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ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

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January 24, 2014 • DAILY

inside: Defending against missiles and A paperless future

Story by MC3 John M. Drew U.S. Navy Photo

Making Missiles Miss

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t’s a rarity that “missile inbound” is ever heard over a ship’s 1MC for anything other than general quarters (GQ) drills. If that emergency were to actually take place, however, there is a group of Sailors onboard who continually train to combat such a situation.

The fire controlmen from Combat Systems’ CS7 division help protect the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) from missile attack by maintaining and operating the ship’s missile defense systems.

“Our ship has six missile defense systems onboard,” said Fire Controlman 3rd Class Dakota Brown, from CS7 division.

“We have two close-in weapon systems (CIWS), two Rolling Air Frame (RAM) launchers and two NATO Sea Sparrow missile launchers.”

Theodore Roosevelt’s Sea Sparrow, CIWS and RAM missile defense systems provide multiple layers of protection from inbound missiles.

If a missile were to come inbound we would see it with the SPQ-9 radar, said Brown. Once a threat is identified, the NATO Sea Sparrow system would take over and the Tactical Action Officer (TAO) decides whether or not to fire.

Sailors in CS7 need to react quickly if there is an incoming threat because even a missile fired from 50 miles away could hit the ship within minutes.

“CS7 division is manned 24/7,” said Brown. “We have four

A Rolling Airframe Missile (RAM) launcher fires a missile during TR’s last deployment.

watches, even while in port, with four people standing each watch, including one weapon systems supervisor (WSS).”

If the Sailors aboard Theodore Roosevelt ever hear “missile inbound” announced over the 1MC, they’ll know that thanks to the efforts of the fire controlmen in CS7 division, Theodore Roosevelt is ready for anything.

E-Leaves Paper Behind

Story by MC3 John M. Drew

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he aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) is transitioning from the paper leave chits to an allelectronic process called e-Leave.

The transition process involves training for the crew.

E-Leave will be the only method for submitting leave chits from now on. If you plan on taking leave there are some important steps you’ll need to take to get started.

“The most important part of this is that USS Theodore Roosevelt is changing from a paper format to an e-Leave format, which is a lot easier to track routing for Sailors,” said Personnel Specialist 3rd Class Richard Maltby.

E-Leave requests are submitted through the electronic service record (ESR). Sailors must create an ESR account before they can submit an e-Leave request.

To create an ESR account, open SharePoint and click the “NSIPS AFLOAT” link located under “Links” on the right side of the page. Click “ESR Self-Service (New Users)” after the page has loaded and follow the directions, said Maltby.

Once a new account is created, Sailors can select the link, “Click here to log in using your username and password” located on the “NSIPS AFLOAT” home page.

While logged in, Sailors have access to one of the most vital functions of creating an ESR account, the ability to submit an e-Leave request. They can do this by clicking the “e-Leave” link in the bottom left corner. Then click the “e-Leave request” link on the top left side of the page.

“NSIPS AFLOAT self-service ESR accounts will become a

The form shown is how Sailors will start filing for leave.

very important part of your life on Theodore Roosevelt,” said Maltby. “It is important that you create an ESR account or you will not be able to take leave.”

If Sailors have any questions, they can contact Maltby at J-dial 6434, or Personnel Specialist 2nd Class Danielle Koerberat at J-dial 5710. Sailors can also view the documents under the e-Leave tab on “Administration’s SharePoint page.”

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014

© 2014 The New York Times

FROM THE PAGES OF

Hospital Chain Said to Inflate Patient Bills HUGE ‘SUPER PAC’ IS MOVING EARLY TO BACK CLINTON

Every day the scorecards went up, where they could be seen by all of the hospital’s emergency room doctors.

Physicians hitting the target to admit at least half of the patients over 65 years old who entered the emergency department were color-coded green. The names of doctors who were close were yellow. Failing physicians were red.

The scorecards, according to one whistle-blower lawsuit, were just one of the many ways that Health Management Associates, a for-profit hospital chain based in Naples, Fla., kept tabs on an internal strategy that regulators and others say was intended to increase admissions, regardless of whether a patient needed hospital care, and pressure the doctors who worked at the hospital.

This month, the Justice Department said it had joined eight separate whistle-blower lawsuits against H.M.A. in six states. The lawsuits describe a strategy that is said to have relied on a mix of sophisticated software systems, financial incentives and threats in an attempt to inflate the com-

pany’s payments from Medicare and Medicaid by admitting patients like an infant whose temperature was a normal 98.7 degrees for a “fever.”

The accusations reach all the way to the former chief executive’s office, whom many of the whistle-blowers point to as driving the strategy.

For H.M.A., the timing could not be worse. Shareholders recently approved the planned $7.6 billion acquisition of the company by Community Health Systems. The deal is expected to be completed by the end of the month.

While the lawsuits against H.M.A. provide a stark look at the pressure being put on doctors and hospital executives to emphasize profits over their patients, similar accusations are being raised at other hospital and medical groups as health care in the United States undergoes sweeping changes.

Federal regulators have multiple investigations into questionable hospital admissions, procedures and billings at many hospital systems, including the

country’s largest, HCA. Community Health Systems, the Franklin, Tenn., company from which H.M.A. hired its former chief executive in 2008, faces similar accusations that it inappropriately increased admissions. Community is in discussions with federal regulators over a settlement regarding some of the accusations.

The practice of medicine is moving more rapidly than ever from decision-making by individual doctors toward control by corporate interests. The transformation is being fueled by the emergence of large hospital systems that include groups of physicians employed by hospitals and others, and new technologies that closely monitor care. While the new medicine offers significant benefits, like better coordination of a patient’s treatment and measurements of quality, critics say the same technology, size and power can be used against physicians who do not meet the measures established by companies trying to maximize profits.

JULIE CRESWELL and REED ABELSON

Fined Billions, JPMorgan to Give Chief a Raise A year after an embarrassing trading blowup led to millions of dollars being docked from Jamie Dimon’s paycheck, the chairman and chief executive of JPMorgan Chase is getting a raise.

JPMorgan’s board voted this week to increase Dimon’s annual compensation for 2013. The raise — the details were not made public on Thursday — follows a move by the board last year to slash Dimon’s compensation by half, to $11.5 million.

When it made that deep pay cut, the board was giving a stern rebuke over the fallout from the “London Whale” multibillion-dollar trading blunder. This week, directors discussed what message their next decision on Dimon’s compensation would send.

The debate pitted a vocal minority of directors who wanted to keep his compensation largely flat, citing the approximately $20 billion in penalties that JP-

Morgan has paid in the last year to federal authorities, against directors who argued that Dimon should be rewarded for his stewardship of the bank during such a difficult period.

Details on Dimon’s compensation will be disclosed in the coming days.

Dimon’s defenders point to his role in negotiating a string of government settlements that helped JPMorgan move beyond some of its biggest legal problems. He has also solidified his support among board members, according to the people briefed on the matter, for acting as a chief negotiator as JPMorgan worked out a string of banner government settlements.

Also under his leadership, the bank has generated strong profits and its stock price is up more than 21 percent over the last 12 months. But some board members fault what they consider to be overzealous federal pros-

ecutors for the hefty fines, rather than Dimon or the bank, arguing that JPMorgan is being penalized for the sins of firms like Bear Stearns.

But many of those very problems arose under Dimon’s watch, including $1 billion in fines from regulators over the trading blowup. Leaving his compensation unchanged could have sent a symbolic message of contrition to authorities.

Instead, the board’s decision to raise his pay may energize critics who have questioned whether the directors can provide an effective check on the charismatic Dimon, who is both chairman and chief executive.

It is unlikely that Dimon will receive anything near the $23.1 million he got for 2011, when he was the highest paid chief executive at a large bank.

JESSICA SILVER-GREENBERG and SUSANNE CRAIG

The Obama political operation that once buried Hillary Rodham Clinton’s White House ambitions is rapidly converging around her possible 2016 presidential bid, conferring on Clinton enormous early advantages in money, expertise and voter targeting techniques.

On Thursday, Priorities USA Action, a “super PAC” that played an important role in helping to re-elect President Obama, announced that it was formally aligning itself with Clinton and would begin raising money to fend off potential opponents for 2016.

The group — the largest Democratic super PAC in the country — also named new directors, appointments that will cement the group’s proClinton tilt and thrust veterans of Obama’s political and fund-raising operation into the center of the postObama Democratic Party.

The move marks perhaps the earliest start to big-dollar fund-raising in support of a nonincumbent presidential candidate.

Jim Messina, Obama’s campaign manager in 2012, will serve as cochairman of the revamped super PAC and an affiliated nonprofit, along with Jennifer M. Granholm, the former governor of Michigan.

Messina joins a growing list of Obama veterans aligning themselves with Clinton: Jeremy Bird and Mitch Stewart, for example, who led Obama’s field efforts in 2012, are working closely with Ready for Hillary, a pro-Clinton super PAC that is focused on recruiting small donors and building lists of grass-roots supporters.

Priorities, by contrast, has begun seeking six- and seven-figure checks to power major advertising expenditures in support of Clinton — including, if necessary, responses to attacks by Republicans and conservatives in advance of a formal campaign declaration.

“I think the numbers clearly show that she’s the strongest presidential candidate on the Democratic side,” Messina said. “And Priorities is going to be there for her if she decides to run.” NICHOLAS CONFESSORE

INTERNATIONAL

Efforts to Detect Nuclear Programs Called Inadequate WASHINGTON — A three-year study by the Pentagon has concluded that American intelligence agencies are “not yet organized or fully equipped” to detect when foreign powers are developing nuclear weapons or ramping up their existing arsenals, and calls for using some of the same techniques that the National Security Agency has developed against terrorists.

The study, a 100-page report by the Defense Science Board, contends that the detection capabilities needed in cases like Iran are “either inadequate, or more often, do not exist.”

The report concluded that potential new nuclear states are “emerging in numbers not seen since the early days of the Cold War,” and that “monitoring for proliferation should be a top national security objective.”

The report confirmed what many outside experts have learned anecdotally: While the most famous intelligence failure in the past decade involving nuclear weapons occurred in Iraq, where the C.I.A. and others saw a program that did not exist, the bigger concern may be that major nuclear programs were missed.

American officials first learned of a reactor in Syria, built with North Korean assistance, when the Israelis alerted them. (Israel destroyed the facility in 2007.)

North Korea, early in the Obama administration, built a uranium enrichment facility that went undetected until the North showed it off to a visiting professor.

“The lesson from this history is that we found these at the last moment, if we found them at all,” said Bruce Riedel, a former C.I.A. expert in terrorism and nuclear proliferation who is now at the Brookings Institution.

The Defense Science Board came to a similar conclusion. It suggested that many of the cyber and big-data programs developed by the N.S.A. should be used to detect proliferation among scientists and engineers, a bet that the United States is more likely to pick up evidence of their talking, emailing, or searching for nuclear-related technologies than it is to see a weapons facility being built.

DAVID E. SANGER and WILLIAM J. BROAD

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014

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Ukraine Cease-Fire Met With News of Brutality KIEV, Ukraine — As opposition leaders negotiated with President Viktor F. Yanukovich to defuse Ukraine’s civil uprising, new evidence emerged of brutality by the authorities, including a video of a protester stripped naked except for his boots by a group of officers from the feared Berkut riot police.

The video shows the naked man standing on snow-covered streets, being photographed by one police officer while several others looked on. Another officer is seen grabbing the man by the back of the neck, forcing him to hold an ice scraper, then slapping him on the head and kicking him as he is directed into a police bus. Welts are visible on the man’s back as he climbs into the bus.

The Interior Ministry issued an apology and said the episode was under investigation.

The video stood to further inflame demonstrators who were still reeling from the first violent deaths in the two-month-long uprising, threatening to upend a fragile cease-fire. It seemed to reinforce evidence that the authorities or their surrogates were engaging in other brutal tactics, including the killings of protesters.

There were also signs of spreading unrest outside of Kiev. In Lviv, in Western Ukraine, protesters occupied the regional administration building. The Lviv area is a stronghold of support for European integration, the issue that set off the civil uprising in November.

Demonstrators similarly laid siege to the regional administration in Rivne, also in the west, where they demanded that riot police officers deployed to Kiev

SERGEI CHUZAVKOV/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Protesters clashed with the police in Kiev as the opposition tried to negotiate with President Viktor F. Yanukovich. be sent home. There were parallel actions in a number of other cities, including Cherkasy in central Ukraine, where several thousand demonstrators briefly clashed with the police who protected the administration building and at one point fired several shots in the air, local news media reported.

The protests, while not clearly coordinated, were all in response to the ominous situation in Kiev, where demonstrators near the Dynamo soccer stadium had clashed fiercely with police throughout this week.

Among the most chilling developments were reports of demonstrators being kidnapped or detained by the police and taken to undisclosed locations.

After continued clashes overnight, protesters battling the police in Kiev agreed to the tem-

porary cease-fire on Thursday as opposition leaders planned to attend a second round of negotiations with Yanukovich.

Late Thursday, two of the opposition leaders emerged from the meeting with Yanukovich to urge a continuation of the truce.

They said they had achieved a tentative agreement that would set free dozens of detained protesters and potentially create another occupied space similar to Independence Square, where demonstrators have been camped out since early December.

They also said that a package of legislation suppressing political dissent that was rammed through Parliament last week by Yanukovich’s supporters would be revisited at a special legislative session next week.

DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

In Brief Cease-Fire Is Signed in Sudan The government of South Sudan and rebels loyal to the country’s ousted former vice president signed a cease-fire agreement on Thursday, holding out the prospect of peace after more than a month of fighting that has torn the new nation apart. Under the accord, signed in the Ethiopian capital, Addis Ababa, both sides promised to lay down their arms. But they have also said a cessation of hostilities would be a temporary measure, and that talks would have to continue.

(NYT)

Village Accused of Ordering Rape A young woman in West Bengal, India, was gang-raped this week on the order of a village council, to punish her for planning to marry a man

from outside the village, according to the Indian police. Thirteen people have been arrested in the case, including the village chief, who both ordered and participated in the rape, said Suraja Pratap Yadav, a police officer in the Birbhum district of West Bengal in eastern India.

(NYT)

Cuban Vendors Protest Crackdown In a rare demonstration of public dissent, dozens of Cuban artisans and vendors protested in the city of Holguín, marching to government offices and demanding the right to work without harassment, witnesses said. The march, on Tuesday in a provincial capital an hour from Fidel and Raúl Castro’s childhood home, was a spontaneous response to a crackdown at a market in which inspectors seized items from sellers, residents said.

(NYT)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014 3

NATIONAL

Industry Awakens to Threat of Climate Change WASHINGTON — Coca-Cola has always been more focused on its economic bottom line than global warming, but when the company lost a lucrative operating license in India because of a serious water shortage there in 2004, things began to change.

Today, after a decade of increasing hits to Coke’s balance sheet as global droughts dried up the water needed to produce its soda, the company has embraced the idea of climate change as an economically disruptive force.

“Increased droughts, more unpredictable variability, 100-year floods every two years,” said Jeffrey Seabright, Coke’s vice president of environment and water resources, listing the problems that he said are also disrupting the company’s supply of sugar cane and sugar beets, as well as citrus for its fruit juices.

Coke reflects a growing view among American business leaders and mainstream economists who see global warming as an

economically disruptive force.

Their position is at striking odds with the argument that policies to curb carbon emissions are more economically harmful than the impacts of climate change.

At the Swiss resort of Davos, corporate leaders and politicians gathered for the annual four-day World Economic Forum will devote all of Friday to panels and talks on the threat of climate change. The emphasis will be less about saving polar bears and more about promoting economic self-interest.

In Philadephia this month, the American Economic Association inaugurated its new president William D. Nordhaus, a Yale economist and one of the world’s foremost experts on the economics of climate change. “There is clearly a growing recognition of this in the broader academic economic community,” Nordhaus said.

In Washington, the World Bank president, Jim Yong Kim, has put climate change at the center of

the bank’s mission, citing global warming as chief contributor to rising global poverty rates and falling G.D.P.s in developing nations. In Europe, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development has begun to warn of the steep costs of increased carbon pollution.

But the ideas are a tough sell in countries like China and India, where cheap coal-powered energy is boosting the countries’ economies and helping to lift millions of people out of poverty.

Even in Europe, officials have begun to balk at the cost of environmental policies: On Wednesday, the European Union scaled back its climate change and renewable energy commitments, as high energy costs, declining industrial competitiveness and a recognition that the economy is unlikely to rebound strongly soon caused European policy makers to question the short-term economic trade-offs of climate policy.

CORAL DAVENPORT

Arrest Made in ’78 ‘Goodfellas’ Lufthansa Robbery The crime gripped the public’s imagination, for its magnitude and its moxie: In the predawn hours of Dec. 11, 1978, a group of masked gunmen seized about $6 million in cash and jewels from a cargo building at Kennedy International Airport.

The Lufthansa heist was billed as the biggest cash robbery in U.S. history, and it played a starring role in the 1990 movie “Goodfellas.” It remained unsolved for four decades, perhaps because many of those who might have known something turned up dead.

But more than 35 years later, federal authorities on Thursday charged an aging mobster, Vin-

cent Asaro, 78, with playing a role in the heist, saying they had four witnesses who linked Asaro, a reputed capo in the Bonanno Vincent crime family, Asaro to the robbery.

The only person ever convicted in the robbery was a Lufthansa cargo agent, described as the “inside man” in the plot.

The indictment, alleging a racketeering conspiracy from 1968 to 2013, represents the first time

that an organized crime figure has been charged in the heist. But Asaro does not appear to have grown rich from the crime; as late as 2011, he was recorded complaining about his take, according to prosecutors.

“We never got our right money, what we were supposed to get,” Asaro said to another mob figure, who is cooperating with the government.

The indictment charges Asaro; Jerome Asaro, 55, his son; Jack Bonventre; Thomas DiFiore; and John Ragano with a conspiracy that plays like a Mafia highlights reel: robbery, extortion, murder and more. JOSEPH GOLDSTEIN

In Rural Jails, Sheriffs Turn to E-Cigarettes to Make Money LAFAYETTE, Tenn. — As city governments and schools across the country move to ban or restrict the use of electronic cigarettes, one place increasingly welcomes the devices: the rural county jail.

Though traditional cigarettes are prohibited from most prisons and jails because of fire hazards and second-hand smoke, a growing number of sheriffs say they are selling e-cigarettes to

inmates to help control violent mood swings of those in need of a smoke, as well as address budget shortfalls, which in some jails have guards earning little more than fast food workers.

County jails in at least seven states, from Illinois to Alabama, have permitted the sale of a limited selection of flavors of e-cigarettes to inmates. They have become one of the most sought-after items in jail commissaries.

In Gage County, in southeastern Nebraska, Sheriff Millard Gustafson said he had sold out of the 200 e-cigarettes he bought in December for the 32-prisoner jail, but more would be arriving soon.

“They’ve been selling like hotcakes,” he said. “I look at this as something to control their moods.

And so if they’re not a good boy or girl, I’m going to take them away, just like I do with the TVs.” TIMOTHY WILLIAMS

In Brief Death Penalty Eyed For Bombing Suspect Since the federal death penalty was reinstated, in 1988, attorneys general have authorized it for about 500 defendants. By the end of the month, there may be another: the accused Boston Marathon bomber, Dzhokhar Tsarnaev. Attorney General Eric H. Holder Jr. must decide

by Jan. 31 whether to pursue the death penalty. Of those 500 defendants, only three have been executed, the last one a decade ago, according to the Federal Death Penalty Resource Counsel. Holder must decide whether the factors that might justify death in this case, like the indiscriminate killing and maiming of innocent people, outweigh any mitigating factors, such as the possibility Tsarnaev, who was 19 at the time, was under the sway of his older brother.

(NYT)

Virginia Official Fights Ban on Gay Marriage Asserting that Virginia had too often been on the “wrong side” of justice on civil rights matters, the state attorney general asked a federal court on Thursday to invalidate the state’s ban on samesex marriage, calling the law unconstitutional. The move by the attorney general, Mark R. Herring, a Democrat who took office this month, was the first indication of how consequential last November’s vote in Virginia, in which Democrats won all three top elected positions from Republicans, may turn out to be. (NYT)

Vegas Woos G.O.P. Las Vegas civic leaders and Republican donors — among them, Sheldon G. Adelson, a casino owner who spent at least $98 million on Republican candidates in 2012 — are out to persuade the Republican Party to bring its 2016 convention to the Las Vegas Strip. “Vegas has pitched us earlier and more aggressively than any city since I’ve been on the committee,” said Henry Barbour of Mississippi, who has been a committee member since 2005, as he recounted daily calls, emails and face-to-face conversations with the team of leaders and donors that calls itself LV2016. (NYT)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014 4

BUSINESS

THE MARKETS

Neiman Marcus Data Theft Worse Than Said The theft of consumer data from Neiman Marcus appears far deeper than had been disclosed originally, with the luxury retailer saying that hackers invaded its systems for several months in a breach that involved 1.1 million credit and debit cards.

The malware installed on terminals in Neiman Marcus stores seems to be the same malware that infiltrated Target’s systems and exposed information from as many as110 million customers, according to a person briefed on the investigations who spoke on condition of anonymity and is not authorized to speak publicly about the retail attacks.

Investigators have not revealed whether the same cybercriminals are suspected in both breaches.

In a statement posted on its

website on Wednesday, Neiman Marcus said the malware had been “clandestinely” put into its system and had stolen payment data off cards used from July 16 to Oct. 30. MasterCard, Visa and Discover have told the company that about 2,400 cards used at Neiman Marcus and its Last Call outlet stores have since been used fraudulently.

The Neiman Marcus Group has said it was not aware of the data theft until mid-December, when a payment processor reported that unauthorized charges were showing up on cards used at its stores. Nieman Marcus plans to notify all customers who shopped in those stores from January 2013 to this month — and for whom the company has a mailing or email address.

Like Target, it said it would of-

fer those shoppers one free year of credit monitoring.

In the instances of widespread data theft at Target and Neiman Marcus, the malware was designed to hook into in-store cash registers to monitor the credit card authorization process.

Before a transaction can be authorized, credit card data is momentarily decrypted and stored in memory. Called RAM-scraping malware, it is built to scrape that unencrypted data from memory and steal it, according to a private report issued by iSight Partners.

The data thefts have reignited a push for more secure credit and debit cards, similar to those used in Europe and elsewhere, and have prompted some Congressional committees and senators to renew calls for tougher consumer protections.

(NYT)

Key Witness Says Leader of SAC Was F.B.I. Target The man whose shadow has been hanging over the insider trading trial of Mathew Martoma, the former SAC Capital Advisors trader, took center stage on Thursday, when the prosecution’s top witness said F.B.I. agents told him the government’s true target was Steven A. Cohen, SAC’s billionaire founder.

The witness, Sidney Gilman, an 81-year-old doctor, testified that when F.B.I. agents first questioned him about providing inside information to Martoma, they said they really were after Cohen.

“I am only a grain of sand, as is Mr. Martoma,” Gilman said that the F.B.I. agents told him at his first meeting with them in September 2011. “They said they are really after a man named Steven

A. Cohen,” Gilman testified.

His statement came in response to questioning by one of Martoma’s lawyers, Richard Strassberg, about why he initially lied to the F.B.I. about supplying inside information to Martoma.

Martoma is on trial in what federal prosecutors have called the most lucrative insider trading case on record and that they say helped SAC avoid losses and generate profits totaling $276 million.

The case against Martoma is part of a decade-long investigation into the workings of SAC and Cohen.

A month earlier, a jury found another former SAC employee, Michael S. Steinberg, guilty of insider trading. The firm itself pleaded guilty to security fraud charges and agreed to pay a $1.2

billion penalty late last year.

Cohen has not been charged with any wrongdoing, but he faces a civil administrative action of failure to supervise that was filed by the Securities and Exchange Commission.

In two and a half days of testimony for the prosecution, Gilman told the jury that he repeatedly gave Martoma confidential information over two years, including the results of a clinical drug trial for an experimental Alzheimer’s drug in July 2008. Martoma is charged with using that inside information to avoid substantial losses in shares of Elan and Wyeth, which were jointly developing the drug.

ALEXANDRA STEVENSON and MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN

U.S. Senator Is Lobbying for Investigation of Herbalife The hedge fund manager William A. Ackman walked the halls of Congress last year, telling any lawmaker who would listen that he believed Herbalife, a nutritional supplements company, was a fraud. He finally got a break on Thursday, when Sen. Edward J. Markey of Massachusetts sent letters to federal regulators urging them to investigate.

The action introduced a political element into what has become a billion-dollar brawl. Ackman contends that Herbalife is

a pyramid scheme and wagered that its stock was worthless. The company has forcefully denied Ackman’s assertions, and it has found champions elsewhere on Wall Street, with several of Ackman’s rivals buying the company’s shares. That helped drive the stock price skyward, creating hundreds of millions of dollars in paper losses for Ackman.

A spokeswoman for Markey said that Ackman had met with Markey’s staff last fall to discuss Herbalife. Staff members for

Markey have also met with lobbyists who represent Ackman, the spokeswoman said.

Investors in Herbalife, whose stock dropped more than 10 percent on Thursday after Markey’s letters were disclosed, noted that many of the points raised in the letters — which were sent to the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Federal Trade Commission — had appeared months earlier in documents Ackman released to discredit the company.

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BUSINESS

Chief Executive Speeds Up G.M.’s Comeback DETROIT — No matter how much attention she draws as the auto industry’s first female chief executive, Mary T. Barra is determined to keep the focus on cars and trucks at General Motors.

In her first extended public comments since taking over the top job at G.M. on Jan. 15, Barra on Thursday vowed to accelerate its comeback from bankruptcy with improved products, better brands, and consistently profitable operations around the world.

It is a tall order for a company that has only recently stabilized since its government bailout five years ago.

In a two-day meeting this week with G.M. executives, Barra, 52, crystallized the mission ahead of them. “I told the team that there is no destination here, that this is a continuous improvement journey,” she said in an interview.

A trained engineer and former plant manager, Barra brings a shop-floor attitude to the executive suite of a company that has historically drawn its leaders from the world of finance.

The automotive world has watched intently as G.M. — known for so long as the most staid and conservative of the American carmakers — has basked in the aura of Barra’s ascension. But the sudden focus on Barra has raised questions about

Mary Barra, 52, the chief executive at General Motors, is the first woman to head an American automaker.

REBECCA COOK/REUTERS

whether a tried-and-true G.M. employee of 33 years can drive the company to new heights.

“I think people are generally in a state of uncertainty,” said David E. Cole, former chairman of the Center for Automotive Research.

“Mary knows the company and has a lot of history with the people, but she is facing enormous expectations.”

Her low-key, inclusive style is a far cry from the personality of her predecessor, Daniel F. Akerson, who was appointed to the G.M. board by the government and spent much of his four years as chief executive cajoling the company to shed its hidebound culture.

In contrast, Barra exudes the optimism of a chief executive blessed with a strong balance sheet, solid positions in critical markets like North America and China, and an employee base

energized by the federal government’s sale last year of the last of its G.M. stock.

As the head of global product development before becoming chief executive, Barra played an integral role in introducing small, fuel-efficient cars like the Chevrolet Sonic and Spark, as well as new versions of its stalwart pickup trucks and sport utility vehicles.

Yet G.M. has struggled to gain any appreciable share in the hard-fought American market, remaining at about 18 percent.

The company’s sales in the United States increased last year by 7.3 percent, which slightly trailed the industry’s overall growth of 7.6 percent.

And the international picture is still muddied by continued losses in its European division, and stagnant profits in Asia.

BILL VLASIC

Boardroom Drama Percolates Behind Staid Steel Firm When Craig S. Shular, the chief executive of a small steel company called GrafTech International, retired on Tuesday, it looked like just another management changeover at a midmarket industrial company.

But behind the scenes, a complex corporate governance battle was playing out, pitting Shular and a clubby board of directors against an outsider who joined the board as part of an acquisition three years ago.

And even though Shular’s departure as chief executive was effective immediately, the fight for control of the $1.5 billion company is not over yet.

The complications that have ensnared GrafTech began in 2010, when it acquired two companies controlled by Nathan Milikowsky, a small-time player in the big world of industrial steel.

GrafTech paid about $850 million

for the Carbide Graphite Group, which made a crucial piece of equipment for steel manufacturing called a graphite electrode, and Seadrift Coke, which made the raw material needed to produce the electrodes.

For Milikowsky, the deal was a windfall. In 2003, he had bought the assets of Carbide Graphite out of bankruptcy for about $6 million and turned the company around.

In 2005, he acquired Seadrift Coke, allowing him to integrate an important supplier and ramp up revenue at both companies.

Cashing out to GrafTech made Milikowsky, his investors and dozens of his employees wealthy.

And as part of the sale agreement, Milikowsky was guaranteed a seat on the GrafTech board as long as he and his associates held at least 12 million of the company’s shares.

Less than three years later,

however, Milikowsky was pushed off the board — after management accused him of leaking material nonpublic information to a hedge fund — even though he still held 15 million shares.

Milikowsky maintains he was not the source of any leaks and that management and other directors ousted him because he was criticizing them and Shular as GrafTech’s share price plunged.

In recent weeks, Milikowsky was preparing to nominate a new slate of directors before the company’s annual meeting, setting up a showdown between an entrepreneur who contends he was improperly ousted and a company that says it is simply protecting itself.

But Shular’s abrupt resignation on Tuesday threw Milikowsky’s plans into disarray.

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Thursday: Union Pacific Corp., up $5.62 to $174.12. The railroad saw a 13 percent jump in quarterly profit as strong agricultural and industrial shipments offset declining coal.

Herbalife Ltd., down $7.61 to $65.92.

Sen. Ed Markey, D-Mass., has called for an inquiry into the nutritional supplement company’s business practices.

Jacobs Engineering Group Inc., down $2.21 to $64.60. The $1.2 billion acquisition of Sinclair Knight Merz, or SKM, weighed on the engineering company’s quarterly earnings.

Noble Corp., down $3.12 to $33.13.

Fourth-quarter earnings from the offshore driller left investors wanting amid expected weaker demand for rigs.

Netflix Inc., up $54.99 to $388.72.

Shares of the streaming video company hit a high after it added 2.3 million subscribers during the fourth quarter. eBay Inc., up 53 cents to $54.94. A strong holiday season for e-commerce and the fast-growing payments business, PayPal, boosted profits.

Logitech International SA, up $3.01 to $16.23. The maker of computer accessories and remote controls topped third-quarter expectations and raised its full-year revenue forecast.

(AP)

TRAVEL

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014

Have Some Dim Sum With Your Shirts?

Step in to I Love My Laundry in Heritage Square in Cape Town, and you’ll think you’ve entered a glamorous wine bar or supper club. You’d be only partly right.

The narrow room is dominated by a communal table, and at a glance it seems that the only nod to the location’s peculiar name is the clotheslines strung with artwork for sale, or the price tags attached to wine bottles with clothespins.

But listen closely and you just might hear the whir of washing machines. I Love My Laundry is a dim sum bar. And an art and wine shop. And a weekly private fondue party. It’s also a front — literally — for a laundromat. In fact, laundry delivery is the core business.

I Love My Laundry(59 Buitengracht Street; 27-74-992-1481; ilovemylaundry.co.za) is part of a wave of Capetonian hybrid businesses uniting diverse concepts under one roof.

“Cape Town is a small city, and anything arty, unusual and stylish just works here,” the owner, Clayton Howard, 41, said. “Something that doesn’t work is franchises.

Locals prefer supporting small, privately owned businesses.”

Some credit Capetonians’ natural creativity for seeking innovative outlets to express themselves; a more practical perspective suggests that the global economic downturn has forced entrepreneurs to generate revenue in original ways.

Whatever the reason, multifaceted concept stores are thriving in Cape Town: Pedersen and Lennard’s Woodstock Exchange showroom (66 Albert Road, Woodstock; 27-21-447-2020; ped-

SAMANTHA REINDERS FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES

Los Muertos Motorcycles, in Cape Town’s Bo Kaap district, is a biker shop-meets-coffeehouse-meets-film-production studio. ersenlennard.co.za) sells minimalist furniture alongside a range of coffee, pastries and pies.

Haas Design Collective (67 Rose Street, Bo Kaap; 27-21-4224413; haascollective.com) began in 2010 as an art gallery, then expanded to include a full-fledged restaurant, serving patrons amid the cluttered photography, sculptures, paintings and even a mammoth zebra head; on the upper floor is the Haas advertising agency.

And there are not one but two motorcycle shops with cafes in the city: Los Muertos Motorcycles (42 Dorp Street, Bo Kaap; 27-21835-4333; losmuertosmc.com), a biker shop-meets-coffeehousemeets-film-production studio that opened last January; and the House of Machines (84 Shortmarket Street; 27-21-426-1400; thehouseofmachines.com), a men’s lifestyle store and cafe/bar that

opened in August.

Coffee culture is huge in South Africa, which means a good roast is a natural component for virtually any business.

But food and fashion are also a popular mix: The year-old Latitude 33 (165 Bree Street; 2721-424-9520; lat33.co.za) has a surfer vibe, complete with a waveshaped installation above the bar.

Upstairs, it stocks a selection of mostly Australian clothing labels alongside contemporary portraits by the Cape Town-based artist Olivia Franklin; downstairs is a restaurant helmed by Gareth Walford, whose pedigree includes the celebrated Johannesburg institutions Saxon and Michelangelo.

“Some people come for the restaurant then come upstairs and buy clothes; others come for the clothes then buy the art,” Walford said. “It’s all helping each other.”

SARAH KHAN

In Brief Stepping Into Alpine Air Visitors will feel as if they’re floating above the Alps with “Step Into the Void,” a new five-sided tempered-glass enclosure at the tip of the Aiguille du Midi mountain peak. The enclosure lies at one end of the world’s tallest skywalk structure, which stands at 12,605 feet and overlooks the French commune of Chamonix. While inspired by the Grand Canyon’s transparent horseshoeshaped cantilever, this version is different in that the box “feels like it is suspended in the air,” Fabienne Martinez, a representative for Compagnie du Midi, which operates the skywalk, said in an email.

Once inside the box, travelers can gaze at the Alps, the Chamonix Valley and Mont Blanc, Europe’s highest peak at 15,781 feet. Access is provided by a 20-minute cable car ride from Chamonix operated

by Compagnie du Mont-Blanc. The total package costs €55 (about $77).

(NYT)

Mountain Biking for Couples Sacred Rides, a Canadian-based outfitter that focuses on single-track mountain bike tours for experienced riders, has introduced a line of bringyour-partner trips that mountain bikers and their nonbiking companions can enjoy together. The new Rocky Mountain Bring Your Partner trip includes hiking, yoga, hot springs, spa time and introductory mountain bike lessons for the companion, while the mountain biker will enjoy singletrack cross-country riding on moderate to challenging terrain in Fernie, in British Columbia, at Nipika Mountain Resort and Banff National Park and in Kananaskis Country.

(NYT)

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Check In/Check Out LIMA, PERU Arts Boutique Hotel B RATES Starting at $450 for a standard double.

BASICS The Arts Boutique Hotel B (Hotel B for short) is surrounded by elegant mansions that harken back to Lima’s heyday in the early 20th century. The historic manor house was built in 1914, designed by the French architect Claude Sahut. Every corner of the two-story mansion feels intimate and personal. It opened as a hotel in July after a two-year renovation. Most of the details date back to its earlier days. Then there’s the art — work that veers toward Surrealism— placed throughout the hotel. The well-curated graphics, photographs and oil paintings are clearly meant to stop you in your tracks, like the massive painting of an orchestra hanging behind the bar. The whole place feels more like the mansion of a rich, eccentric art collector than an actual hotel.

LOCATION The hotel is in one of the fancier neighborhoods in Lima, Barranco, with leafy streets and ornate architecture. It is also the artsy district, the romantic, bohemian pocket of the city. And it’s right on the Pacific, making it a prize destination among Peru’s surfing community.

THE ROOM There are 17 rooms, each designed individually (book one in the historic wing) and each with its own quirks.

THE BATHROOM Get a room with a bathtub. This isn’t a suggestion. This is a vacation-changing event. The free-standing porcelain tub is smack in the middle of the bathroom. And if you want a bubble bath, the hotel’s guest services will actually prepare it for you. Yes, the service is that over the top (in a good way).

AMENITIES They’re all there: free Internet (though spotty); complimentary minibar stocked with soda, snacks and chocolate; and tea and finger sandwiches daily in the library.

DINING The dining room is small and appealing. The celebrated Peruvian chef Oscar Velarde created the perfect-size seasonal menu that is Peru by way of the Mediterranean (and actually not that expensive — dinner for four came to $200).

BOTTOM LINE Hotel B is like a trip back to the Peru of the 1920s — complete with striking artwork, stellar service and romantic interiors.

(NYT)

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014 7

JOURNAL

A Code of Honor, Not a Referee, Keeps Curlers Honest the amateur and elite levels are expected to fess up to their own follies, be it swearing, touching a stone in motion with their foot or the practice of broom slamming.

It is hard to imagine any other sport at the elite level doing the same, but such personal responsibility on the ice is precisely what makes curling curling, athletes said.

“Curling has always been known as a gentleman’s sport,” said E. J. Harnden, a curler on the Canadian Olympic team. “It’s like golf.”

Still, Olympic medals, titles and glory are on the line. Occasionally, ire can build if an opposing team fails to call its own foul, tarnishing its reputation for years.

“We have a saying on our team that what

LAS VEGAS — The curling stones were aligned, brooms were in hand, and the three ice sheets were spritzed with deionized water.

Forty-eight curlers were set to compete in the World Continental Cup here last weekend, a critical warm-up for many who were bound for the Winter Games in Sochi, Russia.

But one thing was absent from the ice, and will be absent from the curling arena at the Sochi Games, as well: referees calling fouls.

Curling is the rare Olympic sport that relies largely on self-policing. Curlers are expected to call attention to their own errors.

Officials are relegated chiefly to timekeeping and measuring tasks around the button, or bull’s-eye, of the game’s court. Curlers at

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goes around comes around,” Harnden said.

“We want the good karma to stick with us.”

In general, curlers are a courteous group.

Many still adhere to a tradition in which the winning team buys the losing team drinks after a game. On the ice in Las Vegas, opposing teams were paired for tournament play, and curlers exchanged high-fives with the same people they are likely to be pitted against for podium spots in Sochi. Such longstanding friendliness has made self-policing work well for generations, curlers said.

Nothing strikes fear in the heart of curlers more than having to call your own burning of a stone, that is, touching it while it is in motion.

While rare in elite play, curlers brush within an inch of the stone, making it an embarrassing possibility. A burned stone must be cast aside and can make for a lopsided scoreboard.

Jennifer Jones, a Canadian skip, said her team burned a stone two years ago that caused it to lose a game. Her teammate Jill Officer fell and hit a stone, called the foul on herself and, as per custom, the rock was removed from the game.

“It changed the whole momentum of the game,” Jones said. “Then all of a sudden, we were behind and had to catch up, and we never did.”

But perhaps no self-called infraction is more legendary in curling history than the one that led to “the curse of LaBonte.”

In 1972, the American men’s team was facing off against the Canadians for the men’s curling world championship in Germany. The American skip, Robert LaBonte, thinking the American title was in hand, accidentally kicked a stone while celebrating, and the Americans ultimately lost, 9-10.

LaBonte, now 63 and living in Minot, N.D., said he has tried to move on from one of the sport’s most famous fouls.

“Any time someone falls in a parking lot, they say it’s LaBonte’s curse,” he said. “After a while, it isn’t that big of a deal.”

He paused. “But I wish I could have gone back and got another shot at it.” MARY PILON

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FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014 8

OPINION

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

DAVID BROOKS

End the Phone Data Sweeps

It Takes a Generation

Once again, a thorough and independent analysis of the government’s dragnet surveillance of Americans’ phone records has found the bulk data collection to be illegal and probably unconstitutional. The program was also found to be virtually useless at stopping terrorism, raising the obvious question: Why does President Obama insist on continuing a costly, legally dubious program when his own appointees repeatedly find that it doesn’t work?

In a report issued Thursday, the Privacy and Civil Liberties Oversight Board, a five-member independent agency, called on the White House to end the phone-data collection program, for constitutional and practical reasons.

The board’s report follows a Dec. 16 ruling by Federal District Judge Richard Leon that the program was “almost certainly” unconstitutional and that the government had not identified “a single instance” in which it “actually stopped an imminent attack.”

Two days later, a panel of legal and intelligence experts convened by Obama after the disclosures by Edward Snowden echoed those conclusions in its own comprehensive report, which said the data sweep “was not essential to preventing attacks” and called for its end.

The growing agreement among those who have studied the program closely makes it imperative that the administration, along with the program’s defenders in Congress, explain why such intrusive mass surveillance is necessary at all. If Obama knows something that contradicts what he has now been told by two panels, a federal judge and multiple members

of Congress, he should tell the American people. Otherwise, he is in essence asking for their blind faith, which is precisely what he warned against during his speech last week on the future of government surveillance.

“Given the unique power of the state,” Obama said, “it is not enough for leaders to say: trust us, we won’t abuse the data we collect. For history has too many examples when that trust has been breached.”

If the phone-data sweeps had assisted in the prevention of any terrorist attacks, it is safe to assume that we would know by now. Instead, despite repeated claims that the bulk-data collection programs had a hand in thwarting 54 terrorist plots, the privacy board members write, “we have not identified a single instance involving a threat to the United States in which the telephone records program made a concrete difference in the outcome of a counterterrorism investigation.”

That reiterates the findings of Leon, who noted that even behind closed doors, the government provided “no proof” of the program’s efficacy, as well as the conclusion of a report released this month by the New America Foundation that the metadata program “had no discernible impact on preventing acts of terrorism and only the most marginal of impacts on preventing terrorist-related activity.”

No one disputes that the threat of terrorism is real, or that our intelligence techniques must adapt to a rapidly changing world. It is equally clear that the dragnet collection of Americans’ phone calls is not the answer.

Even More Addictive Cigarettes It was a shock to learn from the latest surgeon general’s report that, because of changes in the design and composition of cigarettes, smokers today face a higher risk of lung cancer and chronic obstructive pulmonary disease than smokers in 1964, despite smoking fewer cigarettes. It is equally shocking to learn that some of today’s cigarettes may be more addictive than those smoked in past years, most likely because the manufacturers are designing them to deliver more nicotine to induce and sustain addiction. That devious tactic requires a strong response by regulators.

A report published last week in the journal Nicotine and Tobacco Research found that while the nicotine content of cigarettes has remained relatively stable for more than a decade, the amount of that nicotine delivered to the machines researchers use as surrogates for smokers has been rising. The researchers, from the Massachusetts Department of Public Health and the University of Massachusetts Medical School, analyzed data from four manufacturers as required by state law. The findings varied among the companies and brands, but the overall trend led the researchers to conclude that changes in cigarette design have increased the efficiency of delivering nicotine.

Those provocative findings will need to be verified by other experts but are consistent with the surgeon general’s report. That report, issued on Jan. 17, found that some of today’s cigarettes are more addictive than those from earlier decades, based on the findings of a Federal District Court judge in 2006 who had access to industry documents spelling out how cigarettes were designed to make them more addictive. The industry’s tactics included designing filters and selecting cigarette paper to maximize the ingestion of nicotine and adding chemicals to make cigarettes taste less harsh.

Nicotine itself, in addition to its addictive qualities, has harmful effects on the human body. The surgeon general’s report concluded that nicotine activates biological pathways that increase the risk for disease, adversely affects maternal and fetal health during pregnancy, and can have lasting adverse consequences for brain development in fetuses and adolescents.

Still, the main problem is that nicotine addicts people to smoking, which exposes them to a host of toxic ingredients. Regulators will need to find ways to block the designs, ingredients and marketing strategies that increase the amount of nicotine taken in by smokers.

Over the past decade we’ve had a rich debate on how to expand opportunity for underprivileged children. But we’ve probably made two mistakes.

First, we’ve probably placed too much emphasis on early education. What happens in the early years is crucial. But human capital development takes a generation. If you really want to make an impact, you’ve got to have a developmental strategy for all the learning stages, ages 0 to 25.

Second, we’ve probably put too much weight on school reform. Reforming education is important, but getting the academics right is not going to get you far if millions of students can’t control their impulses, can’t form attachments, don’t possess resilience and lack social and emotional skills.

So when President Obama talks about expanding opportunity in his State of the Union address on Tuesday, I’m hoping he’ll widen the debate. I’m hoping he’ll sketch out a stageby-stage developmental agenda to help poor children move from birth to the middle class.

Such an agenda would start before birth.

First, children need parents who are ready to care for them. But right now roughly half-amillion children are born each year as a result of unintended pregnancies.

According to work done by Isabel Sawhill of the Brookings Institution and others, a significant number of kids stay on track through their early years in school, but then fall off the rails as teenagers. Sawhill set a pretty low bar for having a successful adolescence: graduate from high school with a 2.5 G.P.A., don’t get convicted of a crime, don’t get pregnant. Yet only 57 percent of American 19-year-olds get over that bar. Only one-third of children in the bottom fifth of family income do so.

Over the next few years, we’ve got to spend a lot more time and money figuring out how to help people from poorer families chart a course through the teenage years. There’s evidence that Career Academies help adolescents navigate the teenage rapids. There’s some evidence that New York’s “small schools of choice” yield measurable results.

But it is harder to find successful programs geared toward teenagers than it is to find successful programs geared toward younger children. It feels as though less money has been raised to help teenagers, and fewer innovative programs have been initiated.

Robert Putnam of Harvard argues that when we design early education programs, they need to be “wrap-around.” They need to have formal and informal programs that bring parents in and instill communal skills. With teenagers, we need more guidance counselors to help them become savvy.

Putnam is emphasizing skills — for toddlers or teenagers — that are hard to see and measure. But that’s the next frontier of human capital development: Building lifelong social and emotional development strategies from age 0 to 25. I’m hoping President Obama goes there.

SPORTS

FRIDAY, JANUARY 24, 2014

In Brief

Barcelona President Resigns Amid Neymar Suit The president of F.C. Barcelona, Sandro Rosell, resigned on Thursday, a day after a Spanish court accepted a lawsuit accusing him of misappropriating funds as part of the $78 million transfer of Neymar, the Brazilian soccer star, last summer.

In a short address, Rosell said that his resignation was “irrevocable” and followed what he called a period of unspecified “threats” against him and his family. But he called the accusation related to Neymar’s transfer “unjust and brash,” and he suggested a soccer club was entitled to keep some dealings confidential.

The court case was triggered by a lawsuit filed by a Barcelona club member, Jordi Cases, who accused Rosell of covering up the actual terms of Neymar’s transfer from his Brazilian club, Santos.

Denying wrongdoing, Rosell said

recently that he would welcome an opportunity to appear in court to clarify the transfer of Neymar.

Rosell has strong ties to Brazilian soccer, having previously worked in Brazil for Nike and his signing of the 21-year-old Neymar in June was seen as a coup for Barcelona. Neymar, the rising star of Brazilian soccer, had been targeted by several other European clubs, including Barcelona’s arch rival, Real Madrid. After losing out on Neymar, Real Madrid signed Gareth Bale from the London club Tottenham for a record fee of $125 million.

Rosell took over as Barcelona’s president in 2010 from Joan Laporta. Shortly after his election, Rosell accused Laporta of falsifying the club’s accounts, which were restated to a loss of more than $100 million instead of the $15 million profit Laporta had claimed

for his last season in charge.

Laporta denied wrongdoing; he has instead suggested that he could challenge again for Barcelona’s presidency in 2016. Josep Maria Bartomeu, Rosell’s deputy, is taking over as president of the club until then.

Under Rosell, Barcelona has not only weathered Spain’s economic crisis but posted the highest earnings in its history, ending last season with a record profit of about $43 million. With the notable exception of Real Madrid and Barcelona, most other Spanish clubs have struggled to keep afloat, pay back taxes and cut back mountains of debt.

In contrast, Barcelona’s board this month presented plan to remodel its Camp Nou stadium, as well as add other sports facilities, at a cost of more than $800 million.

RAPHAEL MINDER

An All-Swiss Event? Surging Wawrinka Reaches Final MELBOURNE, Australia — More than an hour after Stanislas Wawrinka’s match ended, after he had advanced to his first Grand Slam final, he sat down in front of reporters. He was smiling.

Someone asked him why. “I don’t know, either,” he responded.

Wawrinka, 28, continued the best stretch of his career Thursday in the Australian Open. To his semifinal run at last year’s United States Open, he added an upset victory over Novak Djokovic, and he outserved a big server in Tomas Berdych to win Thursday, 6-3, 6-7 (1), 7-6 (3), 7-6 (4).

This set up the tantalizing possibility of an all-Swiss final, should

Roger Federer defeat Rafael Nadal in the other men’s semifinal, scheduled for Friday night.

The possibility of a FedererWawrinka final overshadowed just how well Wawrinka has played in the past year, especially in this tournament. He fought his way into the final with big serves and creative baseline play. It was not an accident.

“I’m at the top of my career,” Wawrinka said. “Already last year I had the feeling that I was playing better, but I was dealing better the pressure also. I’m more mature.

I’m 28 now.”

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Wawrinka wanted to play aggressively, to attack Berdych, to play his way into the men’s final and not back in.

Federer sent a text message to Wawrinka on Wednesday. Federer, the winner of 17 Grand Slam singles titles, was among many aware of the potential for an allSwiss final; aware, too, of all the work Wawrinka put in, of all the doubts endured. Federer congratulated Wawrinka for his run at the tournament.

“For you, it’s normal,” Wawrinka said he responded. “For me, it’s not normal.”

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Browns Pick Coach After nearly a month of twists, turns and talk, the Cleveland Browns hired Mike Pettine, the Buffalo Bills’ defensive coordinator, as their new head coach.

Pettine, who met with team officials for the first time only a week ago, completed a contract Thursday to become the Browns’ seventh full-time coach since 1999. The team fired Rob Chudzinski on Dec. 29 after one season. Pettine, 47, will inherit a team that went 4-12.

(AP)

No Logo for Maddux Greg Maddux and Tony La Russa will not have logos on their Hall of Fame plaques. Joe Torre’s plaque will have the logo of the Yankees, plaques for Tom Glavine and Bobby Cox will have Atlanta Braves logos, and Frank Thomas’s will have that of the Chicago White Sox. Maddux played for the Chicago Cubs, the Braves and other teams. La Russa managed the White Sox, the Oakland Athletics and the St. Louis Cardinals.

(AP)

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Li Has New Role in Grand Slam Final: Favorite MELBOURNE, Australia — For the third time in the last four years, Li Na is one of the last two women standing at the Australian Open. But she would have left Australia a week ago if her thirdround opponent, Lucie Safarova, had not missed a backhand by two inches on match point.

Li’s coach, Carlos RodriLi Na guez, called L i ’s draw “tricky, difficult, stressful.” He said Li was unsettled at the start of the tournament by having to play up-and-coming 16-year-olds in her first two matches.

The next three victories were impressively routine for Li. She lost only two games to 22nd-seeded Ekaterina Makarova of Russia in the fourth round and only four games to 28th-seeded Flavia Pennetta of Italy in the quarterfinals. Then Li won 20 of the first 23 points against 30th-seeded Eugenie Bouchard of Canada in the semifinals before hanging on for a 6-2, 6-4 victory.

The fourth-seeded Li will enter Saturday’s match against 20thseeded Dominika Cibulkova as the clear favorite. In that way, the match is different from Li’s three

Dominika Cibulkova of Slovakia celebrating her semifinal win. The 20th-seeded Cibulkova faces No. 4 Li Na of China in the final.

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previous Grand Slam finals, including the one she won at the 2011 French Open.

“That is the difficult thing for her,” Rodriguez said of her new status. “You are not the outsider anymore; you are No. 4. And on paper, you are the favorite.”

Li’s opponent in the final, Cibulkova, is a 5-foot-3 Slovak whose best quality may be her outsize belief, which accompanies a powerful, attacking style not usually seen from players her height.

Aside from being one of the shortest players, Cibulkova, 24, is one of the most boisterous. Many of the points she wins are quickly followed by a shout of “Pod’me,” which is Slovak for “Let’s go.”

“I have it since I was little kid, you know,” Cibulkova said of her on-court energy. “When I play my best tennis, that’s where you can

see like the power and the fight.”

As Li was in her earlier years, Cibulkova has been streaky in her career. She has played well enough in stretches to reach the quarterfinals or better at all four Grand Slam events, but she has never made the top 10.

“It will be ‘the biggest match of my life,’ ” Cibulkova said, making quotation marks with her fingers.

“But I will not go on the court like that. There is no pressure.”

Cibulkova said she drew inspiration from her close friend Marion Bartoli, who became an unlikely Wimbledon champion last summer, winning the tournament despite being ranked 15th.

“I knew she was working like so hard for it,” Cibulkova said.

“When she won it, I knew, like, everything is possible.”

BEN ROTHENBERG

Freeskiing Challenges Snowboarding at Olympics David Wise may be the best halfpipe skier in the world. He is a favorite to win a gold medal in the event’s debut in Sochi, Russia, where it will be compared with the better-known version performed by snowboarders like Shaun White.

Wise can explain the obvious and hidden differences between the two halfpipe disciplines — one on one plank, the other on two. He can speak about the physics involved in skiing backward while launching oneself off the edge of a 22-foot wall of ice, rotating like a gyroscope and landing in the ideal position for the next trick.

What he cannot do is fully explain why he carries poles.

“They’re kind of a fossil from early skiing days, really,” Wise said.

The snowboard halfpipe has been a popular event since its debut at the 1998 Winter Olympics in Nagano, Japan. White helped

launch it into a do-not-miss primetime event, winning the men’s gold medal in the past two Games and going to Sochi as the favorite.

Skiers like Wise hope to demonstrate that their version of the halfpipe is just as worthy of wows and affection. Similarly, with the debut of a new event, slopestyle, for both snowboarders and skiers, viewers will be able to directly compare two ways of negotiating the same terrain. The disciplines have been conducted side-by-side at events such as this weekend’s X Games in Aspen, Colo., but the Olympics will provide a far bigger audience.

What’s the difference? Which is more difficult? Which is cooler?

In general, the halfpipe skiers can go higher than their snowboarding counterparts.

In the air, the types of spinning, medal-making tricks performed are similar. But the ability to main-

tain speed and height helps top freeskiers do more of them.

Differences may be most apparent in the air. Aloft, snowboarders have a compact grace. Skiers, with two skis and two poles, look busier. But the extra equipment allows them to perform crowdpleasing poses — crossing their skis or their poles, spreading their legs, maybe reaching to grab different parts of the skis.

For freeskiers, the overall impression that they hope to leave in Sochi is that their discipline is just as impressive as the popular snowboarding events.

“There was a reason that snowboarding got embraced the way it did — it was new, it was exciting,” Wise said. “And I think that’s exactly what freeskiing has to have.

We’ve been alongside the snowboarders for a long time. You guys just didn’t know it.”

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In Brief 4 First-Time All-Stars Stephen Curry and Kevin Love in the West, and Paul George and Kyrie Irving in the East were voted N.B.A. All-Stars for the first time. Kobe Bryant was also elected by fans to his 16th All-Star game for the West, second-most in N.B.A. history. Also voted in were Kevin Durant and Blake Griffin for the West and LeBron James, Dwyane Wade and Carmelo Anthony for the East. (AP)

Woods Opens With 72 Tiger Woods, making his 2014 debut Thursday, in the Farmers Insurance Open in San Diego, failed to break par in the opening round for first time in his career. Stewart Cink ran off three straight birdies late in his round at Torrey Pines for an 8-under 64. That gave him a one-shot lead over Gary Woodland. Woods failed to birdie any of the par 5s and had to settle for a 72. (AP)

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS

PACFLT Visits USS Spruance

By Lt. j.g. John Horne and Lt. Tom Magana, USS Spruance Public Affairs

The Arleigh Burke-class guided-missile destroyer USS Spruance (DDG 111) hosted Adm. Harry Harris, commander of U.S. Pacific Fleet, while pierside in Sembawang, Singapore, Jan. 22.

Harris toured the ship with Commanding Officer Cmdr.

Daniel Cobian and Command Master Chief Greg Radel, spoke with Sailors and thanked them for the work they are doing on Spruance’s maiden overseas deployment.

“Deploying our most capable ships to this region is a key component of our strategic rebalance to the Pacific,” said Harris. “As one of our newest destroyers in the Fleet, I could

not be more pleased with the performance of the Spruance crew during their first 100 days of deployment.”

Harris personally commended one of the ship’s small boat crews, who recently

recovered a civilian mariner who had fallen overboard from a Malaysian-flagged tanker in the Singapore Strait.

“The crew did a tremendous job rescuing a mariner in distress hours before pulling

into Singapore. They were able to do that because they were ready and because the ship was deployed here to the AsiaPacific, where our persistent presence matters,” said Harris.

Lt. j.g. Katherine Miyamasu, the boat officer during the recovery, stated, “It was humbling to meet Admiral Harris. The boat crew and I told him that on that particular day, we were just doing our job, doing what we were trained to do. The fact he shook our hands brought home its significance.”

Spruance is on its maiden deployment to the 7th Fleet area of operations supporting security and stability in the Indo-Asia-Pacific region.

March 2014 E4-E6 Advancement Exams Announced

By Katrina Gergely, Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center Public Affairs

The March 2014 Navywide enlisted examinations for Active Duty, Full Time Support and Canvasser Recruiter Sailors who are advancement eligible to the paygrades of E4-E6 have been announced in Naval Administrative Message (NAVADMIN) 312/13, released Dec. 11.

Each Navy examination consists of 25 Professional Military Knowledge and 150 job-specific technical questions.

The examination dates are March 06, 2014 (E6), March 13, 2014 (E5) and March 20, 2014 (E4).

Examination results are posted on the Navy Enlisted Advancement System (NEAS)

website.

“The best way to prepare for an advancement examination is to know your job better than your peers,” said Master Chief Electrician’s Mate Eric Riddle, command master chief of the Naval Education and Training Professional Development and Technology Center (NETPDTC).

“When the rating Subject Matter Experts develop your examination content, they are instructed to write questions that Sailors need to know in order to perform their jobs,” said Riddle. “With that in mind, I would strongly recommend Sailors study with the intent of

increasing job knowledge and not study solely for the exam.”

During Advancement Examination Readiness Reviews held at NETPDTC, visiting E7 and above fleet SMEs in each enlisted rating ensure all examination questions can be linked to references and publications. As rating SMEs select questions for the examination, an examination bibliography is developed based on the source reference for the question.

NAC updates bibliography information as fleet instructions and manuals change, and it is recommended that candidates check their bibliography a few times prior to the exam

administration date.

Study material for advancement examination preparation is available six months prior to the administration dates. To download the bibliographies for an upcoming exam, go to the Navy Advancement Center’s Web portal on NKO at https://www.nko.navy.mil/ group/navy-advancementcenter/exam-bibliographies.

The NEAS website enables Education Services Officers to verify and correct the list of eligible candidates for their command, delete and forward examinations when necessary, and confirm examination ordering information.

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Photos by MCSA Matthew Young

Our very own Capt. Daniel C. Grieco got out of the Bridge into a Goshawk to take a flight with Training Air Wing (TW) 1 and 2 and made his 200th trap aboard TR.

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