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ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

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February 4, 2014 • DAILY

inside: Always on watch and Legendary ground support

The First Line of Defense

Story and Photo by MCSA Matthew Young

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SS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) has a limited number of masters-at-arms and, on a ship home to more than 3,000 Sailors, Security needs a little help from the rest of the crew.

Masters-at-arms (MAs) form the core of TR’s Security force. Sailors assigned temporary duty to Security, round out and complete the force.

“No matter how many secret squirrel radios that you have or antennas you think you have, you still need a physical body out there,” said Master-at-Arms 2nd Class Natasha Gomez.

“We have 18 MAs aboard,” said Gomez. “While at sea, our security force is made up of 86 personnel, and while in port 180 personnel.”

Most personnel assigned to Security come from other departments and have no prior training. Sailors attend a threeweek course called Security Reaction Force Bravo that helps get them up to speed.

“We qualify in the M9, M16 and M240 (firearms),” said Operations Specialist 3rd Class Terese Clark. “You get a lot of qualifications that no one else on the ship can get.”

Security Reaction Force Bravo training class teaches lethal and non-lethal weapon fundamentals. Sailors also learn handto-hand combat skills, including take down techniques that immobilize a suspect.

“There’s also an advanced class they can send you to,” said Clark. “There they teach you basics on SWAT (Special Weapons and Tactics). You go through scenarios and use plastic pellets in your weapons to simulate live fire.”

Aviation Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class James Lindstead and Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Equipment) Amadou Dosso, TAD to Security, patrol the decks of TR.

In port, Security conducts roving watches and ID checks on both the ship and the pier.

“While we’re in port, we are very cautious about what is out there that can harm us as well,” said Gomez.

Masters-at-arms along with their TAD counterparts stand a watch, 24 hours a day, 365 days a year to keep our ship and shipmates safe.

Ground Support: Where it Starts

Story and Photo by MCSN Jenna Kaliszewski

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ith his coverall sleeves rolled up past his elbows, Aviation Support Equipment Technician (AS) 2nd Class Brett Kollemann, of USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (CVN 71) Aircraft Intermediate Maintenance department’s (AIMD) IM-4 division, bent over the engine compartment of a flight deck scrubber and reattached the fuel pump he had been working on all morning.

“I like taking stuff apart,” said Kollemann. “The hard part is putting it back together. But when it’s right and once it runs, you feel a sense of accomplishment.”

These ground support specialists are a critical cog in flight operations aboard TR. The AS slogan is, “There is no air support without ground support.”

“Our gear is necessary to getting the aircraft off the flight deck,” said Aviation Support Equipment Technician Airman Apprentice Paul Stark. “The planes are not going to go up in the air unless we’re squared away on the ground.”

The Navy carved the AS rate from the Aviation Boatswain’s Mate (Handling) rate Feb. 24, 1966, because of a need for greater expertise in aviation maintenance equipment.

“When this rate was first established, we were broken down into aviation support electricians, aviation support mechanics and aviation support hydraulics. We were merged into one rate again in 1980,” said Aviation Support Equipment Technician 1st Class Joshua Holcomb.

These technicians use their vast skill set to keep TR’s planes flying and to maintain critical aviation life support and lifesaving equipment.

“We’re a jack-of-all-trades and a master of none,” said Holcomb. “We learn everything from hydraulics, air conditioning systems and engines, as well as how to read

Aviation Support Equipment Technician 2nd Class Brett Kollemann works on the engine of a flight deck scrubber in TR’s hangar bay.

electrical schematics. We maintain about 1,600 pieces of gear, from the P25 fire trucks to the oxygen supplied to the pilots.”

The tightly knit AS community works together to keep their skills up to date in an environment with rapidly advancing technology.

“Everything we work on is catching up with technology,” said Chief Aviation Support Equipment Technician Jorge Hodgson. “An old era AS took the engine out, took the transmission out and rebuilt it and put it back together. The units that are coming out now are more computerized. Even though they don’t do the mechanical stuff like that anymore, we pass it on to the younger guys and teach them. We keep up the legends.”

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TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014

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Push for Preschool Is a Unifying Issue Preschool is having its moment, as a favored cause for politicians and interest groups who ordinarily have trouble agreeing on the time of day. President Obama devoted part of his State of the Union address to it, while the deeply red states of Oklahoma and Georgia are being hailed as national models of preschool access and quality, with other states and cities also forging ahead on their own.

With a growing body of research pointing to the importance of early child development and its effect on later academic and social progress, enrollment in state-funded preschool has more than doubled since 2002, to about 30 percent of all 4-year-olds nationwide. In just the past year, Alabama, Michigan, Minnesota, Montana and the city of San Antonio have enacted new or expanded programs, while in dozens of other places, mayors, governors and legislators are making a serious push for preschool.

In New York City, where the new mayor, Bill de Blasio, was elected on a promise of universal prekindergarten, the dispute between him and Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is not over whether to ex-

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Damien Fowler, 4, works on his math skills in Mobile, Ala. pand the program, but how.

For generations, it was largely Democrats who called for government-funded preschool — and then only in fits and starts — and that remains the case in Congress, where proposals have yet to gain traction among Republicans. But outside Washington, it has become a bipartisan cause, uniting business groups and labor unions, with Republican governors like Rick Snyder of Michigan and Robert Bentley of Alabama pushing some of the biggest increases in preschool spending.

“It’s a human need and an eco-

nomic need,” said Snyder, who raised preschool spending by $65 million last year and will propose a similar increase this year, doubling the size of the state program in two years. He called the spending an investment whose dividends “will show up for decades to come.”

Analysts also see politics behind the shift at the state level, with preschool appealing particularly to women and minorities, groups whose votes are needed

by Republicans.

“If you cast it as an issue of inequality, Republicans get their back up right away, but there’s a sincere and growing concern on the part of a lot of Republicans about how to increase economic opportunity,” said Ron Haskins, co-director of the Center on Children and Families at the Brookings Institution and a former policy adviser to President George W. Bush.

“Preschool is, generally speaking, a crowd pleaser,” said Chester E. Finn Jr., president of the Thomas B. Fordham Institute, a conservative-leaning education policy group.

RICHARD PÉREZ-PEÑA

and MOTOKO RICH

Actor’s Heroin Points to Surge in Grim Trade Detectives found dozens of small packages in the West Village apartment where Philip Seymour Hoffman, the actor, died on Sunday. Most were branded, some with purple letters spelling out Ace of Spades, others bearing the mark of an ace of hearts. At least five were empty, and in the trash.

Each package, which can sell for as little as $6 on the street, offered a grim window into Hoffman’s personal struggle with a resurgent addiction that ultimately, the police said, proved fatal. And the names and logos reflect a fevered underground marketing effort in a city that is awash in cheap heroin.

Heroin seizures in New York State are up 67 percent over the last four years, the Drug Enforcement Administration said. Last year, the agency’s New York of-

fice seized 144 kilograms of heroin, nearly 20 percent of its seizures across the country, valued at roughly $43 million.

Bags bearing different stamps turn up in raids of large scale heroin mills around the city.

They are named for celebrities or luxury products, or the very thoroughfares along which the drugs travel. They reflect an increasingly young and middleclass clientele, who often move from prescription pills to needles.

To be sure, there is variety, especially in potency and reliability.

Recently, 22 people died in and around Pittsburgh after overdosing from a batch of heroin mixed with fentanyl, a powerful opiate. Heroin containing fentanyl, which gives a more intense but potentially more dangerous high, has begun to appear in New York

City, said Kati Cornell, a spokeswoman for Bridget G. Brennan, the special narcotics prosecutor for the city.

Ultimately, users have no way to be sure what they’re buying.

“There’s no F.D.A. approval; it’s made however they decide to make it that day,” Brennan said.

For law enforcement officials, Hoffman’s death was a stark reminder of the dangers inherent in a highly addictive drug that ravaged urban communities in the 1970s. “We’re now 40 years out from our last major heroin epidemic and I think people have lost their memory of that drug’s devastation,” Brennan said.

Indeed, she said, some of the most common heroin brands suggest as much: Grim Reaper; a skull and crossbones; D.O.A. J. DAVID GOODMAN

Karzai arranged Secret Contacts With the Taliban KABUL, Afghanistan — President Hamid Karzai of Afghanistan has been engaged in secret contacts with the Taliban about reaching a peace agreement without the involvement of his American and Western allies, further corroding relations with the United States.

The contacts appear to help explain a string of actions by Karzai that seem designed to antagonize his American backers, Western and Afghan officials said. In recent weeks, Karzai has continued to refuse to sign a long-term security agreement with Washington that he negotiated, insisted on releasing Taliban militants from prison and distributed distorted evidence of what he called American war crimes.

The clandestine contacts with the Taliban have borne little fruit, according to people who have been told about them. But they have helped undermine the remaining confidence between the United States and Karzai, making the already messy endgame of the Afghan conflict even more volatile.

Support for the war effort in Congress has deteriorated sharply, and American officials say they are uncertain whether they can maintain even minimal security cooperation with Karzai’s government or its successor after coming elections.

Frustrated by Karzai’s refusal to sign the security agreement, which would clear the way for American troops to stay on for training and counterterrorism work after the end of the year, President Obama has summoned his top commanders to the White House on Tuesday, to consider the future of the American mission in Afghanistan.

The peace contacts with the Taliban have not even progressed as far as opening negotiations. And it is not clear whether the Taliban ever intended to seriously pursue negotiations, or were simply trying to derail the security agreement by distracting Karzai and leading him on, as many Western and Afghan officials said they suspected. AZAM AHMED and MATTHEW ROSENBERG

INTERNATIONAL

U.S. and Europe Work on Solution To Ukraine Crisis BERLIN — Looking to defuse Ukraine’s crisis, the United States and Europe are trying to assemble a financial package that could ease the path for a new government there to guide the country out of its current impasse between Europe and Russia, American and European officials say.

The diplomatic push involves regular contact with government and opposition leaders in Ukraine, which has been embroiled in months of turmoil since its president, Victor F. Yanukovych, rejected an association agreement with Europe and accepted a $15 billion loan package from Moscow.

Last week, in the face of unrelenting street protests, the president was forced to make concessions to his opponents, including sacrificing his pro-Moscow prime minister, who resigned. That prompted the Kremlin to suspend the promised loans, after having disbursed just $3 billion.

With the start of the Winter Olympics in Sochi, Russia, this week, European and American officials said they may have a fresh window of opportunity and some breathing space through the end of February to play a defining role in Ukraine while President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia was engaged in ensuring the success of an event that will draw global attention.

The Russian president’s suspension of his aid package to Ukraine last Wednesday, a signal of his displeasure at Yanukovych’s talks with his opponents, may also provide a chance for the Americans and Europeans to take up an economic lever that Ukraine desperately needs as it faces default on its debts.

On Monday, José Manuel Barroso, president of the European Commission, the European Union’s executive body, said the union was trying to help Ukraine, but denied that there was any direct competition with Russia.

“We are not going to a bidding competition of who pays more for a signature from Ukraine because we believe that this is the path that most Ukrainians prefer,” Barroso said, speaking in Brussels.

ALISON SMALE

and STEVEN ERLANGER

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014

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A Torn City Suffers From an Exodus of Jobs TACLOBAN, the Philippines — As Jesse Siozon waited for his grandfather’s funeral to begin, beneath the orange and blue tarps that serve as the roof for the storm-damaged Santo Niño Church, he spoke of a double loss.

His grandfather may well have been the last person in this bedraggled city to succumb to injuries and illnesses brought on by Typhoon Haiyan. And now Siozon, a 30-year-old nurse, is being forced to leave Tacloban, his family’s hometown for four generations, because efforts to rebuild have stalled and jobs have disappeared for skilled workers like him.

“I wish I could have worked here,” he said. “I don’t even have a place to live here.”

Nearly three months after the some of the strongest sustained winds ever recorded drove ashore a wall of water up to 25 feet high. this once-thriving university city and provincial capital shows relatively few signs of economic recovery despite an international rescue effort. At night, it is mainly plunged into darkness, and the few temporary houses completed by the government have been declared too cramped for habitation.

The city is caught in deprivation that will be hard to break, especially given the scope of a catastrophe that killed at least 6,000 people and was the deadliest natural disaster in the world last year.

Without power and other basics, businesses are finding it

Typhoon survivors cooked by the light of flashlights and gas lamps in Tacloban, the Philippines, in January. now works for a large company in Manila. The secretary at his JES AZNAR FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES church took a job difficult to recover. And without at a call center in Cebu, on another commerce, the city will continue island 100 miles away.

The lack of electricity is a conto lose money — and talent.

The continuing confusion stant worry for those trying to has left this city, which once en- breathe life into the city’s mostly visioned becoming a new eco- moribund economy and forestall nomic hub, struggling to hold on a further exodus.

Running gasoline or diesel gento young and talented residents.

Like Siozon, they are leaving for erators is prohibitively expensive work elsewhere in the Philip- for many businesses, in some cases costing six times as much pines’ growing economy.

“The young professionals as grid electricity. So they operate whom I know have left, because of at less than full capacity, if at all.

It was the lack of electricity that the quality of life here,” said Jerry T. Yaokasin, the deputy mayor of helped drive Siozon away from his Tacloban. “When I look around, hometown, and his calling.

The wiring in the hospital where it is as if it happened yesterday — there is still so much devastation.” he worked was so badly damaged Sitting in a modest second-floor that much of it cannot be reconoffice, in a municipal building nected to the grid. His new job: where the first floor was gutted working at an Aetna call center in by the storm, Yaokasin checked the capital, fielding health insuroff the list of people he knows who ance questions from Americans.

KEITH BRADSHER have left. His cousin, a lawyer,

In Brief Al Qaeda Breaks With Jihadists Al Qaeda’s central leadership has officially cut ties with a powerful jihadist group that has flourished in the chaos of the civil war in Syria and that rushed to build an Islamic state on its own terms, antagonizing the wider rebel movement. The animosity between the group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, and other rebel groups has fueled the deadliest infighting yet between the foes of President Bashar al-Assad and has sapped their campaign to depose him.

(NYT)

Iran Is Giving Food to Millions The Iranian government has started handing out food packages for millions of its citizens both to help those with low incomes and to try to lower inflation on food, news media in Tehran reported on Monday. Across the capital and in the rest of the country, long lines of people waited in government-owned department stores, where the food is being distributed. Over 15 million families

will receive the free food, the reformist newspaper Shargh wrote on Monday. All government employees and citizens making less than 5 million rials, or $170, a month are eligible to receive the food package, which contains more than 20 pounds of rice from India, two frozen chickens from Turkey, three dozen eggs, more than two quarts of vegetable oil and two packs of processed cheese. (NYT)

Student Kills 2 at Moscow School A student armed with two rifles opened fire in a high school in Moscow on Monday, killing a teacher and a police officer as he held about two dozen students hostage in a rare case of gun violence in a school in the Russian capital. The student, who was identified as Sergey Gordeyev, 15, initially battled police officers responding to the hostage crisis, killing one officer and wounding another, before his father entered the classroom in a bulletproof vest and persuaded him to surrender, said Moscow’s police chief, Anatoly Yakunin.

(NYT)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014 3

NATIONAL

Gene Tests, Healthy Children and Ethical Doubt Her first thought after she heard the news, after she screamed and made her mother and boyfriend leave the room, was that she would never have children. Amanda Baxley’s doctor had just told her that she had the gene for Gerstmann-StrausslerScheinker disease, or GSS, which would inevitably lead to her slow and terrible death. This rare neurological disease had stalked her family for generations. Her father, 56, was in its final throes.

Baxley, 26, declared she would not let the disease take another life in her family line, even if that meant forgoing childbirth. “I want it stopped,” she said. The next day, her boyfriend, Bradley Kalinsky, asked her to marry him.

But the Kalinskys’ wedded life has taken an unexpected turn, one briefly described on Monday in The Journal of the American Medical Association Neurology.

Like a growing number of couples who know a disease runs in the family, they chose in vitro fertil-

ization, and had cells from the embryos, created in a petri dish with her eggs and his sperm, tested first for the disease-causing gene.

Only embryos without the gene were implanted in her womb. The Kalinskys are now parents of three children who will be free of the fear of GSS. Genetic testing of embryos has been around for more than a decade, but its use has soared in recent years as methods have improved and more disease-causing genes have been discovered. The in vitro fertilization and testing are expensive — typically about $20,000 — but they make it possible for couples to ensure that their children will not inherit a faulty gene and to avoid the difficult choice of whether to abort a pregnancy if testing of a fetus detects a genetic problem.

But the procedure raises unsettling ethical questions that trouble advocates for the disabled and have left some doctors struggling with what they should tell

patients. When are prospective parents justified in discarding embryos? Is it acceptable, for example, for diseases that develop in adulthood? What if a gene only increases the risk of a disease?

And should people be able to use it to pick whether they have a boy or girl? A recent international survey found that 2 percent of more than 27,000 uses of preimplantation diagnosis were made to choose a child’s sex.

David Wasserman, an ethicist at Yeshiva University and consultant to the National Institutes of Health, says discarding embryos that carry gene mutations that increase the risk for disease — for example, breast cancer — is problematic, he said.

“To someone who says, ‘I can’t deal with a risk of breast cancer,’ I would say, ‘Look, there are all kinds of risks. You and your children are going to be hostage to fortune and no amount of testing is going to change that,’ ” Wasserman said.

GINA KOLATA

While Asking for Help, Detroit Sells a Comeback DETROIT — Consider this public relations challenge: At the same time that Detroit is emphasizing its desperate need for financial support, it is pitching itself as the city of the future.

Can Detroit make the case that it can be great again, even as it asks creditors to accept less than they are owed, struggles to save its world-class art collection from auction and pleads with its residents to stop moving away?

“Detroit is a comeback city already,” Gov. Rick Snyder said recently as he announced a plan to attract 50,000 highly skilled immigrants to the city. “That’s something we don’t emphasize to

the world enough.”

Mike Duggan, the new mayor, has staked the success of his first term on increasing the city’s tax base. He used his first speech in office last month to ask frustrated residents to give his new administration six months to improve neighborhood conditions.

But like many others here, Dan Gilbert, the founder and chairman of Quicken Loans, is among those trying to market the city’s suffering reputation as a major selling point.

“In a way, there is something about hitting bottom,” said Gilbert, who has bought a number of buildings. “Until you hit bottom,

people are reluctant to invest.”

Recent years have brought talk of a budding renaissance downtown, where investors are snatching up inexpensive property and new businesses are moving in. But just minutes away from glassy skyscrapers, dilapidated buildings are still some of this city’s most iconic landmarks — and popular tourist attractions.

“As embarrassing and humiliating it is to talk about ourselves like that, the squeaky wheel gets the grease,” said Daniel F. McNamara, former president of Detroit’s firefighters union, which has complained about inadequate funding from the city. STEVEN YACCINO

Collegiate Study Puts Exonerations at Record Level in U.S. The number of exonerations in the United States of those wrongly convicted of a crime increased to a record 87 in 2013, and of that number, nearly one in five had initially pleaded guilty to charges filed against them, according to a report to be released on Tuesday by two university law schools.

Nearly half of the exonerations (40) were based on murder convictions, including that of a man wrongly convicted and subse-

quently sentenced to death in the fatal stabbing of a fellow inmate in a Missouri prison in 1983, according to the report by the National Registry of Exonerations — a program of the University of Michigan Law School and the Center on Wrongful Convictions at Northwestern University School of Law. The previous record came in 2009, when the group reported 83.

The group said it has documented 1,300 exonerations since 1989.

Fewer exonerations than in the past involved DNA evidence, which the registry attributed to the police and prosecutors exhibiting greater concern about false convictions. But the report found that 17 percent of those exonerated in 2013 had pleaded guilty to a crime they did not commit — usually because the defendant had been offered a plea deal that guaranteed a lesser sentence on the condition of a guilty plea. (NYT)

In Brief Joan Mondale Dies Joan Mondale, who burnished a reputation as “Joan of Art” for her passionate advocacy for the arts while her husband was vice president and a U.S. ambassador, died Monday. She was 83.

Walter Mondale, sons Ted and William, and other family members were by her side when she died, the family said in a statement released by their church.

The family had announced Sunday that she had gone into hospice care, but declined to discuss her illness. “Joan was greatly loved by many. We will miss her dearly,” the former vice president said in a statement.

(AP)

Escaped Killer Is Captured in Indiana A convicted killer who peeled a hole in two fences with his hands to escape from a Michigan prison before abducting a woman and fleeing to Indiana was captured Monday evening, authorities said. Officials were stunned by the brazen escape Sunday night of Michael David Elliot, who had a record of good behavior during his 20 years in custody. He wore a white civilian kitchen uniform to evade security and blend in with snow at the Ionia Correctional Facility in western Michigan, said Russ Marlan, a prisons spokesman. Indiana State Police Sgt. Ron Galaviz said Elliot was in LaPorte County, Ind., when a sheriff’s deputy investigating a vehicle theft tried to make a traffic stop. The suspect ran, but authorities were able to capture him.

(AP)

Cellphone Catches Fire in Girl’s Pocket The “stop, drop and roll” mantra came in handy for a Maine eighth-grader when her cellphone caught fire in her pocket at school. Jeff Rodman, the principal at Kennebunk Middle School Principal, told The Portland Press Herald that the girl heard a popping sound Friday and smoke started billowing around her. Boys were herded from the room so the 14-yearold girl could shed her flaming pants. She also did the “stop, drop and roll” move.

(AP)

TUESDAY, FEBRUARY 4, 2014 4

BUSINESS

THE MARKETS

As Recovery Looks Weak, Stocks Take a Dive Signs of weakness in the American economy pushed Wall Street to its worst day in an already bad year.

The catalyst on Monday was the release of a survey of the manufacturing industry, which fell in January to its lowest level in eight months. Stocks slid, with the Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index ending the day down 2.3 percent — its sharpest decline since June 20.

The benchmark index is now off 5.8 percent from the record close it set on Jan. 15, and down to its lowest level since last October.

The discouraging manufacturing numbers — and similarly disappointing figures on car sales — were attributed to recent bad weather. But together they were enough to cause concern among investors that talk of a strengthening economic recovery may

have been too optimistic.

“There’s no question that some of the economic data we’ve seen recently just hasn’t been as strong as hoped for,” said Tim Ghriskey, the chief investment officer at the Solaris Group, an asset manager. “Perhaps expectations of economic improvement got ahead of themselves.”

Markets around the world have been vulnerable to bouts of turmoil since the Federal Reserve started scaling back the bond buying programs it has used to stimulate the United States economy. As the Fed starts to take its foot off the accelerator, questions about the strength of global growth have mounted.

In recent weeks, those questions have been largely focused on slowdowns in the emerging economies in Asia, Africa, Eu-

rope and Latin America, which have long relied on the low interest rates promoted by the Fed. Sell-offs in places like Turkey and Russia have caused concern that these countries could be a drag on the United States economy.

But on Monday, it was the United States that helped lead the world down. Stock markets across Europe fell sharply almost as soon as the Institute for Supply Management’s survey of the manufacturing sector was released. The index fell to 51.3 from 56.5 in December.

Still, many strategists are still expecting the recent signs of weakness to go away with the bad winter weather. “It certainly feels like there’s nothing that has fundamentally changed to set off a bear market,” Ghriskey said.

NATHANIEL POPPER

Detroit Turns Bankruptcy Into Challenge of Banks Detroit’s bankruptcy is rapidly shaping up as a battle of Wall Street vs. Main Street, as far as the city’s creditors are concerned.

Amy Laskey, a managing director at Fitch Ratings, said in a recent report that she sensed an “us versus them” orientation toward debt repayment. And in the view of bondholders, bond insurers and other financial institutions, it only grew worse last week after the city circulated its plan to emerge from bankruptcy and filed a lawsuit on Friday.

The suit, brought by the city’s emergency manager, Kevyn D. Orr, seeks to invalidate complex transactions that helped finance Detroit’s pension system in 2005.

In a not-so-veiled criticism, the city said the deal was done “at the

prompting of investment banks that would profit handsomely from the transaction.”

The banks that led the deal, Bank of America and UBS, helped Detroit borrow $1.4 billion for its pension system and signed long-term financial contracts with the city, known as interestrate swaps, to hedge the debt.

Detroit has stopped paying back the $1.4 billion, but for the first six months of its bankruptcy it kept honoring the swaps contracts and at one point offered to pay the two banks hundreds of millions of dollars — money it would have had to borrow — to end them. But the lawsuit seeks to cancel the swaps, arguing they were illegal along with the related debt transactions.

Perhaps of even greater concern to creditors is the city’s “plan of adjustment,” which details how Detroit proposes to resolve its bankruptcy and finance its operations in the future. Banks, bond insurers and other corporate creditors think they are being asked to share a disproportionate amount of pain under the plan, still in draft form and not yet filed with the bankruptcy court.

“The essential issue is the neartotal wipeout of the bondholders,” said Matt Fabian, a managing director of Municipal Market Advisors. He said Detroit’s case appeared to be heading toward a “cramdown,” or court-ordered infliction of losses on unwilling creditors.

MARY WILLIAMS WALSH

Report Says Full Picture of Airlines’ Punctuality Is Elusive Travelers on Monday experienced a new round of cancellations and delays as another storm grounded planes yet again. But many of those flights won’t be counted as late or canceled in the government’s on-time statistics.

A recent federal report found that passengers are getting only part of the picture, and that the industry’s on-time performance is actually much lower than billed.

And a proposed rule that would require carriers to provide a more accurate picture has itself

been delayed — and has yet to be adopted more than two years after it was proposed.

On-time statistics capture only 76 percent of domestic flights at American commercial airports, according to a report released in December by the Transportation Department’s inspector general.

The statistics do not include international flights or many flights operated by regional carriers and other partners. The biggest gap in reporting typically involves smaller planes that are more like-

ly to be delayed or canceled.

The proposed rule would increase the number of carriers required to report data about delays and cancellations, improving the accuracy of the on-time statistics that the government announces every month.

It is part of a set of passenger protections that began the federal rule-making process in 2011.

The latest target date for its release, Jan. 24, has passed with no action by the Transportation Department.

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BUSINESS

Picasso Tapestry Hangs on Edge of Eviction For more than half a century, it has hung in the hallway of the Four Seasons Restaurant on Park Avenue, an immense work by one of the greatest artists of the 20th century. But Picasso’s curtain is coming down — and that might just destroy it.

“Le Tricorne,” a canvas 19 feet high that Pablo Picasso painted for a production by the Ballets Russes, will be removed on Feb. 9, according to the New York Landmarks Conservancy, which owns the work. It recently learned the news from RFR Holding, the real estate company that owns the Seagram Building, home of the Four Seasons. RFR says that structural engineers have concluded that the limestone wall where the curtain hangs needs repairs and could collapse, posing a danger to the art.

But the real peril is the rescue effort, says Peg Breen, president of the conservancy. “One of RFR’s own movers told us that no matter how cautious they are, the work is so brittle and fragile that it could, as one of them put it, ‘crack like a potato chip,’ ” she said.

The dispute is a collision of values and taste. Breen said she suspected that one of the founders of RFR is just not a fan of “Le Tricorne” and was using the

“Le Tricorne,” a canvas 19 feet high that Pablo Picasso painted for a production by the Ballets Russes, is set to be removed.

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damaged-wall argument as a pretense to ditch it for good.

The executive in question is no one’s idea of a philistine. He is Aby Rosen, chairman of the New York State Council on the Arts.

His tastes run to contemporary artists, like Damien Hirst and Jeff Koons, and he has told people that he wants to showcase highlights of his vast trove in the space now occupied by “Le Tricorne.”

Neither Rosen nor anyone at RFR returned calls for comment.

Most people agree that the fate of “Le Tricorne” rests in Rosen’s hands. The interior of the Four Seasons was given landmark designation in 1989. The Picasso, however, was excluded from the designation because, as the New York City Landmarks Preserva-

tion Commission explained in a statement, it was owned separately and could be moved.

“It does not fall under L.P.C. jurisdiction,” wrote the commission’s spokeswoman Kate Daly, “and L.P.C. does not need to be consulted on its removal.”

“Le Tricorne,” which translates to “the three-cornered hat,” is not regarded as one of Picasso’s masterpieces, partly because it strays from the avant-garde path he had started traveling a decade earlier with Cubism.

If the curtain is removed, the Museum of Modern Art has said it would put the work in storage, Breen said. “But then the question is when anyone would ever see it again,” she added, “if it survived the move.” DAVID SEGAL

Facebook Aims to Make Its Users’ Feeds Newsier Mark Zuckerberg dreams of a day when Facebook’s computers would know you and your habits so well that it would deliver exactly the information you want to see — what he calls “the best personalized newspaper in the world.”

As the company Zuckerberg co-founded turns 10 years old on Tuesday, it hasn’t quite achieved that mind meld with its 1.2 billion users. But it’s not for lack of trying.

On Monday, Facebook stepped more directly onto the news media’s turf, rolling out a new iPhone app called Paper that enlists a handful of human editors to supplement its computers in recommending articles and blog posts on a dozen topics, including top news, food, parenting, the environment and gay rights.

The app, which made its debut to rave reviews from tech news sites, offers users an easy way to browse their news feeds. But it

also presents them with a series of minimagazines, each with a distinct tone and articles chosen by unidentified curators the company says have extensive expertise in their fields. Those editors are “painting the order and organizing the stories in a way that is rich and engaging,” said Michael Reckhow, Paper’s product manager.

Paper, which the company calls an experiment, comes on the heels of the company’s recent efforts to bring to its users more substantive articles and fewer cat videos. In December, the company made a major change to its news feed — its users’ stream of friends’ status updates, photos, videos and ads.

The adjustment to its software gave more prominence to what Facebook considers “high quality” news sites and downgraded the viral videos and chain-letter appeals that it views as cluttering up the feed and making the ser-

vice less appealing to users.

Facebook, which directs more traffic to web publishers than any other social network, denies that it has any plans to create original content to compete with news sites.

That sets it apart from the Internet giant Yahoo, which has partnerships with major news organizations to showcase their articles, but is also producing its own digital magazines on topics like technology and food.

“We’re not trying to get into the business of writing articles and creating content,” said Chris Cox, vice president for product at Facebook.

But Joshua Benton, director of the Nieman Journalism Lab at Harvard University, said Facebook was making news judgments. He said Facebook was “still the biggest social driver for traffic for news outlets.”

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Monday: Herbalife Ltd., up $4.65 to $69.02. The nutritional supplements company’s preliminary fourth-quarter results beat expectations.

General Motors Co., down 83 cents to $35.25. U.S. sales fell 12 percent last month as harsh winter weather kept customers out of auto dealerships.

Pfizer Inc., up 20 cents to $30.60. The breast cancer drug palbociclib, which could bring in $5 billion in annual sales, did well in a mid-stage trial.

Jos. A Bank Clothiers Inc., down $2.83 to $53.39. The retailer continues to resist takeover attempts by Men’s Wearhouse and raised antitrust questions about the proposed deal.

Mattel Inc., down $1.79 to $36.05. An analyst at B. Riley & Co. cut her rating and price target on the stock after a disappointing holiday quarter.

FireEye Inc., down $6.47 to $66.52.

The software security company filed a statement with U.S. regulators for a proposed public offering of its common stock.

Taser International Inc., up 84 cents to $16.90. Shares of the personal defense gadget maker rally ahead of being added to the Standard & Poors SmallCap 600 index.

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SCIENCE

Even Among Fruit Flies, Boys Will Be Boys Males’ aggression toward each other is an old story throughout the animal kingdom. Take fruit flies. “The males are more aggressive than females,” said Dr. David Anderson, a California Institute of Technology neuroscientist who runs a kind of fight club for fruit flies in his lab at Caltech, with the goal of understanding the deep evolutionary roots of behaviors.

Anderson, Kenta Asahina and a group of their colleagues recently identified one gene and a tiny group of neurons present in the brains of male fruit flies that can control male aggression.

The discovery, reported in the journal Cell last month, does not tell the whole story of fly aggression. Some fighting is inextricably linked to food and mating, while the mechanism the scientists

found is not. But it is a striking indication of how brain structure and chemistry work together.

The research began, Anderson said, with the hypothesis that neuropeptides, which are a kind of hormone in the brain, had a role in controlling aggression as they do in some other fundamental behaviors like feeding and mating.

To find out which neuropeptides were important, the team tested different lines of genetically modified fruit flies. All had been engineered so that at a certain temperature, a chemical change would make specific neurons fire.

The researchers used video recordings and analysis software to determine the level of aggressive behavior that the flies exhibited.

They narrowed the search down to neurons that were producing

Scientists are learning more about the brain activity underlying male aggression. A lunging male fruit fly at Caltech.

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the neuropeptide tachykinin, and when they compared the brains of male and female flies they found a few neurons, present only in the male that produced tachykinin. When these neurons were silenced, the researchers were able to decrease aggression. The emergence of tachykinin was interesting because mammals have several different kinds of tachykinin, including substance P, which has been connected to aggression in rodents and has a variety of sus-

A Nemesis That’s Nothing to Sneeze At When a child is allergic to peanuts, families must closely monitor everything the child eats both in and outside the home, because accidental consumption of peanuts could prove Personal fatal. Many airlines HealtH no longer offer peaJane E. nuts for fear that an allergic passenger Brody might inhale peanut dust and suffer a life-threatening reaction at 30,000 feet.

The prevalence of peanut allergy among children in the United States has risen more than threefold, to 1.4 percent in 2010 from 0.4 percent in 1997, according to a study by food allergists at Mount Sinai Hospital in New York City.

Most people with an allergy to peanuts are also allergic to one or more tree nuts, like walnuts, pecans or almonds.

While experts doubt the necessity of some extreme measures taken to prevent indirect exposure to peanuts, the danger to someone with a peanut allergy who eats them is unquestioned.

The potentially fatal reaction, called anaphylaxis, can occur with a child’s first exposure to peanuts: itchiness, swelling of the tongue and throat, constriction of the airway, a precipitous drop in blood pressure, rapid heart rate, fainting, nausea and vomiting. Unless the reaction is

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stopped by an injection of epinephrine, anaphylaxis can kill.

There is no cure for nut allergies, although several preliminary studies suggest that it may be possible to temper a reaction to peanuts with immunotherapy.

The approach starts with exposure under the tongue to a minuscule amount of the peanut protein, followed by exposure to gradually increasing amounts under strict medical supervision.

The latest study, conducted in Cambridge, England, and published in The Lancet last week, found that after six months of oral immunotherapy, up to 91 percent of children aged 7 to 16 could safely ingest about five peanuts a day.

About one-fifth of treated children reacted to ingested peanuts, but most reactions were mild, usually an itchy mouth. Only one child of the 99 studied had a serious reaction.

When immunotherapy works, the research suggests, the sever-

ity of the allergy is lessened, enabling an allergic person to safely ingest small amounts of the offending protein. It is not known how long protection lasts without continued immunotherapy, however, and the researchers warned that no one should try it on his own. Further study is needed before the treatment can be used clinically, probably years from now. Meanwhile, everyone with a peanut allergy is advised to carry an EpiPen for emergencies.

Ideally, allergists would like to prevent the development of peanut allergy in the first place.

Experts had thought that one way would be to keep fetuses and breast-fed babies from exposure to peanut protein by restricting consumption by pregnant and nursing women. Today, the thinking is exactly the opposite.

Instead of restricting exposure to peanut protein by unborn or nursing babies, the tiny amounts that may enter the baby’s circulation when a pregnant or nursing woman eats peanuts might actually induce tolerance.

In a recent study of 8,205 children, 140 of whom had allergies to nuts, researchers found that children whose nonallergic mothers had the highest consumption of peanuts or tree nuts, or both, during pregnancy had the lowest risk of developing a nut allergy.

pected roles in human beings.

They did more genetic manipulation, deleting and adding copies of tachykinin genes, so that the neurons would produce more or less of the chemical. They found that with enough tachykinin produced they could even make small flies attack bigger flies.

“We could get the flies to attack an inanimate object, a fly-sized magnet,” Anderson said, although it didn’t happen often.

JAMES GORMAN

Reaction Times And Long Lives There are many well-established risk factors for cardiovascular death, but researchers may have found one more: slower reaction time.

In the late 1980s and early ’90s, researchers measured the reaction times of 5,134 adults aged 20 to 59, having them press a button as quickly as possible after a light flashed on a computer screen.

Then they followed the subjects to see how many would still be alive after 15 years. The study is in the January issue of PLOS One. Unsurprisingly, men, smokers, heavy drinkers and the inactive were more likely to die. But after controlling for these and other factors, the researchers found that those with slower reaction times were 36 percent more likely to die of cardiovascular disease than those with faster reactions.

The reasons for the connection are unclear, but the lead author, Gareth Hagger-Johnson, a senior research associate at University College London, said it may reflect problems with the brain or nervous system.

He stressed, though, that “a single test of reaction time is not going to tell you when you’re going to die. There’s a link at a population level. We didn’t look at individual people.”

(NYT)

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JOURNAL

An Actor Who Made Unhappiness a Joy to Watch or so — in independent movies, blockbusters and theater productions — and nearly always did something memorable. His dramatic roles in middle-sized movies were distinguished by how far he was willing to go into the souls of flawed, even detestable characters. As the heavy, the weird friend or the volatile coworker in a big commercial movie he could offer not only comic relief but also the pleasure that comes from encountering an actor who takes his art seriously no matter the project.

Hoffman’s gifts were widely celebrated while he was alive. But the shock of his death on Sunday revealed the astonishing scale of his greatness and the solidity of his achievement. We did not lose just a very good actor.

It was clear, at least since he won the Oscar in 2006 for “Capote,” that Philip Seymour Hoffman was an unusually fine actor. Really, it was clear long before that, depending on when and where you started paying attention.

Maybe it was when he An Appraisal and John C. Reilly burned up the stage in the 2000 revival of Sam Shepard’s “True West.” Or maybe it was earlier, in the wrenching telephone scene in “Magnolia,” the disturbing telephone scenes in “Happiness,” the sad self-loathing of “Boogie Nights” or the smug self-possession of “The Talented Ripley” that brought the news of his talent, discipline and fearlessness.

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We may have lost the best one we had. He was only 46, and his death foreshortened a career that was already monumental.

His Willy Loman in the 2012 revival of Arthur Miller’s “Death of a Salesman” was a scalding depiction of Philip vanity, self-delusion and Seymour raw emotional need, conHoffman veyed with force and delicacy to deliver the play’s message and to overcome its sentimentality.

What he did in “The Master,” his fifth film with the writer-director Paul Thomas Anderson, was even grander. It may take the world a while to catch up with that journey into dark, uncharted zones of the American character, but it will discover, in Lancaster Dodd, an archetype of corrupted idealism, entrepreneurial zeal and authentic spiritual insight.

Hoffman’s characters exist, more often than not, in a state of torment. They are stuck on the battleground where pride and conscience contend with base and ugly instincts.

Dodd sacrifices his intelligence on the altar of his ego. Truman Capote risks his integrity and betrays his friends in pursuit of his literary ambitions. The teacher in “25th Hour” and the predator in “Happiness” are both indelibly creepy. The priest of “Doubt” and the would-be criminal of “Before the Devil Knows You’re Dead” are potentially much worse.

These are not antiheroes in the cable television, charismatic bad-boy sense of the term.

They are, in many cases, pathetic, repellent, undeserving of sympathy. Hoffman rescued them from contempt precisely by refusing any easy route to redemption.

He did not care if we liked any of these sad specimens. The point was to make us believe them and to recognize in them — in him — a truth about ourselves that we might have preferred to avoid. He had a rare ability to illuminate the varieties of human ugliness. No one ever did it so beautifully.

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OPINION

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EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

DAVID BROOKS

The Mayor and the Unions

What Machines Can’t Do

For Mayor Bill de Blasio, this is the month that the civic conversation shifts from lofty goals and progressive agenda setting — and, let’s hope, snow plowing — to the gloomier and more combative subject of money.

On Feb. 12, the mayor is scheduled to present his first budget, a preliminary document that will say a lot about his priorities for the coming fiscal year. Looming over it, a horizon’s worth of storm clouds ready to burst, is the challenge he warned of last week in Albany: negotiating new contracts with nearly all the city’s labor unions.

De Blasio likes to talk about the city’s yawning “chasm” of social and economic inequality, which he has pledged his mayoralty to closing.

But there is another chasm close at hand. In one of his last acts as mayor, Michael Bloomberg declared that he was leaving a balanced budget. That sketchy assertion relied heavily on one-shot revenues and overlooked uncertainty about cuts in federal aid, the recovery from Hurricane Sandy and, most of all, more than 150 bargaining units, representing about 300,000 city employees, that are working on expired contracts, some for five or six years.

The unions have demanded retroactive pay totaling more than $7 billion. To pay even part of that, never mind raises going forward, could greatly strain financing for city services, not to mention de Blasio’s big ambitions in areas like affordable housing, health care and new initiatives for the poor and dispossessed. (You wonder why the mayor’s plan for expanding universal prekindergarten has its own dedi-

cated tax attached? This is partly why.)

De Blasio, a union ally, will have to take the lead to demand more of his friends by changing work rules and extracting savings in runaway health care and pension costs so that employees and retirees, for example, pay into their insurance plans. These will be hard lifts.

The mayor can be proud of his first month.

He has the whole state talking about universal prekindergarten — not whether it will happen, but how, and how soon. That’s remarkable.

He ended the legal battle over stop-and-frisk policing and moved to expand paid sick leave — fresh starts on issues that stagnated under Bloomberg. He has been slow to fill out his administration and has been troubled by snowstorms that have hit, over and over, like some Sanitation Department version of “Groundhog Day.” But even in his fumbles — like literally dropping a groundhog on Groundhog Day — he is relaxed and shows a sense of humor about himself.

Still, his job demands more than affability.

Now is the time for de Blasio to be bold to the point of confrontational, to endure name-calling, resentment and lower poll numbers. The rap on him is that he hasn’t run anything; the rap on liberal Democrats is that they can’t run this unruly city. Bloomberg, for all his efficiency and tough talk, never hammered out a deal to put the city and its labor costs on a sound footing. Now is de Blasio’s chance to achieve that goal and upend the widely held, if unfair, expectations of what a Democrat can do.

Democracy in Thailand, Interrupted These are dark days in Thailand, where an election on Sunday was disrupted by protesters whose demands for a suspension of democracy could lead to greater chaos. The country’s constitutional monarchy has faced coups and protests in the past, but it has been a model of relative stability and development in Southeast Asia, a region known for its autocratic and brutal governments. As an American ally, Thailand has been critically important in helping to reduce regional tensions and provided balance to the growing military assertiveness of China by championing trade and economic integration partly through the Association of Southeast Asian Nations. On Sunday, protesters disrupted the vote by blocking the distribution of ballot boxes to polling places in about 11 percent of the country’s electoral districts.

Because Thailand’s Constitution requires that 95 percent of parliamentary seats be filled before a new government can be formed, the disruption means the country will remain in a limbo for months as election authorities try to conduct elections in those districts.

The protests are being led by opposition politicians who represent the urban elite and people from the south of the country. They refused to participate in the election knowing

that they would surely lose to the Pheu Thai Party of Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra, which enjoys the support of the rural majority in the north and northeast.

Instead of making a case to voters, the opposition leaders want to oust Shinawatra and replace Parliament with an unelected council to carry out unspecified political reforms. They also want to bar Shinawatra and her brother Thaksin, a former prime minister who lives in exile, from the country’s political system.

Protest leaders, who include former leaders of the opposition Democrat Party, say that the changes they propose will cleanse Thai politics of corruption, but they themselves have been accused of serious corruption.

If the elections are put off indefinitely and Parliament replaced with an unelected council, the country’s deep divisions would be made worse and the continuing political strife would further undermine Thailand’s already shaky economy. The military and King Bhumibol Adulyadej, who is 86, have refused to support either side. That could change if the impasse drags on. If the opposition cares about reducing corruption and strengthening the democracy, it should end the protests and propose clear reforms that voters can accept or reject.

We’re clearly heading into an age of brilliant technology. Computers are already impressively good at guiding driverless cars and beating humans at chess and Jeopardy. As Erik Brynjolfsson and Andrew McAfee of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology point out in their book “The Second Machine Age,” computers are increasingly going to be able to perform important parts of even mostly cognitive jobs, like picking stocks, diagnosing diseases and granting parole.

Certain mental skills will become less valuable because computers will take over. Having a great memory will probably be less valuable.

So will being able to do any mental activity that involves following a set of rules.

What human skills will be more valuable?

First, the age of brilliant machines rewards enthusiasm. The amount of information in front of us is practically infinite; so is that amount of data that can be collected with new tools. The people who seem to do best possess a voracious explanatory drive, an almost obsessive need to follow their curiosity. They are driven to perform extended bouts of concentration, diving into and trying to make sense of these bottomless information oceans.

Second, the era seems to reward people with extended time horizons and strategic discipline. When Garry Kasparov was teaming with a computer to playing freestyle chess (in which a human and machine join up to play against another human and machine), he reported that his machine partner possessed greater “tactical acuity,” but he possessed greater “strategic guidance.”

The person who can maintain a long obedience toward a single goal, and who can filter out what is irrelevant to that goal, will obviously have enormous worth.

Third, the age seems to reward procedural architects. The giant Internet celebrities didn’t so much come up with ideas, they came up with systems in which other people could express ideas: Facebook, Twitter, Wikipedia, etc.

One of the oddities of collaboration is that tightly knit teams are not the most creative.

Loosely bonded teams are, teams without a few domineering presences, teams that allow people to think alone before they share results with the group. So a manager who can organize a decentralized network around a clear question will have enormous value.

Fifth, essentialists will probably be rewarded. Creativity can be described as the ability to grasp the essence of one thing, and then the essence of some very different thing, and smash them together to create some new thing.

The role of the human is not to be dispassionate or depersonalized. It is precisely the emotive traits that are rewarded: the lust for understanding, the enthusiasm for work, the ability to grasp the gist, the sensitivity to what will attract attention and linger in the mind.

Unable to compete when it comes to calculation, the best workers will come with heart in hand.

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In Brief

Beckham Back, as an Owner of a New Team David Beckham is set to return to Major League Soccer on Wednesday, this time as an owner of a Miami team that will become the league’s 22nd club.

Beckham and Don Garber, the commissioner of M.L.S., will announce the awarding of the new team at a news conference in Miami on Wednesday, two people familiar with the deal said. The team will not begin play in M.L.S. until at least 2016.

The league values its association with Beckham. As part of his original contract when he joined M.L.S. as a player in 2007, he was granted the right to buy a team for what would be the below-market rate of $25 million.

Beckham narrowed his sights to South Florida last year after retiring as a player, and the league has held off on the awarding of the team only because it requires

new clubs to have a stadium plan in place. Beckham’s ownership group does not yet have a completed stadium deal, but Wednesday’s announcement will be a sign that the league is confident one is close.

The league has let the requirement slide in the past. New York City F.C. was announced as the league’s 20th team last year, after paying a reported fee of close to $100 million, but it still does not even have a temporary home for its first season, in 2015. Orlando City, which was named M.L.S.’s 21st team in November, has a stadium deal in place and will begin play in 2015.

M.L.S. is sure to welcome Beckham as an owner, but getting a stadium for the team in Miami will not be easy, because of political pressures and a vibrant real estate market that has driven up

prices. Discussions have centered on a piece of county-owned land near the city’s seaport, PortMiami. But that property was slated for commercial development, and putting a stadium there instead could represent a loss of revenue for the county. To win county approval, the owners of the stadium might have to make market-rate payments, said one person with knowledge of the thinking of county officials.

Even then, it is unclear how soon a stadium might be built, though the team could presumably play a year or two at a temporary home like the Miami Dolphins’ stadium in Miami Gardens.

New York City F.C. has said that it plans to take that approach and that it expects to announce a temporary home in the next few weeks.

KEN BELSON

and ANDREW DAS

Super Bowl Fans Bet Record $119 Million in Nevada LAS VEGAS — Gamblers wagered a record $119.4 million at Nevada casinos on the Super Bowl, allowing sportsbooks to reap an unprecedented profit as the betting public lost out in Seattle’s rout of the Denver Broncos.

Unaudited tallies showed sportsbooks made an unprecedented profit of $19.7 million on the action, the Gaming Control Board announced Monday. That’s millions more than the past three Super Bowl wins combined.

The Denver Broncos were a 2.5-point favorite, but the Seattle Seahawks took the championship 43-8.

Oddsmakers said fans of Peyton

Manning drove the unprecedented handle, flooding Las Vegas and northern Nevada with wagers on the favored team and its veteran quarterback, who was named the N.F.L.’s Most Valuable Player for the 2013 season. Many believed Manning was primed for a big game after his record-setting year.

The previous record for the amount of bets placed, or the handle, was set last year, when gamblers wagered $98.9 million on the Super Bowl between the Baltimore Ravens and the San Francisco 49ers.

The last record for casino hold, or profit, was set in 2005, when sportsbooks won $15.4 million.

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It was the third year in a row that sportsbooks have been hit on the safety bet.

The 51 points scored in New Jersey exceeded the over/under of 47.5. Most of the bets came in on the under side, meaning that fans thought the total points scored would remain below 47.5, and it was the Bronco’s late two-point conversion that put casinos on the winning side of the wager. (AP) 62/ 41 24/ 4 63/ 46 82/ 73 12/-15 36/ 29 82/ 65 36/ 30 62/ 45 28/ 15 55/ 39 36/ 22 30/ 14 37/ 33

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Syracuse Replaces Arizona Atop Poll Syracuse’s reward for winning one of the best college basketball games of the season was a spot on top of The Associated Press Top 25 poll. Combined with No. 1 Arizona’s first loss of the season last weekend, the Orange’s 91-89 overtime win over Duke on Saturday moved them up one spot to the top. Syracuse defeated Notre Dame, 61-55, on Monday in a matchup of former Big East foes.

Syracuse extended its school record for most consecutive wins to start a season: 22.

(AP)

Nets End Their Skid Paul Pierce scored 25 points, Deron Williams added 21 and the Brooklyn Nets stopped a threegame losing streak by holding on to beat the Philadelphia 76ers, 108-102, on Monday. The Nets got back on track against a Philadelphia team that has lost 13 of its last 16 games.

(AP)

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In Sochi, the Sprint to Finish Hotels SOCHI, Russia — The official mascots for the Winter Olympics are a polar bear, a hare and a leopard. But walk around the complexes that will stage the Reporter’s Games here, the opening Notebook with ceremony Friday, and what seem more apt are a drill, a backhoe and a shovel.

Much of Sochi is a work in progress, and parts of it look at least a dozen all-nighters away from completion. There are unfinished hotels, half-finished stores and a mall where the only shop that is open and thriving is a Cinnabon.

Wander the premises and you also get a palpable sense of spectacular ambition, reflected in millions of square feet of new construction, as well as transportation hubs with spiffy trains and shiny buses. You will see an Olympic Park where sporting venues look reassuringly ready.

The combination is singular — an enterprise that is epic, pristine and in many places bewilderingly flawed.

Start with the public accommodations near the Coastal Cluster, home to five ice sports arenas and the stadium for the opening ceremony. To appreciate the hotels in this area, it is probably a good idea to think of them as a rare opportunity to experience life in a Soviet-style dystopia.

As Olympics near, much remains to be cleared or built. drilling into a ceiling, working above a blinking Christmas tree. A Christmas tree?

“It’s Russia,” said a woman who works here.

GERO BRELOER/ASSOCIATED PRESS She shrugged.

The situation is worse on a gonOnly then will you understand, dola ride up the mountain, to a vilperhaps even enjoy, the peculiar lage that everyone calls 960, the mix of grandiosity and bungling number of meters it sits above that define these buildings. sea level. A few hotels are here, Though called hotels, they look in a setting so remote and with a like austere, upscale apartments vista so gorgeous that it seems inspired by the Eastern Bloc — more apt for a Bond villain.

Bauhaus meets the Super 8.

Though it has yet to accept None of the buildings have guests, a Swissotel is open. There names. Instead, they are identiwere supposed to be two here, fied by numbers, and as of last but one fell so far behind schedule weekend, many of the numbers that management decided to pull had not yet arrived or had yet workers from the site and conto be affixed to the buildings. centrate on finishing one on time.

Instead, they were printed on a Oliver Kuhn, a Swissotel manpiece of paper and taped to a wall. ager, seemed unstressed under Last-minute touch-ups have the circumstances. Sitting on a been a feature of Olympic Games purple chair beside an elevator, for seemingly as long there have he watched supplies arrive in his been screwdrivers. But the list lobby. “I just came from opening in Sochi seems extraordinarily a hotel in Ulan Bator,” he said of large. There are unopened boxes the remote Mongolian city, “so of hardware all over the place.

I’m used to it.”

DAVID SEGAL On Sunday, a man in a lobby was

In Seattle, Template for Success in Long Run East RuthERfoRd, N.J. After the Super Bowl, in the corridor connecting the locker rooms of the Seattle Seahawks and the Denver Broncos, players and coaches on Pro came and went.

Football Peyton Manning and John John Branch Elway went one way, aging quarterbacks left searching for validation.

Pete Carroll came the other.

The coach of the Seahawks, he stepped into the locker room to a raucous celebration: Players and team employees posed with the Lombardi Trophy, and the introverted running back Marshawn Lynch danced to celebrate Seattle’s 43-8 victory.

“We have done everything the way we’ve wanted to get it done,” Carroll shouted through the din. “I’m so proud, fellas, I’m so proud, that we are standing here,

right now, in this moment.”

The moment felt like a change in direction for the N.F.L. The league had staged a game in the outdoor elements, a throwback to the preSuper Bowl age that provided the perfect backdrop for two icons representing the league’s past 30 years — Manning, the 37-year-old Denver quarterback, and Elway, the Hall of Fame quarterback now running the Broncos — to stamp their storied careers.

Then came Carroll and the Seahawks — all youthful enthusiasm, rah-rah coaching philosophies, a roster of overlooked players and a ravenous fan base looking for its first championship.

“What about this defense?”

Carroll shouted, hoisting the trophy and eliciting cheers. He moved on to the offense, then the special teams. He cited the power of the team’s fans in Seattle.

Carroll, 62, is coaching his third

N.F.L. team, but his first since lifting Southern California to dominance in the last decade. When he joined the Seahawks in 2010, he brought that collegial enthusiasm and a belief in positive thinking to the N.F.L., where fun long has been considered a weakness to be eradicated by discipline.

In the locker room after the game Carroll shouted, “As close as we are right now, we will never be separated from this moment.”

The Seahawks finished with their usual routine. “We all we got!” a player shouted.

“We all we need!” the chorus, including Carroll, sang. The refrain was repeated three times.

Then, in unison, a full-throated final question: “What’s next?”

The answer: a victory parade scheduled for Wednesday in Seattle, and a league left trying to figure out how to be more like the newest Super Bowl champions.

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In Brief Bucks Beat Knicks Brandon Knight made a 3-pointer with 1.4 seconds left and finished with 25 points, and the Milwaukee Bucks snapped a sixgame losing streak with a 101-98 victory Monday over the Knicks.

New York rallied from a 10-point deficit in the fourth quarter, but ended up falling to the worst team in the N.B.A. (AP)

Avalanche Stage Rally Ryan O’Reilly scored a powerplay goal less than a half-minute into overtime, and the Colorado Avalanche rallied for a 2-1 victory over the host Devils on Monday night. The Avalanche tied the game with 1:47 left in regulation after they pulled goalie Jean-Sebastien Giguere with 2:30 remaining. It was the third straight game in which New Jersey has given up a late goal to force overtime. The Devils have lost their last two.

(NYT)

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS

US, French Navies Conclude Combined Operations From Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group Public Affairs

Harry S. Truman Carrier Strike Group (HST CSG) and French Navy Task Force 473 concluded five weeks of combined carrier strike group operations in the U.S. 5th Fleet Area of Responsibility (AOR) Feb 2.

The two strike groups began conducting integrated operations Dec. 26 in the Gulf of Oman and have operated together in the northern Arabian Sea and the Arabian Gulf to enhance regional maritime security and stability.

Ships participating in the combined operations included USS Harry S. Truman (CVN 75), guided-missile cruisers USS Gettysburg (CG 64) and USS San Jacinto (CG 56), and guided-missile destroyers USS Bulkeley (DDG 84) and USS

Mason (DDG 87), all assigned to HST CSG. French ships included French aircraft carrier and Task Force 473 flagship FS Charles de Gaulle (R 91), destroyers FS Forbin (D 620) and FS Jean de Vienne (D 643) and replenishment oiler FS Meuse (A 607).

“We executed a wide array of operations together with the Charles de Gaulle

strike group,” said Rear Adm. Kevin Sweeney, commander, Carrier Strike Group 10.

“We conducted combined flight operations from both the Truman and the Charles de Gaulle as well as carrier landing qualifications on both aircraft carriers.”

Lt. Cmdr. Rob Littman, an F/A-18 pilot assigned to the “Ragin Bulls” of Strike Fighter Squadron 37, is a U.S. Navy pilot who had the opportunity to land on Charles de Gaulle.

“Landing on the Charles DeGaulle was a terrific experience,” said Littman. “It was remarkable how similar it was to landing on the Truman.

The French were extremely professional and the transition was seamless.”

Capt. Bob Roth, Truman’s

commanding officer, said it was a unique experience being able to execute flight operations with jets and pilots from the French carrier.

“Planning and conducting actual missions together in this region brought our two fighting units closer together,” said Roth. “Our carrier aviation cultures are very similar, so the mutual real-world missions were executed using familiar tactics, but with a unique mix of platforms. Carrier Air Wing 3 Hornets and Rhinos flew seamlessly from Charles de Gaulle, just as the Rafales and Super Etendards landed and launched effortlessly from Truman. We are a good team and I look forward to the next opportunity to operate with our trusted French allies.”

USS Constitution Opens 2014 July 4 Cruise Lottery From USS Constitution Public Affairs

USS Constitution officially opened the lottery for its 2014 Independence Day turnaround cruise, Feb. 3.

The lottery will select 150 winners from the general public to ride aboard Constitution for its annual Fourth of July cruise in Boston Harbor. This year’s cruise is scheduled to be the ship’s final Independence Day voyage until 2018, as ‘Old Ironsides’ is scheduled to enter a Charlestown Navy Yard dry dock availability in early 2015 for restorations and repairs.

The July 4 turnaround cruise celebrates the nation’s birthday by firing from Constitution’s saluting batteries a 21-gun salute exchange with Fort Independence located on

Castle Island. The voyage is about 4.5 miles total and lasts approximately three hours.

Each winner will be allowed to bring one guest. All guests must be between the ages of eight and 70 years old and be physically able to travel up and down steep ladder wells and stand for prolonged periods

of time in weather that may consist of high temperatures or rain. Entries must be made by completing the entry form on Constitution’s official website and returning it by e-mail or standard mail.

All lottery entries must be received by noon on April 15, with the drawing scheduled for

April 30. Lottery entries are limited to one per household, and winners will be notified by e-mail and standard mail.

To download the official 2014 lottery entry form, visit www.history.navy.mil/ ussconstitution.

USS Constitution, the world’s oldest commissioned warship afloat, actively defended sea lanes against global threats from 1797 to 1855. Now a featured destination on Boston’s Freedom Trail, Constitution and her crew of U.S. Navy Sailors offer community outreach and education about the ship’s history and the importance of naval seapower to more than 500,000 visitors each year.

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