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SAILOR LAYS GRANDFATHER TO REST

ailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) laid Seaman 1st Class Samuel Sherwood Boorse Jr. to rest during a burial at sea ceremony, Aug. 22.

Boorse, born Dec. 8, 1925, began his service in the U.S. Navy July 12, 1943 and was honorably discharged January 27, 1947. He died June 15, 2013.

“I was glad to be a part of the ceremony,” said Lt. Ryan Broderick, grandson of Boorse. “It really became a reflective moment and it was good to watch him go into the sea. It’s going to be a great memory for the family.”

Boorse’s decorations include the American Area Campaign Medal, the Asiatic Pacific Campaign Medal and the World War II Victory Medal.

Capt. Jeff Craig, TR’s executive officer, and Cmdr. Kim Donahue, Command Religious Ministries Department head, spoke at the ceremony.

“The burial at sea ceremony represents a sacred tradition long

observed by seafarers and the U.S. Navy,” said Craig. “We honor the legacy of service, commitment and honor that this sailor provided for his country.”

Chaplain Donahue, participating in her first burial at sea aboard TR, gave the closing prayer.

“This was the perfect way to include the elements of service and sacrifice,” said Donahue. “The symbolic groups that participated in the ceremony represented his shipmates, who were about the same age. It was also great to have a living relative to participate in the ceremony.

Lt. Broderick was very pleased to grant his grandfather’s final wishes.”

A burial at sea ceremony is available to active duty members of the armed services, retirees and veterans who were honorably discharged.

It is also available to U.S. civilian marine personnel of the Military Sealift Command, and dependents of active duty service members.

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eneral quarters, general quarters! All hands man your battle stations.”

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) has ten repair lockers spread throughout the ship, each responsible for damage control efforts in specific zones of the ship. The core of each locker consists of two hose teams comprised of an on-scene leader, two team leaders, a nozzleman, plugman and hosemen.

“From the time the alarm sounds, the hose team gets to the repair locker as fast as possible to get in the firefighting ensemble (FFE). Once we are all suited up, as the team lead I will make sure everybody is in line, manned and ready,” said Yeomen 2nd Class Ronnie Jones, repair locker one bravo hose team leader.

All Sailors must be ready to provide immediate response to a fire, but they don’t have the same level of protection or resources a hose team.

“Sailors can only do so much in just flash gear. It won’t be safe for them to be there during a fire, but we have the full suit on and we will be able to take the measures that

are needed to not only fight a fire but to win over a fire,” said Jones.

Fires can spread quickly and do severe damage to a ship if not dealt with in a timely manner.

“A fire is the worst type of casualty you can have because a fire spreads quicker than flooding or toxic gas,” said Damage Controlman 1st Class Daniel Hernandez, repair locker one bravo deck leader. “It is very important that the hose team goes out and actually combats that casualty, because if not you will have a small fire that will completely 180 and before you know it there will be a fire from the 8th deck to the 03 level.”

Prior to being assigned to a hose team Sailors must attend a basic shipboard firefighting course. The course teaches Sailors how to dress out in FFE, combat class alpha, bravo and charlie fires and how to send messages throughout the ship during a casualty.

TR can never know exactly what casualty it may have to fight, but I have faith in my shipmates to work together as a team and combat a casualty successfully, said Hernandez.

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he batter entered the batter’s box and lightly tapped his bat to the plate to judge his swing distance. He gazed toward the mound and saw only the pitchers eyes peering over a black leather glove. The sound of ever-present infield chatter accompanied the pitcher’s underarm wind up. The pitcher lofted the ball into the air, and the batter swung with a grunt followed by the crack of the bat. The ball kicked up dirt as it skipped down the left side of the infield toward the third baseman who scooped up the ball and quickly slung it to first base. That made one out for Team Big Stick’s starting line-up as they build a roster to effectively defend their championship title.

The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (CVN 71) softball team held tryouts July 31 in an effort to build a ‘team to beat’ and prepare to defend their title after winning the Norfolk League championship title last spring.

“We are always expecting to be one of the top three teams and that is pretty much known through the waterfront,” said Logistics Specialist 2nd Class Ronald Vasquez, Team Big Stick’s coach. “So when people come out to play they expect us to be the team to beat.”

Every year in the Navy Sailors change commands. This makes team chemistry difficult

to sustain. Team chemistry can be difficult to sustain because Sailors are always transferring to new commands.

“We are losing a lot of players from last season,” said Vasquez. “The practices that we have and the time we are not playing games are when we build chemistry with each other. We play together as a team and we all have passion for the game. With passion comes the chemistry and with that chemistry comes a good team.”

Vasquez is a returning member of the team and a motivated player, driven to win this upcoming season.

“After long, hard working days on the boat, we look forward to getting out here and playing,” said Vasquez. “Our biggest motivation is to hold that trophy one more time.”

Vasquez expects other teams in the league to do their best to uncrown Team Big Stick, but he is confident Team Big Stick will still compete at the highest level.

“Floyd Mayweather says ‘when you are on top, everyone will take a shot at you.’ Our response to that is, in order to be the best you have to beat the best, and right now we are the best,” said Vasquez.

Team Big Stick is slated to kick off the season with their first game in early September.

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Fighting Ebola, Even as Comrades Fall IN WASHINGTON, second thoughts on arming police

KENEMA, Sierra Leone — The best defense against despair was to keep working. Often, that choice was far from obvious. Josephine Finda Sellu lost 15 of her nurses to Ebola in rapid succession and thought about quitting herself.

She did not. Sellu, the deputy nurse matron, is a rare survivor who never stopped toiling at the government hospital here, Sierra Leone’s biggest death trap for the virus in the dark months of June and July. Hers is a select club, consisting of perhaps three women on the original Ebola nursing staff who did not become infected, who watched their colleagues die, and who are still carrying on.

“There is a need for me to be around,” said Sellu, 42, who oversees the Ebola nurses. “I am a senior. All the junior nurses look up to me.” If she left, she said, “the whole thing would collapse.”

The other nurses call her Mummy, exhorting nurses to return to duty, inspecting food for patients, doing a dance for once-infected co-workers who live — “nurse survivors,” she called them enthusiastically — and barking or-

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In Sierra Leone, Josephine Finda Sellu, a hospital nurse, has lost 15 of her co-workers. ders from the head-to-toe suit that protects her from her patients.

In the campaign against the Ebola virus, which is sweeping across parts of West Africa in an epidemic worse than all previous outbreaks of the disease combined, the front line is stitched together by people like Sellu: doctors and nurses who give their lives to treat patients who will probably die; janitors who clean up lethal pools of vomit and waste; drivers who venture into villages overcome by illness to retrieve patients; body handlers charged with the dangerous task of keep-

ing highly infectious corpses from sickening others.

At least 129 health workers have died fighting the disease, according to the World Health Organization. But while many workers have fled, many new recruits have signed up — often for little or no pay, and sometimes giving up their homes, communities and even families in the process.

At the government hospital in Kenema, photographs of the dead nurses are still plastered on the crumbling walls. In all, 22 workers at the hospital died.

The Kenema hospital is a different place now. With international help, a more rigorous system for screening, filtering and holding Ebola patients has been instituted. But the epidemic goes on. International aid workers say there have been 2,615 cases and 1,427 deaths in Guinea, Liberia, Nigeria and Sierra Leone.

Sellu finds some reason for optimism, though. She has seen the flood of Ebola patients diminish.

“By the grace of God, it will end,” she said.

ADAM NOSSITER and BEN C. SOLOMON

Rural TV Chief Takes 2-by-4 to Cable Merger MEDINA, Minn. — As the oompah-pah oom-pah-pah of the band fades, Patrick Gottsch makes his way through silver-haired couples circling the dance floor at “The Mollie B Polka Party” in this quiet Midwestern town.

Gottsch, chairman of the Rural Media Group, steps under a disco ball and issues a warning. “As you folks in rural America know, every once in a while, you’ve got to take a two-by-four and hit the mule between the ears,” he says.

“That is what we want to do now with Comcast and Time Warner.”

Gottsch says Comcast’s proposed $45 billion purchase of Time Warner Cable threatens the future of his television stations, which broadcast shows like “The Mollie B Polka Party,” “National Tractor Pulling” and “All American Cowgirl Chicks.” He urges the dancers, numbering about a thousand, to file protests with the Federal Communications Commission, which

is reviewing the pending merger.

Raised on a farm in Elkhorn, Neb., Gottsch, 61, has emerged as one of the nation’s most vocal critics of the proposed media consolidation, which would reshape the video and broadband landscape.

His warnings about the Comcast deal, as well Patrick as AT&T ’s $48.5 billion Gottsch bid for DirecTV, echo a fear that some television groups have expressed about the mergers: The pending deals would create behemoths that will use their heft to push around networks, forcing them to cut the fees they charge for their programming or risk being thrown off the air.

The polka party this month was

Gottsch’s first stop on a tour of state fairs, rodeos and farmers’ conventions to stir opposition. In Washington, he has hired a lobbying firm and appeared before a House antitrust subcommittee, the F.C.C. and the Justice Department. His stations, RFD-TV and Family Net, have run spots urging viewers to speak out. Of the more than 63,000 comments filed to the F.C.C. about the proposed merger, about a fifth mention RFD-TV. In a letter to Gottsch dated Aug. 15, David L. Cohen, an executive vice president at Comcast, wrote, “Your efforts to drive a wedge between Comcast and rural viewers as a means to promote your own business interests is unfair and grossly inaccurate.”

At the polka party, people were concerned Gottsch’s stations would disapper. “If they take him off, we are going to throw the TV out,” said Alfons Speidel, 75, of Goshen, Ind. EMILY STEEL

WASHINGTON — Jolted by images of protesters clashing with heavily armed police officers in Missouri, President Obama has ordered a review of the government’s strategy of outfitting local police departments with military-grade body armor, mine-resistant trucks, silencers and automatic rifles, senior officials say.

The review will consider whether the government should continue providing such equipment and whether local authorities have sufficient training to use it appropriately, said senior administration and law enforcement officials. The government will also consider whether it is keeping a close enough watch on equipment inventories, and how the weapons and other gear are used.

The review, coupled with proposed legislation and planned congressional hearings, opens the possibility for significant changes in Washington’s approach to arming local law enforcement agencies.

After the attacks of Sept. 11, 2001, the government regarded the police as the frontline forces in a new war.

While that role for local law enforcement is expected to remain, changes may be ordered to the system under which federal grants and a military surplus program have sent military-style gear and money to police.

America got a glimpse of that gear in the past two weeks in Ferguson, Mo., as police officers in full body armor rode military-style vehicles, firing tear gas and pointing assault rifles at protesters. Like departments nationwide, the police in the St. Louis area have been outfitted by federal grants and military surplus.

“The whole country and every representative and senator have seen the visuals, and at some level, it made all of us uncomfortable,” said Sen. Claire McCaskill, D-Mo., who will lead a hearing of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee in September into police use of military-style equipment. “It’s a moment where we can take a timeout and look at these policies.” MATT APUZZO and MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

INTERNATIONAL

Signs of Fraud Put Votes in Doubt In Afghan Election KABUL, Afghanistan — When the campaign team led by Manawar Shah came under threat on the day of the Afghan presidential runoff, it was not from the Taliban, he said, but from the people who were supposed to be keeping order: an alliance of government officials, security forces and supporters of the candidate Ashraf Ghani.

Beaten and prevented from using their video equipment and cellphones, Shah’s team, working for the candidate Abdullah Abdullah in Khost Province, spent June 14 watching fraud but unable to document it. In one polling center, Shah said, they saw just 500 voters and election officials casting multiple ballots, for a total of 10,531 votes.

That episode and others like it led Abdullah to level accusations of a conspiracy by Ghani, election officials and President Hamid Karzai to rig the vote, plunging the country into crisis and creating a new threat of factional violence.

Ghani and Karzai have denied Abdullah’s accusations. But interviews with Afghan and international officials support some of the most serious of Abdullah’s claims, offering details of a broad effort to push the runoff to Ghani, including a pressure campaign by election and palace officials and ballot-box stuffing orchestrated by an ally of Karzai.

The huge scale of the fraud — involving perhaps more than two million ballots out of roughly eight million reported cast, according to independent international estimates — has stymied efforts to achieve a democratic transition.

Abdullah was the clear leader in the first round, with a 900,000-vote margin over Ahmadzai. But the preliminary results of the runoff showed a gigantic improvement for Ghani — an “impossible” one, according to one Western official — of 1.9 million votes.

Now, hopes for salvaging the election have come down to the audit, a vast operation supervised by professional election observers spread out across several warehouses in Kabul.

“Both campaigns cannot guarantee that their supporters were clean,” said a diplomat in Kabul.

“Both of them know there might be something unpleasant coming out of it.”

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Papal Envoy Tied to Abuse of Dominican Boys SANTO DOMINGO, Dominican Republic — He was a familiar figure to the shoeshine boys who work along the oceanfront promenade here. Wearing black track pants and a baseball cap pulled low over his balding head, they say, he would stroll along in the late afternoon and bring one of them down to the rocky shoreline or to a deserted monument for a local Catholic hero.

The boys say he gave them money to perform sexual acts. They called him “the Italian” because he spoke Spanish with an Italian accent. It was only after he was spirited out of the country, the boys say, his picture splashed all over the local news media, that they learned his real identity: Archbishop Jozef Wesolowski, the Vatican’s ambassador to the Dominican Republic.

“He definitely seduced me with money,” said Francis Aquino Aneury, who says he was 14 when the man he met shining shoes began offering him increasingly larger sums for sexual acts. “I felt very bad. I knew it wasn’t the right thing to do, but I needed the money.”

The case is the first time that a top Vatican ambassador, or nuncio — who serves as a personal envoy of the pope — has been accused of sexual abuse of minors. It has sent shock waves through the Vatican and two predominantly Catholic countries that have only begun to grapple with clergy sexual abuse: the Dominican Republic and Poland, where Wesolowski was ordained by the Polish prelate who later became Pope John Paul II. It has also created a test for Pope Francis, who has called child sexu-

al abuse “such an ugly crime” and pledged to move the Roman Catholic Church into an era of “zero tolerance.” For priests and bishops who have violated children, he said in May, “there are no privileges.”

Wesolowski, 66, has already faced the harshest penalty possible under the church’s canon law, short of excommunication: on June 27, he was defrocked by the Vatican, reducing him to the status of a layman. The Vatican, which as a city-state has its own judicial system, has also said it intends to try him on criminal charges — the first time the Vatican has Jozef held a criminal Wesolowski trial for sexual abuse.

But far from settling the matter, the Vatican has stirred an outcry because it helped Wesolowski avoid criminal prosecution and a possible jail sentence in the Dominican Republic. Acting against its own guidelines for handling abuse cases, the church failed to inform the local authorities of the evidence against him, secretly recalled him to Rome last year before he could be investigated, and then invoked diplomatic immunity for Wesolowski so he could not face trial in the Dominican Republic.

The Vatican’s handling of the case underscores both the changes the church has made in dealing with sexual abuse, and what many critics call its failures. When

it comes to removing pedophiles from the priesthood, the Vatican is moving more assertively and swiftly than before. But the church continues to be reluctant to report people suspected of abuse to the local authorities and allow them to face justice in secular courts.

The country’s attorney general, Francisco Domínguez Brito, and the district attorney of Santo Domingo, Yeni Berenice Reynoso Gómez, both said in interviews that they first learned about the allegations against Wesolowski from television reports, which were broadcast in early September.

Reynoso said that her investigators had identified four children between 12 and 17 with whom the nuncio had sexual contact but that there were likely others. The 17-year-old had epilepsy, and the nuncio gave him medicine for his condition in exchange for sexual acts, starting from when the boy was 13, the district attorney said.

She said she had “no doubt” about the credibility of the youths’ testimony because it was corroborated by other evidence.

“This is the most terrible case that I have ever seen,” said Reynoso. “He was abusing kids who were living in extreme poverty, in exchange for pills for a boy’s illness.

It’s very perverse.”

The case has shaken this stalwart Catholic nation. “The people used to say, ‘I want my child to go to a Catholic church,’ ” said the Rev. Rogelio Cruz, a priest here. “Now they say, ‘No child of mine is ever going to a Catholic church.’ ” LAURIE GOODSTEIN

In Brief Apartment Tower Falls An Israeli missile strike on an 11-story apartment tower in Gaza City brought the entire building crashing down on Saturday, soon after its residents were told to evacuate. The attack signaled Israel’s willingness to take more audacious military action in Gaza, as Palestinian militants continued to fire barrages of rockets and mortar rounds into Israel.

Ten people were injured in the strike on the apartment building, four of them children, according to a health ministry spokesman in Gaza. Earlier in the day, the government of Egypt and President Mahmoud Abbas of the

Palestinian Authority issued calls in Cairo for a new, open-ended cease-fire in Gaza.

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Volcano Prompts Alert Iceland’s Bardarbunga volcano began erupting Saturday under the ice of Europe’s largest glacier, prompting the country to close the airspace over the volcano.

Thousands of small earthquakes have rattled the volcano, located deep beneath the Vatnajokull glacier, in the last week. The remote area, 200 miles east of the capital of Reykjavik, is uninhabited. The Icelandic authorities raised the country’s aviation alert to red — the highest level on a five-point

scale — and declared a no-fly zone around the eruption, but did not shut down airspace over most of the island nation.

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Human Flag in Nepal Tens of thousands of people holding colored boards gathered in Nepal’s capital of Katmandu on Saturday to try to break the record for the largest human national flag. One of the organizers, Ashish Chaulagai, said over 38,000 people were estimated to have formed the flag. He said photographs and a report would be sent to Guinness World Records. The last record was set in Pakistan by 28,957 people. (AP)

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Body’s Timeline: 4 Hours on a Missouri Street FERGUSON, Mo. — Just after noon on Saturday, Aug. 9, Michael Brown was shot dead by a police officer on Canfield Drive.

For about four hours, in the unrelenting summer sun, his body remained where he fell.

Neighbors were horrified by the gruesome scene: Brown, 18, face down in the middle of the street, blood streaming from his head.

They ushered their children into rooms that faced away from Canfield Drive. They called friends and local news stations to tell them what had happened. They posted on Twitter and Facebook and recorded shaky cellphone videos that would soon make their way to the national news.

Brown probably could not have been revived, and the time that his body lay in the street may ultimately have no bearing on the investigations into whether the shooting was justified. But local officials say the image of Brown’s corpse in the open set the scene for what would become a combus-

tible worldwide story of police tactics and race in America, and left some of the officials asking why.

“The delay helped fuel the outrage,” said Patricia Bynes, a committeewoman in Ferguson.

“It was very disrespectful to the community and the people who live there. It also sent the message from law enforceMichael ment that, ‘we Brown can do this to you any day, any time, in broad daylight, and there’s nothing you can do about it.’ ” Two weeks after Brown’s death, interviews with law enforcement officials and a review of police logs make clear that a combination of factors, some under police control and some not, contributed to the time lapse in removing his body.

The St. Louis County Police

Department, which took over the investigation, had officers on the scene quickly, but its homicide detectives were not called until 40 minutes after the shooting, according to county police logs.

And officials were contending with what they described as “sheer chaos” on Canfield Drive, where bystanders, including at least one of Brown’s relatives, stepped inside the yellow tape, hindering investigators. Gunshots were heard at the scene, further disrupting the officers’ work.

For part of the time, Brown’s body lay in the open, but the police later shielded the body with a low, six-panel orange partition typically used for car crashes.

Around 4 p.m., Brown’s body was transported to the morgue in Berkeley, Mo., about six miles from Canfield Drive.

Brown’s body was checked into the morgue at 4:37 p.m., more than four and a half hours after he died.

JULIE BOSMAN and JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN

U.S. Court Is Set to Hear Case on Voting Restrictions PHOENIX — A decades-old effort by Congress to make voter registration simple and uniform across the country has run up against a new era’s anti-immigration politics. So on Tuesday, when Arizona’s polls open for primaries for governor, attorney general and a host of other state and local positions as well as for Congress, some voters will be permitted to vote only in the race for Congress.

As voter registration drives intensify in the coming weeks, the list of voters on the “federal only” rolls for the November general elections could reach the thousands. These are voters who could not produce the paper proof of citi-

zenship that Arizona demands for voting in state elections.

The division of voters into two tiers imposed by Arizona and Kansas, and being considered in Georgia and Alabama, is at the center of a constitutional showdown and, as Richard L. Hasen, an expert at the University of California, Irvine, put it, “part of a larger partisan struggle over the control of elections.”

The issues will be argued Monday before a panel of the 10th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals, in Denver. This year, the circuit court temporarily blocked a lower court decision that would have forced federal officials to include the state’s proof of citizenship re-

quirements on registration forms used in Arizona and Kansas.

Groups working to sign up voters say the requirements will most heavily affect minorities, the poor, older adults and college students who move into the state, effectively disenfranchising some.

The requirements are at odds with a 1993 federal law that requires potential voters in federal elections simply to swear on penalty of perjury, and perhaps deportation, that they are citizens. Federal registration forms, accepted by nearly all the states, do not ask for supporting paperwork like birth certificates, which some find hard to obtain.

ERIK ECKHOLM

John F. Akers, 79, Dies; Led IBM as PCs Became Popular John F. Akers, the chief executive and chairman of IBM during a turbulent time when the rise of the personal computer undercut the profitability of the mainframe computer business, died on Friday in Boston. He was 79.

His death was confirmed on Saturday by Edward Barbini, a spokesman for IBM, who said the cause was a stroke.

Akers excelled in IBM’s insular, clean-cut culture, beginning as a

sales trainee in San Francisco and rising to become, in 1985, the sixth C.E.O. of the company. The next year, he added the role of chairman.

But as he took the helm, IBM was struggling. Smaller, more powerful machines using less expensive technology were chipping away at the mainframe computer business.

That led Akers to pursue a reorganization that would have divided the company into more than a dozen independent businesses. He

said those divisions could be more nimble outside the company’s notorious bureaucracy.

“John Akers clearly understood that the future of IBM was much more in software and services than in hardware and that the current company had to be pared down,” said David B. Yoffie, a professor at the Harvard Business School, who interviewed Akers several times.

RICK ROJAS and STEVE LOHR

Protest in New York Decries Police Tactics Thousands converged on Staten Island on Saturday for a protest march linking Eric Garner’s killing to deadly police actions past and present, from New York City to Ferguson, Mo., where a white officer fatally shot an unarmed black teenager two weeks ago.

Garner, 43, an unarmed black man, died in July after an encounter with police on Staten Island.

Signs touched on policies that protesters argued encouraged bad behavior by officers. “ ‘Broken Windows’ Kills,” a sign read, a reference to the policing of minor offenses like selling untaxed cigarettes, the crime Garner had been accused of committing.

(NYT) n RALLY FOR OFFICER An online fund-raising drive for Darren Wilson, the Ferguson, Mo., police officer who shot a teenager to death, surpassed $300,000 by Saturday afternoon, as dozens of people met at a St. Louis pub to rally on his behalf. Organizers said the proceeds would aid Wilson’s family. (NYT)

In Brief 3 Missionaries Die Two Mormon missionaries serving in Taiwan and another in Oklahoma have died. The Mormon church in a statement to The Associated Press said Connor Benjamin Thredgold, 19, of Springville, Utah, and Yu Peng Xiong, 24, of Kaohsiung, Taiwan, were found dead Saturday in an apartment they shared in Taiwan. A church spokesman, Eric Hawkins, said the authorities do not suspect foul play, but they haven’t determined a cause of death. He also said Nancy Ann Vea, 19, of West Jordan, Utah, died from injuries sustained in a car crash in Tulsa on Friday. (AP)

Party Honors Panda The National Zoo in Washington threw a party Saturday in honor of the first birthday of panda cub Bao Bao. To celebrate, the cub got a cake made from frozen fruit juice and other treats like pears and apples. Bao Bao is only the second panda born at the zoo to survive to her first birthday. The cub’s only sibling, brother Tai Shan, was born in 2005 and returned to China in 2010. Bao Bao’s name means “precious” or “treasure.”

(AP)

BUSINESS

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Bloomberg Still Pushes Big Ideas, but on Much Wider Stage On a sweltering Saturday in June in Istanbul’s old city, Michael R. Bloomberg, power-dressed in a dark blue suit, monogrammed white shirt and cuff links, sat down to a late-morning breakfast with local antismoking activists on a rooftop overlooking the glittering Sea of Marmara.

The group, which included Turkish doctors and public health officials, had gathered to celebrate the surprising success of a campaign to persuade Turks, notorious for their love of tobacco, to smoke fewer cigarettes. It was a campaign formulated and funded by the charitable foundation of Bloomberg, the former mayor of New York.

“Turkey is a great example, and it can be translated to other countries,” Bloomberg told his breakfast companions. And who knows, he joked, his philanthropy may even win him a Nobel Prize.

Bloomberg, 72, has vowed to give away his $32.8 billion fortune before he dies. In doing so, he hopes to sharply reduce high smoking rates in Turkey, Indonesia and other countries; bring down obesity levels in Mexico; reduce traffic in Rio de Janeiro (and Istanbul); improve road safety in India and Kenya; prevent deaths at childbirth to mothers in Tanzania; and organize cities worldwide to become more environmentally friendly and efficient in

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Michael R. Bloomberg, on a boat in Istanbul, has many causes, such as an antismoking campaign in Turkey. Left, an Istanbul bar.

delivering services.

His vehicle to achieve all of this is Bloomberg Philanthropies, a foundation he started in 2006 that now employs about 30 people with programs in 95 countries.

Of course, a billionaire with a charity foundation and good intentions is no news flash — see Bill Gates, Warren E. Buffett and many other titans. Paul G. Schervish, the director of the Center on Wealth and Philanthropy at Bos-

ton College, says that at this exalted level of billionaire giving, there is often a tension between the ambition to do lasting good and the charge of ego that fires it.

But Bloomberg has a unique perspective, even among billionaire philanthropists, Schervish said. As both an entrepreneur and the guy who served at the top of government bureaucracies, he grasps better than most how to balance risk with practicalities when he doles out his cash.

Bloomberg’s modus operandi

as a giver is not all that different from his management of his company or of New York City: Embrace big, if controversial, ideas and rely on a trusted cadre of advisers to get the job done.

One rival billionaire, who asked not to be identified, wondered why Bloomberg was not making larger contributions. “You want to meet your unique capabilities,” this person said. “Giving away $2 billion in one shot — now that would meet Mike’s capabilities.”

Schervish suggested that Bloomberg needed to make some changes in his pursuits. “The question is, how will he do this in his lifetime?” he said. “I think he will need a more elaborate administrative organization.”

Bloomberg does not seem pressed, though. That said, he agrees that the issue is a vexing one — whether for him, Gates or the ever-growing line of billionaires in giving-it-all-away mode.

But don’t underestimate the power of Bloomberg’s notorious impatience. He told a story of becoming stuck earlier this year behind someone on a downward escalator.

“I don’t have anything in common with people who stand on escalators,” he said with a sad shake of his head. “I always walk around them — why waste time? You have eternity to rest when you die.”

LANDON THOMAS Jr.

A Once-Staid Global Market Raises a Glass to American Upstarts In March 2011, Michael Vachon, an American expatriate working for a struggling tech start-up business in London, was in Austin, Tex., trying to drum up interest in his company.

One evening at a bar, he ordered a cocktail made with Old Tom, a barrel-aged gin from a new Oregon distillery called Ransom. He was eager to try it. Upstart American distilleries like Ransom were all the talk at the high-end bars he frequented in Britain, but were rare.

Vachon bought three bottles.

Back home in London, he gave them to his favorite bartenders, in the hope of scoring some free drinks. Within days, the bottles were empty — and his new best friends were asking for more.

That got him thinking. “Every day, I was working on software no one wanted to pay for, and at night, I was taking around bot-

tles that everyone wanted but couldn’t get,” Vachon said.

He left the tech world and, in mid2013, founded Maverick Drinks, an importing business focused exclusively on small U.S. distilleries.

In the last year, Maverick has become one of Britain’s leading purveyors of boutique American spirits: handcrafted whiskeys, gins and other liquors that use innovative recipes and production techniques to create new flavors.

Maverick is just one of several new importers worldwide dedicated to American craft spirits, whose rapid expansion from a few dozen distilleries five years ago to more than 600 today has helped revive the country’s once-stagnant distilling industry.

All gin starts off by fermenting a soupy mash of yeast, water and grain and then distilling it. During distillation, the alcohol is steeped

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Boutique American whiskeys and gins are making a splash. in a basket of “botanicals” — mostly juniper, along with other spices like anise and coriander and citrus elements like lemon peels — to give it its flavor.

Though every distiller uses a different mix of botanicals, over time the big brands have gravitated toward a narrow set of pepper and floral notes. American craft gins are all over the flavor map.

Some, like Corsair, out of Nashville, are heavy on oranges and lemons; others, like Old Tom from Ransom, are aged in barrels to provide a woody, vanilla overtone.

This broader palette of flavors is particularly appealing to a younger generation of innovative bartenders in global crossroad cities like London, Paris and Berlin, who not only cater to an international clientele but are increasingly international themselves.

For now, Vachon is focused on the London market, with its high concentration of bars and its bubbling expat scene. But he said he expected to see his company expand onto the Continent.

“We can start to build interest here, and demonstrate a European market for these spirits,” he said. “It’s a great proving ground.

If it does well here, it will do well anywhere.”

CLAY RISEN

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OPINION

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014 8

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

Why Interest Rates Need to Stay Low A sharp debate within the Federal Reserve over when to raise interest rates was publicly aired last week at the annual central bankers’ conference in Jackson Hole, Wyo. On one side is a small yet vocal minority of Fed officials who want to head off inflation by raising rates sooner rather than later. On the other is a majority that thinks a near-term rate hike would stifle growth and any chance of restoring health to the labor market. That group includes Janet Yellen, the Fed’s chairwoman, and most members of the Fed’s policy committee.

The economic evidence indisputably favors Yellen, who has indicated that rate increases should not begin until sometime next year, at the earliest. It will take until then to be able to say with confidence whether improvements in growth and hiring are sustainable. It is also unknown whether growth and hiring, if and when they fully recover, will spark inflation.

For that to occur, wage increases would have to be substantial enough to push up prices, meaning annual raises in excess of 3.5 percent given present rates of inflation and productivity growth. Wage increases of that magnitude are not in the cards, and neither is any hint of worrisome inflation. Since the economic recovery began in mid-2009, hourly wages have risen by a mere 1.9 percent a year on average.

Arguing in favor of a near-term rate increase is to argue for subpar wage growth and for continuing a status quo in which economic gains flow largely into profits rather than wages. Yellen and her supporters are right to rebut that stance in both word and deed.

Another argument in favor of rate increases is that the Fed’s prolonged low-rate policy is inflating asset bubbles that could burst with harmful consequences. Unlike the inflation argument, concern about bubbles is justified.

Low rates, by fostering investments with borrowed money, create the conditions for bubbles.

The answer, however, is not to raise rates, slowing the entire economy in order to tame the markets. The answer, laid out by Yellen and Stanley Fischer, the Fed vice chairman, is to use bank regulation and financial oversight to ensure that institutions and investors do not use low rates as a springboard for speculating.

That requires identifying and stopping reckless lending of the sort that has surfaced in subprime auto loans and unaffordable student loans. And it requires vigilance for signs of systemic risk in the complex activities that make institutions interdependent. Here the Fed is still too lax, as in its indulgence of too-big-too-fail banks that have not met regulatory demands intended to reduce risks and prevent bailouts.

There is no guarantee low rates will boost the economy. But the economy could backslide if rates are raised too soon. That is because the economy’s critical underpinning — good jobs at good pay — has not been restored. Until it is, monetary support from the Fed and fiscal support from Congress are needed. Fiscal support has been withdrawn in recent years, a move that has depressed growth and that represents a failure of policy and politics. Raising rates too soon would be a policy error on a par with that debacle, a mistake the economy can ill afford.

The Debate on Salty Foods, Continued For years, there have been contentious debates over reducing the amount of salt in the American diet. Now warring studies in The New England Journal of Medicine have brought new evidence to bear.

One study, led by Canadian researchers, suggests that current sodium intake levels are relatively safe for most people and that reducing them to the very low levels recommended by federal health officials and leading medical groups may harm a significant number — a finding that confirms several previous studies. The other study, by American researchers, estimates that sodium consumption is killing about 1.65 million people a year. The question they raise is how public health officials and consumers should weigh such evidence.

The average sodium consumption in the United States is about 3,400 milligrams per day. This is mostly ingested in processed foods and is equivalent to the amount of sodium in about 1› teaspoons of salt. Dietary guidelines recommend reducing the average to 2,300 milligrams for the general population and 1,500 for groups deemed at greater risk, like adults older than 50, African-Americans, people with high blood pressure and diabetics.

A large study by researchers at McMaster University in Ontario, Canada, which tracked more than 100,000 people from 17 countries on five continents, has found that the safest levels of sodium consumption are between 3,000 and 6,000 milligrams. Consumption below that level (but higher than our current targets) showed increased risk of death and cardiovascular events. Roughly 10 percent of the patients followed in the study fell below 3,000 milligrams, a sizable number to put at risk.

The McMaster researchers say that if your blood pressure is elevated (140/90 or higher) or your sodium intake is high, you should reduce sodium consumption, perhaps even to below 5,000 milligrams. They also found that adding potassium to the diet — found, for example, in fruits and vegetables — lowered the risk of death and cardiovascular events.

The U.S. study, led by researchers at Harvard and Tufts Universities, calculated a global estimate of sodium harm from the results of previous studies. The American Heart Association and other advocates of salt reduction believe the research supports the need to reach the current targets. The skeptics, however, want better evidence that the targets are safe and beneficial.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Order Vs. Disorder The United States is swamped by refugee children from collapsing Central American countries; efforts to contain the Ebola outbreak in West Africa are straining governments there; jihadists have carved out a bloodthirsty caliphate inside Iraq and Syria; after having already eaten Crimea, Russia keeps taking more bites out of Ukraine; and the U.N.’s refugee agency just announced that “the number of refugees, asylum-seekers and internally displaced people worldwide has, for the first time in the postWorld War II era, exceeded 50 million people.”

If it feels as if the world of disorder is expanding against the world of order, it’s not your imagination. There’s an unfortunate logic to it.

Three big trends are converging. The first is what Dov Seidman calls the growing number of “un-free” people. Seidman, author of the book “How” and C.E.O. of LRN, which advises global businesses on governance, sees the world through the framework of “freedom from” and “freedom to.” He says more people than ever have secured their “freedom from” autocrats.

Ukrainians, Tunisians, Egyptians, Iraqis, Libyans to name a few. “But so few are getting the freedom we truly cherish,” he adds. “And that is not just ‘freedom from.’ It is ‘freedom to.’ ” “Freedom to” is the freedom to live your life, speak your mind, start your own political party, build your own business, vote for any candidate, pursue happiness, and be yourself, whatever your sexual, religious or political orientation.

Because generating sustainable leadership and institutions is hard and takes time, we have a lot more disorderly vacuums in the world today. The biggest challenge is collaborating to fill these vacuums with order. That is what President Obama is trying to do in Iraq, by demanding Iraqis build an inclusive government in tandem with any U.S. military action against the jihadists. Otherwise, there will never be self-sustaining order, and they will never be truly free.

Which leads to the second disturbing trend today: how weak or disjointed the world of order is. The European Union is mired in an economic/ unemployment slump. China behaves like it’s on another planet. And Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, is playing out some paranoid czarist fantasy in Ukraine, while the jihadist world of disorder encroaches from the south.

Now add a third trend, and you can really get worried: America is the tent pole holding up the whole world of order. But our inability to agree on policies that would ensure our long-term economic vitality is the definition of shortsighted. “If we can’t do the hard work of building alliances at home,” says David Rothkopf, author of the upcoming book “National Insecurity: American Leadership in an Age of Fear,” “we are never going to have the strength or ability to build them around the world.”

We’ve got to stop messing around at home as though this moment is just the same-old, sameold — and our real and tacit allies had better wake up, too. Preserving and expanding the world of sustainable order is the leadership challenge of our time.

SPORTS

SUNDAY, AUGUST 24, 2014 9

In Brief

Unfazed by Weather, Phelps Wins Gold Medal SOUTHPORT, Australia — The towel draped on Michael Phelps’s shoulders was dripping wet as he stood shivering in the interview area after his preliminary swim Saturday in the 100-meter butterfly.

Phelps, returning to the international stage for the first time since the 2012 Olympics, had been the main topic of conversation until the Pan Pacific Championships began Thursday under leaky gray skies. He since has been upstaged by unseasonably cold, windy and wet weather. In the meet’s first three days, over three inches of rain fell, including 1.8 inches on Saturday. If the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre gets any wetter, tourists may mistake it for SeaWorld across the Southport Broadwater.

The decision not to absorb the expense of a roof over the 10-lane competition pool during the site’s extensive renovation has drawn

wide and sometimes heated discussion, calling to mind the debates that inevitably mushroom when bad weather hits the United States Open tennis championship.

Phelps let all the water drip off his back. Describing Saturday’s conditions after his morning swim of 51.57 seconds, Phelps said, “Rain blowing sideways.” He sounded almost gleeful. The weather was better at night, and so was Phelps, 29. He won the gold medal in 51.29, touching 0.38 of a second ahead of his archrival, Ryan Lochte, 30.

The previous night, Phelps and Lochte helped the 4x200 freestyle relay to a hard-fought victory over Japan. During the playing of the national anthem, they got wetter than when they were in the water.

In the pool, the hair, tucked inside their swim caps, stayed dry.

On the eve of the meet, Phelps likened the unfavorable weather

forecast to the 2008 Olympics in Beijing, when the finals, traditionally held at night, were switched to the morning.

“We’re all under the same conditions,” Phelps said, “so I guess it just depends on who’s going to try to block it out and get in there and swim like they’re supposed to, how they’ve been trained to.”

KAREN CROUSE n LEDECKY BREAKS OWN RECORD Katie Ledecky, 17, broke her world record in the 400-meter freestyle on Saturday at the Pan Pacific Swimming Championships. With the Gold Coast Aquatic Centre crowd cheering her on, Ledecky was timed in 3 minutes 58.37 seconds. Two weeks ago at the USA Swimming long-course nationals in Irvine, Calif., Ledecky became the first woman to break 3:59 in the 400 freestyle, clocking a 3:58.86.

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After Getting a Lift From Mom, a Golfer Makes a Leap PARAMUS, N.J. — By the time Morgan Hoffmann made his way up the 17th fairway, looking at a birdie putt for a share of the lead, a sizable crowd had begun to form and people were already whispering to one another, “You know he’s from Wyckoff?”

Yes, that little township in the northeastern nook of New Jersey, only about 10 minutes from Ridgewood Country Club, where Hoffmann was climbing the leader board on Saturday. Some might have remembered his name from Ramapo High School. Some might even know his mother, Lorraine Lionetti Hoffmann, who drove him to the course Saturday morning.

But this was not Hoffmann’s first time playing in the Barclays in front of a crowd of familiar and embracing faces. The pressure from all that seemed to unravel him last year, when consecutive double bogeys on the back nine caused him to miss the cut.

This year, Hoffmann, 25, shot a 70 on Friday to escape the cut and then blitzed the field Saturday, birdieing five of nine holes during one stretch between the fourth and 13th holes. He finished with a bogey-free 66, putting him two strokes off the lead held by Jim Furyk and Jason Day, at nine under par, entering Sunday’s final round.

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Neither Adam Scott nor Rory McIlroy, both at four under par, made the third-round charges some were expecting. Scott finished with a 75 on Saturday, while McIlroy shot a 70.

And it was another rough day for Phil Mickelson, who shot a 75 to finish at five over par. Amazingly, he hit another errant tee shot on the fifth hole.

“Not again,” Mickelson said as he saw his ball veering left. Then he cried, “Fore left!”

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Chicago to Title Game When Joshua Houston allowed a two-run homer in the top of the fifth inning that cost his team the lead, he pounded his fist into the turf near the mound. But he recovered and drove in the tying run with a single in the bottom half of the inning to push Chicago’s Jackie Robinson West past Las Vegas Mountain Ridge, 7-5, in the U.S. final on Saturday in South Williamsport, Pa., and into Sunday’s Little League World Series title game.

Chicago will face South Korea, which is seeking its third title. (AP)

V.E. Day by a Nose Hidden in the shadow of his more heralded stablemate, V. E. Day burst into the spotlight with a thrilling nose victory over Wicked Strong in the Grade 1 $1.25 million Travers at Saratoga Race Course on Saturday at Saratoga Springs, N.Y. The trainer, Jimmy Jerkens, became the first to saddle the first two finishers in the Mid-Summer Derby since Hall of Famer Nick Zito in 2004.

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With New System Comes New Debate In an office in Irving, Tex., there is a jar that as of early August contained $17. The College Football Playoff’s staff members decided to donate a dollar every time one of them referred to the new system as “the college football playoffs.”

The plan was to use the money to buy drinks, having wised up to the fact that the plural was incorrect: Unlike previous years, when several bowl games collectively made up a murky postseason, this year there is only one playoff.

“It’s remarkable to say those three words, ‘College Football Playoff,’ ” Bill Hancock, the playoff’s major-domo, said. He was executive director of the Bowl Championship Series.

Starting this season, the top four teams will play two semifinal games, with the winners advanc“Disneyland ing to the national championship game. After 16 and all that’s seasons of the much-criticized B.C.S., in which cool. But I computers had a major like playing say in which teams played in the title game, there is for titles.” appeal in a 13-member seURBAN MEYER lection committee whose job is to produce a single-elimination bracket.

But there is still plenty to argue about. For one, college football is not introducing a playoff. Rather, it introduced a two-team playoff in the 1998 season, with the first official B.C.S. national championship game. “It’s just different people with different mistakes,” said Gary Danielson, a college football analyst for CBS. Yet the new voting bloc is not all fresh faces.

Members include the former Nebraska coach Tom Osborne, the former Big East commissioner Mike Tranghese and athletic directors in each of the five major conferences. It is unclear whether they will do a better job deciphering the fourth-best team from the fifth-best than the B.C.S. did picking the second and third.

There are also new logistical questions: Does the playoff make teams’ schedules too taxing?

Will one conference be prevented from sending two teams in a year? Will this system help a midmajor get a chance to play for a title?

Now, All the Pressure Is on Florida’s Coach

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Committee members will meet on Mondays and Tuesdays and will issue their first rankings Oct. 28, after the ninth week of the season.

On Dec. 7, the day after the four major conference championship games, the committee will determine its final rankings.

The semifinals this season will be played at the Rose and the Sugar Bowls on Jan. 1. A rotating cast of six bowls — the Peach, the Fiesta, the Orange, the Cotton, the Rose and the Sugar — will host the semifinals. The final will be Jan. 12 at the Dallas Cowboys’ AT&T Stadium.

According to the guidelines, the committee will emphasize criteria including win-loss records, strength of schedule, conference championships won, head-to-head results and results against common opponents. Most observers assume expansion is foreordained. But Hancock said he doubted there would be more than four teams in the playoff during the 12-season deal with ESPN, a contract worth about $5.6 billion.

The playoff atmosphere will likely be more intense, and, well, less fun, than that of bowl games, which involve a week of activities. For most coaches, though, there is nothing better than having an undisputed champion.

“I’m not a big ‘fun’ guy,” said Ohio State Coach Urban Meyer, a two-time B.C.S. winner, when asked about the charm of the bowl games. “The national championship, that’s fun to me. Disneyland and all that’s cool, too. But I like playing for titles.”

MARC TRACY

GAINESVILLE, Fla. — It is so hot here in August that even the referees wear shorts.

Partly because of the weather, Florida Coach Will Muschamp, who is facing enormous pressure to succeed, was persuaded to move most camp workouts to early morning or late afternoon. After all, health is a top priority in Gainesville this season given the experience of the last, when more than two dozen Gators were injured.

The team’s starting quarterback, Jeff Driskel, broke his right leg in the third game, and Florida finished 4-8, ending the season on a seven-game skid that included losses at home to Vanderbilt and Georgia Southern.

A savant on defense, Muschamp has coached that side of the ball at Auburn; under Nick Saban at Louisiana State and with the Miami Dolphins; and at Texas, where his deal included becoming Mack Brown’s successor. He has few excuses for going 4-8. It is no wonder, then, that he is atop most lists of coaches on the “hot seat.” “If this Will offense doesn’t take major strides in 2014, not only will Muschamp Florida not compete for an SEC title, but Muschamp could find himself out of work,” the magazine Athlon wrote.

At the Swamp restaurant near campus, a digital clock counts down to kickoff — 25 days 20 hours 52 minutes 10.4 seconds, it read recently — ticking away, also, how much time Muschamp has left to get it right. Jeremy Foley, the athletic director, denied there was a “magic number” of victories Muschamp must attain to keep his job.

The biggest change Muschamp made was to his offense. He tapped Kurt Roper, previously Duke’s offensive coordinator whose most famous charge was Mississippi’s Eli Manning, to install a spread and fast-paced offense. The outcome, it is hoped, will be explosive plays.

“I’m really worried about pleasing Jeremy Foley, Bernie Machen” — Florida’s president — “my wife, my mom and my family,” he said, adding, “I spend zero time worrying about anything other than what I can control.”

MARC TRACY

Ahead of the U.S. Open, Djokovic Says Family Is Now His No. 1 Focus Despite his status as the top seed and the hot favorite with oddsmakers to win the United States Open, Novak Djokovic arrives in New York considerably undercooked.

After winning Wimbledon and reclaiming the No. 1 ranking in July, Djokovic married his longtime girlfriend, Jelena Ristic, in a seaside ceremony in Montenegro. In addition to the preoccupation and emotion such an occasion typically entails, the two are expecting the birth of their first child. Far from sharp, Djokovic went down in straight-set losses in the second matches of two hardcourt tuneup events in August, to Jo-Wilfried Tsonga in To-

ronto and to Tommy Robredo in Cincinnati.

Asked Saturday at the tournament’s Media Day about the effect of impending fatherhood on his tennis, Djokovic admitted there had been a shift in his focus. “I’m going to enjoy it and try to take as much energy as I can — positive energy,” he said of fatherhood.

“But without a doubt, life changes,” he said.

“You know, priorities change. My priorities, my family, my wife, my future kid. Tennis is definitely not No. 1 anymore.”

Unlike Djokovic, Roger Federer comes to New York already used to life as a father of two sets of twins, and with 10 matches under his

belt from the warm-up events, having won the title in Cincinnati. His buoyant mood and confidence mark a return to his own form of normalcy after a disappointing 2013 U.S. Open. He is also helped by the absence of the defending champion, Rafael Nadal, who has an injured right wrist.

On the women’s side, Serena Williams remains the most difficult player to beat, but she chafed when it was suggested that her era of big shots might be coming to an end with the recent success of opportunistic counterpunchers.

“I don’t think my big shots are particularly coming to an end,” she said before laughing.

BEN ROTHENBERG

SHIP

By MCSA Wyatt Anthony

shape

HIRTGOOD SO

H

ow many of us are short on time? Probably all of us, and working out sometimes takes the back burner to life’s other concerns. So getting the most bang for your buck in the gym is the name of the game.

Have you ever heard of high intensity resistance training (HIRT)? The reason I ask is because it has been around for a long time, but with the popularization of High Intensity Interval Training (HIIT) workouts, HIRT is now on the rise. It is the resistance training version of HIIT (remember that article from a month ago?). HIRT is an extremely effective way to build muscle mass, gain strength and power according to Livestrong.com.

The overall goal of HIRT is to burn fat and gain muscle at the same time, which makes it a perfect workout if you have trouble fitting in separate workouts for fat loss and muscle gain into your schedule.

HIRT workouts maximize intensity instead of endurance and focus on large-muscle, compound exercises. The exercises do not consist of the standard three-rep sets, but instead only use one set of the given exercise. The sets are performed at higher intensity, meaning with a heavier weight and to the point of failure. In general when performing HIRT workouts you should not be able to go beyond 15 reps, so make sure the weight you are using will cause you to fail before reaching 16.

While most weight-training routines include cardio as a method of burning fat, HIRT throws cardio to the wayside. The reason behind this is that the low-intensity cardio exercises that burn fat also burn muscle, which is counter to the main idea of HIRT. Instead, for cardio, we revert back to HIIT, which will leave you a sweaty mess, raging with endorphins and throbbing muscles. In other words, you’ll feel great!

A HIRT routine is usually a three-day per-week HIRT session with two rest days and two optional training days. It is key to schedule the rest days in-between your HIRT days as to give your muscles time to recover from intense workouts. The optional training days can be spent however you please, preferably with a form of intense cardio (HIIT?) so you stay up to par for the upcoming PRT cycles.

Now let’s remember for the HIRT workouts you will need to find a weight that pushes you on each set. Our goal is to not get more than 15 reps, to push yourself and really feel those muscles expand. It’s time to get SWOLE!

Days 1, 3 & 6: HIRT •Squats to failure •Dumbbell Pullover to failure •Leg Press to failure •Dumbbell Bench Press to failure •Machine Row to failure •Overhead Press to failure •Pull Ups to failure •Cable Tricep Extension to failure •Preacher Curls to failure •Leg Curl to failure •Seated Calf Raise to failure •Dumbbell Shrug to failure •Cable Crunch to failure

Days 2 & 4: Cardio HIIT Go through each exercise for 60 seconds. GO ALL OUT! When you finish with first set take a two minute break, and repeat.

•Jumping Jacks •Lateral Jumps •Jumping Oblique Twist •Burpees •Pendulum Swings •High Knees

Give your body a rest, you deserve it!!

When you’re in the process of getting jacked (deriving from the Latin phrase “Hugh Jackman”, meaning Wolverine in English) you need a power snack loaded down with protein. Yeah, you could go to the store and get a “protein” bar, but don’t you want more? Yes you do!

That’s what this scrumptious recipe is for. Use Maca powder loaded down with B vitamins to give you a boost of energy to begin your day.

Full of protein rich ingredients, this is the perfect bar to help you get yoked!

Maca Energy Bars Prep Time: 10 Min Cook Time: 1 Hour Serving Cost: $3.45

Ingredients • 1 Cup of Almonds

• 1/2 Cup of Sunflower Seeds • 1/2 Cup of Flax Meal • 1/2 Cup Pepitas • 2 Tbsp. Chia Seeds • 2 Tbsp. Maca Powder • 1/4 Cup of Maple Syrup • 1/4 Cup Coconut Oil • 1/3 Cup Almond Butter • 1/2 Tsp. Sea Salt

Directions

1. Grind almonds into course consistency.

2. Add ground almonds in a bowl with sunflower seeds, maca powder, flax meal, pepitas, chia seeds and salt.

3. Mix syrup, coconut oil and almond butter in a saucepan until well combined.

4. Add syrup, cocnut oil and almond butter to the dry ingredients 5. Line an 8x8 pan with parchment paper.

6. Spread mixture and pack it down tight, then sit in fridge for an hour.

WHILE UNDERWAY..

EAT THIS, NOT THAT!

NOT THAT

Days 5 & 7: Rest

TRYthis

EAT THIS

WORKOUT OF THE WEEK

We’re all guilty of taking advantage of the free bags of chips put out on the mess decks and hoarding them up for later. Instead of loading up on those chips, which are packed with fat-soluble chemicals used in petroleum products, pharmaceuticals and cosmetics, just grab yourself on of the free bananas that are almost always available on the mess decks. Bananas are a great source of fuel to for PT times, protect against cramps, and provide a little protein and a lot of Vitamin-B.

rough rider OF THE WEEK

QUARTERMASTER SEAMAN

MOISE MONESTIME DEPARTMENT: Navigation

HOME TOWN: Brooklyn, N.Y. WHEN DID YOU JOIN THE NAVY: Apr. 15, 2013 WHEN WERE YOU ASSIGNED TO TR: Sept. 30, 2013 PREVIOUS COMMANDS: Quartermaster “A” School WHAT IS YOUR JOB WITHIN YOUR RATE: Damage control petty officer and bearing taker during sea and anchor.

WHY DO YOU THINK YOU WERE CHOSEN AS ROUGH RIDER OF THE WEEK: I feel that I have been working hard and my chain of command wanted to recognize me for that.

WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS WHILE YOU ARE IN THE NAVY: I want to earn my ESWS and EAWS pin before deployment and get promoted to third class petty officer.

WHAT ARE YOUR FUTURE PLANS: Own a music recording studio and go back to college to finish my degree.

PLANNING ON MAKING THE NAVY A CAREER: I’m undecided.

WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES: Music production, avid sneaker collector.

rough rider OF THE WEEK

MACHINIST’S MATE 3RD CLASS

BRANDON J. COMBS

DEPARTMENT: Reactor/RM

HOME TOWN: Rochester, N.Y. WHEN DID YOU JOIN THE NAVY: July 2010 WHEN WERE YOU ASSIGNED TO TR: July 2012 PREVIOUS COMMANDS: “A” School WHAT IS YOUR JOB WITHIN YOUR RATE: Maintain and operate mechanical systems for an A4W reactor plant.

WHY DO YOU THINK YOU WERE CHOSEN AS ROUGH RIDER OF THE WEEK: I am a hard worker with outstanding technical abilities and enjoy teaching junior Sailors about plant operations.

WHAT ARE YOUR GOALS WHILE YOU ARE IN THE NAVY: To complete a bachelors degree.

WHAT ARE YOUR FUTURE PLANS: Work in a civilian nuclear power plant.

PLANNING ON MAKING THE NAVY A CAREER: No. WHAT ARE YOUR HOBBIES: Working out, hanging out with friends.

NAVYNEWS

Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group Heads Out on Deployment

By Mass Communication Specialist Seaman James Bleyle, USS Carl Vinson Public Affairs

SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Sailors on Nimitz-class aircraft carrier USS Carl Vinson (CVN 70) manned the rails Aug. 22 as they headed out to the Pacific Ocean for a planned overseas deployment.

Carl Vinson will be accompanied by the rest of the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group as it patrols both 5th and 7th Fleet areas of responsibility.

“The Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group is a versatile and trained force that is ready to support the missions and needs of regional commanders,” said Rear Adm. Christopher Grady, Commander, Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group.

In preparation for this deployment, Carl Vinson’s first since back-to-back deployments in 2011 and 2012, the ship underwent several rigorous repair, training and qualification periods, including Planned Incremental Availability (PIA), Tailored Ship’s Training Availability/Final Evaluation Problem (TSTA/FEP), Composite Training Unit Exercise (COMPTUEX) and a Joint Task Force Exercise (JTFEX). Each evolution is designed to prepare and qualify the ship and her crew to support the

Navy’s mission abroad.

“We have worked hard to ensure that our ship and crew are prepared with all the necessary resources to be successful on this deployment,” said Capt. Kent Whalen, Carl Vinson’s commanding officer. “Over the past year we have put in a tremendous amount of effort to get to this point, and I am incredibly proud of all that this fantastic crew has accomplished.”

Carl Vinson and the more than 5,000 sailors living aboard have been tested and deemed certified for deployment. As she takes in all lines, the Carl Vinson stands ready to defend the nation and further its interests abroad.

The strike group’s deployment is scheduled for nine and a half months. The Navy is in a period of aircraft carrier operation that has seen the USS Enterprise decommissioned after 51 years of service to the nation, and the pre-commissioning carrier Gerald R. Ford not yet fully online.

Navy leadership is working hard to ensure this is a temporary situation.

Carl Vinson’s deployment comes in advance of the Navy’s implementation of the Optimized

Fleet Response Plan (O-FRP), scheduled for fiscal year 2015.

O-FRP is designed to provide Sailors and their families with more predictability for when they will be at sea by standardizing the length of deployments to eight months.

USS Bunker Hill (CG 52), Destroyer Squadron 1 and her ships USS Gridley (DDG 101), USS Sterett (DDG 104), and USS Dewey (DDG 105) will deploy with Carl Vinson as part of the Carl Vinson Carrier Strike Group. Carrier Air Wing 17 will embark Carl Vinson with her aviation squadrons that include

the “Fighting Redcocks” of Strike Fighter Squadron (VFA) 22, the “Sunliners” of VFA 81, the “Stingers” of VFA 113, the “Mighty Shrikes” of VFA 94, the “Cougars” of Electronic Attack Squadron 139, the “Sun Kings” of Carrier Airborne Early Warning Squadron 116, the “Red Lions” of Helicopter Sea Combat Squadron 15, the “Battlecats” of Helicopter Sea Maritime Strike Squadron 73, and Fleet Logistic Support Squadron 30. Elements of Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit 3 will also embark USS Carl Vinson.

Tuition Assistance Policy Changing in FY-15 From Naval Education and Training Command Public Affairs Office

VIRGINIA BEACH, Va (NNS) -- Effective immediately, commanding officers and officers-in-charge may approve waivers to the one-year requirement that Sailors must be on board their first permanent duty station (PDS) to be eligible for Tuition Assistance (TA) according to NAVADMIN 190/14 released Aug. 21.

In addition to command triad waiver approval, Sailors must meet all existing requirements for participation eligibility.

The NAVADMIN also detailed changes to the grade and fee policy for TA for courses stating after 1 Oct. to align with recent Department of Defense TA policy.

Successful course completion will be defined as a grade of “C” or higher for undergraduate courses, a “B” or higher for graduate courses, and a “Pass” for

“Pass/Fail” grades and must be attained to avoid reimbursement of TA funding. Reimbursement will also be required from Sailors who don’t make up a grade of “I” (incomplete) by the educational institutions’ deadline or six months after the completion of the class, whichever comes first.

Also changing Oct. 1, only tuition directly related to the course of instruction - and not including fees - will be paid with TA funds. Fees no longer covered by TA include equipment, supplies, books/ materials, exams, admissions, registration, fines and costs associated with distance learning.

These changes align the Navy’s policy with Department of Defense Instruction 1322.25 for Voluntary Education (VOLED) programs covering policies for service members’ use

of TA. “Historically, more than 85 percent of Sailors satisfactorily complete and pass their undergraduate and/or graduate level classes; this is a tribute to the focus and dedication of the Sailors using VOLED programs,” said Ernest D’Antonio, the Center for Personal and Professional Development’s (CPPD) Navy VOLED program director.

In Fiscal Year 2013, approximately 89 percent of courses paid for by TA were successfully passed, with 72 percent of those courses resulting in an “A” or “B” grade, according to D’Antonio.

Sailors not successfully completing courses using TA must reimburse the Navy for TA funds.

Official U.S. Navy file photo.

SEE WHAT YOUR SHIPMATES ARE DOING AROUND THE WORLD

PHOTOS

FROM AROUND THE FLEET BATUMI, Georgia (Aug. 18, 2014) Capt.

Robert Katz, left, commanding officer of the Ticonderoga-class guidedmissile cruiser USS Vella Gulf (CG 72), U.S. Ambassador to Georgia Richard Norland, and Prime Minister of the Republic of Georgia Irakli Gharibashvili speak during a tour of Vella Gulf while in port in Batumi, Georgia. Vella Gulf is conducting naval operations with allies in the U.S. 6th Fleet area of responsibility in order to advance security and stability in Europe. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Weston Jones/Released)

Staff

Commanding Officer Capt. Daniel Grieco Executive Officer Capt. Jeff Craig Public Affairs Officer Lt. Cmdr. Reann Mommsen Media Officer Ensign Jack Georges Senior Editor MCC Adrian Melendez Editor MC2 Katie Lash Layout and Design MC3 John Drew

NHA TRANG, Vietnam (Aug. 18, 2014) Command Master Chief Stephen J. Mulholland provides in water instruction on SCUBA procedures to a Vietnamese People’s Navy dive student during pool confidence evolutions. Naval Diving and Salvage Training Center is supporting Explosive Ordnance Disposal Mobile Unit (EODMU) 5 for humanitarian mine action in Vietnam during the first overseas mobile training team in more than 9 years. (U.S. Navy photo by Chief Warrant Officer 3 J. Dennis Kypros/ Released)

PEARL HARBOR (Aug. 19, 2014) Chief petty officer (CPO) selects from Legacy Academy Class 010 board the USS Bowfin Submarine Museum at Joint Base Pearl Harbor-Hickam. The Legacy Academy is a six-day course in which the CPO selects live aboard the Battleship Missouri Memorial and participate in preservation activities, leadership training, reenact scenarios that took place on board USS Missouri, and learn lessons about the history and heritage of the U.S. Navy and CPO community. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Johans Chavarro/Released)

SASEBO, Japan (Aug. 20, 2014) Quartermaster 2nd Class Melvin Noble, from Baltimore, plots the ship’s movement on a position chart on the bridge of the amphibious dock landing ship USS Germantown (LSD 42) as the ship departs Commander Fleet Activities Sasebo for a routine underway exercise. Germantown is forward-deployed and currently underway in the U.S. 7th Fleet area of responsibility. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Raul Moreno Jr./Released)

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RELIGIOUS SERVICES SCHEDULE AUG 17 - AUG 27

ROMAN CATHOLIC MASS M T W TH F SAT 1130-1230 Ship’s Chapel

SUN 0830-0930 Forecastle

GENERAL PROTESTANT TH 1230-1330 Ship’s Chapel

CHRISTIAN

PENTECOSTAL M 1130-1230 Ship’s Chapel

SUN 1700-1800 Forecastle

T 1930-2045 CRMD Theater

LATTER DAY SAINTS

CHOIR PRACTICE TH 1900-2030 Ship’s Chapel

SUN 1400-1500 Ship’s Chapel

WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

Times

Ch. 66

SUN 1000-1100 & 1930-2030 Forecastle

SAT 1900-2030 Forecastle

Sunday

Aug. 24, 2014

Ch. 67

Ch. 68

0900

BRICK MANSIONS

THE OTHER WOMAN

UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING

1100

THE GODFATHER

THE NUT JOB

MAN OF STEEL

1230

THE GODFATHER (Cont.)

POCAHONTAS

MAN OF STEEL (Cont.)

1400

LABOR DAY

TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE

THE PURGE

1600

MUD

CATCH-22

TRANSCENDENCE

1830

CESAR CHAVEZ

RIO 2

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE

2030

BRICK MANSIONS

THE OTHER WOMAN

UNDERWORLD: AWAKENING

2230

THE GODFATHER

THE NUT JOB

MAN OF STEEL

2400

THE GODFATHER (Cont.)

POCAHONTAS

MAN OF STEEL (Cont.)

0130

LABOR DAY

TROUBLE WITH THE CURVE

THE PURGE

0330

MUD

CATCH-22

TRANSCENDENCE

0600

CESAR CHAVEZ

RIO 2

300: RISE OF AN EMPIRE

*Movie schedule is subject to change.