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SATURDAY, JULY 11, 2015
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Army plan to
cut troops hits
lawmakers
where it hurts
AT S. CAROLINA CAPITOL,
CONFEDERATE FLAG FLIES
NO MORE
BY TRAVIS J. TRITTEN
Stars and Stripes
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WASHINGTON — The Army has
warned Congress about budget cuts
for months and this week the service
brought the pain to lawmakers’ front
doors.
Its plan to step up troop cuts — 40,000
over the next two years — will hit states
and congressional districts across the
country and have alANALYSIS ready sparked widespread local outcry.
The mayor of Columbus, Ga., said it will be like “losing a
large corporation” when the Army
trims 3,400 soldiers from Fort Benning
due to a tight budget.
The Army’s unexpected announcement has forced a gut check among
House and Senate lawmakers after the
service issued dire warnings about a
2016 defense budget that it says could
hurt readiness. The
cuts were the latest
move in a larger political battle that has
pitted the Obama
administration and
Pentagon against a
Congress that has
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willing to head off
automatic spending cuts slated to kick
in this fall.
After the Army announcement, Sen.
Johnny Isakson, a Georgia Republican,
shot back with a statement that he was
“demanding answers” on the justification for the reductions in his state.
“I have talked in great detail with
[Army] Secretary [John] McHugh today
and will continue to fight to see to it that
we preserve every soldier in Georgia
that we can,” he said.
Republican Sen. Dan Sullivan said
he was “extremely frustrated” that his
state of Alaska is set to lose more than
2,700 soldiers by 2017.
“Along with thousands of Alaskans, I
find this decision devastating far beyond
what it means to our state economy, but
what it means to America’s defense,”
Sullivan said.
In all, 17 states will lose soldiers as
the Army compresses its three-year
plan for post-war downsizing into just
two years because of a lack of money.
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numbers for
reductions
An honor guard
of South Carolina
troopers removes
the Confederate
flag from the
Capitol grounds
in Columbia, S.C.,
on Friday.
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Saturday, July 11, 2015
NATION
OPM chief resigns over data breach
BY JOSH LEDERMAN
AND JACKGILLUM
The Associated Press
WASHINGTON — The head
of the U.S. government’s personnel office resigned abruptly on
Friday, bowing to bipartisan calls
for her to step down following a
massive government data breach
on her watch.
Katherine Archuleta, director
of the federal Office of Personnel Management, submitted her
resignation to President Barack
Obama on Friday morning, the
White House said. She’ll be replaced on a temporary basis by
the agency’s deputy director,
Beth Cobert, who will step into
the role on Saturday.
Less than 24 hours earlier, Archuleta had rebuffed demands
that she resign, telling reporters
she had no intention of leaving
and that her agency was doing everything it could to address concerns about the safety of data in
its hands.
The calls for her resignation
came soon after it was announced
that the scale of the OPM’s date
breach was much larger than previously known.
Hackers stole Social Security
numbers, health histories and
other highly sensitive data from
more than 21 million people,
the Obama administration said
Thursday.
The scope of the data breach —
believed to be the biggest in U.S.
history — has grown dramatically since the government first
disclosed earlier this year that
hackers had gotten into the Office of Personnel Management’s
personnel database and stolen
records for about 4.2 million
people. Since then, the Obama
administration has acknowledged
a second, related breach of the
systems housing private data that
individuals submit during background investigations to obtain
security clearances.
That second attack affected
more than 19 million people who
applied for clearances, as well as
nearly 2 million of their spouses,
housemates and others who never
applied for security clearances,
the administration said. Among
the data the hackers stole: criminal, financial, health, employment and residency histories, as
SUSAN WALSH /AP
Office of Personnel Management director Katherine Archuleta testifies June 25 on Capitol Hill in
Washington.
well as information about their
families and acquaintances.
The new revelations drew swift
indignation from members of
Congress. House Oversight and
Government Reform Committee
Chairman Jason Chaffetz, a Utah
Republican, said Archuleta and
her aides had “consciously ignored the warnings and failed to
correct these weaknesses.”
“Such incompetence is inexcusable,” Chaffetz said in a
statement.
Earlier, Archuleta had said the
hackers also obtained user names
and passwords that prospective
employees used to fill out their
background investigation forms,
as well as the contents of interviews conducted as part of those
investigations. Yet the government insisted there were no indications that the hackers have
used the data they stole.
Still, the government declined
to say who was behind the attack.
Numerous U.S. lawmakers, including Senate Democratic leader
Harry Reid, have said China was
behind the attack. But Michael
Daniel, Obama’s cybersecurity
coordinator, said the government
wasn’t yet ready to say who was
responsible.
“Just because we’re not doing
public attribution does not mean
that we’re not taking steps to
deal with the matter,” Daniel told
reporters.
While officials would not point
the finger at China, they acknowledged that the same party was responsible for both of the breaches,
which took place in 2014 and
early 2015. Investigators previously told The Associated Press
that the U.S. government was increasingly confident that China’s
government, and not criminal
hackers, was responsible for the
extraordinary theft of personal
information.
China has publicly denied involvement in the break-in.
The administration said it has
stepped up its cybersecurity efforts by proposing new legislation, urging private industry to
share more information about
attacks and examining how the
government conducts sensitive
background investigations.
“Each and every one of us at
OPM is committed to protecting
the safety and the security of the
info that is placed in our trust,”
Archuleta said. In early June,
government employees received
notice that OPM would offer
credit-monitoring services and
identity-theft insurance to those
affected.
Meanwhile, the White House
waited about a month before telling the public that hackers had
stolen the personal information of
millions of people associated with
the government, people directly
involved with the investigation
told the AP last month.
FBI Director James Comey, in a
briefing with reporters Thursday,
described the scope of the OPM
breach as “huge” and called it “a
very big deal from a national-security perspective and a counterintelligence perspective.”
“It’s a treasure trove of information about everybody who has
worked for, tried to work for, or
works for the United States government,” he said.
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MILITARY
Ex-soldier
gets year for
smuggling
immigrants
BROWNSVILLE, Texas — A
former Fort Hood, Texas, soldier who used his U.S. Army
identification to move illegally
smuggled immigrants through an
immigration checkpoint has been
sentenced to a year and a day in
federal prison.
Christopher David Wix, 21, of
Abilene, Texas, could have received up to 10 years in federal
prison for his guilty plea to conspiracy to transport and harbor
immigrants brought into the
United States illegally.
In sentencing the defendant
Thursday in Brownsville, U.S.
District Judge Hilda Tagle said
she took his youth into consideration in assessing a shorter prison
term.
Two other Fort Hood soldiers
— Eric Alexander Rodriguez, of
Odem, and Brandon Troy Robbins, of San Antonio — along with
Arnoldo Gracia, of Harlingen,
also have pleaded guilty to charges and are scheduled for sentencing Aug. 4.
Iranians point
laser at Navy
ship 2 times
BY CHRIS CHURCH
JESSE A. H YATT/Courtesy of the U.S. Navy
The Military Sealift Command hospital ship USNS Comfort arrives pierside at Naval Station Norfolk, Va., in March 2013.
Comfort command senior chief sacked
Stars and Stripes
NORFOLK, Va. — Navy hospital ship Comfort’s senior enlisted
leader was relieved of his duties
Thursday following an alcohol-related incident in Panama, Military
Sealift Command said.
Command Senior Chief Aurelio
Ayala has been temporarily reassigned to Military Sealift Command in Norfolk, Va., pending an
investigation.
A statement from the command
did not provide specifics on what
led to Ayala’s removal.
The decision to remove Ayala
was made by Capt. Christine
Sears, the commanding officer
of the Comfort’s Medical Treatment Facility, according to The
(Norfolk) Virginian-Pilot. Sears
took command of the ship’s hospital two days before the Comfort
deployed April 1 on its five-month
humanitarian mission to 11 countries in Central America, South
America and the Caribbean. Its
700-member crew is conducting
medical clinics, performing onboard surgeries and taking part in
charity work.
Ayala’s removal will not impact
the Comfort’s mission, the statement said.
It is the third time in two years
that a senior person on the Navy
ship was relieved of duty, The Virginian-Pilot reported.
Sears took over as CO of the
treatment facility, replacing Capt.
Rachel Haltner, who was relieved
after Navy commanders lost con-
fidence in her ability to lead.
Less than two years earlier, in
August 2013, Rear Adm. Thomas
Shannon, commander of Military
Sealift Command, had lost confidence in Haltner’s predecessor,
Capt. Kevin Knoop.
He sacked Knoop and appointed
Haltner. That decision was later
called into question when a board
of inquiry unanimously endorsed
Knoop’s leadership and his work,
according to the Pilot report.
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MANAMA, Bahrain — An Iranian-flagged merchant vessel on
two separate occasions pointed a
laser at a U.S. Navy ship and helicopter, Navy officials said.
The Iranian ship repeatedly
used the laser to target the USS
Forrest Sherman and a helicopter belonging to the ship over the
course of four days, said Lt. Brett
Dawson, the deputy public affairs
officer for U.S. Naval Forces Central Command.
Dawson said nobody was injured and no equipment was
harmed in the incidents, the first
of which happened Sunday in
the Gulf of Aden, but U.S. Naval
Forces Central Command views
these activities as “unsafe” and
“unprofessional.”
The incidents are the latest in
a string of issues involving Iran
and ships in the Middle East. In
April, Iranian forces seized the
MV Maersk Tigris — a Marshall Islands-flagged cargo ship
— after firing warning shots at it.
The Maersk was released about a
week later.
According to Dawson, there is
no rise in tensions, and the U.S.
Navy will continue to be “thoughtful, vigilant and responsible mariners and aviators as we work with
our partners in the gulf.”
[email protected]
Battalion leader removed at Paris Island
BY STEPHEN FASTENAU
The (Hilton Head Island, S.C.)
Island Packet
The leader of the Marine Corps’ only allfemale recruit battalion, which is based on
Parris Island, S.C., has been removed from
her command following an investigation that
found instances of abusive behavior and controversial opinions on sexual assault and gender issues.
Lt. Col. Kate Germano, who led the 4th
Recruit Training Battalion for one year, was
relieved of those duties June 30 for “a poor
command climate and the loss of trust and
confidence in her ability to serve in command,” Brig. Gen. Terry V. Williams, commanding general of Marine Corps Recruit
Depot Parris Island, said in a statement.
“The Marine Corps holds all Marines, especially commanders, to a high set of standards,” the statement said.
Germano verbally abused fellow officers
and subordinates and created an environment
of “toxic leadership,” a command investigation found. She also told recruits rape was
preventable, that those who drink put themselves in position to be assaulted and made
her subordinates fear reporting sexual assault, according to the investigation, a copy of
which was obtained by The Beaufort Gazette
and The Island Packet after a Freedom of Information Act request.
Germano told graduating recruits that men
would never take orders from them, and they
would always be viewed as “weak and less of a
Marine,” the investigating officer found.
The investigation contained numerous
statements and interviews, including some in
support of Germano, a Texas native who was
first commissioned
as an officer in 1996.
The Marine
Germano was at
Corps holds
odds with her superior and filed an
all Marines,
“equal opportunity”
especially
complaint, the San
commanders, Diego Union-Tribune reported. The
to a high set
complaint initiates
of standards. an
investigation
Brig. Gen. Terry V. into allegations of
or
Williams discrimination
commanding general of harassment.
That investigation,
Marine Corps Recruit
Depot Parris Island ordered by Marine
Corps Training and
Command, found no
evidence of gender discrimination or a hostile
work environment related to equal opportunity, according to a copy obtained by the Gazette and Packet.
The 4th Recruit Training Battalion includes
630 women, a Marine Corps Recruit Depot
spokesman said.
Germano had begun command with a positive attitude and wanted the battalion to be
‘
’
competitive with others and to raise standards
for physical fitness and rifle performance, the
investigation documents showed.
In a letter to her battalion, Germano said
the unit worked through “considerable active
and passive resistance” throughout the depot.
“Together we redefined the perceived physical and mental limits of female recruits and
Marines, which will have a lasting and positive impact on the Institution,” she wrote in
the letter. “Regardless of my departure, you
must never, ever give up trying to change the
status quo.
“You are so much better than the Marine
Corps knows and it is the right thing to do
for not only the Institution, but also our nation. You deserve a seat at the table with your
counterparts, but you must continue to earn it
every day and never take it for granted.”
Germano assumed command June 10, 2014.
The battalion’s executive officer will serve
as acting commander until a replacement is
selected. Germano’s next assignment is unknown, the spokesman said.
An anonymous complaint filed in April alleged that Germano abused authority and
used abusive language and triggered a command climate survey, which anonymously assesses several factors within a commander’s
organization.
Germano’s results in organizational effectiveness were below average in nine of 10 categories, the survey found.
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Army cuts by bases
The list of bases — alphabetical by state — with troop reductions and the percentage of current personnel levels.
Alaska
Joint Base Elmendorf-Richardson:
2,631, (59 percent)
Fort Wainwright: 73, (1 percent)
FROM FRONT PAGE
Arizona
Fort Huachuca: 114, (5 percent)
Alabama
Fort Rucker: 186, (6 percent)
California
Fort Irwin: 246, (6 percent)
Colorado
Fort Carson: 365, (2 percent)
Georgia
Fort Benning: 3,402, (29 percent
reduction)
Fort Stewart: 947, (5 percent)
Hawaii
Schofield Barracks: 1,214, (8
percent)
Fort Shafter: 229, (10 percent)
Kansas
Fort Riley: 615, (4 percent)
Fort Leavenworth: 60, (2 percent)
Kentucky
Fort Campbell: 353, (1 percent)
Louisanna
Fort Polk: 388, (5 percent)
Army: Budgeting approach
likened to a meat cleaver
C OTY KUHN /Courtesy of the U.S. Army
Staff Sgt. Joseph T. Trinh, of the 75th Ranger Regiment,
conducts stress fire operations for Ranger Rendezvous last
month on Fort Benning, Ga. Fort Benning would lose the largest
number of troops under a plan to cut Army strength.
New York
Fort Drum: 28, (0.2 percent)
(2 percent)
Fort Lee: 127, (4 percent)
North Carolina
Fort Bragg: 842, (2 percent)
Washington
Joint Base Lewis-McChord: 1,251,
(5 percent)
South Carolina
Fort Jackson: 180, (6 percent)
Maryland
Aberdeen Proving Ground: 126, (5
percent)
Texas
Fort Bliss: 1,219, (5 percent)
Fort Hood: 3,350, (9 percent)
Joint Base San Antonio: 329, (6
percent)
Missouri
Fort Leonard Wood: 774, (15
percent)
Virginia
Fort Belvoir: 250, (6 percent)
Joint Base Langley-Eustis: 94,
Bases that are adding soldiers:
Fort Gordon (Georgia): 41, (1
percent)
Fort Knox (Kentucky): 67, (1
percent)
Fort Meade (Maryland): 99, (2
percent)
Fort Sill (Oklahoma): 219, (3
percent)
Source: Department of Defense
The Army has said the faster
pace is necessary due to a law
passed by Congress in 2011 to reduce the federal deficit by imposing a decade of cuts on defense
spending. The Budget Control
Act has forced the service’s budget down every year since it was
enacted, according to the Army.
The cuts sent shockwaves
through Congress this week after
the Army spent months testifying against lawmakers’ current
plan. The House and Senate want
to keep the caps in place and instead, pump extra money into an
emergency overseas war fund.
McHugh and Chief of Staff
Gen. Ray Odierno put the Army’s
budget position in stark terms
during joint testimony to the Senate Armed Services Committee
in March.
“This ongoing budgetary unpredictability is neither militarily
nor fiscally responsible. … Even
as demand for Army forces is
growing, budget cuts are forcing
us to reduce end strength to dangerously low levels,” they said in
the written testimony. “We face
an ‘ends’ and ‘means’ mismatch
between requirements and resources available.”
President Barack Obama has
also said he will veto any budget
that keeps the spending caps in
place.
It remains unclear whether a
deeply divided Congress can find
a solution to the automatic budget
cuts imposed by the 2011 law and
‘Our military budget
decisions need to be
driven by strategy and
the best way to defend
American lives and our
interests.
’
Rep. Martha McSally
provide the Army enough funding to stretch out or halt troop
reductions.
Fiscal conservatives have been
battling with defense hawks over
the issue. But the Army’s announcement prompted lawmakers in affected states to renew
calls to end the caps.
Rep. Martha McSally, R-Ariz.,
represents Fort Huachuca where
the Army has said 114 soldiers
— about 5 percent of its personnel — will be cut.
“Our military budget decisions
need to be driven by strategy and
the best way to defend American lives and our interests, not a
meat-cleaver approach to budgeting,” said McSally, a retired Air
Force colonel and A-10 Thunderbolt pilot. “I’ve repeatedly called
for a reversal of the across-theboard cuts established in 2011
and will continue to work with my
colleagues on solutions that ensure our national defense and the
safety and security of our troops
overseas.”
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Twitter: @Travis_Tritten
Military cuts seen to threaten arms manufacturers
BY BENJAMIN K ATZ
Bloomberg News
Western suppliers of armaments spanning battle tanks to
ammunition and soldiers’ ground
kits face the risk of collapse if
consolidation doesn’t accelerate
in the shrinking land-warfare
market, military chiefs said.
The U.S. is examining how
funds can be stretched to sustain manufacturing capabilities,
though without mergers to rescue smaller players the supplychain’s ability to ramp up output
in response to any new ground
threat may be harmed, officials
said. General Dynamics Corp.
and BAE Systems Plc may be
among buyers.
Land warfare has become less
of a priority for the U.S. and its
allies following the withdrawal
of forces from wars in Iraq and
Afghanistan that were heavily
weighted toward armored vehicles and ground troops. That’s led
U.S. spending on land capabilities
and services to tumble $10 billion
since 2010 to $21 billion last year,
according to defense analysts
IHS Jane’s.
“We have some instances where
you have very small second- and
third-tier vendors who, because
they no longer have that work, go
out of the business,” Michael Williamson, the U.S. Army’s principal deputy for acquisition, said
in an interview at a Royal United
Services Institute conference on
land warfare. “The challenge for
us is understanding the supply
chain well enough to know where
you have that kind of vulnerability. Cuts are going to happen: understand where you should not
cut.”
The U.S. and U.K. have asked
suppliers and prime manufacturers of land-warfare equipment to
trim costs as tensions with Russia and Beijing’s ambitions in
the South China Sea make aerial
threats a greater concern. Fighter programs such as Boeing Co.
F-15, the Lockheed Martin Corp.
F-35 and the pan-national Eurofighter venture have become a
higher priority.
The U.S. plans to cut active
troop numbers to just above
450,000 and budget changes
mean the tally is likely to drop
to 420,000 by 2019, Lieutenant
General William Hix, director of
strategy at the Army Capabilities
Integration Center — which develops and communicates modernization — said at the RUSI
event in London.
General Dynamics, maker of
the Abrams tank, and Europe’s
No. 1 defense company BAE,
which produces the Bradley
Fighting Vehicle, could play a
part in consolidation, according
to IHS analyst Ben Moores, who
cites the ongoing merger of Germany’s Krauss-Maffei Wegmann
GmbH, maker of the Leopard 2
battle tank, with Nexter Systems
SA of France as an example of
a top tier deal prompted by the
drop in Western land-systems
budgets.
GD spokeswoman Lucy Ryan
declined to discuss acquisition
possibilities or suppliers, and
CEO Phebe Novakovic said May
27 at an investor conference that
no takeovers are on the Falls
Church, Virginia-based company’s “radar screen” right now.
London-based BAE declined to
comment, citing company policy
not to discuss acquisition activity.
Small technology specialists
could also be bought up by larger
suppliers for which they produce
key parts, Moores said.
The U.K. is spending more cautiously on defense and favoring
outsourcing as it awaits a new
round of cuts across government
departments from the Treasury
on July 8, together with a review
of security and military needs
later in the year.
“I’m very hard-nosed now with
my teams about getting people to
think within fixed-cost envelopes,
rather than automatically assume
there’s more money,” Nick Pope,
director of capability for the British Army, said in an interview.
There are “no bounds” to the
outsourcing U.K. forces would
contemplate, with the emphasis
on offering wide-ranging, multiyear deals to a sole partner that
would in turn shave costs significantly from current levels, he
said at the conference.
Still, companies have mostly
delivered on any significant savings that are achievable, according to Barbara Doornink, senior
vice president at Reston, Virginia-based Leidos Holdings Inc.,
which helped equip and maintain
26,000 mine-resistant armored
vehicles in Iraq and Afghanistan.
“There needs to be a recognition that major cost cuts come
out just once — the low-hanging
fruit,” she said at the RUSI symposium. “After that it’s process
improvement.”
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WAR ON TERRORISM
GAO: Kabul embassy faces cost overruns
BY L AURIE K ELLMAN
WASHINGTON — Construction at the U.S. embassy in Kabul,
Afghanistan, has been plagued
by delays and cost overruns that
may have affected security, the
Government Accountability Office said Thursday.
But the Obama administration said the surge in U.S. forces
years ago and now the subsequent
drawdown of American personnel, among other factors, forced
adjustments to the project.
“It is unrealistic to expect the
development of a static master
plan that would have captured
all requirements at the beginning of an eight-year project,”
Lydia Muniz, director of the State
Department’s overseas buildings
operations, told the House Oversight and Government Reform
Committee.
Lawmakers countered that war
is, by nature, fluid.
“The added costs should have
been baked in,” said Rep. Stephen Lynch, D-Mass., a committee member. “We shouldn’t
be shocked that a war broke out.
There’s been a war going on there
for 10 or 12 years.”
Costs for two construction contracts have increased by about
27 percent to $792.9 million, and
completion has been delayed
three years, the agency said. Despite the embassy’s expansion,
the State Department “has no security standards tailored to those
facilities,” the GAO said. The
State Department inconsistently
applied alternative security measures, the report said.
The report recommended that
the State Department consider
setting up security standards or
guidance for temporary buildings in conflict zones.
The GAO is the investigative
arm of Congress.
The auditors reported that all
told, the State Department has
invested or plans to invest $2.17
billion in its facilities in Kabul,
a dangerous city with constantly
changing security threats. Since
2002, State has built more than
$100 million in temporary buildings to accommodate a dramatic
increase in staffing — followed
by a gradual drawdown. The temporary buildings are intended
for only a few years’ use, but by
the time the construction is completed in 2017, GAO reported, the
temporary facilities will be as
much as a decade old.
Iraqi troops, militias
repel Islamic State
attack in Anbar
BY SAMEER N. YACOUB
BAGHDAD — Government
forces and Shiite militiamen repelled an Islamic State group attack Friday that left 10 soldiers
dead in western Iraq’s Anbar
province, officials said.
The militants attacked the
government-held town of Khalidiyah with mortars and five suicide
car bombs, Anbar councilman
Athal al-Fahdawi said. They retreated after an hours-long battle,
leaving behind 12 dead fighters.
Some were hiding in houses in
nearby Abu Flais village, AlFahdawi said.
Police and army officers said at
least 10 soldiers were killed. They
spoke on condition of anonymity
because they were not authorized
to speak to the media.
Meanwhile, the Islamic State
group’s Radio al-Bayan said Islamic State militants seized positions in the Khalidyah area after
attacking Iraqi troops and Shiite
militias with car bombs.
Iraqi forces, backed by Shiite
militias, have been struggling to
recapture areas lost to Islamic
State in the country’s west and
north. In May, the militant group
scored a stunning victory when it
overran Ramadi in Anbar province, capturing large amounts
of ammunition and armored vehicles from fleeing government
troops.
Also on Friday, a representative
for Grand Ayatollah Ali al-Sistani, Iraq’s top Shiite cleric, urged
countries in the region to take
“decisive measures” to stop the
flow of foreign fighters into Iraq.
“The continuation of the policy
of carelessness and giving a blind
eye on the flow of these fighters
to Iraq will increase the danger of
these gangs to Iraq and they will
represent a threat to their countries,” Abdul-Mahdi al-Karbalei
said during a Friday sermon in
the city of Karbala.
Foreign fighters have been
streaming into Syria and Iraq
by the thousands to join Islamic
State and other extremist groups.
M ASSOUD HOSSAINI /AP
Ready for takeoff
A member of Afghanistan’s air force prepares to fly to the northern city of Kunduz, in Kabul,
Afghanistan, on Tuesday. Afghanistan’s Chief Executive Abdullah Abdullah visited northern Kunduz and
Balkh provinces to meet with local political leaders and to assure residents that security and governance
problems will soon be addressed.
Water shortages uniting Iraq, Islamic State against Turkey
BY Z AID SABAH,
SELCAN H ACAOGLU
JACK FAIRWEATHER
AND
Bloomberg News
WASHINGTON — There’s one
thing Islamic State militants and
the Iraqi government they’re besieging agree on: Turkey is using
more than its fair share of water.
Water levels on the Euphrates
River, which flows 1,700 miles
from eastern Turkey through
Syria and Iraq past ancient Mesopotamian lands, have fallen more
than half this year, withering
farmers’ crops and raising the
risk of a wider regional conflict,
Iraqi officials said.
Iraq and Islamic State say Turkey needs to release more water
from its dams to replenish the
river in the former Fertile Crescent area, where drought-like
conditions endanger millions.
The situation has grown even
more acute for Iraq after Islamic
State, whose holdings fall within
the watershed, used a dam captured in Ramadi in June to cut off
water to government areas.
Turkey, for its part, says it has
to look after its own and is investing $35.5 billion in dam and irrigation works to ensure reliable
water supplies.
The problem in the region is
not “which country to blame,”
said Jay Famiglietti, a NASA
water scientist. “It is really over
the failure to agree on how to
manage the waters of the rivers
across political boundaries.”
Turkey acted unilaterally to
build the dams and “has significantly changed the amount of
river flow to downstream countries like Syria,” the hydrologist
said by email.
Construction is underway on
the last six dams of a 22-dam
project in southeastern Turkey,
mostly on the Euphrates and the
Tigris, which flows south from
Turkey, making part of its border
with Syria before crossing the
length of Iraq. Dam and irrigation projects on the Tigris — the
first to tap the waterway — are
due for completion next year despite Iraqi protests.
Turkey signed an accord with
Syria in 1987 to keep about a third
of the Euphrates’ historic average
flow, according to the Food and
Agriculture Organization. It has
no such treaty with Iraq.
No international agreement for
the Tigris exists at all. A Turkish
official, speaking on condition of
anonymity because of the sensitivity of the subject, said Turkey
could be persuaded to regulate
the Tigris’ flow at a similar rate
as the Euphrates.
Still, “Turkey’s desire to withdraw yet more water runs the risk
of plunging the region into greater turmoil,” said Adel Darwish,
co-author of Water Wars: Coming Conflicts in the Middle East.
“Turkey believes it can act with
impunity while other countries
are busy fighting Islamic State.”
Turkey, which uses about 41
percent of its water resources
while Middle Eastern countries
consume most of theirs, says the
falling water levels are the result
of others’ poor downstream management, failure to make repairs
and conflict.
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Battle over
flag erupts
in US Capitol
BY PAUL K ANE AND A BBY PHILLIP
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Three weeks after
a racially motivated massacre in a black
church in Charleston, S.C., the Confederate battle flag is no longer flying on the
grounds of the South Carolina State House,
following a bitter debate over its role as a
symbol of racism and hate.
The furor over the flag rippled through
the halls of Congress on Thursday when
House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio,
called for a review of Confederate symbols
and memorabilia, which is likely to include
those on display in the Capitol.
Boehner was forced to halt consideration
of a government funding measure after it
became engulfed by the Confederate flag
controversy and whether it was appropriate to display the flags at national cemeteries where Confederate soldiers are buried.
The dispute pitted Southern conservatives who asserted that the tradition was
part of their heritage against members
of the Congressional Black Caucus who
view the flag as a symbol of slavery and
oppression.
Congressional Republicans stumbled
into the heated flag debate through a series
of miscalculations. That began with their
decision late Wednesday to allow a House
vote on an amendment that would have reaffirmed the ability to place the Confederate flag in national cemeteries as part of a
once-per-year tradition in the Deep South.
House Democrats accused Republicans of catering to the large and powerful
Southern conservative bloc. Republicans
accused Democrats of trying to exploit the
tragedy of the killings in Charleston and
the decision by South Carolina lawmakers
to remove the flag from the capitol.
Boehner tried to tamp down the dispute
by announcing that he would create an informal, bipartisan group to review all matters related to the display of Confederate
memorabilia. He pulled the overall legislation, which would provide annual funds for
the Interior Department, rather than hold a
vote on the Confederate flag amendment.
Democrats responded by reintroducing
a resolution that would have mandated the
removal of Mississippi’s state flag from
display on U.S. Capitol grounds because its
design incorporates the Confederate battle
flag. That resolution, offered by House Minority Leader Nancy Pelosi, D-Calif., was
tabled on a mostly partisan vote that referred it to a committee.
Other Democrats have called for the
removal of statues of Jefferson Davis and
other Confederate leaders that are prominently displayed in the Capitol. In floor
speeches throughout the day, Democrats
stood in front of an image of the Confederate flag on the House floor.
“The red in this flag is a painful reminder of the blood that was shed by AfricanAmerican slaves,” said Rep. Hakeem
Jeffries, D-N.Y., a member of the Congressional Black Caucus.
Southern Republicans said that their
Democratic colleagues did not understand
that they were trying to pay tribute to fallen Confederate soldiers who were not plantation owners.
“The majority of people that actually
died in the Civil War on the Confederate
side didn’t own slaves. These were people
that were fighting for their states, and,
you know, I don’t think they even had any
thoughts about slavery,” said Rep. Lynn
Westmoreland, R-Ga.
PHOTOS
BY
JOHN BAZEMORE /AP
People cheer Friday as an honor guard from the South Carolina Highway Patrol removes the Confederate battle flag from the
Capitol grounds in Columbia.
‘A sign of good will and healing’
After 54 years, Confederate flag removed from SC State House
BY JEFFREY COLLINS
AND M EG K INNARD
COLUMBIA, S.C. — The Confederate
flag was lowered from the grounds of the
South Carolina State House to the cheers
of thousands on Friday, ending its 54year presence there and marking a stunning political reversal in a state where
many thought the rebel banner would fly
indefinitely.
The turnabout seemed unthinkable before the June 17 massacre of nine black
parishioners — including a state senator
— at a Charleston church during a Bible
study. Dylann Roof, a white man who was
photographed with the Confederate flag,
is charged in the shooting deaths, and
authorities have called the killings a hate
crime.
The massacre reignited calls to remove
Confederate flags and symbols across the
South and around the nation.
The crowd chanted “USA” and “hey, hey,
hey, goodbye” as the flag was swiftly lowered by an honor guard of South Carolina
troopers during a 6-minute ceremony. Gov.
Nikki Haley stood on the State House steps
and while she didn’t speak, she nodded and
smiled in the direction of the crowd after
someone shouted: “Thank you governor.”
Haley supported the flag before the
shooting, but the Republican had a change
of heart in the days after the killings, urging legislators to pass a bill she could sign
bringing the flag down before the end of
the summer.
As she looked on, two troopers rolled
the flag and tied it up with a string. They
handed it to a black trooper who brought it
to the State House steps. When the trooper
An honor guard member from the South
Carolina Highway Patrol hands the
Confederate battle flag that flew in front
of the State House to the curator of the
Confederate Relic Room and Military
Museum on Friday.
handed it to a state archivist, the governor
clapped.
President Barack Obama tweeted minutes after the flag was down, saying it
was “a sign of good will and healing and a
meaningful step towards a better future.”
Obama delivered a eulogy at the funeral
for state Sen. Clementa Pinckney, who also
was pastor of the church where the killings
took place.
A van was to take the flag to the nearby
Confederate Relic Room and Military Museum. There, it eventually will be housed
in a multimillion-dollar shrine lawmakers
promised to build as part of a deal to get a
bill passed removing the flag.
South Carolina’s leaders first flew the
battle flag over the State House dome in
1961 to mark the 100th anniversary of
the Civil War. It remained there to represent official opposition to the civil rights
movement.
Decades later, mass protests against the
flag by those who said it was a symbol of
racism and white supremacy led to a compromise in 2000 with lawmakers who insisted that it symbolized Southern heritage
and states’ rights. The two sides came to an
agreement to move the flag from the dome
to a 30-foot pole next to a Confederate monument in front of the State House.
Many thought it would stay there. Now,
even that flagpole will be torn down. No
timetable was set on that.
People who supported removing the
flag chanted “take it down” before the ceremony and vastly outnumbered those who
were upset about the move.
“It feels so good to be out here and be
happy about it,” said Ronald D. Barton, 52,
a pastor who also was at the ceremony in
2000.
Haley did not answer questions, but
earlier Friday on NBC’s “Today” show,
she said: “No one should ever drive by the
State House and feel pain. No one should
ever drive by the State House and feel like
they don’t belong.”
The flag came down 23 days after the
massacre at Charleston’s Emanuel African
Methodist Episcopal Church. Haley signed
the bill with 13 pens. Nine of them went to
the families of the victims.
On Friday, artist Ernest Lee came to the
State House with a framed portrait of all
nine victims. He said he’s been invited to
the Charleston church on Sunday to present his artwork. He said he wished more
people would turn to art for inspiration.
“If they did, there wouldn’t be so much
hate and violence,” he said.
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Latino
group:
Dump
Trump
Safety group
pans bill on
transportation
BY LYNN ELBER
UNIVERSAL CITY, Calif. —
The head of a Latino civil rights
group called on more organizations to follow NBC’s example
and cut business ties with Donald
Trump.
Alex Nogales, president of the
National Hispanic Media Coalition, said Thursday that the PGA
of America’s decision this week
to move a golf tournament from a
Trump-owned course was a step
in the right direction.
The PGA and other major golf
organizations should agree to
keep tournaments off Trump
properties in response to his
comments about Mexican immigrants, Nogales said.
Trump’s representative didn’t
immediately respond to a request
for comment.
The PGA said it relocated its
Grand Slam of Golf in agreement
with Trump.
CAROLYN K ASTER /AP
Armando Garcia, from Washington state, protests Republican presidential candidate Donald Trump and
his portrayal of Mexican immigrants as criminals outside the Trump hotel Thursday in Washington, D.C.
Nogales’ comments followed a
Q&A with NBC Entertainment
Chairman Bob Greenblatt, part
of a conference on Latinos in entertainment sponsored by the advocacy group.
NBC ended its partnership with
Trump on the Miss Universe and
Miss USA pageants after the celebrity billionaire, in announcing
his presidential campaign, said
some Mexican immigrants to the
U.S. bring drugs and crime, and
some are rapists.
Nogales thanked Greenblatt,
then moved on to a discussion of
Hispanic-oriented shows planned
by NBC. Among them: a drama in
development about the settlement
of California.
The Miss USA pageant that
was to air on NBC will be carried Sunday instead by the Reelz
cable and satellite channel, which
has said Trump won’t profit from
the telecast.
More fallout from the GOP
candidate’s June remarks include
the Macy’s department store
chain decision’s to stop carrying an exclusive line of Trump
menswear; Univision dropping
its Spanish-language telecasts of
the Miss USA and Miss Universe
pageants, and the end to a project
that OraTV, a company backed
by Mexican billionaire Carlos
Slim, said it was developing with
Trump.
Trump has fought back with
a $500 million lawsuit against
Univision that claims breach of
contract and defamation and says
Univision turned on him because
it supports Democrat Hillary
Rodham Clinton for president.
Regarding Macy’s, Trump said
he’d decided to end his relationship with the chain because of
pressure put upon them by outside sources.
“Both Macy’s and NBC totally
caved at the first sight of potential difficulty with special interest groups who are nothing more
than professional agitators,” he
said.
GOP lawmakers again snuff pot proposal
BY A ARON C. DAVIS
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — Medical
marijuana is now sold in nearly
half of all states, and even one
red state has legalized it for recreational use. Veterans of wars in
Iraq and Afghanistan are clamoring for access to treat post-traumatic stress disorder. Loosening
pot laws polls better in three swing
states than any 2016 presidential
candidate.
But House Republicans have
so far declined to keep pace with
shifting public opinion. They did
so again late Wednesday, when a
rare bipartisan pot proposal died
a quiet death in the House that
would have reclassified marijuana
so that national laboratories could
conduct “credible research on its
safety and efficacy as a medical
treatment.”
The amendment to a bill scheduled for debate Thursday on the
House floor would have encouraged the National Institutes of
Health and the Drug Enforcement
Administration to work together
to allow studies of the benefits and
risks of marijuana to treat cancer, epilepsy, glaucoma and posttraumatic stress disorder, among
other conditions.
The vote is the latest action
‘ We need science to clearly determine
whether marijuana has medicinal benefits
and, if so, what is the best way to gain
those benefits?
’
to reflect national Republicans’
uncertainty on how to address
shifting public sentiment about
marijuana use. Although the GOP
has supported steps to allow state
medical-marijuana
programs
to flourish, Republicans generally have not supported efforts
to advance national policy on
legalization.
When a Senate committee this
year passed a measure to let doctors discuss marijuana with patients at Veterans Affairs clinics,
House Republicans shot it down.
When the District legalized weed
for personal use, a powerful House
committee chairman threatened
the city’s mayor with jail time.
House Republicans have defended their opposition to pot. There is
no evidence, they have said, that
loosening marijuana laws would
do anything but destroy the brains
Rep. Andy Harris
R-Md.
of the nation’s adolescents, let
alone offer benefits to veterans.
The lack of evidence, however,
can be traced to congressional Republicans who have made it all but
impossible for federal agencies to
fund objective testing on the effects of marijuana use.
The amendment that died
Wednesday was seen by some as
a potential game-changer. With 23
states allowing medical marijuana
— and a handful plus the District
of Columbia having outright legalized it — some House Republicans
(and Democrats, too) thought that
it was finally time to allow more
federal testing of marijuana.
For Republican opponents, the
research could provide either
evidence to continue holding the
line or solid ground for the party
to begin tiptoeing toward the
mainstream.
Perhaps surprisingly was the
House Republicans’ most outspoken critic of legalization over the
past two years who co-sponsored
the measure. Maryland Rep.
Andy Harris, a doctor and author
of a measure in Congress that has
left legalization in the District of
Columbia in limbo, said more science was the way to go.
“We need science to clearly determine whether marijuana has
medicinal benefits and, if so, what
is the best way to gain those benefits,” he said Wednesday before
the House Rules Committee sidelined the amendment in a vote late
Wednesday night.
Another Republican, Rep. Morgan Griffith of Virginia, pleaded
with the committee in person
to approve it, but for a different
reason.
Whereas Harris sponsored the
measure confident that the research would prove marijuana
is bad, Griffith has become convinced that there are limited circumstances in which marijuana
has medical benefits for patients.
“We let doctors use heroin derivatives, barbiturates and all
kinds of nasty stuff that I wouldn’t
want people to use recreationally.
Why not study marijuana?” said
Griffith, still smarting from the
unraveling of the amendment.
WASHINGTON — A transportation bill introduced by a Senate
committee chairman would allow
car rental companies to rent recalled vehicles that haven’t been
repaired and eliminate any hard
deadline for railroads to start
using long-sought technology
that automatically stops trains to
prevent crashes, safety advocates
say.
The bill, introduced Thursday
by Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., the
chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, says companies must tell
consumers about the recall notices in writing if they don’t intend to
fix the cars first.
Safety advocates have been
urging Congress to prohibit rental
car companies, auto dealers and
others from renting vehicles that
have not been repaired, pointing to several deaths alleged to
have been related to unrepaired
defects.
“Whether you’re visiting Disneyland, New York City or Mount
Rushmore, or just need a safer
car while your own recalled car is
being repaired, you shouldn’t have
to worry that it’s perfectly legal,
under federal law, for a rental car
company to hand you the keys to
a ticking time-bomb car,” said
Rosemary Shahan, president of
Consumers for Auto Reliability
and Safety. She said she fears the
bill will pre-empt stronger state
laws that prohibit the rental of unrepaired vehicles.
Frederick Hill, a committee
spokesman, said the bill wouldn’t
pre-empt state laws. Thune wants
to ensure that rental agencies and
car dealerships in states where
there is no prohibition on renting
unrepaired vehicles are required
to at least inform consumers of
the pending recalls, he said.
The bill includes provisions
that would give freight and commuter railroads and Amtrak
more time to install positive train
control. The technology relies on
GPS, wireless radio and computers to monitor train position and
automatically stop trains that are
in danger of derailing because
they’re traveling too fast, are
about to collide with another train
or are about to enter an area where
crews are working on tracks.
The National Transportation
Safety Board has been urging
railroads to adopt the technology,
or its predecessors, for more than
40 years.
Railroads say they’ve spent billions of dollars on the technology
but have been hampered by difficulties obtaining radio spectrum
and the complexities of creating
systems that will work for all railroads even though operations and
computer systems vary significantly by company.
The bill introduced Thursday
requires railroads to have the
equipment necessary to operate
positive train control in place by
Dec. 31, 2018, but sets no deadline
for when railroads must begin
using the technology.
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Not berry good:
Adults skimping
on fruits, veggies
BY M IKE STOBBE
PHOTOS
BY
TAMARA LUSH /AP
NEW YORK — Most U.S. adults
still aren’t eating nearly enough
fruits and vegetables.
In a large national survey,
only 13 percent said they ate the
recommended amount of fruit
each day. And only 9 percent ate
enough vegetables.
California — a big producegrowing state — ranked highest
for eating both fruits and vegetables. Tennessee was at the bottom
of the fruit list, and Mississippi
was last in eating vegetables.
The government recommends
that adults eat 1½ to two cups of
fruit and two to three cups of vegetables each day.
Health officials have been trying to promote fruits and vegetables — especially leafy greens
People avoid the ocean on a beautiful summer Tuesday in Avon, N.C.
Fascinating, scary sharks
leave beaches barren in NC
BY TAMARA LUSH
AVON, N.C. — It’s the golden
hour, right before sunset, when
the light is soft and pretty. The
landscape looks like a postcard.
Tourists stroll, kids run.
No one is in the water. No one
wants to be a feast for a shark.
“This is a very sharky place,”
mused John Kane, 56, as he stood
on the Avon Pier and stared into
the crashing surf.
They’re out there, somewhere,
in the murky, antifreeze-green
water. There are sharpnose and
black tips, bulls and tigers. Maybe
even a great white or two, if Twitter is to be believed. Always lurking, always swimming, always
eating.
And too often, of late, their prey
has been human: In a 28-day span,
eight people have been bitten by
sharks in North Carolina, a new
high for the 80 years in which records have been kept.
The attacks have spanned a
hundred-mile stretch of coastline,
three of them along the barrier islands of the Outer Banks. Most of
them occurred in shallow water.
Injuries have ranged widely, from
an 8-year-old boy who had only
minor wounds to his heel and
ankle to at least two others who
had limbs amputated.
Authorities don’t blame the
same shark, or even the same type
of shark. They struggle to explain
the sudden spate of attacks.
But there is no need to explain
the fascination with this creature,
or the fear it inspires.
“There could be a 10-footer in
there,” Kane said, casually pointing to the dark water under the
pier.
Kane was hoping to catch a tarpon or mackerel. He’s fished these
waters for some 30 years. The only
thing he snagged on Tuesday afternoon was a shark.
“About this big,” Kane said,
holding his hands some 3 feet
apart. “I just cut ’em loose. We
have an understanding. I don’t eat
them and they don’t eat me.”
If only people and sharks did
have that kind of pact, maybe
people would be swimming and
bodyboarding and not canceling
surf lessons.
Everyone is talking about
sharks along the Outer Banks. At
the sushi bar in Buxton. On the
radio.
Chuck Bangley, a shark researcher at East Carolina University, said unseasonably warm
water brought more turtles and
fish closer to shore, which means
the sharks that eat those creatures
are also drawn to shore. And the
hot temperatures drew more people to the beach.
Also, the Continental Shelf is
narrow in the area near the Outer
Banks — like another area popular
for shark bites, near New Smyrna
Beach, Fla. — which means sharks
are “pushed closer to shore” there,
said Bangley.
“How many car accidents
Kathryn Peperkorn, of Rocklin,
Calif., looks at the Atlantic
Ocean while vacationing with
her family on the Outer Banks in
Cape Hatteras, N.C.
were there in North Carolina this
week?” asked Kathryn Peperkorn,
45, of Rocklin, Calif. (Answer:
There were 10 car crash deaths
over the July 4 weekend.)
Peperkorn and her husband and
their four children were enjoying
a blindingly sunny day at Cape
Hatteras National Seashore — and
all were going in the water.
“My kids are more in danger
coming here in the car,” she said,
squinting at her four kids, ranging in age from 7 to 14, who waded
knee-deep in the surf. “I’m not
someone who lives in fear.”
She added that they weren’t
going to swim far out and were
staying in view of the lifeguards.
“We’re not going to be stupid.”
New national monuments coming to 3 states
BY JOSH LEDERMAN
WASHINGTON — Mammoth
bones, prehistoric rock carvings
and more than a million acres of
wilderness will be protected as
part of three new national monuments that President Barack
Obama is creating in California,
Nevada and Texas.
The presidential move, announced by the White House
Friday, brings to 19 the number
of monuments that Obama has
created or expanded since taking
office.
In Texas, Obama is creating a
monument at Waco Mammoth,
a relatively small site in central
Texas where archaeologists have
discovered remains of 24 Columbian Mammoths — the largest
of the mammoth species — from
more than 65,000 years ago, the
White House said. Like other
mammoths, the Columbian Mammoth is now extinct, but roamed
freely in North America during
the Pleistocene epoch, known colloquially as the ice age.
Nevada’s Basin and Range,
home to rare rock art from 4,000
years ago, will also become a
national monument. The White
House said more than 700,000
acres of public land will be protected in an untouched area of the
Great Basin region. In addition to
petroglyphs, the site also contains
“City,” an array of abstract sculptures that artist Michael Heizer
has worked on for more than four
decades. The project evokes elements of Mesoamerican life, with
ceremonial mounds interspersed
with more modern architecture.
Tourists and nature lovers in
California will see more than
330,000 acres in northern California set aside for a new monument
at Berryessa Snow Mountain. The
White House touted the area’s rich
biodiversity and Native American
cultural sites, but the area is best
known as a destination for hikers,
campers, fishermen and hunters.
— as healthy alternatives to salty,
fatty and sugary foods. The goal
is to curb the nation’s obesity
problem and reduce diabetes,
heart disease and other maladies
tied to bad diets.
The findings come from a 2013
national telephone survey of hundreds of thousands of Americans.
The Centers for Disease Control and Prevention released the
study Thursday.
Officials say it’s difficult to
compare the latest findings to
previous years because of a
change in how the survey was
done and how it asked about produce consumption.
But the amount of fruit- and
vegetable-eating appears to be
holding steady at a disappointingly low level, said the study’s lead
author, Latetia Moore.
Gay marriage not a done
deal in American Samoa
BY FILI SAGAPOLUTELE AND
JENNIFER SINCO K ELLEHER
PAGO PAGO, American Samoa
— American Samoa stands as
the only U.S. territory to hold
out against the recent Supreme
Court ruling that legalized gay
marriage.
But as the Pacific island’s attorney general reviews the decision,
legal observers and gay rights
advocates are saying it should go
into effect immediately.
“It should be unquestioned,”
said Rose Cuison Villazor, a professor at University of California,
Davis’ law school and an expert
on territorial law. “The Supreme
Court’s decision was pretty
strong.”
American Samoa Attorney
General Talauega Eleasalo Ale,
however, hasn’t been ready to
take that step.
“We’re still reviewing the decision to determine its applicability to American Samoa, and I
have no specific comments at this
time,” he said.
Asked if same-sex marriage is
legal in the territory, Ale said, “I
don’t know. We’re reviewing the
law.”
U.S. territories have some selfgovernance rights. The right to
marry, however, isn’t a question
of self-governance, said Omar
Gonzalez-Pagan, staff attorney
for national gay rights group
Lambda Legal. “This is a question of individual right, individual
liberty.”
Other U.S. territories have voluntarily complied with the Su-
preme Court decision.
In Puerto Rico, Gov. Alejandro
Garcia Padilla signed an executive order soon after the ruling.
U.S. Virgin Islands Gov. Kenneth
Mapp has said he would issue a
similar executive order.
In Guam, there is no effort to
ignore or challenge the ruling,
said territorial legislative Vice
Speaker Benjamin F. Cruz, who
is gay. The Commonwealth of the
Northern Mariana Islands is also
supporting the decision.
As of Thursday, no one has applied for a same-sex marriage
license in American Samoa, according to the island’s Office of
Vital Statistics.
Christian churches with conservative social views dominate
in American Samoa, home to
about 50,000, and the government’s motto is “Samoa, Let God
Be First.” Yet the territory has
a tradition of embracing faafafine — males who are raised
as females and take on feminine
traits.
There are many faafafine who
aren’t supportive of gay marriage
out of “respect for our Samoan
culture and religious beliefs,”
said well-known faafafine Princess Auvaa.
The lack of marriage-license
applications by same-sex couples
shouldn’t be taken to mean no one
in American Samoa desires gay
marriage, Villazor said. The attorney general’s review may have
a chilling effect, she said. “I would
think there are cultural barriers
to begin with. The AG might present some other legal and social
barriers, too,” she said.
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Colo. theater shooting defense wrapping up
BY DAN ELLIOTT
CENTENNIAL, Colo. — Attorneys for Colorado theater shooter
James Holmes were expected to
wrap up their case Friday, and
jurors could start deliberating
next week on the central question
in the trial: Whether Holmes was
legally sane when he unleashed
the attack that left 12 dead and 70
injured.
Defense lawyers have spent
two weeks trying to convince jurors that Holmes was insane and
should be sent to the state mental
hospital indefinitely. They called
two psychiatrists, both hired by
the defense, who evaluated Holmes and concluded he was incapable of telling right from wrong
and was therefore legally insane.
Prosecutors argued he was
sane and should be executed.
They called two court-appointed
psychiatrists who told jurors they
evaluated Holmes and concluded
that he could distinguish right
and wrong, even though he was
mentally ill.
Jurors will decide whose opinions they trust more when they
retreat to a conference room inside the brick-and-glass Arapahoe County Courthouse and begin
working their way through 166
counts against Holmes, mostly
murder and attempted murder.
Deliberations
could
start
Wednesday.
On Friday, defense lawyers
planned to call one more witness,
to show jurors video clips of Holmes from a jail surveillance camera, and then to rest their case.
District
Attorney
George
Brauchler then was to make a
rebuttal case, taking up to a day.
Closing arguments are tentatively
set for Tuesday.
Holmes slipped into a suburban Denver theater on July 20,
2012, and opened fire with a shotgun, an assault rifle and a semiautomatic handgun as more than
400 people watched a midnight
premiere of the Batman movie
“The Dark Knight Rises.”
The psychiatrists testified that
Holmes had schizophrenia and
suffered from a delusion that by
killing others, he somehow absorbed their value and improved
his self-worth.
But the court-appointed psychiatrists told jurors that despite
his illness and delusions, Holmes still understood that what
he was doing was illegal and violated society’s standards of right
and wrong — and therefore he
doesn’t meet the legal definition
of sanity.
One of the defense psychiatrists, Dr. Raquel Gur, told jurors
Man accused
of killing 7
in NJ, Pa.
Judge sentences
ex-teacher who had
sex with 3 students
FARMINGTON, Utah — A
judge sentenced a former high
school English teacher who pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three
male students to at least two and
up to 30 years in prison Thursday.
Prosecutors say one of the boys
was 16 and two were 17 when Brianne Altice, 36, had sex with them.
Altice was initially free while her
case played out, but was sent to
jail in January after allegations
emerged that she continued a
sexual relationship with one of the
boys while she was out on bail.
Altice cried as she pleaded
guilty to three counts of forcible
sexual abuse in April. Each count
carries a sentence of up to 15 years
in prison.
Altice sent a handwritten letter
to Judge Thomas Kay last month
asking him not to send her to prison. She said she’s harmless, and
promised she wouldn’t repeat the
crime.
Prosecutors say she befriended
the boys, allowing them to hang
out in her classroom, and the relationships later turned sexual.
One victim testified the relation-
ship began with kissing between
class periods and eventually led
to intercourse. Another said he
considered her to be his girlfriend
during their yearlong sexual
relationship.
She was fired shortly after the
allegations came to light, and her
husband filed for divorce and custody of their child.
Her lawyer, Ed Brass, said she
was no longer the boys’ teacher
when the sex occurred.
Parents of two boys sued the
school district, saying that officials knew that Altice was behaving inappropriately but didn’t do
enough to stop her. They alleged
in court papers that the running
joke at the high school was, “Who
is Ms. Altice sleeping with now?”
One lawsuit was withdrawn
after state attorneys said schools
aren’t responsible for injuries
arising from assaults. The other is
still pending.
Altice was arrested in October
2013 after a student reported having a relationship with her, and
two more victims later came forward with similar allegations.
LEAH HOGSTEN, THE SALT L AKE TRIBUNE /AP
Brianne Altice appears in court Thursday in Farmington, Utah. Altice
had pleaded guilty to sexually abusing three male students.
FBI: Arrests stopped plots planned for July 4
WASHINGTON — FBI Director James
Comey said Thursday that the agency believes it stopped potential acts of violence in
the month before the July 4 holiday.
Comey said authorities suspect that some of
the more than 10 people arrested during that
time were planning to commit violence tied
to the holiday. But he declined during a wideranging discussion with reporters to describe
any of the potential plots that might have been
thwarted or to identify specific individuals
the FBI thought might carry out an attack.
Federal agents had ramped up efforts in recent months to arrest Islamic State sympathizers across the country, arresting more than 10
in the past four weeks in places including New
that Holmes’ schizophrenia and
delusions overwhelmed him.
“The severe defect in his brain,
in his mind, rendered him not capable of distinguishing right from
wrong by societal standards,” she
said Wednesday.
On Thursday, Holmes told
Judge Carlos A. Samour Jr. he
will not testify in his own defense.
After the jury had been sent home
for the day, Samour told Holmes
the Constitution gives him the
right to decide whether or not to
take the stand and then asked
what he wanted to do.
“I choose not to testify,” Holmes said in a clear, firm voice.
Jersey, Ohio and North Carolina.
“I do believe that our work disrupted efforts
to kill people, likely in connection with July
4,” Comey said.
The FBI and Department of Homeland
Security had warned of a heightened terror
threat tied to the July 4 weekend, but had not
publicly identified any specific plot they were
tracking. A law enforcement bulletin issued
ahead of the holiday, Comey said, was motivated by the overall threat.
Comey also said the current crop of Westerners attracted by the Islamic State’s messaging is so unpredictable that it can be hard
for federal authorities to ever be sure of their
plans, or when they might act. Whereas alQaida would train operatives and would carefully scope out targets, the concern among
law enforcement officials is that the Islamic
State is motivating people to commit violence
“on a very short string.”
“We face people who are highly unpredictable,” Comey said, noting that the FBI does
not discount the possibility that an individual
who plans an act of terrorism for a particular
day such as July 4 might randomly decide to
kill someone earlier.
He cited as an example the case of a 26year-old terror suspect who was fatally shot by
police in Boston last month after authorities
said he lunged at them with a military-style
knife. The FBI has said he had been scheming
with other men, both now facing charges, on a
future plot to kill a blogger known for provoking Muslims, but decided to change plans.
A man killed seven people in
New Jersey and Pennsylvania
in a seven-week period during
shooting sprees in which at least
some victims may have been targeted at random, authorities said
Thursday.
The killings began in Elizabeth, N.J., in mid-May and ended
70 miles away in Pennsylvania on
Sunday, when three people were
shot in the middle of the night,
two as they sat in a car.
Todd West, 22, of Elizabeth, was
arrested Monday by police in Allentown, Pa.,
who spotted
him and an
suspected
accomplice
who matched
the description of two
men wanted
for robberies
earlier in the
day, prosecuWest
tors said.
The police work “may have
prevented more people from
being killed, potentially, because
it’s pretty apparent that these
guys meant business,” said Terry
Houck, first district attorney in
Pennsylvania’s
Northampton
County, where one of the killings
occurred.
West faces charges including
seven counts of homicide and one
count of attempted murder. It was
not clear if he had hired a lawyer,
and a call to an attorney who previously represented him went unanswered Thursday.
Prosecutors said his first victim
was a cousin, killed in an apartment building in Elizabeth on
May 18, but they said they had not
found any connections between
those shot in the two states.
Three other victims were killed
June 25 in Elizabeth.
Prosecutor Grace Park in Union
County, N.J., called the killings a
“horrific event.” Her office said a
motive was unclear; there was no
evidence that drugs, gang activity or robbery played a role.
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Protection
of tourists
in Tunisia
defended
Greece PM hopes
to sell austerity
deal to his party
BY DEREK GATOPOULOS
AND ELENA BECATOROS
ATHENS, Greece — Left-wing
Greek Prime Minister Alexis
Tsipras sought his party’s backing
for a harsh new austerity package
Friday to keep his country in the
euro — less than a week after urging Greeks to reject milder cuts in
a referendum.
Government ministers signed
off on the sweeping new measures
— likely to extend the recession
after six years of painful decline
— that include pension cuts and
tax hikes. In exchange, Greece
wants a three-year financial support program worth nearly $60
billion and some form of debt
relief.
The measures were sent to rescue creditors who will meet this
weekend to decide whether to approve them. The proposed new
bailout would be Greece’s third
since it lost access to financing
from bond markets in 2010.
In an unusual procedure, Tsipras is first seeking authorization
from parliament to negotiate with
the creditors based on the proposal in a vote Friday. He is essentially asking his Syriza party
to sign off on the U-turn despite
more than 60 percent of voters opposing more austerity in the July 5
referendum.
Tsipras was convening his
party’s lawmakers for discussions Friday morning before the
parliamentary debate. The coalition government has 162 seats in
the 300-member parliament and
pledged backing on a deal from
a large section of opposition lawmakers. But failure to deliver
votes from his own government
would likely topple his coalition.
The proposals are to be discussed by eurozone finance ministers on Saturday ahead of a
BY BOUAZZA BEN BOUAZZA
EMILIO MORENATTI /AP
Pensioners wait outside the main gate of the national bank of Greece
to withdraw a maximum of $134 in central Athens on Friday.
summit of the European Union’s
28 leaders Sunday.
Though German officials would
not be drawn on the merits of the
Greek proposal, French President
Francois Hollande said they are
“serious and credible.”
France’s Socialist government
has been among the Greek government’s few allies in the eurozone during the past months of
tough negotiations.
Jeroen Dijsselbloem, who chairs
eurozone finance ministers’ meetings, said the proposals were “extensive” but would not say whether
he thought they were sufficient.
Later Friday, Dijsselbloem
planned to hold a conference call
with the leaders of other key creditors, the EU’s Executive Commission, the European Central Bank
and the International Monetary
Fund. European Commission
spokesman Margaritis Schinas
said they would likely send their
assessment of the Greek proposal
to the eurozone finance ministers
later Friday.
In Greece, government officials
were confident their concessions
would be accepted by the creditors. Alternate Finance Minister
Dimitris Mardas said he expected parliament to sign off on the
proposal.
Remarkable airlift
rescues 200 rhinos
BY M ANUELA HOELTERHOFF
Bloomberg News
Rhinos are on a path to extinction, possibly within a decade:
The estimated 20,000 stand little
chance against poachers with AK47s and saws who supply an Asian
market that prices the horns, mistakenly believed to have medicinal
properties, at $95,000 a kilo.
South Africa’s immense Kruger
National Park is especially vulnerable, with hired guns entering
from neighboring Mozambique.
In a remarkable airlift masterminded by conservationists
Dereck and Beverly Joubert, 200
rhinos are being flown from South
Africa to the safety of Botswana.
The complex process involves the
Botswana army and a chartered
Ilyushin cargo plane capable of
lifting off with 10 of these crated,
stolid 3,000-pounders.
No endangered beast could hope
for more articulate advocates than
the Jouberts, both National Geographic Explorers-in-Residence.
Their documentaries and books
on Africa’s big cats and other keystone species have won numerous
awards, including seven Emmys
and the Presidential Order of
Meritorious Service by Botswana
President Ian Khama.
“Botswana has a ‘shoot to
kill’ policy on poachers. It’s not
a ‘shoot on sight,’ ” said Dereck
Joubert, explaining why rhinos
are safe in Botswana. “The military surrounds a camp; you must
put down your guns. If anybody
lifts a firearm, they don’t try and
wound the person; they just shoot
everybody.”
According to Beverly Joubert,
rhino horns grow back, but very
slowly.
“It depends where it’s cut off,”
she said. “Conservationists for
Soviet republics in Central Asia.
Russia sees the organization as
a counterweight to Western alliances. Membership in the group
potentially offers India greater
access to the energy resources of
Central Asia. Indian Prime Minister Narendra Modi has combined
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N ADINE HUTTON /Bloomberg News
Poachers have put rhinos on a path to extinction, so Dereck Joubert
and his wife, Beverly, are organizing a remarkable airlift of 200
rhinos from South Africa to the safety of Botswana.
some time cut the rhino horn off
about 5 or 6 inches from the base,
believing that if you cut off the
horn, the animal won’t be poached.
But now, at $95,000 a kilo, even a
bit of rhino horn is worth killing
the entire rhino for.”
She added that baby rhinos
without horns are being killed
for their mucus and their mucus
membranes because there is belief that mucus has some sort of
potency that grows this magnifi-
cent horn later on.
“It’s completely ridiculous,” she
said.
There’s a massive market in
Asia for rhino horns, according
to the couple, although there’s no
medicinal value at all.
“It’s like chewing your hair or
your fingernail,” said Dereck Joubert. “They’re selling it for everything from a virility booster to a
cancer drug or to cure a poisonous
bite from a sea snake.”
India, Pakistan to join Russia-China alliance
UFA, Russia — Russian President Vladimir Putin said India
and Pakistan will join the Shanghai Cooperation Organization, a
group dominated by Russia and
China and also including former
TUNIS, Tunisia — Tunisia’s
prime minister insisted Friday
that his country has done “everything in our power” to protect
foreign tourists, as the British
government urged travelers to
flee because of the threat of more
attacks.
Britain on Thursday called for
all U.K. tourists to leave Tunisia
because a terrorist attack is “highly likely,” saying the North African country hasn’t done enough to
enhance security. There were 30
British tourists among the 38 victims killed by an Islamic extremist at a Tunisian beach resort last
month.
The decision is a new wound
for Tunisia’s struggling tourism
industry
and
for
Tunisia’s
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Tunisian prime
Tunisian
minister Prime Minister Habib
Essid said early Friday that his
government would help evacuate
British citizens and that he would
speak to British counterpart David
Cameron later in the day about repercussions of the decision.
“We did everything in our
power to protect (British) citizens and their interests, as well as
those of all other countries,” Essid
told lawmakers during a debate on
security.
Hundreds of thousands of Britons visit Tunisia each year. Many
left after the Sousse attack, but
some 3,000 are still in Tunisia.
Travel company Thomas Cook,
which has about 2,000 British customers in Tunisia, said it would
add an extra flight Friday to bring
Britons home, and will be bringing
customers back on its 10 scheduled
flights this weekend and use other
airlines if needed.
The head of the Islamist party’s
Ennahda Movement in parliament, Noureddine Bhiri, called
the British decision “manifestly
damaging to Tunisia and its democratic process.”
The Tunisian parliament is debating counterterrorism legislation that rights groups say would
threaten hard-won freedoms.
The government says its compatriots must allow limits on some
freedoms to ensure their security amid increasing threats from
extremists.
his attendance at the summit in
Russia with visits to SCO members Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan,
Tajikistan and Uzbekistan.
Putin opened the annual summit on Friday by announcing the
acceptance of India and Pakistan
as members. He said Belarus
would obtain observer status,
joining Afghanistan, Iran and
Mongolia.
The Russian president called
for greater cooperation in fighting drug trafficking from Afghanistan and the financing of
terrorism.
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Iran: US
changing
nuclear
demands
Movie star
Sharif dies
VIENNA — The Iran nuclear
negotiations turned Friday from
talk of progress to a blame game,
with Iranian Foreign Minister
Mohammad Javad Zarif accusing
the United States of shifting its demands. He dismissed a warning
that the U.S. is ready to quit the negotiations as counterproductive.
Hours after his comments, Zarif
again met U.S. Secretary of State
John Kerry for another try at resolving differences standing in the
way of a landmark deal that offers
Iran sanctions relief in exchange
for long-term and verifiable curbs
on nuclear programs which Tehran
could turn to making weapons.
The tougher rhetoric mirrored
the frustrations by the sides as the
current round of talks entered its
14th day. After blowing past two
extensions, negotiators had hoped
to wrap up the talks by Friday, but
Zarif’s comments cast doubts that
agreement was near.
The sides had hoped to seal a
deal before the end of Thursday
in Washington in attempts to avoid
delays in implementing their
promises.
By missing that target, the U.S.
and Iran now have to wait for a 60day congressional review period
during which President Barack
Obama cannot waive sanctions on
Iran. Had they reached a deal by
then, the review would have been
only 30 days. Iran is unlikely to
begin a substantial rollback of its
nuclear program until it gets sanctions relief in return.
The talks are formally between
Iran and six world powers but
have devolved into U.S.-Iranian
negotiations over recent months,
with diplomats saying the other
nations were ready to accept terms
agreed to by Tehran and Washington. Zarif’s critical comments
were thus seen as mostly directed
against Washington.
Still, disagreements also have
surfaced recently between the
U.S. and Russia. Moscow supports
Iranian demands for at least a
partial lifting of the conventional arms embargo as part of any
deal. That’s something Washington opposes — and an issue Zarif
appeared to touch on in his comments to Iranian state television.
Beyond “witnessing a change of
stances” from the other side, Zarif
noted a “different stand” on some
issues among the six nations.
“This situation has made the work
difficult,” he said.
Kerry had warned on Thursday
that the Americans were ready
to leave, declaring “we can’t wait
forever for a decision to be made.”
Zarif, in contrast, said his side was
ready to stay and work for a “dignified and balanced deal.”
L’OSSERVATORE ROMANO/AP
Pope Francis and Bolivia’s President Evo Morales, left, smile as they don the traditional Bolivian hats
they were given at the second World Meeting of Popular Movements in Santa Cruz, Bolivia, on Thursday.
Pope asks pardon for church ‘crimes’
and there was plenty of sin, there was also an abundant grace increased by the men who defended indigSANTA CRUZ, Bolivia — Pope Francis has cast
himself as the spiritual and political leader of the enous peoples.”
Francis’ apology was met with wild applause from
world’s oppressed with his remarkable mea culpa for
the sins and crimes of the Catholic Church against the indigenous and other grass-roots groups gathered
the indigenous peoples during the colonial conquest for a world summit of popular movements whose
fight against injustice and social inequality has been
of the Americas.
He’ll have a chance to enhance that reputation championed by the pope.
“We accept the apologies. What more can we exFriday when he visits Bolivia’s notorious Palmasola
pect from a man like Pope Francis?” said Adolfo
prison.
Francis “humbly” begged forgiveness Thursday Chavez, a leader of a lowlands indigenous group.
at a gathering of indigenous leaders in Bolivia in “It’s time to turn the page and pitch in to start anew.
We indigenous were never lessthe presence of Bolivia’s firster beings.”
ever indigenous president, Evo
The apology was significant
Morales, the climactic high of
I humbly ask forgiveness,
given the controversy that has
Francis’ weeklong South Amernot only for the offenses
erupted in the United States
ican tour.
over Francis’ planned canIn the speech, Francis noted of the church herself, but
of the 18th century
that Latin American church
also for crimes committed onization
Spanish priest Junipero Serra,
leaders in the past had acknowlwho set up missions across
edged that “grave sins were against the native peoples
California. Native Americans
committed against the native during the so-called
contend Serra brutally convertpeoples of America in the name
ed indigenous people to Chrisof God.” St. John Paul II, for his conquest of America.
part, apologized to the contiPope Francis tianity, wiping out villages in
the process, and have opposed
nent’s indigenous for the “pain
speaking to indigenous leaders in Bolivia
his canonization. The Vatican
and suffering” caused during
insists Serra defended natives
the 500 years of the church’s
from colonial abuses.
presence in the Americas
Francis’ apology was also
during a 1992 visit to the Dominican Republic.
But Francis went further, and said he was doing so significant given the controversy that blew up the
last time a pope visited the continent. Benedict XVI
with “regret.”
“I would also say, and here I wish to be quite clear, drew heated criticism when, during a 2007 visit to
as was St. John Paul II: I humbly ask forgiveness, not Brazil, he defended the church’s campaign to Chrisonly for the offenses of the church herself, but also tianize indigenous peoples. He said the Indians of
for crimes committed against the native peoples dur- Latin America had been “silently longing” to being the so-called conquest of America,” he said to ap- come Christians when Spanish and Portuguese conquerors violently took over their lands.
plause from the crowd.
Amid an outcry from indigenous groups, BeneThen deviating from his prepared script, he added:
“I also want for us to remember the thousands and dict subsequently acknowledged that “shadows acthousands of priests who strongly opposed the logic companied the work of evangelizing” the continent
of the sword with the power of the cross. There was and said European colonizers inflicted “sufferings
sin, and it was plentiful. But we never apologized, so and injustices” on indigenous populations. He didn’t
I now ask for forgiveness. But where there was sin, apologize, however.
‘
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CAIRO — Omar Sharif, the
Egyptian-born actor with the
dark, soulful eyes who soared to
international stardom in movie
epics, “Lawrence of Arabia” and
“Doctor Zhivago,” died Friday. He
was 83.
Sharif died of a heart attack
in a Cairo hospital, his longtime
agent, London-based Steve Kenis,
and the head of Egypt’s Theatrical
Arts Guild, Ashraf Zaki, told The
Associated
Press. The
actor
had
been
suffering from
Alzheimer’s.
Sharif
was Egypt’s
biggest boxoffice
star
Sharif
when director David Lean cast him in 1962’s
“Lawrence of Arabia.”
His entrance in the movie was
stunning. He was first seen in the
distance, a speck in the swirling
desert sand. As he drew closer,
he emerged first as a black figure on a galloping camel, slowly
transforming into a handsome,
dark-eyed figure with a gap-tooth
smile. The film brought him a supporting-actor Oscar nomination
and international stardom.
Three years later, Sharif demonstrated his versatility, playing
the leading role in “Dr. Zhivago.”
23 killed in
stampede at
Bangladesh
charity handout
DHAKA, Bangladesh — A
stampede in central Bangladesh
left 22 women and a child dead
early Friday when hundreds of
people stormed the home of a
businessman for a charity handout during the Muslim holy month
of Ramadan, police said.
Another 30 were injured and
rushed to a hospital in Mymensingh, a town 70 miles north
of the capital, Dhaka, said police
officer Kamrul Islam.
The crowd gathered outside
the tobacco businessman’s home
around 4 a.m. and stormed in
when the gates were opened to
collect free clothing, Islam said.
Survivors said there were about
1,000 people, mostly elderly
women, in front of the house.
Ambia Begum, 45, went
with seven female relatives at
dawn. One of them died in the
stampede.
“Oh Allah, why did I come
here? Why?” she wailed as the
body of her 60-year-old relative
was retrieved.
The businessman distributes
clothes every year ahead of Eid
al-Fitr, the festival marking the
end of Ramadan.
Authorities detained six people,
including the businessman, who
did not request police presence at
his house for the distribution.
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reece’s impending bankruptcy is
dominating the headlines right
now, but between that financial
catastrophe and the one facing
Puerto Rico, the latter probably deserves
more attention in the United States — or at
least more attention than it’s getting.
After all, whether “contagion” from a
default by the Caribbean island’s government is great or small, almost all of those
affected by it would be U.S. citizens, from
the holders of Puerto Rican bonds to the
island’s people themselves.
What’s more, the Puerto Rican predicament results in large part from policy mistakes by the federal government — with
directly relevant lessons for the economic
debate on the U.S. mainland.
Take the minimum wage. Right now,
progressives around the country are campaigning to raise it to $15 an hour — more
than double the current $7.25 minimum
and even higher than the $10.10 supported
by President Barack Obama.
Advocates assert that this huge increase
in the price of labor could be imposed with
no significant job-killing impact, or at least
that any such consequences would be outweighed by reductions in income inequality. Puerto Rico’s economic ruin, however,
is partly a story of the damage an ill-considered minimum wage hike can do.
Prior to 1974, Congress held Puerto
Rico’s minimum wage below that of the
mainland, a sensible policy given the commonwealth’s lower level of economic development and labor productivity.
Then, with the best of intentions, lawmakers ordered Puerto Rico to equalize
its rate with the federal figure; this was
phased in by 1983, and the Puerto Rican
minimum wage has moved in lock-step
with the federal minimum ever since.
The results were sharply disruptive, according to a 1992 National Bureau of Economic Research analysis. They included
“substantially reduced employment on the
island” and mass migration of suddenly
unemployable lower-skilled workers to the
U.S. mainland.
Puerto Rico did post a short-term increase in real earnings, but the causal factor was the out-migration, which shrank
the labor supply. Without the exodus, the
authors noted, “it would have been virtually impossible to impose the U.S.-level
minimum on the island.”
Today, a full-time job at the minimum
wage of $7.25 pays 77 percent of Puerto Rico’s per capita income, compared with 28
percent in the United States. High prices
for low-skilled labor kill employers’ incentive to invest and create jobs, especially in
the labor-intensive tourism sector, which
faces stiff competition from the hotels and
resorts of lower-wage Caribbean islands.
A 2012 World Bank study found that
the minimum wage, relative to the value
added per worker, is nearly twice as high
in Puerto Rico as it is in the Bahamas and
Jamaica.
In short, the minimum wage is a major
reason for what a newly published report
by two former and one current International Monetary Fund economists calls
“the single most telling statistic in Puerto
Rico”: Only 40 percent of the adult population on the island is employed or looking
for a job — versus a U.S. labor force participation rate of 63 percent.
Of course, many Puerto Ricans work
for less than the minimum — in the blackmarket economy, which is untaxed. In
other words, the minimum wage also helps
explain Puerto Rico’s lack of revenue with
which to service its debt.
Puerto Rico’s dysfunctional labor market is not only due to the relatively high
minimum wage. Also killing the demand
for, and supply of, labor are the island’s
onerous overtime, paid-vacation and jobsecurity regulations. And even at the minimum wage, full-time work in Puerto Rico
pays less than the combined package of
welfare, Medicaid and food stamp benefits
for which a family of three might qualify.
Taken together, these factors result in
“massive underutilization of labor, foregone output and waning competitiveness,”
the IMF economists’ report concludes.
If mainland progressives have their way,
however, U.S. rules on overtime, sick leave
and the rest would become more like Puerto Rico’s. A $15 per hour minimum wage, if
adopted nationwide, would mean that fulltime work at the minimum wage would pay
roughly $30,000 per year, or 65 percent of
2014 U.S. annual per capita income — that
is, more than double the current ratio and
only 12 percentage points lower than in
Puerto Rico.
The point is not that the minimum wage
should be abolished or the labor market
immune to incremental regulation. Indeed,
the U.S. economy is much more productive
than Puerto Rico’s, so it could probably
absorb modest, gradual minimum wage
increases. Still, the island’s experience
with the minimum wage and other labormarket regulations is an instructive tale,
the clear moral of which is to proceed with
caution. Well-intentioned policies can be
taken too far — and it is very difficult to
know in advance how far that is.
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Post’s editorial board.
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A
s the minutes tick down before
Sunday’s deadline for Greece to
reach an agreement with its creditors or else face bankruptcy, the
Greeks and their supporters are accusing
Germany, their main creditor, of hypocrisy. After all, in 1953, Germany’s creditors
forgave half that nation’s debt so that the
fledgling republic could recover from the
war Germany had inflicted on those creditors, and thrive economically.
But Germany, which now adamantly declares that adherence to the rules of debt
repayment must trump all other considerations, can rightly claim that in at least
one crucial instance, it was anything but
a hypocrite. As the Great Depression descended on Germany in 1930, its government — a coalition of centrist parties
headed by Chancellor Heinrich Brüning
— insisted on balancing its budget in order
to convince its creditors (the nations to
whom it was paying economically ruinous reparations as compensation for World
War I) that it was a responsible debtor. In
the hope that the creditor nations would respond by eventually canceling those reparations, Brüning slashed social spending
and investment. He trod the path of fiscal
rectitude even as unemployment reached
record heights — the same policy, under
the same depression conditions, to which
today’s chancellor, Angela Merkel, has demanded Greece adhere.
There was, to be sure, an unfortunate
downside to Brüning’s policy. As the Depression deepened and Germany’s centrist
and even social democratic parties continued to insist on a policy of balanced budgets
uber alles, increasing numbers of voters
abandoned the center for extremist parties
in the 1932 election. Soon thereafter, one of
those extremist leaders — I think his name
was Hitler — became chancellor.
One of the paradoxes of our time is how
Germany has done so exemplary a job in
recent decades of understanding and accepting responsibility for the Nazi era
while continuing to entertain a willful ignorance of the economic policy errors that
paved the Nazis’ path to power. The solution to this riddle is that Germans’ debt obsession (in German, the words for “debt”
and “guilt” are the same) has blinded them
to the consequences of that obsession.
You’d think, for instance, that Germans
would have learned from John Maynard
Keynes’ 1920 book “The Economic Consequences of the Peace,” which correctly
predicted that the onerous reparations inflicted on Germany by the Treaty of Versailles were economically unsustainable
and politically perilous to the prospects
for German democracy. You’d think they’d
have learned from their own descent into
Nazism that balancing budgets when unemployment is at record heights can undermine a democracy’s viability. You’d
think they’d have learned from the London
debt agreement of 1953 that debt forgiveness and reasonable repayment terms can
foster prosperity and strengthen democracy in the debtor nation — which, in this
case, happened to be Germany.
That Germans have learned none of
these lessons is now — tragically, for
Greece — apparent. Germany’s insistence
that Greece continue to slash services
and social investment if it is to qualify for
debt forgiveness remains unaltered, even
though Greek unemployment stands at 25
percent, even though 40 percent of Greek
children live in poverty, even though a
neo-Nazi party (Golden Dawn) has come
out of nowhere to win seats in Greece’s
parliament.
“Does democracy trump debt? Of course
not,” Jochen Bittner, the political editor of
the German weekly Die Zeit, wrote in a
New York Times op-ed Tuesday, blissfully
unconscious, it would seem, that such sentiments helped speed the Weimar Republic to its doom. Yet such sentiments have
shaped German policy toward Greece
since the beginning of the euro crisis.
Worse, they have shaped the policy not only
of the governing Christian Democrats but
also increasingly of the Social Democrats.
Despite a heroic history of advancing
democracy and building an uncommonly
equitable and vibrant economy, the German Social Democrats also have a history
of subordinating their social democratic
creed to their German-ness at critical moments. They did this when their parliamentary delegation voted to go to war in 1914,
when they acquiesced to Brüning’s fiscal
insanity in 1930 and when they joined in
the Merkel chorus making impossible demands on Greece. They do this despite
the fact that the most scathing critique
of Germany’s debt obsession and historic
amnesia, and the most plausible outline for
a harmonious resolution of the Greek debt,
came in a 2013 paper by Jürgen Kaiser
published by the party’s own stellar think
tank the Frederich Ebert Foundation.
To its great credit, Germany has accepted the burdens of its history. To its
detriment (and now, to Greece’s), it has not
accepted the burden of learning enough
of its history to be a responsible economic
power.
Harold Meyerson is editor-at-large of The
American Prospect.
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OPINION
Ruling doesn’t mean gerrymanding is dead
BY CARL P. LEUBSDORF
The Dallas Morning News
T
he Supreme Court’s decision to
allow a redistricting commission
set up by Arizona voters holds the
potential of reducing the rampant
gerrymandering that has virtually guaranteed a Republican-controlled U.S. House
until at least 2022.
And that would be a good thing, since
partisan redistricting in a half-dozen
states has skewed the makeup of the House
of Representatives, which James Madison said was supposed to display “fidelity
and sympathy with the great mass of the
people.”
But it probably won’t happen.
The reason: It’s almost impossible to take
politics out of the process by which legislatures redraw legislative and congressional
district lines after every census to reflect
population changes. Every unequal redistricting has essentially resulted from an
election.
Most of today’s anomalies stem from
Republican 2010 successes in electing the
legislators who redrew lines in key states
after that year’s census. They produced
these GOP House majorities in states that
voted Democratic in most recent presidential elections: Florida, 17-10; Michigan, 9-5;
North Carolina, 10-3; Ohio, 12-4; Pennsylvania, 13-5; Virginia, 8-3; Wisconsin, 5-3.
An even division of seats in those states
would have reduced the current GOP margin by two-thirds and given the Democrats
the House in 2012, when they received a
majority of congressional votes.
But Republicans, who spent all but four
years in the House minority from 1931 to
1995, are unlikely to cede power without a
fight.
“For 40 years, the Democratic Party had
the pencil in their hands, and for the last 20
years, we had the pencil,” House Speaker
John Boehner told The Cincinnati Enquirer last December in opposing any changes
in the legislature’s redistricting process in
his home state of Ohio. “When you’ve got
the pencil in your hand, you’re going to use
it to the best of your advantage.”
Of course, redistricting isn’t done by
pencil anymore, if it ever was, but by sophisticated computers that enable the
majority to maximize its advantage. That
makes it easier to produce the majority
party’s desired result.
But gerrymandering itself is hardly
new; the term stems from the 1812 handiwork of Gov. Elbridge Gerry in redrawing
Massachusetts’ state Senate districts to
benefit his Democratic-Republican Party,
the forerunner of today’s Democrats.
As Boehner correctly notes, Democrats
did their best to maintain their House majorities for decades, especially in the South
and in California, where the late Rep. Phil
Burton crafted a Democratic congressional majority before the state turned reliably Democratic.
In Texas, Democrats did an especially
masterful job in 1991 by creating three
new minority-controlled Democratic districts while temporarily protecting three
white Democrats at a time the state was
becoming increasingly Republican.
In 2011, the GOP-controlled legislature
gave Republicans all four new congressional districts. But, unlike the Democrats,
they didn’t protect minorities at a time that
65 percent of the state’s increased population was Hispanic, so a federal court threw
out the plan as violating the Voting Rights
Act.
Another federal court produced a revised map, giving each party two of the
new districts, and the legislature eventually acquiesced.
Some post-2010 cases are still pending,
In Virginia, a federal court threw out the
legislature’s redistricting plan, throwing
the issue back to lawmakers. Democrats
might ultimately gain an additional seat or
two.
But that won’t have much effect, nor will
most commissions created at the behest of
good-government groups, simply because
they are in states with delegations too
small to produce major changes.
Even in California, a voter-created commission empowered to draw lines failed to
dent the top-heavy 39-14 Democratic margin, though it made more districts competitive. In Florida, a voter effort to influence
Republican-dominated redistricting had
minimal impact.
The Arizona ruling will only have a real
impact if voters in the largest states act to
take redistricting out of the hands of their
legislatures. There seems little likelihood
of that happening anytime soon.
And though some Democrats think they
could regain the House with a landslide
presidential victory in 2016, few expect
that result. Instead, they’ll have to do the
nitty-gritty work in the 2018 and 2020 gubernatorial and legislative elections, which
will determine who controls redistricting
after the 2020 census.
But even that will be hard, given the
fact that most of those legislatures will be
elected in districts determined by those
2010 GOP successes.
Carl P. Leubsdorf is the former Washington
bureau chief of The Dallas Morning News.
Sanders’ primary role is to push Clinton on issues
BY DOYLE MCM ANUS
Los Angeles Times
B
ernie Sanders is on a roll. The
independent
socialist
from
Vermont, still not a registered
Democrat, is drawing big crowds
with his gruff populism: 2,500 people in
Council Bluffs, Iowa; 7,500 in Portland,
Maine; 10,000 in Madison, Wis. He’s
raised more than $15 million in mostly
small donations — “not from billionaires,”
he crows. He’s rising steadily in the polls;
one survey shows him only 8 points behind
the once untouchable front-runner, Hillary
Rodham Clinton, in the early primary state
of New Hampshire.
And this week, as if to confer a kind of
formal recognition, a Clinton aide conceded that her boss considers Sanders a formidable challenger.
“We’re worried about him, sure,” Clinton
aide Jennifer Palmieri said Monday. “He’s
a force. … It’s to be expected that Sanders
will do well in a Democratic primary.” The
Iowa caucuses are still seven months away,
but Palmieri was already working to lower
expectations — just in case.
So it’s understandable if a touch of giddiness has infected the usually implacable
Sanders and his campaign advisers. “I
don’t think any of us expected to see thousands of people show up like this,” Sanders’ chief strategist, Tad Devine, told me
Tuesday.
Devine, a former aide to Democratic
presidential candidates including Walter
Despite those enthusiastic
crowds, Bernie Sanders
remains a long shot.
Mondale and John Kerry, said there’s no
magic in what Sanders has been doing.
“The voters are already there. They
want this debate. They were looking for
someone to talk about the unfairness they
see in the economy,” he said. “Bernie has a
very powerful message, and he delivers it
in a very unvarnished way,” he said.
How unvarnished?
“The American people understand that
establishment politics and establishment
economics is not working for the middle
class,” Sanders told cheering supporters
in Maine on Monday. “Our message to the
billionaire class is this: Your greed has got
to end, and we are going to end it for you.”
Devine has plotted out a straightforward
course for Sanders’ march to the Democratic nomination. It begins with raising
roughly $50 million by the end of the year,
a target that once seemed impractical but
now appears conservative. It includes winning endorsements from other progressive Democrats — ideally including Sen.
Elizabeth Warren, D-Mass., who hasn’t
declared a preference. Then it hinges on
recruiting thousands of volunteers to help
win the caucuses in Iowa and the primary
in New Hampshire.
After which, Devine said, “I think it just
builds. It feeds on itself. … If you can win a
primary or two, the support will come.”
But Devine acknowledges that “the conventional wisdom is still: You’ve got to be
kidding.”
And the conventional wisdom is probably right. Despite all those enthusiastic
crowds, Sanders remains a long shot.
Consider recent history: Partisan Democrats, like partisan Republicans, are prone
to fall in love with a candidate who expresses their views in their purest, most
unvarnished form. The best example is another Vermont progressive, Howard Dean,
who looked unstoppable in the early stages
of the 2004 campaign. In the weeks before
the Iowa caucuses, Dean was well ahead in
most polls; he ended up losing to Kerry, the
establishment choice.
Earlier progressive insurgents included
the Rev. Jesse Jackson in 1988 (who won
the endorsement of the then-mayor of
Burlington, Vt., Bernie Sanders) and Gov.
Jerry Brown in 1992 (who finished second
in that race to Bill Clinton).
The only recent insurgent to win was
Barack Obama in 2008, and he did so by
building a coalition that included establishment figures such as Sen. Edward
Kennedy, D-Mass., plus majority support
among African-American voters. Sanders
has neither of those assets; at this point,
Clinton has both.
Besides, a more careful look at the polls
demonstrates how far Sanders still has
to go. The survey that showed him only 8
points behind in New Hampshire was an
outlier; most show Clinton ahead by comfortable margins — just a little less cozy
than before.
Still, Sanders is already winning a different contest: the battle to force Clinton
into a debate over what Democrats should
stand for, especially in economic policy.
Since announcing her candidacy in April,
Clinton has campaigned on a platform that
could charitably be described as generic:
mildly populist rhetoric about the challenges to the middle class, but few specific
policies — mostly positions she’s held since
2008, such as a higher minimum wage.
Now Sanders will press Clinton on a
long list of his proposals: tax hikes on the
wealthy, tougher regulations on Wall Street
(including a plan to break up the largest
banks), turning Medicare into a government-run health system for all Americans
(replacing Obama’s health care insurance
law), and expanding Social Security benefits (at the price of higher Social Security
taxes on the affluent).
Clinton would prefer to duck these issues. (She avoided the question of tax hikes
again Tuesday in an interview with CNN.)
With Sanders as a relatively serious challenger, she won’t have that option.
A Sanders presidency? Sorry, liberals.
It’s not going to happen. But the Vermont
socialist will have accomplished some of
what he set out to do — and his speech at
the Democratic National Convention will
be worth staying up for.
Doyle McManus is a Los Angeles Times columnist.
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AMERICAN ROUNDUP
Bike-share firm to
riders: Please stay clad
BOSTON — A Boston
MA
bike-sharing company is urging riders who may want
THE CENSUS
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The number of foreign objects a Pennsylvania veterinarian retrieved from the stomach of a Labrador retriever. The head
technician at Good Shepherd’s Veterinary Hospital said the black Lab named Tiki wasn’t responding to medicine for vomiting,
diarrhea and a loss of appetite, and X-rays showed a mass in its stomach. During exploratory surgery, 62 hair bands, eight pairs
of underwear and a bandage were retrieved. The dog’s owner, Sara Weiss, said Tiki also once swallowed a plastic foam dart.
to participate in a naked bike ride
this weekend to keep in mind the
next person who will be using
that same bike.
The Boston Globe said Hubway
released a light-hearted statement
urging anyone planning to use one
of their bikes during World Naked
Bike Ride-Boston this weekend to
keep something on.
The company’s statement read
in part: “For the love of all that is
decent, please consider the other
riders.”
Hubway has no affiliation with
the event.
A company spokesman said
while it has no explicit ban on
riding naked, clothing is strongly
recommended for safety and sanitary reasons.
Organizers of the ride said they
agreed, noting that many participants do wear some clothing.
Funeral set for girl
killed by leaping fish
LAKE CITY — Funeral
FL
plans are set for a 5year-old north Florida girl who
died after being struck by a sturgeon that leaped into the boat she
was riding in with her family.
Citing a funeral announcement,
The Gainesville Sun reported
the funeral for Jaylon Leighann
Rippy was planned for Saturday
in Chiefland. She died July 3,
hours after the sturgeon jumped
into the family’s boat.
Officials said the girl’s mother,
Tanya Rippy, suffered facial injuries and her brother, Trevor
Rippy, 9, suffered a broken wrist.
The Florida Fish and Wildlife
Conservation Commission said
it was the first fatality recorded
from a sturgeon strike on the Suwannee River.
The fish are known for leaping
more than 7 feet above the water.
They can grow up to 8 feet long
and can weigh up to 200 pounds.
Bull chases burglary
suspect in pasture
ARAB — Police say a
AL
burglary suspect was
taken into custody after being
chased by a bull through a cow
pasture.
Sheriff Scott Walls said that
Brad Lynn Hemby, 26, was being
sought in connection with a burglary Wednesday morning.
Walls said Hemby tried fleeing deputies by running through
a cow pasture and a bull roaming the land joined the chase.
Walls said Hemby eventually
fell onto a barbed wire fence and
surrendered.
Walls said stolen property was
recovered from Hemby’s truck
and the man is charged with
burglary, theft and attempting to
elude.
Woman competent for
trial in corpse slashing
TULSA — A woman
OK
charged with slashing
the corpse of her boyfriend’s exgirlfriend has been found compe-
TIM BARBER, C HATTANOOGA (TENN.) TIMES FREE PRESS/AP
One last sweet treat
Greg Deuell gives his dog, Sasha, vanilla and chocolate ice cream in a waffle cone after lunch Tuesday in Cleveland, Tenn. Deuell said it
would be her last treat because Sasha suffers from diabetes and blindness.
tent to stand trial.
Special Judge David Youll ruled
Shaynna Sims competent after
reviewing her psychiatric evaluation. Sims, who did not appear
in court, is jailed without bail and
has a preliminary hearing scheduled for Sept. 11. She has pleaded
not guilty.
Sims was arrested at the dead
woman’s apartment after attending a viewing April 30. Police
said Sims stole the woman’s shoes
and was carrying a knife with the
woman’s hair attached to it.
Witnesses told officers that
they saw Sims reach into the casket during the viewing. The dead
woman’s face was slashed, her
makeup was smeared and her
hair was on the floor.
ceived a domestic violence call.
Some officers who were headed
to the domestic violence call instead were diverted to the reported accident.
While officers were en route,
the man called 911 again and
asked the dispatcher “where the
police were.”
But when officers arrived, they
couldn’t find a crash. They soon
found the man and determined he
had called 911 because he wanted
a ride home.
The man was charged with
falsely calling 911 and improper
behavior.
Police: Man reports
fake crash to get ride
ERIE — A man armed
PA
with pellet guns when he
was wounded by police in north-
HACKETTSTOWN —
NJ
Police in New Jersey say
a drunken man twice called 911
to report a fake accident because
he wanted officers to give him a
ride home.
Hackettstown police say the
initial call from the 38-year-old
man came in Tuesday night about
the same time the department re-
Man faces trial in
pellet-gun incident
western Pennsylvania has been
ordered to stand trial on charges
including aggravated assault and
reckless endangerment.
The Erie Times-News reported
three Erie officers testified Tuesday that they thought Jason Lybrook, 37, was threatening them
after they responded to a report
of an armed man outside a home
May 31.
The officers said they fired,
wounding Lybrook with two
shots, after he aimed one gun in
each hand at areas where police
were standing.
Lybrook remains in the Erie
County Jail and his public defender didn’t immediately return
a call Wednesday.
Police said the officers were
justified even though it was later
determined both guns Lybrook
held — plus one at his feet — were
pellet guns.
Mother accused of
using stun gun on teen
COLUMBUS — A CoNE
lumbus woman has been
accused of using a stun gun to
shock her 13-year-old daughter.
The Columbus Telegram reported that a hearing is scheduled next week for Ruby Baeta,
42, who is charged with felony
child abuse. Online court records
don’t list the name of an attorney
who could be called to comment
on Baeta’s behalf.
Columbus police say the girl
and her 16-year-old sister reported that their mother shocked the
younger girl about 5:30 p.m. July 3.
An officer said he saw two bumps
on the girl that he said could have
been caused by a stun gun.
The officer said Baeta denied
shocking the girl and denied owning a stun gun. He said he found
a stun gun in a suitcase in a closet
in the home
2 teens charged with
animal abuse
WOODBRIDGE — Two
New Jersey teens are accused of luring a family of geese
into the street so one boy could
run them down with his SUV
while the other videotaped it.
The New Jersey Society for the
Prevention of Cruelty to Animals
said Woodbridge police have
charged the 17-year-olds with
animal abuse charges.
The SPCA said it was alerted
to the abuse after the tape was
posted on social media.
The group said at least one
goose was found in the road. It
said the SUV shown in the video
was found in a high school parking lot and had feathers embedded in its grille.
NJ
From wire reports
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LIFESTYLE
Left, George Kindl, 47, of Seattle, is a
stay-at-home dad to daughter, Alicja, 4.
Below, Kindl and his wife, Ewa
Lichnowska, 36, read to Alicja.
PHOTOS BY ELLEN M. BANNER
THE SEATTLE TIMES/TNS
Parenting at midlife a
growing trend in Seattle
BY GENE BALK
The Seattle Times
Y
ou know the old stereotype about
men hitting midlife and rushing
out to buy a sports car?
These days, in Seattle, it’s more
likely to be a car seat.
Just ask George Kindl, a stay-at-home
dad who lives in Seattle. Even though, at
47, he is the oldest dad at his 4-year-old
daughter Alicja’s preschool, he says there
are a bunch of guys right behind him in
their early 40s and late 30s.
“Nobody has kids in their 20s anymore,”
Kindl says.
An exaggeration, to be sure — but it’s
not all that far off from reality, especially
in Seattle.
Of the city’s roughly 24,000 men who
have at least one child under 6, about 43
percent are 40 or older, according to my
analysis of census data. That’s the highest
percentage of any major U.S. city, slightly
edging out San Francisco. And it’s much
higher than the national average, which is
about 26 percent.
So while being an older dad like Kindl
might be commonplace now, there was a
time — not all that long ago — when it would
have seemed quite unconventional, even in
Seattle.
In 1980, just about 11 percent of Seattle dads with small kids were 40 or older
— about on par with the national average.
Since then, Seattle’s percentage has nearly
quadrupled. Seattle women also matched
the national average in 1980 — but since
then, the percentage of older moms in the
city has increased sixfold; Seattle now ranks
Of Seattle’s roughly
24,000 men who have
at least one child under
6, about 43 percent are
40 or older, the highest
percentage of any major
U.S. city.
third behind San Francisco and Portland.
Why have the numbers skyrocketed in
Seattle?
One reason, surely, is that the trend of
having children later is much more pronounced among the college-educated —
folks who are more likely to put marriage
and kids on hold while establishing their careers. So it’s not too surprising that Seattle
— a magnet for overachievers — would be
among the cities with a high concentration
of older parents.
And beyond career and lifestyle considerations, it goes without saying that Seattle
is now a very expensive city — even for
people without kids. How many 20-somethings in this city could afford to start a
family, even if they wanted to?
For George Kindl, who was 43 when
his daughter was born, the timing made
perfect sense. For one thing, he didn’t get
married until he was 40. And even at that
point, he still wasn’t sure if he was ready
for the responsibility of a child — but his
wife, Ewa Lichnowska, 36, convinced him
that he was.
It turns out she was right, Kindl says.
“Being an older father — you have more
life experience. You’re not guessing at
things as much,” he explains. “You have
more confidence in your parenting ability.”
Kindl feels that having a child at a mature age has made him a more patient and
accepting father. “If I hadn’t waited long
enough, I would have been a more reactive
dad — more like my dad — than a 21st-century dad.”
Kindl does admit he doesn’t always have
the energy required to keep up with a preschooler — although it’s been much easier
since he stopped working (he had been
the assistant manager of the Harvard Exit
cinema on Capitol Hill, which closed in
January). His wife, a psychotherapist, is the
primary breadwinner.
He does think about the prospect of being
60 when his daughter graduates from high
school. While that doesn’t bother him too
much, it is one reason he and his wife won’t
be having a second child. “I wouldn’t want
to pick her up at school and the other kids
being like, ‘Is that your grandpa?’ ”
If the trend continues, by then more than
half the dads will be Kindl’s age anyway.
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“Minions” is an animated
spinoff of the “Despicable
Me” films.
UNIVERSAL PICTURES/TNS
MEET THE MINIONS
These creatures have a language — and movie — all their own
BY JOHN A NDERSON
is through facial expressions. You could ideally turn the sound down and still know what
they’re going through.”
t hasn’t been a good season at the mulCoffin agreed. “It’s very much like a silent
tiplex for members of the English-only film,” he said. “It’s common in the animamovement. The oversized stars of “Juras- tion world that the first person you refer to,
sic World” get their points across without always, is Chaplin, even in animation school.
any intelligible words at all. Likewise, the title He was the best, along with Harold Lloyd and
canine of “Max.” Or Arnold Schwarzenegger Buster Keaton, at going beyond story and tellin “Terminator Genisys.”
ing a story through a character that conveys
But the nearly bald, banana-colored caplets humor, emotion, even plasticity.”
in denim who populate “Minions” take verYour characters may be animated, he added,
bal miscommunication to a whole other level. but “they still need to translate all that stuff
What language do they speak?
without words. It’s all physical comedy in ani“It’s basically gibberish,” said director mation, and those guys were able to convey
Pierre Coffin, who co-directed the new “De- most emotions you want an audience to feel.
spicable Me” spinoff with fellow animator The language is really a cherry on top of it.”
Kyle Balda and provides the voices of the
In “Despicable Me” and “Despicable Me 2”
Minions. He said they tried to use words from (both directed by Coffin and Chris Renaud),
every language “so everyone feels the
the Minions worked for Gru (voice of Steve
Minions are part of their culture.”
Carell), the supervillain with the heart
It didn’t quite work.
of goo, which, as viewers learn in
“I had this whole theory
“Minions,” was just part of their
about using the most spoken
eternal mission: serving evil.
language in the world, which
Minions have always acted as
is obviously Chinese,” Coffin
servants to whatever malevosaid, “but every time I tried
lence they can find, which, as
They’re
just
to say something in Chinese,
we learn, has included Dracuit turned out to be the opposite
la, Napoleon and the ancient,
little balls.
of what I was trying to say. In
slave-owning, pyramid-buildAnd
to
give
the end, I didn’t want to ofing Egyptians. In each instance,
fend anyone, so I dropped it
however, they somehow conthem shape in
and went directly to Spanish.
tribute to the villain’s downfall.
a
characterWith gibberish. And Italian.”
“They kind of fail up, ya
driven story,
With the occasional lapse
know?” Balda said of his Mininto English, or phrases like
ions. At the beginning of the
you have to
“mazel tov.”
film, they are in the position
have something
The Minion-ian language
of having to find a new masspoken in “Minions” is cute,
ter — which leads them to the
happening that’s
adorable and occasionally hiruthless Scarlett Overkill (Sanreally,
really
larious, but it distinguishes
dra Bullock), Herb Overkill
the film in other ways as well.
(Jon Hamm), Queen Elizabeth
interesting.
“There are a lot of oldII (Jennifer Saunders) and a
Pierre
Coffin
school-animation values in
scheme to rip off the crown jew“Minions” director
the film,” said Balda, “where
els of England.
everything you get across
Coffin and Balda said they
Newsday
I
‘
’
were more than enthused when “Despicable
Me” producer Chris Meledandri presented
them with screenwriter Brian Lynch’s pitch
for “Minions.”
“We said, ‘Yes!’ because we love these guys
and it felt that we could find hundreds of thousands of ideas with them,” Coffin said. “But
we didn’t foresee all the problems making an
hour-and-a-half movie with no language and
characters that you’re asking the audience to
pay quite a bit of attention to.”
“We had just loved working with these
characters, because there’s so much comedy
to work with,” Balda said. “But we learned
early on that we needed much more than just
gags. You needed to know who the characters
are, which is where Kevin, Stuart and Bob’s
individual personalities began to emerge.”
Kevin became sort of this “big brotherly
character,” Balda said; Stuart an “impertinent, lazy teenager,” and Bob is “this innocent
kid who helps a lot of the story move because
he wanders into situations that are dangerous.”
“Kevin was the hardest one,” he added, “because you’re trying to make him a hero, doing
something for his tribe, but the qualities of the
Minions are not responsibility. They’re idiocy,
and messing up all the time.”
They still thwart evil, Balda said, but only
“through incompetence.”
“Minions 2”? Balda didn’t rule it out, but
making an animated film like this takes about
three years. Both Balda and Coffin are involved
in “Despicable Me 3,” coming in 2017.
“Everybody has a say that goes beyond their
job title,” Coffin said of the “Minions” crew,
which included Meledandri, Lynch and editor
Claire Dodgson. And while the stars of their
new film aren’t exactly divas, they do present
difficulties.
“They’re just little balls,” Coffin laughed.
“And to give them shape in a character-driven
story, you have to have something happening
that’s really, really interesting.”
Cartoon sidekicks
who made it big
Minions live to serve, so being the stars
of their own feature film might seem
contrary to their raison d’être. But
the little yellow guys are not the first
subordinate creatures in cartoon land
to be thrust into the spotlight — or
given a show of their own. Here are
some more sidekicks who made it big:
“The Bullwinkle
Show” 1961-64
Bullwinkle J. Moose began
his career as the learningimpaired sidekick to Rocket
J. Squirrel on “Rocky and His
Friends.” The show later became “The Bullwinkle Show.”
“Josie and the
Pussycats” 1970-72
They originally were a sidebar
to the “Archie” universe.
Following the success of “The
Archie Show,” Josie et al.
were drafted into their own
music-driven animated series.
“Postcards from
Buster” 2004-08,
2012
This spinoff of PBS’ “Arthur”
followed his pal, Buster,
across the U.S. to meet other
children and learn about
their lives.
“The Cleveland Show”
2009-13
Peter Griffin’s pal on “Family
Guy” got his own program on
Fox. Created by Seth MacFarlane, it focuses on Cleveland’s
transition from Rhode Island
to Stoolbend, Va.
“Finding Dory” 2016
This upcoming Disney-Pixar
production will center on
Dory the blue tang (that’s
what she is) who was the
daffy sidekick to the offspring-hunting Marlin (Albert
Brooks) in “Finding Nemo.”
SOURCE: Newsday
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VIDEO GAMES
Familiar, broken elements mar final installment of action-adventure series
BY M ICHAEL S. DARNELL
Stars and Stripes
“B
atman: Arkham Knight”
bookends a series that redefined gaming’s depiction of
what a Dark Knight game
could be, and also the superhero genre in
general.
While Batman has fared well in other pop
culture adaptations, his video game track
record had been less than stellar before
the relatively untested studio launched the
now-classic “Batman: Arkham Asylum” in
2009.
Since then, nearly every game featuring
a crime fighter has been compared to the
“Arkham” series, and for good reason. Very
few developers before or since really understood how to make a great superhero game
that didn’t just do the character’s mythos
justice, but was also able to add to it in a
meaningful way.
“Arkham Knight” is (for the moment)
Rocksteady Studios’ final punctuation on
what has become an
acclaimed
addition
to both video games
and a venerated character’s
76-year-old
backstory.
Sadly, that mark
ends up as more of a
period and less of the
exclamation mark the
series truly deserved.
The central premise of the latest entry
is that the city is
under attack by the
Scarecrow and a mysterious new villain
— Arkham Knight
— who seems to know
everything about the
Batman. He’s brought along a literal army
of soldiers and tanks, as well as gathered together Batman’s worst villains, in his quest
to finally kill the bat.
With the exception of the mystery of who
Arkham Knight is, the plot is a rehashing
of every other “Arkham” game to date. In
the past games, it was a bit more forgivable
because it felt fresher. Now in its fourth reheating, the story has lost much of its flavor.
It doesn’t help that much of what drives the
story is the secret identity of the new villain
in town.
But even the inevitable reveal falls flat,
largely because the twist relies on players
having formed an emotional connection to
a character they had never met until this
game. Comic fans will know who the character is well in advance, so the twist falls
doubly flat for anybody familiar with Batman’s backstory.
Luckily, the returning characters are
engaging. All of the fan favorites, including the Riddler, the Penguin, Harley Quinn
and a few surprise guest appearances return. Jim Gordon and Oracle both feature
more prominently than they did in the past
games. Most of the characters get some sort
of defining moment or send-off, helping to
salvage the main story somewhat.
As for the gameplay, there really is only
one new element to talk about — the Batmobile. For the first time in the series, players
will jump behind the wheel of the legendary
car and cruise along the backstreets of Gotham at 200 miles per hour. When the going
gets particularly rough it can transform
into a tank, complete with machine guns
and a 60mm cannon.
On paper, that sounds amazing. What
kid hasn’t dreamed of driving the Batmobile? But instead of the Batmobile being the
major selling point of the game, its poor handling and dull gameplay mechanics cause it
to become the lowest point in perhaps the
entire series.
And there is no escaping it. Rather than
the vehicle being a nice addition to “Arkham
Knight,” it takes over as the main focus of
the entire game.
The problems with that aren’t as apparent
when using the Batmobile’s various gadgets
to solve puzzles, but it becomes a serious
than a dozen towers, each in almost exactly
the same way. The final towers won’t appear
until an arbitrary point in the storyline.
This goes for nearly every side quest, some
of which require you to stumble into the
trigger that lets you continue onward. It’s
almost like they took a normal “Arkham”
game and then stapled a free-to-play-style
time-waster onto it.
The worst part is that while much of the
tank combat and side-questing is technically optional, it’s really not. To get any real
ending to the game, you will have to complete a certain amount of side quests. Otherwise, the game just stumbles on.
Fans will be happy to know the true ending, while weak in places, does bring the se-
tent simply isn’t worth the money.
As a PC-first gamer, I also have to mention the plethora of bugs in that version of
the game. While I was able to play the game
to completion on a medium power rig, I had
to do so with most of the graphical enhancements turned off. Running anything less
than the lowest textures requires an astounding 3GB of VRAM, meaning most PC
players will have to play through the game
looking at a muddied mess.
Despite its flaws, I would still hesitantly
recommend “Batman: Arkham Knight.”
When compared to the other “Arkham”
games, it sits far below those titles. But when
compared to every other Batman game ever
made, it still comes out near the top. I would
Overall
grade:
C+
TNS
“Batman: Arkham Knight,” the final installment in the “Arkham” series, sees a return of iconic characters in the Batman universe.
flaw when involved in any of the numerous
tank battles. Each of those battles will play
out exactly the same, and there are dozens
of them in the game.
While the core game elements of stealthy
takedowns and free-flowing combat never
really get old, they haven’t really changed
too much, either. Batman now has access to
a powerful move that can instantly eliminate five enemies all at once, but if you’ve
already grown tired of the same combat
and stealth sections, there isn’t much new
here to explore. And what little that is new
becomes just as overused as the Batmobile.
As Batman goes about taking back Gotham from the invading army, he will have
to take down enemy towers, roadblocks,
clear the roads of mines and finish dealing
with each supervillain individually. Each of
those elements starts off great, but becomes
tiresome because of the amount of repetition built into each segment.
For instance, players will take down more
ries to a definitive and satisfying conclusion.
It’s just too bad that ending is locked behind
having to find 243 widgets hidden across an
enormous game world.
That’s the basic underlying problem with
much of “Arkham Knight.” It’s a great game
that becomes cluttered with so much repetition that it becomes mediocre.
That mediocrity doesn’t end with just the
gameplay. There have been, and continue to
be, a host of problems revolving around the
game.
Downloadable content remains locked
based on where the game was purchased
and when, or hidden behind a “season pass”
that so far doesn’t much seem worth its additional $40 cost. The downloadable content
that is available now is either of the cosmetic kind, or of the kind that can be completed
in less than an hour.
The game is packed with enough content
that the initial purchase price is reasonable,
but as it stands now the downloadable con-
Many more staff-written game reviews at stripes.com/military-life
recommend picking the game up, playing
it until you’re bored with blowing up tanks,
then taking a break for a couple of days before returning to it. Perhaps then the repetition wouldn’t be so pronounced.
“Arkham Knight” is frustrating in pace,
packed with junk missions and (on PC) not
especially technically sound. But it does
offer up a conclusion to a much-beloved
series. Fans of the series will find plenty to
love here, even if much of it is buried beneath some not-so-fun elements.
Bottom line: C+ While not the best entry
in the “Arkham” series, “Batman: Arkham
Knight” still has plenty of content to keep
fans entertained, if they can overcome the
monotony.
Rating: M for Mature
Platforms: PC (version reviewed), Xbox
One, Playstation 4.
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HEALTH & FITNESS
BY LESLIE BARKER
The Dallas Morning News
T
here was once a time — really, truly, and not all that long ago
— when people merely exercised. They didn’t wear watches.
They didn’t wear heart-rate monitors. They didn’t record
every move. Phones were for conversations and tended to stay
attached to a wall at home.
If you exercise these days, though, chances are pretty good you track
it in some way. And a main way is through apps: The website digitaltrends.com estimates that 100,000 are dedicated to health and fitness
and that globally the market is worth about $4 billion.
Lists abound about which apps are most popular, or best for monitoring calorie intake and exercise output; which are easy to understand,
and which might take more time to calculate than you spend exercising in a week.
But those are just lists. What do real people get from their app-focused health routines? We found some aficionados and asked them to
explain how they found an approach that clicked with them.
Users
weigh in
on faves
‘I like having information.’
Name: Stan Eigenbrodt, 49
Number of apps used: At least six
Favorites: Lose It! and Runkeeper
Primary activity: Weight training and running
“I’m sort of a tech person,” says Eigenbrodt. “I like playing around
with my iPhone. I like having information. I just got a Polar Beat wireless heart-rate monitor, which has a Polar app and talks to Runkeeper.
Now when I’m running, I can do so from a metabolic standpoint.”
He continues:
“If I run with Runkeeper, it takes the calories it thinks I burned to
Lose It! It also tracks my steps in Fitbit. If it thinks the calorie count is
more accurate than the algorithm, it takes those. If I have two entries,
one from Runkeeper and one from Fitbit, it deletes one, so I don’t end
up eating too many calories.
“I wear the monitor when I work out. When I work out with my trainer, I don’t use Runkeeper. I use the Polar app for that. Now I use the
Polar app with Runkeeper so I can look at the overall report on Polar
to see how it changes.”
Eigenbrodt, an attorney, started out with Lose It!, an app which, at
its most basic, tracks food intake. He liked the app, its information and
most especially the discipline it has taught him.
“I can outeat any workout,” he says. “In a lot of office environments
and certainly this one, almost every day someone is having a birthday
and there’s cake or muffins. If I’m not writing down what I eat, it’s easy
not to think about it and to just eat.”
‘I wanted to see everything.’
Name: Bree Redwine, 51
Number of apps used: Three
Favorite: My Fitness Pal
Primary activity: Running and weight training
“The reason I chose those I did is that they worked best for me,” says
Redwine. “I looked at others. I downloaded them. I got so frustrated.”
Redwine has four children. She works full time at a sportswear store.
She works out every day. Ease is imperative.
“I did start out using more,” she says. “I then just really looked at
what I needed for my life and lifestyle and realized I needed something
quick and practical and efficient.”
My Fitness Pal was her first app. Then she bought a Garmin Vivosmart fitness band and, she says, “my world opened up.” The apps connect; she records everything she eats and drinks as well as her weekly
weight. The watch monitors her heart rate, her movement, her sleep
patterns.
“I’m a weird person,” she says. “I wanted to see everything.”
Knowing her stats has improved the way she eats and trains, she
says.
“It’s almost like Big Brother is watching you. When I see that, I tend
to do better.”
‘I don’t want to be fined.’
The Dallas Morning News photos
Dan Gray, above, regularly uses nine apps on his smartphone to monitor his health. Stan Eigenbrodt, top
right, favors Lose It! and Runkeeper, while Bree Redwine, top left, uses My Fitness Pal to meet her goals.
Name: Dan Gray, 45
Number of apps used: At least a dozen
Favorite: My Fitness Pal
Primary activity: Running
While training for a marathon, Gray was surprised to be gaining
weight.
“That’s when I realized I must be doing something wrong, but
couldn’t put my finger on it,” he says.
He asked a running friend who had lost a lot of weight how he did it.
The answer changed Gray’s life: My Fitness Pal.
“Anyone I’m friends with can see what I eat,” he says. “By putting
in what I eat as I’m eating it, I found myself making small calibrations
in order to get under my calorie limit. Once I started developing good
eating habits, I started layering on other things, like tracking the exercise.”
He does that with several apps; among them Pact.
“I’ve been using it about a year,” says Gray, who works in the health
care industry. “They take My Fitness Pal and other apps one step further.”
He set up Pact by committing, for example, to how often and how
long he’ll exercise, how many times he’ll log his food, how many fruits
and vegetables he’ll eat. If My Fitness Pal and his other apps sync up
and show he’s not following through, he’ll be fined either $5 or $10. If
he does, he receives $1 to $1.50 a week.
“What I’ve found, man, is that I will really work a lot to get that dollar or dollar-fifty a week,” he says. “I don’t want to be fined.”
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ENTERTAINMENT
Rami Malek, above and
below with Christian Slater,
stars in “Mr. Robot.”
USA NETWORK /TNS
Man & machine
New television series ‘Mr. Robot’
includes a little bit of human code
BY M ARY MCNAMARA
Los Angeles Times
M
an rails against machine in
a new and promising techno-paranoia tale.
USA’s “Mr. Robot” examines the fear of digital domination:
Can evil corporations be broken by the
same systems that grant them world
domination?
Created by Sam Esmail, “Mr. Robot”
is shot in muted tones that admirably
balance decay, dulled-sense surrender
and potential menace.
The first hour is overly obsessivecompulsive in plot points — code
strings and routers as the new McGuffins — but the adolescent rage of its
protagonist gives it emotional life.
Nondescript techie for a cyber-security firm by day and vigilante hacker
by night, Elliot (Rami Malek) is a
blank-faced, socially challenged Millennial.
When he’s not bringing down child
pornographers and other social scum,
Elliot routinely invades the privacy of
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those he loves under the guise of protecting them. “Those he loves” being
Angela (Portia Doubleday), friend/coworker/object of devotion, and Krista
(Gloria Reuben), Elliot’s therapist who
apparently has very bad taste in men.
Elliot is seeing a therapist because
he has suffered hallucinations in the
past. They might still be ongoing. Are
the men in suits who appear to be following him the result of his hacking
adventures? And who is that homeless
guy who looks suspiciously like Christian Slater?
Well, it is Christian Slater, playing
the title role. Mr. Robot is a fellow
computer genius who says he wants to
take down the one percent who control
the world.
Although tricked out with the highfunctioning autism so popular with
television writers these days, Elliot is
more complex than the typical heroon-the-spectrum.
He narrates the series, and clearly
we are supposed to sympathize — he
is sad, his dad is dead, he cries alone
— but his creepiness is also undeniable, played up both by his actions and
by Malek’s effectively robotic performance.
Discovering Elliot’s true nature and
intentions, one hopes, will be as central to the adventure as the quest to
take down the Evil Corporation.
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BUSINESS/WEATHER
Convenience driving delivery mania
EXCHANGE RATES
Military rates
Euro costs (July 13) ..........................$1.1502
Dollar buys (July 13) .........................€0.8694
British pound (July 13)......................... $1.59
Japanese yen (July 13) ......................118.00
South Korean won (July 13) ..........1,100.00
Commercial rates
BY ROBERTO A. FERDMAN
The Washington Post
Delivery is hot right now, with
Taco Bell announcing Wednesday it’s bringing tacos, burritos
and other Mexican-inspired fare
to the doorsteps of customers in
some 200 locations around the
United States.
The fast-food chain, which is
extending the delivery option to
Los Angeles, San Francisco, Orange County and Dallas, is the
latest addition to an already long
list of quick-service giants that
offer delivery — including Starbucks, Chipotle, McDonald’s and
Dunkin’ Donuts. And it underscores an increasingly apparent
truth about what Americans want
from their food.
Yes, people want the food they
buy to be cheap, but there’s actually something that matters more to
people than price: convenience.
The delivery bug, after all,
hasn’t been exclusive to the fastfood world. People have become
conditioned to expect Amazon
to deliver practically anything
to them. Third-party companies
such as Seamless and Postmates,
which partner with food purveyors to deliver meals for a small
fee, have come to define the lunch
food scene in big cities by making
all kinds of food available. And
new, delivery-only restaurants,
such as Maple and Savory, are
taking it a step further, doubling
down on the notion that what
people want, more than anything
else, is convenience.
“It’s very widespread,” said
Mary Chapman, who is a senior
director of product innovation at
restaurant market research firm
Technomic. “And it touches tons
of different price points.”
To say that delivery is something entirely new is to forget that
pizza shops, such as Domino’s
and Pizza Hut, have been ringing doorbells for decades. So, too,
have Chinese restaurants, Chapman reminded.
But there is something unique
about the way in which the most
convenient form of restaurant
service is spreading. The reason
it is becoming more prevalent
isn’t merely because people want
it — many, it turns out, actually
need it.
“The reality is that, for many
people today, time is more valuable than dollars,” Chapman said.
“That’s even true for people who
don’t have very many dollars.
And, you know, that has a pretty
sizable impact.”
Families are working more
than ever. More than 60 percent
of households are now supported
by two working parents, according to the latest government data,
which is the highest reading on
record.
The less time people have to sit
down at restaurants, leave home
to pick up dinner or even cook at
home, the more convenience hovers over decisions about food, especially when there is an option
that only requires a brief interaction with a screen.
What many people might not realize is that the ascent of delivery
is something a lot of restaurants
actually welcome. At establishments that are normally dependent on dinner, services such as
Seamless help boost lunchtime
sales. At outlets such as Chipotle,
however, where sales drag at dinnertime, the opposite is true: Delivery is something of a savior.
“You can only put so many
people through your line of
drive-through,” Chapman said.
“That’s even truer for sit-down
restaurants.”
MARKET WATCH
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Canada (Dollar) ...................................1.2736
China (Yuan) ........................................6.2090
Denmark (Krone) ................................6.6763
Egypt (Pound) ...................................... 7.8282
Euro ........................................ $1.1178/0.8946
Hong Kong (Dollar) ............................. 7.7509
Hungary (Forint) ................................. 277.99
Israel (Shekel) .....................................3.7682
Japan (Yen)...........................................122.67
Kuwait (Dinar) .....................................0.3020
Norway (Krone) ................................... 7.9955
Philippines (Peso).................................45.08
Poland (Zloty) .......................................... 3.73
Saudi Arabia (Riyal) ........................... 3.7502
Singapore (Dollar) ..............................1.3493
South Korea (Won) .........................1,128.04
Switzerland (Franc)............................0.9382
Thailand (Baht) .....................................33.96
Turkey (New Lira) ...............................2.6651
(Military exchange rates are those
available to customers at military banking
facilities in the country of issuance
for Japan, South Korea, Germany, the
Netherlands and the United Kingdom. For
nonlocal currency exchange rates (i.e.,
purchasing British pounds in Germany),
check with your local military banking
facility. Commercial rates are interbank
rates provided for reference when buying
currency. All figures are foreign currencies
to one dollar, except for the British pound,
which is represented in dollars-to-pound,
and the euro, which is dollars-to-euro.)
INTEREST RATES
Prime rate ................................................ 3.25
Discount rate .......................................... 0.75
Federal funds market rate ................... 0.13
3-month bill ............................................. 0.02
30-year bond ........................................... 3.12
WEATHER OUTLOOK
SATURDAY IN THE MIDDLE EAST
SUNDAY IN THE PACIFIC
SATURDAY IN EUROPE
Misawa
80/66
Kabul
92/68
Seoul
81/72
Baghdad
112/84
Kandahar
106/77
Kuwait
City
118/91
Mildenhall/
Lakenheath
71/59
Brussels
75/62
Bahrain
102/90
Riyadh
110/83
Lajes,
Azores
73/66
Doha
111/90
Busan
78/72
Tokyo
83/74
Iwakuni
82/74
Guam
85/77
Sasebo
82/77
Ramstein
78/59
Pápa
81/56
Stuttgart
82/57
Aviano/
Vicenza
87/62
Naples
92/74
Morón
98/66
Djibouti
105/90
Osan
79/72
Sigonella
91/73
Rota
87/71
Okinawa
87/80
The weather is provided by the
American Forces Network Weather Center,
2nd Weather Squadron at Offutt Air Force Base, Neb.
Souda Bay
87/70
Saturday’s US temperatures
City
Abilene, Tex
Akron, Ohio
Albany,N.Y.
Albuquerque
Allentown, Pa.
Amarillo
Anchorage
Asheville
Atlanta
Atlantic City
Austin
Baltimore
Baton Rouge
Billings
Birmingham
Bismarck
Boise
Boston
Bridgeport
Brownsville
Buffalo
Burlington,Vt.
Caribou,Maine
Casper
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86
92
81
85
80
86
97
84
94
Lo
71
61
63
66
62
68
54
66
75
65
73
70
75
61
75
65
63
68
67
77
63
63
61
55
75
67
72
Wthr
Clr
Clr
Clr
Cldy
Clr
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Rain
Clr
Clr
PCldy
Clr
Clr
PCldy
Clr
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
Chattanooga
Cheyenne
Chicago
Cincinnati
Cleveland
Colorado Springs
Columbia,S.C.
Columbus,Ga.
Columbus,Ohio
Concord,N.H.
Corpus Christi
Dallas-Ft Worth
Dayton
Daytona Beach
Denver
Des Moines
Detroit
Duluth
El Paso
Elkins
Erie
Eugene
Evansville
Fairbanks
Fargo
Flagstaff
Flint
Fort Smith
93
80
82
82
80
86
99
95
81
87
92
94
81
94
89
85
83
81
94
77
78
76
89
77
83
73
83
95
73
55
69
70
62
57
74
75
67
62
78
76
68
74
61
73
66
62
73
61
61
56
72
56
68
49
64
73
PCldy
Clr
Cldy
PCldy
Clr
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Clr
PCldy
Clr
PCldy
Clr
Clr
Rain
Clr
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
Cldy
Cldy
Clr
Cldy
PCldy
Clr
PCldy
Fort Wayne
Fresno
Goodland
Grand Junction
Grand Rapids
Great Falls
Green Bay
Greensboro,N.C.
Harrisburg
Hartford Spgfld
Helena
Honolulu
Houston
Huntsville
Indianapolis
Jackson,Miss.
Jacksonville
Juneau
Kansas City
Key West
Knoxville
Lake Charles
Lansing
Las Vegas
Lexington
Lincoln
Little Rock
Los Angeles
81
91
96
86
81
80
82
90
85
87
78
88
93
96
82
95
96
62
90
91
88
92
81
98
84
93
95
76
67
65
65
61
65
61
63
69
64
65
60
77
75
74
71
74
74
53
73
82
70
76
64
78
70
71
75
62
PCldy
Clr
Clr
PCldy
Clr
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Clr
Cldy
Rain
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Rain
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
Clr
Clr
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Louisville
87
Lubbock
89
Macon
96
Madison
79
Medford
85
Memphis
96
Miami Beach
90
Midland-Odessa 93
Milwaukee
77
Mpls-St Paul
81
Missoula
72
Mobile
93
Montgomery
96
Nashville
92
New Orleans
92
New York City
87
Newark
88
Norfolk,Va.
84
North Platte
94
Oklahoma City
92
Omaha
90
Orlando
96
Paducah
92
Pendleton
83
Peoria
86
Philadelphia
89
Phoenix
104
Pittsburgh
82
73
69
73
67
64
78
79
70
64
69
56
76
76
73
77
69
70
73
62
72
72
74
73
58
69
69
84
63
Cldy
Cldy
PCldy
Rain
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
Cldy
Rain
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Clr
Clr
Rain
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
Rain
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Pocatello
Portland,Maine
Portland,Ore.
Providence
Pueblo
Raleigh-Durham
Rapid City
Reno
Richmond
Roanoke
Rochester
Rockford
Sacramento
St Louis
St Petersburg
St Thomas
Salem,Ore.
Salt Lake City
San Angelo
San Antonio
San Diego
San Francisco
San Jose
Santa Fe
St Ste Marie
Savannah
Seattle
Shreveport
82
82
75
84
93
92
92
82
85
83
83
81
84
94
92
90
76
89
92
91
73
70
78
84
81
98
74
94
55
64
60
66
60
71
62
59
69
68
63
69
62
76
81
79
58
66
71
74
66
59
61
57
59
75
60
75
Cldy
Clr
Rain
Clr
Clr
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Rain
Cldy
Clr
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
PCldy
Rain
PCldy
Clr
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
PCldy
Cldy
PCldy
Sioux City
Sioux Falls
South Bend
Spokane
Springfield,Ill
Springfield,Mo
Syracuse
Tallahassee
Tampa
Toledo
Topeka
Tucson
Tulsa
Tupelo
Waco
Washington
W. Palm Beach
Wichita
Wichita Falls
Wilkes-Barre
Wilmington,Del.
Yakima
Youngstown
87
86
81
84
87
90
82
99
93
83
94
99
94
95
94
86
89
94
95
83
86
85
82
70
69
68
62
71
71
62
74
78
63
75
77
74
76
74
72
78
73
73
61
67
57
57
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National temperature extremes
Hi: Thu., 104, Ellensburg, Wash., Pasco,
Wash., and Death Valley, Calif.
Lo: Thu., 34, Gothic, Colo.
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Cycling
Tour de France
Thursday
At Le Havre, France
Sixth Stage
A 118.9-mile hilly ride along the Normandy coast from Abbeville to Le Havre,
with three Category 4 climbs
1. Zdenek Stybar, Czech Republic,
Etixx-QuickStep, 4 hours, 53 minutes, 46
seconds.
2. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Tinkoff-Saxo,
2 seconds behind.
3. Bryan Coquard, France, Europcar,
same time.
4. John Degenkolb, Germany, GiantAlpecin, same time.
5. Greg Van Avermaet, Belgium, BMC
Racing, same time.
6. Tony Gallopin, France, Lotto-Soudal,
same time.
7. Edvald Boasson Hagen, Norway,
MTN-Qhubeka, same time.
8. Davide Cimolai, Italy, Lampre-Merida, same time.
9. Julien Simon, France, Cofidis, same
time.
10. Gorka Izagirre, Spain, Movistar,
same time.
11. Alexander Kristoff, Norway, Katusha, same time.
12. Robert Gesink, Netherlands, Lotto
NL-Jumbo, same time.
13. Joaquim Rodriguez, Spain, Katusha, same time.
14.
Armindo
Fonseca,
France,
Bretange-Seche Environnement, same
time.
15. Alejandro Valverde, Spain, Movistar, same time.
16. Alberto Contador, Spain, TinkoffSaxo, same time.
17. Rigoberto Uran, Colombia, EtixxQuickStep, same time.
18. Paul Martens, Germany, Lotto NLJumbo, same time.
19. Mathias Frank, Switzerland, IAM
Cycling, same time.
20. Andrew Talansky, United States,
Cannondale-Garmin, same time.
Also
33. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, Movistar, same time.
38. Thibaut Pinot, France, FDJ, same
time.
40. Tejay Van Garderen, United States,
BMC Racing, same time.
59. Jean-Christophe Peraud, France,
AG2R La Mondiale, same time.
61. Geraint Thomas, Britain, Sky, same
time.
91. Romain Bardet, France, AG2R La
Mondiale, same time.
92. Vincenzo Nibali, Italy, Astana,
same time.
110. Chris Froome, Britain, Sky, same
time.
131. Tyler Farrar, United States, MTNQhubeka, 3:06.
174. Tony Martin, Germany, EtixxQuickStep, :02.
Overall Standings
(After six stages)
1. Tony Martin, Germany, Etixx-QuickStep, 22:13:14.
2. Chris Froome, Britain, Sky, :12.
3. Tejay Van Garderen, United States,
BMC Racing, :25.
4. Peter Sagan, Slovakia, Tinkoff-Saxo,
:27.
5. Tony Gallopin, France, Lotto-Soudal,
:38.
6. Greg Van Avermaet, Belgium, BMC
Racing, :40.
7. Rigoberto Uran, Colombia, EtixxQuickStep, :46.
8. Alberto Contador, Spain, TinkoffSaxo, :48.
9. Zdenek Stybar, Czech Republic,
Etixx-QuickStep, 1:04.
10. Geraint Thomas, Britain, Sky, 1:15.
11. Warren Barguil, France, GiantAlpecin, 1:19.
12. Bauke Mollema, Netherlands, Trek
Factory Racing, 1:44.
13. Vincenzo Nibali, Italy, Astana, 1:50.
14. Robert Gesink, Netherlands, Lotto
NL-Jumbo, 1:51.
15. Roman Kreuziger, Czech Republic,
Tinkoff-Saxo, 2:03.
16. Alejandro Valverde, Spain, Movistar, same time.
17. Nairo Quintana, Colombia, Movistar, 2:08.
18. Joaquim Rodriguez, Spain, Katusha, 2:12.
19. Jean-Christophe Peraud, France,
AG2R La Mondiale, 2:19.
20. Andrew Talansky, United States,
Cannondale-Garmin, 2:51.
Also
21. Romain Bardet, France, AG2R La
Mondiale, 3:06.
30. Thibaut Pinot, France, FDJ, 6:30.
89. Tyler Farrar, United States, MTNQhubeka, 21:08.
AP sportlight
July 11
1985 — Nolan Ryan of the Houston Astros becomes the first pitcher in major
league history to reach 4,000 strikeouts
when he fans New York’s Danny Heep in
the sixth inning.
Auto racing
Soccer
Deals
UNOH 225
CONCACAF Gold Cup
Thursday’s transactions
NASCAR Camping World Trucks
Thursday
At Kentucky Speedway
Sparta, Ky.
Lap length: 1.5 miles
(Start position in parentheses)
1. (1) Matt Crafton, Toyota, 145 laps, 47
points, $59,498.
2. (3) Erik Jones, Toyota, 145, 44,
$48,487.
3. (6) Ryan Blaney, Ford, 145, 0,
$34,948.
4. (4) Daniel Suarez, Toyota, 145, 0,
$22,029.
5. (10) Timothy Peters, Toyota, 145, 39,
$19,072.
6. (2) Tyler Reddick, Ford, 145, 39,
$17,403.
7. (31) David Gilliland, Ford, 145, 0,
$14,608.
8. (7) John Wes Townley, Chevrolet,
145, 36, $16,314.
9. (12) Cameron Hayley, Toyota, 145,
35, $16,205.
10. (9) Brandon Jones, Chevrolet, 145,
34, $17,018.
11. (13) John Hunter Nemechek, Chevrolet, 145, 34, $15,959.
12. (5) Johnny Sauter, Toyota, 145, 32,
$15,766.
13. (15) Ray Black Jr., Chevrolet, 145,
32, $15,657.
14. (23) Travis Kvapil, Chevrolet, 145,
30, $15,548.
15. (19) Timmy Hill, Chevrolet, 145, 29,
$15,811.
16. (14) Ben Kennedy, Toyota, accident,
145, 28, $15,497.
17. (16) Christopher Bell, Toyota, 144,
27, $15,188.
18. (11) Daniel Hemric, Chevrolet, 143,
26, $15,079.
19. (22) Mason Mingus, Chevrolet, 143,
25, $14,970.
20. (30) Cody Coughlin, Toyota, 143, 24,
$12,811.
21. (18) Korbin Forrister, Chevrolet,
141, 23, $15,052.
22. (21) Justin Jennings, Chevrolet,
140, 22, $14,643.
23. (20) Jennifer Jo Cobb, Chevrolet,
140, 21, $13,284.
24. (8) Spencer Gallagher, Chevrolet,
accident, 139, 20, $13,175.
25. (29) Brandon Brown, Chevrolet,
132, 19, $12,216.
26. (17) Tyler Young, Chevrolet, 132, 18,
$11,957.
27. (28) Caleb Holman, Chevrolet, accident, 124, 17, $11,848.
28. (26) Jordan Anderson, Chevrolet,
suspension, 98, 16, $11,508.
29. (27) B.J. McLeod, Chevrolet, electrical, 32, 15, $11,400.
30. (25) Ryan Ellis, Chevrolet, electrical, 16, 14, $10,900.
31. (24) Norm Benning, Chevrolet, engine, 2, 13, $9,400.
Race Statistics
Average Speed of Race Winner:
117.268 mph.
Time of Race: 1 hour, 51 minutes, 17
seconds.
Margin of Victory: Under Caution.
Caution Flags: 8 for 30 laps.
Lead Changes: 13 among 7 drivers.
Lap Leaders: T.Reddick 1-4; D.Suarez
5-22; T.Reddick 23-30; E.Jones 31-45;
R.Black Jr. 46; J.Nemechek 47; R.Blaney
48-58; M.Crafton 59-100; E.Jones 101-128;
R.Blaney 129-131; T.Reddick 132; E.Jones
133-144; M.Crafton 145.
Leaders Summary (Driver, Times Led,
Laps Led): E.Jones, 3 times for 55 laps;
M.Crafton, 2 times for 43 laps; D.Suarez,
1 time for 18 laps; R.Blaney, 2 times for
14 laps; T.Reddick, 3 times for 13 laps;
J.Nemechek, 1 time for 1 lap; R.Black Jr.,
1 time for 1 lap.
Top 10 in Points: 1. M.Crafton, 417; 2.
T.Reddick, 397; 3. E.Jones, 388; 4. J.Sauter,
359; 5. J.Townley, 330; 6. T.Peters, 322;
7. C.Hayley, 315; 8. S.Gallagher, 308; 9.
D.Hemric, 308; 10. B.Kennedy, 297.
NASCAR Driver Rating Formula
A maximum of 150 points can be attained in a race.
The formula combines the following
categories: Wins, Finishes, Top-15 Finishes, Average Running Position While
on Lead Lap, Average Speed Under
Green, Fastest Lap, Led Most Laps, LeadLap Finish.
FIRST ROUND
Top two in each group and two best
third-place teams advance to quarterfinals
GROUP A
GP W D L GF GA Pts
United States 1 1 0 0
2
1 3
Haiti
1 0 1 0
1
1 1
Panama
1 0 1 0
1
1 1
Honduras
1 0 0 1
1
2 0
Tuesday, July 7
At Frisco, Texas
Panama 1, Haiti 1
United States 2, Honduras 1
Friday, July 10
At Foxborough, Mass.
Honduras vs. Panama
United States vs. Haiti
Monday, July 13
At Kansas City, Kan.
Haiti vs. Honduras
Panama vs. United States
GROUP B
GP W D L GF GA Pts
Costa Rica
1 0 1 0
2
2 1
Jamaica
1 0 1 0
2
2 1
Canada
1 0 1 0
0
0 1
El Salvador
1 0 1 0
0
0 1
Wednesday, July 8
At Carson, Calif.
Costa Rica 2, Jamaica 2
El Salvador 0, Canada 0
Saturday, July 11
At Houston
Jamaica vs. Canada
Costa Rica vs. El Salvador
Tuesday, July 14
At Toronto
Jamaica vs. El Salvador
Canada vs. Costa Rica
GROUP C
GP W D L GF GA Pts
Mexico
1 1 0 0
6
0 3
Trinidad
1 1 0 0
3
1 3
Guatemala
1 0 0 1
1
3 0
Cuba
1 0 0 1
0
6 0
Thursday, July 9
At Chicago
Trinidad and Tobago 3, Guatemala 1
Mexico 6, Cuba 0
Sunday, July 12
At Glendale, Ariz.
Trinidad and Tobago vs. Cuba
Guatemala vs. Mexico
Wednesday, July 15
At Charlotte, N.C.
Cuba vs. Guatemala
Mexico vs. Trinidad and Tobago
BASEBALL
American League
BALTIMORE ORIOLES — Reinstated OF
Nolan Reimold from the paternity list.
Released OF Delmon Young.
CHICAGO WHITE SOX — Optioned RHP
Scott Carroll to Charlotte (IL).
CLEVELAND INDIANS — Agreed to
terms with INF Luke Wakamatsu.
KANSAS CITY ROYALS — Placed OF
Alex Gordon on the 15-day DL. Reinstated
RHP Yordano Ventura from the 15-day DL.
Optioned RHP Aaron Brooks to Omaha
(PCL). Recalled LHP Brandon Finnegan
from Omaha.
NEW YORK YANKEES — Selected the
contract of INF Cole Figueroa from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL). Optioned INF Jose
Pirela to Scranton/Wilkes-Barre. Designated OF Taylor Dugas for assignment.
SEATTLE MARINERS — Recalled LHP
Vidal Nuno and RHP Danny Farquhar
from Tacoma (PCL). Placed LHP Charlie
Furbush on the 15-day DL, retroactive to
July 8. Optioned RHP Mayckol Guaipe to
Tacoma. Recalled 1B/DH Jesus Montero
from Tacoma. Optioned J.A. Happ to Bakersfield (Calif.).
National League
PHILADELPHIA PHILLIES — Agreed to
terms with OF Jhailyn Ortiz to a minor
league contract.
WASHINGTON NATIONALS — Reinstated RHP David Carpenter from the
paternity list. Optioned RHP Taylor Hill to
Syracuse (IL).
Eastern League
TRENTON THUNDER — Announced
RHP Jaron Long was assigned to the
team from Scranton/Wilkes-Barre (IL).
Announced INF Dan Fiorito was called up
by Scranton Wilkes-Barre.
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
ATLANTA HAWKS — Re-signed F Paul
Millsap to a three-year contract. Signed
C Walter Tavares to a multiyear contract.
Acquired F-C Tiago Splitter from San Antonio for the draft rights to F Georgios
Printezis and a future second-round
draft pick. Waived F Austin Daye.
BROOKLYN NETS — Re-signed F Thaddeus Young to a four-year contract and
C Brook Lopez. Signed F Thomas Robinson and G Shane Larkin to two-year contracts. Agreed to terms with G Wayne Ellington. Signed F-C Willie Reed.
CHARLOTTE HORNETS — Signed G Jeremy Lin.
CHICAGO BULLS — Re-signed G Jimmy
Butler to a five-year contract. Agreed to
terms with F Mike Dunleavy and G Aaron
Brooks.
CLEVELAND CAVALIERS — Re-signed F
Kevin Love to a five-year contract and G
Iman Shumpert to a four-year contract.
DALLAS MAVERICKS — Signed G Wes
Matthews to a four-year contract. Acquired C Zaza Pachulia from Milwaukee
for a future second round pick.
GOLDEN STATE WARRIORS — Resigned F Draymond Green to a five-year
contract.
LOS ANGELES CLIPPERS — Re-signed C
DeAndre Jordan to a four-year contract.
Signed F Wes Johnson.
LOS ANGELES LAKERS — Signed G Lou
Williams to a multiyear contract and Fs
Brandon Bass and Anthony Brown. Acquired C Roy Hibbert from Indiana for a
future second-round draft pick.
MEMPHIS GRIZZLIES — Signed F Brandan Wright to a multiyear contract.
MIAMI HEAT — Signed G Goran Dragic
to a five-year contract.
MILWAUKEE BUCKS — Re-signed G
Khris Middleton to a five-year contract.
Signed F Greg Monroe to a three-year
contract.
NEW ORLEANS PELICANS — Agreed to
terms with F-C Anthony Davis on a fiveyear contract extension. Signed C Omer
Asik to a five-year contract, F Alexis Ajinca to a four-year contract and F Dante
Cunningham to a three-year contract.
NEW YORK KNICKS — Signed C Robin
Lopez to a four-year contract and G Arron Afflalo and F Derrick Williams to
two-year contracts. Acquired F-C Kyle
O’Quinn from Orlando for the right to ex-
Pro basketball
WNBA
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct
Connecticut
7
3 .700
New York
7
4 .636
Chicago
6
5 .545
Washington
6
5 .545
Indiana
6
6 .500
Atlanta
5
7 .417
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
L Pct
Minnesota
8
2 .800
Tulsa
9
4 .692
Phoenix
6
5 .545
San Antonio
3
8 .273
Seattle
3
10 .231
Los Angeles
2
9 .182
Wednesday’s games
Indiana 88, Seattle 65
San Antonio 70, Los Angeles 63
Thursday’s games
New York 79, Washington 76, OT
Friday’s games
San Antonio at Indiana
Minnesota at Chicago
Phoenix at Seattle
Saturday’s games
Los Angeles at Tulsa
GB
—
½
1½
1½
2
3
GB
—
½
2½
5½
6½
6½
MLS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
D.C. United
10 6 5 35 23 18
Columbus
6 6 6 24 27 26
Orlando City
6 6 6 24 23 22
New England
6 8 6 24 25 29
Toronto FC
7 7 2 23 22 23
New York
6 6 5 23 23 22
New York City FC 5 8 5 20 20 23
Philadelphia
5 10 4 19 22 32
Montreal
5 7 3 18 20 25
Chicago
4 9 3 15 18 24
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W L T Pts GF GA
Seattle
10 7 2 32 25 18
Vancouver
10 7 2 32 23 19
Portland
9 6 4 31 22 20
Los Angeles
8 6 7 31 31 23
FC Dallas
8 5 5 29 24 23
Sporting KC
7 3 6 27 25 17
San Jose
7 6 4 25 19 17
Real Salt Lake
5 6 8 23 18 23
Houston
5 7 6 21 22 24
Colorado
3 6 9 18 14 18
Note: Three points for victory, one
point for tie.
Friday’s game
Houston at San Jose
Saturday’s games
Portland at Philadelphia
New England at New York
FC Dallas at Orlando City
Columbus at Montreal
Seattle at Chicago
Real Salt Lake at Colorado
Sunday’s games
Toronto FC at New York City FC
Sporting Kansas City at Vancouver
Wednesday, July 15
Columbus at Chicago
Friday, July 17
San Jose at Los Angeles
Saturday, July 18
Philadelphia at Toronto FC
New York at Orlando City
New York City FC at New England
Montreal at Sporting Kansas City
D.C. United at FC Dallas
Colorado at Seattle
Houston at Real Salt Lake
Vancouver at Portland
NWSL
W L T Pts GF
Chicago
5 1 3 18 17
Seattle
5 2 3 18 20
FC Kansas City
5 5 2 17 14
Washington
5 4 2 17 16
Western New York 4 4 2 14 13
Houston
3 3 4 13 11
Portland
3 3 4 13 13
Boston
3 6 2 11 13
Sky Blue FC
1 6 4
7
7
Note: Three points for victory,
point for tie.
Thursday’s game
FC Kansas City 3, Boston 2
Saturday’s games
Portland at Sky Blue FC
Western New York at Seattle
Sunday’s games
Chicago at Houston
Wednesday, July 15
Chicago at Boston
Saturday, July 18
Seattle at Washington
Boston at Chicago
GA
10
11
12
17
14
10
11
22
17
one
change 2019 second-round draft selections and cash considerations.
OKLAHOMA CITY THUNDER — Resigned F Kyle Singler to a multiyear contract.
ORLANDO MAGIC — Signed G C.J. Watson.
PHILADELPHIA 76ERS — Named Todd
Wright assistant coach, head of strength
and conditioning.
PHOENIX SUNS — Traded F Marcus
Morris, F-G Danny Granger and G Reggie Bullock to Detroit for a 2020 secondround draft pick. Signed C Tyson Chandler to a four-year contract.
PORTLAND TRAILBLAZERS — Agreed
to terms with G Damian Lillard on a
five-year contract extension. Signed F
Al-Farouq Aminu to a four-year contract
and F Ed Davis to a three-year contract.
SACRAMENTO KINGS — Traded G Ray
McCallum to San Antonio for a 2016 second-round draft pick.
SAN ANTONIO SPURS — Signed F LaMarcus Aldridge to a four-year contract.
Re-signed C Tim Duncan.
TORONTO RAPTORS — Signed F DeMarre Carroll and G Corey Joseph to
four-year contracts. Waived G Luke Ridnour.
UTAH JAZZ — Signed G Raul Neto to a
multiyear contract.
WASHINGTON WIZARDS — Signed G
Gary Neal to a one-year contract. Acquired F Jared Dudley from Milwaukee
for a protected future second-round
draft pick.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
CHICAGO BLACKHAWKS — Agreed to
terms with F Dennis Rasmussen on a
one-year contract.
DALLAS STARS — Signed D Jamie Oleksiak to a one-year contract.
DETROIT RED WINGS — Agreed to
terms with G Jared Coreau on a one-year
contract.
FLORIDA PANTHERS — Named Scott
Luce director of player personnel, Billy
Ryan amateur scout, Pierre Groulx goalie development coach and scout, Dakota
King equipment assistant and Steve
Squier massage therapist. Named Brian
Godin equipment manager and Stiles
Burr video and travel coordinator for
Portland (AHL). Announced the contract
of director of player development Brian
Skrudland will not be renewed.
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Announced
they will not renew the contract of executive vice president, hockey operations/
director of scouting David Conte.
TORONTO MAPLE LEAFS — Signed D
Martin Marincin to a one-year contract.
SOCCER
Major League Soccer
MLS — Suspended San Jose D Jordan Stewart one game and fined him
an undisclosed amount for violent conduct in a July 5 match against Portland.
Fined Houston MF Leonel Miranda an
undisclosed amount for embellishment
during a July 3 match against Chicago.
Fined Columbus MF Federico Higuain
an undisclosed amount for violating
the League’s policy regarding hands to
the face/head/neck of an opponent and
fined New York MF Felipe Martins an undisclosed amount for embellishment in
the same incident during a July 4 match.
Fined New York City MF Mehdi Ballouchy
an undisclosed amount for violating the
League’s policy regarding hands to the
face/head/neck of an opponent during a
July 4 match against Montreal. Fined FC
Dallas F Fabian Castillo an undisclosed
amount for simulation in a July 4 match
against New England. Fined Orlando City
SC an undisclosed amount for violating
the League’s Mass Confrontation Policy
during its July 4 match against Real Salt
Lake.
COLUMBUS CREW SC — Loaned MF Romain Gall to Austin (USL).
COLLEGE
MEMPHIS — Granted men’s junior
basketball F Austin Nichols a conditional
release so he can transfer.
PEPPERDINE — Named Cooper Fouts
assistant baseball coach.
ST. JOHN’S — Named Jen Leaverton
women’s assistant soccer coach.
Golf
US Women’s Open
U.S. Golf Association
Thursday
At Lancaster Country Club
Lancaster, Pa.
Purse: TBA ($4 million in 2014)
Yardage: 6,483; Par: 70 (35-35)
(a-amateur)
Partial First Round
Marina Alex
32-34—66 -4
Karrie Webb
31-35—66 -4
Amy Yang
33-34—67 -3
Mi Hyang Lee
33-35—68 -2
Morgan Pressel
36-32—68 -2
In Gee Chun
35-33—68 -2
Austin Ernst
34-34—68 -2
Sydnee Michaels
34-34—68 -2
Elizabeth Nagel
33-35—68 -2
Stacy Lewis
37-32—69 -1
Azahara Munoz
34-35—69 -1
Pernilla Lindberg
36-34—70 E
Lydia Ko
33-37—70 E
Jung Min Lee
36-34—70 E
Brittany Lang
35-35—70 E
a-Emma Talley
34-36—70 E
Shiho Oyama
38-32—70 E
Ai Suzuki
34-36—70 E
Laura Davies
36-34—70 E
Jaye Marie Green
36-35—71 +1
Ryann O’Toole
35-36—71 +1
Ayako Uehara
37-34—71 +1
Sakura Yokomine
36-35—71 +1
John Deere Classic
PGA Tour
Thursday
At TPC Deere Run
Silvis, Ill.
Purse: $4.7 million
Yardage: 7,268; Par: 71 (35-36)
First Round
Justin Thomas
31-32—63
Nicholas Thompson
32-31—63
Charles Howell III
31-33—64
Luke Guthrie
32-32—64
Robert Garrigus
31-34—65
Daniel Summerhays
33-32—65
Steve Stricker
31-34—65
Shawn Stefani
31-34—65
Steven Alker
32-33—65
Spencer Levin
33-33—66
Boo Weekley
31-35—66
Michael Thompson
34-32—66
Robert Streb
31-35—66
Tom Gillis
33-33—66
Will Wilcox
33-33—66
Brian Stuard
33-33—66
Scott Pinckney
33-33—66
Carl Pettersson
33-33—66
Zach Johnson
33-33—66
Tyrone Van Aswegen
32-34—66
Jonas Blixt
32-35—67
Scott Piercy
34-33—67
Alex Cejka
32-35—67
Vijay Singh
36-31—67
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SPORTS BRIEFS/AUTO RACING
Crafton wins
9th Truck
Series race
A DAM HUNGER /AP
A young fan cheers while waiting for the ticker-tape parade to celebrate the U.S. women’s soccer team’s World Cup victory in New
York on Friday.
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NYC honors US women’s team
with flag, ticker-tape parade
From Wire Reports
NEW YORK — Officials say they’ve
unfurled the world’s largest free-flying
American flag from the George Washington Bridge as a tribute to the World Cup
soccer champions.
The 450-pound flag was flown Friday as
New York City threw a ticker-tape parade
for the players.
Its stripes are about 5 feet wide. The
stars measure about 4 feet in diameter. It’s
hung yearly for Flag Day on the bridge that
connects New York City with New Jersey.
“Jersey girls” played a big role in the
victory over Japan on Sunday.
The game featured a hat trick by Delran
native Carli Lloyd, a former Rutgers player. Tobin Heath, of Basking Ridge, scored
another goal.
The team also includes midfielder
Heather O’Reilly, from East Brunswick,
and defender Christie Rampone, from
Point Pleasant.
FIFA official will be extradited
BERN, Switzerland — One of the seven
FIFA officials arrested in Zurich as part of
an American corruption probe has agreed
to be extradited to the United States, Swiss
authorities said Friday.
Switzerland’s Federal Office of Justice
didn’t identify the official involved, saying
in a statement that he “wished not to be
named at the moment.”
The official, who initially had contested
his extradition, agreed to be extradited
on Thursday afternoon. The office said it
approved his extradition immediately but
that, in keeping with its usual practice, it
would not give details of when he would be
handed over.
Under Swiss law, he must be collected by
a U.S. police escort and taken to the United
States within 10 days.
The seven men arrested in raids on a
luxury hotel May 27 in Zurich, where FIFA
has its headquarters, included current
and former members of FIFA’s executive
committee. The United States submitted a
formal request for their extradition at the
beginning of July.
The official who has agreed to be extradited is accused of accepting bribes totaling
millions of dollars in connection with the
sale of marketing rights to various sports
marketing firms and keeping the money
for himself, the Swiss justice office said.
Those rights were related to the broadcast
of World Cup qualifiers, regional tournaments and continental championships in
North and South America.
Goodell: Brady decision ‘soon’
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell said
a decision on Tom Brady’s appeal of his
four-game suspension “is coming soon”
and could happen as soon as next week, according to CNBC.
Goodell made his comments to CNBC on
Thursday while attending a tech and business conference in Sun Valley, Idaho.
Goodell will decide Brady’s fate after declining a request in May by the NFL Players
Association to recuse himself and appoint a
neutral arbitrator to hear the case.
Brady, the four-time Super Bowl-winning quarterback, was suspended for the
first four games of the 2015 season after
being implicated in the Wells Report that
found the Patriots had used underinflated
balls in the AFC Championship Game
against the Indianapolis Colts in January.
Brady is hoping to have his suspension
erased or reduced.
NCAA drops ban on SC events
INDIANAPOLIS — The NCAA will end a
nearly 15-year ban on South Carolina hosting sanctioned championship events following the decision to remove the Confederate
flag from the state’s capitol grounds.
Gov. Nikki Haley signed the legislation
Thursday.
Within minutes of announcement, NCAA
Board of Governors Chairman Kirk Schulz
issued a statement commending South Carolina’s lawmakers for taking the action. The
ban applied to all championship events with
pre-determined host sites, such as the men’s
basketball tournament. Events that were assigned to home teams, such as the baseball
tournament, were exempt from the ban.
SPARTA, Ky. — Matt Crafton earned
his ninth career NASCAR Camping
World Truck Series victory Thursday at
Kentucky Speedway in a race stopped
early because of a wreck that damaged
the catch fence.
NASCAR called the race with five laps
to go after Ben Kennedy’s truck clipped
and bent portions of
the catch fence in
Turn 1. Kennedy’s
truck lifted off the
ground and slid on top
of the SAFER barrier
after making contact
with the trucks of
David Gilliland and
John Wes Townley.
Kennedy is the 23Crafton
year-old son of International
Speedway
Corporation CEO Lesa France Kennedy
and great-grandson of NASCAR founder
Bill France Sr. He was evaluated and released from the infield care center shortly
after the accident. No fans were injured,
NASCAR spokesman Kerry Tharp said.
“I was coming down the front straightaway and I heard ‘clear’ (on the radio),”
Kennedy said. “I guess (Gilliland) had
a run on the outside. As soon as I heard
clear I wanted to get a good arc into the
corner so I started heading up toward the
wall, got hit in the right rear and I guess
the rest is really history.
“I ended up on top of the wall for a
while. You don’t really know what to expect being up there. Going down from the
wall to the ground was a pretty hard hit
as well.”
The car damaged two support poles that
will need to be replaced, and Tharp said
the repairs would take at least 90 minutes. Kentucky Speedway is scheduled to
host an XFINITY Series race Friday and
the Sprint Cup Series on Saturday.
“The fence performed exactly the
way it’s designed to perform,” Kentucky
Speedway general manager Mark Simendinger said. “We’ve got experts on
standby who are over there repairing it as
we speak. It should be good as new in a
matter of hours.”
Thursday’s incident occurred three
days after Austin Dillon’s car went airborne and smashed into the catch fence at
the end of the Sprint Cup race at Daytona
International Speedway. Five fans were
injured in that incident. Dillon walked
away from the crash.
“It’s a perfect storm,” Crafton said. “I
have no idea what happened there. I definitely think NASCAR made the right call
in calling it. There were two or three poles
taken out, and for the safety of the fans
and everybody, if something did happen it
could be even worse. They made the right
call there. We’re going fast. Stuff does
happen. It was really good to see that Ben
got out and walked away under his own
power.”
Crafton, the two-time defending series
champion, had passed Erik Jones for the
lead on a restart with six laps to go. Jones
finished second, followed by Ryan Blaney,
Daniel Suarez and Timothy Peters.
Intermittent rain showers earlier in
the day canceled practice and qualifying,
and the starting lineup was set according
to owner points entering the race. That
handed the pole position to Crafton.
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Park joins
two others
atop field
BY BOB LENTZ
LANCASTER, Pa. — Jane Park made
a birdie and four pars Friday morning,
moving into a tie for the lead after the first
round of the rain-delayed U.S. Women’s
Open.
Park is tied with Karrie Webb and Marina Alex at 4-under 66. Na Yeon Choi, the
2012 U.S. Open winner, and Amy Yang are
a stroke back.
Top-ranked Inbee Park returned to complete her round and pulled within a shot of
the leaders before a bogey at No. 17 left
her two shots behind and in a pack of eight
players at 68.
Fifty-five golfers were forced to complete their first rounds starting 6:45 a.m.
Friday, hours after play was suspended
Thursday evening because of a strong
storm that pounded Lancaster Country
Club with high winds and heavy rain.
Jane Park shrugged off the delay and
early start, pleased with her 1-under run
through the last five holes.
“It’s a good way to start the day,” the
2004 U.S. Amateur champ said.
She was at 3 under through 13 holes when
play was halted. The 28-year-old American
got off to a quick start when play resumed,
making a 15-foot downhill putt for birdie at
the par-4, 14th to tie for the lead.
She saved par at the 17th by hitting to
within two feet from a bunker. But she
nearly gave a stroke back at the 437-yard,
par-4 uphill 18th.
She hit driver, 3-wood and still couldn’t
get her ball close to the hole. She chipped
close with her third shot and drained a
testy 2-footer for par.
“At 18, I haven’t been able to reach the
hole all week,” she said after her approach
hit a few paces on the green, only to roll
back off the front.
She recovered by hitting her chip close
and closing out the par. Then, she shifted
her focus quickly to the second round,
which she started an hour after finishing
the first.
“It’s the luck of the draw,” she said,
“People have to deal with it. And whoever
can deal with it best should come out pretty well.”
G ENE J. PUSKAR /AP
Co-leader Jane Park had to finish her
round Friday after storms suspended play
Thursday afternoon during the first round
of the U.S. Women’s Open.
L AURENT CIPRIANI /AP
Eritrea’s Daniel Teklehaimanot, wearing the best climber’s dotted jersey, speeds downhill Friday during the seventh stage of the
Tour de France covering 118.4 miles from Livarot to Fougeres, France.
Cavendish wins 7th stage
Froome inherits, retains overall lead
BY JEROME PUGMIRE
FOUGERES, France — British rider
Mark Cavendish won the sun-soaked seventh stage of the Tour de France in a sprint
finish on Friday, while countryman Chris
Froome retained the overall lead as he bids
to win the race for a second time.
This time there was no crash near the
finish, like the one on Thursday’s sixth
stage that cost German rider Tony Martin
a broken collarbone, forcing him to withdraw while wearing the race leader’s yellow jersey.
Cavendish, seeking his first Tour stage
win since 2013 after crashing out of last
year’s race, timed his attack to perfection
to catch German sprinter Andre Greipel
near the line to clinch his 26th career Tour
stage win.
“I’m super happy,” Cavendish said.
“Long time since I’ve won on the Tour de
France.”
Peter Sagan of Slovakia, who is bidding
to win the best sprinter’s green jersey for
the fourth straight year, was third.
It was a fitting win for Cavendish, who
is Martin’s teammate on the Etixx-Quick
Step team.
Sagan, who is not a main Tour contender, is second overall. American rider Tejay
Van Garderen, an outsider for the Tour win
who has excellent climbing skills, is third,
13 seconds behind Froome.
The stage featured no yellow jersey as
Froome, the 2013 Tour champion, elected
not to wear it as a mark of respect for Martin, who successfully underwent an operation early Friday.
“That’s not the way to get the yellow jer-
sey due to someone else’s misfortunes,”
Froome said. “I was second on the GC
(general classification) so there was no
way to wear it.”
Cavendish said before the stage that the
team’s minds were elsewhere.
“It was very emotional this morning,”
Cavendish said. “I could feel such devastation; it’s kind of a weird feeling.”
The stage started from Livarot — a
town in the Normandy region which has
a cheese of the same name — and passed
through the Calvados region, home to the
famed apple brandy drink, and ended 118
miles later in Fougeres, nestled in the Brittany region.
Two-time Tour winner Alberto Contador
fell off his bike before the start line but got
back on to take the start.
Within two minutes of the stage start,
five riders broke away.
Eritrean rider Daniel Teklehaimanot,
wearing the best climber’s polka dot jersey,
was joined by Frenchmen Anthony Delaplace and Brice Feillu, Croatian Kristjian
Durasek and Spaniard Luis Angel Mate.
Teklehaimanot took an extra point in
his quest to win the King of the Mountains
jersey when he was the first to reach the
top of the Cote de Canapville — the stage’s
only recognized climb. He was the first of
the front five to be caught some 20 miles
from the line, followed by Durasek and
Delaplace.
That left just Mate and Feillu in front,
who were reeled in with about 6.8 miles to
go.
Once again, Van Garderen’s BMC team
led the main pack as it approached the
finish, with three of Froome’s Team Sky
teammates parked at the front.
PETER D EJONG /AP
Britain’s Mark Cavendish celebrates as
he wins the seventh stage.
Then, the main riders eased up and let
the sprinters go.
Norwegian sprinter Alexander Kristoff
attacked first, with about 300 meters to go,
and then Greipel surged past him on the
left.
But this time Cavendish answered well
to deny Greipel a third stage win on this
year’s race.
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NBA
LeBron agrees to one-year deal with Cavs
BY TOM WITHERS
CLEVELAND — There was no need
for a heartfelt letter this summer. LeBron
James isn’t going anywhere.
This decision was easy.
Just shy of the
one-year
anniversary of his celebrated
homecoming, James
agreed to terms on a
one-year, $23 million
contract, two people
familiar with the negotiations told the
Associated Press on
Thursday.
The deal includes a
James
$24 million player option for 2016-17, said
the people who spoke on condition of anonymity because James has not yet signed
the contract.
That will be done soon enough as the
four-time MVP has a busy schedule over
the next few weeks to promote a new comedy film in which he portrays himself.
James is hosting a VIP screening for
family and friends in Akron on Friday,
where he’ll walk the red carpet with the
other stars of “Trainwreck,” an R-rated
movie he filmed last summer shortly
after announcing he was returning to the
Cavs.
TONY D EJAK /AP
A fan poses for a photo in front of a billboard featuring Cleveland Cavaliers forward
LeBron James before Game 3 of basketball’s NBA Finals in Cleveland. Two people
familiar with the negotiations say LeBron James has agreed to a one-year, $23 million
contract with the Cavaliers for next season. The deal includes a player option for
2016-17.
Unlike last July 11, when his essay in
Sports Illustrated touched Cleveland fans
and changed the NBA’s landscape, James
wasn’t the star attraction during this
summer’s free agency period.
DeAndre Jordan and others took care
of all the drama as James went on vacation in the Bahamas with close friends
Dwyane Wade, Chris Paul and Carmelo
Anthony.
James ended any suspense or speculation about his future with Cleveland by
saying several times during the past season that he intends to end his career with
the Cavs.
This is the first time since 2006 that
James will re-sign with a team. On two
previous occasions as a free agent he left
for another team, signing with Miami in
2010 and Cleveland in 2014.
With more experienced players and
perhaps a few new ones, there’s no reason
why the Cavs won’t be in the title chase
again. James’ skills have shown no signs
of erosion, and owner Dan Gilbert has
shown a willingness to shell out major
money to keep his biggest star surrounded with quality players.
And while his agreement with the Cavs
is not a surprise, it does give him future
flexibility and the ability to make more
money next summer when the league’s
new TV deal kicks in. The $24 billion
package is expected to escalate the salary
cap by millions.
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Lakers officially trade for 2-time All-Star Hibbert
LOS ANGELES — After striking out in free agency, the Los
Angeles Lakers needed a big
man. The Indiana Pacers had
one to spare, and he already loves
Hollywood.
The Lakers acquired Roy Hibbert on Thursday in exchange for
a future second-round draft pick,
formally ending the two-time AllStar center’s seven-year tenure in
Indiana.
The Lakers welcomed Hibbert into their ample salary cap
space after failing to interest
the NBA’s biggest free agents,
including LaMarcus Aldridge,
DeAndre Jordan and Greg Monroe. Los Angeles is coming off
the worst season in the 16-time
champion franchise’s history,
and Hibbert could be a stopgap in
its rebuilding or a piece of a new
foundation.
“We’re happy to add a veteran
big man to the roster,” Lakers
general manager Mitch Kupchak
said. “Roy is a proven All-Star
center that will help improve
our front line. In addition, he is
a consummate professional, and
we look forward to having him on
the team.”
The Pacers dumped their 7foot-2 center and his $15.5 million
salary for the upcoming season
after Hibbert spent his entire
career with Indiana, averaging
11.1 points, 6.8 rebounds and
1.9 blocked shots while reaching
two Eastern Conference finals.
He was an All-Star in 2012 and
2014.
AJ M AST/AP
After striking out in free agency, the Los Angeles Lakers needed
a big man. They found their man in former two-time All-Star Roy
Hibbert, acquiring the defensive stalewart from the Indiana Pacers in
exchange for a future second-round draft pick.
Hibbert is among the NBA’s
top defensive centers, but the
Queens native’s offensive game
has foundered at times despite
numbers that are roughly comparable to his best seasons. He has
never averaged more than 12.8
points per game, and he put up
10.6 points and 7.1 rebounds per
game last season while making
44.6 percent of his shots.
Hibbert likely will get as much
playing time as he can handle
with the Lakers, who are still assembling a roster around Kobe
Bryant. Backup center Robert
Sacre is the Lakers’ second longest-tenured player, while big
men Jordan Hill and Carlos
Boozer are still unsigned.
The trade highlighted a busy
day for the Lakers, who also formally signed guard Lou Williams
to his three-year, $21 million contract and inked deals with veteran forward Brandon Bass and
second-round draft pick Anthony
Brown.
In other NBA news:
The Portland Trail Blazers
are forcing the Oklahoma City
Thunder to make a big decision
with center Enes Kanter.
The Blazers have signed Kanter to a four-year, $70 million offer
sheet, a person with direct knowledge of the situation told The Associated Press.
Kanter is a restricted free
agent, which leaves the Thunder three days to decide whether
they will match the offer and retain their big man or let him go to
Portland.
The deal puts pressure on the
Thunder, who face the prospect
of star forward Kevin Durant’s
free agency in 2016. There is
pressure on Presti to surround
Durant with the talent necessary
to compete in the powerful Western Conference and convince
their centerpiece to remain in
Oklahoma City for the long term.
But matching the massive
offer will push the small-market
Thunder well over the luxury tax
line and send the total payroll
skyrocketing past $120 million.
That’s a big number for a franchise that let star guard James
Harden leave in part because of
the costs it would have incurred
to retain him, but Presti told The
Oklahoman that they fully intended to match.
“Enes expressed his desire
to be a part of the Thunder in
our meeting with him yesterday
and we have planned in advance
should he receive an offer such as
the one that has been reported,”
Presti told the newspaper.
The Mavericks have acquired center Zaza Pachulia from
Milwaukee in a move for a potential starter after missing out on
DeAndre Jordan in free agency.
Dallas sent a future secondround pick to the Bucks on
Thursday for the 31-year-old veteran from the Republic of Georgia. Pachulia started 45 of his 73
games for Milwaukee last season,
averaging 8.3 points and 6.8 rebounds per game.
The 12-year veteran has 317
starts in 815 games, with career
averages of 7.0 points and 5.6
rebounds.
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American League
East Division
W
L
46
39
43
42
44
44
43
45
41
45
Central Division
Kansas City
50
33
Minnesota
46
40
Detroit
44
41
Cleveland
41
44
Chicago
39
44
West Division
Houston
49
39
Los Angeles
46
39
Texas
41
44
Seattle
40
46
Oakland
39
49
New York
Baltimore
Toronto
Tampa Bay
Boston
Tigers 4, Twins 2
Detroit
Pct GB
.541 —
.506 3
.500 3½
.489 4½
.477 5½
ab r h bi
Dozier 2b
4 1 0 0
Mauer 1b 4 0 1 0
Plouffe 3b 4 1 1 1
Sano dh
4 0 0 0
TrHntr rf
3 0 1 1
Nunez ss
4 0 1 0
Hicks cf
3 0 1 0
KSuzuk c
3 0 1 0
DaSntn pr 0 0 0 0
SRonsn lf 3 0 0 0
ERosar ph 1 0 0 0
Totals
33 4 9 4 Totals
33 2 6 2
Detroit
100 001 020—4
Minnesota
000 020 000—2
E—Castellanos (5). DP—Minnesota 2.
LOB—Detroit 2, Minnesota 8. 2B—Kinsler
(18), Cespedes (26), Gose (13). HR—Kinsler (3). S—K.Suzuki.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Detroit
Price W,9-2
8
5
2
0
3 8
Soria S,20-22
1
1
0
0
0 0
Minnesota
8
4
4
0 4
Pelfrey L,5-6
72⁄3
2
⁄3
1
0
0
0 0
Boyer
2
⁄3
0
0
0
0 0
O’Rourke
WP—Price
2.
T—3:01.
A—29,724
(39,021).
.602 —
.535 5½
.518 7
.482 10
.470 11
.557 —
.541 1½
.482 6½
.465 8
.443 10
National League
East Division
W
L
Pct GB
Washington
46
38
.548 —
New York
44
42
.512 3
Atlanta
42
44
.488 5
Miami
36
50
.419 11
Philadelphia
29
59
.330 19
Central Division
St. Louis
56
30
.651 —
Pittsburgh
50
35
.588 5½
Chicago
46
38
.548 9
Cincinnati
38
45
.458 16½
Milwaukee
37
50
.425 19½
West Division
Los Angeles
49
38
.563 —
San Francisco
43
43
.500 5½
Arizona
42
42
.500 5½
San Diego
39
48
.448 10
Colorado
36
49
.424 12
Wednesday’s games
Minnesota 5, Baltimore 3
Detroit 5, Seattle 4
N.Y. Yankees 5, Oakland 4
Cleveland 4, Houston 2
Kansas City 9, Tampa Bay 7
Chicago White Sox 7, Toronto 6, 11 innings
Milwaukee 6, Atlanta 5
N.Y. Mets 4, San Francisco 1
Pittsburgh 5, San Diego 2
Cincinnati at Washington, ppd., rain
Boston 6, Miami 3
Arizona 7, Texas 4
St. Louis 6, Chicago Cubs 5
L.A. Angels 3, Colorado 2
L.A. Dodgers 5, Philadelphia 0
Thursday’s games
N.Y. Yankees 6, Oakland 2
Kansas City 8, Tampa Bay 3
Chicago White Sox 2, Toronto 0
Cleveland 3, Houston 1
Detroit 4, Minnesota 2
Seattle 7, L.A. Angels 2
St. Louis 4, Pittsburgh 1
Miami 2, Cincinnati 0
Colorado 5, Atlanta 3
L.A. Dodgers 6, Philadelphia 0
Friday’s games
Houston at Tampa Bay
N.Y. Yankees at Boston
Oakland at Cleveland
Detroit at Minnesota
Toronto at Kansas City
L.A. Angels at Seattle
Chicago White Sox at Chicago Cubs
St. Louis at Pittsburgh
Washington at Baltimore
Arizona at N.Y. Mets
Cincinnati at Miami
San Diego at Texas
Atlanta at Colorado
Milwaukee at L.A. Dodgers
Philadelphia at San Francisco
Saturday’s games
Toronto (Buehrle 9-5) at Kansas City
(C.Young 7-4)
Detroit (Simon 8-5) at Minnesota
(P.Hughes 7-6)
Houston (Keuchel 11-3) at Tampa Bay
(Odorizzi 4-5)
Oakland (Bassitt 0-2) at Cleveland
(Carrasco 10-7)
N.Y. Yankees (Nova 1-2) at Boston
(E.Rodriguez 4-2)
L.A. Angels (C.Wilson 7-6) at Seattle
(Iwakuma 0-1)
Chicago White Sox (Sale 7-4) at Chicago Cubs (Lester 4-7)
Arizona (Corbin 1-0) at N.Y. Mets (Harvey 7-6)
Atlanta (Wisler 3-1) at Colorado (J.De
La Rosa 6-3)
Cincinnati (DeSclafani 5-6) at Miami
(Latos 3-6)
St. Louis (Lackey 7-5) at Pittsburgh
(Burnett 7-3)
Washington (Zimmermann 7-5) at Baltimore (Mi.Gonzalez 7-5)
San Diego (Shields 7-3) at Texas (Lewis 8-4)
Philadelphia (D.Buchanan 0-5) at San
Francisco (Vogelsong 6-6)
Milwaukee (Jungmann 3-1) at L.A.
Dodgers (Undecided)
Sunday’s games
Houston (McCullers 4-2) at Tampa Bay
(M.Moore 0-0)
Oakland (Gray 9-3) at Cleveland (Kluber 4-9)
N.Y. Yankees (Eovaldi 8-2) at Boston
(Miley 8-7)
Detroit (Greene 4-6) at Minnesota
(Gibson 7-6)
Toronto (Doubront 1-0) at Kansas City
(Volquez 8-4)
L.A. Angels (Heaney 2-0) at Seattle
(T.Walker 7-6)
Arizona (R.De La Rosa 6-4) at N.Y. Mets
(Niese 4-8)
Cincinnati (Cueto 6-5) at Miami (Haren 6-5)
Washington (Fister 3-4) at Baltimore
(W.Chen 4-4)
Chicago White Sox (Quintana 4-8) at
Chicago Cubs (Arrieta 9-5)
San Diego (T.Ross 5-7) at Texas (Gallardo 7-7)
Philadelphia (Billingsley 1-2) at San
Francisco (Heston 8-5)
Atlanta (Banuelos 1-0) at Colorado
(Bettis 4-4)
Milwaukee (Lohse 5-10) at L.A. Dodgers (B.Anderson 5-5)
St. Louis (Cooney 0-0) at Pittsburgh
(Liriano 5-6)
Minnesota
Kinsler 2b
Cespds lf
VMrtnz dh
JMrtnz rf
Avila c
Cstllns 3b
Romine 3b
Krauss 1b
Gose cf
JIglesis ss
ab
4
4
4
4
4
3
1
3
3
3
r
2
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
2
0
h
2
2
0
0
1
0
0
1
2
1
bi
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Indians 3, Astros 1
Houston
JEFF H AYNES/AP
White Sox left fielder Melky Cabrera, right, Blue Jays catcher Russell Martin, center, and umpire Chad
Fairchild watch Cabrera’s solo home run during the sixth inning of Thursday’s game in Chicago.
Thursday
Yankees 6, Athletics 2
Oakland
New York
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Burns cf
4 0 0 0 Ellsury cf 4 1 1 2
Vogt c
4 0 0 0 Gardnr lf
5 1 3 1
Zobrist 2b
4 0 0 0 Teixeir dh 4 0 1 1
Reddck rf
3 1 1 0 BMcCn c
3 0 0 0
BButler dh 4 1 1 1 GJones 1b 4 0 0 0
I.Davis 1b
2 0 0 0 Gregrs ss 3 0 0 0
Lawrie 3b
3 0 0 0 CYoung rf 3 1 0 0
Canha lf
3 0 1 1 Drew 2b
3 1 1 0
Semien ss
3 0 0 0 Figuero 3b 4 2 2 0
Totals
30 2 3 2 Totals
33 6 8 4
Oakland
020 000 000—2
New York
101 200 02x—6
E—Semien (28), B.McCann (3). DP—
New York 1. LOB—Oakland 3, New York
8. 2B—B.Butler (16), Canha (8), Figueroa
2 (2). HR—Gardner (10).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Oakland
Chavez L,4-9
5
7
4
4
3 3
Abad
1
0
0
0
0 1
O’Flaherty
1
0
0
0
1 1
Fe.Rodriguez
1
1
2
0
1 2
New York
2
2
1
1 6
Tanaka W,5-3
72⁄3
Shreve H,6
1
1
0
0
0 0
1
⁄3
0
0
0
0 1
Warren
WP—Tanaka.
T—2:55.
A—40,084
(49,638).
Cardinals 4, Pirates 1
St. Louis
Pittsburgh
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Bourjos cf
4 1 0 0 GPolnc rf
3 0 1 0
MCrpnt 2b-3b 4 1 2 2 NWalkr 2b 4 0 1 0
JhPerlt ss
4 0 0 0 Caminr p
0 0 0 0
Heywrd rf
2 0 0 0 McCtch cf 4 1 1 1
Molina c
4 0 2 2 Kang 3b
3 0 0 0
Rynlds 3b-1b 3 0 0 0 Cervelli c 4 0 1 0
Maness p
0 0 0 0 PAlvrz 1b
4 0 0 0
Rosnthl p
0 0 0 0 Mercer ss 3 0 0 0
Grichk lf
4 1 1 0 SRdrgz lf-2b 2 0 0 0
Scrggs 1b
2 1 0 0 Locke p
0 0 0 0
Wong ph-2b 1 0 1 0 Lmrdzz ph 1 0 0 0
CMrtnz p
2 0 0 0 Worley p
0 0 0 0
Choate p
0 0 0 0 Ishikaw ph-lf 1 0 1 0
DJhnsn 1b
1 0 0 0
Totals
31 4 6 4 Totals
29 1 5 1
St. Louis
000 040 000—4
Pittsburgh
000 000 001—1
E—Mercer (5). DP—St. Louis 2, Pittsburgh 1. LOB—St. Louis 6, Pittsburgh 5.
2B—G.Polanco (15), Ishikawa (1). HR—
McCutchen (11). SB—Molina (1). CS—
Grichuk (1). S—C.Martinez, Locke.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
St. Louis
4
0
0
2 8
C.Martinez W,10-3
71⁄3
1
⁄3
0
0
0
0 0
Choate
1
⁄3
1
1
1
0 0
Maness
Rosenthal S,26-27
1
0
0
0
0 2
Pittsburgh
Locke L,5-5
5
5
4
1
3 5
Worley
3
1
0
0
0 2
Caminero
1
0
0
0
0 2
Maness pitched to 1 batter in the
9th. HBP—by C.Martinez (Kang), by
Locke (Bourjos), by Caminero (Wong).
WP—C.Martinez. T—2:52 (Delay: 0:36).
A—35,183 (38,362).
Royals 8, Rays 3
Tampa Bay
Kansas City
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Jaso lf
4 0 1 1 AEscor ss 5 1 1 0
Sizemr rf
4 0 0 1 Hosmer 1b 4 2 2 1
Longori 3b 4 0 2 0 L.Cain cf
3 2 1 2
Loney 1b
3 0 0 0 Orland lf
0 0 0 0
Forsyth 2b 4 0 0 0 KMorls dh 3 0 1 1
DeJess dh
2 1 1 0 S.Perez c
4 1 1 2
JButler ph-dh 0 0 0 0 Infante 2b 4 1 1 0
ACarer ss
4 1 1 0 Rios rf
4 1 2 0
Kiermr cf
3 1 1 0 Cuthert 3b 4 0 2 2
Rivera c
3 0 0 1 JDyson lf-cf 4 0 2 0
Totals
31 3 6 3 Totals
35 8 13 8
Tampa Bay
000 030 000—3
Kansas City
310 030 01x—8
E—Cuthbert (1). DP—Kansas City 1.
LOB—Tampa Bay 8, Kansas City 5. 2B—
A.Cabrera (15), Kiermaier (17), Hosmer
(16), K.Morales (23). 3B—Cuthbert (1).
HR—L.Cain (8), S.Perez (14). SB—L.Cain
(17), J.Dyson (11). SF—Jaso, Sizemore,
K.Morales.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Tampa Bay
Karns L,4-5
6
9
7
7
0 5
Geltz
1
0
0
0
0 1
Colome
1
4
1
1
0 0
Kansas City
Ventura W,4-6
5
4
3
3
3 4
Finnegan
1
1
0
0
1 2
Madson
1
1
0
0
0 0
Hochevar
1
0
0
0
1 0
K.Herrera
1
0
0
0
0 0
HBP—by Karns (L.Cain). WP—Karns,
Ventura. T—2:57. A—32,308 (37,903).
Mariners 7, Angels 2
Los Angeles
Seattle
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Giavtll 2b
4 0 0 0 Morrsn 1b 5 2 1 1
Calhon rf
5 1 2 1 Cano 2b
5 1 2 1
Trout cf
4 0 1 0 N.Cruz dh 5 0 3 1
Pujols 1b
4 0 0 0 Seager 3b 4 0 3 0
Aybar ss
4 1 2 0 S.Smith lf 5 1 2 1
Joyce lf
3 0 1 0 Ackley cf
5 2 2 0
Cron dh
3 0 2 0 Trumo rf
2 0 2 0
C.Perez c
3 0 0 0 Gutirrz pr-rf 1 0 1 0
Fthrstn 3b
2 0 0 0 BMiller ss 3 1 1 1
ENavrr ph
1 0 0 0 Zunino c
2 0 2 2
Freese 3b
1 0 0 1
Totals
34 2 8 2 Totals
37 7 19 7
Los Angeles
000 000 011—2
Seattle
110 200 03x—7
E—Freese (5). DP—Los Angeles 1.
LOB—Los Angeles 9, Seattle 11. 2B—Calhoun (15), Cano (22), Trumbo (3). HR—
Calhoun (10), Morrison (12). S—Zunino.
SF—B.Miller, Zunino.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Los Angeles
Richards L,9-6
51⁄3 12
4
4
1 3
C.Ramos
12⁄3
2
0
0
0 0
1
⁄3
2
2
2
0 0
Morin
2
J.Alvarez
⁄3
3
1
1
1 0
Seattle
F.Hernandez W,11-5 7
5
0
0
2 6
Rodney
1
1
1
1
0 0
1
⁄3
1
1
1
0 1
Nuno
1
Farquhar
⁄3
1
0
0
2 0
1
Ca.Smith S,6-7
⁄3
0
0
0
0 0
WP—Richards. PB—C.Perez. T—3:14.
A—28,131 (47,574).
Rockies 5, Braves 3
Atlanta
Colorado
ab r h bi
Blckmn cf 5 0 2 0
Arenad 3b 5 1 3 0
Tlwtzk ss 3 0 1 1
Descals pr-ss 0 0 0 0
WRosr 1b 5 1 1 1
CGnzlz rf
4 1 3 1
LeMahi 2b 4 0 2 0
Hundly c
4 0 2 1
Stubbs lf
3 1 1 1
Kndrck p
0 0 0 0
Hale p
1 1 1 0
Fridrch p
1 0 0 0
Oberg p
0 0 0 0
Paulsn ph 1 0 0 0
Logan p
0 0 0 0
Betncrt p 0 0 0 0
BBarns ph 1 0 0 0
Kahnle p
0 0 0 0
Axford p
0 0 0 0
Totals
34 3 10 3 Totals
37 5 16 5
Atlanta
000 030 000—3
Colorado
220 010 00x—5
E—Axford (1). DP—Atlanta 2, Colorado 2. LOB—Atlanta 7, Colorado 11.
2B—J.Peterson (14), C.Johnson (6), Arenado (20), W.Rosario (10), Ca.Gonzalez
3 (16), Hundley (15). HR—Stubbs (4). S—
Brigham. SF—Maybin, Tulowitzki.
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Atlanta
A.Wood
0
0
0
0
0 0
Brigham L,0-1
4
10
4
4
1 1
Foltynewicz
2
3
1
1
0 4
D.Carpenter
1
2
0
0
0 1
Aardsma
1
1
0
0
1 1
Colorado
K.Kendrick
1
1
0
0
0 0
1
0
0
0 0
Hale W,3-4
12⁄3
Friedrich
12⁄3
5
3
3
1 0
2
⁄3
0
0
0
0 1
Oberg
2
⁄3
1
0
0
0 2
Logan H,15
1
Betancourt H,8
1 ⁄3
2
0
0
0 3
Kahnle H,6
1
0
0
0
0 1
Axford S,15-16
1
0
0
0
0 2
T—3:13
(Delay:
2:06).
A—30,334
(50,398).
JPetrsn 2b
Maybin cf
Markks rf
KJhnsn lf
Uribe 3b
Przyns c
CJhnsn 1b
ASmns ss
A.Wood p
Brighm p
JGoms ph
Fltynw p
EPerez ph
DCrpnt p
Ardsm p
Ciriaco ph
ab
5
3
4
4
4
4
4
4
0
0
0
0
1
0
0
1
r
0
0
0
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
1
0
0
0
0
0
h
2
1
1
2
0
0
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
bi
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
White Sox 2, Blue Jays 0
Toronto
Chicago
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Travis 2b
4 0 2 0 Eaton cf
4 1 1 0
Dnldsn 3b
4 0 0 0 Abreu dh
4 0 2 0
Bautist rf
4 0 0 0 MeCarr lf 4 1 1 1
Smoak 1b
3 0 0 0 LaRoch 1b 4 0 0 0
RuMrtn c
3 0 1 0 AvGarc rf 3 0 0 0
DNavrr dh
3 0 0 0 Gillaspi 3b 3 0 0 0
Pillar cf
3 0 0 0 Soto c
1 0 1 0
Carrer lf
3 0 0 0 CSnchz 2b 3 0 0 0
Goins ss
2 0 1 0 GBckh ss
3 0 0 0
Totals
29 0 4 0 Totals
29 2 5 1
Toronto
000 000 000—0
Chicago
000 002 00x—2
E—Smoak (1). DP—Toronto 1, Chicago
2. LOB—Toronto 3, Chicago 5. 3B—Eaton
(7). HR—Me.Cabrera (4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Toronto
Dickey L,3-10
7
4
2
2
2 6
Tepera
1
1
0
0
0 1
Chicago
Samardzija W,6-4
9
4
0
0
1 5
WP—Tepera. PB—Ru.Martin 2. T—2:15.
A—23,298 (40,615).
Cleveland
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Altuve 2b
4 0 1 0 Kipnis 2b
4 0 0 0
Tucker rf
3 0 0 0 Lindor ss
4 1 2 1
Correa ss
4 0 1 0 Brantly cf-lf 4 1 2 0
Valuen 3b
3 0 0 0 Raburn dh 3 1 2 1
Presley pr
0 0 0 0 Moss ph-dh 1 0 0 0
Gattis dh
4 0 0 0 CSantn 1b 3 0 2 1
ClRsms lf
3 0 1 0 YGoms c
4 0 1 0
Conger c
3 1 1 1 DvMrp rf
3 0 0 0
Singltn 1b
1 0 0 0 Urshela 3b 3 0 0 0
MGnzlz ph-1b1 0 0 0 Aviles lf
3 0 0 0
Mrsnck cf
3 0 0 0 Bourn cf
0 0 0 0
Totals
29 1 4 1 Totals
32 3 9 3
Houston
001 000 000—1
Cleveland
000 003 00x—3
DP—Houston 1, Cleveland 1. LOB—
Houston 4, Cleveland 7. 2B—Brantley (24),
Raburn (13). 3B—C.Santana (1). HR—Conger (5), Lindor (2). CS—Tucker (1).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Houston
Oberholtzer L,2-2
5
7
3
3
1 3
J.Fields
1
1
0
0
1 1
Sipp
1
0
0
0
0 0
Gregerson
1
1
0
0
0 0
Cleveland
2
3
1
1
2 1
Co.Anderson W,2-1 6 ⁄3
2
⁄3
0
0
0
0 1
Rzepczynski H,12
2
⁄3
0
0
0
0 0
B.Shaw H,11
Allen S,18-19
1
1
0
0
1 0
Oberholtzer pitched to 3 batters in the
6th. T—2:49. A—11,496 (36,856).
Marlins 2, Reds 0
Cincinnati
Miami
ab r h bi
DGordn 2b 3 2 2 0
Yelich cf-lf 3 0 0 0
Hchvrr ss 3 0 1 0
Bour 1b
3 0 1 1
Morse lf
2 0 0 0
Capps p
0 0 0 0
Rojas ph-3b 1 0 0 0
Dietrch 3b 2 0 1 0
ARams p
0 0 0 0
Gillespi rf-cf 3 0 0 0
Mathis c
3 0 0 0
Frnndz p
2 0 0 0
ISuzuki ph-rf 1 0 0 0
Totals
32 0 7 0 Totals
26 2 5 1
Cincinnati
000 000 000—0
Miami
100 010 00x—2
DP—Cincinnati 2, Miami 2. LOB—Cincinnati 5, Miami 6. 2B—Votto (15), Byrd
(8), Bour (6), Dietrich (4). SB—D.Gordon 3
(33). CS—D.Gordon (12).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Cincinnati
Lorenzen L,3-4
6
5
2
2
4 5
Badenhop
1
0
0
0
0 0
Mattheus
1
0
0
0
1 1
Miami
Fernandez W,2-0
7
6
0
0
0 9
Capps H,7
1
0
0
0
0 1
A.Ramos S,14-17
1
1
0
0
0 1
HBP—by Lorenzen (Dietrich). T—2:31.
A—25,027 (37,442).
Phillips 2b
Votto 1b
Frazier 3b
Bruce rf
Byrd lf
Suarez ss
Brnhrt c
Lornzn p
Badnhp p
Schmkr ph
Matths p
BHmltn cf
ab
4
4
4
4
4
3
3
2
0
1
0
3
r
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
h
1
1
1
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
1
bi
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
Dodgers 6, Phillies 0
Philadelphia
Los Angeles
ab r h bi
ab r h bi
Revere cf
4 0 1 0 Pedrsn cf 3 0 0 0
CHrndz 2b
4 0 0 0 HKndrc 2b 4 1 1 0
Franco 3b
3 0 0 0 AGnzlz 1b 4 1 1 2
Howard 1b 3 0 1 0 Grandl c
3 2 1 0
Asche lf
3 0 0 0 Ethier lf
1 1 1 0
DBrwn rf
3 0 0 0 VnSlyk lf
1 0 0 0
Galvis ss
3 0 0 0 Puig rf
4 1 2 4
Rupp c
3 0 0 0 JRollns ss 3 0 1 0
SGonzlz p
2 0 0 0 Callasp 3b 4 0 0 0
Araujo p
0 0 0 0 Greink p
3 0 0 0
Neris p
0 0 0 0 Guerrr ph 1 0 0 0
OHerrr ph
1 0 0 0 JoPerlt p
0 0 0 0
Totals
29 0 2 0 Totals
31 6 7 6
Philadelphia
000 000 000—0
Los Angeles
000 202 02x—6
LOB—Philadelphia 2, Los Angeles
6. 2B—Puig (11), J.Rollins (12). HR—
A.Gonzalez (17), Puig (4).
IP
H
R ER BB SO
Philadelphia
5
4
4
2 3
S.Gonzalez L,3-3
52⁄3
1
1
1
1 1
Araujo
11⁄3
Neris
1
1
1
1
1 1
Los Angeles
Greinke W,8-2
8
1
0
0
0 8
Jo.Peralta
1
1
0
0
0 1
Araujo pitched to 1 batter in the 8th.
HBP—by S.Gonzalez (Ethier). T—2:14.
A—41,290 (56,000).
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MLB
Cardinals win, extend lead over Pirates
St. Louis goes 5 ½ games up in
NL Central; Martinez improves to
7-1 with 1.20 ERA in last 10 starts
BY JOHN PERROTTO
PITTSBURGH — Now, it’s up
to the fans.
Carlos Martinez made his
case for inclusion on the National
League All-Star team by pitching
7 1 ⁄3 scoreless innings Thursday
night, and the St. Louis Cardinals beat the Pittsburgh Pirates
4-1 in a matchup between the
teams with the best records in
the major leagues.
Martinez (10-3) scattered four
hits while striking out five and
walking three in improving to 71 with a 1.20 ERA in his last 10
starts.
The right-hander is one of the
five players contending for the
NL’s All-Star Final Vote. Fan
voting ends Friday afternoon and
the game will be played Tuesday
at Cincinnati.
“It’s off Carlos’ shoulders,”
Cardinals manager Mike Mathney said. “Hopefully, he gets in.
He’s very deserving, as are the
other four guys on the ballot.”
St. Louis (56-31) opened a 5 ½game lead on the Pirates in the
NL Central. Pittsburgh (50-35)
had its five-game winning streak
snapped in the opener of a fourgame series.
That was Martinez’s main
concern.
“The All-Star Game would
be nice but I just wanted to go
out and pitch as long as I could
to help the team win the game,”
Martinez said. “That’s my job.”
Martinez did his job well.
“You can see his confidence
keep growing and growing because he is getting better every
time out,” St. Louis catcher
Yadier Molina said. “When he is
throwing his fastball at 99 (mph)
and his slider for strikes, too,
he’s tough for anybody to hit.”
The Cardinals did their scoring in the fifth inning on tworun singles by Matt Carpenter
— with one out — and Molina an
out later. Both hits were off Jeff
Locke (5-5). Only one of the runs
was earned because shortstop
Jordy Mercer booted pinch-hitter Kolten Wong’s grounder for
an error with none out.
Carpenter and Molina finished
with two hits each.
Andrew McCutchen kept the
Pirates from being shut out as he
hit a 443-foot home run, his 11th,
to center field off Seth Maness
K EITH SRAKOCIC /AP
St. Louis Cardinals starting pitcher Carlos Martinez throws against the Pittsburgh Pirates during the first
inning of Thursday’s game in Pittsburgh.
to lead off the ninth inning. That
extended his career-best hitting
streak to 16 games.
“Martinez was working the
zone, was throwing all his pitches for strikes,” McCutchen said.
“We didn’t square many balls up
against him, that’s for sure.”
Trevor Rosenthal retired the
next three hitters for his 26th
save in 27 opportunities.
Locke was pulled for a pinch
hitter in the bottom of the fifth.
He allowed five hits, struck out
five and walked three after giving up two earned runs or fewer
in each of his previous five
starts.
“In that fifth inning, I didn’t
execute my pitches,” Locke
said. “This is a good team we’re
playing. You have to be able to
execute if you’re going to beat
them.”
Roundup
Miami’s Fernandez improves
mark to 14-0 at Marlins Park
DAVID SANTIAGO, EL NUEVO HERALD/AP
Miami Marlins pitcher Jose Fernandez pitched seven innings
Thursday and tied the modern record for most consecutive home
victories by a starter to begin a career, helping Miami beat the Reds
2-0. Fernandez improved to 14-0 in 22 career starts at Marlins Park.
MIAMI — Jose Fernandez
pitched seven innings and tied
the modern record for most
consecutive home victories by a
starter to begin a career, helping
the Miami Marlins beat the Cincinnati Reds 2-0 Thursday.
Fernandez won for the second
time in two outings since his return from Tommy John surgery.
He allowed six hits, struck out
nine and improved to 14-0 in 22
career starts at Marlins Park.
The only other pitcher since
1914 to win his first 14 home decisions as a starter was Johnny
Allen of the Yankees in 1932-33,
according to STATS. Fernandez
lowered his ERA at home to 1.17.
All-Star Dee Gordon stole
three bases, scored both runs
and broke the Marlins record
for hits before the All-Star break
with 119. Miami snapped a fourgame losing streak.
Dodgers 6, Phillies 0: Zack
Greinke allowed one hit in
eight innings, extending his
career-high scoreless streak
to 35 2 ⁄3 innings and lowering
his major league-best ERA to
1.39 in the victory over visiting
Philadelphia.
Adrian Gonzalez hit a two-run
homer and Yasiel Puig ended an
RBI drought of 51 at-bats with a
two-run homer and two-run double for the NL West leaders.
Greinke (8-2) struck out eight,
walked none and retired his final
21 batters after giving up a leadoff single in the second by Ryan
Howard. Greinke hasn’t allowed
a run since June 13 at San Diego.
Royals 8, Rays 3: Lorenzo
Cain and Salvador Perez hit tworun homers, Yordano Ventura
went five innings in his return
from the disabled list, and Kansas City beat visiting Tampa Bay
to finish off a four-game sweep.
Ventura (4-6) allowed three
runs and four hits and three
walks, striking out four. It was
his first start since June 12,
when an elbow condition began
causing numbness in his hand.
White Sox 2, Blue Jays 0:
Jeff Samardzija had a four-hitter,
Melky Cabrera homered and host
Chicago shut out Toronto.
Samardzija (6-4) took a no-hitter into the sixth inning for a second straight game. It was his first
complete game of the season.
Yankees 6, Athletics 2: Masahiro Tanaka allowed two hits
over 7 2 ⁄3 innings, Brett Gardner
hit a first-inning home run and
learned midgame he had been
picked for his first All-Star team,
and New York rallied past visiting Oakland.
Tigers 4, Twins 2: Ian Kinsler
had a leadoff homer, a double and
three RBIs to back David Price’s
eight innings as Detroit beat host
Minnesota.
Indians 3, Astros 1: Rookie
right-hander Cody Anderson
pitched three-hit ball into the
seventh inning against visiting
Houston, his latest splendid performance for Cleveland.
Mariners 7, Angels 2: Felix
Hernandez threw seven shutout
innings to become the third pitcher with at least 11 wins before the
All-Star break, Logan Morrison
hit the first leadoff home run of
his career and host Seattle beat
Los Angeles.
Rockies 5, Braves 3: Carlos
Gonzalez hit three doubles, Nolan
Arenado had three hits for the
second consecutive night and Colorado beat Atlanta at rain-soaked
Coors Field.
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McDonald faces four charges
Former San Francisco DT accused of felony false imprisonment
BY SUDHIN THANAWALA
SAN FRANCISCO — Former San Francisco 49er defensive tackle Ray McDonald
was charged with domestic violence and
false imprisonment in connection with allegations he assaulted his ex-fiancée while
she held their 2-month-old child, prosecutors said Thursday.
McDonald was also charged with child
endangerment and violating a court order,
the Santa Clara County district attorney’s
office said. The false imprisonment charge
is a felony while the other counts are
misdemeanors.
He was arraigned on Thursday but did
not enter a plea. He is due back in court in
August.
Calls to McDonald’s attorney, Steve Defilippis, were not immediately returned.
Prosecutors said police responded to a
domestic disturbance at a home around 4
a.m. on May 25 and found McDonald had
broken into the woman’s bedroom and assaulted her while his driver tried to stop
him and she tried to get away.
McDonald cornered the woman in a dining room and trapped her there before she
told investigators he chased her into a bathroom and repeatedly bumped her while
trying to grab her cellphone, according to
investigators. It continued in the bedroom,
where the woman said McDonald jabbed at
her head with a finger and tried to pull her
off the bed. Part of the incident was caught
on cellphone video the woman took.
McDonald eventually left the scene, but
then returned as police were interviewing
the woman, whom authorities haven’t identified, before his driver sped away, prosecutors said.
McDonald’s mom, LaBrina McDonald,
told KNTV in San Jose it was a “simple argument that got blown out of proportion,”
and the charges were “political.”
McDonald was arrested later that morn-
ing. He was arrested again two days later
when police and the woman arrived at the
home to find McDonald there in violation
of a restraining order, prosecutors said.
Defilippis told the San Jose Mercury
News at the time that neither he nor his client had been notified about the restraining
order.
Citing a pattern of behavior and off-field
issues, the 49ers released McDonald on
Dec. 17. He was released by the Chicago
Bears after his May 25 arrest.
The 49ers let McDonald go just a month
after Santa Clara County prosecutors declined to file charges against him in a
separate domestic violence investigation
stemming from an arrest on Aug. 31 while
celebrating his 30th birthday at his home.
Prosecutors cited conflicting versions of
what happened, a lack of verifiable eyewitnesses and a lack of cooperation by the alleged victim, McDonald’s then-fiancée, in
explaining their decision.
M ARCIO JOSE SANCHEZ /AP
Former San Francisco defensive
tackle Ray McDonald was charged
Thursday with domestic violence and
false imprisonment in connection with
allegations he assaulted his ex-fiancée
while she held their 2-month-old child.
QB: Lack of preparation didn’t seem to affect Stabler’s ability
FROM BACK PAGE
G EORGE BRICH /AP
Raiders quarterback Ken Stabler, right, talks with coach John Madden on Jan. 4, 1977 in Oakland, Calif. Stabler remained the
starter for the Raiders for more than seven seasons and threw for 27,938 yards over 15 seasons.
Stabler first showed his professional
chops in the game best known for the Immaculate Reception. Mostly forgotten was
his replacing starter Daryle Lamonica and
leading the Raiders to what seemed to be
the winning touchdown in the fourth quarter — until Franco Harris’ spectacular
catch and run won it for Pittsburgh.
Oakland lost two of its first three games
in the next season, 1973, scoring no touchdowns with Lamonica behind center. After
a loss to archrival Kansas City, Madden
gave Stabler a chance to show what he
could do in practice. Stabler did enough for
Madden to start him, and the Raiders beat
the Cardinals, and then won four straight
games after that.
Stabler remained the starter for more
than seven seasons, allegedly studying the
game plan by the light of a jukebox — if he
studied it at all. He prided himself on being
able to wing it, and few quarterbacks did it
better in the clutch.
But for all of his bravado, Stabler was not
a wild thrower. He was one of the most accurate passers of his time.
Stabler’s favorite songs were playing
when he died, from Lynyrd Skynyrd’s
“Sweet Home Alabama” to Van Morrison’s
“Leaves Falling Down,” the family said.
His brain and spinal cord were donated
to Boston University’s Chronic Traumatic
Encephalopathy Center to support research into degenerative brain disease
among athletes, according to the family.
“He was a kind, generous and unselfish
man, never turning down an autograph request or an opportunity to help someone
in need,” the family said. “A great quarterback, he was an even greater father to
his three girls, and grandfather to his two
‘grand snakes.’ ”
The Foley, Ala., native threw for 27,938
career yards over 15 seasons, which also
included stints with the Houston Oilers
and New Orleans Saints.
During his college career, Stabler led
Alabama to an undefeated 1966 season
and was chosen the Sugar Bowl MVP after
a 34-7 rout of Nebraska. He also ran for a
long touchdown on a rain-soaked field during the 1967 Iron Bowl to lead the Tide to a
7-3 win over Auburn.
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Federer returns to final for 10th time
Defending champ
Djokovic awaits
7-time winner
LONDON — Playing the kind
of untouchable tennis that has
brought him 17 Grand Slam titles,
Roger Federer beat Andy Murray
in straight sets Friday to reach
his 10th Wimbledon final and put
him within one victory of a record eighth championship at the
All England Club.
Riding a dominant serve that
produced 20 aces, keeping relentless pressure on Murray with his
returns and breaking at the end
of each set, Federer put on a supreme grass-court performance
to outclass his British rival 7-5,
7-5, 6-4.
The win sent Federer into his
26th Grand Slam final, where
he will face defending champion Novak Djokovic in Sunday’s
championship match. It will be a
repeat of last year’s final, which
Djokovic won in five sets.
If anyone thought the 33-yearold Federer was past his prime,
this match dispelled any of those
thoughts. The second-seeded
Swiss served as well as he ever
has, saving one break point in the
opening game of the match and
never facing another the rest of
the way.
Federer won 70 of 81 points on
K IRSTY WIGGLESWORTH /AP
Roger Federer returns a shot to Andy Murray during his 7-5, 7-5, 6-4 men’s singles semifinal win on Friday.
Scoreboard
Friday
PHOTOS
BY
A DRIAN D ENNIS/AP
Novak Djokovic, above, gestures during his men’s singles semifinal
victory over Richard Gasquet, below right, on Friday.
K IRSTY WIGGLESWORTH /AP
Andy Murray wipes his face with a towel during his men’s singles
semifinal match against Roger Federer at the All England Lawn
Tennis Championships in Wimbledon, London.
serve and, after the first game,
was taken to deuce only once on
serve. He piled up 56 winners and
had only 11 unforced errors, compared to 35 and 17 for Murray.
Federer, who ran his record in
Wimbledon semifinals to 10-0, is
the oldest man to reach the final
since Ken Rosewall finished runner-up in 1974 at the age of 39.
If he can beat Djokovic, Federer will become first man to win
eight Wimbledon titles. In 2012,
he tied Pete Sampras and 1880s
player William Renshaw with
seven.
Federer extended his career
record against Murray to 13-11,
including 5-1 in Grand Slams.
This was the first time they’ve
met here since 2012, when Federer beat Murray in the Wimbledon final and the Briton won
in straight sets a few weeks later
on Centre Court in the Olympic
final.
Djokovic advanced to the Wimbledon final for the fourth time.
The defending champion beat
Richard Gasquet 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-4
Friday on Centre Court to make
his way into the championship
match for the third straight year.
Djokovic handled Gasquet’s
fantastic backhand well enough to
keep the 21st-seeded Frenchman
from pulling off another upset.
Gasquet eliminated fourth-seeded Stan Wawrinka in the previous
round.
At The All England
Lawn Tennis & Croquet Club
London
Purse: $42.1 million (Grand Slam)
Surface: Grass-Outdoor
Singles
Men
Semifinals
Novak Djokovic (1), Serbia, def. Richard Gasquet (21), France, 7-6 (2), 6-4, 6-4.
Roger Federer (2), Switzerland, def.
Andy Murray (3), Britain, 7-5, 7-5, 6-4.
Doubles
Women
Semifinals
Martina Hingis, Switzerland, and Sania Mirza (1), India, def. Raquel KopsJones and Abigail Spears (5), United
States, 6-1, 6-2.
Ekaterina Makarova and Elena Vesnina (2), Russia, def. Timea Babos, Hungary, and Kristina Mladenovic (4), France,
6-3, 4-6, 6-4.
Mixed
Semifinals
Leander Paes, India, and Martina
Hingis (7), Switzerland, def. Mike Bryan
and Bethanie Mattek-Sands (1), United
States, 6-3, 6-4.
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Ken
Stabler
BEN M ARGOT/AP
Super Bowl-winning QB dead at 69
BY JOHN ZENOR
AP
A Snake wouldn’t seem to offer
much help on a football field.
Unless that snake was
named Stabler.
Ken Stabler, who led
the Oakland Raiders to
a Super Bowl victory and
was the NFL’s Most Valuable Player in 1974, has
died as a result of complications from colon cancer.
He was 69.
His family announced his
death on Stabler’s Facebook
page Thursday. The statement
said Stabler “passed peacefully” on Wednesday while surrounded by family, including
his three daughters and longtime partner,
who wasn’t named. Raiders owner Mark
Davis said the team,
which was informed
If I had
by the family, was
one drive to “deeply saddened
the passing of the
win a game by
great Ken Stabler.”
to this day,
“He was a cherand I had a ished member of the
family and
quarterback Raider
personified what it
to pick, I
means to be a Raidwould pick er,” Davis said in a
statement. “He wore
Kenny.
the silver and black
John Madden with pride and poise
Ex-Raiders coach and will continue to
live in the hearts of
Raider fans everywhere. Our sincerest
thoughts and prayers go out to Kenny’s
‘
’
family.”
The family’s statement said he was
diagnosed with Stage 4 colon cancer in
February.
Stabler’s coach with the Raiders, John
Madden, said his former quarterback was
cool under pressure.
“I’ve often said, if I had one drive to win
a game to this day, and I had a quarterback to pick, I would pick Kenny,” Madden said. “Snake was a lot cooler than I
was. He was a perfect quarterback and a
perfect Raider. When you think about the
Raiders you think about Ken Stabler.”
Stabler was a four-time Pro Bowl selection with the Raiders, leading the
franchise to consistent success during
the 1970s, including a 32-14 victory over
the Minnesota Vikings in the 1977 Super
Bowl.
SEE QB ON PAGE 30
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Crafton earns ninth career Truck Series victory
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