August 13, 2015 Rough Rider by USS Theodore Roosevelt

ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

THURSDAY EDITION

SPEAR PHISHING what you need to know

SAILOR 2.0 Procrastination

BY THE NUMBERS tr’s chief selects

AUGUST 13, 2015

REPLENISHMENT-AT-SEA Photos by Theodore Roosevelt Media

ARABIAN GULF (August 12, 2015) The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) sails alongside the Military Sealift Command fleet replenishment oiler USNS Patuxent (T-AO 201) and the Military Sealift Command dry cargo and ammunition ship USNS Carl Brashear (T-AKE 7) during a replenishment-at-sea. (U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist 3rd Class Taylor L. Jackson/Released)

by MC3 Stephane Belcher

spear phishing what you need to know A

Sailor sits down and opens her email to find a message that looks like it’s from the Sailor’s bank containing a link redirecting her to a site requesting personal information. She enters the information into the site and now her information is not only compromised, but malicious software is released into the network. That is spear phishing. Spear phishing is a type of email fraud that targets specific groups or individuals with emails intended to convince the user to open an attachment or link to a site with malicious software, or malware. Hackers use the trust their victims have in institutions like banks to gain access to secure computer networks and steal their victims’ identities. Taking steps to promote awareness of these emails will help protect the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and her Sailors and Marines from spear phishing. “Obviously we’re always a target because they know we’re out here,” said Information Systems Technician 1st Class Dwight Martin. In a deployed environment it may be hard to verify emails with common retailers, but there are ways to verify a message’s legitimacy. Confirming emails and keeping sensitive information off social media improves your security and the security of TR’s computer networks. “When we get online, we don’t realize when we post pictures, post comments, those are like bits and pieces of a puzzle,” said Wall. “All you have to do is grab this piece and that piece and put it together. Then you have the whole picture.” Being careless with emails puts the network at risk. According to a 2014 study at IBM, “Over 95 percent of all incidents investigated recognize ‘human error’ as a contributing factor. The most prevalent contributing human error is ‘Double Clicking’ on an infected attachment or unsafe URL.” “Attackers can use Facebook,” said Wall. “Imagine how much information is on Facebook. They get your name, and people put a lot of information on Facebook. They say, ‘I’m on this ship,’ so first, last name and boom! It’s easy.”

Verify hyperlinks by hovering over the hyperlink without clicking it, said Wall. The web address will pop up. It might have a few differences from the normal website’s name. “What people do when they try to mimic a site is change a letter or a different character in the address that you’re trying to go to,” said Information Systems Technician 2nd Class Sean Baker. “So just keep an eye out for things like that. Especially in emails, sometimes a site is compromised or modified by somebody that’s trying to steal information. They’ll be able to redirect your traffic into their fake site and record everything you’re inputting into that fake site. You’ve got to keep attention to detail.” Another way to confirm the email is safe, is clicking on the small certificate on the top right side of the email. A digital signature should pop up. This, however, only works on emails if the sender is using a common access card. Most spear phishing emails will look like they’re from reputable businesses. This is tricky, but there are multiple ways to avoid clicking on links or open attachments. “The best thing to do in that case is to check another source,” said Martin. “Spear phishing can affect anyone at any time. If you’re going through smaller businesses, they tend to have less security [measures] in place. People can steal your information from them if it’s not secure on their side and then use that information to attack you, through them.” Being vigilant with emails before opening or clicking on anything is the key to online safety. Simple mistakes made by the everyday Internet user is what puts the network at the most risk. Instead of opening or forwarding suspicious emails, notifying network security is the first step to keeping the network secure. “Notify us because we don’t want it to get spread out even more,” said Baker. “Typically we want to isolate an incident before we remove it. We can figure out what it is and know what it does, do an investigation. It would be better for us to know what it is so that we can let the fleet know.”

source: navy.mil/ahu

Sailor 2.0 by: MC3 Taylor Stinson

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the pre-frontal cortex deals with long-term thinking and willpower. When the reward of the task at hand feels abstract, the limbic region overrides the pre-frontal cortex -- so we go for the quick fix.

the limbic system deals with immediate concrete rewards. It has a direct line to the amygdala, where our basic emotions arise.

procrastination here’s what you can do to stop procrastinating ... Eventually k now yourself HOW: understand how procrastination affects your life & think about the habits that cause it WHY IT HELPS: insight prevents you from feeling inadequate & helps you understand the causes of procrastination

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prac tice effec tive time management HOW: create estimates for completing assignments & compare accuracy across tasks WHY IT HELPS: simplifies working patterns with effective planning, improves quality of work and avoids stress

be realistic

HOW: list tasks that you’re confident you will complete & make a point of crossing off each task

HOW: set reasonable targets to measure achievment & be patient because change won’t come overnight

WHY IT HELPS: rebuilds faith in your own abilities & commits to making good on promises

WHY IT HELPS: avoids self-sabotage & unrealistic goals feed procrastination; why try the impossible?

positive self-talk HOW: notice how you talk to yourself when procrastinating & replace negative talk with positive WHY IT HELPS: stops negative thinking before it starts & encourages you to achieve goals

don’t indulge in fantasies HOW: stop fantasizing about desired results & devise practical steps to achieve them WHY IT HELPS: imagination is the enemy of motivation & viewing outcomes objectively improves working energy

Sources: Why Wait? The Science Behind Procrastination via psychologicalscience.org A Neuropsychological Perspective on Procrastination via psychologytoday.com Role of the Lateral Prefrontal Cortex in Executive Behavioral Control via physrev.phsyiology.org The Nature of Procrastination: A Meta-Analytical and Theoretical Review of Quintessential Self-Regulatory Failure via my.ilstu.edu We’re Sorry This Is Late... We Really Meant to Post it Sooner: Research into Procrastination Shows Surprising Findings via sciencedaily.com 15 Ways to Beat Procrastination Infographic via Essay Expert Motivation and Learning Strategies for College Success via samarnhpang.files.wordpress.com

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SIMI VALLEY, Calif. — The war in Iraq, which dominated American presidential politics in 2004 and 2008, has returned as an issue in 2016. This time, the argument is not over whether the United States should have gone to war, but how the Obama administration sought to end it. Jeb Bush, the former Florida governor seeking the Republican presidential nomination, issued a blistering attack on Tuesday on the Obama administration’s handling of Iraq and terrorism issues, asserting that Hillary Rodham Clinton, the front-runner for the Democratic presidential nomination, had “stood by” as secretary of state as the situation in Iraq deteriorated. He said President Obama and Clinton had orchestrated an early withdrawal of American troops, setting the stage for the chaos sweeping the region now and the rise of the Islamic State, also known as ISIS or ISIL. “That premature withdrawal was the fatal error, creating the void that ISIS moved in to fill,” Bush declared in a speech at the

Ronald Reagan Presidential Library here on Tuesday night. “Where was the secretary of state, Secretary of State Clinton in all of this? Like the president himself, she had opposed the surge, then joined in claiming credit for its success, then stood by as that hard-won victory by American and allied forces was thrown away.” With his speech, Bush found himself in a position of going after Clinton on an issue in which many Republicans argue she is vulnerable on — but at the risk of reminding voters of what Republicans see as one of his own great potential weaknesses: his last name. Bush’s brother, President George W. Bush, led the United States into war in Iraq in 2003 and, when it was going badly in 2006, ordered the commitment of additional forces there in what came to be known as the surge. His father, the elder President George Bush, ordered the nation’s first invasion of Iraq in 1990. At the same time, it put Clinton in a situation of defending how Obama sought to end the war.

“This is a pretty bold attempt to rewrite history and reassign responsibility,” said Jake Sullivan, Clinton’s senior policy adviser. “They cannot be allowed to escape responsibility for the real mistake here.” The 2016 election already offers the possibility of a rematch campaign between a Bush and a Clinton. With the economy rebounding, Republican presidential candidates have turned their attention to foreign policy and Clinton’s four years as secretary of state. They have sought to lay the blame for the state of persistent violence now engulfing Iraq and Syria at Clinton’s feet. For Bush, his latest speech appeared to mark a new, more aggressive chapter in his campaign. In an appearance with Clinton in Florida last month, Bush had remained silent, to the concern of many Republicans, after Clinton attacked his policies on poverty and racial matters. And he was largely overshadowed at the Republican debate in Cleveland last week. ADAM NAGOURNEY

Inmates Tell of Brutal Retribution After Escape Night had fallen at the Clinton Correctional Facility in northern New York when the prison guards came for Patrick Alexander. They handcuffed him and took him into a broom closet for questioning. Then, Alexander said, the beatings began. As the three guards punched him and slammed his head against the wall, he said they shouted questions: “Where are they going? What did you hear? How much are they paying you to keep your mouth shut?” Hours earlier, Richard W. Matt and David Sweat had made their daring escape from the unit — called the “honor block” — where they were housed. Now it appeared that Alexander, a convicted murderer who lived in an adjoining cell, was being made to suffer the consequences. For days after the June prison break, corrections officers carried out what seemed like a

campaign of retribution against dozens of Clinton inmates, an investigation by The New York Times found. In letters reviewed by The Times, as well as prison interviews, inmates described a strikingly similar litany of abuses, including being beaten while handcuffed, choked and slammed against cell bars and walls. They were also subjected to harsh policies ordered by the State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision: Dozens of inmates were transferred out of Clinton to other prisons. Many were placed in solitary confinement and stripped of privileges they had accrued over the years, even though no prisoners have yet been linked to Matt’s and Sweat’s actions. It is prison employees who have been implicated: One has pleaded guilty to aiding the escape; another faces criminal charges; nine officers have been

suspended; and the leadership of the prison, in Dannemora, has been removed. More than 60 inmates have filed complaints with Prisoners’ Legal Services, an organization that assists indigent prisoners. After The Times published its findings, the corrections department released a statement saying the inmate complaints had been under investigation for several weeks and “had also been referred to the state inspector general.” The accounts suggest that as corrections officers frantically pressed for information that could lead to the capture of the two prisoners, and perhaps exonerate themselves for the security lapses that contributed to the breakout, they resorted to brutal tactics that most likely violated department regulations. MICHAEL SCHWIRTZ and MICHAEL WINERIP

HONG KONG — As President Xi Jinping of China prepares for a state visit to Washington next month to smooth over troubled relations, his government has just turned the spotlight back on a recurring issue: the value of his country’s currency. The renminbi is part of the fabric of the global economy, providing a way for China to further its diplomatic and investment goals. The currency is also an important tool for the leadership’s domestic agenda, namely supporting its economy. China faces the difficult dilemma of trying to balance its needs at home and abroad. When China devalued its currency nearly 2 percent on Tuesday morning, authorities said market forces would play a bigger role in determining the value of the renminbi. After the renminbi fell further during trading on Tuesday, the central bank set the currency another 1.6 percent lower on Wednesday morning. The United States and others have long called for Beijing to let the currency move more freely, rather than keeping it under such tight control. But China has another motive. In devaluing its currency, China is giving priority to its domestic needs. As its economy slows, a weaker currency will help buoy China’s exporters and create jobs at home. Surging blue-collar wages in China coupled with recent declines in the currencies of rival exporters like South Korea and Taiwan have made it harder for Chinese companies to compete in labor-intensive industries like garment manufacturing and shoe production. Chinese exports fell 8 percent last month compared with a year ago. The coming months will test whether the leadership is focused more on reforms or on the economy. While Beijing wants a weak currency, it does not want it to go too low. On Tuesday, traders bet heavily that the renminbi would continue to fall. If Beijing follows through on its pledge to let the market play a much bigger role, more declines will follow. [Page 5.] KEITH BRADSHER

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Japan Restarts Nuclear Reactor TOKYO — For more than four years since the nuclear meltdowns in Fukushima in 2011, Japan has been debating whether it should abandon a technology that went so disastrously wrong. On Tuesday, the country took what appeared to be a decisive step toward resurrecting the nuclear industry and ending a de facto freeze on the use of atomic power, as an electric utility restarted one of dozens of reactors that were taken offline. The reactor at the Sendai Nuclear Power Plant was the first to return to service since regulators introduced upgraded safety standards two years ago. The government supports restarting idled reactors that meet the enhanced safety standards, arguing that Japan’s economy depends on the low-cost power. The public remains skeptical about safety, however, with surveys consistently showing that most Japanese favor closing the idled reactors permanently. But public opposition to nuclear power has not translated into victories for antinuclear politicians like the former prime minister, Naoto Kan. Not long after the Fukushima accident, his government announced a policy of gradually phasing out nuclear power, but that foundered after his center-left party was defeated in an election in 2012. The more conservative, pro-nuclear party that replaced it, led by Abe, has won two subsequent parliamentary elections. JONATHAN SOBLE

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015

Global Milestone: One Year Since a Polio Case It has been one full year since polio was detected anywhere in Africa, a milestone in global health that has left health experts quietly celebrating. The last African case of polio was detected in Somalia on Aug. 11, 2014, the final sign of an outbreak with its roots in Nigeria , the one country where the virus had never been eradicated. But the last case in Nigeria was recorded on July 24, 2014. Africa has never gone so long without a case of polio. But in an indication of how nervous experts still are that the disease may resurge, even the announcement from the Global Polio Eradication Initiative was tentatively headlined “Is Africa Polio-Free?” When the global eradication drive began in 1988, more than 350,000 children around the world

were paralyzed by polio each year. Last year, only 359 were. The case count has been below 2,000 annually since 2001, and eradication efforts cost about $1 billion a year. But to the frustration of epidemiologists, the virus is a master of the cross-border jailbreak. Thirty-four cases have been found this year, all in Pakistan or Afghanistan, the last place where the virus is known to persist. Many scientists say a worldwide victory over polio is in sight. “This puts a lot of pressure on Pakistan to do better,” said Dr. Elias Durry, who leads the W.H.O.’s effort in that country and has fought polio in six others. Usually, Africa is where diseases make their last stand. The last case of smallpox was found in Somalia in 1977, and the last case of rinderpest, a centuries-old cattle

disease that may have killed millions of humans by causing famine, was recorded in Kenya in 2001. Even assuming there are no more cases, Africa will not be officially declared polio-free for another two years. The W.H.O. requires three case-free years because surveillance is difficult in a continent of isolated villages and nomadic herders. Since several other diseases can cause paralysis, stool samples from each suspect case must be analyzed to definitively exclude polio as the cause. The Nigerian government was galvanized into action after a new monitoring board began singling out failures in its vaccination program in 2011 and after the W.H.O. declared polio a world health emergency last year. DONALD G. McNEIL Jr.

A Battle With Many Gangs Convulses El Salvador SAN SALVADOR — Seven bus drivers are killed in four days. A morgue worker counts 224 stab wounds on a murder victim. Police post memorials to slain comrades and photographs of “eliminated” suspects on Facebook. El Salvador is convulsed in violence at levels not seen since the civil war of the 1980s. Murder rates have soared while the government struggles to rein in powerful criminal gangs. In an offensive started at the beginning of the year, the police have pushed deep into the slums where gangs hold sway and three units of elite troops stand by. But the strategy has backfired,

and the violence is intensifying. In June, 677 people were murdered in a population of just over six million. About 300 gang members have been killed by the police this year. The gangs, meanwhile, have killed about 50 police officers and soldiers. Although the murder rate dipped in July, gangs made a fearful show of force at the end of the month, when they ordered bus companies to halt service and paralyzed public transport in the capital, San Salvador. To drive home their demand, they killed seven bus drivers. At the center of the conflict are the main gangs in El Salvador;

Mara Salvatrucha, known as MS-13, and two factions of Barrio 18. The gangs emerged after the 1992 peace agreement that ended the war between leftist guerrillas and the United States-backed military but failed to address the country’s deep-rooted inequality. Salvadoran gang leaders deported from Los Angeles brought criminal techniques to impoverished youths who found a means of survival in the gangs. Government crackdowns in the 2000s, known as “Iron Fist” and “Super Iron Fist,” failed to dismantle the gangs’ structures and succeeded only in increasing the violence. ELISABETH MALKIN

In Brief Missile Clues Possibly Found Prosecutors in the Netherlands revealed on Tuesday that they had found what could be pieces of a Russian-made surface-to-air missile system in eastern Ukraine, in the area of the downing of Malaysia Airlines Flight 17. The announcement brings the methodical investigation of the crash closer to the version that burst into public view almost immediately last summer after the plane exploded. That version blamed a surface-to-air missile. It does not, though, assign blame to either the Ukrainian soldiers or the Russian-backed rebels fighting a war in the area. Nor does it blame the Russians. The revelation is the first from Dutch investigators to link physical evidence with a specific type of missile system.

The plane was flying from Amsterdam to the Malaysian capital, Kuala Lumpur, when it broke up, killing 298 people. (NYT)

expensive perks for officials. Most notably, they eliminate three deputy prime minister posts and three vice presidencies. (NYT)

Parliament Backs Overhaul

U.N. Officer Accused of Rape

Iraq’s Parliament unanimously passed measures on Tuesday that are meant to transform the country’s corrupt political system. Yet by eliminating several high-level positions and doing away with sectarian quotas in political appointments, the measures risk further alienating the country’s Sunni minority while the government is struggling to defeat the Sunni militants of the Islamic State. The measures, put forward on Sunday by Prime Minister Haider al-Abadi, promise to save money and fight corruption by cutting

A United Nations police officer is accused of raping a 12-year-old girl in the Central African Republic’s capital, Bangui, during a late-night house-to-house search on Aug. 2, Amnesty International said Tuesday. Hamadoun Toure, spokesman for the United Nations mission in Bangui, said no suspect had been identified. The episode is said to have occurred during a search for a criminal suspect in Bangui. The United Nations mission in the Central African Republic has been dogged by repeated allegations of sexual abuse in recent months. (NYT)

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WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015

Officer Who Killed Unarmed Man Is Fired ARLINGTON, Tex. — A white rookie police officer who shot and killed an unarmed black college football player after the youth had broken into a car dealership was fired on Tuesday for “inappropriate judgment” in his handling of the situation, officials said. The Arlington police chief, Will D. Johnson, said that the officer, Brad Miller, 49, had been fired for making mistakes in the fatal shooting of Christian Taylor, 19, which included entering the building without his more experienced partner. Miller was hired last fall and was still in training when the shooting occurred early Friday. Miller’s lawyer did not return multiple phone calls or an email sent on Tuesday evening. The police had said that Taylor — an Arlington native who was a football player and student at Angelo State University in San Angelo — was shot around 1 a.m. Friday as he tried to flee from officers who had been dispatched to the Classic Buick GMC dealership after re-

ports of a suspected burglary. At a news conference, Johnson said that Miller made poor decisions in communicating with other officers and initially approaching Taylor on his own. There were other officers at the scene, Johnson told reporters, including Miller’s training officer, who tried to use a Taser to subdue Taylor. Johnson’s announcement represented a shift in the official police narrative of the events leading up to the shooting. Previously, Johnson told reporters that Miller and his training officer had a confrontation with Taylor inside the dealership as they tried to arrest him, and that led Miller to fire his weapon. The chief had declined to describe that event, explaining that investigators had not determined “the nature of the confrontation.” But in Tuesday’s news conference, Johnson offered a detailed account of the confrontation, saying that Taylor never made physical contact with any of the officers at the scene and indicating that

Miller’s own actions had escalated the confrontation. Johnson also said that the officers had said they saw a bulge in Taylor’s pocket. It turned out to be a wallet and a cellphone. Johnson said that the criminal investigation would proceed and that the evidence would be turned over to the district attorney, who would make a decision on whether to present it to a grand jury for a possible indictment. He said he had spoken to Taylor’s family. “I certainly expressed regret that their son had been killed,” Johnson said. Taylor’s death came days before the anniversary of another death caused by a police shooting: Michael Brown, the black teenager fatally shot by a white police officer last year in Ferguson, Mo., and whose death helped touch off a debate around the country about police interactions and excessive use of force in African-American communities. PATRICK McGEE and MANNY FERNANDEZ

Data on Use of Force May Prove Almost Useless WASHINGTON — When the Justice Department surveyed police departments nationwide in 2013, officials included for the first time a series of questions about how often officers used force. In the year since protesters in Ferguson, Mo., set off a national discussion about policing, President Obama and his top law enforcement officials have bemoaned the lack of clear answers to such questions. Without them, the debate quickly descends into the unknowable. The Justice Department survey had the potential to reveal whether officers were more likely to use force in diverse or homogeneous

cities; in depressed areas or wealthy suburbs; and in cities or rural towns. Did the racial makeup of the police department matter? Did crime rates? But when the data was issued last month, the figures turned out to be almost useless. Nearly all departments said they kept track of their shootings, but in accounting for all uses of force, the figures varied widely. Some cities included episodes in which officers punched suspects or threw them to the ground. Others did not. Some counted the use of less lethal weapons, such as beanbag guns. Others did not. And many departments either

said they did not know how many times their officers had used force or simply refused to say. The report’s flaws highlight a challenge for the Obama administration, which has called for better data but has no authority to demand that police departments keep track of it. Those that do keep track are under no obligation to release it. When the Justice Department’s civil rights investigators have scrutinized police departments and reviewed records that would not otherwise have been made public, they have found evidence of abuse. MATT APUZZO and SARAH COHEN

Democratic Party Erasing Ties to Jefferson and Jackson WASHINGTON — For nearly a century, Democrats have honored two men as the founders of their party: Thomas Jefferson and Andrew Jackson. Political candidates and activists have flocked to annual Jefferson-Jackson Day dinners, where speeches are given, money is raised, and the party celebrates its past and its future. But these rituals are colliding with a modern Democratic Party

more energized by a desire for racial and gender inclusion than history. And state by state, Democratic activists are removing the names of Jefferson and Jackson from party gatherings, saying the two men no longer represent what it means to be a Democrat. The Iowa Democratic Party became the latest to do so last weekend, joining Georgia, Connecticut and Missouri. At least five other states are considering the same

change since the massacre in June at an African-American church in Charleston, S.C. The moves by Democratic parties to remove Jefferson and Jackson from their official identity underscore one of the most consequential trends of American politics: Democrats’ shift from a union-powered party organized primarily around economic solidarity to one shaped by racial and sexual identity. (NYT)

In Brief Authorities Say Video Shows Teen Had Gun St. Louis County police investigators released surveillance video on Tuesday that they say shows an 18-year-old who was shot by their officers pulling a gun out of his waistband and pointing it as he ran toward the street late Sunday. The release of the video comes after protesters and the family of the 18-year-old, Tyrone Harris Jr., raised doubts about the police version of the events that left Harris critically injured after he was shot at by four plainclothes police detectives. After Harris raced across a street in Ferguson, Mo., where demonstrators were commemorating the first anniversary of the death of Michael Brown, the authorities said, he began firing on an unmarked police vehicle. That led to a foot chase, the police said, which ended with Harris bloodied on the pavement. (NYT)

In Colorado, E.P.A. Treating Toxic Water Nearly a week after the Environmental Protection Agency accidentally breached a store of chemical-laced water from an abandoned mine in southwest Colorado, toxic water continues to spill at a rate of 500 to 700 gallons a minute, E.P.A. officials said Tuesday. The agency is treating the toxic water as it pours out, said David Ostrander, a regional emergency response director for the E.P.A. Colorado, New Mexico and the Navajo Nation have declared states of emergency. Gina McCarthy, the administrator of the E.P.A., apologized for the accident at an energy forum in Washington. (NYT)

Former Governor’s Convictions Stand A federal appeals court has declined to review the case of former Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell, letting his convictions on public corruption charges stand. The 15-member 4th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals in Richmond issued the decision Tuesday. A jury in September found McDonnell and his wife, Maureen McDonnell, guilty of doing favors for a wealthy businessman in exchange for more than $165,000 in gifts and loans (AP)

BUSINESS

WEDNESDAY, AUGUST 12, 2015

THE MARKETS

Traders Make $100 Million on Data Hack ager and former Morgan Stanley employee living in a Philadelphia suburb, made $17 million in illegal profits, the indictment said. But the five-year scheme came undone Tuesday when federal prosecutors from Brooklyn and New Jersey announced a series of arrests and the filing of indictments. Early Tuesday, the authorities arrested Korchevsky, 50, at his home in Glen Mills, Pa., and four other men, in Georgia and in Brooklyn. Arrest warrants were issued for four other men. “This is the intersection of hacking and securities fraud,” Paul J. Fishman, the United States attorney for the district of New Jersey, said. “The hackers were relentless and patient.” In one indictment, federal prosecutors said five of the men broke

into companies like Business Wire and PR Newswire over five years to steal more than 150,000 news releases being prepared by publicly traded corporations. Another company whose releases were stolen before they were made public was Marketwired. Fishman did not fault the wire services and said they had cooperated with the investigation. The stolen news releases gave the rogue traders a big advantage over others in the stock market by allowing them to trade on news before it hit the wires, the authorities said. The men who used the stolen information to trade the stocks paid the hackers a flat fee or a percentage of the profits gained from the illegal trading, the S.E.C. said in a separate complaint. MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN and ALEXANDRA STEVENSON

Greece Nears Agreement on Details of New Bailout ATHENS — The Greek government appeared on Tuesday to be on the verge of clinching a deal for a new international bailout worth as much as $95 billion in exchange for accepting harsh austerity terms and making sweeping changes to the way the country does business. European officials cautioned on Tuesday that approval of the accord was far from certain. And Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany told Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras in a phone call that Berlin was skeptical about the deal, saying talks should continue “for a few weeks,” according to a Greek government official. Even if it becomes final, the bailout deal — agreed to in princi-

ple last month but only now drafted in extensive detail — would grant Greece billions of euros in fresh aid to avoid an imminent default but would not help revive the Greek economy, which has plunged into a deep recession. The deal in its current form offers no relief on Greece’s staggering debt, which now exceeds €315 billion, or $345 billion, despite insistence by International Monetary Fund and Greek officials that an easing of that burden be part of any package. And the uncertainties surrounding months of bailout negotiations have further damaged the Greek economy, potentially making an eventual recovery more difficult than ever. While Greek officials were

quick to announce early Tuesday that an agreement worth up to €86 billion had been reached after a 20-hour negotiating session in an Athens hotel, European officials said that a final accord had not yet been achieved. “What we have is a technical-level agreement,” Annika Breidthardt, a spokeswoman for the European Commission, told a daily news conference on Tuesday. “What we don’t have at the moment is a political agreement.” Breidthardt said that the deal was worked out by representatives of the European Commission, the European Central Bank, the I.M.F. and the eurozone’s bailout fund, the European Stability Mechanism. LIZ ALDERMAN

Puerto Rico to Issue $750 Million in Revenue Bonds Eight days after it defaulted on bond payments for the first time, the government of Puerto Rico said on Tuesday that it planned to issue $750 million more in bonds for an array of construction and maintenance projects. The announcement comes less than a month before a high-level working group is scheduled to reveal plans for a broad restructuring of the island’s debt. The new borrowing would be carried out by Puerto Rico’s Aqueduct and Sewer Authority, a government enterprise widely

known by its Spanish acronym, Prasa. The $750 million would be used for projects over the next four years, and to pay back certain bills Prasa has owed since 2013. The new bonds would be revenue bonds, to be repaid by the fees that residents and businesses pay for water and sewer services. A prospectus showed that the bonds had not yet been rated. Kent Collier, chief executive of Reorg Research, a firm that monitors Puerto Rico on behalf of hedge funds and other clients,

called the authority “one of the better performing public corporations” on the island. It has a monopoly on essential services, which, credit analysts generally agree, makes its bonds less risky than those sold for nonessential projects, like stadiums. Prasa runs dams, treatment plants, pumping stations and more than 20,000 miles of water and wastewater pipelines islandwide. A recent engineer’s report called the authority “a critical entity for the well-being of Puerto Rico.” MARY WILLIAMS WALSH

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Australia (Dollar) Bahrain (Dinar) Brazil (Real) Britain (Pound) Canada (Dollar) China (Yuan) Denmark (Krone) Dom. Rep. (Peso) Egypt (Pound) Europe (Euro) Hong Kong (Dollar) Japan (Yen) Mexico (Peso) Norway (Krone) Singapore (Dollar) So. Africa (Rand) So. Korea (Won) Sweden (Krona) Switzerland (Franc)

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It was a symbiotic relationship that brought together the underbelly of Wall Street and the dark reaches of the online world. From their homes in the United States, dozens of rogue stock traders would send overseas hackers a shopping list of corporate news releases they wanted to get a sneak peek at before they were made public. The hackers, working from Ukraine, would then deliver how-to videos by email with instructions for gaining access to the releases. In all, 32 traders and hackers reaped more than $100 million in illegal proceeds in a scheme that may be the biggest to marry the wizardry of computer hacking to old-fashioned insider trading, according to indictments unsealed Tuesday. One of the men, Vitaly Korchevsky, a hedge fund man-

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Markets Slide After Currency Devaluation After China shocked investors on Tuesday by devaluing the its currency, a wave of selling swept the globe. The price of oil plunged, the currencies of other countries tumbled and stock markets skidded on every continent. For once, the markets may not have overreacted. Investors have been able to live with the problems brewing in China’s economy for years. The authorities always seemed to have the financial firepower and the will to rev up China’s $10 trillion economy when it sputtered. But the devaluation has rekindled concerns that China’s economy is substantially weaker than official figures suggest and that its leadership is running out of ways to bolster growth. James W. Paulsen, chief investment strategist at Wells Capital

Management, said investors’ perceptions of China dimmed after the authorities intervened to stem the selling of Chinese stocks. “Now, this devaluation has just made it worse,” he said. The devaluation of the renminbi, nearly 2 percent against the dollar, may help revive the economy. When a country devalues, its goods cost less in other currencies, which can lead to an increase in demand for those goods globally. Still, investors can view devaluations warily. Some analysts had speculated that China would adjust its exchange rate, but the change, when it came, was far greater than expected, prompting analysts to ask whether the Chinese authorities were acting from a position of weakness. “This is the second time in two

or three months that they surprised us with what seemed like abrupt policy changes,” said Jorge O. Mariscal, chief investment officer for emerging markets at UBS. “They were almost panicky measures — that is the concern.” Mariscal added that investors might have expected the adjustment to be a 2 percent decline in a year, not 2 percent in a day. The move rippled through the markets on Tuesday. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 212.33 points, or 1.21 percent, to close at 17,402.84. The Standard & Poor’s 500 declined by 0.96 percent to close at 2,084.07. The 10-year Treasury note, a safe haven on troubled days in the market, rose in price, pushing its yield down to 2.137 percent. The currencies of Asian countries declined on Tuesday.PETER EAVIS

Autonomy Seen as a Goal in Google’s Restructuring SAN FRANCISCO — For a glimpse of how Larry Page might envision the way a newly restructured Google will work, take a look at Nest Labs, the company’s Internet-connected thermostat business. Nest is in Palo Alto, Calif., a few miles up the freeway from Google’s headquarters in Mountain View. Nest employees call themselves Nesters, not Googlers. Nest hosts its customers’ data on Amazon’s Web Services platform, the biggest competitor to Google’s cloud computing efforts. All of Nest’s functions report to Tony Fadell, chief executive of the business. That autonomous

structure is a sign of things to come now that Page, co-founder and chief executive of Google, has said that he is reorganizing the Internet company under a new framework. Page announced on Monday that he was creating Alphabet, a parent entity, under which there will be half a dozen businesses as a means to stoke entrepreneurialism and keep innovation going. Restructuring Google more along the lines laid out by Nest is important, given how sprawling the company has become. Google has mushroomed into a company with 57,000 employees and $66 billion in annual revenue.

“There can be a lot of cross-company confusion when companies get too big, and this will allow people to build the right set of products for the right users without worrying about interference from other groups inside the company,” said Wesley Chan, a partner at venture capital firm Felicis Ventures. Inside Google many employees were excited by the prospect of a more independent structure. It will probably take years before anyone, Googlers included, fully understands how Alphabet will work, but Wall Street already loves the move. CONOR DOUGHERTY

Alphabet? Google Just Might Get Some Letters One can only assume that before Larry Page and Sergey Brin chose Alphabet as the name for their new holding company, they Googled it. If so, they would have discovered that the Internet domain alphabet.com, as well as the trademark Alphabet, already belonged to the German automaker BMW. And if they had called BMW headquarters in Munich, they would have discovered something else: BMW does not want to sell. Alphabet is the name that Page and Brin, Google’s founders, have given their newly created parent entity.

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On Wall Street, there is an Alphabet Funds. Lots of midsize and small companies also use the name Alphabet. There is an Alphabet Energy in Hayward, Calif.; an Alphabet Record Company in Austin, Tex.; an Alphabet Plumbing in Prescott, Ariz.; and numerous preschools, inns and restaurants with some variation. For many, the brush with Google’s aura is an interesting curiosity. “It’s quite flattering really,” said Steve Lockwood, the company secretary of Alphabet, a small recruitment and outsourcing firm in London. “We probably won’t put it on the agenda to sue them

over it, but if they want to make us a very generous offer for our domain names, we’ll certainly consider it.” Others had a problem with Google showing up as Alphabet. “We do all of our business online, and Google could really affect us,” said Jennifer Blakeley, who in 2008 registered Alphabet Photography as an online retail store selling printed photos of buildings and natural formations that look like letters. Yet legal action seems difficult. “Who sues Google?” said Blakeley, who is based in Niagara Falls, Ontario. (NYT)

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113.49 17.79 13.35 10.22 9.48 34.65 7.68 13.89 46.41 8.21

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% Volume Stock (Ticker) Close Chg chg (100) 10 TOP GAINERS Yodlee (YDLE) 16.20 Lipoci (LPCN) 17.37 Novava (NVAX) 13.89 NTELOS (NTLS) 8.99 Terex (TEX) 26.78 Shenan (SHEN) 42.78 ICUMed (ICUI) 119.50 Seabri (SA) 5.76 Johnso (JOUT) 24.56 PFSweb (PFSW) 13.51

+3.60 +3.40 +2.70 +1.68 +4.95 +6.71 +18.43 +0.74 +3.03 +1.59

+28.6 +24.3 +24.1 +23.0 +22.7 +18.6 +18.2 +14.7 +14.1 +13.3

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% Volume Stock (Ticker) Close Chg chg (100) 10 TOP LOSERS Envest (ENV) WorldA (WRLD) AvidTe (AVID) Ascent (ASCMA) Immune (IMDZ) ZebraT (ZBRA) PapaMu (FRSH) Cellde (CLDX) Biospe (BSTC) Rentra (RENT)

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: Hertz Global Holdings Inc., down 62 cents to $16.50. The rental car company, which is working to cut costs, said that its profit and revenue fell during the second quarter. United Continental Holdings Inc., up 72 cents to $57.87. United Airlines said passengers flew more miles and left fewer seats empty in July compared with the same month a year ago. Terex Corp., up $4.95 to $26.78. The crane maker is merging with Finnish rival Konecranes. The new company will be called Konecranes Terex PLC. Google Inc., up $27.16 to $690.30. The Internet search company is creating a holding company called Alphabet containing Google, research projects and other businesses. Symantec Corp., down $1.57 to $21.34. The cybersecurity company is selling its Veritas information management business for $8 billion to The Carlyle Group and GIC. Red Robin Gourmet Burgers Inc., down $8.16 to $80.15. The casual restaurant chain’s second-quarter earnings beat expectations, but its revenue for the quarter did not. (AP)

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Milan’s Expo Finds Success, Despite Muddled Message At the New York Crystal Palace Exhibition in 1853, the potato chip made its debut. The Pan-American Exposition of 1901 in Buffalo introduced the X-ray machine. This year’s world’s fair, otherwise known as Expo Milano 2015, may not reinvent the potato chip, but it, too, is a snapshot of its times, a fun fair for an age of anxiety. Taking as its theme “Feeding the Planet, Energy for Life,” the fair, which runs through October, is billed as “a laboratory of innovation” on “sustainable development, food security and quality in the production chain,” the organizers write. It is part Disneyland, part Venice Biennale for consciousness-raising about climate change and food waste — only without the rides or the art. I arrived in July, in the middle of a heat wave that seemed to intensify all the talk about climate change, and found that Expo veered between the playful and the apocalyptic. In all, Expo has around 150 dining spots, including McDonald’s. A question came to mind: Is Expo part of the problem or part of the solution? Above all, Expo is huge: less a conference center than a small city, with 54 national pavilions placed along a nearly milelong central artery, and other buildings on side streets.

The U.S. pavilion at Expo Milano has a vertical garden that uses drip irrigation to grow vegetables. SAMUELE PELLECCHIA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Unlike most other countries, the United States by law must draw only on private sponsors to finance its pavilion. The building has a vertical garden, where kale and other vegetables are grown with drip irrigation. Some Expo pavilions are best seen from the outside, like the beautiful wadi Sir Norman Foster designed for the United Arab Emirates pavilion. The Israeli pavilion features a striking vertical field in which crops are grown using innovative irrigation methods. Britain’s somewhat high-concept pavilion has a 56-foot-high aluminum beehive. Visitors enter a narrow passageway that slices through a meadow at eye level, to replicate a bee’s-eye view. Mosimann’s, the London caterer that cooks for the royal household,

runs the kitchen. In the German pavilion, visitors are subjected to a 10-minute video explaining the exhibition’s concept and then instructed to hold pieces of cardboard at a precise angle (three people at a time) to sensors that then project information on the environment. “Incredible,” I heard an Italian visitor remark. “Only the Germans would give you rules for how to have fun.” The Italian pavilion’s white lattice facade is made from what a spokesman told me was “biodynamic concrete.” Behind it rises the Tree of Life, where each evening there’s a sound and light show with schmaltzy music. The most fun I had at Expo was inside the Japanese pavilion, a full sensory experience that culminates in a zany live performance,

with actors arriving on little electric seats, clapping their hands and singing. It felt like an outtake from “Lost in Translation.” Pavilion Zero, run by the United Nations, was the most impressive display. A huge wall of monitors shows the changing prices of foodstuffs (canola, papaya, beef, potatoes) on the world’s stock exchanges, along with food ads. The sobering message: Our food choices have consequences. While McDonald’s has pride of place on the main drag, the biodiversity pavilion, with organic food, is tucked away in a hardto-find corner. “In my view, this perfectly reflects our place in the world,” said Sofia Cavazzoni, the Expo communications director for Alce Nero, an Italian consortium of organic food producers, which is running the pavilion. “Unfortunately, we’re always marginalized.” At Alce Nero Berberè, the restaurant there run by the Bologna restaurant of the same name, for 9 euros (not much more than the price of a meal at McDonald’s) you can have a perfect margherita pizza made with organic buffalo mozzarella, simple fresh tomato sauce and a crust with natural yeast. This pizza alone was worth the entire visit to Expo. RACHEL DONADIO

Bartenders Who Whip Up Cocktails That Aren’t for Everybody Del Pedro, the managing partner of Tooker Alley, a bar in Brooklyn, pours an ounce and a half of tequila into a glass. He follows that with some genever, the malty Dutch gin. Then it really gets weird. He adds a half-ounce of Parfait Amour, a liqueur tasting of vanilla and flowers that even the most curious of mixologists have opted to politely ignore. He’s not done. Next comes a teaspoon of Martini bianco vermouth, with its strong note of oregano. Stirred over ice and strained into a coupe glass, the drink, which Pedro calls an Amethyst, is light lavender in color and tastes a bit like a violet candy. It is not for everybody. Though the cocktail is ordered often, one out of every seven or eight is sent back. And Pedro is fine with that. It’s conventional wisdom that there are a lot of odd potions calling themselves cocktails these days.

Matt Grippo makes a Yellow King at Blackbird.

PETER DASILVA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

What’s less known is that there are drinks that are considered peculiar even by the bartenders who invented them. Still, a few end up on the menu anyway because their creators believe in them. Bartenders have various pet terms for these challenge drinks. Pedro calls the Amethyst a “10 percenter,” meaning one-tenth of his customers will like it. Matt Grippo, a partner and the gener-

al manager at Blackbird in San Francisco, labels them “Easter egg cocktails,” surprises that await patrons who give cocktail lists a close read. Matt Piacentini, owner of the Up & Up in Greenwich Village, uses the term “experimental tracks.” Piacentini sees them as a guard against complacency. “We have to put stuff out there that pushes the envelope in one way or another and see if people are going to like it,” he said. “Either way, it leads to a conversation.” One of the Up & Up’s current outliers is Peat’s Dragon, a sort of Rob Roy with two types of Scotch and a black pepper tincture. It’s aggressively strong and spicy. When one of his Amethysts boomerangs, Pedro said, he takes it almost as “a kind of validation.” “We’re trying to create things that are palatable and good, of course,” he said. “But we can’t operate within the same bandwidth

all the time or it becomes really repetitious or safe.” Grippo admits to a certain amount of selfishness when he devotes a piece of menu real estate to something like the Yellow King, a bitter drink made of Aveze (a gentian liqueur), Cocchi Americano (an aperitif wine) and dry vermouth. “Those drinks are more for bartenders and enthusiasts, people who haven’t tried something with a particular ingredient,” he said. Nico de Soto, an owner of Mace in the East Village, is known for coloring outside the lines with almost every drink he creates. For him, there really is no other option but to send outliers up the flagpole and see if anyone salutes. “When you do a cocktail list, you’re not going to please everyone,” he said. “You have to push. Otherwise, you’d just put raspberry and lychee in every cocktail.” ROBERT SIMONSON

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