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hether they are deployed halfway around the world or docked in their homeports, Sailors aboard naval vessels must be on the alert at all times, always prepared to defend their ship with lethal force if necessary to protect lives and vital assets. The aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) ensures its security forces are ready by conducting shipboard weapons firing several times each month. At least once a week, Sailors aboard TR hear the announcement, “Stand clear of the flight deck and fantail while conducting crew-serve weapons shoot,” followed shortly by bursts of machine gun fire echoing around the ship. “We have several different weapons we fire during our gun shoots,” said Gunner’s Mate 2nd Class Christopher Thompson. “Our Gunner’s Mates train on everything we have: the M9 [service pistol], M16 [service rifle], and the M240B and M2 .50 caliber crew-serve weapons.”

other vessels, or contacts. The ship will often ecurity personnel participate in the shoots set gun quarters to ensure TR has the right level as well, qualifying and familiarizing with the weapons they carry while on patrol. of security in place while a contact is assessed. “Security is the first line of defense for the ship,” During those times, it is critical to have qualified said Master-at-Arms 1st Class Jesse Lang. “A lot of and well-trained Sailors manning their gun stations. the people we get haven’t “Gun quarters can be fired a weapon since boot camp, and some have called away at any time,” said Thompson. “What we never fired the M16 so want is to have enough of it’s important to get them a response team to man out there to fire these the guns 24/7 if we need weapons so they know to.” how to use them and what ” Shortly after returning it feels like to actually fire them.” to the U.S. after deployment, TR is Before taking part in any scheduled to conduct live fire exercises, Sailors Master-at-Arms 1st Class Jesse Lang a crew swap with the attempting to qualify aircraft carrier USS conduct dry-fire training George Washington where they practice manipulating the weapon without actually firing it. (CVN 73), and more than one-third of TR’s Sailors will be moving to a new ship. Despite the large Qualified personnel also participate in gun personnel turnover, TR has plans to ensure it has shoots in order to maintain familiarity with the the right number of qualified Sailors. weapons. “Our goal is to have at least one-third of the “Shooting involves a lot of muscle memory,” said crew qualified before the crew swap,” said Chief Lang. “If you don’t practice, you’ll forget what Gunner’s Mate Semaj Jordan. “We’ll be losing a lot works best for you.” of people to the George Washington, so we’ll need The Arabian Gulf is a relatively small but busy to have enough people to take their place.” body of water and TR routinely encounters

“Shooting requires a lot of muscle memory. If you don’t practice, you’ll forget what works best for you.

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Couple Linked to ISIS, Perplexing All HARD-LINE RULE STARKVILLE, Miss. — She was a cheerleader, an honor student, the daughter of a police officer and a member of the high school homecoming court who wanted to be a doctor. He was an easygoing psychology student. His father is a wellknown Muslim patriarch here, whose habit of sharing food with friends and strangers made him seem like a walking advertisement for Islam as a religion of tolerance and peace. Today, the young woman, Jaelyn Young, 19, and the young man, her fiancé, Muhammad Dakhlalla, 22, are in federal custody, arrested on suspicion of trying to travel from Mississippi to Syria to join the Islamic State. They each face up to 20 years in prison. Friends and strangers alike said it was difficult to imagine two less likely candidates for the growing roster of aspiring American jihadists. “Something must have happened to her,” Elizabeth Treloar, 18, said of Young, her friend. “She’s too levelheaded, too smart to do this.” Dakhlalla’s relatives were as

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shocked as anyone when he and Young were arrested last weekend on their way to a regional airport, where they had intended to catch the first in a series of flights that would eventually put them in Istanbul. The only plans the family knew of, said Dennis Harmon, a lawyer, were that he would attend graduate school in the fall at Mississippi State University. Young, who three years ago was broadcasting silly jokes on Twitter and singing the praises of the R&B singer Miguel, had more recently professed a desire to join the Islamic State, according to an F.B.I. agent’s affidavit in support of a criminal complaint. On July 17, the day after a young Muslim man

in Chattanooga, Tenn., fatally shot five United States servicemen, Young rejoiced, the affidavit alleges, in an online message to an F.B.I. agent posing as a supporter of the Islamic State, or ISIS. “Alhamdulillah,” she wrote, using the Arabic word of praise to God, “the numbers of supporters are growing.” Though a number of young Muslims in the United States have been seduced by the Islamic State, the fact that it has resonated as far as Starkville has set off an understandable wave of distress here — a feeling that the struggle and terror in foreign deserts are not as far from the American heartland as they might have seemed. When Nick Crews, 34, a musician and neighbor of the Dakhlallas, noticed unmarked police cars choking the block last weekend, he immediately guessed that “some idiot redneck did something to the mosque.” “I certainly didn’t think somebody got arrested for wanting to join ISIS,” he said. “That just wasn’t on my radar.” RICHARD FAUSSET

Sanders Fights Portrait of Him on the Fringes WASHINGTON — These days, Sen. Bernie Sanders, a professed socialist, does not feel rejected by his colleagues so much as baffled by a clubby institution that does not seem to understand the deep resentment about economic inequality that his campaign has tapped. “When I’m outside of here,” he said, “the ideas and the points that we are making are reverberating very strongly with the American people.” For all his newfound attention, Sanders is still regarded by his Senate colleagues as a peripheral figure whose surging presidential campaign is more of a curio than a cause for reassessment. Senators “are kind of surprised at the phenomenon,” said Vermont’s senior Sen. Patrick J. Leahy, who is backing Hillary Rodham Clinton. “But nobody is trash-talking Bernie.” That is because many senators respect Sanders’s consistency

and fealty to his principles, his policy fluency and his ability to work with Republicans when he was chairman of the Committee on Veterans’ Affairs to pass legislation that overhauled the veterans’ health care system. Others consider such legislation a notable exception for a compromise-allergic ideologue who has managed to infuriate some moderate Democrats resentful of his self-assigned role as the Senate’s liberal conscience. Sanders is also not much of a favorite of Capitol Hill reporters who have grown used to his grumbling expressions of displeasure at the political nature of their questions. Asked about an “Excalibur” hanging on a wall in his office, Sanders made it clear he knows his reputation. “That is from Ross Perot,” he said. “He said: ‘When media gives you a problem, take it out! Threaten them!’ ” (It was a gift

for his work on the veterans bill.) The way Sanders sees it, his career has not been that of a gadfly on the margins of Congress, but rather that of a moral force pulling the mainstream toward his positions. “Stay with me on this one because this is important,” Sanders said. Passing legislation is “real,” he said, but so is influencing opinion over the long term by speaking out early and often. “I am a voice,” he said. “Everybody talks about income inequality. Well, check it out. Find out who was talking about it 20 years ago.” Asked in his office — a space decorated with books (“Wage Theft in America”), framed roll calls and pictures of him and President Bill Clinton — if he was a better politician than colleagues gave him credit for, Sanders put his finger to his lips. “Shh,” he said with a smile. “Don’t give it away. You are going to ruin it for me.” JASON HOROWITZ

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LASHKAR GAH, Afghanistan — As they have captured more territory in Afghanistan this year, the Taliban have twinned their military offensive with a publicity push. Their pitch goes something like this: We’ve learned the lessons from our time in power, and we’re ready to moderate a bit. At international conferences, delegates from the Taliban — infamous for outlawing girls’ schools during their rule from 1994 to 2001 — have made a point of being willing to meet and talk with female officials. Old hard-line stances against music and photography have been softening. But for insight into how the Taliban might rule if they succeed in holding large stretches of Afghanistan, consider Baghran district, in the southern province of Helmand. There, where the Taliban were scarcely ever out of power, the harsh old policies of the ’90s are in effect. Men are hauled into jail if they shave beards, and turban checks are in place to expose fancy haircuts. And there is still no freedom for women to travel or learn. The Taliban in Baghran are not an insurgent force but the government. “In Baghran, you feel like you are in a mini-emirate of the Taliban,” said a shopkeeper, Esmatullah Baghrani, 45, referring to the Taliban’s formal name, the Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan. “When I am out of Baghran, I feel like I am in a different world.” There is no cellphone service in Baghran, reflecting the Taliban’s wishes. Instead, people communicate with the outside world through a handful of “public call offices” — phones in stores near the bazaar. But the Taliban’s rule has still proved at least tolerable to many rural Afghans who have endured decades of war. Residents of other parts of Helmand, caught in the cross hairs of the war, have sought out Baghran’s relative security. “People are suffering under constant war, but we don’t suffer those kinds of problems,” said Hasti Khan, a farmer. JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN and TAIMOOR SHAH

INTERNATIONAL

Finance Ministers Approve Bailout ATHENS — The Greek Parliament and eurozone ministers approved an international loan deal on Friday that the Greek government needs to avoid defaulting on a debt payment next week. But an all-night debate required in Greece, and a growing rebellion within Prime Minister Alexis Tsipras’s leftist Syriza party, seemed to have pushed his coalition closer to spinning apart. The dissent may force Tsipras to soon call for a vote of confidence in his government. With 222 Greek lawmakers approving the bill, 75 voting against it or abstaining, and three absent, Parliament signed off on a package that would grant Greece as much as 86 billion euros, or about $95 billion. Later, the deal was ratified by eurozone finance ministers in an emergency meeting in Brussels. The accord requires Greece to put in place strict spending limits, new tax increases and sweeping changes in the way it manages its economy. But the terms, which also include raising the retirement age, have proved unacceptable to a growing number of lawmakers. An official close to Tsipras said the prime minister would call for a vote of confidence in his government after Thursday, when Greece needs to repay a €3.2 billion in debt, or $3.6 billion, to the European Central Bank. Tsipras is counting on the bailout being approved by all parties by that day, so that Athens can make the payment. LIZ ALDERMAN and NIKI KITSANTONIS

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Kerry, in Cuba, Links Trade Embargo to Rights HAVANA — John Kerry, the first secretary of state to visit Cuba in 70 years, said on Friday that the Cuban government could not expect the United States to lift its trade embargo unless it moved to improve its record on human rights. “There is no way Congress is going to vote to lift the embargo if they’re not moving with respect to issues of conscience,” Kerry told reporters near the end of his 12-hour visit here. “It is a two-way street,” he added. To try to make headway on human rights and other thorny issues, the two sides decided Friday to form a new steering committee of Cuban and American officials. Its first meeting will take place in Cuba on Sept. 10 and 11, Kerry said, with another session in the United States. But there was no sign of flexibility on human rights on the part of the Cuban authorities. At a news conference with Kerry, Cuba’s foreign minister, Bruno Rodríguez

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Workers carry the seal of the United States outside the embassy before hanging it. Parrilla, said his government was interested in pursuing new areas of cooperation, but he sought to deflect attention from his country’s record by criticizing Washington’s record on human rights. “We, too, have concerns about human rights in the United States,” Rodríguez said through a translator. “Cuba is not a place where there are acts of racial dis-

crimination or police brutality that result in deaths; nor is it under Cuban jurisdiction or on Cuba territory that people are tortured or held in a legal limbo.” The morning’s highlight was a carefully choreographed ceremony at the American Embassy. Richard Blanco, a Cuban-American poet who read a poem at Obama’s second inauguration, becoming the first openly gay person to deliver such a reading, recited one of his works. Three retired Marines who had lowered the American flag when the embassy was closed in 1961 presented another to be raised by the Marines now assigned there. The lectern for the ceremony was set up next to the flagpole near the north side of the waterfront embassy compound, making the waters of the Straits of Florida a backdrop for the speakers and musicians — what Blanco called “the lucid blues of our shared horizon.” MICHAEL R. GORDON

Japanese Premier’s Remorse Stops Short of Apology TOKYO — Using the carefully chosen words that govern reckonings with Japan’s militarist past, Prime Minister Shinzo Abe reiterated his country’s official remorse for the catastrophe of World War II on Friday, on the eve of the 70th anniversary of the war’s end. In a nationally televised address, Abe described feelings of “profound grief” and offered “eternal, sincere condolences” for the dead. He said Japan had inflicted “immeasurable damage and suffering” when it “took the

wrong course and advanced along the road to war.” But in a potentially contentious break with previous expressions of contrition by Japanese leaders, he did not offer a new apology of his own. The decision appeared calibrated to draw a line under what Abe and many of his countrymen see as an endless and enfeebling cycle of apologies for decades-old offenses. But Abe sought to do so while still addressing lingering historical resentment in China

and South Korea, nations that bore the brunt of Japan’s often brutal empire building in the first half of the 20th century. Abe said that there was a limit to the number of times Japan could apologize. “We must not let our children, grandchildren and even further generations to come, who have nothing to do with that war, be predestined to apologize,” Abe said. It is enough, he added, “to inherit the past, in all humbleness, and pass it on to the future.” JONATHAN SOBLE

In Brief Police Suspected in Killings The authorities in São Paulo said Friday that they were investigating whether police officers were involved in a series of execution-style killings that left at least 18 people dead. The shootings were carried out by gunmen wearing balaclavas during a span of about three hours on Thursday night in São Paulo, Brazil’s largest city, according to video images captured on security cameras and witness accounts. “When we get to the suspects, whether they are police or not, we’ll act quickly to detain them,” said Alexandre de Moraes, the top security official in São Paulo State. He said investigators were examining whether the killings were reprisals for the recent shooting deaths of two police officers.

Police officers killed at least 2,212 people in Brazil in 2013, though the actual number is thought to be much higher. (NYT)

Death Toll From Fire Rises The high-rise apartment complex closest to Tianjin’s toxic chemical storage inferno was only 2,000 feet away, despite Chinese laws requiring a 3,200-foot minimum distance from hazardous sites. The disclosure was among the new details emerging on Friday that suggested possible criminal negligence, mixed with rife speculation of an official cover-up, in the aftermath of the fire Wednesday night in Tianjin — China’s third-largest city and a major northeast seaport, about 90 miles east of Beijing. With the death toll rising to at least

85 on Friday, more than 700 hospitalized and an unknown number still missing, the fire was shaping up as one of China’s worst industrial calamities. (NYT)

Israel Gives Detainee Fluids A Palestinian prisoner on a hunger strike for 60 days was placed on an artificial respirator and given fluids intravenously on Friday after his lungs stopped working and he had seizures. The prisoner, Mohammad Allan, could pose the first test of a new law in Israel that would allow the force-feeding of detainees to keep them alive. Allan, a 31-year-old lawyer, began his hunger strike on June 16 to protest his indefinite incarceration without known charges. (NYT)

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Letter From Obama, and Now a Second Chance MORGANTOWN, W.Va. — Rudolph Norris walked out of Morgantown federal prison two weeks ago carrying a duffel bag. He unzipped it and pulled out his invitation to try to piece back together the shards of his life. “Dear Rudolph,” the letter began, “I wanted to personally inform you that I have granted your application for commutation.” It was signed “Barack Obama.” Norris’s 22 years behind bars over with the stroke of the president’s pen, he showed off the letter to his receiving crowd of siblings, in-laws and, mostly, his all-grown-up daughter, Rajean, who had wondered if she would ever again see her father out of an orange jumpsuit. “That’s my daddy!” she said as he came into view, sounding like the 8-year-old she had been back when he was sentenced. Norris hugged and cried and fistbumped. Then the ex-inmate, a newly minted symbol of second chances,

rode the family’s rental van from West Virginia back to Maryland. Norris, 58, was one of 22 federal prisoners released on July 28 through a continuing bipartisan push to shorten the sentences of nonviolent drug offenders who, during the war-on-drugs fervor of decades ago, received punishments far lengthier than they would have drawn today. The mass incarceration of those days crowded prisons at great expense, and was found to have disproportionately penalized minority crack-cocaine offenders like Norris, who was convicted of possessing and selling the substance in 1992 and sentenced to 30 years in prison. The commutations, announced on March 31, preserve the conviction but end the sentence. President Obama announced 46 more commutations on July 13 — prisoners must wait three months for their actual release — and is considering more. During his first days of freedom,

Norris delighted in slurping his first chocolate shake and fixing his granddaughter’s Barbie playhouse. He goggled at technology he had never used, from the Internet to hands-free bathroom sinks. But he also recognized the challenges: finding work despite his record; getting his own home rather than crashing in his brother’s basement; and generally convincing a skeptical society that he is a changed man. “He’s going to be fighting for his life,” said Courtney Stewart, the founder of the Reentry Network for Returning Citizens, a volunteer organization based in Washington that helps recently released prisoners pursue employment, housing and mental health services. “It’s going to be hard as hell, but he has to be willing to do whatever it takes. It’s not going to be up to him what that is,” Stewart said. “He won’t decide how long he’s going to have to do it. He’ll have to have some faith.” ALAN SCHWARZ

In Iowa, Candidates Brave Cholesterol and Hecklers DES MOINES — There are 75 foods on a stick, including apple pie and gluten-free corn dogs. There is a cow sculpted from butter. And there are 18 presidential candidates in a bipartisan stampede to the Iowa State Fair. The 11-day fair at this midsummer point in the presidential campaign captures better than anything else the pure spectacle that has overtaken the volatile race in both parties. A Republican debate last week confirmed the disruptive power of Donald J. Trump, and the long-presumed probable Democratic nominee, Hillary Rodham Clinton, is feeling the heat from the crowds drawn to

Sen. Bernie Sanders of Vermont. On Saturday at the fair here, Trump plans to arrive by helicopter, adding to visits planned by Clinton and Sanders. The candidates have to be mindful of what they wear — jeans are in, chinos are out — and make sure they sample the Iowa delicacies, which are often packed with cholesterol. And then there are the hecklers. Sanders will speak from an open-air stage known as the Soapbox, a tradition at the fair, but Clinton and Trump will not. A CNN/ORC poll of likely Republican caucusgoers in Iowa, released Wednesday, showed Trump with 22 percent, overtak-

ing Gov. Scott Walker of Wisconsin, who was at 9 percent. Among Iowa Democrats, Clinton remained the front-runner at 50 percent, with Sanders at 31 percent. Fairgoers, however, had their eyes on a different survey: the corn caucus, in which voters drop a kernel of corn into a Mason jar for their preferred candidate. There is a steady line to cast a kernel. Trump’s supporters had filled one jar and were working on a second on Friday. “I want someone to tell it like it is,” said Cindy Gale, who cast a kernel for Trump. “I can’t see any of the rest of them doing that.” TRIP GABRIEL

F.B.I. Is Tracking Path of Classified Emails to Clinton WASHINGTON — F.B.I. agents investigating Hillary Rodham Clinton’s private email server are seeking to determine who at the State Department passed highly classified information from secure networks to Clinton’s personal account, according to law enforcement and diplomatic officials and others briefed on the investigation. Agents will try to gain access to the email accounts of many State

Department officials who worked there while Clinton was secretary of state, the officials said. State Department employees apparently circulated the emails on unclassified systems in 2009 and 2011, and some were forwarded to Clinton. They were not marked as classified, the State Department has said, and it is unclear whether its employees knew the origin of the information. The F.B.I. is also trying to de-

termine whether foreign powers, especially China or Russia, gained access to Clinton’s private server, although at this point, any security breaches are speculation. Law enforcement officials have said Clinton, who is seeking 2016 Democratic nomination for president, is not a target of the investigation, and she has said there is no evidence her account was hacked. There has also been no evidence that she broke the law. (NYT)

In Brief River Reopened After Spill of Toxic Waste The Animas River, contaminated by a mine waste spill, reopened Friday after the now-diluted toxic plume reached Lake Powell, a huge reservoir 300 miles downstream that feeds the Colorado River and supplies water to the Southwest. Water officials, however, said the plume, which includes lead, arsenic and other heavy metals, now presents little danger to users beyond Lake Powell — such as the city of Las Vegas — because the contaminants will further settle and be diluted. The Animas was closed on Aug. 6, a day after federal and contract workers accidentally unleashed three million gallons of waste from the idled mine. In New Mexico, officials lifted a precautionary ban on water from private wells but kept warnings not to drink water from the Animas or give it to livestock. (AP)

Declaration Canceled Throughout Ferguson The St. Louis County executive, in a formal indication that tensions in Ferguson, Mo., had eased since an outbreak of gunfire on Sunday night, rescinded on Friday the emergency declaration that he had issued because of “criminal unrest.” The decision by the executive, Steven V. Stenger, had been widely expected after nights of limited protests and no arrests, and it mostly affected the scores of law enforcement officials who had been assigned to police demonstrations in Ferguson. On Sunday night, an 18-year-old man, Tyrone Harris Jr., was wounded by police detectives who said he had opened fire at them. (NYT)

‘Literary Litterbug’ Admits Tossing Books A man dubbed the “literary litterbug” for tossing more than 600 books along a Colorado highway must complete 30 hours of community service and pay $1,725 in restitution and court costs. Glenn Pladsen, 62, of Arvada pleaded guilty Thursday to three counts of littering. Pladsen says he was dumping the books, which he once sold online, because he could not figure out any other way to get rid of them. (AP)

BUSINESS

SATURDAY, AUGUST 15, 2015

THE MARKETS

Europe Is Caught in a Hesitant Recovery beaches of Mykonos. The real trouble for the eurozone lurks in the big, slowgrowth economies of countries like France and Italy. Germany, too, could begin to waver, even though growth in the most recent quarter was solid. The country, which has the eurozone’s largest economy, is heavily dependent on exports. Its industries could start to feel the effects of flagging demand from China, an important customer for German machinery and cars. The economy continues to gain ground as it recovers from the regional recession that followed the global financial crisis of 2008 and the eurozone’s debt-related problems in the years that followed. As a group, the 19 eurozone countries grew at an annual rate of 1.3 percent from April through

June, down from 1.5 percent the previous quarter. Greece grew 3.1 percent, from only 0.1 percent at the beginning of the year. But Friday’s data showed that the recovery was far too weak to quickly bring down the eurozone’s unemployment rate of more than 11 percent. The eurozone continues to lag the recovery in the United States, where the latest data showed a growth rate of 2.3 percent and unemployment of 5.3 percent. “Today’s G.D.P. data show that the eurozone recovery must not be taken for granted,” Tom Rogers, an economist who advises the consulting firm Ernst & Young, said in an email. That is particularly true, he added, “in countries where little has been done to improve competitiveness and the climate for job creation.” JACK EWING

Betting on a Smooth Ride, Investors Flock to Tesla Tesla Motors has seemingly defied the law of financial gravity on Wall Street ever since the company began proving that electric cars could be sporty, powerful and trendy — not just green. The company did it again this week. When most companies disclose they are selling new shares to raise capital, their stock generally declines. But when Tesla announced on Thursday a $500 million stock sale, investors cheered. It went over so well that the company boosted the sale on Friday to $642 million worth of shares. And if the banks underwriting the deal exercise their options, the total could approach $750 million. Tesla’s stock price opened on

Thursday morning at $239.86 a share. By Friday, it had closed at $243.15. Even though investors had anticipated a stock sale after Tesla’s founder, Elon Musk, hinted at one in a conference call on Aug. 5, and the value had corrected by roughly 10 percent to compensate since then, Wall Street’s positive reaction this week still surprised some analysts. “Investors are really pouring money into it,” said Akshay Anand, an analyst at Kelley Blue Book. “Tesla seems to have an allure all its own.” But the company’s sky-high valuation is also based on everything going as planned in the coming years, Anand said.

Tesla has estimated it will sell 500,000 vehicles a year by the end of the decade — a sharp increase from around 50,000 annually today. The automaker also estimated it will sell more than a million vehicles by 2025, depending on the success of new models like the Model X sport utility vehicle launching next month, and the coming mass-market-oriented Model 3. “A lot of their valuation seems to be depending on all things working out,” Anand said. “If this was another company, I’d say those expectations are unrealistic,” Anand said. “But that’s kind of the allure of Tesla. They shoot for the moon.” AARON M. KESSLER

China Holds Steady on Its Currency After 3-Day Drop HONG KONG — China’s currency stabilized on Friday, ending a three-day plunge that shook markets globally during the renminbi’s steepest devaluation in decades. For the first time since Tuesday, the country’s central bank set the official exchange rate higher — though only slightly — against the dollar. The renminbi responded by strengthening 0.1 percent, ending the week at 6.392 per dollar. Still, that meant the People’s Bank of China had effectively devalued the currency 4.4 percent. It was

the steepest drop since the country’s modern exchange rate system was set up in 1994. The sudden decline added fuel to a global debate about currency wars. It also raised concerns about whether Chinese leaders could manage the country’s huge but slowing economy as they pursue market-driven overhauls to the financial system, which remains under state control. China’s stock markets are still struggling after a sell-off that began in mid-June. The government took extraordinary mea-

sures to support share prices, including barring major shareholders from selling stocks and ordering state agencies to buy, with backing from state banks. But they had little lasting effect. “China’s equities market crumbled this summer because its regulators were incapable of acting in the face of a bubble,” Daniel H. Rosen, a founding partner of the consultancy the Rhodium Group, wrote in a research note. China’s central bank “was determined not to repeat that mistake with the currency,” he said. NEIL GOUGH

DJIA

NASDAQ

69.15 0.40%

17,477.40

S & P 500

14.68 0.29%

5,048.23

8.15 0.39%

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GERMANY

FRANCE

FTSE 100

DAX

CAC 40

17.59 0.27%

6,550.74

29.49 0.27%

10,985.14

30.38 0.61%

4,956.47

AS I A /PAC I FI C JAPAN

HONG KONG

CHINA

NIKKEI 225

HANG SENG

SHANGHAI

205.11 0.99%

20,519.45

561.44 2.29%

23,991.03

221.43 5.91%

3,965.64

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TSX

BOVESPA

39.48 0.28%

501.16 D 1.04%

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BOLSA 123.81 D 0.28%

47,508.41

43,746.72

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GOLD

10-YR. TREAS. CRUDE OIL YIELD

2.80

$1,112.90

0.01 2.20%

0.13 $43.11

FOREIGN EXCHANGE Fgn. currency in Dollars

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)

.7369 2.6511 .2871 1.5643 .7642 .1565 .1489 .0222 .1277 1.1106 .1289 .0080 .0611 .1214 .7111 .0780 .0008 .1176 1.0248

Dollars in fgn.currency

1.3570 .3772 3.4834 .6393 1.3086 6.3908 6.7177 45.0000 7.8300 .9004 7.7556 124.30 16.3687 8.2345 1.4062 12.8216 1178.3 8.5055 .9758

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FRANKFURT — Eurozone economic growth disappointed on Friday, but don’t blame Greece. Despite all the political haggling over Greece’s debt problems, the country’s economic growth in the second quarter was unexpectedly brisk. The country grew more than twice as fast as the eurozone as a whole. That growth spurt could prove fleeting, since part of it reflected panic buying of appliances, cars and other items as Greeks took their money out of ailing Greek banks and spent it on durable goods. And the beginning of tourist season also gave Greece a lift, as travelers discovered that the country’s currency controls did not impede their use of foreign-bank debit and credit cards to eat in tavernas or loll on the

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Huge Screens and 3-D Used in the Art House LOS ANGELES — In the literal sense, it is going to be a spectacular film season. Though top Oscars have gone lately to tightly spun dramas like “Birdman” and “12 Years a Slave,” Hollywood’s major studios are preparing to flood festival screens and commercial theaters with a year-end wave of grown-up movie spectacles — shown in the 3-D or large-screen format that is usually reserved for action blockbusters with younger audiences. “There is a kind of show business in the fall that we’ve never had before,” said Greg Foster, the chief executive of the IMAX Corporation’s entertainment unit. He spoke of the confluence of films aimed at adults, many in 3-D, that will be delivered in IMAX and other large (and premium-priced) formats, pointing toward higher seasonal ticket sales, and perhaps a shift in viewing habits. Sales in premium-ticket buying have surged, but to sustain momentum, studios will have to attract more adults, especially in the United States, while regaining younger viewers who had drifted away from 3-D after an initial expansion more than five years ago. On Sept. 2, the Venice Film Festival will open with a 3-D thriller, Baltasar Kormakur’s “Everest,” about love and death in the Hima-

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layas. A few weeks later, Robert Zemeckis’s “The Walk,” about Philippe Petit’s high-wire walk between the World Trade Center towers in 1974, also in 3-D, will open the New York Film Festival. The Toronto International Film Festival almost went the same way for its high-profile opener: Programmers flirted with showing Ridley Scott’s “The Martian,” a 3-D interplanetary adventure from 20th Century Fox, at the firstnight gala on Sept. 10; but they instead went with Fox Searchlight’s “Demolition,” saving the film for another showcase premiere. Along with the more expected fan-driven sequels like “The Hunger Games: Mockingjay Part 2” from Lionsgate and Walt Disney’s “Star Wars: The Force Awakens,” studios will surround their big-scale festival and

Large-screen and 3-D formats are now being employed for the kind of movies shown at film festivals. Joseph Gordon-Levitt in “The Walk.”

awards bets with another tier of 3-D or giant-screen films that appeal to adults but are rooted in action, horror or family genres. Those include the James Bond film “Spectre” from Sony Pictures and MGM; the Peter Pan fable “Pan” from Warner Bros.; the horror-romance “Crimson Peak,” from Universal; and the caper film “Point Break,” from Warner and Alcon Entertainment. “Point Break,” which reimagines Kathryn Bigelow’s 1991 surfheist thriller of the same name, relies heavily on real stunts rather than digital tricks, but also capitalizes on the use of 3-D screens. “You can do a lot more now with spectacle,” said Broderick Johnson, who joins his fellow Alcon co-president, Andrew A. Kosove, as a producer of “Point Break.” MICHAEL CIEPLY

Sinking Oil Prices Are Lowering Boom in Texas KARNES CITY, Tex. — No place in Texas produces more oil than Karnes County, but suddenly the roaring economy here is cooling fast, chilled by the plunging price of crude. Workers who migrated from far and wide to find work here, chasing newfound oil riches, are being laid off, deserting their recreational vehicle parks and going home. Hay farmers who became instant millionaires on royalty checks for their land have suddenly fallen behind on payments for new tractors they bought when cash was flowing. Scores of mobile steel tanks and portable toilets used at the wells are stacked, unused, along county roads. “Everybody is waiting for doomsday,” said Vi Malone, the Karnes County treasurer. “Everything was good, and everybody was getting these big checks, and everybody waited for

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their land to be leased, and then it all came to a screeching halt around the beginning of the year.” That screeching was the price of oil cracking — to under $45 a barrel from more than $100 a barrel last summer. After a brief revival in the spring, the benchmark American price has swooned by more than 25 percent, plunging this week to a new low since the recession. Record production in the United States, along with a drilling frenzy in Iraq and Saudi Arabia, as well as the prospect that Iranian oil will again flood world markets, have spooked traders into abandoning their positions. What’s more, the very productivity here in the heart of the Eagle Ford shale fields, and the efforts by the oil companies to make them increasingly efficient, are contributing to the glut as well. The plunge has rippled far be-

yond the markets, sending the economy here and across the entire oil patch into turmoil. Nowhere is the sharp turn in fortunes as evident as in places like Karnes County and other parts of Texas, North Dakota, Louisiana, Colorado, Pennsylvania, Arkansas and Ohio that had little oil or natural gas production until drillers figured out how to tap into hard shale rocks deep underground. Elliott Skloss’s family farms in Karnes County had five oil and gas wells that earned monthly checks worth $50,000 just a year ago, but they now earn one-tenth as much because of the decline in prices and well production. “People didn’t have to work anymore,” said Skloss, a sign maker for the county road and bridge department. “Now they’ll have to work or panhandle if the oil price doesn’t go back up.” CLIFFORD KRAUSS

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Friday: J. C. Penney Co., up 45 cents to $8.52. The department store operator, which is trying to turn its business around, reported a narrower loss in its second quarter. Nordstrom Inc., up $3.21 to $78.13. Launching Nordstromrack.com and its purchase of the personalized shopping site Trunk Club boosted the retailer’s second-quarter results. Christopher & Banks Corp., down $1.55 to $1.69. To combat falling sales, the women’s clothing retailer said that it is conducting a comprehensive review of its business. El Pollo Loco Holdings Inc., down $3.80 to $14.56. Shares of the fire-grilled chicken chain fell sharply a day after the company’s financial results showed signs of slowing growth. King Digital Entertainment P.L.C., down $1.67 to $13.53. The company behind “Candy Crush” and other mobile games reported revenue for the second quarter that missed expectations. Tesla Motors Inc., up 64 cents to $243.15. The electric carmaker is pricing an upcoming offering of its stock at $242 per share, slightly below its most recent closing price. (AP)

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‘The Man From U.N.C.L.E.’ Recalls an Action-Packed ’60s Guy Ritchie makes the kind of enjoyably disreputable movies that are fun to watch until they’re not. He’s a talented flimflam artist and, for the industry, I imagine, a useful one because of how he glosses up schlocky, sketchy projects (his “Sherlock Holmes” movies and other hyperkinetic baubles), making them seem as if there’s more to their slick surfaces than naked commercialism, agency fees and facile pleasure. It works for him (he keeps getting hired), and sometimes also for us. Pleasure is, after all, rarely overrated, including in the often mind-bludgeoning arena of franchise cinema, and there’s a lot to be said for watching beautiful people doing very silly stuff on screen. His latest, “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.,” is, as its title trumpets, a big-screen rendering of that 1960s television series. Running from 1964 to ’68, the show centered on a pair of operatives, an American, Napoleon Solo (named by Ian Fleming, an early creative adviser, and played with unctuous suavity by Robert Vaughn), and his nimble Soviet counterpart, Illya Kuryakin (a professionally enigmatic David McCallum, working a blond Beatle fringe and contrasting turtlenecks). In a flourish of showbiz détente, the spies have been teamed to fight one of those fictional criminal outfits (T.H.R.U.S.H.) that make it seem as if real-world villainy can be handled with little more than charm and Zippo lighters that fire bullets. The television series is a goof, and a fig leaf for Cold War dread. The movie opens in 1963, but tries hard not to be a museum piece, partly with a slick, agitated style. It revs up in the vicinity of Checkpoint Charlie, somewhere in East Berlin, but stays there only long enough to crash some cars and pick up the actress Alicia Vikander. She plays Gaby, one of those amusingly all-purpose char-

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Henry Cavill, left, and Armie Hammer are spies who team up during the Cold War in Guy Ritchie’s big-screen rendering of the 1960s television series; left, Cavill and Alicia Vikander.

acters who can fix a car engine, slip into a couture outfit and snap a flaccid line to life. Mostly, she is the regulation Girl and narrative bridge uniting the new Napoleon (Henry Cavill, a charming stiff who seems mostly interested in trying to mimic Vaughn’s staccato) with the new Illya (Armie Hammer, easier on the eyes than ears). Written by Ritchie and Lionel Wigram, the movie throws out a lot of plot, most of which disintegrates on impact but pragmatically leads to Napoleon, Illya and Gaby in cahoots.

Locations change as fast as the actors’ outfits, and at one point Hugh Grant shows up at the races as does another attraction, the villainous Victoria (Elizabeth Debicki), who brings to mind by turns a lost Redgrave relative and Madonna, Ritchie’s ex. At times “The Man From U.N.C.L.E.” works better as a fashion show than a movie, with a wardrobe that expresses more about the era than anything in the script. Ritchie’s usual rabbity pace slows to a tortoiselike crawl whenever the actors deliver a lot of words, which gratefully isn’t often. His talent, as he proves repeatedly, is making bodies and cars crash through space, and there’s a long, divertingly twisty and wordless chase near the end that suggests he would have just killed in Mack Sennett’s studio. MANOHLA DARGIS

‘How to Smell a Rose,’ Ricky Leacock at His Farmhouse

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Leacock was a pioneer of direct cinema in the ’60s.

Through its subject and its maker, “How to Smell a Rose” puts us in the vibrant presence of documentary history. Ricky Leacock — the film’s twinkly man of the hour — helped pioneer the documentary approach called direct cinema in the 1960s, using portable cameras and synchronized sound to record everyone from John F. Kennedy to a mother of quintuplets. But in his nine decades on earth, Leacock also apprenticed with Robert J. Flaherty, director of the silent classic documentary “Nanook of the North”; shot combat photography in World War II; taught rising filmmakers at M.I.T.; and embraced shooting on video. Not bad for someone who grew up on a banana plantation in the Canary Islands. (But then again, that might be exactly what you’d expect of such fanciful-sounding origins.) In addition to recounting Leacock’s storied

career, “How to Smell a Rose” is directed (with Gina Leibrecht) by Les Blank, also a prodigiously talented cameraman, whose films simply make you happy to be alive. The same sensation wafts off this breezy final feature from Blank, who died in 2013 — two years after Leacock. In the film, the directors visit Leacock at the home he’s made in a Normandy farmhouse with his companion, Valerie Lalonde. Food is the way in for the soft-spoken Blank, as it has usually been in a filmography that includes Cajuns, bluesmen and beer. Leacock shops for vegetables and then, in his country kitchen, reminisces about beauty and misadventure in between cooking roast lamb, salmon, pot au feu and caramel. Blank, an admirer and a master of the hangout, eats it all up. We hear how Flaherty impressed on Leacock the pure and sponta-

neous power of the image when they collaborated on “Louisiana Story,” a portrait of a bayou oil rig. But it’s evident in the excerpts from Leacock’s films shown here, and from observing Leacock himself, that he had the avid eye and affable awareness for catching the right moments wherever and however they came. So did Blank: These may be tamer environs than in most of his films, but one fantastic shot here rests on Leacock’s alert eyes, darting back and forth, in his backyard. Documentary masters like Leacock and Blank have long been drawn to filming other artists, even though the enigma of artistic endeavor may appear to elude portrayal on film. But in “How to Smell a Rose,” it’s just as important to feel the relationship between these two, with Leacock as something of a mentor. NICOLAS RAPOLD

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MWR kicked off their Teddy Challenge, Aug. 15 in Hangar Bay 3. The challenge will continue, Sunday, Aug. 16. MWR is calling all Sailors and Marines to participate in the fitness challenge. Do you have what it takes?

MWR welcomed Sailors and Marines to participate in their video game tournament, Tuesday, Aug. 11 on the Aft Mess Decks. Sailors and Marines went head to head with their favorite games and gaming consoles.

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CSADD hosted their open mic night on the Aft Mess Decks Thursday, Aug. 13. Sailors and Marines took their shot at singing thier favorite songs, reciting their favorite poems and even sharing original poems and songs.

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The Health First Committee, in conjunction with the Navy and Marine Corps Health Promotion Committee, is hosting their eight-week weight management class, Ship Shape, each Tuesday and Thursday in Ready Room 10. Week seven’s topic focused on stress management.

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Media department awarded MC3 Wyatt Anthony, MC3 Anthony Hopkins II, MC3 Taylor Jackson, MC2 Christopher Liaghat and MC2 Danica Sirmans with their ESWS pins. MC2 Brian Flood earned his EAWS pin. The group brought the department’s ESWS qualification to 67% completion.

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