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ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

NAVY MEDIA AWARD WINNING NEWSPAPER

May 1, 2014 • DAILY

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GIVING BACK TO THE COMMUNITY TR Sailors lend helping hands

MAINTAINING MENTAL HEALTH Ship’s Psych helps keep TR mentally healthy

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TR Sailors Give Back to Community Story by MCSA Wyatt Anthony

ommunity relations (COMREL) events are more than just volunteer opportunities or an excuse to take the day off work.

“The COMRELs let people know that we are not only serving our country, we’re also serving the community,” said USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (CVN 71) Community Relations Coordinator Religious Program Specialist 2nd Class Michael Judge. “This is us building a relationship with our community.”

COMREL events strengthen communities around base and build stronger relationships.

Some of TR’s recent COMREL events include participating in an Easter egg hunt at the Gatewood Program for Educating Exceptional Preschoolers (PEEP), as well as cleaning up local libraries and the Norfolk Botanical Garden.

COMREL events aren’t just for Sailors. Many the events are open for Sailors to bring their spouse or a friend to help.

COMREL events extend beyond the communities around our bases here in the United States. The Navy takes great pride in improving the lives of people around the world.

Judge said if a Sailor thinks of any new COMREL activities, they can organize the event and volunteer to become the COMREL coordinator for their department.

To sign up for COMREL events, visit the ship’s library and ask to be put on the list of participants, or talk to your departmental leading petty officer.

“Going out and participating in COMRELs, makes me feel like I’m making a real difference and really benefiting the community around me,” said Religious Programs Specialist Seaman Nicholas Rospos, with

TR Sailors pose for a group photo with Hope Charitable Services in Portsmouth, Va.

the Command Religious Ministries Department on Theodore Roosevelt.

Every Sailor, from a seaman recruit to an admiral, is a helping hand from the Navy to the outside world. No matter how junior a Sailor is, participating in COMREL events provides a real opportunity to reach out and benefit the community.

Keeping Mentally Fit

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Story by MCSA Wyatt Anthony

ental health is defined as a state of well-being in which an individual realizes his or her own potential, can cope with the normal stresses of life, can work productively and is able to make contributions to his or her community.

USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71), and the Navy, offer many resources on and off the ship that Sailors and their families can turn to for assistance in dealing with the stresses of military service.

“Very few environments bring so many factors of stress to bear as acutely as military service, but that does not mean that people will develop a mental health condition. Struggling to cope does not equal mental illness,” said Lt. Cmdr Mathew Rariden, the psychologist onboard TR. There are not always obvious signs that point toward operational stress. It is every Sailor’s job to look for small signs in their shipmates, such as loss of interest in activities, social withdrawal, irritability, sadness, and trouble sleeping.

“Exercising and maintaining a healthy diet will help keep your energy levels up and, in turn, make that stress easier to cope with,” said Rariden.

“You also have to enrich your environment and try to get what you can from it instead of focusing on your environment and what it’s not.”

Sailors can seek help from their shipmates, chaplains, primary care physicians, and Fleet and Family Support Centers.

“For help onboard the ship, Sailors can turn to Applied Suicide Intervention Skills Training (ASIST) team members, the chaplains, the command Sexual Assault Prevention Response (SAPR) counselor, Aviation boatswain’s Mate Equipment 1st Class Mark Harper, or any corpsman in medical,” said Rariden. “And while we’re in port, Sailors can turn to Fleet and Family Support Centers and Military One Source.

When in doubt as to where to turn, go to Medical.”

Fleet and Family Support Centers and Military One Source also offer support programs for Sailors’ dependents.

“Fleet and Family offers a wide variety of programs to also help Sailors’ dependents,” said Rariden. “These programs range from individual and group therapy, to financial management and programs to help dependents.”

Sailors are encouraged to ask for assistance if they need it. Seeking help for operational stress is not a sign of weakness.

“It is important for Sailors to remember that when they’re in distress, they’re most likely having normal reactions to an abnormal environment,” said Rariden. “But they’re not alone, everyone goes through this. People enter the military thinking that they need to imitate a stoic figure they saw in some movie, only relying on themselves, but the reality has always been Sailors relying on other Sailors.”

midnight in New York F R O M T H E PA G E S O F

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014

© 2014 The New York Times

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Ukraine Says That Militants Won the East

Poor Are Better Off, but Far Behind

KIEV, Ukraine — It is by now a well-established pattern. Armed, middle-aged men in camouflage and masks storm a public building somewhere in eastern Ukraine, evict anyone still there, seize weapons and ammunition, throw up barricades and proclaim themselves the rulers of a “People’s Republic.”

It is not clear who is in charge or how the militias are organized.

Through such tactics, a few thousand pro-Russian militants have seized buildings in about a dozen cities, effectively establishing control over much of the industrial region of about 6.5 million.

On Wednesday, Ukraine’s acting president conceded what had long been obvious — the government’s police and security officials had lost control.

“Inactivity, helplessness and even criminal betrayal” plague the security forces, the acting leader, Oleksandr V. Turchynov, told a meeting of regional governors in Kiev. “It is hard to accept but it’s the truth. The majority of law enforcers in the east are incapable of performing their duties.”

With Turchynov’s acknowledgment that a significant chunk of the country had slipped from the government’s grasp, the long-simmering conflict in Ukraine seemed to enter a new and more dangerous phase. Whether that amounts to the lasting dismemberment of Ukraine or hands control of the east to Russia and its president, Vladimir V. Putin, were among the many questions left unanswered after Turchynov delivered his stark assessment.

Whatever the long-term effects, the militants’ seizure of symbolic buildings in cities throughout the country’s southeast is serving what analysts in Russia and the West say is Putin’s short-term goal of so disrupting normal life there that the pro-Russian separatists’ plans for a May 11 vote on autonomy from Kiev could trump Ukraine’s plans to hold a presidential election two weeks later.

ALISON SMALE and ANDREW ROTH

WASHINGTON — Is a family with a car, a flat-screen television and a computer with an Internet connection poor?

Americans — even many of the poorest — enjoy a level of material abundance unthinkable just a generation or two ago. That indisputable economic fact has become a subject of bitter political debate this year, half a century after President Lyndon B. Johnson declared a war on poverty.

Starkly different views on poverty and inequality rose to the fore again on Wednesday as Democrats in the Senate were unable to muster the 60 votes needed to overcome a Republican filibuster of a proposal to raise the national minimum wage to $10.10 an hour. [Page 3] Despite improved living standards, the poor have fallen further behind the middle class and the affluent in both income and consumption. The same global economic trends that have

Falling Prices Make Goods More Affordable

helped drive down the price of most goods also have limited the well-paying industrial jobs once available to a huge swath of working Americans.

“Without a doubt, the poor are far better off than they were at the dawn of the War on Poverty,” said James Ziliak, director of the Center for Poverty Research at the University of Kentucky. “But they have also drifted further away.”

Two broad trends account for much of the change in poor families’ consumption: federal programs and falling prices.

Since the 1960s, both Republican and Democratic administrations have expanded programs like food stamps and the earned-income tax credit. As a result, the differences in what poor and middle-class families consume on a day-to-day basis are much smaller than the differences in what they earn.

“There’s just a whole lot more assistance per low-income person than there ever has been,” said Robert Rector, a senior research fellow for the conservative Heritage Foundation.

Decades of economic growth,

however, have been less successful in raising the incomes from work of many poor families, prompting a conservative critique that anti-poverty programs have failed to make the poor less dependent on government.

But another form of progress has led to what some economists call the “Walmart effect”: falling prices for a huge array of manufactured goods. The result is that Americans can buy much more stuff at bargain prices.

Many crucial services, though, remain out of reach for poor families. The costs of a college education and health care have soared.

In the end, many mainstream economists argue, the lives of the poor must be looked at in light of the nation’s overall wealth and economic advancement.

“If you handpick services and goods where there has been dramatic technological progress, then the fact that poor people can consume these items in 2014 and even rich people couldn’t consume then in 1954 is hardly a meaningful distinction,” said Gary Burtless, an economist for the Brookings Institution.

ANNIE LOWREY

Oklahoma Vows Review in Botched Execution McALESTER, Okla. — As Clayton D. Lockett writhed and groaned on the gurney on Tuesday night after a large dose of sedatives had apparently not been fully delivered, the Oklahoma chief of corrections rushed to call the governor and attorney general. Something had gone disastrously wrong with the lethal injection, he told them, and the execution of a second man must be delayed. Gov. Mary Fallin instantly agreed.

On Wednesday, the state faced an outcry and the White House condemned the failed execution as inhumane. Fallin defended the death penalty but ordered a thorough review of the state’s procedures for lethal injections.

She promised an independent autopsy of Lockett, who had been condemned for shooting a woman and burying her alive, and who

died 43 minutes after the initiation of a procedure that was supposed to be quick and painless.

Lockett’s lawyer said the governor’s vow of an investigation fell short because the task was given not to an outsider but to the state’s public safety commissioner.

Medical and legal experts said the sequence of events in the Oklahoma State Penitentiary here on Tuesday night raised serious concerns about the methods the state uses for executions and the medical training of those who carry them out.

It was also a stark reminder of the repeated problems with lethal injections, which once seemed to promise a relatively humane, inexpensive way to take lives.

Groups opposed to the death penalty called for a moratorium on executions in Oklahoma.

“In Oklahoma’s haste to conduct a science experiment on two men behind a veil of secrecy, our state has disgraced itself before the nation and world,” said Ryan Kiesel, executive director of the Oklahoma branch of the American Civil Liberties Union.

State officials said that it was not the drug cocktail that was at fault. Rather, the intravenous needles had damaged Lockett’s veins, reducing the amounts of the drugs entering his bloodstream.

Fallin said the review, to be carried out by an independent pathologist, would examine the cause of Lockett’s death, determine whether the corrections department had followed protocol and develop recommendations to improve executions.

ERIK ECKHOLM and JOHN SCHWARTZ

INTERNATIONAL

Assailants Attack China Rail Station HONG KONG — Assailants with explosives and knives killed three people and wounded at least 79 Wednesday evening outside a railroad station in Urumqi, the capital of western China’s restive Xinjiang region where President Xi Jinping had just concluded a visit, state news media reported.

Xi, who had just spent four days touring the region for the first time as president, was quoted by the official Xinhua News Agency early Thursday as urging “decisive action” against the attackers.

It was unclear if he was still in the region at the time of the attack.

There was no word on the identities of the assailants or whether any had been captured, but Chinese commentators and analysts said the attack appeared to have been the work of Xinjiang’s militant Uighur separatists.

China’s state broadcaster said an unspecified number of assailants armed with knives set off an explosion in Urumqi’s South Station. The blast took place near the station’s exit about 7:10 p.m., around the time a passenger train from the city of Chengdu arrived.

The police sealed off entrances to the square around the station, and ambulances took the wounded away.

After initially reporting that 50 people had been hurt in the explosion, Xinhua and other state news media said early Thursday that the casualties included at least three dead and 79 wounded. The local police called the incident a “violent terrorist attack.”

MICHAEL FORSYTHE

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014

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As Ship Listed, Students Shot Final Minutes SEOUL, South Korea — As a ferry carrying 476 people was badly listing off the southwestern coast of South Korea two weeks ago, one of the students on board asked, “Are we becoming a Titanic?”

“This is fun!” another shouted, apparently not realizing that the ferry would soon capsize and sink.

In videos recovered from the cellphones of passengers aboard the ferry Sewol, a voice can be heard over the ship’s intercom urging students and their teachers to stay put. But as the ship continued to tip and the voice over the intercom repeated the same instructions, panic spread. Some passengers apparently sensed the approaching doom, and sent farewells to their families.

“This looks like the end,” a boy shouted into a smartphone held by one of his classmates, Park Su-hyeon.

Before he could finish, another boy cut in: “Mom, Dad, I love you.”

After Su-hyeon, 17, was found dead, the police returned the boy’s recovered personal items to his family, who discovered the video footage on his phone. This week, his father released the video to the local news media, saying that South Koreans must watch it to learn what went wrong.

As of Wednesday, 210 people were confirmed dead, with 92 still missing. Of the dead or missing, 250 were students on a school trip to a resort island.

Among the text messages, photos and video clips that have been produced by passengers of the ill-fated ship, Su-hyeon’s

Mourners at a memorial for victims of the sunken ferry Sewol in Ansan, South Korea, on Tuesday.

WOOHAE CHO FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

15-minute footage bears the most dramatic witness to the panic and fear, as well as youthful naïveté and optimism, of the students trapped inside the ship.

Su-hyeon’s video begins at 8:52 a.m. on April 16. That was three minutes before the ferry sent its first distress signal to maritime traffic controllers on shore.

“The ship is leaning!” one passenger can be heard saying.

“Help me!” another said, sounding almost as if it were part of a youthful prank.

As students felt the ship shuddering and wondered whether it was sinking, a crew member came onto the intercom, urging students to stay put.

Though the vessel had tilted so much that some students were grabbing the railings on the wall to hang on, the video showed no sign of students trying to escape.

At 8:55, while the ship’s crew sent its first distress signal, one student in the cabin below shouted, “We don’t want to die!”

Over the intercom, the students were again urged not to move and to hold onto what they could. The

ship’s captain and crew members later told reporters and investigators that they had thought it was safer for the passengers to stay in their cabins than to move in a panicked mass.

Some of the male students appeared to hide their growing fear with jokes and uneasy laughs.

One student said, “We are going to make news with this.” Another said, “This is going to be a lot of fun if we get it onto our Facebook.”

At 8:57, as another announcement from the crew advised “please never move,” one student said: “Should I call Mom? Mom, this looks like the end of me.”

After a two-and-a-half-minute break, the video resumed at 9:00, when students began passing one another life jackets. Some students complained that the zippers of their life jackets did not work and one student gave his life jacket to a classmate who could not find one.

“What about you?” the classmate asked.

“Don’t worry,” his friend responded. “I will get one for myself.”

CHOE SANG-HUN

In Brief Little Violence as Iraqis Vote Millions of Iraqis voted for a new Parliament on Wednesday, defying threats from Islamist extremists, in an election that was carried out, by Iraq’s brutal standards, in remarkable peace. After a surge in violence leading up to the vote, and threats by a Sunni extremist group, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, to strike polling sites, no attacks were reported in Baghdad, and none with any large numbers of casualties were reported elsewhere in the country. The election, the first nationwide vote since the departure of American troops more than two years ago, was seen as a referendum on Nuri Kamal al-Maliki’s eight years as prime minister as he seeks a third term amid a growing Sunni

insurgency that has brought the country to the edge of a new civil war.

(NYT)

Sinn Fein Leader Is Arrested The president of Sinn Fein, Gerry Adams, was arrested and questioned Wednesday about the 1972 abduction and murder of a widowed mother of 10, whose body was found on a beach in the Irish Republic in 2003, according to the Sinn Fein website and the police in Northern Ireland. Adams, 65, a former member of Parliament for West Belfast, said he was innocent of any involvement in the notorious affair, and had presented himself to the Northern Ireland police in Antrim by prearrangement. It was history — an oral history across the Atlantic at Boston College

— that prompted investigators to re-examine the abduction and murder of the widow, Jean McConville.

(NYT)

No Extradition for Ex-Officer Spain’s National Court on Wednesday dealt a setback to victims seeking justice for the abuses of the Franco dictatorship by refusing to extradite to Argentina a former police inspector accused of torture during the 1970s.

The case of Antonio González Pacheco, a former police inspector in Madrid once known as Billy the Kid, has renewed attention on official mistreatment during the Franco era, as well as on the post-Franco amnesty law that prevents victims from having their cases heard in Spanish courts.

(NYT)

NATIONAL

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014

Bill Clinton Defends His Economic Legacy Former President Bill Clinton, who has grown increasingly frustrated that his economic policies are viewed as out-of-step with the current focus on income inequality, on Wednesday delivered his most muscular defense of his economic legacy.

The speech reflected a strategic effort by Clinton and his advisers to reclaim the populist ground now occupied by Sen. Elizabeth Warren and other ascendant left-leaning Democrats, and, potentially, lay out an economic message that could propel his wife, Hillary Rodham Clinton, to the White House in 2016.

“My commitment was to restore broad based prosperity to the economy and to give Americans a chance,” Bill Clinton told students at Georgetown University, his alma mater, as Hillary Clinton looked on from the front row.

For nearly two hours, the former president defended the effect of policies like welfare reform and the earned income tax credit.

“You know the rest, it worked out pretty well,” he said of the 1990s.

As president, Clinton presided over one of the healthiest economies in recent memory, but he also forged a new model of a pro-business, pragmatic Democrat who championed public-private partnerships and open markets. His language was more focused on lifting the middle class than castigating the wealthy. That should not be confused with a lack of concern for the poor, Clinton said.

That nuance has grown harder to communicate in recent weeks, especially as Warren has promoted her bestselling book “A Fighting Chance,” which argues that the deck is stacked in favor of big banks and against ordinary people.

A cadre of economic advisers have been helping the former president crunch data and think about how to better frame his economic legacy — one that included

a balanced budget and the creation of 22.7 million new jobs — in the context of the current climate of economic populism.

Framing his policies effectively has implications beyond Bill Clinton’s legacy. As she decides whether to run for president in 2016, Hillary Clinton has come under criticism from some left-leaning Democrats who view her as too cozy with Wall Street.

At the speech on Wednesday, Bill Clinton called inequality “a severe constraint on growth” and said it was not as much of an issue in the 1990s, when incomes grew more slowly for the richest 20 percent of families than for the poorest 20 percent.

Critics have accused Clinton of trying to be all things to all people and that some of his policies, namely the trade agreements and legislation that allowed the commingling of commercial and investment banks, may have exacerbated the current inequality.

AMY CHOZICK

Before Ink Dries on Rules, Soldiers Rush for Tattoos LAKEWOOD, Wash. — An Army soldier walked into Brass Monkey Tattoo earlier this month and told Dan Brewer, the tattoo artist, to go for it.

“He dropped a thousand bucks,” Brewer said, standing in the shop here, about five minutes from the gate of Joint Base Lewis-McChord. Ten hours later, an ex-girlfriend’s name from a previous tattoo had been covered up, and a memorial to six buddies lost in the war in Afghanistan had been inked across the soldier’s back and ribs.

The military tattoo has a deep history, with reports going back at least to the Roman legions. But

now a tightening of the Army’s regulations on the wear and appearance of uniforms and insignia — issued on March 31 with a 30day window of unit-by-unit implementation — have driven a land rush here and at other Army posts to get “tatted,” as soldiers call it, while the old rules still applied.

The new rules restrict total inkage on arms and legs visible on a soldier wearing short-sleeves and short pants. They also limit the size of each visible tattoo to no bigger than the wearer’s open hand.

But the Army is also generally allowing soldiers to keep the tattoos they had before the effective date of the new rules, as long as

they do not violate prohibitions on things like obscenity, racism or extremism, and are documented with a photograph before the deadline. Hence the rush to get inked.

With some superior officers giving ample warning as to when those photographs would be taken, soldiers said they have experienced a unique window of opportunity — but also, perhaps, a nudge — to get that next tattoo.

“I would probably do it anyway; I’ll just do it sooner,” said Sgt. Ray Stevens, who came after work on Monday to Aces-n-Eights Tattoo and Piercing for some work on his left forearm.

KIRK JOHNSON

Not All Health Care Premiums Are Paid Up, Panel Says WASHINGTON — A House committee said Wednesday that only two-thirds of people signing up for private health insurance in the federal exchange had paid their premiums by April 15.

The Obama administration questioned the accuracy of the numbers, but provided none of its own.

Republican leaders of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce said they obtained the

data from all insurance companies participating in the federal marketplace. Rep. Fred Upton, R-Mich. and chairman of the committee, said the data provided “a snapshot of the true enrollment picture as of April 15.”

President Obama said on April 17 that 8 million people had signed up on the federal and state exchanges, surpassing the administration’s goal.

A subcommittee of the Energy

and Commerce panel plans to hold a hearing next week to take testimony from insurance executives.

Erin Shields Britt, a spokeswoman for the Department of Health and Human Services, said the committee data did “not match up with public comments from insurance companies themselves, most of which indicate that 80 percent to 90 percent of enrollees have paid their premiums.”

ROBERT PEAR

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In Brief Republicans Block Minimum Wage Plan With the Republican-led filibuster of a Senate proposal to raise the federal minimum wage to $10.10 on Wednesday, Democrats moved swiftly to frame the vote as an example of the gulf that exists between the two parties on matters of economic fairness and upward mobility.

Speaking from the White House shortly after the measure was defeated 54 to 42, with 60 votes needed to advance, President Obama admonished Republicans and called on voters to punish them at the polls in November.

Just one Republican voted with the Democrats who supported the measure.

(NYT)

Hundreds Rescued From Floodwaters People were plucked off rooftops or climbed into their attics to escape fast-rising waters when nearly 2 feet of rain fell on the Florida Panhandle and Alabama coast in the span of about 24 hours. On Wednesday, roads were chewed up or wiped out entirely, and neighborhoods were inundated, making rescues difficult for hundreds of people who called for help when they were caught off guard by the single rainiest day ever recorded in Pensacola, Fla. A car and truck plummeted 25 feet when portions of a scenic highway collapsed, and one Florida woman died when she drove her car into high water, the authorities said. (AP)

Actor Bob Hoskins, Oscar Nominee, Dies Bob Hoskins, the bullet-shaped British film star who brought a singular mix of charm, menace and cockney accent to a variety of roles, including the bemused live-action hero of the largely animated “Who Framed Roger Rabbit,” has died. He was 71. A spokeswoman, Clair Dobbs, released a statement by his family on Wednesday saying that he had died in a hospital, where he had been treated for pneumonia. A much-honored, Oscar-nominated actor, Hoskins had announced his retirement in August 2012 after learning he had Parkinson’s disease.

(NYT)

BUSINESS

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014

THE MARKETS

Once More, U.S. Economy Exhibits Weakness walk along the Hudson River. In their initial estimate for growth in the months of January, February and March, government statisticians said output expanded at an annual rate of just 0.1 percent.

With more volatile factors like trade and inventory swings excluded, the pace of growth in domestic demand was about 1.5 percent in the first quarter, just slightly below where it was in the fourth quarter of 2013, while consumer spending increased at a healthy 3 percent rate.

Even if activity picks up in the current quarter and the second half of the year, said Dan North, chief economist at Euler Hermes North America, a larger insurer, the annual growth rate will still likely be below the post-World War II average just over 3 percent.

“We’ve been living in sub 3 percent land, and people have gotten used to that as the new normal,” North said. “But it’s not. It’s anemic.”

Corporate investment in equipment, which jumped sharply in the fourth quarter of 2013, reversed course in the first quarter, a major reason overall business investment slackened, shaving 0.4 percent off growth. Other major sources of weakness included a slower buildup in inventories, which reduced the pace of expansion by 0.6 percent, and a weakening trade balance.

The fresh economic indicators and the Fed announcement Wednesday afternoon kicked off a busy few days for economists and investors, and Wall Street will be glued to the flow of data.

NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

Facebook to Let Users Limit Data They Reveal SAN FRANCISCO — Trying to become even bigger — and make more money — Facebook will allow users to reveal a little less.

The social network announced on Wednesday that when its 1.3 billion users log in to other websites or mobile apps through their Facebook identities, they will be able to limit what they reveal to the site or app to just their email addresses and public profile information like name and gender.

Before, depending on the app or site, the simple act of using the Facebook login exposed much of their Facebook information.

The social network also announced it was testing a feature to allow people to use their Facebook identity to log in to other

sites or apps through a button marked “Log in anonymously.”

Users who choose that button would not be anonymous to Facebook, which will continue to collect the information about what apps its users are active on — data that is useful for targeting ads. But no personal information would be revealed to the outside service.

Both these moves respond to longtime complaints raised by many users who object to requests for personal data, and who object to being asked to login through Facebook. Even Mark Zuckerberg, Facebook’s co-founder and chief executive, seems to share these concerns.

“I install a lot of apps,” Zuck-

erberg said in an interview Wednesday in San Francisco.

“I think that’s something a lot of people can empathize with, and we just want to give them the tools to help mediate that.”

While the changed rules involving logins are likely to be popular with Facebook users, app developers will lose valuable information about their customers.

But Facebook is offering them other inducements to work with the social network. The company formally announced a new mobile ad network that can tap Facebook’s knowledge of its users to place targeted ads inside other companies’ apps, with Facebook and the app-maker sharing the revenue.

VINDU GOEL

Oil Train Derails as New Shipping Rules Are Studied In the latest accident involving rail cars carrying crude oil, a CSX train derailed and erupted into black, smoky flames on Wednesday in downtown Lynchburg, Va., forcing scores of people to evacuate and causing a spill in the James River.

Hours later, the Transportation Department said that a package of rules aimed at improving the safety of oil transport by rail had been sent Wednesday night to the White House for review.

The proposed regulations were not made public, but they follow

Canada’s announcement of stiffer regulations last week and are expected to include measures requiring transport companies to replace old tank cars with more robust models that are resistant to puncture.

As smoke billowed into the air, frightened shoppers, office workers and residents evacuated a 20-block area of Lynchburg, a city of 77,000. There were no reported injuries.

Images from the scene uploaded to social media and broadcast by local television showed

mangled tracks along the river and three black tankers that slid down the bank into the water.

Within an hour of the derailment, the smoke and flames had largely subsided. City officials said 13 to 14 cars derailed and three to four cars had ruptured.

They were unsure how much oil drained into the river.

The city of Richmond, about 120 miles downstream, was preparing to switch to an alternative water supply in case oil reached it, The Richmond Times-Dispatch reported. CLIFFORD KRAUSS

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As has happened so many times since the recovery began nearly five years ago, the economy turned in another disappointing quarterly performance, surprising even the most pessimistic observers as growth in the first three months of 2014 slowed to a near-standstill.

But looking past the weak report from the Commerce Department on Wednesday, policy makers at the Federal Reserve said they believed that activity was already rebounding from the deep winter dive, and are sticking with their plan to gradually reduce monthly bond purchases aimed at stimulating the economy.

While that optimism was reassuring for Wall Street, which rallied after the Fed announcement, the picture in the rear-view mirror was as bleak as a January

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BUSINESS

A Mojave Desert Ghost Town Goes Green NIPTON, Calif. — Gerald Freeman leaned on a walking stick on a dusty hill near the four rows of his solar arrays, talking about it like an apostle on a mission.

Down the road are the NIPTON JOURNAL eucalyptus trees he planted as a potential source of biomass. And not far away, he said, he hopes to install a hydrogen system, another source of renewable fuel.

It is all part of Freeman’s unlikely dream here in the Mojave Desert — to turn this town into a community running on clean power entirely of its own making.

The dream began in earnest about 30 years ago, when Freeman, a gold miner living in Malibu, bought this ghost town — hotel and general store included. He still has a ways to go, but Nipton now produces roughly half the electricity for its fluctuating population of 30 to 70 residents from the array Freeman installed in 2010.

“The more independent we can become of outside resources, the better,” Freeman said, citing the rising cost of utility power, frequent outages and preserving the environment as motivation.

“I’ve been conscious of the global warming issue since my early days in school. It’s only now beginning to be so much part of the present day. People are slow to adapt to an oncoming reality.”

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For decades, people have experimented with self-reliant living, whether hippies flocking to communes in the hills or survivalists hunkering down across the plains. But not since Henry David Thoreau took off into the woods near Walden Pond has the idea of going off the grid seemed so within reach — albeit this time without sacrificing the modern conveniences.

Still, it is not yet easy to unplug from the power system, as Freeman’s journey — which he may not get to complete because of flagging health — illustrates.

Freeman, 81, first got to know the place — not much more than a few buildings plopped behind the railroad tracks like a movie set — back in the 1950s. With a degree in geology from the California Institute of Technology, he would come from Los Angeles to

Nipton, Calif., is one of many places trying to generate its own power. Gerald Freeman bought the Mojave Desert ghost town about 30 years ago.

prospect for gold, spending days climbing and sampling the rocks on his own. So when Nipton came up for sale, he bought it in 1984.

The town offered tremendous resources in the form of a Pleistocene-era underground lake and strong, year-round sunshine barely trespassed by clouds. It also had a rich history, bustling from the late 19th to mid-20th centuries along with the mining industry, and even boasting a hotel that played host to the silent-movie star Clara Bow. Standing near the spot where, on those long-ago prospecting trips, Freeman would call the train depot to tell the motorman to pick him up, he referred to the need for self-sufficiency.

“Things are evolving and the future is clear,” he said. “It’s just a question of how soon we can get there.” DIANE CARDWELL

Stern Talk From F.C.C. Chief on an Open Internet LOS ANGELES — The Federal Communications Commission’s chairman delivered a tough message to cable and broadband executives Wednesday, saying a lack of competition in their industry has hurt consumers.

The chairman, Tom Wheeler, said that the F.C.C. intended to address the problem by writing tough new rules to enforce socalled net neutrality, preventing big broadband and cable companies from blocking access to innovative new technologies and start-ups that might emerge as competitors.

Wheeler told the group that he would use the agency’s federal authority to override state laws that restrict municipalities from offering inexpensive broadband service to residents. Cable companies have aggressively funded efforts to put those laws in place.

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The aggressive stance by Wheeler represents his most vigorous attempt yet to convince both consumers and the industry he regulates that he intends to closely watch and protect open access to the Internet.

It comes as the F.C.C. has faced vigorous criticism and lobbying over net neutrality and the effect that a proposed merger between Comcast and Time Warner Cable would have on cable and broadband competition. A combined Comcast-Time Warner Cable would control about 40 percent of the broadband market in the United States, and the leverage it would have in the industry will be one of main factors the F.C.C. will study as it considers the merger.

“For many parts of the communications sector, there hasn’t been as much competition as consumers and innovation deserve,”

Wheeler said at the annual meeting of the National Cable and Telecommunications Association.

That echoed his statement on the F.C.C.’s blog on Tuesday that “there remains a shortfall in adequate broadband competition.”

Consumer groups and other critics have accused Wheeler as being soft on the industry in part because he formerly was head of the very trade association he was addressing Wednesday. But at that time, Wheeler said, cable was the insurgent technology rather than the incumbent. Now, he said, both his and the industry’s responsibilities are different.

“As a result of the importance of our broadband networks, our society has the right to demand highly responsible performance from those who operate those networks,” Wheeler said.

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday: General Electric Co., up 13 cents to $26.89. The conglomerate inched closer to buying the energy-related businesses of France’s Alstom but rival offers and political concern in France may hold up or scuttle the deal.

Energizer Holdings Inc., up $13.98 to $111.69. The company will split into two entities, one selling batteries and other selling personal care goods, like razors.

Time Warner Inc., up $1.72 to $66.46.

The breakout hit “The Lego Movie” and the HBO show “True Detective” drove the entertainment company’s profit and revenue higher.

Twitter Inc., down $3.65 to $38.97.

Shares in the social network slumped to their lowest levels yet on concerns about its ability to add and then keep users.

Garmin Ltd., up $2.01 to $57.10. The GPS equipment maker continues to surprise Wall Street in the face of a smartphone barrage, topping profit expectations again. eBay Inc., down $2.71 to $51.83. A weak outlook from the e-commerce site overshadowed better-than-expected earnings and revenue during the first quarter.

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A Short Cut for New Yorkers In early April, a week before she was due to leave for South Africa to run an ultramarathon, Cortney Harding decided to get her hair cut. Harding, who is 33 and lives in Williamsburg, Brooklyn, went from hair that hit just above the shoulder to a short jaw-length bob with bangs. “I wanted to feel the sun on the back of my neck,” she said.

She’s not the only one. After a punishing New York winter, many women are cutting their hair short as a way to finally embrace spring.

“People are sick of having scarves tangled in their long hair,” said Heather Shea, a senior stylist at the Parlour Brooklyn, a salon in Greenpoint. “They want to feel a fresh start. At least 25 percent of my clients have short hair right now, maybe 50 percent if you include bobs.”

Shea said that “people are bringing in pictures constantly.”

“Alexa Chung’s bob is really popular — she’s a very good representation of what a Brooklyn woman’s bob looks like, a little disarrayed and not so perfect,” she added. “Or for people who work in an industry who need to look more polished, we get Julianne Hough. We’re doing a lot of pixies. Michelle Williams is the No. 1 pixie cut.”

When Ann Heppermann booked an appointment with Shea to get her hair cut short a couple

Artistic Platforms Clients bring in photos of celebrities to better perfect their summertime crop cuts.

Taylor Swift, far left, and Rihanna.

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of months ago, she immediately turned to Google’s image search for inspiration. “I thought, ‘I’m 39, I shouldn’t be looking at pictures of Jennifer Lawrence,’” said Heppermann, a radio producer in Greenpoint.

But the fact that many celebrities have made not just the much-documented crop of Karlie Kloss but an outright chop can be emboldening. It is, perhaps, a retort to the arduous glamour waves that have become such a staple of reality television and blowout bars. “In America, they love their long hair,” said Julien Farel, who is French and whose eponymous salon is on the Upper East Side. “But all the big actresses have changed their hair. That’s the basis of the trend — ‘If they do it, I can do it.’”

Short cuts — above the shoulder on up — can work on anyone, said Morgan Willhite, the creative director for the hair care company

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Ouidad. “You can style it where you camouflage features you’re insecure about. If you have a high forehead, you can have fringe. If you have a prominent nose, you can shift the direction of the part.

If you have a fuller face, you can have it longer.”

Another factor in short hair’s newfound ubiquity might be women moving away en masse from long beach waves with bleached tips. “People are cutting off the damaged ends from ombré highlights,” said Kate Hanley, a senior stylist and colorist at Takamichi Hair on the Bowery.

Chris Lospalluto, a stylist at the Sally Hershberger Salon, said that women “are over the long, hippie, Coachella hair. Of course it’s beautiful if you’re 18, but they’re looking for a style that’s not so bedhead-y and sexualized.” Short hair “is chic-er and more sophisticated,” he said.

MARISA MELTZER

Richard Prince, Cindy Sherman and Ed Ruscha are among the 20 artists who have created works of art using the Charlotte Olympia signature Dolly platform pumps as the canvas. The project, “Stepping Up for Art,” was conceived by India Wolf, the daughter of Maya Lin and the art dealer Daniel Wolf, who persuaded the artists to participate after she saw an Olympia capsule collection designed for Art Basel Miami Beach. The shoes, on display at Gagosian Gallery from Friday to Monday, include George Condo’s “Untitled,” a scribbled image of a woman’s face; Francesco Clemente’s “Vanitas,” a painted butterfly and lizard; and proud mother Maya Lin’s “Glass Slipper,” a fairy-tale pair embellished with recycled glass. They will be sold privately to benefit Studio in a School, a nonprofit organization that brings art education to underfunded public schools in New York City. (NYT)

Nicole Richie is Candid About Pushing Boundaries Raised and now based in Los Angeles, Nicole Richie, 32, is known for her fashion line House of Harlow 1960 and reality TV shows, including “The Simple Life” and “Fashion Star.” In July, she’s scheduled to add another, “#CandidlyNicole,” on VH1. The adopted daughter of Lionel Richie and Brenda Harvey, Richie is married to the musician, Joel Madden, with whom she has a daughter, Harlow, 6, and son, Sparrow, 4.

SKIN CARE

I take pretty good care of my skin. I use a lot of Dr. Lancer’s products — he’s someone I met through my parents. I actually didn’t see anybody until I was about 23. I didn’t know anything at all about skin care then. But I thought I should know more and my parents recommended him.

He gave me the talk to stay out of the sun and gave me a few prod-

Nicole Richie says she likes to keep her beauty regimen fairly simple.

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ucts as a preventive measure.

Now, in the morning I use his cleanser, polish and moisturizer.

That’s it for my face. I don’t use SPF. At nighttime it’s pretty much the same routine only I switch to a nighttime cream.

MAKEUP

I don’t wear a lot of makeup. I try, overall, to keep my skin hydrated and to let it breathe. I’ll use

Clé de Peau concealer to cover up my undereye situation and Cover Girl mascara. Those are my gotos. And I’ll use a Shu Uemura eyelash curler to make my eyes more alive. I don’t do a blush or a lip. I do use Lucas Papaw ointment on my lips.

HAIR

I recently colored my hair. It’s a lavender/silver. My daughter

asked me to do it, so I did. This change of color and all the maintenance is something new to me.

With colored hair there are a lot of rules I’m learning. I just switched to this new natural shampoo by Davines, and I use a color conditioner that my hair colorist Danny Moon makes for me. He mixes up a combination of conditioner and color so that it deposits a little color each time.

DIET

As far as diet, we don’t diet here.

But I’m very conscious of what my family eats. We grow a lot of our own fruits and vegetables.

Currently, we are growing kale, spinach, broccoli, three kinds of tomato, arugula and we grow all of our own herbs as well. If you make that the standard for the family, it becomes habit. But my whole thing is that you have to enjoy yourself, too. BEE SHAPIRO

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JOURNAL

A Copyright on Karl Marx? How Uncomradely class of the world spiritually, they are that important,” said David Walters, one of the organizers of the Marxist archive. “I would think Marx would want the most prolific and free distribution of his ideas possible — he wasn’t in it for the money.”

The fight over online control of Marx’s works comes at a time when his ideas have found a new relevance, whether because the financial crisis of 2008 shook people’s confidence in global capitalism or, with the passage of time, the Marx brand has become less shackled to the legacy of the Soviet Union.

Despite this boomlet in interest, however, the London-based Lawrence & Wishart hardly expects to have an online hit on its hand,

The Marxist Internet Archive, a website devoted to radical writers and thinkers, recently received an email: It must take down hundreds of works by Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels or face legal consequences.

The warning did not come from a multinational media conglomerate but from a small, leftist publisher, Lawrence & Wishart, which asserted copyright ownership over the 50-volume, English-language edition of Marx and Engels’s writings.

To some, it was “uncomradely” that fellow radicals would deploy the capitalist tool of intellectual property law to keep Marx’s writings off the Internet.

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said Sally Davison, the publisher’s managing editor. The goal is to create a digital edition to sell to libraries.

“Creating a digital strategy is key to our survival,” she said. “We are currently negotiating with somebody, that’s why we’ve asked the archive to take it off — it’s hard to sell it to librarians if a version already exists online.”

Lawrence & Wishart was losing the argument online, however. The publisher said that it had received about 500 abusive emails, along the lines of “How can you say you are radicals?”

Davison defended her position by quoting Marx to the effect that you must adapt to real-world conditions: “We don’t live in a world of everybody sharing everything – as Marx said, and I may be paraphrasing, ‘We make our own history, but not in the conditions of our own choosing.’ ” The publisher also tried to turn the tables on its critics, questioning whether it was indeed radical to believe that there was no ownership of content produced through hard work, like the mammoth translation and annotation of Marx and Engel’s work.

In a note on its site, Lawrence & Wishart said its critics were not carrying on the socialist and communist traditions, but reflecting a “consumer culture which expects cultural content to be delivered free to consumers, leaving cultural workers such as publishers, editors and writers unpaid, while the large publishing and other media conglomerates and aggregators continue to enrich themselves.”

Peter Linebaugh, a University of Toledo professor who has studied the history of communism, said that the comprehensive English translation of Marx and Engels writings was a galvanizing event He expressed disappointment over the publisher’s move.

Surveying the affair, he concluded: “This is the triumph of capitalism, having the small fish biting at each other.”

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OPINION

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EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

State-Sponsored Horror in Oklahoma At 6:36 p.m. on Tuesday in McAlester, Okla., Clayton Lockett started kicking his leg, then twitching, then writhing and moaning in agony, and everyone watching knew something had gone terribly wrong. Lockett, a convicted murderer, was strapped to a gurney in the death chamber of the Oklahoma State Penitentiary, about to be executed by lethal injection, but the untested combination of a sedative and a paralyzing agent had failed.

This horrific scene — the very definition of cruel and unusual punishment — should never have happened. The Oklahoma Supreme Court tried to stop it last week, concerned that the state refused to reveal the origin of the deadly cocktail. But several lawmakers threatened to impeach the justices, and Gov. Mary Fallin blindly ignored the warning signs and ordered the execution to proceed.

On Wednesday afternoon, a few hours after her employees tortured a man to death, Fallin suddenly showed an interest in execution procedures. She ordered an independent review of the injection protocol, halting further state killings until the investigation is complete.

She should have gone much further and followed other governors and legislatures in banning executions, recognizing that the American administration of death does not function.

Seven states have put the death penalty on hold over the last five years because of issues of fairness or methods; another 11 states are debating the issue. Even in states where the death penalty is applied, the number of executions has fallen sharply since 2009.

The medieval mechanics of death, though, are hardly the only reason that states are abandoning the practice. There is growing evidence that capital sentences are handed out in an arbitrary and racially biased way, often to innocent victims. A new study published by the National Academy of Sciences estimated that more than 4 percent of all death-row defendants are innocent.

The authors reached that figure by extrapolating from the growing number of exonerations of death-row inmates. They accused Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia of miscalculating when he wrote in 2007 that convictions in American courts have only a .027 percent error rate. “That would be comforting, if true,” the study says. “In fact, the claim is silly.” Even more disturbing, the report says, is the stark reality for innocent people sentenced to death: most will never be exonerated.

Jurists and lawmakers are increasingly aware that an immediate moratorium on death is the only civilized response to this arbitrary cruelty. As Wallace Carson Jr., the former chief justice of the Oregon Supreme Court, put it recently, “the exceptional cost of death penalty cases and the seemingly haphazard selection of which cases deserve the death penalty outweigh any perceived public benefit of this sanction.”

The “exceptional cost” refers not just to dollars and cents. It refers to the moral diminishment of the United States when a man dies by the hasty hand of government, writhing in pain.

The Dark Side of the Sharing Economy Proponents of the “sharing economy” say websites like Airbnb that make it easy for people to rent a spare bedroom or an apartment on a short-term basis are a boon because they generate income for residents while giving visitors a cheap place to stay. But advocates often ignore or dismiss big problems with these short-term rentals, including the fact that they are making housing less affordable in big cities by restricting supply. And in some cases the rentals may be illegal, which is one reason the New York state attorney general, Eric Schneiderman, has begun an investigation.

There are good reasons that governments regulate housing. For example, officials use zoning laws to separate hotels and residential development so apartment buildings are not overrun by tourists. Rent control policies exist to help ensure that lower-income tenants have a place to live. Laws against short-term rentals make sure landlords do not operate illegal hotels and reduce the number of apartments available to permanent residents.

Schneiderman found that at the end of January about 30 percent of the nearly 20,000 New York City listings on Airbnb, one of the most successful “sharing” companies, were placed

by people or businesses that advertised more than one listing. Multiple listings by the same person suggests that landlords have converted thousands of apartments into illegal hotels.

A majority of the listings on the site also appear to violate a 2010 state law that forbids residents or landlords from renting out apartments in New York City for less than 30 days.

Schneiderman has subpoenaed Airbnb for data on its users and listings. But the company argues that the subpoena is overbroad and would violate its users’ privacy.

The company’s position seems disingenuous, especially since it removed 2,000 clients who had multiple listings after the subpoena was issued. If the company is serious about its commitment to “making cities better,” it should provide Schneiderman data that would help officials go after people who knowingly break the law.

Rents in the five boroughs increased 11 percent from 2005 to 2012 after adjusting for inflation, according to a recent New York University report, while median incomes of renters increased just 2 percent. Given that bleak picture, the city can ill afford having more apartments turned into illegal hotel rooms.

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It’s Only a Million It’s sad what a million dollars has fallen to.

I have been thinking about this recently, ever since The Times had an article about Jeb Bush’s scramble to make up for the fact that he left the governorship of Florida with a net worth of only $1.3 million.

I have to admit, I was surprised Jeb Bush did not have more money than that. He must have felt terrible at family gatherings. When they started planning for Christmas, do you think the other Bushes assured Jeb that they’d be happy with a pot holder or a knitted scarf, just as long as it was handmade?

The article, reported by Michael Barbaro, had a happy ending. Bush is now making more than $1 million a year just for giving advice to Barclays bank. Which is hardly his only job. He has a ton of gigs like that. People are lining up to pay vast sums for the man’s opinion.

A million dollars used to be a magic number, a sign of permanent affluence. You’d made it!

But now it won’t buy you lunch with Warren Buffett (the winning bidder in a charity auction paid $1,000,100) or even, it appears, a public defender. The lawyers for the allegedly indigent former Detroit Mayor Kwame Kilpatrick and his father billed the government more than $1 million during their public corruption trial.

Most Americans’ reverence for the million-dollar figure is based on the fact that they do not have $1 million themselves and are not seeing any signs that Barclays will want to give it to them for a year’s worth of consultation. But there are also a lot of old cultural memories.

But to get back to politics: $1 million will get you Jeb Bush’s advice. Also, it will buy a visit from Hillary Clinton. Four, in fact — she gets around $250,000 per appearance. When someone in the audience threw a shoe at her recently, she was speaking at the Institute of Scrap Recycling Industries.

It’s not that money doesn’t buy happiness.

It’s that these days it requires a whole lot more than $1 million. More than half of all the members of Congress are now millionaires, but many of them don’t seem to be all that thrilled about their financial condition.

“They feel: ‘We’re so underpaid,’ ” said Fred Wertheimer, the campaign finance reform activist.

Once politicians get to Congress, they become acquainted with people who are truly rich. That’s pretty much a necessity because re-election is something else you cannot generally buy for $1 million. Suddenly, they’re hanging out with folks who have private jets and four houses.

Eventually, many lawmakers begin to feel they are making an enormous sacrifice by holding public office for $174,000 a year. And then they’re off to a D.C. law firm or lobbying job, which will pay them huge salaries for knowing who they know. It will never occur to them that if voters had not given them that stint of public service, they would be processing divorce cases back home in East Cupcake.

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Suddenly, Everyone Wants to Buy the Clippers LOS ANGELES — For most of the Clippers’ 30-year tenure in Los Angeles, they have been viewed as a punch line in hightops.

And so, a day after the N.B.A commissioner gave the team’s owner, Donald Sterling, a lifetime ban and recommended that owners vote him out, the conversation about who might replace Sterling revealed the Clippers to be in a strikingly unfamiliar position: the toast of the town.

The prospect of an auction created a frenzy, with hands flying up, both playfully and not, for a chance to bid on the most coveted commodity in professional sports: a competitive team in a major market. The Clippers, the forgotten stepchild of Los Angeles sports franchises, are suddenly the belle of basketball.

Oprah Winfrey is interested in forming a partnership to buy

the team with the Silicon Valley mogul Larry Ellison and the entertainment mogul David Geffen, Winfrey’s spokeswoman said. So is the boxer Floyd Mayweather Jr. — with his rival Oscar De La Hoya.

Dr. Dre, an icon of West Coast rap, has expressed interest in the team, as has Sean Combs, who may be an icon of East Coast rap but has caught Clippers fever just the same. “I will always be a Knicks fan,” he said on Twitter, “but I am a business man.”

The comedian Mindy Kaling said she, too, was interested in buying the Clippers, promising that “the uniforms will be the same but bedazzled.”

All the attention and adoration may be disorienting for the Clippers, a basketball calamity that had two winning seasons in Sterling’s first 30 years.

But the Clippers’ overnight

transformation is a classic Hollywood tale: An ugly story becomes a heartwarming one, complete with a (potential) happy ending — and lots of celebrity cameos.

There would be one surefire way to write a storybook ending to the Sterling scandal.

Enter Magic Johnson, the Lakers Hall of Famer who is revered for his charisma and business acumen and was dragged into the scandal when Sterling mentioned him in that infamous recording.

Johnson has denied a report that said he was interested in joining a group to buy the Clippers, but that has not stopped Los Angeles from talking about it.

Steve Perrin, the managing editor of a Clippers fan site, ClipsNation.com, said “If you want the Hollywood ending to all this, it’s Magic Johnson.”

BILLY WITZ and MARY PILON

Nets Make Stunning Comeback but Come Up Short TORONTO — There were roughly three and half minutes left in the third quarter Wednesday when fans in the capacity crowd at Air Canada Centre beN.B.A. gan singing, “Brooklyn … Broo-klyn …

Roundup Broo-klyn.”

It was the Nets’ signature chant, co-opted for the purposes of mockery. The Toronto Raptors were leading by 26 points, injecting a sense of swagger.

The taunt proved premature, as the Nets scored 44 points in the fourth quarter to make an exhilarating comeback. But in the end, both the lead and ridicule would hold up, as the Raptors slipped

away with a 115-113 win.

And so the Raptors, a team that only recently began to see itself as a playoff contender, took a 3-2 series lead over the Nets, a group that has seen itself as worthy of the trophy since last summer. The best-of-seven series will continue Friday at Barclays Center.

The teams followed the leads of their point guards. Kyle Lowry was an effervescent force for the Raptors, scoring 36 points and shooting 11 for 19 from the field.

Nets point guard Deron Williams (13 points), who had 3 points and 4 assists through the first three quarters, began putting pressure on the Raptors’ defense in the

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Tony Parker had 23 points hours after the birth of his first child and the host San Antonio Spurs never trailed in a 109-103 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Wednesday night, taking a 3-2 lead in their first-round series.

Manu Ginobili had 19 points and Tiago Splitter added 17 points and 12 rebounds as San Antonio regained home-court advantage in the tense series against their intrastate rival.

Vince Carter scored 28 points, making numerous heavily contested shots for Dallas.

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Rangers Win Series Daniel Carcillo and Benoit Pouliot scored second-period goals, and the Rangers advanced to the second round of the Stanley Cup playoffs with a 2-1 victory over the Philadelphia Flyers in Game 7 on Wednesday. The Rangers shook off a 5-2 thrashing on Tuesday and knocked out the Flyers about 24 hours later, improving to 6-0 in Game 7s at Madison Square Garden. New York will face the Pittsburgh Penguins, starting on Friday.

(AP)

N .B .A . SC O RES TUESDAY’S LATE GAME L.A. Clippers 113, Golden State 103 Clippers lead series, 3-2 WEDNESDAY San Antonio 109, Dallas 103 Spurs lead series, 3-2 Toronto 115, Nets 113 Raptors lead series, 3-2

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SPORTS JOURNAL

THURSDAY, MAY 1, 2014

Rivers Becomes the Voice of the Clippers LOS ANGELES — When Doc Rivers walked into a conference room Tuesday night that was so packed that dozens of reporters were turned away, he took a deep breath and exhaled as he sat behind the microphone. He then proceeded to do what he had spent much of the previous three days doing: answering question after question about his employer, the Los Angeles Clippers’ owner, Donald Sterling.

When Rivers arrived here last summer, lured by a three-year, $21 million contract and the promise of a team brimming with talent, it made for an interesting dynamic: a coach and chief basketball executive with a Celtics pedigree trying to win a championship in a Lakers town.

Rivers, by all accounts, has done a masterly job. He has brought a commanding presence to the bench, been a strong influence on the team’s core of Blake Griffin, Chris Paul and DeAndre Jordan, and led the team to a franchise-record 57 victories.

But he has never been more valuable to the Clippers than in the last few days. To a franchise that has needed a voice, he has provided one that has been at once calm and defiant, reassuring and resolute.

Rivers has shared with his team his own experiences with racism,

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Coach Doc Rivers with Chris Paul, the Clippers guard. including the burning of his house, and encouraged them to do the same. He has talked with Commissioner Adam Silver, Mayor Eric Garcetti of Los Angeles and Mayor Kevin Johnson of Sacramento, who has been representing the players union. Earlier Tuesday, he spoke with Rochelle Sterling, the wife of the owner, telling her she was welcome.

While his players have been shielded from the news media, except for after games, Rivers has answered questions each day, inside the locker room and out, in a revealing way.

Bernard Parks, a member of the Los Angeles City Council and

a former police chief, said Rivers had been a magnificent voice not only for his players, but also for the city. That Rivers rejected an overture from Sterling was a strong, symbolic gesture.

“He’s been a shield, taking all the heat for everybody, not just his players,” Parks said. “There are few people, no matter who you were, no matter the circumstances, if the owner called and said can we talk, a lot of people would be sitting in that office saying, ‘Yeah, what do you want?’ ” Rivers, with few exceptions, has been open and nonjudgmental about the opinions of his players and others about the proper response. He has said he was unsure if he would return to coach next year, but conceded it is more likely if a new owner is in place. One point he has tried to make repeatedly is that victims of racism are unfairly asked to respond. That is a burden, he said, that should fall to others.

Paul, without prompting Tuesday night, made a point of praising Rivers’s leadership.

“I couldn’t imagine having another coach who was there, communicating with us, asking us how we’re feeling and not just tell us, ‘We’re going to do this, we’re going to do that.’ ” Paul said. “He actually listened to us throughout this entire thing.”

BILLY WITZ

Florida State’s Winston Cited for Stealing Shellfish Jameis Winston, Florida State’s Heisman Trophy-winning quarterback, found himself in offthe-field trouble once again on Tuesday night when he was cited for shoplifting seafood from a grocery store in Tallahassee, Fla. Winston, 20, said he took “full responsibility” for making the “terrible mistake” of ordering $32.72 worth of crawfish and crab legs from a Publix near the Florida State campus and, after picking the food up, departing without paying. He called the incident a moment of “youthful ignorance.”

This is Winston’s fourth incident in the last 18 months involving law enforcement. He was not charged or arrested in any of the cases, including a rape case.

The athletic department at Florida State announced Wednesday that its baseball coach, Mike Martin, had suspended Winston, who is also a pitcher and an outfielder,

from the team.

Maj. Michael Wood of the Leon County Sheriff’s Office said surveillance video confirmed that it was Winston who left the store’s premises. Wood said that when deputies arrived at Winston’s residence a few hours later, Winston was “very cooperative” and acknowledged his misstep.

Winston told deputies that he realized after arriving at home that he had forgotten to pay but that he had not made an effort to contact Publix or to return to the store to buy the items.

Wood emphasized that Winston had not been arrested or charged with a crime. He said that, because Winston had no criminal history and was a first-time offender, he was eligible for a civil citation program. He must complete at least 20 hours of community service to avoid being charged, and he will probably repay the $32.72.

Winston, in a statement released by his lawyer on Wednesday, said he was grateful for the opportunity to perform the community service.

Jimbo Fisher, Florida State’s football coach, said in a statement that he supported the decision to suspend Winston from the baseball team and added that he would “also make sure that Jameis meets all obligations, which I know he will.”

Winston led Florida State’s football team to an undefeated record and a national championship, setting freshman records in the Football Bowl Subdivision for touchdown passes and passing yards despite spending most of the second half of the season under scrutiny. The most serious allegation surfaced in November, when Winston was investigated in a sexual battery case.

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In Brief California Chrome Is 5-2 Derby Favorite The only time Victor Espinoza won the Kentucky Derby was aboard War Emblem in 2002.

They broke from the No. 5 post, the same position he will start the 140th edition of the race with early 5-2 favorite California Chrome. Eight horses have won from the No. 5 post. Hopportunity was made the 6-1 second choice in the full field of 20 horses. Wicked Strong, named for the victims of last year’s Boston Marathon bombings, is the 8-1 third choice and will break from the 20th post on the far outside.

(AP)

Montoya to Return For 2 Nascar Races Juan Pablo Montoya is turning Indianapolis into his own triple play. Roger Penske’s team announced Wednesday that the Colombian driver will add two Nascar races — Indianapolis and Michigan — to his full-time IndyCar schedule. Montoya is scheduled to compete in the inaugural Grand Prix of Indianapolis on May 10. One week later, he will attempt to qualify for the Indianapolis 500. Now he will return for the Brickyard 400 in July.

(AP)

Atlético Advances A season of the unexpected for Atlético Madrid will end with its first Champions League final in 40 years — and against no less than its hometown rival. Atlético overpowered Chelsea 3-1 on Wednesday. Real Madrid, seeking a record 10th title, will play Atlético at Lisbon on May 24.

(AP)

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS

Pacific Partnership Brings New Look to Multilateral Mission PEARL HARBOR (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy’s ninth multilateral Pacific Partnership mission will include an enhanced role for Japan, and simultaneous seaborne and airborne phases, to improve disaster response preparedness in five Southeast Asia host nations beginning in late May. Directly assisting host nations Vietnam, Cambodia, and the Republic of the Philippines, a Japan Maritime Self-Defense Force (JMSDF) ship will serve as this year’s primary mission platform, marking the first time Pacific Partnership will be led from a partner nation’s ship.

A simultaneous airborne phase - also a first for the U.S. Pacific Fleet’s annual humanitarian and disaster response-focused mission - will fly assistance into host nations Indonesia and TimorLeste.

“As we saw last November when our Philippine allies were devastated by a typhoon, being able to provide effective

By U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs

humanitarian assistance and disaster relief is critical to stabilize a crisis,” said U.S. Pacific Fleet commander Adm. Harry Harris, Jr. “Because United States naval forces are forward deployed, where it matters, when it matters, we were able to quickly respond with ships, aircraft and personnel during Operation Damayan.

“But we were not alone, as many partner nation militaries, civilian agencies and nongovernmental organizations also provided assistance to the Philippines. That’s why multilateral missions like Pacific Partnership are so valuable, because it prepares us in calm so we can effectively respond together in crisis.”

At the invitation of host nations, Pacific Partnership 2014 (PP14) unifies the efforts of partner nation militaries, host nation civilian agencies, and non-governmental organizations (NGO) to strengthen the collective

ability of the international community to operate as a team in delivering foreign humanitarian aid in times of natural disaster or crisis.

“We are grateful to the host nations of Cambodia, Indonesia, the Philippines, Timor-Leste and Vietnam, the civilian NGO specialists, and our military partners from Australia, Chile, Japan, New Zealand and Singapore for joining the Pacific Partnership 2014 mission,” said Harris. “It is an historic moment in the progress of this vital mission that Japan is contributing the primary command ship.

Friends help friends, and this multilateral mission will not only strengthen future disaster response preparedness, it will build trust and enhance interoperability so that we can continue improving regional security and stability.”

U.S. Navy leaders from Destroyer Squadron (DESRON) 21 will serve as mission commander and will embark the

JMSDF command ship to oversee PP14. Simultaneously, Seabees from the U.S. Navy’s 30th Naval Construction Regiment (30 NCR) in Port Hueneme, Calif., will deploy via air from Point Mugu, Calif., to lead the mission in Indonesia and Timor-Leste.

Lt. Cmdr. Tessica Lee, center, helps with a medication list during a medical civic action project at Kandol Dom Primary School for Pacific Partnership 2012.

Medical civic action project provide free medical, dental, and optometry care to local residents as an opportunity for multinational, multi-organizational exchange and teamwork. (U.S. Navy photo by Kristopher Radder/Released)

PACFLT Stresses Sexual Assault Prevention in #StepUpStepIn From U.S. Pacific Fleet Public Affairs

PEARL HARBOR (NNS) -- As Sexual Assault Awareness Month (SAAM) comes to a close April 30, U.S. Pacific Fleet leaders continue to stress the importance of a year-round approach to intervention.

With an emphasis on raising awareness this month throughout the active, Reserve and civilian workforce, nearly 600 events were conducted across the Pacific Fleet to include training, hosting guest speakers, assigning additional regional sexual assault prevention and response officers and certifying more victim advocates.

“Our goal was to reach our people and that’s what we did,” said Lt. Cmdr. John Benson, U.S. Pacific Fleet’s sexual assault prevention and response officer (SAPRO). “We asked our Sailors

to talk about it at work, at home, church, the mall - and especially when they’re out socializing.”

Sexual assault is a crime that destroys trust, divides teams and degrades the Navy’s operational effectiveness. So in addition to April’s SAAM efforts, Pacific Fleet leaders also introduced a communication campaign with a goal to continue a yearlong dialogue and to share ideas.

“Our effort to eliminate sexual assault is something our Navy works on 365 days a year and it requires a steady drumbeat of communication,” said Capt.

Darryn James, U.S. Pacific Fleet chief spokesperson. “So we created the #StepUpStepIn campaign with a goal of empowering individuals to take ownership of this problem by

providing an opportunity to continue the conversation.”

Beginning with a public service announcement (http://www.cpf.navy.mil/ StepUpStepIn/), Pacific Fleet continues to highlight the need for Sailors to act in order to prevent sexual assault.

“All around the fleet, Sailors are stepping up and stepping in to prevent sexual assault,” said U.S. Pacific Fleet Master Chief Marco Ramirez. “Intervention, whether directly or by making circumstances known to others, could help prevent this horrendous crime. Each one of us has a responsibility to keep at it every day until we’ve cultivated a climate of trust and professionalism that is intolerant of sexual assault, sexual

harassment and sexism.”

The Navy’s goal is to eliminate sexual assault by fostering a culture of prevention which includes effective education and training, a 24/7 response capability to ensure victim support, reporting procedures available worldwide, and accountability that enhances the safety and well-being of all.

For more information and resources to combat sexual assault visit www.sapr.navy.mil.

Join Pacific Fleet’s social media conversation about intervention by using #StepUpStepIn and continue to raise awareness about preventing sexual assault.

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