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ailors aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) participated in the Shipboard Explosive Safety Inspection (SESI) Aug. 11-14.

The five-day inspection required a team comprised of inspectors from Naval Ordnance Safety, Security Activity Explosive Safety Support Office, and Naval Operational Logistics Support Center Ammunition Atlantic to inspect Weapons Department’s spaces to verify the correct maintenance and storage of all ordnance aboard TR. “The purpose of SESI is to ensure that we are managing all ordnance and related programs safely and efficiently,” said Lt. Cmdr. James Willett, TR’s ordnance handling officer (OHO).

Weapons Department prepared for the inspection by regularly maintaining, cleaning and testing their equipment.

“The Weapons Department has been preparing for this inspection since my arrival two years ago,” said Willett. “All magazines, ready service lockers, programs and equipment [were] inspected.”

The inspection included everything from ensuring that Sailors performing maintenance on ordnance had the proper qualifications to checking weapons elevator functionality.

“SESI is important because this inspection allows us to be able to carry ordnance in a safe and effective manner,” said Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Sheldon Gregory, G-5 leading petty officer. “If we do not pass this inspection this ship is not able to carry ordnance in order to carry out the ship’s mission.”

After five days and numerous man hours spent inspecting more than three million pounds of ordnance, SESI came to a close.

“It went really well,” said Gregory. “I was extremely impressed with Weapons Department as a whole, how they came together with collective minds, formulated a plan and executed.”

The Sailors in Weapons Department helped TR overcome yet another hurdle and move one step closer to deployment.

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edical emergency, medical emergency. Medical emergency in compartment 1-64-5-Q. Away the medical response team. All hands not involved stand clear of the medical emergency.”

Independent Duty Corpsmen (IDC) attached to the Afloat Training Group (ATG) came aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) Aug. 8 to evaluate Sailors’ ability to respond to medical emergencies.

ATG tested Sailors from every department by staging simulated emergencies known as flopper drills.

“Flopper is nothing more than a funny name that we gave the drill. Basically it just means that someone is flopping on the ground and needs help,” said Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Chris Lockhart, a Cairo, Ga. native and lead trainer of the MTT. “Nine months prior to deployment medical wants to ensure that each department can sustain any injury at a minimal level.”

During the drills, Sailors verbally and visually walk a medical team through the treatment process while the team evaluates Sailors’ treatment of eight different battle wounds. The eight battle wounds are sucking chest wounds, amputation, facial wounds, burns, electrical shock, compound fracture, abdominal wound with protruding intestines, and smoke inhalation.

“This training is just the beginning. Medical techniques are constantly updated. So it’s our responsibility to update the Sailors on how to effectively assess and treat someone who might get injured. Training that once worked five or even two years ago might not be the same. So it is our responsibility to pass that knowledge on. Medical can’t always get to all spaces on the ship.

It’s every Sailor’s responsibility to know what to look for and how to help a fellow shipmate. You don’t want to be that one Sailor who can’t save another’s life when needed,” said Lockhart.

In case of a medical emergency call J-dial number 211 to contact medical emergency personnel.

MTT will provide continued training. Contact ship’s medical for more information on training days and times.

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Missouri Tries New Idea: Guard Troops TROOPS IN IRAQ ROUT MILITANTS Governor Lifts Curfew — Holder Will Visit FROM A KEY DAM FERGUSON, Mo. — Missouri National Guard troops entered this battered city on Monday even as an overnight curfew was lifted, the latest in a series of quickly shifting attempts to quell the violence that has upended this St. Louis suburb.

In the days since an unarmed black teenager, Michael Brown, was shot to death by a white police officer here on Aug. 9, an array of state and local law enforcement authorities have swerved from one approach to another here: taking to the streets in military-style vehicles and riot gear; then turning over power to a state highway patrol official who permitted protests and marched along; then calling again for a curfew.

Early Monday, Gov. Jay Nixon said he was bringing in the National Guard. Hours later he said he was lifting the curfew and said the Guard would have only a

limited role, protecting the police command post.

At the same time, more details emerged from autopsies performed on Brown. One showed that he had been shot six times; another found evidence of marijuana in his system.

In Washington, President Obama said Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. will go to Ferguson on Wednesday to meet with F.B.I. agents conducting a federal civil rights investigation into the shooting. He seemed less than enthusiastic about the decision to call in the National Guard.

As darkness set in, along West Florissant Avenue, one of the city’s main thoroughfares and a center of the weeklong protests, scores of people marched peacefully, carrying signs and chanting. Protesters were required to keep moving, and they complied, with crowds growing as the evening wore on.

A few blocks away, at the police command post, National Guard members, dressed in Army fatigues, some with military police patches on their uniforms, began

rolling up in white buses and military vehicles around 6 p.m.

Residents seemed puzzled and frustrated by the continuously changing approaches, suggesting that the moving set of rules was only serving to worsen longstanding tensions over policing and race.

“It almost seems like they can’t decide what to do, and like law enforcement is fighting over who’s got the power,” said Antione Watson, 37, who stood near a middle-of-the-street memorial of candles and flowers for Michael Brown, the 18-year-old killed on a winding block here.

“First they do this, then there’s that, and now who can even tell what their plan is?” Watson said.

“They can try all of this, but I don’t see an end to this until there are charges against the cop.”

Explaining his decision to call in the National Guard, Nixon recounted details of the tumult on Sunday night, and described the events as “very difficult and dangerous as a result of a violent criminal element intent upon terrorizing the community.” (NYT)

Cities Rocked by Past Unrest Offer Lessons The trigger for civil unrest in Ferguson, Mo. — the fatal shooting of an unarmed black man by a police officer — has provoked riots in American cities both small and large in the last two decades.

But few of those disturbances were as resistant to resolution as the Missouri protests, which now have drawn the National Guard and even the White House into efforts to restore calm.

And as the unrest in Ferguson stretched into its ninth day, after the black man, Michael Brown was shot by a white officer, Darren Wilson, political and civic leaders in other cities that endured similar violence said their experiences may offer lessons in how to manage such protests.

Large mobilizations of police or National Guard forces have played a role in calming many riots. But by studying unrest in Cincinnati, Oakland, Los Angeles and elsewhere, big-city police

officials have learned that the speedy release of information and groundwork with religious and civic leaders are perhaps even more crucial to stopping violence once it starts, said Chuck Wexler, the executive director of the Police Executive Research Forum in Washington.

That Gov. Jay Nixon of Missouri was forced to summon the National Guard on Monday to restore order in Ferguson speaks to the extent that the situation there has spun out of control, he said.

“At the end of the day,” Wexler said, “you’re going to have to live with the community.”

Critics say officials in Ferguson have added to tensions by making contradictory statements, declining to release details about the shooting and dispatching police units bearing military-style equipment into the streets.

Cincinnati burst into rioting in 2001 after the police shot and

killed an unarmed 19-year-old African-American.

The riots lasted four days.

The mayor at the time, Charles Luken, said city leaders made a decision not to call in the National Guard. Instead, there were times when the police backed off completely and “let people peacefully vent.”

The same was true in Los Angeles in 1992, when riots broke out after a jury acquitted four police officers of brutality in the beating of Rodney King, a black man.

“The police stood down in the inner-city communities. They took a lot of heat for that,” said Darnell Hunt, the author of a book on the six-day Los Angeles riots.

“But as a response, it was in some ways better than what Ferguson is doing in that there weren’t direct confrontations that could have led to a loss of life.”

MICHAEL WINES and ERICA GOODE

WASHINGTON — Iraqi and Kurdish ground troops overran Sunni militants and reclaimed Iraq’s largest dam on Monday, President Obama said, as American warplanes unleashed a barrage of bombs in an expansion of the limited goals laid out by the president in authorizing the military campaign in Iraq.

Obama, who interrupted a family vacation to meet Monday with his national security team in Washington, maintained that the airstrikes around the Mosul Dam were within the constraints of what he initially characterized as a limited campaign meant to break the siege of stranded Yazidis on Mount Sinjar and protect American personnel, citizens and facilities in Iraq. Administration officials repeatedly painted that second directive — the protection of American personnel and facilities in Baghdad, 290 miles away — as the justification for the intense air campaign over Mosul Dam, seized two weeks ago by militants with the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria.

But such a definition gives the White House wide latitude to support Iraqi forces in a sustained military offensive against ISIS across the country. Obama hinted that more help from the United States and international partners would come if Iraq’s Shiite majority governed in a more inclusive way.

In announcing the seizure of the strategically critical dam, Obama mixed his message with a warning to Iraqi leaders not to use the heightened American military support as an excuse to slow down political reconciliation.

“The wolf’s at the door,” the president said. “Don’t think that because we’ve engaged in airstrikes to protect our people that now is the time to let your foot off the gas and return to the kind of dysfunction that has so weakened the country generally.”

Obama credited Iraqi and Kurdish forces with moving swiftly to take advantage of some 35 American airstrikes on ISIS militants and Syria around Mosul Dam over the past two days.

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Ukraine Accuses Rebels of Attack On Refugees’ Cars DONETSK, Ukraine — Separatist rebels on Monday attacked a caravan of cars carrying refugees trying to flee war-ravaged eastern Ukraine, killing “dozens” of people in a devastating barrage of artillery fire, Ukrainian military officials said, though rebel leaders denied there had been any attack at all.

Col. Andriy Lysenko, a spokesman for the Ukrainian military, told a briefing in Kiev, the capital, that “terrorists had perpetrated a bloody crime” by attacking the refugee convoy with Grad rocket systems and other heavy weapons supplied by Russia.

Although Lysenko did not give a precise tally of the fatalities, if confirmed, the episode would easily rank among the most deadly for civilians since separatists began seizing cities and towns in the region more than four months ago.

“Many people died, including women and children,” he said, adding that the assault took place on the highway that connects the regional capital of Luhansk with the Russian border. The road has seen heavy fighting in recent days as Ukrainian forces have tried to seal off supply routes into the city from Russia.

At least 2,086 people have been killed and more than 5,000 wounded in Ukraine, a spokeswoman for the United Nations human rights office said last week, with more than half the deaths occurring in just the last two weeks.

(NYT)

DARU JOURNAL

Surviving Ebola, but Untouchable Back Home DARU, Sierra Leone — The neighbors lined up, smiling and mouthing soft congratulations when the van pulled in bearing Jattu Lahai and her 2-year-old daughter.

No one moved to embrace them. Nobody stepped out of the line of 30-odd people as Lahai, an Ebola survivor, walked to the room she shares with her husband. A conspicuous space formed around the 26-year-old woman and her baby, also a survivor, as she sat on a bench.

“When I fell sick, everybody abandoned me,” said Lahai, in her darkened room for the first time since the ambulance whisked her away two weeks ago on a trip most do not return from.

Crying softly, she wiped her tears with the hem of her dress and spoke a quiet prayer. “I didn’t think I was going to come home again,” she said, cradling her daughter, Rosalie.

Here in the Ebola zone, the world is divided in three: the living, the dead and those caught in between. For those lucky enough to survive, coming home is another struggle entirely.

Lahai’s homecoming experience — muted and cool — has been shared by many of the survivors of the Ebola epidemic spreading across West Africa.

Doctors Without Borders says only 61 of the 337 Ebola patients treated at its tent-camp treatment center in nearby Kailahun have survived. When they go home, some are greeted warmly, with hugs and dancing. But

authorization to pass.

Lahai said she stayed at home sick for three days, with severe diarrhea, before being taken to the hastily set-up isolation ward in the town of Daru. She said she had caught the disease SAMUEL ARANDA FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES from her husband, Lahai Jattu Lahai holds her 2-year-old daughter as Kallon, 32, a she returns home after treatment for Ebola. teacher who also survived.

Medical workers in suits took others, like Lahai, feel a chill her to the Doctors Without Borof wariness, or worse. In some ders treatment center in Kailaplaces, health workers said, the hun. “The day I left, it felt like neighbors flee.

“How long does the virus live?” being in the war. I was very, very afraid,” she said. “I was thinking I a man asked the health workers was going to lose my life.” who brought Lahai home.

The day Lahai came back to “What will kill it?” another dethe world of the living, she sat on manded amid a flurry of anxious the bench holding her baby, next questions. to her husband. Around them, The worries are hardly confined to Sierra Leone, the country questions about Ebola poured down on two health workers, who with the highest number of Ebola exhorted the neighbors and relacases, 810. Some in the United tives not to be fearful.

States objected to the decision to The presence of the workers take two infected American aid helped to ease the re-entry, lendworkers to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta for treatment, ing the young woman’s recovery some credibility in the eyes of her fearful the disease would be neighbors. spread further.

“Now I have come back, and I Roughly a quarter of Sierra Lecan start life again,” Lahai said. one has been cordoned off by the “Now, yes, I can go back to norgovernment, enforced by roadmal life. I am free.” blocks manned by soldiers and ADAM NOSSITER the police who demand official

In Brief A Brazen Robbery in Paris The robbery had all the elements of a Hollywood thriller: a commando-style ambush, a suitcase stuffed with cash, mysterious stolen documents, and an anonymous member of the Saudi royal family heading to the airport.

Eight masked gunmen in two cars, swooped down on the Saudi convoy, the police said, and forced the lead car to stop. Within seconds, and without firing a shot, they drove away with the suitcase filled with about $335,000 in cash and, according to French media reports, official embassy documents.

(NYT)

Cease-Fire in Gaza Extended Israeli and Palestinian officials agreed late

Monday to extend a five-day cease-fire for Gaza that expired at midnight for 24 hours, reflecting the difficulty of reaching more durable agreements after two weeks of Egyptian-brokered talks but also an apparent lack of appetite on either side to resume the conflict. The Israeli government issued a statement around midnight saying the cease-fire would be extended “at Egypt’s request” to allow for negotiations to continue. Israeli officials have refused to comment on the content or progress of the talks.

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Assange to Leave Embassy Julian Assange, the founder of WikiLeaks, who was given asylum in the Ecuadorean Embassy in London two years ago, said

Monday that he “will be leaving the embassy soon,” but he provided no specifics. In a news conference at which he was accompanied by the Ecuadorean foreign minister, Ricardo Patiño, Assange summarized his case, insisting that he had helped bring about needed change in the British extradition system and saying that his health was suffering after two years at the embassy. Assange faces extradition to Sweden, which is investigating allegations of sexual misconduct, and the British police continue to post a 24-hour guard at the embassy at a total cost thus far of at least $10 million.

Assange says that he has not been charged with any crime and that he fears that if he leaves the embassy, he will be extradited to the United States. The United States has not sought Assange’s extradition.

(NYT)

NATIONAL

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

Obama Is Seen as Frustrating His Own Party WASHINGTON — The meeting in the Oval Office in late June was called to give President Obama and the four top members of Congress a chance to discuss the unraveling situation in Iraq.

But Harry Reid, the Senate majority leader, wanted to press another point.

With Mitch McConnell, the Republican leader, sitting nearby, Reid complained that Senate Republicans were blocking the confirmation of dozens of Obama’s nominees to serve as ambassadors. He expected that the president would urge McConnell to relent.

Obama quickly dismissed the matter. “You and Mitch work it out,” Obama said coolly.

Reid seethed quietly for the rest of the meeting, according to four accounts provided by people who spoke with him about it. After his return to the Capitol, Reid told other senators and his staff members that he was astonished by how disengaged the president seemed.

After all, these were Obama’s own

ambassadors who were being blocked by McConnell, and Secretary of State John Kerry had been arguing for months that getting them installed was an urgent necessity for the administration.

But the impression the president left with Reid was clear: Capitol Hill is not my problem.

To Democrats in Congress who have worked with Obama, the indifference conveyed to Reid, one of the president’s most indispensable supporters, was frustratingly familiar. In one sense, Obama’s response was a reminder of what made him such an appealing figure in the first place: his almost innate aversion to the partisan squabbles. But nearly six years into his term, with his popularity at the lowest of his presidency, Obama appears remarkably distant from his own party on Capitol Hill, with his long neglect of would-be allies catching up to him.

In interviews, nearly two dozen Democratic lawmakers and senior congressional aides suggest-

ed that Obama’s approach has left him with few loyalists to effectively manage the issues erupting abroad and at home.

What is striking is the way prominent Democrats’ views of Obama’s shortcomings are spilling out into public, and how resigned many seem that the relationship will never improve.

In private meetings, Reid’s chief of staff, David Krone, has voiced regular dismay to lawmakers and top aides about White House operations and competency across a range of issues, according to several Democrats on Capitol Hill.

Few senators feel a personal connection to the president.

Sen. Claire McCaskill, the Missouri Democrat who was an early supporter of Obama’s presidential bid, said that if her fellow Democrats were hoping for Obama to transform into a Lyndon B. Johnson, they should quit waiting.

“For him, eating his spinach is schmoozing with elected officials,” she said.

(NYT)

Aide Describes Revolt Against Ex-Governor’s Wife RICHMOND, Va. — A longtime aide to former Gov. Bob McDonnell of Virginia on Monday portrayed the governor’s wife, Maureen, as an unstable, angry woman who flirted with the businessman who lavished the couple with gifts allegedly in exchange for promoting his business.

Defense lawyers began their rebuttal of corruption charges against the pair, leaning heavily on Virginia’s former secretary of the commonwealth, Janet Vestal Kelly, to detail Ms. McDonnell’s relationship with her husband, her staff, and Jonnie R. Williams Sr., the chief executive of dietary supplement maker Star Scientific.

At Federal District Court here, Kelly detailed the strains that “ruined” her relationship with Ms. McDonnell. She recalled the 2012 revolt in the Virginia governor’s mansion, in which the first lady’s entire staff threatened to quit, and she recounted an airplane ride Kelly, Williams and Ms. McDonnell took to South Carolina for a Mitt Romney campaign event, where Ms. McDonnell and the businessman were “kind of flirty.”

Lawyers for the couple began calling witnesses to portray Mr. McDonnell as a trusting innocent, alienated from his domineering wife, neither of them were capable of engineering a quid-pro-quo

relationship with Williams. Kelly answered “no” when asked if Mr. McDonnell saw ulterior motives in people, while she spoke of Ms. McDonnell hiding the fruits of lavish shopping trips, shrinking from her husband at private gatherings, and ignoring the advice of management consultants brought in to smooth the first lady’s professional operations.

At one point, defense lawyer Henry Asbill displayed for jurors a letter signed by Ms. McDonnell’s staff that spoke of “screaming phone calls or nasty emails” and “the worst kind of bullying.”

JONATHAN WEISMAN and KEN MAGUIRE

Los Angeles Attempts to Reduce Arrest Rate in Schools LOS ANGELES — After years of arresting students for on-campus fights and damaging school property, Los Angeles school officials are adopting new policies to reduce the number of students who are disciplined in the juvenile court system.

Under new policies expected to be introduced Tuesday, students who deface school property, participate in an on-campus fight or are caught with tobacco will no longer

be given citations by officers from the Los Angeles School Police Department. Instead, they will be dealt with by school officials.

Los Angeles Unified School District is the second-largest school system in the country, but has the largest school police force, with more than 350 armed officers.

A report last year by the Labor/ Community Strategy Center, a civil-rights group, found that students at Los Angeles schools were

far more likely to receive a criminal citation than students in Chicago, Philadelphia or New York.

Michael Nash, the presiding judge of the Los Angeles Juvenile Courts, who was involved in crafting the new policies, said the juvenile justice system was overtaxed, and that the changes would ensure that the courts were dealing only with youngsters who “really pose the greatest risk to the community.”

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In Brief Gov. Perry Will Not Face Arrest Warrant A judge is not issuing an arrest warrant for Texas Gov. Rick Perry, who was indicted last week on two felony counts of abuse of power, a court official said Monday. Linda Estrada, a Travis County grand jury clerk, said that the judge overseeing the case decided against issuing an arrest warrant. Instead, Perry will receive a summons, which has not been issued. He eventually will have to be booked and fingerprinted. Word that Perry avoided an arrest warrant raised questions of favoritism, but legal observers said forgoing an arrest warrant is common in white-collar cases. Former U.S. Attorney Matt Orwig said that insisting on an arrest warrant would have been grandstanding.

(AP)

Cost to Raise Child Rises to $245,340 A message for new parents: get ready for sticker shock. A child born in 2013 will cost a middle-income American family an average of $245,340 until he or she reaches the age of 18, according to a report released Monday. And that doesn’t include college — or expenses if a child lives at home after age 17. The costs that are included — food, housing, childcare and education — rose 1.8 percent over the previous year, the Agriculture Department’s new “Expenditures on Children and Families” report said. (AP)

Solar Plants Scorch Birds in Midair Workers at a state-of-the-art solar plant in the Mojave Desert have a name for birds that fly through the plant’s concentrated sun rays — “streamers,” for the smoke plume that comes from birds that ignite in midair. Federal wildlife investigators who visited the BrightSource Energy plant last year and watched as birds burned and fell, reporting an average of one “streamer” every two minutes, are urging California officials to halt the operator’s application to build a bigger version.

Estimates per year range from a low of about a thousand by BrightSource to 28,000 by an expert for the Center for Biological Diversity environmental group.

(AP)

BUSINESS

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

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New Player Stirs Up Dollar Store Merger Fray many middle-class Americans.

As a result, many are hunting for rock-bottom discounts for their shopping needs.

“The biggest change from five years ago is that people are less worried about losing their jobs,” said Guy Berger, an economist with RBS Securities. “But in some ways, they are worse off than they were 10 years ago, and that’s encouraging people to downsize their spending habits.”

It is a view shared by Richard W. Dreiling, Dollar General’s chairman and chief executive.

“It’s fair to say that the economy is creating more of our core customers,” he said. “The middle-income customer is getting squeezed.”

That has inspired both Dollar General and Dollar Tree to expand their empires by pursuing

Family Dollar, which started out selling household goods for a dollar more than five decades ago.

Now many of its items cost a bit more, though they are still heavily discounted.

Bulking up via a merger would give either suitor more power to negotiate discounts with suppliers and cut costs further. Together, the two would have almost 20,000 stores and more than $28 billion in revenue.

The fight over Family Dollar “confirms that small-box retailing is the fastest-growing segment of an otherwise slowgrowth/no-growth retail store environment,” Craig Johnson, president of the consulting firm Customer Growth Partners, wrote in an email.

MICHAEL J. de la MERCED and NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

Altered Study of Big Bank Draws Fine for Auditor New York State’s financial regulator announced a settlement deal on Monday with the giant consulting firm PricewaterhouseCoopers, capping an investigation into the firm’s cozy ties with one of the world’s biggest banks.

The regulator, Benjamin M. Lawsky, extracted a $25 million fine from PricewaterhouseCoopers. Under the deal, reported

by The New York Times on Sunday, Lawsky will also prevent the firm’s regulatory consulting unit from performing certain assignments on behalf of New York-regulated banks for two years.

The settlement stems from the consulting firm’s work for Bank of Tokyo-Mitsubishi UFJ, a giant

Japanese bank.

In 2007, as the bank was facing regulatory scrutiny for doing business with countries blacklisted by the United States, it hired PricewaterhouseCoopers to conduct a review of transactions with Iran and other countries under sanctions, including some transfers routed through its New York branch.

The firm, which eventually submitted a report to regulators in June 2008 detailing the illicit transactions, certified that its work was objective and impartial.

But in the settlement, Lawsky accused the firm of “improperly altering” the report.

In an initial draft of the report, PricewaterhouseCoopers includ-

nized the financial fragility of the opera house and agreed to their first pay cut in decades, while management abandoned its toughest demands and agreed to make significant cuts of its own.

By coming together to share the cuts, the Met’s management and its artists seemed intent on avoiding the kind of mismatch between expenses and revenues that eventually bankrupted its former neighbor, New York City Opera — while steering clear of the kind of destructive labor battle that silenced the Minnesota

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As more struggling Americans hit the bargain bins to get by, a bidding war is brewing for one of the of the country’s biggest deep-discount retailers.

The latest move came on Monday, when Dollar General offered to buy Family Dollar Stores for $8.9 billion, hoping not only to break up an agreed-to merger with its rival Dollar Tree but also to strengthen its share of the low-end retail market as traditional retailers like Walmart try to move onto its turf.

Prices at Family Dollar are kept low and its breadth of products is limited to items it can sell cheaply. But the retailer’s success has become a symbol of the rush to cater to the working poor.

Despite a flurry of official signs that the economy is improving, the recovery continues to elude

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BUSINESS

Power to the Pedal: E-Bikes Take Off in Europe BERLIN — With a faint electric whir, Iris Marossek pedals her bicycle through concrete apartment blocks in the heart of old East Berlin, delivering mail to 1,500 people a day.

Her bicycle is a nod to both past and future. It is decorated with an image of a curving black horn, harking back to earlier centuries when German postal workers trumpeted their arrival. But the twin battery packs under her seat also reveal it is more than the average bike.

Marossek rides one of the 6,200 e-bikes in service for Deutsche Post, the German mail service.

E-bikes use electric motors to make them easier to pedal and have been gaining popularity in bike-loving countries like Germany, appealing to older people, delivery businesses and commuters who don’t want to sweat.

“They are really nice and they are only getting better,” Marossek said. “You’re not as exhausted as you would be with a regular bike.”

With tens of millions of e-bikes already on the road in China, e-bike sales are now surging in Europe, especially in northern countries with long cycling traditions. For some markets, e-bikes have recently been the only area of growth.

There are 250,000 on the road

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in Switzerland, according to the European Cyclists’ Federation.

In Germany, bike sales were down 5.5 percent last year, but sales of more expensive e-bikes were up almost 8 percent and now command about 11 percent of the market. In the Netherlands, which has Europe’s highest per capita bicycle usage, the overall bike market fell slightly last year, but e-bike sales rose more than 9 percent.

With the market evolving quickly, manufacturers as varied as Europe’s Accell Group, Chinese exporters and even auto giants, are competing. Daimler’s Smart brand is offering zero percent financing on its $3,000 e-bike in Britain, while BMW introduced its own e-bike for about $3,600 this year.

The higher profit margins have

Iris Marossek of Deutsche Post, the German mail service, delivers mail to 1,500 people a day with the assistance of an e-bike.

saved many bike shops in recent years. A typical e-bike sells for about $2,700 in Europe, retailers said. The average price of a bicycle, which has been bolstered by the new motorized versions, sells for about $1,300, according to the federation.

“It’s really exploded the last six or seven years,” said Lars van der Wansem, product manager of Bike Europe magazine, adding “the Netherlands, Denmark, the north of Germany is at the forefront” of e-bike growth.

In Germany, where e-bikes have been particularly popular, the postal service tends to use them for steeper or longer routes.

Not that there aren’t drawbacks. Marossek smiled broadly while astride her e-bike, “This bike isn’t as good for my figure.”

DANNY HAKIM

Professional Networking, Minus Conference Fees Justin Gignac wouldn’t miss the annual Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. But he doesn’t pay.

Instead, Gignac, co-founder of an online community where advertising agencies can find creative talent, has for the last two years worked the lobbies and bars during the festival on the French Riviera, meeting advertising executives from around the world to expand his business.

Gignac said he and his business’s co-founder, Adam Tompkins, could not afford a weeklong festival pass, the cheapest of which this year cost about $4,300.

“Doing that times two as an owner of a start-up is pretty pricey,” said Gignac, who is 34 and based in New York. “When you own your own business and your main objective is to meet new clients, your priorities are different.”

At Cannes, Gignac has joined

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the ranks of striving entrepreneurs who practice what some call lobbyconning, or — pick one — conference-crashing, lurking, hacking or suitcasing.

For Gignac, lobbyconning has been effective. He and Tompkins rented a home both summers in Cannes, working there during the day, networking at night at restaurants, bars and parties.

“We had a lot of clients and friends there,” said Gignac, who began his community, Working Not Working, in 2012 after stints at ad agencies. “Just by running into them, they introduced us to a bunch of potential new clients.”

There is a long tradition of those who simply show up for conferences. But for young entrepreneurs on limited budgets, the importance of the personal introduction has only increased. Just don’t mention the fee.

“As conferences proliferate, the

cost for some has skyrocketed,” said Henry Harteveldt, a travel industry analyst, who called lobbyconners the equivalent of wedding crashers. “It can cost $1,000 or more for a ticket to attend, plus airfare, hotel and meals.”

David-Michel Davies, president of Webby Media Group, pointed out that “the information professionals used to get at conferences is now widely available everywhere online all the time,” he said. “If you want to hear Larry Ellison talk, you can go to YouTube and hear five Larry Ellison talks,” he added, referring to the technology billionaire.

But videos cannot replace networking at conferences, Davies said. “The value of face-toface time has gone up,” he said.

“Spending time with people is more rare, relationship-building has become much more critical.”

JANE L. LEVERE

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday: Dollar General Corp., up $6.68 to $64.14. The discounter started a bidding war for rival Family Dollar, offering $8.95 billion as it tries to trump a Dollar Tree bid.

Sensata Technologies Holding NV, up $2.67 to $48.84. The company said it plans to buy Schrader International, which makes tire pressure monitoring sensors, for about $1 billion.

J.C. Penney Co., up 37 cents to $9.87.

Shares of the department store operator continue to rise after it posted better-than-expected second-quarter results last week.

Ingersoll-Rand PLC, up $1.63 to $62.18. The industrial products maker is buying Cameron International Corp.’s centrifugal compression business for $850 million.

United Continental Holdings Inc., up $1.83 to $47.84. Shares of the airline rose on falling oil prices. Investors expect it could pay less for fuel.

DreamWorks Animation SKG Inc., up $1.94 to $22.55. The company behind the “Shrek” movies hired DirecTV executive Fazal Merchant as its new chief financial officer.

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Seeing Purpose and Profit in Algae Entrepreneurs have been trying for years to get something valuable out of algae.

It has not been easy, and not just because algae are an unsightly nuisance (and sometimes dangerous, as is the Lake Erie bloom that has endangered drinking water).

Although algae grow prolifically and contain potentially useful molecules — especially lipids, which can be turned into high-energy fuel and other products — extracting those molecules has proved complicated and expensive. So far, virtually the only marketable products based on algae have been high-end skin creams.

But a Nevada company, Algae Systems, has a pilot plant in Alabama that, it says, can turn a profit making diesel fuel from algae by simultaneously performing three other tasks: making clean water from municipal sewage (which it uses to fertilize the algae), using the carbon-heavy residue as fertilizer, and generating valuable credits for advanced biofuels.

If it works, the company says, the process will remove more carbon from the atmosphere than is added when the fuel is burned.

“We think it is a really elegant solution,” said Matt Atwood, the

TAD DENSON

A new method to turn algae into diesel fuel could dispose of a variety of unwanted or hazardous materials. chief executive. At its heart is a “hydrothermal liquefaction” system that heats the algae and other solids in the sewage to more than 550 degrees Fahrenheit, at 3,000 pounds per square inch, turning out a liquid that resembles crude oil from a well.

The company sent the liquid to Auburn University, where scientists added hydrogen to produce diesel fuel. An independent lab-

oratory, Intertek, confirmed that the diesel fuel met industry specifications. The thermal processing has caught the attention of independent scientists. The Department of Energy recently awarded a $4 million grant to a partnership led by SRI International for further work on Algae Systems’ hydrothermal processing system.

Engineers hope the system could dispose of a variety of un-

Using a Heart Rate Monitor During Exercise How do you use a heart rate monitor for fitness?

Heart rate monitors can be a useful tool during exercise for new and experienced runners and other athletes. Monitors can be worn as a strap across the chest, on the wrist and even on the head, and by measuring your heart rate can help you exercise at the right intensity.

Most don’t have a display, so you’ll need to connect your monitor with a sports watch or smartphone app to see your heart rate.

Other features to look for include the ability to set custom heart rate zones, graphical displays and estimated calories burned.

You first need to identify the target heart rates at which you should train.

One way is to estimate your maximum heart rate by using the formula 211 minus 64 percent of age. The American Heart Association recommends training at 50 percent to 85 percent of your maximum, depending on your goals.

That works out to a maximum

Heart rate monitors can show custom heart rate zones and calories burned. The Mio Alpha, worn on the wrist, measures blood flow.

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heart rate of 180 beats a minute for a 48-year-old, and a training level of 90 to 153 beats a minute.

A more personalized way to find those targets with less arithmetic is to establish a personal baseline heart rate by measuring it while exercising at a sustained, steady pace during which you can still talk. Neal Henderson, who has trained elite cyclists, triathletes and Olympians, recommends this “talk-test” method.

Now, vary your workout so one

day you are exercising at this baseline rate; another day, plan high-intensity-interval training that brings your heart rate 20 to 40 beats a minute above your baseline to build speed. On a recovery day, exercise at a lower level, keeping your heart rate well below the baseline to build endurance.

Over time, as you become fitter, you will notice that you can go for longer and faster at your baseline heart rate.

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wanted or hazardous materials.

It also destroys pathogens in sewage.

At the University of Texas at Austin, Halil Berberoglu, an assistant professor of mechanical engineering who is conducting research in the area and is not affiliated with Algae Systems, said the process had the potential to eliminate a key bottleneck in working with algae.

Earlier processes for extracting lipids have been “very energy intensive,” he said. “You have to dewater the algae, poke holes in cell walls and do all kinds of separation technologies.”

But with high-temperature processing, he said, a factory could get useful products out of not only the lipids but also the proteins and the carbohydrates. “It is a great way to break those molecules up,” he said, and the presence of extra water in the reactor helps reassemble the elements into longchain hydrocarbons, which are basically crude oil.

Challenges remain, because such crude oil sometimes incorporates heavy metals, nitrogen and sulfur. But “it is by far the most promising approach,” Berberoglu said.

MATTHEW L. WALD

Low Vitamin D Increases Risk Low vitamin D is associated with an increased risk for Alzheimer’s disease and other forms of dementia, according to a new report, though whether low vitamin D is a cause of the disorders remains unknown.

Scientists measured blood levels of vitamin D in 1,658 men and women with an average age of 73 and without dementia at the start of the study. Over an average follow-up of more than five years, 171 developed dementia.

The study, published online in the journal Neurology, controlled for many dementia risk factors.

It found that compared with those who had vitamin D levels of 50 or more nanomoles per liter, those with levels of 25 to 50 had a 53 percent increased risk for allcause dementia and a 69 percent increased risk for Alzheimer’s.

People with readings of 25 or less were more than twice as likely to have Alzheimer’s or another form of dementia.

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Jim Jeffords, Who Altered Power in Senate, Dies at 80 to do so — he showed a disinclination to be bound by his party’s conservative orthodoxy.

A supporter of abortion rights, gay rights and the National Endowment for the Arts — left-leaning Jim Jeffords stances perhaps befitting an elected representative of a state that had become one of the nation’s bluest — he was in favor of the health-care plan proposed by President Bill Clinton and opposed Clinton’s impeachment. He backed legislation promoting environmental protection, funding for education

Jim Jeffords, the former senator from Vermont who singlehandedly redrew the national political map in 2001 when, after a quarter-century as a moderate Republican lawmaker, he declared himself an independent, shifting control of the Senate to the Democrats, died on Monday in Washington.

He was 80.

The cause was complications of pneumonia, his son, Leonard, said.

Vermont’s lone congressman from 1975 until his election to the Senate in 1988, Jeffords was a solid Republican on military issues.

But as early as 1981, when he voted against President Ronald Reagan’s package of tax and budget cuts — the only House Republican

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and aid for the disabled. He voted against President George Bush’s nomination of Clarence Thomas to the Supreme Court.

But many of his Republican colleagues were shocked when, after the election of George W. Bush in 2000, his displeasure with the party’s further rightward shift caused him to abandon it and, as an independent, to caucus with the Democrats. As chairman of the Education and Labor Committee (in 1999, under his chairmanship, the name changed to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor and Pensions), he had been increasingly frustrated by what he viewed as Republican parsimony, and he was especially unhappy with a new tax-cutting bill supported by Bush that, among other things, diminished funding for public education and did not provide full support for a program that would bring special education students into the mainstream.

“Increasingly, I find myself in disagreement with my party,” Jeffords said in announcing his decision on May 24, 2001. “I understand that many people are more conservative than I am, and they form the Republican Party. Given the changing nature of the national party, it has become a struggle for our leaders to deal with me and for me to deal with them.”

The Democrats’ plurality in the Senate after Jeffords’ defection lasted only 18 months, until the midterm elections of 2002, in which the Republicans took back control of the Senate. Jeffords, voting mostly with the Democrats from then on, retired in 2007.

Jeffords found harmony with Republicans in one endeavor. In the 1990s, along with Trent Lott of Mississippi, Larry Craig of Idaho and John Ashcroft of Missouri, later the United States attorney general, he was a member of The Singing Senators, a barbershop quartet.

“Lott could really belt it out; Larry Craig had a nice voice. John Ashcroft was pretty good,” Leonard Jeffords recalled. My dad, I think, was just there.”

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OPINION

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EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

It’s Time to Overhaul Clemency On Jan. 20, 2009, in his last moments as president, George W. Bush gave Barack Obama a hard-earned bit of wisdom: whatever you do, he said, pick a pardon policy and stick with it.

It was sage advice, yet, more than five years later, President Obama has not heeded it. As a result, as one former pardon attorney has said, the clemency power is “the least respected and most misunderstood” power a president has.

Yet it is granted explicitly by the Constitution as a crucial backstop to undo an unjust conviction or to temper unreasonably harsh punishments approved by lawmakers. It also can restore basic rights, like the right to vote, that many people lose upon being convicted.

In the past, presidents made good use of it, but as tough-on-crime policies became more popular, the number of grants fell dramatically. Judging by the numbers, Obama, who has, so far, granted just 62 clemency petitions, is the least merciful president in modern history.

The Obama administration took a stab at remedying the situation in April when it replaced its feckless pardon attorney and announced that it would consider granting clemency to thousands of low-level drug offenders serving what Obama called “unjust” sentences. The effort, dubbed Clemency Project 2014, was a promising start, but it has already run into significant hurdles, most recently a ruling barring hundreds of federal public defenders from assisting inmates in filing their petitions.

Even if the project succeeds, it is a one-time fix that fails to address the core reasons behind the decades-long abandonment of the

presidential power of mercy. A better solution would be a complete overhaul of the clemency process. First and foremost, this means taking it out of the hands of the Justice Department, where federal prosecutors with an inevitable conflict of interest recommend the denial of virtually all applications. Instead, give it to an independent commission that makes informed recommendations directly to the president.

That proposal, which has been made before, gets new attention in an upcoming article in the University of Chicago Law Review by two law professors, Rachel Barkow and Mark Osler. Such a commission’s membership, the authors write, must be politically balanced and have a wide range of perspectives, including those of prosecutors, defense lawyers, judges, inmates, academics, officials from corrections and law enforcement, and victims’ rights advocates.

In several states that already have such commissions — such as Pennsylvania, South Carolina and Alabama — clemency decisions are more transparent, more predictable, and much more frequent than in the federal system.

Obama’s failure to wield the pardon power more forcefully is all the more frustrating when considered against the backdrop of endless accusations that he is exercising too much executive authority, sometimes — his critics say — arbitrarily if not illegally. In this case, he should take advantage of a crucial power that the Constitution unreservedly grants him.

Is Perry’s Bad Judgment Really a Crime?

Gov. Rick Perry of Texas is one of the least thoughtful and most damaging state leaders in America, having done great harm to immigrants, abortion clinics and people without health insurance during his 14 years in office.

But bad political judgment is not necessarily a felony, and the indictment handed up against him on Friday appears to be the product of an overzealous prosecution.

For more than a year, Perry has been seeking the resignation of the Travis County district attorney, Rosemary Lehmberg. He had good reason to do so: Lehmberg was arrested in 2013 for driving with a blood alcohol level of more than three times the legal limit, and verbally abused the officers who found her with an open bottle of vodka. She ranted and raved, threatening sheriff’s deputies, and had to be restrained. She pleaded guilty and was sentenced to 45 days in jail. In addition to endangering people’s lives, she instantly lost her credibility as a prosecutor of drunken-driving cases.

But Lehmberg is also an elected Democrat, and as the prosecutor in Austin, the state capital, she ran the Public Integrity Unit, which investigates corruption charges against state lawmakers, often including prominent Repub-

licans. Had she stepped down, the governor might have named a Republican to replace her and run the unit, so she refused.

After the arrest, Perry told Lehmberg that if she didn’t resign, he would cut the funding for the Public Integrity Unit. In June, he did just that, using his line-item veto to zero out the $7.5 million for the unit. Had county officials not stepped in, the veto could have shut down an important investigative body and its cases.

Perry should have left the matter to the courts — where both a criminal and a civil attempt to have her removed failed — or to the voters.

But his ill-advised veto still doesn’t seem to rise to the level of a criminal act. A Travis County grand jury indicted Perry on two felony counts — abuse of official capacity and coercion of a public servant.

Governors and presidents threaten vetoes and engage in horse-trading all the time to get what they want, but for that kind of political activity to become criminal requires far more evidence than has been revealed in the Perry case so far. For now, Texas voters should be more furious at Perry for refusing to expand Medicaid, and for all the favors he has done for big donors, than for a budget veto.

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The Whistle-Blower Late last month, the Securities and Exchange Commission issued an oblique press release announcing that it was awarding an unnamed whistle-blower $400,000 for helping expose a financial fraud at an unnamed company. The money was the latest whistle-blower award — there have been 13 so far — paid as part of the Dodd-Frank financial reform law, which includes both protections for whistle-blowers and financial awards when their information leads to fines of more than $1 million.

The law also prevents the S.E.C. from doing anything to publicly identify the whistle-blowers, but this particular whistle-blower was willing to tell his story.

Bill Lloyd, 56, spent 22 years as an agent for MassMutual Financial Group, the insurance company based in Springfield, Mass. Lloyd was a high performer. He also is a straight arrow — “a square,” said a mutual friend — who cares about his customers; when faced with a situation where his customers were likely to get ripped off, he couldn’t look the other way.

In 2007, when money was gushing into variable annuities, MassMutual added two income guarantees to make a few of its annuity products especially attractive to investors. They guaranteed that the annuity income stream would grow to a predetermined cap regardless of how the investment itself performed.

Upon retirement, the investors had the right to take 6 percent (or 5 percent, depending on the product) of the cap for as long as they wanted or until it ran out of money, and still be able, at some point, to annuitize it. The money was never supposed to run out. Investors put $2.5 billion into the products.

The following July, Lloyd — and a handful of others in the sales force — discovered that the guarantee didn’t work as advertised. In fact, because of the market’s fall, it was a near-certainty that thousands of customers were going to run through the income stream within seven or eight years of withdrawing money.

As the press release put it, Lloyd did “everything feasible to correct the issue internally.” It was only when the industry’s self-regulatory body failed to act that he went to the S.E.C. “People started treating me like a leper,” recalls Lloyd. Convinced that the company was laying the groundwork to fire him, he quit in 2011. (Lloyd has since found employment with another financial institution.)

In 2012, MassMutual agreed to pay a $1.6 million fine. It was a slap on the wrist, but more important, the company agreed to lift the cap.

This will cost MassMutual a lot more, but it will protect the investors who put their money — and their retirement hopes — on MassMutual’s guarantees. Thanks to Lloyd, the company has fixed the defect without a single investor losing a penny.

Parts of the Dodd-Frank law are problematic, not least the provisions dealing with the Too Big to Fail institutions. But the whistle-blower provisions? They are working as intended.

That is the moral of Bill Lloyd’s story.

SPORTS

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

With Nadal Injured, U.S. Open Is Up in Air Rafael Nadal announced his withdrawal from the United States Open on Monday because of an injured right wrist, costing the tournament its defending men’s champion.

Nadal’s absence, announced a week before the tournament begins, adds more mystery to the men’s draw, with the rest of the socalled Big Four heading in varying competitive directions. No. 1 Novak Djokovic won the most recent Grand Slam at Wimbledon, but has wobbled in the hardcourt season, while No. 3 Roger Federer, the runner-up at Wimbledon, has been making a resurgence.

Andy Murray’s recovery from back surgery and recent competitive adventures have knocked him down to No. 9 in the rankings as he has not won a tournament of any kind in more than a year.

Nadal, 28, was questionable for

the Open since he sustained the wrist injury July 29 while practicing ahead of the North American hardcourt circuit. Nadal said doctors told him to wear a cast for two to three weeks, knocking him out of tournaments in Toronto and Cincinnati.

At the time, Nadal said he expected to return to defend his Open title. But on Monday, he issued a statement on his Facebook page, expressing his regret.

“I am sure you understand that it is a very tough moment for me since it is a tournament I love and where I have great memories from fans, the night matches, so many things,” Nadal said. “Not much more I can do right now, other than accept the situation and, as always in my case, work hard in order to be able to compete at the highest level once I am back.”

Nadal, who captured his ninth

French Open title in June, has not played a match since losing in the fourth round of Wimbledon to Nick Kyrgios.

Nadal won his second United States Open in 2013 and has reached the final each of his past three appearances, each time meeting Djokovic in the final.

This withdrawal would seem to open the door for Djokovic, but he has won only two matches in the two major hardcourt tuneups this summer.

Federer, meanwhile, reached the final in Toronto and won the title at the Cincinnati event Sunday.

The United States Open draw is Thursday, and if the tournament sticks to the ATP rankings, Djokovic and Federer would land in opposite sides of the draw, setting up a rematch of their Wimbledon final, which Djokovic won in five sets.

LYNN ZINSER

Marion Signs With Cavaliers in His Pursuit of Title CLEVELAND — Shawn Marion wanted another shot at an N.B.A. title. He will get it playing with LeBron James.

The free agent forward has agreed to a contract with the Cavaliers, a person familiar with the negotiations told The Associated Press on Sunday. The 36-yearold Marion informed the Cavs this weekend that he will take a minimum deal and play for them next season, said the person who spoke condition of anonymity because the contract has not been finalized.

Marion also had an interest in signing with the Indiana Pacers, who lost Paul George for the sea-

son with a broken leg.

ESPN.com first reported Marion’s agreement with the Cavs.

The Cavs can only offer Marion a deal worth $1.4 million because they are out of room under the salary cap.

A four-time All-Star, Marion gives Cleveland another veteran with postseason experience to compliment James, who is returning to the Cavs intent on winning the city’s first pro championship since 1964. The team has previously signed shooters Mike Miller and James Jones, who won two N.B.A. titles with James in Miami.

Cleveland is on the brink of adding All-Star forward Kevin Love,

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who is expected to come over from Minnesota in a trade on or after Aug. 23. While Love gives the Cavs size, another shooter and an excellent passer, he has never played in a postseason game as a pro.

Marion, on the other hand, has played in 103 N.B.A. playoff games. He won a title as a role player with Dallas in 2011 and spent the past five seasons with the Mavericks.

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In Brief Fall on Hill Sidelines Chiefs Running Back Jamaal Charles made it through every hit during three weeks of Kansas City’s training camp, but it wasn’t until he was leaving camp that he got hurt.

Charles was in the process of moving out of the dorms last Thursday, when he came to a grassy slope. He slipped just a bit and turned his foot just enough to set alarm bells ringing. X-rays and M.R.I. exams ensued, and Charles did not make the trip to Carolina for Sunday’s preseason game against the Panthers. (AP)

Ballmer’s Debut Steve Ballmer introduced himself to Los Angeles Clippers fans at a rally on Monday celebrating his new ownership of the N.B.A. team. The former Microsoft chief executive made his way through the crowd inside Staples Center exchanging high-fives and chest-bumping as he took the stage in front of 4,500 fans. Ballmer paid a record $2 billion for the team in a sale that was confirmed by a judge last week.

(AP)

A.L. SCORES MONDAY L.A. Angels 4, Boston 2 Baltimore 8, Chicago White Sox 2 Kansas City 6, Minnesota 4

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SPORTS JOURNAL

TUESDAY, AUGUST 19, 2014

A Group Lifts Paraclimbers to Higher Goals After working at a now-defunct indoor skate and BMX bike park in Northeast Ohio, Jon Sedor and some friends were setting off homemade fireworks. Sedor cocked his arm back to throw one. He remembers a flash and a loud pop next to his left ear, “then it was over.” The concussion left Sedor in a daze, his ears ringing.

“I looked down and my arm was shredded,” he said.

Sedor he never regained the use of his left hand. On May 30, 2008, Sedor’s 20th birthday, surgeons amputated the hand.

Sedor’s chief hobbies, BMX riding and rock climbing, soon languished as he confronted a new reality of limitations. It was not until he moved to New York in 2012 that his desire to climb again was reignited.

Ronnie Dickson, a top American amputee climber, connected Sedor with the Adaptive Climbing Group. He is training for the paraclimbing world championships in Gijón, Spain, from Sept. 8 to 14.

The Adaptive Climbing Group is the brainchild of Kareemah Batts, of Brooklyn, who came around to the sport after a battle with cancer that cost her a part of a leg in 2009.

Batts learned of a program that sends cancer survivors on adventure trips. She found that it alleviated her depression, something that attending cancer and ampu-

access to New York’s community of climbers expanded.

Motivated by clinics taught by Dickson, Batts spent six months planning a climbing clinic for amputees.

Fifty people signed up, turning what was supposed to have been a single-day session into a weekend-long gathering. Batts said that when she was planning the clinic, JAKE NAUGHTON/THE NEW YORK TIMES she had not realized that there was nothing Emily Esca talking with Kareemah like it in New York.

Batts, right, as Batts tightened her Other disabled prosthesis before a climb. climbers began joining Batts for her regutee support groups had failed to lar sessions at Brooklyn Boulders.

“I wasn’t planning on doing a prodo.

“If you are not born with a gram,” she said. “I think I was bedisability, you tend to compare ing selfish. I just wanted someone everything to before you were to climb with me.”

Now, Batts is busy raising mondisabled,” Batts said. Her rock climbing excursion to Colorado ey to help cover the travel costs was “something neither the new for Sedor and the other Adaptive Kareemah nor the old Kareemah Climbing Group paraclimbers who will fly to Spain soon. did before.”

“I’m not about just giving the When Batts returned to Flatbush, she resolved to incorporate experience of climbing,” she said. climbing into her routine. She was “We’re talking about making that hired by the outdoor retailer East- person, with their particular disern Mountain Sports. From there, ability, a better athlete.”

JEFF DiNUNZIO her rock climbing acumen and

Tennis Weighs Whether to Bring On the Noise Muting tennis spectators has been one of the most revered rules in sports, but many top players say they would be ready for a new sound.

Top-ranked Novak Djokovic, one of the most conscious crowd-pleasers in tennis, recognizes the assets other sports have for fan engagement.

“When I’m watching other sports I see, for example, in N.B.A., how it works, and how entertaining it is for the crowd to see big screens and always something happening in the timeouts when they’re not playing,” he said. “And even during play, you’re able to scream, shout, whistle, do whatever you like.”

Andy Murray said players could adjust to louder surroundings.

“I think to be honest, players would get used to it if it was kind of loud all of the time,” he said.

“It’s just when it’s very quiet and

then someone makes a noise, or when everyone is sitting down and someone stands up behind the court, then it’s off-putNovak ting. But if peoDjokovic ple were moving around all of the time and always making noise, then the players would adjust.”

The United States Open, which begins next Monday, stands out among the tennis tournaments for its sensory overload.

“I think we’re all prepared that at the U.S. Open it’s just loud and big and crowded,” Agnieszka Radwanska said.

Maria Sharapova, whose shrieking makes her one of the loudest players during points, said that she enjoyed feeding off

the raucousness of the Flushing Meadows crowds.

“As the match goes on, of course you expect a few more people to get a bit more buzzed than at the beginning, which is normal,” she said. “I actually quite like it, because you feel the energy.”

Djokovic commended the efforts of United States Open organizers to keep crowds entertained with music and fan games during breaks in play. “But of course at Wimbledon, you will never see that,” he said.

Ernests Gulbis, one of the most outspoken players on tour, said that those seeking other forms of entertainment could find it elsewhere. “A tennis court is a tennis court. You don’t bring chips; you don’t bring drinks. It’s part of respecting the players, respecting what they do. And if you want to do it after, go afterwards to a bar, no problem.” BEN ROTHENBERG

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In Brief Nationals Extend Streak to 7 Straight Adam LaRoche hit a game-winning solo home run with two outs in the 11th inning to help the Washington Nationals beat the Arizona Diamondbacks 5-4 Monday for their seventh consecutive win. It was the third walk-off win in as many days for N.L.-East leading Washington.

(AP) n BRAVES 7, PIRATES 3 Jason Heyward and Andrelton Simmons homered to begin a six-run first inning, and the Braves beat the sliding Pirates for their fourth consecutive victory. Pittsburgh has lost six in a row.

(AP) n ANGELS 4, RED SOX 2 Mike Trout and Albert Pujols hit consecutive R.B.I. doubles, and the Angels extended their A.L. West lead with a victory over the Red Sox. It was the fifth win in six games for the Angels, who moved a half-game ahead of idle Oakland. The Red Sox have lost three of their last four games.

(AP)

NAVYNEWS

Riverine Training: The Next Generation

By Darryl Orrell, Center for Security Forces Public Affairs

The Center for Security Forces is working towards developing a new training continuum for the Coastal Riverine Force, in response to new training requirements identified by the fleet last December.

The Navy’s Coastal Riverine Force (CRF) was formed in June 2012, as part of the Chief of Naval Operation’s directed force consolidation. As a result, the Maritime Expeditionary Security Force and Riverine Group One were merged to form a single combat ready force.

William McFarland, who serves as the Expeditionary Warfare Course Curriculum model manager (CCMM) at the Center, shared some of what Sailors can expect to see in the new courses.

“The major difference between what is currently taught at the schoolhouse and the new training will be the addition of ‘Coastal’ and ‘Expeditionary Security’ skill sets,” said McFarland. “This new content will teach the knowledge and skills that Sailors will need in order to perform additional maritime and expeditionary missions undertaken by the CRF.”

Trying to develop these new courses in an unpredictable fiscal environment has proven to be a major challenge at times according to McFarland. The instability caused by continued overseas operations adds to the mix of challenges faced as well.

“The Center has facilitated several JDTA’s [Job, Duty, Tasks Analysis] that are directly related to the CRF HPRR [Human Performance Readiness Review] held last December. Each of these JDTA’s helped define critical skills that need to be taught within the new Coastal Riverine Continuum,” said McFarland.

Facilitating a JDTA is just the first step in the Naval Education and Training Command’s (NETC) End-to-End or E2E process. E2E is a process specifically designed to guide training from cradle to grave. This serves to ensure the training community remains responsive to new and changing training requirements, and provides the most relevant, efficient and effective training to the fleet.

“The JDTA is just the first step in the E2E process; therefore, much more work is still ahead to determine

exactly who, what, when, where and how this training will be delivered,” said McFarland.

“When complete, the fleet could expect to see topics that will support the Coastal Riverine Force’s mission requirements and capabilities, as specified in OPNAV’s Required Operational Capabilities (ROC) and Projected Operational Environments (POE) documents,” he added.

Once the business case analysis is complete, OPNAV will then decide how and what training will be funded in order for the Center to move forward with development.

The Center for Security Forces provides specialized training to more than 28,000 students each year. It has 14 training locations across the U.S. and around the world.

Sailors preparing for a field training exercise as part of the Riverine Combat Skills course (RCS) at the Center for Security Forces Learning Site at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina. This class was the first RCS training group composed of Coastal Riverine Force (CORIVFOR) Sailors and the first to incorporate women into the course. U.S. Navy photo by Mass Communication Specialist Seaman Heather M. Paape/Released)

US Department of Energy Recognizes Navy’s Energy Efforts Two Navy energy programs and two specific energy projects were recognized by the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) as winners of their 2014 Federal Energy and Water Management Awards, Naval Facilities Engineering Command announced Aug. 15.

The awards recognize individuals, groups and agencies for their outstanding contributions in the areas of energy efficiency, water conservation and the use of advanced and renewable energy technologies at federal facilities.

“We are extremely pleased and honored to be recognized by the Department of Energy for our energy accomplishments,” said Rear Adm. Kate Gregory, commander, Naval Facilities Engineering Command.

“Energy conservation is a high priority at all of our bases, and these programs reflect our ongoing commitment in meeting the secretary of the Navy’s energy goals.”

Energy programs at Naval Air Station (NAS) Oceana and Naval District Washington (NDW) were recognized as among the best of all

By Don Rochon, Naval Facilities Engineering Command Public Affairs federal agencies. Specifically, NAS renewable energy/alternative fuels, Oceana’s program was singled out for and energy culture. NDW executed reducing overall energy consumption and evaluated a variety of promising by implementing a variety of energy initiatives in FY 2013 to reduce efficiency initiatives, including retroenergy, water and fuel consumption. commissioning heat pumps and Operations Center that conducts installing energy efficient upgrades to and coordinates system monitoring, base lighting. staff administration, and dispatch.

In Fiscal Year (FY) 2013, NAS “Deploying new energy Oceana reduced energy intensity by technologies is only part of the approximately 52 percent below the answer,” said Gregory. “Instituting FY 2003 baseline. Water intensity was programs that change our behavior reduced by 24 percent from the FY and culture, like those at Naval Air 2007 baseline.

Station Oceana and Naval District To achieve these reductions, the Washington, is another critical NAS Oceana energy team primarily component in achieving our energy focused on implementing new goals.” technologies to improve existing One of the specific energy projects systems and by increasing equipment recognized by the DOE was a 13.78 performance to further reduce megawatt solar photovoltaic (PV) energy consumption. system at Naval Air Weapons Station The other Navy energy program (NAWS) China Lake, California. It’s singled out by the DOE was NDW the largest solar plant in the Navy, for its reduction of a nearly 19 and by using high-efficiency solar percent energy intensity reduction panels, generates more than 30 and 13 percent water intensity percent of NAWS’ annual energy reduction. NDWs comprehensive load. energy program focuses on five The plant is the first 20 year Power energy pillars: energy security, energy Purchase Agreement (PPA) awarded information, energy efficiency, under federal legislation 10 USC

2922a. The third party developer is responsible for the construction, operation and maintenance of the system. Under the agreement, NAWS will purchase $80 to $100 million worth of energy at a negotiated price during the next 20 years. The project provides approximately $13 million in energy cost avoidance and requires no start-up costs from the Navy.

To make this project possible, an extraordinary level of effort went into market research, technical analysis, industry partnership, navigation of multifaceted regulations and incentives and preparation of complex acquisition documentation.

During 18 months of discussions, the NAWS energy team successfully negotiated the terms and conditions that satisfied both government and private financing requirements for a PPA. Using the knowledge gained from the experience, the Navy will now be able to streamline the approval process and pave the way for new PPAs.

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WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

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