ability to defend the ship in the way that it was designed to defend the ship,” said Fire Controlman 1st Class Clifford Anderson, RAM launcher one and two leading petty officer.

RAM defends the ship against anti-ship cruise missiles and other asymmetric threats. It differs from other defense systems aboard TR because it provides medium-range defense and utilizes different tracking methods.

“RAM launchers for this ship handle close-in to intermediate defense layers,” said Anderson. “RAM is a passive sentry system. So once it fires it doesn’t send any signals out. It is a heat seeking and infrared seeking missile.”

The test required RAM to hit a target ‘skin-to-skin’ or make direct contact with the target. This contact is necessary due to the lack of a warhead in the missiles fired during testing.

“The evolution as a whole was an outstanding success,” said Anderson. “It couldn’t have gone any better.”

MCSN Kris Lindstrom

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

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

In Raid to Save Hostages, U.S. Found None EDGARTOWN, Mass. — A secret nighttime military mission authorized by President Obama to rescue an American held captive in Syria failed early this summer when a team of two dozen Delta Force commandos raided an oil refinery in the northern part of the country but arrived to discover there were no hostages to be saved, officials said Wednesday.

The officials described what they called a “complicated operation” in which the commandos were dropped to the ground by helicopter. After hitting the ground, the Army commandos fought with the militants as they sought to make their way to several hostages they thought were being held by members of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS. The officials said they believed a number of the terrorists were killed in the operation. But when the team swooped in on the facility, the hostages were gone. One of the American commandos was slightly wounded in the firefight before they were flown to safety.

“Maybe a matter of hours, perhaps a day or two,” said a Defense Department official. “We’re not sure why they were moved. By the time we got there, it was too late.”

The administration officials revealed the mission in a conference call with reporters, in which they spoke on the condition of anonymity because of the classified nature of the operation.

Lisa Monaco, the president’s chief terrorism adviser, said in a statement Wednesday evening that Obama had made the decision to authorize the mission because intelligence officials feared for the lives of the hostages.

She repeated a call for the immediate release of the hostages and said the failed rescue mission by the special operations team should stand as further evidence of the lengths the United States will go to protect its citizens.

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Ransom Sought Before Hostage Killed Kneeling in the dirt in a desert somewhere in the Middle East, James Foley lost his life earlier this week at the hands of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

Before pulling out the knife, his masked executioner explained that he was killing the 40-year-old American journalist in retaliation for the recent United States’ airstrikes against the terror group in Iraq.

Up until recently, ISIS had a very different list of demands for Foley: They pressed the United States to provide a multimillion-dollar ransom for his release, according to a representative of the family and a former hostage held alongside him. The United States — unlike some European countries — refused to pay.

The issue of how to deal with ISIS, which like many Islamic extremist groups now routinely trades captives for large cash payments, is acute for the Obama administration because Foley was not the lone American in its custody. ISIS is threatening to kill at least three other Americans it holds if its demands remain un-

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James Foley in Aleppo, Syria, in November 2012. met, The New York Times has confirmed through interviews with recently released prisoners, family members of the victims and with mediators attempting to win their freedom.

Sensitive to growing criticism at home that it had not done enough, the White House on Wednesday revealed that a United States Special Operations team tried and failed to rescue Foley — a New Hampshire native who disappeared in Syria on Nov. 22, 2012 — as well as the other

American hostages during a secret mission earlier this summer.

Obama on Wednesday said the United States would not retreat until it had eliminated the “cancer” of ISIS from the Middle East.

ISIS also appears determined to increase the pressure on Washington. It has now threatened to kill a second of its hostages, Steven Sotloff, a freelance journalist for TIME magazine who was being held alongside Foley.

In the video uploaded to YouTube on Tuesday, the screen goes dark after Foley is decapitated.

Then the ISIS fighter is seen holding Sotloff, shown kneeling in the same landscape of barren dunes. “The life of this American citizen, Obama, depends on your next decision.”

Foley’s colleagues point to the remarkable bravery he displays in his final moments as a testament to the man he was: Looking straight at the camera, Foley’s face is concentrated. When the jihadist lifts the knife to his throat, and pulls his head back, Foley does not try to pull away.

RUKMINI CALLIMACHI

Written Tests for Jury Duty Are Getting Personal Do you believe in an “eye for an eye”? What do your parents do for a living? Do you watch “CSI”?

“Dateline”? Read PerezHilton. com? Have you ever undergone a medical procedure that required an anesthetic?

Welcome to jury service, where seats are hard and questionnaires increasingly long and nosy.

In a recently concluded federal racketeering trial in Brooklyn, potential jurors were asked what public figures they admired the most and the least. For a political corruption trial, they were asked to list their three favorite movies and what any bumper stickers on their cars said. For a civil case concerning Israel, they were asked if they had “any feelings about Jews” that would make it difficult for them to serve.

Jury questionnaires have become a familiar presence in courtrooms across the United States, with some lawyers rou-

tinely requesting them in major cases — transforming the standard voir dire procedure into a written test.

“You can learn a lot from a questionnaire that you can’t learn in person,” said Daniel Gitner, a defense lawyer based in Manhattan. “You want to use a questionnaire anytime you have a real, considered view of what beliefs your jurors are coming to the courtroom with.”

Along with instinct, lawyers and jury consultants generally use mock juries and post-trial quizzes of actual juries to sort out jurors’ views in a case. The objective is to prune the jury box of people biased against their clients.

Philip K. Anthony, the chief executive of DecisionQuest, a consultancy, compared the work to “epidemiology: what patterns exist in the population, in the data” that might make jurors more likely to find for one side or another.

Beyond questionnaires, consultants and lawyers study how jurors interact with the judge and with one another. If, for example, someone is charismatic and authoritative, you want to be sure that person is on your side, said Roy Futterman, a director at Doar Litigation Consulting. “If that person goes a certain way, he’s taking everyone with him,” he said.

Still, some lawyers seem disdainful of all the analysis.

Susan Kellman, a longtime New York defense lawyer, said her favorite question is simple: “Tell me one person who’s dead who we all know and respect.”

Most jurors say “my grandmother,” she said, and — unless that grandmother is Golda Meir —that tells her all she needs to know, she added. “They don’t follow directions,” she said. “You’re learning a lot from listening to people, more than tests.”

STEPHANIE CLIFFORD

INTERNATIONAL

In Brief Neanderthal Demise Neanderthals spread out across Europe and Asia about 200,000 years ago. But when did they die out, giving way to modern humans? A new analysis of Neanderthal sites from Spain to Russia provides the most definitive answer yet: about 40,000 years ago, at least in Europe.

That is thousands of years earlier than some scientists have suggested, and it narrows the period that Neanderthals and modern humans overlapped in Europe.

“After that, we don’t think there are any Neanderthals on the continent anymore,” said Thomas Higham, the deputy director of the radiocarbon accelerator unit at the University of Oxford in England.

(NYT)

Landslides Kill 36 At least 36 people were killed and seven missing in the western Japanese city of Hiroshima on Wednesday after heavy rain caused flash floods and landslides that buried victims alive as they slept in their homes, the police said. Hundreds of soldiers have been sent to the scene to dig for survivors. Prime Minister Shinzo Abe cut short a vacation to return to Tokyo to lead the response to the disaster, government officials said. Video footage taken by helicopter showed thick layers of mud and, in some places, raging torrents of muddy water flowing through what had been neighborhoods of tightly spaced homes.

(NYT)

Offensive in Ukraine With street fights and artillery barrages, the Ukrainian military pressed its advance on Wednesday on the two provincial capitals held by pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine, in a day of violence that killed 52 civilians and Ukrainian soldiers and an unknown number of rebels. In one of the heaviest artillery attacks yet on the center of Donetsk, the larger of the two capitals, shells struck street kiosks and residential apartment buildings. In Luhansk, government forces have now gained control of “significant parts” of the city after days of street fighting, Andiy Lysenko, a spokesman for Ukraine’s National Security Council, said. (NYT)

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

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Clashes as Liberia Sets an Ebola Quarantine MONROVIA, Liberia — Soldiers and police officers in riot gear blocked the roads. Even the waterfront was cordoned off, with the coast guard stopping residents from setting out in canoes. The entire neighborhood, a sprawling slum with tens of thousands of people, awoke Wednesday to find that it was under strict quarantine in the government’s halting fight against Ebola.

The reaction was swift, and violent. Angry young men hurled rocks and stormed barbed-wire barricades, trying to break out.

Soldiers repelled the surging crowd with live rounds, driving hundreds of young men back.

One teenager in the crowd, Shakie Kamara, 15, lay on the ground near the barricade, his right leg apparently wounded by a bullet from the melee. “Help me,” Kamara pleaded.

“This is messed up,” said Lt. Col. Abraham Kromah, the national police’s head of operations, looking at the teenager and complaining about the crowd. “They injured one of my police officers.

That’s not cool. It’s a group of criminals that did this. Look at this child. God in heaven help us.”

The clashes were a dangerous new chapter in West Africa’s fivemonth fight against the deadliest Ebola epidemic on record. The virus continues to spread, yet the total number of cases reported in the affected nations — Liberia, Guinea, Sierra Leone and Nigeria — is already higher than in all other Ebola outbreaks combined since 1976, when the disease was

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A Liberian soldier in the Ebola Task Force tried to enforce a quarantine by confronting a woman in Monrovia. first identified, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said Wednesday.

So far, the outbreak has mostly been concentrated in rural areas, but the disease has also spread to major cities like Conakry, Guinea, and especially here in Monrovia, the Liberian capital. Fighting Ebola in an urban area — particularly in a neighborhood like this one, known as West Point, an extremely poor and often violent place that still bears deep scars from Liberia’s 14-year-long civil war — presents challenges that the government and aid organizations have only started grappling with.

The risks that Ebola will spread quickly, and the difficulties in containing it, are multiplied in a dense urban environment, especially

one where residents appear increasingly distrustful of the government’s approach to the crisis, experts say.

At least 1,350 are estimated to have died in the current outbreak of Ebola. The deaths are rising most rapidly in Liberia, which now has the highest death toll, estimated to be at least 576.

Residents of West Point tried to break through the barricade three times on Wednesday, Col. Prince Johnson, the army’s brigade commander, said Wednesday evening. His soldiers had fired in the air, he said, but he would not comment on whether they had also fired into the crowd. Heavy rains helped quell West Point’s fury.

“Things have quieted down,” he said.

NORIMITSU ONISHI

After Airstrike, Fate of Hamas Commander Is Unknown JERUSALEM — The fate of Muhammed Deif, the commander in chief of Hamas’s militant wing, remained a mystery on Wednesday, like much of his life spent in the shadows.

The warplanes that dropped at least five bombs on a house in the Sheikh Radwan neighborhood of Gaza City late Tuesday were seeking Deif, in at least the fifth Israeli attempt to assassinate him.

Eight years ago, as Deif met with other top Hamas military officials on the ground floor of a house in Sheikh Radwan, the Israeli Air Force struck at 3 a.m.

Nine members of a family on the upper floors were killed, but Deif and his comrades escaped.

The latest bombing struck closer: One of Deif’s wives, Widad, 28, and their infant son, Ali, were killed along with fellow residents Wafaa al-Dalo, 48, and her two sons, Ahmed 18, and Mustafa 14, according to the Gaza Health Ministry and neighbors. The house was reduced to rubble.

It was not clear whether Deif had been in the house at the time, and neither Hamas nor Israel provided evidence of his survival or demise.

After nearly three decades of living underground and two decades as No. 1 on Israel’s most-wanted list, and having survived wounds from two previous assassination attempts, Deif, now

approaching 50, has become a symbol of Hamas’s staying power.

As the architect who built Hamas’s military wing, the Qassam Brigades, into a formidable fighting force, Deif is lionized by many Palestinians as a model of prowess and dedication in the battle against Israel.

“He is a pillar and the symbol of the military and jihadi work, and he is among the decision makers,” said Fawzi Barhoum, a Hamas official in Gaza. Without specifying whether Deif was alive or dead, Barhoum said Deif, his wife and son “are part of the body that has the resistance as its soul.”

ISABEL KERSHNER and FARES AKRAM

NATIONAL

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

Anger, Hurt and Moments of Hope in Ferguson FERGUSON, Mo. — The long, white bus emerged from a dark side street earlier in the week.

Through the tinted windows, people on the street could see flashing lights and bodies moving to a beat.

The party bus crept through an angry crowd of demonstrators and a cluster of armored vehicles and police officers with weapons threatening to arrest people if they did not disperse. Some in the crowd started dancing.

Eventually, the bus raced out of view. And the demonstrators returned their attention to the police, shouting “don’t shoot me,” and gesturing obscenely.

Ever since a white police officer, Darren Wilson, fatally shot an unarmed black youth, Michael Brown, two Saturdays ago, Ferguson has been deeply troubled, but also sometimes hard to fathom. By night, it can seethe with anger and frustration; by day, hope and even celebration can appear.

It is a place where the emotions of young black men run raw and

real, where they say their voices are finally being heard. They hope the fallout from the death of Brown, 18, will change the way the police treat them.

Night after night, the more orderly passions of the day have given way to the actions of a provocative few who have volleyed bottles at the police. Some stick up their middle fingers and fire guns.

There have been tear gas, smoke grenades and the National Guard.

On Monday night, police officers in body armor clutched large weapons. They stood close to armored vehicles parked in a tight cluster in the middle of a dark street, shining spotlights on the taunting crowd around them.

Several men bounded toward the officers with their hands in the air. One of them kneeled. “Don’t shoot me!” they yelled.

“You must leave the area in a peaceful manner,” one officer barked over a loudspeaker.

People in the crowd only screamed back louder. Some

squared up to the officers. Before long, a bang rang out. And then fire, smoke, pops, screams and a mad dash. People running every which way, ducking.

By dawn it was all gone, and what seemed to be an ordinary new day broke in Ferguson.

There has been a noticeable generational divide since the demonstrations began, with an apparently leaderless group of young people facing off with the police late at night. But in recent days, some older leaders have turned out to try to bridge the gap.

“We clearly have a group of young people who are just totally disaffected by any appeals for calm that we are making,” said the Rev. Rodney T. Francis, the pastor of the Washington Tabernacle Missionary Baptist Church, and a member of the St. Louis Metropolitan Clergy Coalition. “Their disengagement is very deep and they are very hurt, and that certainly doesn’t excuse their actions.”

JOHN ELIGON

In Trial, Ex-Governor Points Finger at His Wife RICHMOND, Va. — Beginning the political sales job of his life, Bob McDonnell, the former Virginia governor and once rising Republican star, was called Wednesday afternoon to the witness stand, where he began to lay out the unusual defense that he could not have conspired corruptly with his wife because they were too estranged to manage it.

His appearance, three days into his legal defense, came faster than expected, but McDonnell was as smooth as ever. He and his wife, Maureen, face charges of public corruption stemming from $177,000 in loans and gifts showered on their family by Jonnie R.

Williams Sr., a nutritional supplements executive.

Almost immediately, a politician who always campaigned as a devoted family man, turned the spotlight on his wife. On the day after his Nov. 3, 2009, election as governor, he said, his elation was not matched by hers. He recalled her yelling at him as his phone rang, with President Obama on the line with congratulations.

“She clearly exhibited stress about her pending role as first lady,” he testified.

Defense lawyers have portrayed the couple as too estranged to conspire with Williams, who gave the couple and a family

business $120,000 in low-interest loans, took Ms. McDonnell on lavish spending sprees and footed the bill for golf outings and made his Ferrari available to them. The defense painted Ms. McDonnell as a “nutbag” smitten with Williams, and McDonnell as at once a naïve Boy Scout and an accomplished governor too busy to notice Williams’s entreaties.

The initial shot the former governor took at his wife was a teaser.

The defense lawyer Henry Asbill closed Wednesday’s proceedings by telling U.S. District Court Judge James R. Spencer he would be turning to the McDonnells’ marriage Thursday.

(NYT)

Inquiry Urged on Air Force Academy’s Handling of Cases Two senators called Wednesday for an independent investigation into the handling of sexual assault cases at the Air Force Academy, saying they were concerned about “very serious allegations of wrongdoing.”

In a letter to the Office of Special Counsel, the two senators, Kirsten E. Gillibrand, D-N.Y., and John Thune, R-S.D., asked the watchdog agency to investigate claims that academy officials retaliated

against an Air Force investigator and the cadet informant who helped him investigate drug use and sexual assault among football players. The senators sent the same request to the Department of Defense inspector general’s office, asking for it to investigate.

The investigator, Sgt. Brandon Enos, said in a letter sent this month to members of Congress that after a spate of successful prosecutions of football players

for sexual assault and drug use in 2013, superiors shut down his investigation. After that, Enos said, he had his badge taken away and was told that he would be kicked out of the Air Force. The details of the letter were reported Aug. 9 in The New York Times.

The cadet informant, Eric Thomas, was punished for misconduct that he said was related to his informant work, both men say. Thomas was expelled. (NYT)

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In Brief Newest Voting Map In Florida Under Fire In the latest legal face-off over Florida’s invalid congressional map, lawyers wrangled in court on Wednesday over the Legislature’s newest map. With the state’s primary next Tuesday, the judge weighed whether to approve the revised boundaries for seven districts. Lawyers for the coalition of voters’ rights groups that sued the Legislature over the original boundaries argued that the new map was scarcely different from the old one. They said the judge should reject the new map because it still gave the Republican Party an advantage. If Judge Terry P. Lewis approves the revised map, he must then decide whether to delay the elections for those seven districts.

(NYT)

Abortion Clinic Drops Fight Over License A Cincinnati-area abortion clinic has ended its fight with the state over a license revocation and will stop performing surgical abortions this week, clinic officials said Wednesday, blaming Ohio Gov. John R. Kasich. The development will leave just one clinic in the Cincinnati area offering surgical abortions and none with late-term abortions, said Dorothea Langsam, a lawyer for the Lebanon Road Surgery Center of Sharonville. Rules approved by the Republican governor last year prohibit publicly funded hospitals from having patient transfer agreements with facilities that provide abortions. But Ohio law simultaneously requires such transfer agreements to be in place, in what abortion rights groups have called a de facto restriction on abortion.

(AP)

Wildfire Claims Homes A wildfire northeast of Bakersfield, Calif., destroyed eight homes and was threatening more than a thousand others, the authorities said Wednesday. The fire near Lake Isabella was 15 percent contained after scorching about five square miles, Capt. Derek Tisinger of the Kern County Fire Department said.

Firefighters continued building containment lines after stopping the spread of the flames on Tuesday.

(AP)

BUSINESS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

THE MARKETS

$16 Billion Mortgage Deal Nears for Bank of the toxic subprime loans that helped ignite the crisis — the result of its acquisitions of Merrill Lynch and Mozilo’s Countrywide Financial. The size and scope of the expected settlement, which could be announced as soon as Thursday, reflects the extent of the damage.

The deal would resolve more than a dozen investigations from prosecutors across the country, the people briefed on the matter said, including Manhattan, Brooklyn, Los Angeles, New Jersey and North Carolina. To settle those varied investigations, some of which have not been previously reported, the bank is expected to pay a $9.6 billion cash penalty and $7 billion in so-called soft-dollar payments to aid struggling consumers. In turn, the Justice Department will forgo any poten-

tial cases against the bank over collateralized debt obligations, one of the people said, complex financial instruments the bank sold in the years before the crisis.

While no bank executives will face charges as part of the settlement, the people said, the prosecutors in Los Angeles are preparing a lawsuit against Mozilo, Countrywide’s founder. Mozilo was an early target of the Justice Department.

The civil division of the United States attorney’s office has turned the spotlight back on Mozilo, the face of a company that originated mortgages that it turned out went to people with little income to repay them.

In a statement, Mozilo’s lawyer said that he would “not comment on reported rumors concerning any investigation.”

(NYT)

Car Lender Is Accused of Giving Flawed Reports The cycle is a familiar one on Wall Street. First comes a lending boom. And then, after the abuses and excesses of a bubble, there is the government crackdown.

Now, as federal prosecutors and regulators wrap up many of their largest mortgage investigations, they are shifting their focus to another lending boom underway: the market for auto loans to people with shoddy credit.

On Wednesday, the investigations fixed on an auto lender in Texas, which the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau accused of tarnishing borrowers’ credit reports.

The lender, First Investors Financial Services Group, agreed to pay a $2.75 million penalty over

accusations that it consistently gave credit reporting agencies like Experian and Equifax flawed reports about thousands of car buyers. The reports, the agency said, exaggerated the number of times that borrowers fell behind on their bills.

First Investors, which is owned by a prominent New York private equity firm, did not acknowledge any wrongdoing.

Preet Bharara, the United States attorney in Manhattan, has begun a separate investigation into whether lenders have sold questionable auto loan investments to investors. The investigation, which has sent subpoenas to General Motors Financial and Santander Consum-

er USA, two giant auto lenders, is focused on whether the lenders fully disclosed to investors the credit worthiness of borrowers whose loans made up the complicated securities.

The surge in auto lending, according to two people with knowledge of the investigation, has many of the markings of the frenzied subprime mortgage market before its cratering helped precipitate the 2008 financial crisis.

Loans to borrowers with dented credit have grown 130 percent in the five years since the immediate aftermath of the financial crisis. And one in four new auto loans last year went to buyers with credit scores at or below 640, according to Experian. (NYT)

Inside Critics of Fed’s Easy-Money Policy Grow Louder WASHINGTON — An increasingly vocal minority of Federal Reserve officials want the central bank to retreat more quickly from its stimulus campaign, arguing that the bank has largely exhausted its ability to improve economic conditions.

The debate, reflected in an account of the Fed’s most recent policy-making meeting published Wednesday, is likely to dominate the gathering of central bankers and economists at Jackson Hole, Wyo., Thursday through Sunday.

Fed officials are convinced that

the economy is gaining strength after years of false starts, but a majority of policymakers, led by the chairwoman, Janet L. Yellen, favor a slow retreat from the Fed’s efforts to encourage job creation.

At the July meeting, however, a number of officials described a growing risk that the Fed’s control of inflation is being loosened by its focus on job creation.

They note that the economy has improved more quickly than expected in recent months. The remaining damage caused by the

Great Recession, in this view, can no longer be repaired by keeping interest rates low through the Fed’s primary policy tool.

Some analysts saw evidence that the Fed’s internal critics were exerting growing influence over the course of policy, suggesting that the Fed was becoming a little more likely to raise interest rates before the middle of 2015, now considered the most likely time for the Fed to begin raising rates from the near-zero level it has maintained since late 2008.

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The Justice Department is poised to announce a $16.65 billion settlement with Bank of America over accusations that it duped investors into buying toxic mortgage securities, according to people briefed on the matter — the largest federal settlement by a company in American history.

Yet even as that accord nears completion, prosecutors are preparing a separate civil case against the man who came to embody the risk-taking for which Bank of America is now paying dearly, Angelo Mozilo, a rare move against a senior executive at the center of the financial crisis.

The Bank of America settlement will be a coda to a painful period for the bank and the broader financial industry. More than any other Wall Street giant, Bank of America was the source

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New Era in Safety: Cars Talk to One Another ANN ARBOR, Mich. — A driver moves along in traffic, the forward view blocked by a truck or a bend in the road. Suddenly, up ahead, someone slams on the brake. Tires screech.

There is little time to react.

Researchers here are working to add time to that equation. They envision a not-too-distant future in which vehicles are in constant, harmonious communication with one another and their surroundings, instantly warning drivers of unseen dangers and providing additional reaction time to avoid a pileup.

The Transportation Department announced this week a plan to require in coming years that the technology, so-called vehicle-to-vehicle communication, to be installed in all cars and trucks in the United States. Transportation Secretary Anthony Foxx called it “the next great advance in saving lives.”

Google may already be experimenting with its own driverless cars, but the technology being tested in this university town by a group of academic, industry and government researchers could be retrofitted into ordinary cars.

The National Highway Traffic Safety Administration estimates that vehicle-to-vehicle transmitters will add only about $350 to the total cost of a vehicle by 2020.

JOSHUA LOTT FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

The safety agency expects prices to fall as the mandate approaches, as has already happened with features like rear-view cameras, which will be required in 2018. By the end of the decade, if all goes as planned, the typical American vehicle will be part of a network, constantly sharing information as it travels.

At a government-sponsored pilot program here in Ann Arbor, being run by the University of Michigan Transportation Research Institute, nearly 3,000 vehicles driven by volunteers are being tested in real-world conditions.

Transmitters in the vehicles send and receive information 10 times a second: speed, direction, location and other data that automakers and federal regulators hope will usher in a new era of

A governmentsponsored pilot program in Ann Arbor, Mich., is exploring the benefits that occur when vehicles can talk with each other, and their surroundings.

road safety.

Drivers today can buy cars that monitor blind spots, warn them when they veer out of a lane and even park themselves. Such features are overseen by sensors inside the car: cameras, radar and lasers that scan the road like electronic eyes.

Like any pair of eyes, however, they can warn about only what they can see. The technology developing in Ann Arbor focuses on hazards even electronic eyes can’t spot.

“If there are several vehicles between you and the one that’s panic-braking, you may not even be aware of it,” said Debby Bezzina, assistant program manager for the University of Michigan experiment. “You definitely can’t see their taillights.”

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Drug Used for Ebola-Related Virus Shows Promise An experimental drug has completely protected monkeys from lethal doses of a virus related to Ebola, bolstering confidence that a similar medicine might be effective if deployed in the current outbreak in Africa, researchers reported on Wednesday.

The researchers said that the drug, which is being developed

by Tekmira Pharmaceuticals, kept all monkeys alive in a study, even if given as late as three days after exposure to the Marburg virus, when the virus was already detectable in the animals’ blood.

Both Marburg and Ebola are filoviruses that cause deadly hemorrhagic fever characterized by vomiting, diarrhea, uncontrolled bleeding and possible organ failure. Tekmira, which is based in British Columbia, has a separate drug for Ebola that is already in early testing in healthy human volunteers. Both drugs work the

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same way — turning off viral genes through an approach called RNA interference.

Marburg was first described in 1967 after outbreaks in three European cities, including Marburg, Germany, caused by the importation of monkeys from Uganda. The biggest outbreak was in Angola in 2004 and 2005, which affected more than 250 people, killing about 90 percent of them.

Some experimental drugs for Marburg and Ebola have been shown in animal studies to be effective when given shortly after infection. But in a real epidemic like the one in West Africa, most people do not know they have been infected until they get sick, which can be several days later.

Tekmira’s Marburg drug moves in that direction. The virus was detectable in the monkey’s blood three days after exposure, corresponding to the time an infection

might be diagnosed with a test.

The study demonstrates the “real-world utility of this technology,” said Dr. Thomas W. Geisbert, a professor of microbiology and immunology at the University of Texas Medical Branch at Galveston and an author of the study, which is being published in Science Translational Medicine.

He said more studies were being planned to determine whether the drug could be used even later.

Dr. Daniel G. Bausch, an associate professor of tropical medicine at Tulane University, who was not involved in the study, said effectiveness at three days post exposure was not that useful. “The vast majority of people come in after they are sick for a couple of days,” Bausch said. In the study, even the monkeys that did not get the drug did not show symptoms until about six days after exposure.

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday: Hertz Global Holdings Inc., down $1.23 to $30.33. The rental car company withdrew its profit guidance, citing challenges posed by recalls, an accounting review and other problems.

American Eagle Outfitters Inc., up $1.39 to $12.98. The clothing retailer reported a steep drop in quarterly profit on weak sales, but the results still beat Wall Street expectations Youku Tudou Inc., down $2 to $19.52.

The Chinese Internet television company reported quarterly financial results and sales guidance below expectations.

NQ Mobile Inc., up 13 cents to $6.83.

The mobile Internet services company said China Telecom will offer its vLife technology as part of a mobile cloud platform.

Amicus Therapeutics, up 93 cents to $5.50. The biotechnology company said that its potential treatment for a rare genetic disorder met key goals in a latestage study.

Hain Celestial Group Inc., up $9.58 to $96.51. The organic and natural food company reported better-than-expected quarterly financial results and issued an upbeat full-year outlook.

(AP)

STYLE

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For 2015, Roll Up Your Sleeves and Be at Ease Lip Color Escapes When Hillary Rodham Clinton remarked, in her much-ballyhooed jab at the Obama administration, that Americans “don’t even tell our own story very well these days,” she had clearly forgotten her old friend Ralph Lauren. Few story lines in the current global marketplace remotely approach the enduring narrative mojo of the American dream, and few designers have more truly emblematized it or exported it to greater success.

Though the Lauren story is well-rehearsed, it bears repeating: The Bronx-born son of Ashkenazi Jewish immigrants from Belarus turns necktie business into publicly traded multibillion-dollar lifestyle brand, its core ingredient a shrewdly curated grab bag of American archetypes.

The socialite C.Z. Guest was onto something when she once quipped to this reporter, not entirely joking, that Lauren owed her royalties for imitating and commercializing her patrician highWASP style. Applying the Guest standard, there would be quite a queue for payouts, a thought that sprang to mind on a recent Monday morning, as David Lauren, the designer’s younger son and the chief creative and marketing

officer of the company, conducted a preview of the Ralph Lauren men’s wear collections for spring 2015.

Sure, the shapes of the suits and outerwear fell well within the conservative idiom the designer favors, modernized in some cases with slimmer cuts and replete with technically masterful details that designers lacking Lauren’s long experience would be wiser not to attempt.

But as always in Ralph Lauren world, the imagery deployed across his brand, whether the garments themselves were designated Black Label, Purple Label or Polo, was a giddy and almost phantasmagoric welter of references to the visual iconography of Americana.

Arrayed in living tableaux around the designer’s lavish Madison Avenue showrooms was a glossary of models dressed as or representing every conceivable American type: the Hollywood glamour boy, the Newport clubman, the Montana

rancher, the Honolulu beach boy, the Nebraska trucker, the California easy rider, the Montauk surfer, the Connecticut preppy, the Nantucket trustafarian.

Even suits with clear European antecedents had been chilled out, their linings removed and shoulders relaxed.

“We’re not versioning Europe,”David Lauren explained.

“We’re giving it back to them the way we see it.”

The revelation of the collection was how persuasively Lauren has purveyed the notion that, as his son said, “the American dream is still exciting.”

Just how exciting — by the superficial standards of imagery and style, if not exactly geopolitics — could hardly have been clearer throughout the past men’s wear season, when wherever you traveled along the international fashion circuit, Brand America was so ubiquitous as to constitute a theme.

The hordes of the occupationally natty who turned out for Pitti Uomo, the important Florentine men’s trade fair, were dressed not with the primly over-considered offhand attitude Italians refer to as sprezzatura.

“You know, that back-part-ofmy-tie-is-a-bit-longer-than-thefront-and-I-took-two-hours-to-getit-right thing,” the American designer Michael Bastian explained in a recent interview. “I really hate sprezzatura.”

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Many of fall’s lipsticks aren’t lipsticks at all. These fat pencils, slender markers and squeezable vials make the traditional metal tubes look passé.

RACHEL FELDER Marc Jacobs Beauty Kiss Pop Lip Color Stick The squat silver tube

looks like a cross between a bullet and “Harold and the Purple Crayon”; $28 at sephora.com.

Bite Beauty Matte Creme Lip Crayon These stain-like shades

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Clinique Chubby Stick Baby Tint Moisturizing Lip Colour Balm The

latest addition to Clinique’s line of broad pencils is a conditioner with a waft of color; $17 at clinique.com.

Too Faced Melted Liquified Long Wear Lipstick In a tube that looks

as if it contains oil paint, this color goes on with a sloped sponge applicator; $21 at toofaced.com.

Topshop Beauty Lip Bullet This crayon has a slanted tip that makes for easy application; $10 at topshop.com.

A Line Is Drawn in the Desert at Burning Man There are two disciplines in which Silicon Valley entrepreneurs excel above almost everyone else. The first is making exorbitant amounts of money. The second is pretending they don’t care about it.

Disruptions To understand nick Bilton this, let’s enter into evidence the annual Burning Man festival in Black Rock City, Nev. If you have never been to Burning Man, your perception is likely this: a white-hot desert filled with 50,000 stoned, half-naked hippies.

A few years ago, this assumption would have been mostly correct. But now things are a little different. Over the last two years, Burning Man, which this year runs from Aug. 25 to Sept. 1, has been the annual getaway for

a new crop of millionaire and billionaire technology moguls, many of whom are one-upping one another in a secret game of I-canspend-more-money-than-you.

Briefly, let’s go over the rules of Burning Man: You bring your own place to sleep (often a tent), food to eat (often ramen noodles) and the strangest clothing possible for the week (often not much).

As for money, with the exception of coffee and ice, you cannot buy anything at the festival.

In recent years, the competition for who in the tech world evolved from a need for more luxurious sleeping quarters. People went from tents, to R.V.s to structures.

“We used to have R.V.s and precooked meals,” said a man who attends Burning Man with a group of Silicon Valley entrepreneurs.

Silicon Valley moguls are harshing the mellow of the “half-naked hippies” at Burning Man.

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“Now, we have the craziest chefs in the world and people who build yurts for us that have beds and air-conditioning.”

This is different from the way most people experience the event.

“Anyone who has been going to Burning Man for the last five

years is now seeing things on a level of expense or flash that didn’t exist before,” said Brian Doherty, author of “This is Burning Man.” “It does have this feeling that, ‘Oh, look, the rich people have moved into my neighborhood.’ It’s gentrifying.”

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OBITUARY

B.K.S. Iyengar, Who Helped Bring Yoga to West, Dies at 95 with Menuhin, eventually opening institutes on six continents.

Among his devotees were the novelist Aldous Huxley and the actress Annette Bening, as well as a who’s who of prominent Indian figures, including the cricketer Sachin Tendulkar and the Bollywood siren Kareena Kapoor. He famously taught Queen Elisabeth of Belgium, 85 at the time, to stand on her head.

In a 2005 book, “Light on Life,” Iyengar mused about the vast changes he had seen.

“I set off in yoga 70 years ago when ridicule, rejection and outright condemnation were the lot of a seeker through yoga even in its native land of India,” he wrote. “Indeed, if I had become a sadhu, a mendicant holy man, wander-

NEW DELHI — B.K.S. Iyengar, who helped introduce the practice of yoga to a Western world awakening to the notion of an inner life, died on Wednesday in the southern Indian city of Pune. He was 95.

The cause was heart failure, said Abhijata Sridhar-Iyengar, his granddaughter.

After surviving tuberculosis, typhoid and malaria as a child, Iyengar credited yoga with saving his life. He spent his midteens demonstrating “the most impressive and bewildering” positions in the court of the Maharaja of Mysore, he later recalled.

A meeting in 1952 with the violinist Yehudi Menuhin, an early yoga devotee, proved to be a turning point, and Iyengar began traveling

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The news about Iyengar rippled through India on Wednesday morning.

B.K.S. Iyengar Prime Minister Narendra Modi said on Twitter that he was “deeply saddened”

by Iyengar’s death and offered “condolences to his followers all over the world.”

Iyengar’s practice is characterized by long asanas, or postures, that require extraordinary will and discipline. A reporter who watched daily practice in 2002, when Iyengar was 83, said that he held one headstand for six minutes, swiveling his legs to the right and the left, and that when he finished, “his shoulder-length hair was awry, he seemed physically depleted,” but he wore the smile of a gleeful child.

Sridhar-Iyengar said her grandfather recognized early on that yoga, up until then viewed as a mystical pursuit, “had something for everybody, not just the intellectually or spiritually inclined.”

“He felt satisfied,” she said. “Even at the end, even a few weeks before, he said, ‘I’m satisfied with what I’ve done.’ He took yoga to the world. He knew that.”

As power yoga became a multimillion-dollar industry, he occasionally cringed at the commercialization of the practice. But the pleasure he took in the practice was unaffected.

At the end of a session in 2002, he lay on his back, knees bent so that his calves were beneath his thighs, arms out to either side, weights holding him down. He lay still for 12 minutes, perfectly immobile except for the twitch of a pinkie. Asked what he was thinking, he replied, “Nothing.”

“I can remain thoughtfully thoughtless,” he said. “It is not an empty mind.” ELLEN BARRY

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OPINION

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

A Fair Inquiry for Michael Brown The violence on the streets of Ferguson, Mo., abated on Tuesday night, but hundreds of peaceful protesters continue to gather each day to demand justice in the case of Michael Brown, the unarmed black teenager who was shot by a white police officer on Aug. 9. Now it’s up to local and federal officials to show that they are aggressively pursuing that demand.

They have a long way to go.

Justice won’t necessarily result in the arrest of Darren Wilson, the officer who fired the fatal shots, as many of the demonstrators say they want. Witness accounts differ sharply on the events leading to the shooting, and it’s impossible to predict whether the grand jury that began hearing evidence on Wednesday will indict Wilson. But those in charge have an obligation to demonstrate fairness, and there cannot be even a hint of bias in the process.

For that reason, the St. Louis County prosecuting attorney, Robert McCulloch, needs to be replaced in this case with a special prosecutor by Gov. Jay Nixon. McCulloch’s parents worked for the St. Louis Police Department, and his father was killed on the job in 1964 by a black suspect while helping another officer.

The St. Louis Post-Dispatch reported that after a shooting in 2000, when two detectives shot two unarmed black men in the town next to Ferguson, McCulloch failed to bring any independent evidence to the grand jury. He claimed that “every witness” testified that the detectives were defending themselves, but secret grand jury tapes showed that several witnesses did not do so. When the grand jury

chose not to indict, he said he supported the decision. That’s why many black elected officials have called for a special prosecutor in the Brown case, and more than 70,000 people have signed an online petition to that effect.

The community will almost certainly reject a decision not to indict Wilson if the grand jury is led by McCulloch, but his office has already begun presenting evidence to the 12-person jury (which includes three African-Americans).

McCulloch said Wednesday that the governor should “man up” and make a decision about who will conduct the prosecution before it proceeds too far. Despite the widespread pleas that he should do so, Nixon has said he does not intend to replace McCulloch.

Attorney General Eric Holder has promised a full federal investigation of the shooting, which would only grow in importance if the county is seen as bungling the case or producing a tainted result. F.B.I. agents are also in the area interviewing witnesses and examining evidence in case a federal civil rights prosecution is necessary.

Justice for Michael Brown also means that local political officials must begin to address the sense of powerlessness that many black residents have expressed. The mayor and City Council of Ferguson have pledged to try to increase the number of black police officers (currently three of 53).

It’s crucial that all local officials follow through on their promises of fairness and demonstrate that something useful can grow out of the fury on the streets.

Quackery and Abortion Rights The deception behind the wave of state-level restrictions now threatening women’s access to safe and legal abortions was strikingly revealed during a trial that ended last week in Texas.

The trial, held before Judge Lee Yeakel of Federal District Court in Austin, offered an opportunity to examine evidence and hear arguments in a challenge to crucial portions of Texas’ 2013 package of abortion restrictions.

The challenge, brought by reproductive rights advocates, focuses on two rules, one requiring doctors at abortion clinics to have admitting privileges at a local hospital and another mandating that clinics meet state standards for ambulatory surgical centers.

The admitting-privileges rule has severely limited access to safe and legal care in Texas.

Absent court intervention, the situation will get much worse. There are now only 19 abortion clinics in Texas. This number could shrink to as few as seven after Sept. 1, when the surgical-center rule takes effect.

A team of lawyers led by the Center for Reproductive Rights and their expert witnesses presented compelling evidence of the destructive consequences of the two rules and the emptiness of the claim that they are necessary

to protect women’s health and safety.

By contrast, the state’s defense of the rules was a bizarre and unconvincing show. Four of its five witnesses denied, and then conceded that their written testimony was crafted by Vincent Rue, an opponent of women’s reproductive freedom best known for promoting kooky claims, like the existence of an abortion-related mental illness.

The state’s legal team is optimistic that it will prevail because a ruling last year by a three-judge panel of the United States Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit upheld the admitting-privileges requirement. But it was upheld based on assumptions that have since been shown to be inaccurate. One was the belief that there would still be enough clinics in Texas so that women seeking abortions could get the procedure without traveling more than 150 miles. That turned out to be wrong. Nearly one million Texas women now live more than 150 miles from a licensed abortion clinic.

Last month, a Fifth Circuit panel blocked a hospital affiliation requirement in Mississippi to avoid shutting that state’s last abortion clinic. That leaves Yeakel room to call out Texas’ dishonest bid to crush a fundamental right.

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Tell It to the Camera Amanda Curtis, a 34-year-old high school math teacher, is now the Democrats’ U.S. Senate candidate in Montana. Finally, a strategy for bringing down the average age of a senator, which is around 62.

Plus, a math teacher would come in handy.

“Elect somebody who knows how to count” would be an awesome campaign ad. If Curtis had the money to pay for any ads, which currently does not seem all that likely.

“I told my husband: ‘Kevin, I’m really sorry I got us into this,’ ” she recalled in a phone interview. “And he said: ‘Why do you have to be so blanking awesome?’ He’s very supportive.”

I believe I speak for all Americans when I say that we are totally in favor of Kevin Curtis as a senatorial spouse.

It’s doubtful that we’ll be seeing any Curtis in Washington anytime soon. But in a week of so much dreadful news, let’s take an opportunity to sing a happy chorus to this season’s super-long-shot candidates.

Montana Democrats have been going through what you might call a rough patch.

First, Sen. Max Baucus announced that he was not going to run again for his seat. Baucus gave out the news early so he could concentrate on “serving Montana.”

Then President Obama offered him an ambassadorship to China and Baucus quit.

John Walsh, the Democratic lieutenant governor, was appointed to take his place. Then The Times reported that he had plagiarized a lot of his final paper at the Army War College.

The senator of six months announced that he was not going to run for a full term.

None of the well-known Democratic names in the state were interested in taking Walsh’s place. Or the somewhat-known names.

Amanda Curtis grew up in a family rocked by alcoholism, financial struggles and violence.

She fought her way through college and into a teaching career. Her experience with students, she said, taught her that what she thought was a uniquely terrible childhood was not all that unusual in Montana. She began to get involved in community groups, and, in 2012, she was elected to the State House of Representatives.

Once in office, Curtis began posting videos at the end of every day in the Legislature in which she talked into the camera. (“Day 73 and wait until you hear this …”) Her mission was part educational, with an emphasis on the workings of the Business and Labor Committee.

On the other hand, it was partly pure venting. “It was so hard to … not to walk across the floor and punch him,” she said, in a rant that Montana Republicans have already included in a mash-up of video highlights. Their collection does not note that Curtis was talking about a debate over gay rights in which another lawmaker insinuated that homosexuals lacked moral character.

Imagine what it would be like if our senators came home every night and posted their real thoughts. When they were too tired to self-censor. Maybe we should make that a requirement.

SPORTS

THURSDAY, AUGUST 21, 2014

Las Vegas Spoils Night for Mo’ne in 8-1 Win SOUTH WILLIAMSPORT, Pa. — Dallan Cave and Brennan Holligan hit two-run homers, lefty reliever Austin Kryszczuk got out of two big jams, and Las Vegas beat Philadelphia and star pitcher Mo’ne Davis 8-1 in the Little League World Series on Wednesday night.

That puts Las Vegas in Saturday’s U.S. title game and sends Philadelphia into an elimination game on Thursday night against Chicago’s Jackie Robinson team.

The Great Lakes champion beat Pearland, Tex., 6-1 on Tuesday night in an elimination game.

Davis, the darling of the sports world with her amazing success and poise, was both masterful and ordinary on a night made short because of pitch-count rules. She allowed three runs and six hits and struck out six in 2 · innings before leaving after 55 pitches.

That makes her eligible to pitch again on Thursday.

The 5-foot-4 Davis, who has given the Taney Youth Baseball Association Little League in Philadelphia notoriety no one could have imagined, tries to use the first two innings to get to know the home plate umpire’s strike zone, and the first time through the order gauges where the opposing players don’t like the ball.

It worked like a charm in her first outing in the World Series as she pitched a two-hit shutout.

She didn’t get that chance on this night against hard-hitting Las Vegas, which had outscored its first two opponents 25-4.

Davis allowed hits to the first two batters as Philadelphia fell behind. Lead-off hitter Zach Hare lofted a soft single to center and Kryszczuk followed with a triple to right center for a 1-0 lead.

Philadelphia threatened in the bottom of the first, but Las Vegas right fielder Alex Barker made a dazzling diving catch of a drive

by Jack Rice to end the inning and strand two Philly runners.

After reaching back for something extra to get out of that first-inning jam, Davis sputtered again. Cave slammed a two-run shot to left-center, a liner that just cleared the fence for a 3-0 lead.

Las Vegas tacked on five runs in the top of the sixth, keyed by an R.B.I. double by Hare and Holligan’s homer.

Las Vegas entered the game on a serious roll. The Mountain Ridge Little League champions beat Rapid City, S.D., 12-2 and then routed Chicago 13-2 in four innings in a mercy-rule game on Sunday behind five homers, a grand slam by Brad Stone and two from Kryszczuk.

(AP)

Browns Will Start Hoyer Over Manziel in Opener Not long after the Cleveland Browns selected quarterback Johnny Manziel in the first round of the N.F.L. draft, the team owner Jimmy Haslam said Manziel would ride the bench his rookie year.

That did little to quell speculation that Manziel, who starred for Texas A & M, might beat out Brian Hoyer for the starting job. Since training camp began in July, the quarterbacks’ movements have been tracked in excruciating detail to see who would get the nod.

In the end, Haslam’s word was good. On Wednesday, the Browns’ new head coach, Mike Pettine, named Hoyer the starting quarterback.

Statistically, Hoyer has been less impressive than Manziel in two preseason games, both losses. Hoyer has completed 8 of 30 attempts for 108 yards, with no touchdown passes or interceptions. Manziel has completed 14 of 27 attempts for 128 yards, with one touchdown pass and no interceptions. Manziel also has 26 yards rushing on 7 attempts.

But Hoyer has started both games and has five years of N.F.L. experience with the New England Patriots, the Arizona Cardinals and the Browns.

“He was the clear leader from the beginning,” Pettine said in a statement. “We’ve maintained all

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along that if it was close, I would prefer to go with the more experienced player. Brian has done a great job in the meeting rooms and with his teammates on the practice field and in the locker room.”

Pettine said he made his decision now because he wanted the offense to have more time to work with Hoyer before the Browns open against the Pittsburgh Steelers on Sept. 7.

Pettine added that Manziel has “certainly made great strides” and “we are confident that Johnny is going to have a great future,” but Hoyer had an “edge on him.”

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In Brief Giants Win Protest The San Francisco Giants on Wednesday became the first team since 1986 to win a protest filed with Major League Baseball, and will get to resume a rain-shortened game that the Chicago Cubs thought they had won. The Cubs were declared the winners by a 2-0 score after the game was called after 4› innings. Now, it is instead a suspended game that will resume Thursday.

(AP)

Serena Seeded No. 1 Top-ranked Serena Williams is seeded No. 1 as she seeks her third straight U.S. Open title.

French Open runner-up Simona Halep is seeded second after reaching a career-best ranking this month.

(AP)

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Mo’ne Davis, a Standout at 13, Is an Ace With Many Gifts Mo’ne Davis, the ace of the Taney Dragons in the Little League World Series, spoke fluently about release points and the art of confronting batters who were uncomfortable hitting the ball to the opposite field. It was advanced stuff for any pitcher, let alone one who was 13 years old.

Davis, having captured much of the nation’s attention in recent days with her blazing fastball, was preparing to take the mound Wednesday night for her Philadelphia-based team against a squad from Las Vegas, which won, 8-1, to advance to Saturday’s United States championship game.

Davis had already pitched one shutout in the tournament. She throws with a fluid motion — and she throws hard, her fastball topping out at more than 70 miles an hour. For Little League hitters who face her from just 46 feet, her heater is the equivalent of a pitch with a velocity in the low 90s on a big-league diamond. The ball is a blur as it leaves her right hand.

“She’s pretty special,” said Dr. Jeremy Ng, a sports and performance medicine physician at the Children’s Hospital of PhilaMon’e Davis delphia.

Her specialness is clearly formed by mental and physical gifts. But one of her advantages may come as something of a surprise: her sex.

Players in the tournament range from ages 11 to 13 — at the onset of adolescence and all the physical transformations that follow. But not all change is equal, and girls generally get a twoyear head start with their growth spurts. The average 12-year-old girl is slightly taller and weighs more than the average 12-year-old boy, according to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.

Davis turned 13 two months ago. At 5 feet 4 inches, she is more

than 3 inches taller than the average 12-year-old boy. Her height would put her in the 50th percentile of 18-year-old women. Being tall and lean for her age allows her to generate additional velocity on her pitches.

Davis also appears to have good flexibility in her shoulder, a likely product of throwing overhand from an early age. Dr. Theodore Ganley, the director of sports medicine at the Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, said the repetitive motion of throwing a baseball could cause a structural change in the shoulder as it developed, allowing for greater rotational flexibility. This is especially important for pitchers: The greater the angle of rotation, the greater the force with which the ball can be thrown. Davis has worked hard at her craft, and it shows.

On Friday, Davis threw a complete-game shutout in a 4-0 victory over a team from South Nashville.

She struck out eight and allowed just two hits. She was dominant

Athletes Toil to Succeed: First in Pool, Then at Bank SOUTHPORT, Australia — At this week’s Pan Pacific Championships, Claire Donahue’s job is not on the line, but her paycheck is. Donahue owns the 13th-fastest time in the world in the 100-meter butterfly, the event in which she finished seventh at the London Olympics.

To retain her post-N.C.A.A. stipend of $3,250 a month, which has been her primary source of income since she graduated from Western Kentucky in 2011, Donahue must be in the top 12.

The source of Donahue’s sustenance is the Athlete Partnership Agreement, introduced by USA Swimming in 2011 to help postcollegiate athletes stay afloat financially as they continue to pursue their Olympic dreams.

Donahue, 25, is one of 13 women on the United States squad here who have exhausted their college eligibility. The number is higher on the men’s side, where the average age of the 30-member squad is 24.

The postcollegiate swimmers’ circumstances are as different as their strokes. In contrast with Donahue, who says she has no idea how she will pay her bills without the stipend, there is Michael Phelps, who is financially set and is searching for projects to occupy his time once he retires for real.

Phelps, 29, recently entered into a partnership with the equipment manufacturer Aqua Sphere to develop swim gear and apparel. He said of the opportunity, “Hopefully, this is forever.”

Anthony Ervin, the only American besides Phelps at this meet who raced in Australia at the 2000 Olympics, lives in Northern California, where his stipend does not stretch far. Ervin, 33, gets by but said: “There’s really no stability.”

In addition to the USA Swimming stipend, Ervin, third in the world in the 50 freestyle, has an apparel contract. In the winter he competes on the World Cup circuit in Europe and assorted other dash-for-cash events. The money can be excellent — an event in Perth is sponsored by an energy company and has a $250,000 purse — but it can be costly to a swimmer’s fitness to devote a large chunk of the winter to racing.

One of Ervin’s main rivals on the sprinting circuit is Tom Shields.

This summer, Shields said, he was on the verge of shelving his Olympic aspirations. Then he touched out Phelps in the 100-meter butterfly and won the 200 butterfly at the recent USA Swimming longcourse nationals to make his first United States national “A” team.

Shields, 23, who is engaged to be married, said: “I was thinking, I need to get this together or I need to stop swimming. I need to give it everything I have, and if I fall short, that’s it.”

At the week’s start, the margin separating Donahue from solvency and financial insecurity was five hundredths of a second, the difference between her best time this year and that of the two women — one of whom is her teammate Kendyl Stewart — tied for 11th.

When she steps on the blocks Saturday for the 100 butterfly, Donahue will be competing in two races: a real one against Katerine Savard of Canada and the Australians ahead of her in the rankings, and a virtual one against the Swedish, Danish, Dutch and Italian swimmers looking to lower their times at the European Championships this week in Berlin.

This week, Donahue said, “is almost do or die, because if you don’t make it, you don’t have a job, basically, but you still have to train and do everything that everybody else is doing.

“For swimmers,” she added, “you’re so into your training, it’s hard to have another job. It’s almost impossible.”

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against one of the top youth teams in the world, its lineup consisting entirely of boys.

“That’s what makes what she’s doing even more remarkable,” Ng said. “She’s facing many boys who have had a similar developmental advantage. And she’s striking them out.”

So if she is capable of throwing 70 m.p.h. now, what is to prevent her from throwing 90 in a few years?

It is impossible to project the future of any young athlete. Bodies change with puberty. And for teenagers, so do interests.

Davis, despite her talent on the diamond, has expressed an interest in playing college basketball.

But Ganley said he would not rule anything out.

After all, you do not need to throw 90 to make the majors, or even the Hall of Fame. Consider Greg Maddux, who threw in the 80s and relied on guile. Velocity is not everything.

“Maybe,” Ganley said, “she’s the one.”

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In Brief Stewart Skips Again Tony Stewart will not race Saturday night at Bristol Motor Speedway in Tennessee, the third Sprint Cup race he has skipped since his car struck and killed Kevin Ward Jr. during a sprint car race. Stewart’s decision was announced Wednesday, and Jeff Burton will once again replace him in the No. 14 Chevrolet. (AP)

Missed Extra Points Reviews have been mixed around the league for the N.F.L.’s experiment with longer kicks on extra points. Eight kicks from the longer distance — usually 33 yards — were missed in the first two weeks of the preseason. The 94.3 percent success rate (133 of 141) was below the regular-season rate (99.6 percent) from 2013 when the ball was snapped from the 2-yard line instead of the 15. (AP)

U.S. Defeats Swiss Megan Rapinoe scored just three minutes into the game, and the United States got three goals in the second half to beat Switzerland, 4-1, Wednesday night in Cary, N.C. (AP)

NAVYNEWS

U.S. Navy Works with Indonesian Partners in Preserving Sunken Gravesite From U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs

U.S. Navy underwater archeologists, in conjunction with Indonesian Navy divers, have assessed in an interim report that the wrecked vessel surveyed in the Java Sea in June is “consistent with the identification” of the World War II wreck of the cruiser USS Houston (CA 30), and that divers documented conclusive evidence of a pattern of unauthorized disturbance of the gravesite.

“We’re grateful for the support of our Indonesian partners in determining the condition of the USS Houston,” said Adm. Harry Harris, commander of the U.S. Pacific Fleet.

“In my discussions with our Indonesian navy partners, they share our sense of obligation to protect this and other gravesites.”

“Surveying the site, of course, was only the first step in partnering to respect those Sailors who made the ultimate sacrifice to ensure the freedoms and security that we richly enjoy today,” he added.

As part of the Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) 2014 exercise in June, U.S. Navy divers from Mobile Diving and Salvage Unit (MDSU) One Company 1-5, along

with personnel from the Indonesian “evidence suggests the unauthorized loping Ghost of the Java Coast,” was navy, surveyed the wreck during a recovery of unexploded ordnance sunk in combat during the World War joint training evolution. Over the (UXO) from the vessel raising public II Battle of Sunda Strait in 1942. Capt. course of 19 dive excursions, both safety and security concerns” and that Albert H. Rooks, the ship’s commandends of the wrecked vessel were there is “active seepage of oil from the ing officer who was killed in action, marked with buoys and the exposed hull.” Underwater archeologists are posthumously received the Medal of port side, as well as the deck, was docstill working through data collected Honor for extraordinary heroism, umented using video recording. from the visit, and expect the final while USS Houston was awarded two After analyzing all of the data, an report to be completed later this fall. battle stars, as well as the Presidential assessment from the Naval History Houston, nicknamed “The GalUnit Citation. and Heritage Command concluded that all of the recorded data is consistent with the identification of the wrecked vessel as the former USS Houston.

The site of the sunken ship, while a popular recreational dive site, is the final resting place of approximately 700 Sailors and Marines. The assessment noted signs that unknown persons removed hull rivets and a metal plate from the ship. U.S. and Indonesian representatives are currently coordinating to develop measures to prevent continued disturbance of the site.

During the June survey, the joint team conducted a wreath-laying ceremony on June 11 presided over by the Deputy Chief of Mission to Indonesia, Safeguard, its embarked MDSU, and Indonesian navy divers are conducting a diving exercise Kristen Bauer, memorializing the loss. on the wreck of the Houston as part of Cooperation Afloat Readiness and Training (CARAT) The assessment also said that 2014. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Christian Senyk.

CNO Releases Annual Navigation Plan From Chief of Naval Operations Public Affairs

The Navy’s top leader released a detailed plan Tuesday that highlights the U.S. Navy’s intended track and investments for the next five fiscal years.

“This navigation plan defines the course and speed we will follow to organize, train and equip our Navy over the next several years,” said Greenert in the document. “Despite likely sequestration in 2016, our priority is to operate forward where it matters, when it matters, and be ready to address a wide range of threats and contingencies.”

Chief of Naval Operations (CNO) Adm. Jonathan Greenert’s 2015-2019 Navigation Plan defines how the Navy will use its resources to safely and effectively pursue the vision detailed in Sailing Directions.

“Crafting this year’s budget included tough choices across a wide range of competing priorities - we focused first on building appropriate capability, then delivering it at a capacity we could afford,” said Greenert.

Each year since Greenert released the Sailing Directions the Navigation Plan has described the annual Navy’s budget submission for the future years.

The Navigation Plan has highlighted investments in support of DOD’s

guidance and strategic documents as well as this year’s 2014 Quadrennial Defense Review.

In the plan Greenert explains how the Navy will acclimate to budget challenges, increasing operational tempo while balancing current readiness with the need to build a highly capable future fleet. Pursuing the vision set in the Sailing Directions this plan lays out the investments that will allow the Navy to maintain it’s warfighting edge, forward presence and keep Navy members prepared, confident and proficient. This plan highlights how investments will support Navy missions through the lens of the three tenets, Warfighting First, Operate Forward and Be ready.

Greenert emphasizes in the document that everything sailors and civilians do must be grounded in the responsibility of warfighting first. He says the Navy must be able to achieve access in any domain and possess the capability mix of kinetic and non-kinetic weapons to prevail today and be ready to win tomorrow. He provided a list of capabilities that center on this objective and followed with a comparable list of items that support operate forward and be ready.

Additionally, the Navigation Plan

summarizes the six programmatic priorities that guided the Navy’s budget planning for the future of the fleet: maintaining sea based strategic deterrent, sustaining a global forward presence, preserve the means for victory against aggressors, focus on readiness afloat and ashore, enhance asymmetric capabilities in physical domains as well as in cyberspace and electromagnetic spectrum and sustain a relevant industrial base.

This navigation plan was released

by Greenert to Navy’s senior leaders and distributed on Navy’s social media properties as a priority to be communicated at all levels.

Greenert will release a Position Report later in the year that reviews the Navy’s progress over the last year in pursuing objectives laid out in the Sailing Directions and earlier Navigation Plans, which can be found on his leadership page.

Fallon was Greenert’s first stop on a four-day fleet engagement tour of Navy bases, stations and ships from Fallon, Ventura County and the pacific Northwest to San Diego. U.S. Navy photo by Chief Mass Communication Specialist Peter D. Lawlor.

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