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ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

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January 21, 2014• DAILY

inside: Celebrating Dr. King and Search and Rescue

The Man with a Dream

Story by MC2 (SW) Gregory White Photo by MCSA Matthew Young

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SS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) held a ceremony honoring the life and works of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. in the ship’s wardroom Jan. 20.

Sailors attending the event took time out of their day to reflect on Dr. King’s life and his achievements.

“It is important to celebrate the life and legacy of Dr. Martin Luther King,” said Chief Logistics Specialist Renold Thomas, a participant at the event. “Can you imagine living in those days when there was such division in our country? King worked to bring everybody together and he believed in the human race.

Today we are living the dream. We respect each other and we work together.”

The ship’s diversity committee hosted the ceremony and coordinated the day’s events.

The ship’s public affairs officer, Lt. Cmdr. Patrick Evans, gave the keynote address.

“Commit to your part to continue to form a more perfect union,” said Evans. “That’s what Dr. King would want. That’s what he did through non-violent protest. That’s what I admire and that’s what I wish to celebrate today.”

The carrier’s gospel choir performed a medley of the songs, “I Need You to Survive,” and “We Shall Overcome,” and Thomas recited a portion of King’s “I Have A Dream” speech.

“I didn’t know what to expect,” said Machinist Mate 1st

Story by MCSA Matthew Young Photo by MC3 Brian Flood

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Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Tresurea Nelson cries while singing a gospel song with the ship’s choir during a Martin Luther King Jr. Day celebration aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt celebrated Martin Luther King Jr. Day with a performance from the choir, speeches and a cake cutting.

Class Jonathan I. Ussery. “When the choir was singing it really got me going and the heartfelt speeches, including the recounting of King’s speech, were excellent.”

Congress designated the King federal holiday as a day of service. The motto for the day is “A day on, not a day off.”

Life-Savers

an overboard, man overboard!” These words let search and rescue (SAR) swimmers aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) know that it’s show time.

Theodore Roosevelt’s SAR swimmers go through extensive training and maintain a rigorous fitness standard in order to save lives.

“To be able to have the kind of knowledge and resources in order to rescue someone is a great thing,” said Boatswain’s Mate 3rd class John Porter, a primary shipboard SAR swimmer.

“I’ve always been captivated by that.”

Porter’s life experiences contributed to him wanting to be a SAR swimmer.

“As a young child I had dreams of rescuing people who were in imminent danger and I actually had my best friend drown when I was in my early teens,” said Porter. “It kind of inspired me to want to possess the tools to be able to reverse the situation if I ever was in that scenario.”

SAR swimmers preform a critical safety function during rigid hull inflatable boat operations.

“SAR swimmers are a vital piece of human equipment,” said Chief Boatswain’s Mate Edmundo Brantes. “If a situation arises where a person fell in the water and they didn’t know how to swim, we would put a SAR swimmer in the water so they can save another person’s life.”

Candidates attend a month-long school in San Diego before they qualify as SAR swimmers. They train in an array of water rescue techniques, ranging from rescuing a downed pilot to man overboard scenarios.

Rescue swimmers continue their training at least three times

Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Joshua Conway, a search and rescue swimmer, readies himself to board the rigid hull inflatable boat (RHIB) during a man overboard drill aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). Theodore Roosevelt regularly performs man overboard drills to maintain optimal readiness.

a month at their command. Their training consists of practicing water rescue techniques and long-distance swimming to be sure they’re in shape to face the rigors of the open ocean.

“SAR swimmers training onboard are limited to operational commitment, but SAR swimmers have obligated training every single month,” said Brantes.

SAR swimmers are a necessity aboard any naval ship. They put themselves in harm’s way so others may live.

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014

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Parties Seize On Abortion as Major Issue TALKS Over SYRIA are set to begin; iran not invited

WASHINGTON — When the Republican National Committee gathers for its winter meeting here on Wednesday, the action will start a few hours late to accommodate anyone who wants to stop first at the March for Life, the annual anti-abortion demonstration on the National Mall.

“We thought it only fitting for our members to attend the march,” said Reince Priebus, the party chairman.

Abortion is becoming an unexpectedly animating issue in the 2014 midterm elections.

Republicans, through state ballot initiatives and legislation in Congress, are using it to stoke enthusiasm among core supporters.

Democrats, mindful of how potent the subject has been in recent campaigns like last year’s governor’s race in Virginia, are looking to rally female voters by portraying their conservative opponents as callous on women’s issues.

“Republicans have turned the floor of the House into the battleground for their relentless war

on women’s health care and freedoms,” said Rep. Steve Israel, DN.Y., the chairman of the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee. “Every time they launch another extreme attack against women’s rights, they lose more ground with women voters.”

Aware that their candidates at times have struck the wrong tone on issues of women’s health, Republicans in some states are now framing abortion in an economic context, arguing, for example, that the new federal health law uses public money to subsidize abortion coverage. In the House in the coming weeks, Republicans will make passing the “No Taxpayer Funding for Abortion Act” one of their top priorities this year.

Democrats say their success this year will depend on how close they can come, given lower turnout, to President Obama’s overwhelming margins with female voters.

The fraught politics of women’s health care are already surfacing, as restrictions on abortion are

appearing on state ballots and becoming the focus of debate in congressional races — many in places like North Carolina and Colorado that could hold the key to whether Republicans can sweep Democrats from power in the Senate and maintain their grip on the House.

“I don’t think this is a niche issue anymore,” said Drew Lieberman, a vice president at Greenberg Quinlan Rosner Research, a political consultancy concern, who has advised Democratic congressional candidates and has done polling for Naral ProChoice America.

While Democrats say such measures seeking to restrict abortions could stir votes, they acknowledge the limits of midterm turnout.

“Off-year elections are difficult,” said Cecile Richards, president of the Planned Parenthood Federation of America. “You have lower turnout, and a lot of drop-off voters are women. So in a lot of ways, making sure women are aware and voting is important.”

JEREMY W. PETERS

Medicaid Expansion Brings Surge in Sign-Ups WELCH, W.Va. — Sharon Mills, a disabled nurse, long depended on other people’s kindness to manage her diabetes.

She scrounged free samples from doctors’ offices, signed up for drug company discounts and asked for money from her parents and friends.

Mills, 54, who suffered renal failure last year after having irregular access to medication, said her dependence on others left her feeling helpless and depressed. “I got to the point when I decided I just didn’t want to be here anymore,” she said.

So when a blue slip of paper arrived in the mail this month with a new Medicaid number on it — part of the expanded coverage offered under the Affordable Care Act — Mills said she felt as if she could breathe again for the first time in years. “The heavy thing that was pressing on me is gone,” she said.

As health care coverage under the new law sputters to life, it is already having a profound effect on the lives of poor Americans.

Enrollment in private insurance plans has been sluggish, but signups for Medicaid, the federal insurance program for the poor, have surged in many states.

It is still an open question whether access to health insurance will improve the health of the disadvantaged in the long run, experts say, but the men and women getting the coverage here say the mere fact of having it has drastically improved their mental health.

Waitresses, fast food workers, security guards and cleaners described feeling intense relief that they are now protected from the punishing medical bills that have punched holes in their family budgets. They spoke in interviews of reclaiming the dignity they had lost over years of being

turned away from doctors’ offices because they did not have insurance.

“You see it in their faces,” said Janie Hovatter, a patient advocate at Cabin Creek Health Systems, a health clinic in southern West Virginia. “They just kind of relax.”

A widely cited experiment in Oregon offered an early look at what happens when people suddenly get Medicaid coverage.

Researchers found that physical health did not change much. But mental health improved drastically, with instances of depression plummeting.

Last week Mills used her Medicaid number for the first time to fill a prescription. It was a Wednesday, and she walked into Walmart feeling good.

“Now I’ve got insurance,” she said, “and I’m waving that piece of paper all over the place.”

SABRINA TAVERNISE

WASHINGTON— American and other Western diplomats on Monday managed to salvage the long-awaited peace conference on Syria, which had seemed on the verge of unraveling before it even began when Ban Ki-Moon, the United Nations secretary general, issued an unexpected invitation to Iran to attend.

The possible presence of the Iranians infuriated Syrian opposition leaders who said they would not attend the conference. But after a day of intensive consultations in which American officials made clear their unhappiness with Ban’s move, Iran was disinvited and diplomats affirmed that the conference would begin in Switzerland on Wednesday.

The 24 hour controversy, while a diversion from the main issues about Syria’s future that will be on the table, seemed a fitting prelude for what even the most optimistic American diplomats say will be prolonged, grinding and uncertain negotiations.

“I don’t think that anyone who’s dealt with Syrian officials has any false expectations of rapid progress,” a senior State Department official said Monday in what turned out to be one of the day’s more optimistic assessments. “This is the beginning of a process.”

To even get this far required a day of intensive diplomacy after Ban announced on Sunday night that Iranian foreign minister Mohammad Javad Zarif had agreed to the mandate for the conference and that Iran would be invited to attend.

American officials said that Kerry had told Ban before his announcement that Iran needed to publicly endorse the 2012 communiqué that laid the basis for the conference, which stipulates that the goal is the establishment of transitional administration by “mutual consent” of President Bashar al-Assad’s government and the Syrian opposition.

But after Iran declined to publicly endorse the communiqué Monday, the United Nations withdrew the invitation. MICHAEL R. GORDON and ANNE BARNARD

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INTERNATIONAL

Study Says China Exports Pollution To Western U.S. BEIJING — Filthy emissions from China’s export industries are carried across the Pacific Ocean and contribute to air pollution in the Western United States, according to a paper published Monday by a prominent American science journal.

The research is the first to quantify how air pollution in the United States is affected by China’s production of goods for export and by global consumer demand for those goods, the study’s authors say. It was written by nine scholars based in three nations and was published by Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

The scientists wrote that “outsourcing production to China does not always relieve consumers in the United States — or for that matter many countries in the Northern Hemisphere — from the environmental impacts of air pollution.”

Jintai Lin, the lead author, said in an interview that he and the other scientists wanted to examine the transborder effects of emissions from export industries to look at how consumption contributes to global air pollution.

“We’re focusing on the trade impact,” said Lin, a professor in the Department of Atmospheric and Oceanic Sciences at Peking University. “Trade changes the location of production and thus affects emissions.”

Powerful global winds can carry pollutants from China across the Pacific within days, leading to “dangerous spikes in contaminants,” especially during the spring, according to a news release from the University of California, Irvine, where one of the study’s co-authors, Steven J. Davis, is an earth system scientist.

Using a modeling system called GEOS-Chem, the scientists estimated that in 2006, sulfate concentrations in the Western United States increased as much as 2 percent, and ozone and carbon monoxide levels also increased slightly.

The amount of air pollution in the Western United States resulting from emissions from China is still very small compared with the amount produced by sources in the United States.

EDWARD WONG

France and a First Lady. And a Second.

PARIS — As a candidate for the French presidency in 2012, François Hollande promised to be more boring spouse than flamboyant seducer. Determined to set himself apart from the man he was seeking to unseat — Nicolas Sarkozy, whose marriage to the former supermodel Carla Bruni had helped make him tabloid fodder — Hollande proclaimed, “I, president of the republic, will make sure that my behavior is exemplary at every moment.”

Twenty months into his presidency, Hollande’s campaign pledge is faring even less well than the unemployment-cursed French economy.

Caught in a clandestine affair that is more bedroom farce than Shakespearean drama — a beautiful actress, a scorned woman at home, surreptitious comings and goings on a most unpresidential scooter — Hollande is testing the limits of France’s famous tolerance for indiscretion and leaving himself vulnerable to ridicule.

Already weighed down by historically low support in the polls, he also faces the challenge of keeping the affair from undercutting his ability to push through an ambitious new agenda aimed at restoring France’s fading global competitiveness and pushing his Socialist Party toward centrism.

One big test could come next month, when he will travel to Washington for a state visit with President Obama. Hollande’s official partner, Valérie Trierweiler,

French President François Hollande with his official partner Valérie Trierweiler. Who, if anyone, will accompany him on a state visit to Washington next month?

JEAN-PIERRE MULLER/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

was scheduled to accompany him in her role as first lady, but now the visit seems likely to attract considerable Julie Gayet attention for his eventual choice of, or lack of, a traveling companion.

“He’s always hated when politics turned into a spectacle, and now he finds himself right in the middle of one,” Julien Dray, a Socialist and former deputy in Parliament, said in an interview. “The question is how he will handle it over the long term. If this becomes vaudeville, it could damage his presidency.”

Hollande, 59, has had little respite since a magazine, Closer, caught him meeting in an apartment around the corner from the Élysée Palace with Julie Gayet, a 41-year-old film actress.

Hollande’s personal drama was playing out over the past two weeks as he was making one of the most substantive decisions of his term so far, to propose tax cuts for businesses.

To his supporters, this is the start of a new chapter for Hollande, in which he is emerging as a more pragmatic leader who may be freed from what had become a complicated relationship.

But more than his predecessors in the pre-Twitter era, Hollande now finds himself operating in a climate of more intensive and intrusive scrutiny. Perhaps more worrisome for him is that his support among women could erode.

“This makes the French look like idiots,” said Arlette da Rocha, who runs the restaurant Le Pressoir in Tulle, where Hollande started his political career. “He has to tell the truth. This unconventional behavior in his private life doesn’t give a clean image of the president.”

(NYT)

In Brief Delhi Leader Holds Police Protest New Delhi’s most vocal protest leader once again shut down the heart of downtown, snarling traffic for tens of thousands while he and his supporters shouted slogans denouncing police corruption. But this time the leader, Arvind Kejriwal, held his protest while also serving as Delhi’s chief minister, the equivalent of a governor in the United States. That strange contradiction was etched on the confused and apprehensive faces of police officers, who tried to hold back protesters while being oddly deferential.

(NYT)

Woman to Lead War-Torn Nation Cheers broke out in the National Assembly building in Bangui, Central African Republic, on Monday as representatives chose the mayor of the beleaguered capital to serve as the interim president of the Central African Republic, a country in the grip of a sectarian civil war. Catherine Samba-

Panza, 58, will be the first woman to lead the nation (likely serving for a little over a year) with the goal of leading it to national elections.

(NYT)

Deal With Iran Takes Effect The first orchestrated rollback in Western antinuclear economic sanctions against Iran took effect on Monday under Tehran’s temporary agreement with world powers, as all sides reported that the steps initially promised had been fulfilled. Under the temporary agreement, Iran began suspending most advanced uranium-fuel enrichment and halted other sensitive elements of its nuclear program. In exchange, it received what the United States called “limited, targeted and reversible sanctions relief for a six-month period.” The agreement expires on July 20 and was intended to give Iran and the so-called P5-plus 1 powers, the five permanent members of the Security Council plus Germany, more time to negotiate a permanent accord.

(NYT)

NATIONAL

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014

Following Their Palates, Inmates Go Kosher MIAMI — Airplane passengers have been known to order kosher meals, even if they are not Jewish, in the hope of getting a fresher, tastier, more tolerable tray of food.

It turns out that prison inmates are no different.

Florida is now under a court order to begin serving kosher food to eligible inmates, a routine and court-tested practice in most states. But state prison officials expressed alarm recently over the surge in prisoners, many of them gentiles, who have stated an interest in going kosher.

Their concern: The cost of religious meals is four times as much as the standard gruel, said Michael D. Crews, the secretary of the Department of Corrections.

“The last number I saw Monday was 4,417,” Crews said of inmate requests at his recent confirmation hearing before a State Senate committee. “Once they start having the meals, we could see the number balloon.”

To which, State Sen. Greg

Evers, the Republican chairman of the Senate Criminal Justice Committee, remarked: “Is bread and water considered kosher?

Just a thought. Just a thought.”

Florida, a state with a substantial Jewish population and the third-largest prison system, stopped serving a religious diet to inmates in 2007, saying it cost too much and was unfair to other prisoners. Several inmates challenged the move with little success.

Last year, though, the United States Department of Justice sued Florida for violating a 2000 law intended to protect inmates’ religious freedom. The federal judge in the case issued a temporary injunction in December, forcing the state to begin serving kosher meals by July until the issue is decided at trial. Florida is one of only 15 states that do not offer inmates a kosher diet systemwide.

Kosher food in prisons has long served as fodder for lawsuits around the country, with most

courts coming down firmly on the side of inmates. As long as inmates say they hold a sincere belief in Judaism — a deeply forgiving standard — they are entitled to kosher meals, even if takes a little chutzpah to make the request.

“Florida is an outlier,” said Eric Rassbach, deputy general counsel for the Becket Fund for Religious Liberty, which has represented inmates around the country.

In Florida’s prison system. which faces a $58 million deficit, money is the easy answer for the battle against kosher food. The cost of three kosher meals in Florida is $7 a day, a big jump from the $1.54 for standard meals, Crews said.

“There should be a way to ascertain who really does require a kosher meal for their religious belief,” said Rabbi Menachem M. Katz, director of prison and military outreach for the Aleph Institute in South Florida, “and who is just gaming the system.”

LIZETTE ALVAREZ

Her Old Job Is Hurdle for Napolitano on Campuses SANTA BARBARA, Calif. — The choice sounded ingenious: Take a high-profile political figure — a former governor and cabinet member — and have her apply her acumen to the task of rebuilding one of the great public university systems.

So when Janet Napolitano, the former secretary of homeland security and governor of Arizona, was named president of the University of California last summer, expectations soared.

But her political skill was confronted almost immediately by a liability on campuses filled with foreign-born students, hundreds of whom lack legal immigration

status — her role in the Obama administration’s deportation of 1.9 million unauthorized immigrants.

Now Napolitano faces a dual task of reviving the University of California and simultaneously overcoming the deep distrust of her within some quarters of the system.

So she has relied on a time-tested political strategy: the listening tour. Napolitano has spent days at each of the 10 campuses, attending lectures, touring labs and holding meetings with students, faculty members and staff members.

In one of her first policy changes this fall, Napolitano announced that she would set aside $5 million

to assist the roughly 1,000 undocumented students in the system, spread across the campuses. The money is a tiny fraction of the $25 billion overall budget, but it won praise from Latino leaders, who will decide whether to use the money for specialized counseling centers or direct scholarships.

“The legacy of deportations is going to be with her for a long time to come, and it is something that she is going to have to live with,” said Antonia Hernandez, the president of the California Community Foundation and a former chairwoman of the Mexican American Legal Defense and Educational Fund.

JENNIFER MEDINA

At Least 2 Die in Fire and Explosion at an Omaha Plant OMAHA — At least two people were killed and more than a dozen injured here on Monday after part of a plant that manufactures food supplements for animals collapsed, burst into flames and set off a struggle for survival for those trying to escape the debris.

Local and federal authorities said they were still investigating the cause of the accident, which occurred shortly after 10 a.m. at a factory owned by International

Nutrition, an Omaha-based company. Workers inside and at nearby businesses said they heard an explosion, which quickly gave way to smoke and fire.

“It sounded like a giant barn collapse,” said Chad Reimer, a mechanic at an equipment company across the street. “I turned around and saw a giant black mushroom cloud like a bomb.”

Dozens of emergency responders rushed to the scene, but were

hampered by the unstable structure and high winds that made the fire difficult to control. Ten people were taken to local hospitals, four of them in critical condition, according to Bernard J. Kanger Jr., Omaha’s interim fire chief. He said seven others were injured but did not want treatment.

The police said the body of one of the victims, Keith Everett, 53, of Obama, was removed from the rubble on Monday.

(NYT)

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In Brief Lawmakers Propose Chemical Regulations West Virginia Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin and U.S. Sen. Joe Manchin on Monday proposed tighter regulations for chemical storage facilities after a spill contaminated the water supply for 300,000 people. Tomblin urged passage of a chemical storage regulatory program. The bill aims to address shortcomings that allowed 7,500 gallons of coal-cleaning chemicals to seep into the Elk River on Jan. 9. Manchin, D-W.Va., wants the federal government to set standards for state-run regulatory efforts. His proposal would require states to inspect chemical facilities that could threaten a public water system every three years.

(AP)

2 Caught at Border In Credit Card Case Account information stolen during the Target security breach is being divided up and sold off regionally, a South Texas police chief said Monday following the arrest of two Mexican citizens who authorities said arrived at the border with 96 fraudulent credit cards. McAllen Police Chief Victor Rodriguez said Mary Carmen Garcia, 27, and Daniel Guardiola Dominguez, 28, both of Monterrey, Mexico, used cards containing the account information of South Texas residents. Rodriguez said they were used to buy tens of thousands of dollars’ worth of merchandise at national retailers in the area.

(AP)

A Bid for U.S. Senate U.S. Rep. James Lankford, R-Okla., announced his candidacy Monday for the U.S. Senate seat left open by Sen. Tom Coburn who said last week he would resign the post at the end of this congressional session.

Lankford said Monday that reducing the nation’s deficit and long-term debt and pushing for states’ rights will continue to be among his top priorities in office.

The decision by Coburn, a Republican, to resign the seat two years early has turned a somewhat predictable election year in Oklahoma on its head.

(AP)

BUSINESS

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014

THE MARKETS

Boston Fed’s New Role: Community Organizer BOSTON — Economists do not tend to be social activists. And that is especially true if they work for the Federal Reserve, let alone run one of its 12 regional banks.

But Eric S. Rosengren, president of the Federal Reserve Bank of Boston, is not afraid to stand out.

Last week, Rosengren and his team announced the winners of a Fed-sponsored competition that will funnel $1.8 million into innovative economic development projects in six medium-size cities.

The amount to be doled out, which is being supplied by outside donors rather than by the Fed, is relatively modest, as Ben S. Bernanke, the chairman of the Fed, noted in a video presented at the awards ceremony here.

But it represents a new, untested approach for the Fed, which has been widely criticized for bailing

out Wall Street in the wake of the financial crisis, but leaving Main Street to fend for itself.

Having the Fed behind the effort, known as the Working Cities Challenge, also lends it a business-friendly sheen, rather than making it seem like another wellmeaning, but ultimately futile, attempt at urban renewal.

“The Fed brings a gravitas aspect to this,” said Deval Patrick, the governor of Massachusetts.

It is a model that Rosengren hopes will be adopted by other regional Federal Reserve Banks, which are watching the experiment now underway here.

“It’s a little out of the ordinary for the Federal Reserve,” Rosengren said in an interview.

“If we want to get to Main Street, we have to get out of Boston,” he said. “If we want to help

the economy, we can’t just help people from M.I.T. and Harvard.

The have-nots are in midsized cities, and they have the opportunity to be haves.”

And although the central bank will always be defined primarily by number-crunching, not community organizing, local officials say they have been pleasantly surprised by Rosengren’s stance.

“I was dubious about the Fed being able to do this,” said Daniel O’Connell, a former state housing and economic development official and now the chief executive of the Massachusetts Competitive Partnership, a public policy group. “They put out great reports and not a lot happens. But Eric is a sea change. He’s willing to take risks and make the Fed a more activist organization.”

NELSON D. SCHWARTZ

Social Networking App Blazes a Path in China SHANGHAI — Every halfhour or so, Jenny Zhao, young and wired, unlocks her iPhone 5 to connect with friends using Weixin, China’s wildly popular social messaging app.

“I’m probably on Weixin six hours a day,” says Zhao, 24, a cosmetics marketer in Shanghai.

Weixin (pronounced way-shin) is this country’s killer app, a highly addictive social networking tool that allows smartphone users to send messages and share news, photos, videos and web links. In the United States, a similar version is known as WeChat.

Just three years after being introduced in China, Weixin has nearly 300 million users — a faster adoption rate than either Facebook and Twitter — giving

the app a dominant position in what is now the world’s biggest smartphone market.

Analysts say the phenomenal rise of Weixin all but dooms any chance that Facebook will become the market leader there.

In 2009, the Chinese government blocked access to Facebook, without explanation. Twitter and YouTube are also blocked in China.

“Even if Facebook had permission, it’s probably too late,” said Wang Xiaofeng, a technology analyst at Forrester Research.

“Weixin has all the functionality of Facebook and Twitter, and Chinese have already gotten used to it.”

There are challenges, of course. One, analysts say, is that China’s tech-savvy young peo-

ple are fickle, and could quickly switch to other messaging services. Another challenge could come from Alibaba, the Chinese e-commerce company that has all but declared war on Weixin, created by Tencent.

Tencent’s overseas expansion plans could also be hampered by concerns about a Chinese company’s handling so much personal information,.

For now, Chinese consumers are flocking to Weixin, seemingly glued to it.

“I use Weixin every day,” said Zhang Shoufeng, 29, a food and beverage saleswoman, as she relaxed at a shopping mall restaurant on a recent evening. “This is how we communicate.”

DAVID BARBOZA

Theft of Data Fuels Worries for Credit Card Executives SEOUL, South Korea — A string of senior executives at three credit card companies in South Korea offered to resign on Monday after a huge leak of client data was feared to have affected 20 million people in a country of 50 million.

The case became known earlier this month when prosecutors arrested a 39-year-old technician hired by the Korea Credit Bureau, a ratings firm that the credit card companies had hired to help improve their systems to protect

client data.

It was subsequently disclosed that the man stole personal information on 104 million credit cards issued by the KB Financial Group, the NongHyup Financial Group and Lotte Card.

Prosecutors have also indicted two phone marketing company managers on charges of buying the stolen data from the technician.

Prosecutors said they found no evidence that the data had circulated any further, but fears

spread that the information may have fallen into the hands of financial scammers.

“Personal information was leaked but hasn’t been distributed,” Shin Je-yoon , the chairman of the Financial Services Commission, the government’s top financial regulator, told reporters.

Still, angry clients were rushing to bank branches or flooding the card companies’ call centers and websites with inquires on whether their data had been stolen.

CHOE SANG-HUN

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FOREIGN EXCHANGE

Australia (Dollar) Bahrain (Dinar) Brazil (Real) Britain (Pound) Canada (Dollar) China (Yuan) Denmark (Krone) Dom. Rep. (Peso) Egypt (Pound) Europe (Euro) Hong Kong (Dollar) Japan (Yen) Mexico (Peso) Norway (Krone) Singapore (Dollar) So. Africa (Rand) So. Korea (Won) Sweden (Krona) Switzerland (Franc)

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Source: Associated Press

World Markets Tepid World markets were lackluster Monday amid concerns about slowing economic growth in China and more poor earnings from banks. Official figures showed China’s economy grew 7.7 percent in the quarter through December, down from 7.8 percent the previous quarter. For the full year, the economy expanded 7.7 percent, tying 2012 for the weakest performance since the 1990s. China’s growth is far stronger than the United States, Japan or Europe.

But an unexpectedly abrupt decline from the double digit rates of the previous decade has complicated the ruling Communist Party’s plans to promote more sustainable growth based on domestic consumption and reduce reliance on trade and investment.

(AP)

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BUSINESS

Demand Grows for Hogs Raised Humanely SHUSHAN, N.Y. — Turn down the road to Flying Pigs Farm here, and two or three of Michael Yezzi’s pigs are probably standing in the middle of it.

“They’re the welcoming committee,” Yezzi explained recently.

For the last four or five decades, spotting lone pigs in a field was almost as rare as finding a hen’s tooth. But Yezzi is one of an increasing number of farmers raising pigs on the hoof, in contrast to the barns and confinement stalls used in industrial settings.

Neither the United States Department of Agriculture nor the National Pork Producers Council has data on the number of pastured pigs, though in 2006, research done at Iowa State University estimated that the drift, as a group of pigs is known, numbered from 500,000 to 750,000.

Several factors are driving the appetite for pasture-raised pork, grocers and chefs say. Consumers are increasingly aware of and concerned about the conditions under which livestock is raised.

Big food businesses from McDonald’s to Oscar Mayer and Safeway have promised to stop selling pork from pigs raised in crates over the next decade.

Smithfield Farms, one of the country’s largest pork processors, announced this month that it was encouraging all contractors

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raising hogs on its behalf to move to the use of group pens.

The restaurant chain Chipotle and some prominent chefs like Dan Barber and Bill Telepan, both of whom have restaurants in Manhattan, have begun using meats from animals that were humanely raised. Whole Foods and Trader Joe’s do a brisk business in such meat.

“No chef that opens a restaurant nowadays can do so without first seriously considering where his products are coming from, whether vegetables or little piggies,” said Nick Anderer, executive chef at Maialino, an restaurant in the Union Square Hospitality Group.

As much as consumers say they want their meat to come from humanely raised animals, they still resist paying higher prices for

Some farmers are raising their pigs more humanely in the wide open spaces.

Piglets huddle together at feeding time at Craig Meili’s farm in Amenia, N.Y.

pasture-raised pork. “You have to have a customer or business in mind when you go into this,” said Andrew Gunther, program director at Animal Welfare Approved, which certifies pigs and other animals that are raised under specific welfare standards.

The big pork producers raise several concerns about the growing number of pastured pigs, including potential health problems from exposure to the elements and the increased risk of diseases like trichinosis.

Craig Meili, who operates a family farm in Amenia, N.Y., concedes that caring for pigs out of doors requires more management, noting that he had been up at 2 a.m. a few weeks earlier to help Spotty, one of his sows, deliver 10 piglets.

STEPHANIE STROM

Lone Texas Company Cashes In on Nuclear Waste ANDREWS, Tex. — Standing at the lip of what might be America’s most valuable hole in the ground, Rodney A. Baltzer cataloged the features that he said would isolate the radioactive waste to be buried here for thousands of years.

First, Baltzer said, there is a base layer of nearly waterproof clay, then a layer of concrete reinforced with steel and then three layers of plastic. When the waste, loaded into concrete containers, fills the pit, he said, it will be topped by a 40-foot-thick covering cap that includes more concrete, then more clay and finally a “bio-intrusion cap” to keep out burrowing prairie dogs.

Space inside goes for $10,000 a cubic foot in some cases. Threequarters of the money goes to Baltzer’s company, Waste Control Specialists, and the rest to the surrounding Andrews County and the state of Texas.

WCS, as the company is known, has a monopoly: As aging nuclear reactors retire, their most radioactive steel, concrete and other components must be shipped for burial somewhere. For 95 reactors in 29 states, Baltzer’s company is the only place that will take some categories of low-level waste.

The company in fact looks likely to collect a substantial part of the disposal fees paid for nuclear waste nationally. Last year alone, utilities announced that they would retire five reactors.

Disposing of low-level nuclear waste is not quite as hard as storing used nuclear fuel, which for some years looked likely to go to Yucca Mountain, Nev., but is now in a state of uncertainty, with no program to find a repository and no decision by Congress on who should even attempt that task.

But the tale of low-level waste

— items as diverse as contaminated tools, protective clothing, used-up filters for radioactive water, and, soon, a flood of demolition debris — is similar to the high-level waste problem.

In the early 1980s, Congress told the states that the federal government would find a place for the fuel, and that states should unite in multistate compacts to establish shared waste dumps.

Many organizations have tried for years under the compact system to establish low-level waste disposal sites, but the Texas site is the first and only one to open.

In any other industry, a $30 billion market would have attracted competitors, said Ralph Andersen, a radiation specialist at the Nuclear Energy Institute, the reactor industry’s trade association.

But so far WCS is the lone winner.

MATTHEW L. WALD

Hotels Chasing The Superrich With Luxuries In most hotels, luxury is measured by the thread count of the linens or the brand of the bathroom toiletries. But for those at the highest end of the market, a race to the top has broken out, with hotels outdoing one another to serve this tiny, if highly visible, niche.

Take the Jewel Suite by Martin Katz at the New York Palace, one of two recently opened specialty suites. The three-story, 5,000-square-foot space — a sort of penthouse Versailles — itself resembles a jewel box, albeit one with its own private elevator.

The floor in the entryway is glittering black marble arranged in a sunburst pattern, while a 20-foot crystal chandelier hangs from the ceiling. The living room sofa is a brilliant sapphire blue and a tufted ivory chaise has a pearlescent sheen.

Two floors up, in a second living room next to a vast private terrace, the wet bar (one of two) and half-bath are swathed in a sparkling wall covering, and an angular lavender sofa calls to mind an amethyst crystal. Iridescent tiles lining the private rooftop hot tub give the impression of sinking into a giant opal.

Such grandeur — or excess, depending on your point of view — is all there, starting at $25,000 a night.

“There is a very narrow market who want nothing less,” said Scott Berman, the United States hospitality and leisure practice leader at PricewaterhouseCoopers. “Price is not an issue. We’re talking about the jet set of the jet sets — high-networth individuals, generally foreign travelers in the U.S. who are accustomed to opulence.”

“It’s bragging rights,” said Pam Danziger, president of the luxury marketing firm Unity Marketing and author of “Putting the Luxe Back in Luxury,” published in 2011.

“I think this is just a matter of other brands trying to play catch-up to that” Danziger said the trend started in places like Singapore, London and major Middle Eastern cities. “You find that the new money types are the kinds given to this excessive display, valuing the display of this excessive, over-the-top consumption,” she said. “Subtlety is not appreciated.”

MARTHA C. WHITE

SCIENCE

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014

The Power of V: Conserving Energy Birds of a feather may flock together, but why they fly together in V formations has never been known for certain.

Now, with the help of 14 northern bald ibises fitted with lightweight sensors on a 600-mile migration from Austria to Tuscany, researchers are suggesting that the explanation is one that was long suspected but never proved: The formation helps the birds conserve energy.

Reporting in the journal Nature, the scientists write that the ibises positioned themselves in spots that were aerodynamically optimal — allowing them to take advantage of swirls of upward-moving air generated by the wings of the bird ahead. (The lead bird gets no lift advantage; the ibises regularly switched leaders.)

“We’ve been wondering for years whether flapping birds can save energy by following each other in the right way,” said Geoffrey Spedding, chairman of the aerospace and mechanical engineering department at the University of Southern California, who was not involved in the study. “This work answers that question, and the answer is yes.”

The scientists, led by Jim Usherwood of the Royal Veterinary College in England, said a major challenge was obtaining the data. The ibises were hatched at Zoo Vienna in March 2011 and raised as part of a conservation project aimed at reintroducing the critically endangered species to its natural range.

Some of the study’s authors served as human foster parents, taking the young birds on training flights in Salzburg, Austria. The humans rode in a paraplane and the birds followed. Eventually, the foster parents taught the birds their 600-mile migration route from Salzburg to Orbetello, Italy, by flying alongside them.

The birds wore custom-made data loggers that allowed the researchers to track flapping, speed and direction. Weighing less than an ounce, the devices included a GPS unit. It is accurate to about one foot and refreshes five times per second — the resolution necessary to track the birds’ positions in relation to one another.

“Ten years ago this wouldn’t have been possible, in terms of size and sampling frequency,” said one

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A new study found that when birds fly in a V, they pick up swirls of upward-moving air generated by the bird ahead of them. of the authors, Steven J. Portugal, a postdoctoral researcher at Royal Veterinary College.

The researchers analyzed the birds’ positions over seven minutes of flight, and compared those observations with theoretical predictions generated by aerodynamic models. The upward-moving swirls of air, called tip vortices, are a byproduct of winged flight, said Kenny Breuer, a professor in the school of engineering and a professor of ecology and evolutionary biology at Brown University, who with David Willis and other colleagues, developed the predictions. As wings push air down to generate lift, other air rises to the right and left of the wings, forming the vortices. Airplane wings also shed them; they are sometimes visible as vapor trails.

But a bird’s wake is more complicated than an airplane’s. “The strength of those tip vortices varies throughout the phase of the wing-beat,” Breuer said.

“There’s a favored position you want to fly in and a favored phase you want to flap in to take advantage of the leading bird.”

An analysis of 24,000 flaps showed that the ibises on average adjusted their position and wing phase to optimize the lift from the vortices, and readjusted their phasing when they changed positions within the V. As for the ibises, they made it to Tuscany in September 2011. They are expected to spend a few years there and then, if all goes well, migrate back to Salzburg. “This spring would be the first they would think of returning,” Portugal said. “This will be a telling year.”

FLORA LICHTMAN

Longer Life Span Tied to Energy Use in Primates Most mammals reach adulthood within months and die in their teens or 20s. Not so with humans and other primates, which take years to become adults, then live for decades and reproduce infrequently.

Now researchers are reporting that a reason for the disparity may lie in metabolic rates. According to a new study in Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences, primates burn about half as many calories per day as mammals of comparable size — and not simply because the other mammals are more active.

Humans would have to run

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a marathon a day to expend as much energy as a similar-size deer, said Dr. Herman Pontzer, an anthropologist at Hunter College and lead author of the study.

“Probably there are other mechanisms that are helping primates take care of our bodies and repair damage,” he said. “But if you view aging as this process of accumulating metabolic damage,

this seems to account for about all the difference in life span.”

To capture the metabolic rates of chimpanzees, bonobos and other primates, Pontzer and his team used the “doubly labeled water” technique, in which water is replaced with an isotope that helps trace the body’s production of carbon dioxide.

The study also found that primates in zoos expended as much energy per day as animals in the wild, suggesting that physical activity may be less critical to burning calories than currently believed, Pontzer said.

DOUGLAS QUENQUA

Feeling sluggish? Having a hard time getting out of bed in the morning? Gaining weight?

Many people with vague symptoms like these turn to dietary supplements that promise to jump-start metabolism by bolstering their thyroids with a mix of vitamins and minerals.

But researchers who tested 10 popular thyroid-boosting products sold online found that nine contained the hormones thyroxine (T4) or triiodothyronine (T3), sometimes both. In some cases the recommended daily dose contained amounts of thyroid hormone as high or higher than delivered by prescription medications, according to the report, published in November in Thyroid, a scientific journal.

At the recommended daily dose of four capsules, one supplement delivered 91 micrograms of T4 and 16.5 micrograms of T3, the researchers found. In clinical practice, the starting dose of T4 for patients with low thyroid function is just 25 micrograms a day; some elderly patients are given half that amount. A dose of 75 micrograms a day is sufficient to restore function in many petite women.

“This supplement could give you as much thyroid hormone as you get in a prescription drug or more,” said Dr. Victor Bernet, chairman of endocrinology at the Mayo Clinic in Jacksonville, Fla., and senior author of the study. He became interested in so-called thyroid-support supplements after seeing a patient with inexplicable test results. The patient admitted that he had been taking a supplement that a friend recommended for “low energy.”

Thyroid disease is common — and more common in women, affecting one in 10 older than age 50.

Patients may suffer fatigue, lethargy and weight gain, but not everyone with those symptoms has the illness. Patients taking thyroid hormone should be checked regularly by a physician, Bernet said.

“Thyroid hormone has a narrow therapeutic window,” he said, and “it’s easy to go over or under” the optimal dosages.

The published paper did not identify the tested products.

Bernet’s advice was to avoid all of these supplements.

“You can’t trust any of these things. You don’t know what’s in them.”

RONI CARYN RABIN

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 7

JOURNAL

A Rise in Gas Prices May Shatter an Old Venezuelan Illusion worker, as he had stopped to fill his aging Chevrolet S.U.V. for 48 cents, less than half the price of a cup of coffee.

But when the gas station attendant pointed out that if the price rose, filling up might cost a couple of dollars, the smile quickly disappeared from Gelvis’s face.

“No way! That’s too much,” he said. “If they raise it that much there will be strikes. We’ll have people blocking roads.”

Maduro has not said when or how much he will raise the price, which has been frozen for 15 years, but the urgency in this beleaguered economy is clear. By some estimates, the government is giving away $30 billion worth of gasoline, diesel and other fuels each year, a

CARACAS, Venezuela — Venezuela has the world’s cheapest gasoline, about six cents a gallon. With their country holding the world’s largest estimated oil reserves, many Venezuelans consider cheap gas almost an inalienable right of citizenship — a coveted remnant of the boom days.

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huge loss at a time when it is running a large deficit, forcing it to print money. The state oil company is borrowing millions of dollars from the central bank to keep running.

But raising fuel prices can be politically risky, especially for a president like Maduro, who has struggled for acceptance during his first year in office, often viewed as a pale shadow of his charismatic predecessor and mentor, Hugo Chávez.

Even Chávez, who led Venezuela for 14 years and was critical of the fuel subsidies, never ventured to raise gas prices. Part of the taboo here is a common association between a gasoline price increase in 1989 and days of rioting in which hundreds of people died.

“The fact that a government that has been so reluctant to do this is finally saying they need to do this tells you how bad things must be,” Javier Corrales, a professor of political science at Amherst College, said of the economic situation in Venezuela.

Venezuelan officials have said the increase here will probably be gradual, with the goal of eventually charging enough to cover the costs of producing the gasoline.

“This is a crazy subsidy,” said Francisco J. Monaldi, a visiting professor of public policy at the Harvard Kennedy School of Government who studies national oil companies in Latin America. He said the lost income from fuel subsidies was more than what the government spends on education and health care combined.

Monaldi said that many poor Venezuelans understood that the gasoline price was unsustainable and that they received relatively little benefit from it. And yet they generally oppose raising the price, even if the government pledges to spend the money raised on social programs, because they do not trust politicians to deliver on promises.

That distrust goes to the heart of many Venezuelans’ attitudes toward cheap gasoline.

“They think this is the only way in which they will directly receive part of the oil wealth,” Monaldi said. WILLIAM NEUMAN

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TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 8

OPINION

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

JOE NOCERA

Pre-K on the Starting Blocks

Income Inequality

Mayor Bill de Blasio’s plan to offer full-day preschool to every New York City 4-year-old hasn’t yet rounded the corner from election slogan to classroom reality. But it’s moving: a public-relations campaign on Friday started blitzing the city with leaflets and emails to drum up support for the tax to pay for it.

The mayor has assembled early-education experts to design the program and has been seeking support from legislators. He’s even won a (backhanded) endorsement from Gov. Andrew Cuomo, who said in his State of the State address that he wants universal preschool for the entire state. While Cuomo seems content with an applause line in a wish list, de Blasio is on the hook with a deeper commitment.

Leaving aside the financing uncertainties, the mayor is on solid pedagogical ground.

Full-day prekindergarten is a smart investment in growing minds, preparing children to be skilled learners at a moment when they are primed for it. It’s better to reach them at age 4 rather than fixing their learning problems later. Across the country, lawmakers and educators have embraced the universal preschool movement. President Obama has made a similar case. De Blasio is making a mainstream argument, though on a bigger scale than anyone else.

The city has about 100,000 4-year-olds. De Blasio wants to reach 68,000 of them: 48,000 new students on top of the 20,000 who have fullday public preschool now. Children in private programs would be able to attend the city’s

free classes if they wish.

This will be expensive: $340 million a year, plus $190 million for the after-school program.

But if the plan is executed halfheartedly, as an underfinanced form of babysitting, it’s not worth doing. (This is why de Blasio argues for a dedicated tax, saying yearly appropriations battles would leave too much uncertainty about financing, discouraging a full commitment from teachers and staff needed to make the program work.)

One challenge will be finding the physical space to teach all these 4-year-olds, either by expanding existing programs or building new ones. This may require de Blasio to put aside his antipathy to charter schools, many of which would be well-positioned to add preschools, though state law would have to be changed to allow this.

Then the city will have to persuade parents to sign up, make sure there is a qualified teaching corps with classes small enough to be effective, and tightly integrate the program with kindergarten through third grade so that 4-year-olds do not lose their momentum. It will have to prepare children well for the rigorous Common Core learning standards that promise to bring their math, science and literacy skills up to international norms.

The key, de Blasio’s aides say, is creating a meaningful, high-quality learning experience as they build to scale. Skeptics may say that the benefits of preschool tend not to last, but that doesn’t have to be true, if done right and sustained by good schooling in later years.

A Potentially Harmful Merger A proposed merger between two of the largest suppliers of food to restaurants, hotels and school cafeterias could significantly reduce competition and drive up prices of the meals Americans eat outside their homes. Of all the money consumers spend on food, nearly half is spent at restaurants.

Sysco, the country’s largest distributor of food, last month offered to buy its biggest competitor, US Foods, in a deal valued at $8.2 billion. The combined business would have $65 billion in annual revenue and would be five times bigger than its next biggest competitor, which would give it power in a fragmented business known for having thousands of small firms. The merged company would control about 25 percent of the total food distribution business in the country.

By reducing meaningful competition, the new company would be able to demand higher prices to deliver food to restaurants and cafeterias, forcing them to charge their customers and users more. Sysco and US Foods have argued that the merged company will be able to offer customers more products in more parts of the country.

That will mean little to restaurant owners who depend on the competition between the

companies to keep costs down. When one supplier raises prices or cannot fill an order, they turn to the other. The merger will be particularly damaging to independent restaurants that do not have the buying power that chains have to negotiate lower prices and guaranteed supplies in long-term contracts.

The harm will be greatest in places where the companies’ operations overlap significantly. In states like Nevada and North Carolina, the combined company would own more than half of the big distribution centers that serve food service establishments, according to an analysis by Food & Water Watch, a Washington-based research group.

There is another potential problem. Some restaurants and government agencies have accused distributors of fraudulently inflating invoices. Such practices could be harder to detect when the industry is more concentrated.

The Federal Trade Commission or the antitrust division of the Department of Justice will review the merger. If they find that it will hurt competition by giving the combined company greater market power they should consider blocking the deal or requiring the companies to first divest parts of their distribution networks.

Not long after I got back from my recent trip to Brazil, I called some economists to gain a better understanding of where the country stood economically. To me, Rio de Janeiro felt a little like Shanghai: there was plenty of high-end shopping in neighborhoods like Ipanema — and plenty of poverty in the favelas, or slums. There was also a lot in between.

Though its starting point was quite extreme, Brazil is a country that has seen income inequality drop over the last decade. Unemployment is at near record lows. And the growth of the middle class is quite stunning.

Nevertheless, the economists I spoke to were uniformly bearish about the short-term future of the Brazilian economy. They pointed, for starters, to a slowdown in G.D.P., which they didn’t expect to pick up anytime soon. Despite the country’s enormous economic gains since the beginning of this century, there have been very little accompanying productivity gains. I got the sense that many economists believe that Brazil had been more lucky than good, and now its luck was running out.

As I listened to the economists, though, I couldn’t help thinking about our own economy.

Our G.D.P. growth was more than 4 percent in the third quarter of 2013, and, of course, our productivity has risen relentlessly. But, despite the growth, unemployment can’t seem to drop below 7 percent. And the middle class is slowly but surely being eviscerated. Income inequality has become a fact of life in the United States, and while politicians decry that fact, they seem incapable of doing anything about it. Which made me wonder: Whose economy runs better, really?

A few years ago, Nicholas Lemann of The New Yorker quoted from an email he received from Brazil’s president, Dilma Rousseff. “The main aim of economic development must always be the improvement of living conditions,” she told him.

In other words, Brazil’s admittedly leftist government doesn’t spend a lot of time worrying about growth for its own sake, but rather connects it with alleviating poverty and growing the middle class. Thus, it has a high minimum wage, for instance. It has laws making it exceedingly difficult to fire a laggard employee. It controls the price of gasoline, helping to make driving affordable.

By contrast here in the United States, Congress just refused to extend unemployment insurance. The farm bill envisions cutting back on food stamps. Even those who oppose such heartless cuts assume that once the economy comes back, all will be well again. Growth will take care of everything. Thus in America, we tend to view economic growth less as a means to an end than an end in itself.

It is, of course, possible that Brazil’s economy could hit the wall and some of the gains made could be reversed. Still, the Brazil example gives rise to a question we don’t ask enough in this country: What’s the point of economic growth if nobody has a job?

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014 9

SPORTS

In Brief

Knicks Are Baffled in Blowout Loss to Nets The Brooklyn Nets began to set screens in the game’s opening minutes, and they never stopped.

They set screens at the top of the key. They set screens near the left elbow. They NETS 103 KNICKS 80 set screens on Raymond Felton and Iman Shumpert, and the New York Knicks switched and scrambled. They could never figure it out.

Those three words — figure it out — have become a mantra for the Knicks, and 41 games into the season, they have yet to figure any of it out. How to defend. How to make open shots. How to sustain any sort of consistent effort, from one quarter to the next.

That much was apparent Monday afternoon during their 103-80 loss at Madison Square Garden, where the Nets built an early 18-point lead and the crowd

jeered anyone associated with the Knicks before four minutes had elapsed in the second quarter.

“I didn’t think we would be in this situation,” said Carmelo Anthony, who spent the final moments of the fourth quarter sitting on the sideline with a towel draped over his head, shielding himself from the spectacle of another blowout loss. “Honestly, I don’t really know how to deal with situations like this. I’m learning.”

The Nets (17-22) are surging, having won seven of their last eight games, and they shot 49.3 percent to embarrass the Knicks on their home floor. Joe Johnson scored 25 points, and Andray Blatche added 19. Deron Williams, after missing the previous five games with an ankle injury, had 13 points off the bench.

Coach Jason Kidd, after playing for the Knicks last season, made

sure his return to the Garden was a triumphant one.

“It’s about those guys in that locker room,” he said. “They believe they can play both sides of the ball, and they’re doing it at a high level.”

The Knicks (15-26), on the other hand, shot 33.8 percent and committed 17 turnovers.

The larger problem for the Knicks, though, was their defense.

The Nets exploited the Knicks’ willingness to switch on screens, and Coach Mike Woodson acknowledged that his team was always “one man short” on their rotations.

It was not the first time the Knicks had gotten clobbered at home this season — far from it — but the spotlight is always a bit harsher and more unforgiving against the Nets.

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Federer’s Revival Is Facing a Crucible in Australia MELBOURNE, Australia — New racket, new coach, old Federer.

Or at least the tennis unfolded that way on Monday at the Australian Open, where Rafael Nadal and Andy Murray advanced but ceded the spotlight to Roger Federer, the “old man” of the upper echelon who so dominated that it looked as if he had stepped out of a time machine.

His reward: the continuation of a brutal draw, a date with Murray in the quarterfinals Wednesday and a potential meeting with Nadal two days after that.

Just like old times, except earlier in the tournament than usual,

and with Novak Djokovic looming on the comparatively boring side of the bracket.

Against Jo-Wilfried Tsonga, a Frenchman seeded 10th, Federer delivered his 6-3, 7-5, 6-4 victory with such ease that reporters wondered afterward if he considered Murray his first test of significance here, after the switch to a 98-inch racket head and the hiring of Stefan Edberg as his coach.

Federer shook his head.

“This is a big test for me,” he said of Tsonga, a perpetual antagonist. “I don’t need Murray for that test. The draw is a testy draw.”

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Nadal moved into the quarterfinals with a hard-fought victory.

His opponent, Kei Nishikori of Japan, seeded 16th, wanted to set up inside or near the baseline, to take the ball earlier than usual.

But Nadal prevailed, 7-6 (3), 7-5, 7-6 (3).

Murray stumbled briefly against France’s Stéphane Robert before winning, 6-1, 6-2, 6-7 (6), 6-2.

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Welker Targeted Talib, Coach Says The collision that knocked Aqib Talib out of the A.F.C. championship game reverberated Monday when the Patriots coach Bill Belichick said Wes Welker tried to “take out” the star cornerback. Belichick took the shot at Welker after viewing video of the play in the Denver Broncos’ 26-16 win on Sunday.

Coming from opposite sides, the players ran into each other. No penalty was called.

(AP)

Jamaican Bobsledders Are Headed to Sochi Get ready, Sochi: The Jamaicans are coming, and they’re bringing their bobsled again.

The Jamaican bobsled pilot Winston Watts and the nation’s Olympic Committee said Monday that they are accepting an invitation to compete in next month’s Sochi Olympics. (AP)

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SPORTS JOURNAL

TUESDAY, JANUARY 21, 2014

Super Sunday, and the Crowd Goes Silent Fans of the Seattle Seahawks collectively call themselves the 12th Man, an extra player with a noise level so pounding at their home stadium that seismologists have recorded minor earthquakes during big plays.

Fans of the Denver Broncos have a long reputation for noise that rattles visiting opponents, too, including a tradition of stamping their feet to create a rumbling called Rocky Mountain Thunder.

Both franchises used the highdecibel help of their hometown crowds to help win conference championship games Sunday.

But when their teams meet in the Super Bowl on Feb. 2 at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J., Seattle’s 12th Man and Denver’s Rocky Mountain Thunder will be mere echoes from distant time zones.

The Super Bowl is where the National Football League’s famed fan noise goes to die. What the hundreds of millions of viewers around the world may not realize is just how strangely quiet it can be at a Super Bowl game.

“There’s not a lot of crowd noise,” said Ron Jaworski, an ESPN analyst who was the quarterback for the Philadelphia Eagles when they reached the Super Bowl at the end of the 1980 season.

“People mostly sit on their hands, outside of the fans that buy the

Only 35 percent of Super Bowl tickets go to the teams playing. broadcaster Jim Nantz said.

Even if hardcore fans pay huge sums for tickets on the secondary market, the fractured disROB CARR/GETTY IMAGES tribution means tickets for the team. It’s kind of a that the biggest plays of the Super Bowl are typically met with silent corporate get-together.”

The N.F.L. is the only major nonchalance or quiet frustration American professional sports from the majority of fans in attenleague to play its championship at dance.

Gone are the wild audial and a neutral site. Although hosting a game can be a coup for a sponsor- emotional swings of collective ing city, such as New York, the ef- joy and disappointment familiar fect is to neuter the energy level of to N.F.L. fans through the regular season and the playoffs. At a the game itself.

Only 35 percent of Super Bowl Super Bowl, there is a continual tickets are divided between the din, each play cheered by some participating teams. The rest of portion of the crowd, but no plays the tickets are divvied among eliciting the full-throated roar of a the N.F.L.’s other 30 teams (with complete stadium.

It all raises the question of a larger share for the co-hosting Jets and Giants), with about 25 whether this might be among percent of the tickets controlled the quietest Super Bowls ever, by the N.F.L., largely sold and bar- a strange juxtaposition to the tered through corporate sponsors games Sunday that sent the teams to the championship game. and business partners.

It is the Super Bowl, but it is “It takes on the atmosphere of a game being played on a Hol- nothing like home.

JOHN BRANCH lywood soundstage,” the CBS

An Athlete for 2 Seasons Can Double Up on Games With the Winter Games in Sochi set to begin in less than three weeks, Olympic human interest tales are beginning to pile up almost as fast as security concerns.

But Sochi will also provide fresh examples of a more traditional source of fascination: the Summer Olympic-Winter Olympic double.

Lolo Jones, the oft-frustrated Olympic hurdler turned bobsledder, undoubtedly will attract plenty of attention at her first Winter Games. So will Lauryn Williams, the former Olympic sprinter whom Jones helped introduce to a new sport and medal opportunity.

And there are at least three others who have switched sports and seasons and are expected to become bobsledding Olympians: the Australian hurdler Jana Pittman, the Belgian sprinter Hanna Marien and the British men’s sprinter Craig Pickering.

Converted track stars have become standard fare on the sliding track, where their leg drive and explosive speed can make for a quick if hardly seamless transition to pushing a sled.

But more counterintuitive tales of doubling up at the Summer Olympics and Winter Olympics are in the history books, sometimes buried quite deep.

Consider Jacob Tullin Thams, a Norwegian who competed in sports with seemingly few crossover benefits — ski jumping and sailing — and took medals in both, winning the ski jumping in 1924 and taking second with the Norwegian sailing team in the 8-meter class in 1936.

According to Bill Mallon, a prominent Olympic historian, 128 athletes have competed in both Winter and Summer Games: 105 men and 23 women.

Forty of the 128 have been track

and field athletes who competed in bobsled. The next most common double is cycling and speedskating, with 16.

But for now only four athletes have won medals in both the winter and summer: Clara Hughes of Canada and Christa Rothenburger-Luding of Germany in cycling and speedskating; American Eddie Eagan in boxing and bobsledding; and Tullin Thams.

“What blows my mind more than anything is that it actually worked out, and that I had the chance to try,” Hughes said Monday in an interview. “When I see other athletes who end up in that position, I kind of see the same thing in that it’s often not like they were necessarily out to prove anything. It was more that somebody just said, ‘Hey, why don’t you try this out?’ And they end up being damn good at it.”

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In Brief Tortorella Suspended The N.H.L. suspended Vancouver Coach John Tortorella without pay for 15 days for his conduct after a brawl between the Canucks and the Calgary Flames.

Tortorella tried to enter Calgary’s locker room at intermission after the first period Saturday night, which began with several fights and four game misconducts for each team.

(AP)

Bulls Edge Lakers Taj Gibson made a layup at the buzzer in overtime, lifting Chicago to a 102-100 victory over Los Angeles. With nine-tenths of a second left, Mike Dunleavy inbounded and found Gibson, who then muscled toward the hoop for the winning basket. It was confirmed in a video review by the officials. Chicago (20-20) has won eight of its last 10 to get back to .500 for the first time since Nov. 27.

(AP)

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS

CNP Talks Budget With Kings Bay Sailors

By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Ashley Hedrick, Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay & Chief of Naval Personnel, Public Affairs

Chief of Naval Personnel (CNP) Vice Adm. Bill Moran visited Naval Submarine Base Kings Bay Jan. 15 to speak to Sailors about the latest on manning, the budget and uniform changes, among other topics.

This was the CNP’s first visit to Kings Bay, so his primary focus was to get to know the Sailors, find out what’s on their minds and provide them with updates, answer questions and myth bust.

“It is great to be down here,” Moran said. “It’s some place new for me. I get to see great Sailors doing great things. I make these trips to learn from you and provide you with the latest information.”

In his All Hands Call, Moran told Sailors that he was expecting a budget for fiscal year 2014 which should provide more certainty regarding, pay and benefits, training and operations any day now.

He also assured them that, despite any rumors, there will

be no changes to the current retirement system and no cuts planned to base pay.

“It is a relief to have somebody of this authority take the time out to visit us directly,” Yeoman 2nd Class Bryan Williams said. “It was a relief to hear from Adm. Moran about the upcoming

budget. I was a little confused about what would happen to my BAH, and he really set the rumors straight.”

Moran emphasized improvements in fleet manning, which lead to improved predictability in Sailors’ deployment schedules.

“The Navy had about 12,000 gaps out at sea two years ago,” he said. “We are at about half that today and we continue to make progress on getting the right Sailor into the right billet at the right time.”

Moran used the end of his All Hands Call to let Sailors ask questions and encouraged their feedback and suggestions on all Navy issues. A hot topic for the audience was uniform updates.

USS Spruance Rescues Mariner

From Commander, Task Force 70 Public Affairs

Sailors from the Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) rescued a Filipino mariner, Jan. 18, who had fallen overboard from his vessel while transiting the Singapore Strait.

At approximately 7:25 am (local) Spruance received a distress call from Malaysian-flagged motor vessel Pantagruel regarding a crewmember going overboard.

Spruance quickly launched its rigid-hull-inflatable boat (RHIB) into the water to locate the mariner. Sailors on board

the RHIB were able to recover the mariner and assessed that he was in stable condition. The mariner was then transferred to a Singapore Police Coast Guard vessel.

“The boat crew did an excellent job reacting to a

stressful situation,” said Lt. j.g. Katherine Miyamasu, Spruance’s boat officer. “[Boatswain’s Mate First Class] Jesus Hernandez spotted the man from the RHIB and everyone else sprang into action. It was a great day to be

in the Navy.”

“I’m very proud of my crew for their quick reaction and professionalism,” said Cmdr. Dan Cobian, Spruance commanding officer. “We consistently train for these situations in order to always be prepared to render assistance on the high seas.”

Spruance departed its homeport of San Diego Oct. 16, 2013, and is deployed to the 7th Fleet area of operations supporting security and stability in the Indo-AsiaPacific region.

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