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ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

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January 25, 2014 • DAILY

inside: Building a big bang and Loose tweets sink fleets

G-3: Behind the Lines

Story and Photo by MCSN Jenna Kaliszewski

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want this all done by 11:30,” shouted Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Christopher Duff, the team leader of the dummy bomb building training evolution.

Sailors moved quickly to build nine inert bombs and complete the morning’s mission. This is another typical day for the Weapons department G-3 division aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71).

Aviation Ordnancemen’s training is crucial to the operational readiness of TR. They must know their job, and all of its details to prepare for the instance when they may have to construct live ordnance.

“We train for any situation that we may face while we’re out to sea,” said Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Jordyn Crocketthill.

G-3 Sailors certify with the Ordnance Handling Officer to handle live ordnance. Qualified Sailors spend hours supervising their junior Sailors as they familiarize themselves with weapons’ components by dissembling and reassembling inert bombs.

“We have to know our job,” said Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Justin Hilton. “Something as simple as not having a fin lined up correctly will change the trajectory of a bomb. We have to be comfortable with the weapons that we have.”

G-3 not only becomes very familiar with their weapons through hours of training, but also very familiar with each other.

“We have to trust each other,” said Hilton. “We really

do have a tight knit bond. I don’t want to be building with somebody that I feel like I have to keep checking on because they’re going to mess up. That’s taking my focus off what I have to do. That’s why we train, we train, we train.”

It is easy to see their bond since they tend to travel in packs.

“We take pride in our rate,” said Hilton. “A lot of people don’t see what goes on down in the magazines. We do a lot of stuff behind the lines.”

G-3 trains constantly with inert bombs so they can confidently work as a team to build live ordnance and ensure that ordnance lands on target.

OPSEC: Generation LOL

Story by MCSN Bounome Chanphouang

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Aviation Ordnancemen, from Weapons department G-3 division, move an inert bomb in the weapons magazine aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevlet (CVN 71). G-3 division conducted training in order to properly handle ordnance.

hen she wakes up and before going to bed, Tabitha Brackin is on social media.

“It’s like an addiction,” said the Logistics Specialist in S8 division. She posts about nearly anything that’s on her mind: “Moods. What I’m doing. Where I’m at. Almost like advertising.”

What she won’t do, however, is share her whereabouts if she’s on the ship.

“We don’t want people to know where we’re at because we’ll be a target,” said Brackin.

She’s right. According to the Navy, you should not “share official information that isn’t approved for public release like emails, message traffic, public affairs guidance, pre-decisional materials, investigatory information, etc. If the information is on a public-facing website (i.e. you can access it from home) then the information is ok to use; otherwise be careful in putting anything from work on social media.”

Just one post on social media that violates operational security (OPSEC) threatens USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) and its mission.

“The whole point of OPSEC is to protect our mission and protect our people,” said Lt. Cameron Thomas, the operational security officer aboard Theodore Roosevelt. “Violations of OPSEC give the enemy an opportunity to take a peek into our planning process.”

Email, phone conversations, text messages and social media are some of the most common forums where Sailors breach OPSEC. Inadvertently revealing ship’s movement or mission details to a family or friend, whether over the phone, via

email or social media is a clear violation of OPSEC. “I think social media blurs the lines of what information is okay to send and what is not,” said Senior Chief Cryptological Technician (Technical) Alyssa Lavers.

“Sailors just need to pay attention to what they post to keep security and safety always at the forefront of their minds.”

Posting a ships information on a social media site may seem harmless, but sites often have no privacy settings allowing unwanted viewers, which may unintentionally put the ship in harm’s way.

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

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014

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Shifts in U.S. and China Shake Markets Prolonged Fight feared in Egypt After Bombings

The ascent of developing countries over the last decade has been fueled by two global trends: the steady rise of China and the willingness of the Federal Reserve to stimulate the economy.

Now, with both trends retreating, investors have been heading for the exits in markets as far removed as Buenos Aires, Istanbul and Beijing, with effects spilling over into the rest of the world.

A decline this week picked up speed and spread around the globe on Friday, leading to the first sustained drop in United States stock indexes in 2014. The Standard & Poor’s 500-stock index fell 2.1 percent on Friday, to end its worst week since June 2012.

But the damage is expected to be worse in places that have relied on demand for raw resources in China. An index of manufacturing growth released on Thursday showed the most important cog in China’s economy, the world’s second-largest, was contracting for the first time in six months.

The damage has been severe in countries that are already suffering from political instability, like

Turkey and Argentina. Turkey’s currency fell to an all-time low against the dollar on Friday, a drop that will hit the purchasing power of everyone in the country. On a street corner in Istanbul, Yilmaz Gok, 51, said, “I’m a retiree making ends meet on a small pension and all I care about is a possible increase in prices.

“I will need to cut further,” Gok said, “maybe I should use my natural gas heater less.”

The concerns about developing economies are being exacerbated by the Fed’s recent decision to begin pulling back on the bond-buying stimulus programs that have helped keep interest rates low around the world. Now, many countries that had come to rely on those low rates could face a surge in borrowing costs and a period of painful readjustment.

Many emerging countries could also be hurt if investors choose to pull their money to chase returns in the recovering economies in the United States and Europe.

“A lot of these currencies are getting trashed and people’s standards of living are going down,”

said Michael Purves, the chief global strategist at Weeden & Company. “There is a potential for social unrest to accelerate.”

In December, the Fed decided to cut back its monthly purchases for the first time, to $75 billion from $85 billion.

“Emerging markets can’t seem to escape the shadow of the Federal Reserve,” Andrew Wilkinson, the chief market analyst at Interactive Brokers, wrote to clients.

The main U.S. indexes are still within a few percent of their record highs. The S.& P. 500 ended Friday down 2.1 percent, or 38.17 points, to 1,790.29, bringing it down 3.1 percent for the year. The Dow Jones industrial average fell 2 percent, or 318.24 points, to 15,879.11. The Nasdaq composite index fell 2.2 percent, or 90.70 points, to 4,128.88.

A U.S. recovery could benefit if investors are looking for somewhere to put money that was previously in developing countries.

“There’s a part of this that actually strengthens the U.S.,” Purves said. “You may have a flight to the best house on the block.”

NATHANIEL POPPER

Pregnant Woman’s Life Support Ordered Cut FORT WORTH — A Texas judge on Friday ruled that a local hospital cannot keep a brain-dead, pregnant woman on life support against her family’s wishes and ordered doctors to take her off the machines that keep her body breathing by 5 p.m. Monday.

The ruling gives her family their first legal victory in a two-month battle over the fate of her body that has raised issues revolving around end-of-life care, abortion and a Texas law that prohibits medical officials from withdrawing life support to a pregnant patient.

The judge ruled that the woman, Marlise Muñoz, 33, who has been on life support at John Peter Smith Hospital since November, was legally dead, and that the hospital had erred in deciding to keep her on life support against her family’s wishes. The hospital had said the Texas law on life support for pregnant women prevented it from granting the family’s wish, but the

judge said the law did not apply to her because she is dead.

The judge, R. H. Wallace Jr., a state district judge in Tarrant County, which includes Fort Worth, set the 5 p.m. deadline, saying he wanted to give the hospital time to file an appeal.

A spokeswoman for the publicly financed, county-owned hospital, which was represented by the Tarrant County District Attorney’s Office, said it will be consulting with its lawyers. They appeared to be considering an appeal.

In legal filings and in the courtroom, the hospital’s lawyer said Muñoz met the clinical criteria for brain death two days after she arrived there. But he argued that the law still applied to her, and that the legislature’s passage of it showed the state had a compelling interest in protecting unborn children.

The lawyer for the hospital, Larry M. Thompson, wrote that the Texas Penal Code’s definition

of an individual stated that an unborn child was alive at every stage of gestation. “Given the strong interest of the Texas legislature in protecting the life of unborn children, it is unlikely the legislature contemplated only the welfare of the mother when” enacting the law in question, Thompson wrote.

But a lawyer for Muñoz’s husband, Erick Muñoz, 26, said his argument amounted to a sweeping public policy declaration. The lawyer, Heather L. King, said if the state had such an interest, paramedics who arrived at crash scenes would have to give dying women pregnancy tests to ensure they were following the law.

King apologized in the courtroom for putting it so crudely, but told the judge that pregnant women “die every day,” adding: “When they die, their fetus dies with them.

That is the way it’s always been, and the way it should be.”

MANNY FERNANDEZ

CAIRO — Three years after the start of its revolt for democracy, the capital was shaken Friday by four deadly bombings, in the clearest sign yet that Egypt is entering a prolonged and violent struggle between the military-backed government and a growing Islamist insurgency.

The bombs, scattered around the city and all aimed at the police, killed six people and left a grim realization that a cycle of terrorism and repression is hardening the determination of each side to fight to the death, all but extinguishing the three-year-old dream of an inclusive democracy and open debate. No one claimed responsibility for the bombings.

“The timing is a message that the third anniversary of the revolution will not be a celebration; they want to color it with blood,” said Moataz Abdel-Fattah, a political scientist at the American University of Cairo.

“And it will only darken the political waters, with more people calling for a hard-line stance against the Muslim Brotherhood and their supporters.”

Within two hours of the first and largest explosion, a car bombing at dawn outside a security headquarters, a crowd of at least 200 had gathered at the police line to cheer for Gen. Abdul-Fattah el-Sisi, who deposed President Mohamed Morsi of the Muslim Brotherhood and is now poised to succeed him.

“The people want the execution of the Brothers,” they chanted, blaming the Brotherhood for the attack in a bloodthirsty imitation of the calls that rang out three years ago calling for “the fall of the regime.”

A government statement evoked the earlier battle against a militant Islamist insurgency that flared here in the 1990s, vowing to “uproot it once again” and “show neither pity nor mercy.” “Everything is left now to the army and the police, there is no politics in Egypt,” said Fahmy Howeidy, a veteran columnist considered sympathetic to political Islam. “And if you close the door against peaceful solutions, you should expect violence as an alternative.”

DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014 2

INTERNATIONAL

Envoy’s Frankness In Japan Tests Kennedy Mystique TOKYO — Japan went into a collective swoon two months ago when Caroline Kennedy arrived as the United States’ ambassador.

The appointment of someone with such celebrity appeal — who offered a living link to a golden age when America was still reassuringly strong and confident — appeared to be proof that Washington was finally giving Japan the embrace it craved.

When she traveled by horsedrawn carriage to present her credentials to Emperor Akihito, a formality observed by all new ambassadors, thousands of cheering Japanese lined the streets in a rare display of public affection for a diplomatic envoy.

But Kennedy has surprised her hosts by being undiplomatically frank on sensitive issues that many of her predecessors would likely have shied away from, at least in public. She created a stir this week when she expressed “concern” about a bloody annual dolphin hunt that is widely condemned abroad, but that many Japanese view as a part of their traditional culture.

“Deeply concerned by inhumaneness of drive hunt dolphin killing,” Kennedy wrote in a tweet posted Saturday. “USG opposes drive hunt fisheries,” she added, referring to the U.S. government’s stance on the hunts, in which dolphins are herded into coves so they can be hacked to death.

Kennedy is using a medium that allows for little of the nuance that shapes formal Japanese diplomatic communication; she is an active Twitter user, posting in English and Japanese for her 75,000 followers.

The United States, meanwhile, is trying to strike a delicate balance — nudging Japan to stop antagonizing its neighbors over their shared war-time history, while also encouraging its support for a stronger U.S. presence in the region as a counterbalance to China.

Minoru Morita, a political analyst in Tokyo, said he does not think the flare-up will have a lasting effect on Kennedy’s popularity. “I don’t think many Japanese felt good about her criticizing Japan’s food culture,” he said. “But most Japanese have very fond feelings for her, and for the era of her father, and that won’t go away easily.”

MARTIN FACKLER

Kiev Truce Falls Apart and Unrest Resurges KIEV, Ukraine — With President Viktor F. Yanukovych and demonstrators at an impasse here, a cease-fire disintegrated on Friday night as the Ukrainian capital convulsed in renewed violence and fire bombs lit up the night sky.

Earlier on Friday, civil unrest spread as protesters laid siege to government buildings in at least nine other cities — occupying some and thronging outside others. The widening turmoil, in the central Ukrainian cities of Khmelnitsky, Zhytomyr and Cherkasy, as well as in the western strongholds of Lviv, Ternopil, Ivano-Frankivsk, Lutsk, Rivne and Chernivtsi, showed that the authorities, including the elite Berkut riot police and Interior Ministry troops, were at risk of being spread too thin.

Officials say there are 3,000 to 4,000 specially trained Berkut officers, and 8,000 to 9,000 more Interior Ministry troops, deployed across the country. Throughout the two-month uprising, there have often been many more protesters than that on the streets of Kiev. And some officers are believed to side with the opposition.

In Rivne, demonstrators demanded that riot police units deployed to Kiev be sent home.

In Kiev, efforts to defuse the crisis suffered a major setback as the police fired rubber bullets at

SERGEI GRITS/ASSOCIATED PRESS

Priests stood between protesters and police on Friday. protesters along the main line of contact near the Dynamo soccer stadium shortly after 10:30 p.m. on Friday, while demonstrators hurled stones, fire bombs and conventional firecrackers that exploded in a rainbow of colors — at times illuminating the clash with oddly festive plumes of light.

In a scene that veered from primeval to apocalyptic, demonstrators used sticks to hit barrels and sheets of metal, creating a savage drumbeat as an audio backdrop, while billows of black smoke rose from piles of burning car ties along

a barrier made of bags of snow.

Fighters raced to the scene carrying more tires and a motley assortment of weaponry, including baseball bats, sticks and pipes.

“I will do everything to stop this conflict, to stop violence and establish stability — certainly to stop radicals,” Yanukovych said at a meeting of religious leaders in Kiev, according to a statement released by his office. “If we manage to stop them amicably, we will stop them amicably. Otherwise we will use all legal methods.”

DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

In Brief Gaza Man Shot to Death Palestinian officials said that the Israeli military killed a 20-year-old Gaza man and wounded six others near the border fence on Friday, the latest in a series of violent exchanges that have frayed a cease-fire between Israel and Hamas, the militant Islamic faction that rules the Gaza Strip. Ashraf alQedra, a spokesman for the Hamas Health Ministry, said that the man, Bilal Auwaida, died after being shot in the chest near Beit Lahiya in Gaza, and that a second man was wounded there. A spokeswoman for the Israeli military, speaking on the condition of anonymity, said that a single shot was fired in each location, after soldiers had used crowddispersal techniques. She said the Palestinians had “damaged the fence, hurled rocks and rolled burning tires at the soldiers at the scene.”

(NYT)

Court Says Vote Delay Is Legal A Thai court ruled Friday that a postponement of coming elections, which protesters have worked feverishly to block, is lawful under the country’s Constitution. The decision by the Constitutional Court was a blow to Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra and surprised many legal scholars, who say there are no provisions under Thai law for a delay. Some

constitutional experts described the decision as a form of judicial coup d’état because it could leave a power vacuum if elections were not held.

(NYT)

New Offer for Snowden Russia plans to extend its offer of asylum to Edward J. Snowden beyond August, a Russian lawmaker said Friday at the World Economic Forum in Switzerland. The lawmaker, Aleksei K. Pushkov, chairman of the foreign affairs committee in the lower house of Parliament, hinted during a panel discussion that the extension of temporary refugee status for Snowden, the former National Security Agency contractor, might be indefinite.

“He will not be sent out of Russia,” Pushkov said.

“It will be up to Snowden.”

(NYT)

U.S. Catholics Want Papal Visit Pope Francis may make his first trip as pope to the United States in September 2015 to attend the Roman Catholic Church’s World Meeting of Families in Philadelphia. Popes traditionally attend these events, which have been held every three years. “We are planning as if Pope Francis will be with us,” said a spokesman for the archdiocese of Philadelphia.

(NYT)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014 3

NATIONAL

Familiar Name Hopes to Turn a Georgia Tide PERRY, Ga. — As a girl, Michelle Nunn clutched her father’s hand as they strolled the pecan groves of the family’s 2,400-acre farm, a moment captured in a black-andwhite photograph that Sam Nunn used to help win election to the Senate. It hangs in a Sam Nunn exhibit Michelle in this small Nunn city south of Macon, where the main thoroughfare is Sam Nunn Boulevard.

It all speaks to another era.

Nunn, a Democrat, last appeared on a ballot in 1990, and Georgians have since fled his party. Now his daughter, a political novice who spent 25 years running an Atlantabased nonprofit volunteer network, is hoping to capitalize on the family name to reverse Democrats’ long decline in the Deep South.

With $3.3 million in the bank, Michelle Nunn is the party’s best hope in an open race to replace Sen. Saxby Chambliss, a Republican, who is retiring.

Her campaign will test whether the rapidly changing demographics of Georgia — where state elections data show that the white vote dropped to 61 percent of the total in 2012 from 75 percent in 2000 — have shifted enough to return a Democrat to Washington. And it will reveal how much legacy still matters in politics.

Republicans say the Nunn legacy is a distant memory, and in interviews both daughter and father conceded the family name would get her only so far. At 47, Nunn is every bit her father’s daughter, down to her owlish glasses and centrist message about curing dysfunction in Washington.

“A lot of Georgians come up to me and say how much admiration they have for him,” Nunn said after meeting with campaign volunteers. “No matter which way

they’re voting, they always consider themselves politically Sam Nunn Democrats. So it gets me a hearing for sure.”

In Washington, it also opens doors. Sam Nunn, 75, who was the chairman of the Armed Services Committee, is a durable figure in the capital, where he runs an institute devoted to eliminating nuclear weapons. He confesses to “mixed feelings” at seeing his eldest child enter the world of politics, but he has plunged in to help.

Two of Sam Nunn’s closest Republican friends, former Sens.

John W. Warner of Virginia and Richard G. Lugar of Indiana, are now donors to Michelle Nunn. After a speech by Nunn, Warner said he walked away impressed. So did Sam Nunn; watching his daughter tackle military policy questions changed his view of her race.

“That morning,” he said, “was when I said to myself, ‘Hey, she’s got as good a shot as anybody in this race, maybe better.’ ” SHERYL GAY STOLBERG

On Children’s Website, N.S.A. Adopts a Smiley Face WASHINGTON — The turtle wearing a hat backward, baggy jeans and purple sunglasses looks just like other cartoon characters that marketers use to make products like cereal and toys appealing to children.

But the reptile, known as T. Top, who says creating and breaking codes is “kewl,” is pushing something far weightier: the benefits of the National Security Agency.

“In the world of diplomacy, knowing what your enemy is planning helps you to prepare,” the turtle says. “But it is also important that your enemies do not know what you have planned.

It is the mission of the National

Security Agency and the Central Security Service to learn what it can about its potential enemies to protect America’s government communications.”

Such an enthusiastic endorsement of the N.S.A.’s mission might seem particularly timely given the criticism directed at the agency since one of its former contractors, Edward J. Snowden, began leaking documents he had stolen from it. But T. Top and eight other smiley-faced cartoon characters have been promoting the N.S.A.’s mission for the past nine years as part of a governmentwide attempt to make agencies more understandable to the public.

Civil libertarians, not surprisingly, said the website was propaganda. Experts on early childhood education and marketing to children said the tactics used by the N.S.A. were similar to the way McDonald’s puts toys in its Happy Meals.

“This is the N.S.A. putting on its best face and the way it wants to present itself without anyone else providing their opinions or making noise — and for children, it may make them feel good about what the N.S.A. does,” said Nina Huntemann, a professor at Suffolk University who studies the social impact of new media.

MICHAEL S. SCHMIDT

Fight Over Pipeline Lifts the Environmental Movement WASHINGTON — Environmentalists have spent the past two years fighting the Keystone XL pipeline: They have built a human chain around the White House, clogged the State Department’s public comment system with more than a million emails and letters, and gotten themselves arrested at protests.

But as bad as they argue the 1,700-mile pipeline would be for the planet, Keystone XL has

been a boon to the environmental movement. The issue has helped a new breed of environmental organizations build a mostly young army. The seven-year-old email list of 350.org, an organization that focuses on climate change, has more than doubled to 530,000 people since the group began fighting the pipeline in August 2011.

About 76,000 people have signed a “pledge of resistance” sponsored by seven liberal advocacy

groups in which they promise to risk arrest in civil disobedience if a government analysis points toward approval of the pipeline.

“Over the last 18 months, I think there was this recognition that stopping the pipeline is, in fact, important,” said Ross Hammond, a senior campaigner at Friends of the Earth. “But it has also brought a huge number of people into the movement.”

SARAH WHEATON

In Brief Protest to Housing For the Deaf Dropped The federal Department of Housing and Urban Development ended a two-year legal dispute on Friday with the State of Arizona and a private developer of subsidized housing, which it had accused of discrimination for favoring the deaf and the hard-of-hearing over others seeking to live in a 75-unit complex for the elderly built to fit the needs of the deaf. In a letter, HUD officials said that the type of federal funding used to build the complex in Tempe did not prevent it from giving preference to a specific group of disabled individuals. The agency closed its investigation and removed its legal challenges against the development, which was designed by a deaf architect and offers video phones and lights that flash when the phone or doorbell rings at each unit, among other features.

(NYT)

College Student Is Shot to Death A South Carolina State University student was shot to death outside a dormitory Friday, and the police were searching for four suspects who left the campus. The Orangeburg County coroner identified the victim as Brandon Robinson, 20. Chief Mernard Clarkson of the campus police said the police did not know what led to the shooting outside the Hugine Suites dormitory. The school, in Orangeburg, has an enrollment of about 3,200 students.

(AP)

5 Die in House Fire The bodies of five people were retrieved Friday from a house in Arlington, Iowa, that was destroyed by an early morning fire. The fire left just a charred pile of smoking metal and siding where the house once stood near the small city of Arlington, about 125 miles northeast of Des Moines. Ron Humphrey, with the state fire marshal’s office, said the authorities believed the bodies were those of three adults and two children. The property was damaged so badly it would be difficult to collect enough evidence to determine the cause of the fire, he said.

(AP)

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014 4

BUSINESS

THE MARKETS

JPMorgan Gives Dimon an $8.5 Million Raise JPMorgan Chase, after a year marred by scandal and regulatory penalties, has awarded its chief executive, Jamie Dimon, $20 million in compensation for 2013, an amount that will further inflame the debate over the accountability of senior bank executives.

The award, announced in a company filing on Friday, is 74 percent higher than the $11.5 million that Dimon earned in 2012. By approving a hefty raise, the bank’s board of directors is signaling that it remains firmly behind Dimon after 12 months in which JPMorgan suffered bruising legal setbacks, including a record $13 billion settlement with the Justice Department over soured mortgage securities.

In justifying the $20 million package, which includes $18.5 million of JPMorgan stock, the board said that JPMorgan had advanced

in many ways under Dimon. And to many on Wall Street, as well as some other chief executives, Dimon wholly deserves the raise.

“I think he’s worth more than that,” Warren E. Buffett, the chief executive of Berkshire Hathaway, said. “Overall, I think the shareholders of JPMorgan and the American people should be happy that Jamie Dimon has been running the bank over this period.”

When JPMorgan emerged from the financial crisis of 2008 stronger than most of its peers, Dimon was widely viewed in Washington and on Wall Street as a shrewd manager of risks. But after a large trading loss in 2012, known as the “London whale” debacle, questions arose about the effectiveness of JPMorgan’s management.

After the trading loss, the bank’s legal problems only escalated.

Along with the $13 billion settlement with the Justice Department, JPMorgan last year paid out a large sum to settle allegations that some of its traders manipulated energy prices, and, most recently, federal prosecutors investigating the Ponzi scheme of Bernard L. Madoff extracted $1.7 billion from JPMorgan for failing to alert the authorities to suspicions relating to Madoff’s business.

Given the breadth of the legal onslaught, JPMorgan’s critics contend the board should not have increased Dimon’s pay. “If there was ever a time to take a wait-andsee attitude and pay him what they paid last year, this is it,” Cornelius K. Hurley, a professor at the Boston University School of Law, said.

“This is a thumb in the eye of regulators and a thumb in the eye for the public.”

PETER EAVIS

Chip Figures Take Sting Out of Sales at Samsung TOKYO — In the marketplace, Samsung Electronics and Apple battle for customers. In the courts, they fight over patents.

Yet every time Apple sells an iPhone, Samsung quietly cheers, too.

In addition to being one of Apple’s main competitors, Samsung is one of its top suppliers. Samsung provides the application processor in the iPhone 5S — the brains of Apple’s flagship handset, and one of its most expensive components.

Because Samsung is not only the biggest maker of smartphones, but also a leading provider of parts to Apple and other gadget makers, company executives say they are confident that the electronics giant can work its

way through a difficult period.

On Friday, Samsung confirmed that sales growth and earnings had slowed sharply in the fourth quarter of 2013 and warned that business conditions would remain challenging in the first half of this year. Apple’s sales have risen, and those gains have shored up Samsung by lifting the performance of its chip-making business.

Samsung said that one-time factors were largely responsible for the fourth-quarter weakness. These included a special bonus totaling 800 billion won, or $740 million, that Samsung paid out to employees on the 20th anniversary of a management initiative to improve quality, as well as the effects of a surge in the

strength of the South Korean currency, which Samsung pegged at 700 billion won.

“This kind of adjustment is normal for a high-growth industry,” said C. W. Chung, an analyst at Nomura, though he added that Samsung’s earnings could be “flattish” for the next two years.

Sales in the company’s mobile division fell 9 percent in the fourth quarter compared with the third quarter, it said, acknowledging that sales of high-end smartphones had been weaker than expected. The premium segment, in which Samsung offers handsets like the Galaxy S4 and the Note 3, is the most lucrative part of the business, but analysts say it is increasingly saturated.

ERIC PFANNER

Walmart Will Lay Off 2,300 Sam’s Club Employees Walmart announced on Friday that about 2,300 Sam’s Club employees would be laid off, the latest in a drumbeat of retail job cuts to start off the new year.

Bill Durling, a Sam’s Club spokesman, said the layoffs would target a combination of salaried assistant managers and hourly employees. Certain positions, like telephone attendants, will be eliminated.

“We realized we had pretty much the same club structure whether a club had $50 million

in revenue or $100 million in revenue,” Durling said of the distribution of assistant managers.

“What we’re trying to do is balance our resources.”

Sam’s Club has 116,000 employees, he said, and the job cuts will affect about four employees a store. Employees will have 60 paid days to find another job at the company, after which they will be eligible for severance.

Sam’s Club will be opening at least 15 new stores in the next fiscal year, which begins in Feb-

ruary.

This week, Target announced that it would cut 475 jobs. The retailer, which employs 361,000 people, has been roiled by an enormous breach of customer data that has affected as many as 110 million people.

Last week, J. C. Penney announced it would close 33 stores and cut about 2,000 jobs. Even Macy’s announced it would lay off 2,500 employees, despite relatively solid holiday sales.

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BUSINESS

Aging Organic Farmers Wonder About Future BIG SUR, Calif. — Among the sleek guests who meditate and do Downward Facing Dog here at the Esalen Institute, the farmers appeared to be out of place. They wore baggy jeans, suspenders and work boots and had long ago let their hair go gray.

For nearly a week, two dozen organic farmers from the United States and Canada shared stories, secrets and anxieties, and during breaks they shared the clothing-optional baths.

The agrarian elders, as they were called, were invited to Esalen because the organizers of the event wanted to document what these rock stars of the sustainable food movement knew and to discuss an overriding concern: How will they be able to retire and how will they pass their knowledge to the next generation?

Michael Ableman, a farmer and one of the event’s organizers, said the concerns were part of a much larger issue, a “national emergency,” in his words. Farmers are aging. The average age of the American farmer is 57, and the fastest-growing age group for farmers is 65 and over, according to the Census Bureau.

During their meetings, some of the farmers worried that their children would not want to continue their businesses and that they might have to sell their homes and land to retire.

Esalen is the birthplace of the

Agricultural pioneers swapped tales during a conference in Big Sur, Calif.

Tom Willey, left, shares a breath of soil with Jim Gerritsen.

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human potential movement and a beautiful spiritual retreat overlooking the Pacific Ocean. When they were not in conference, the farmers wandered among floating monarch butterflies through Esalen’s farm and garden, rich with Calypso cilantro, tatsoi and orange marigolds.

But the institute also holds conferences on major world and national issues. Ableman and Eliot Coleman, a Maine farmer, organized the conference. Ableman, the author of “Fields of Plenty,” is writing a book about the gathering. Deborah Garcia, the widow of Jerry Garcia of the Grateful Dead and a filmmaker whose previous films include “The Future of Food” and “The Symphony of the Soil,” is making a documentary.

While the farmers here were proud of their anti-establishment beginnings, their movement has since gone mainstream, and or-

ganic farming has grown tremendously. Sales of organic food in the United States reached $31.5 billion in 2012, compared with $1 billion in 1990, according to the Organic Trade Association.

Some farmers have farm stands, some of which bring in $1 million or more annually. Another has a farmer’s cafe. Tom Willey, with his wife, Denesse, grosses $2.8 million in direct food sales in the San Joaquin Valley.

Willey, 65, said he called a family meeting with his three children. “We made clear to them we have a very profitable business,” he said, but none were interested in carrying it on.

He understands why. “Farmers often work seven days a week and as many hours a day as the sun is up,” he said. “Young people looking into agriculture are not willing to make that drastic a sacrifice.”

CAROL POGASH

In Russia, Couriers Halt Delivery of Web Purchases MOSCOW — Russia has never been an easy country in which to deliver packages because of its vast size. The government just made it a lot harder for anyone buying things online.

Russian customs officials cracked down on online shopping that gets around paying duties on items such as boots or electronics, all in demand here. Under the new customs rules, couriers must prove a package contains nothing more valuable than the duty-free limit — 150 euros, or about $200.

The result has been couriers refusing to deliver most packages.

The legal requirements to deliver a package in Russia have become so onerous that several major express delivery services, including FedEx, United Parcel Service and DHL, announced this week that they have halted

all shipments of goods addressed to individuals.

International courier services have struggled elsewhere. On Wednesday, Argentina limited residents to two customs-free purchases a year as long as the items are worth less than $25.

Anything else bought from an overseas website needs to be collected at a customs office, where the buyer pays a 50 percent duty.

The customs rules in Russia have had the effect of protecting local e-commerce start-ups. Ozon relies in part on a model of asking customers to pick up goods at distribution centers, rather than wait for courier or the unreliable state mail system.

Russia covers a sixth of the Earth’s land surface. One large city in Siberia, Norilsk, has no year-round road or railroad con-

nections, and is reachable only by air or icebreaker. The country just recently appeared on the radar of overseas online companies because the rising wealth of consumers started to outweigh the delivery and payment woes. With a population of 143 million, Russia has surpassed Germany as the European country with the most Internet users.

The couriers said the halt may be temporary but the bureaucratic burden is untenable. A letter to clients said the companies would deliver to businesses as they always have done. But individuals could receive only documents.

“The service we provide to our clients is speed, quality and reliability in full compliance with local legislation,” a statement said.

“The new rules make it impossible.” ANDREW E. KRAMER

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily on Friday: International Game Technology, down $2.61 to $15.04. Lackluster regional gambling revenue and increased competition pressured firstquarter earnings at the gambling equipment company.

Chipotle Mexican Grill Inc., down $10.97 to $492.48. The high-flying Mexican food chain gets a downgrade from Wedbush on valuation after the shares rose almost 80 percent in 2013.

The Procter & Gamble Co., up 94 cents to $79.18. The consumer products maker is undergoing a revamp and its quarterly profit fell 16 percent, but adjusted results topped expectations.

Starbucks Corp., up $1.59 to $74.98.

Falling prices for coffee beans and rising comparable stores sales around the globe pushed quarterly profits up 25 percent.

BioDelivery Sciences International Inc., up $3.16 to $9.41. An experimental pain treatment from the drugmaker outperformed in late-stage testing, triggering millions in milestone payments.

Microsoft Corp., up 75 cents to $36.81. Sales of the new Xbox One consoles by the tech giant and soaring revenue from its line of Surface tablets surprised Wall Street.

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MOVIES

SATURDAY, JANUARY 25, 2014

Staring at You, Staring at Me What’s in a face? The first and final images in Godfrey Reggio’s brooding, wordless film “Visitors” are of a gorilla staring into the camera. You can read anything you want into the beast’s inscrutable gaze.

As the stream of images — mostly human faces filmed in black and white — proceeds, that simian observer lingers in your mind, conjuring thoughts of evolution and the balance between the rational and the bestial aspects of human nature. The film consists

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One of the stills in Godfrey Reggio’s “Visitors.” of 74 shots that Reggio calls “moving stills.” Most last for about a minute. The subjects are never identified.

In its final appearance, the gorilla seems to be watching over us or looming as a menacing final rebuke to our noblest aspirations.

“Visitors” arrives nearly 12 years after the conclusion of Reggio’s experimental “Qatsi” trilogy.

Like those films, “Visitors” has a sober, churning score by Philip Glass that evokes ceaseless turbulence and profound ambiguity. There is no overall narrative arc to imagery that might be described as a very sophisticated Rorschach test with an environmentalist subtext.

The human faces are contrasted with recurrent images of an abandoned amusement park and of a large, empty building. There is a sequence of trees growing in water. Shots of the moon’s pockmarked surface suggest that “Visitors” is a journey to the moon and back.

The title “Visitors” implies that aliens are the subjects. If so, might they be ourselves, the rulers of the planet but also its despoilers? Of course, all of us, with our brief stays here, are, literally, visitors to Earth. The word for the film is transfixing.STEPHEN HOLDEN

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A Pregnant Teen Finds Her Way “Gimme Shelter,” written and directed by Ronald Krauss, begins with the familiar “based on a true story” note and ends with side-byside photographs of actors from the movie and some of the real-life characters they portray. What comes in between is a crude, earnest parable that uses some of the techniques of indie filmmaking to deliver a culturally conservative message.

We first see Agnes — who prefers to be called Apple and is played by Vanessa Hudgens — chopping off her long, dark hair and storming out of the shabby apartment where she lives with her drug-addicted mother (Rosario Dawson, with her teeth an alarming shade of yellow and her emoting motor in overdrive). After finding her way to the gated suburban mansion of the father she never knew (Brendan Fraser), Apple discovers that she’s pregnant.

Dad and his wife (Stephanie Szostak) want Apple to have an abortion (though the word is never spoken), and her refusal to cooperate lands her back on the streets. In a Newark hospital, she meets a priest played by James Earl Jones. He arranges for her to live in a shelter for pregnant teen

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Vanessa Hudgens stars as a girl in need in “Gimme Shelter.” agers run by Kathy DiFiore (Ann Dowd), a warm, no-nonsense woman who lives surrounded by her charges and by signs of her religious and political commitments. There are banners with Bible verses on them, pictures of Kathy with Ronald Reagan and Mother Teresa, and a sticker that reads “Chastity is a Lifestyle.”

In its eagerness to proclaim her goodness and the transformative effect she has on Apple, “Gimme Shelter” shifts from strident melodrama to vague, fuzzy warmth. At times, its ideological ferocity is almost comical, as when Apple’s mother declares (more than once)

that she should have the baby so they can receive more welfare money. By the time her infant is born, Apple has let her hair grow out again and traded her androgynous street wear for dresses and cardigans. The piercings on her face are closing, and her angry manner has softened, allowing an occasional smile and tear.

But the internal change she has undergone is not credibly conveyed, and the film is more of a pageant than a convincing drama.

It’s so determined to deliver its moral that it loses its grip on the reality of its characters.

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Dangerous Undertow in a Cruisers’ Haven Not every mystery is a whodunit. In Alain Guiraudie’s “Stranger by the Lake,” a murder takes place early on, in full view of the audience and a crucial witness, a young man named Franck (Pierre Deladonchamps). Franck has spent the afternoon on a stretch of beach that serves as a gay cruising spot. Earlier, he had a brief flirtation with a muscular, mustachioed swimmer, only to be shooed away by someone who seemed to be a jealous boyfriend.

Now just before darkness falls, Franck sees the two men together in the water and watches as horseplay turns to homicide.

The motives for the crime are never established, but the real mystery is everything that happens in its wake. Guiraudie, a French filmmaker, creates an atmosphere of dread and suspense out of the simplest narrative elements.

He also has an unsentimental, sometimes chilly sense of the ways that ordinary human

His name is Michel, and in the wake of the murder, he and Franck begin an intense affair. Michel (Christophe Paou), who somewhat resembles a “Magnum, P.I.”STRAND RELEASING era Tom Selleck, Christophe Paou, left and Pierre is not interested Deladonchamps in “Stranger by the Lake.” in pursuing the relationship away from the lake, but amorality, ethical confusion and his devotion seems more ardent sexual longing can turn banal cir- than Franck’s. Their attraction cumstances into the stuff of high seems to overshadow what Micomedy. Gazing at a place devoted chel has done, and it’s hard to tell to the free play of lust he discovers whether Franck is more alarmed codes and rituals, echoes of the so- or aroused by his new lover’s pocial order that the men who come tentially sociopathic tendencies.

“Stranger by the Lake” is sehere try to shed, along with their ductive and fascinating, but it is clothes.

Each day begins with an aerial also a bit trapped in its own conshot of the parking area, where ceit. And the movie, which might we learn to identify Franck’s black have been provocatively terrifyRenault, and also the red compact ing, settles for being memorably strange.

A. O. SCOTT belonging to the killer.

JOURNAL

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Homies in Verona, and Gangstas in Elsinore new volume each week. The site’s motto: “Classical Literature. Original Gangster.”

In the world of Dr. Sweets (who is actually a comedian named Greg Edwards), Queequeg from “Moby-Dick” is “some tatted-up harpooner.” Jay Gatsby is “a rich playboy with that mad Mitt Romney money.” And the characters of a beloved Shakespeare play include “Romeo’s homieos, Benvolio and Mercutio.”

SparkNotes and others have been summarizing the classics for years, but their cheat sheets have merely made literature’s dusty volumes drastically shorter, not less boring for the unappreciative. Edwards, speaking with The Tampa Bay Times last fall, called Thug Notes “my way of trivializing academia’s attempt at making

In 1848, a reviewer for Graham’s Magazine called “Wuthering Heights a compound of vulgar depravity and unnatural horrors, such as we might suppose a person, inspired by a mixture of brandy and gunpowder, might write for the edification of fifth-rate blackguards.”

Presumably, this grumpy writer would have cared even less for the Thug Notes version.

That Emily Brontë novel is among the latest subjects tackled on Thug-Notes.com, a website where fine literature is reduced to its hip-hop essence. A genial fellow using the moniker Sparky Sweets, Ph.D. serves up video summaries of classics in the language of the street, throwing in some analysis. Dr. Sweets sits in a library worthy of PBS and holds forth about a

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literature exclusionary by showing that even highbrow academic concepts can be communicated in a clear and open fashion.”

The site manages to turn “Wuthering Heights,” “Pride and Prejudice” and other tomes into bite-size fun while conveying a certain respect toward the source material.

His summary of “Romeo and Juliet” may be full of unpublishable slang, but it ends with a discussion of the clashes of opposites in the work and whether it can rightly be labeled a tragedy. He may dismiss “Moby-Dick” as “about 500 pages of Ishmael going off about whaling” (finishing that phrase with an expletive), but he has thesis-worthy thoughts about the symbolism of the whale, of the quest and of the ship — the Rachel — that rescues Ishmael.

“Keep floating, homies,” he concludes, “ ’cause somewhere out there, we all got our own Rachel that’s there to save us.”

Anyway, as good as Thug Notes is, we don’t want this trend to go much further than it has, especially educationally. Apparently, almost everything in schools these days is taught in rap. “Civil War rap,” “integer rap,” “geography rap” or any similar search gets you to someone’s classroom video. Seems harmless. But picture yourself going in for neurosurgery.

“Doc, you read all the latest texts on brain surgery in medical school, didn’t you?”

“Read them? No. But I did see the major points of ‘Advanced Neurosurgical Navigation’ debated in a rap battle.”

The phenomenon is creeping way too far into the mainstream. This month, Alex Trebek rapped a category’s worth of clues on “Jeopardy!” We have to put a stop to hip-hop appropriation before we get the Fox News “Rap the Headlines Hour” or “Gangsta 60 Minutes.”

Yes, that means new laws mandating that only skilled professionals like Dr. Sweets try this kind of stuff. That may sound like a civil liberties infringement, but chill. The Bill of Rights ensures “tha right of tha playas peaceably ta assemble, n’ ta petizzle tha Posse fo’ a redress of grievances.” It doesn’t say anything about the right to rap.

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OPINION

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

GAIL COLLINS

Iran’s Charm Offensive

Huckabee Spills Beans

President Hassan Rouhani of Iran made his debut this week at the World Economic Forum in Davos, Switzerland, where he expanded on his government’s charm offensive by wooing investors and reassuring political leaders of his determination to complete a comprehensive nuclear deal with the major powers. But his benign image and deft political skills could not erase or excuse the ugly fact that Iran remains the main ally of Syria’s president, Bashar al-Assad, in the destruction of Syria and its people.

Rouhani is eager to fulfill his promises of improving Iran’s relations with the world and reviving an economy devastated by international sanctions and his predecessor’s mismanagement. He reached a deal with the major powers that curbs aspects of Iran’s nuclear program.

When the deal took effect on Monday, United Nations inspectors confirmed that Iran had begun suspending most advanced uranium-fuel enrichment and taken other agreed-upon steps.

In exchange, Iran received what the United States called “limited, targeted and reversible sanctions relief for a six-month period.” At Davos, Rouhani clearly was looking to speed the day when all sanctions are lifted and Iran can achieve the economic growth and international acceptance that has been lost since the 1979 Islamic revolution. At a meeting with top oil executives, he and his oil minister promised to have a new, attractive investment model for oil contracts by September that could help win back business from Western interests.

For now, it is essential that broad sanctions, including restrictions on Iran’s access to the inter-

national financial system, remain in place until a comprehensive nuclear agreement is reached.

The United States backs the sanctions, though it may not be easy to halt an erosion of the penalties. Investors are eager to jump back into the Iranian market, as are many governments.

Iran’s reintegration into the international system will depend on more than just the completion of a final nuclear agreement. It must also be seen as contributing to stability in other ways, including ending the hostility toward Israel.

Rouhani said he sought “constructive engagement” with Iran’s neighbors. But that goal is belied by Iran’s support for the Syrian government, a government that has bombed civilians and obstructed humanitarian aid. Iran, which uses Syria as a buffer between it and Israel, has encouraged Hezbollah to fight on his behalf.

Iran’s support of Assad is all the more unsettling because Rouhani was rubbing shoulders with the world’s elite just as a stormy peace conference on Syria was playing out elsewhere in Switzerland. Instead of just bemoaning the civil war as a “major catastrophe” and dismissing all the anti-Assad forces as “terrorists,” he could have given credibility to his “constructive engagement” policy by suspending arms to Syria while peace talks are underway and negotiating a face-saving way for Assad to leave power.

The United States has tried to keep the nuclear and Syria issues separate. If the nuclear deal were the vehicle to resolve every dispute the West has with Iran, it would likely fail. But the Syrian civil war is a catastrophe, and Iran has considerable leverage to help bring it to an end.

A Hidden Threat in the Farm Bill The mammoth farm bill is reportedly near a conference compromise in Congress, bristling with more tragic cuts in the food stamp program for the needy and a revision of lucrative commodity subsidies for mostly big farmers. Running below the radar is a dangerous, broadly written amendment that would threaten states’ current powers to enact their own agricultural standards — standards that can extend far beyond farmyards to consumer, worker and environmental safety.

The amendment amounts to a federal fiat that states cannot set mandatory standards on agricultural products that block competition from farmers in other states where standards are looser. The amendment was approved by the Republican-dominated House at the instigation of Rep. Steve King, the Iowa Republican and Tea Party champion. He is determined to protect his state’s egg producers from a new California requirement that hens thrive in more humane conditions — basically, a bit more room to move around in their cages.

King, a notorious mocker of animal protection reform, insists his amendment is “severely limited in scope” to stop “radical” protectionist advantages for California egg producers that he feels violate interstate commerce.

But it is far from that specific and is so sweeping and vaguely worded that it threatens all manner of current state prerogatives. This from an avowed opponent of clumsy federal intrusion into local life.

The National Conference of State Legislatures has properly urged rejection of the amendment because it would pre-empt assorted local agricultural policies vital in protecting “our farmland, waterways, forests and most importantly, the health and welfare of our constituents.” The group warned that existing laws on invasive pests and livestock disease and standards of seed and food protection would be open to challenge, abrogating states’ rights guaranteed under the Constitution.

States vary, with some requiring the labeling of farm-raised fish, the banning of specific pesticides, and cross-border protections against Dutch elm disease and other threats.

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack warns that the King amendment can only lead to years of litigation, marketplace confusion and unintended consequences. But King, with support from livestock and poultry interests fearing higher production costs, is fighting hard.

His wayward amendment should be spiked emphatically by the conference committee.

It’s not often we think about Mike Huckabee.

He has a talk show, but so does half the world. Kelly Ripa has a talk show. Geraldo Rivera has one.

How often do they come up in conversation?

Now, Huckabee is in the news, thanks to a speech he made at a Republican Party gathering in Washington, in which he dismissed the idea that the G.O.P. has a “war on woman” by …

Actually, it’s pretty hard to encapsulate what he said. Here’s the most dramatic part: “If the Democrats want to insult the women of America by making them believe that they are helpless without Uncle Sugar coming in and providing for them a prescription each month for birth control because they cannot control their libido or their reproductive system without the help of the government, then so be it. Let us take that discussion all across America.”

Say what? Basically, Huckabee seems to be telling us that the Republican Party will not insult women by suggesting the federal government should require health insurance policies to include birth control pills in the prescription drug coverage. He appears confident that women will find that an attractive proposition.

Huckabee was at a meeting of the Republican National Committee that was supposed to be pondering ways to close the gender gap. Instead, he laid bare a fact the party has always tried desperately to hide — that its anti-abortion agenda is also frequently anti-contraception.

His speech also raises the question of what happened to Mike Huckabee. Remember him in the old days? Like Bill Clinton, he was a popular governor of Arkansas. Unlike Clinton, he used to fry squirrels in a popcorn popper when he was in college. That has nothing to do with this story, but I couldn’t resist bringing it up.

Huckabee was always a social conservative — as governor he once tried to stop a mentally retarded girl who had been raped by her stepfather from getting an abortion. But he also signed a law requiring state employers to cover contraceptives under their insurance plans. Yes! This version of Mike Huckabee ran for president in 2008, but the lovable Mike lost and went on to a career as a radio commentator and a Fox TV host. Perhaps he wanted to juice ratings. Perhaps he wanted a new path to the presidency. In the past five years, as his party got raw and angry and mean, he got raw and angry and mean.

In his 2011 book “A Simple Government,” he railed about everything from giving illegal immigrants a path to citizenship (Amnesty!) to subsidized school breakfasts. He compared President Obama to “an arrogant nerd.”

Last summer, he said that when Muslims go to a mosque to pray, “they come out of there like uncorked animals — throwing rocks and burning cars.” After the massacre at Sandy Hook, he asked why we should be surprised since “we have systematically removed God from our schools.” Later, he tried to roll that back.

But there was no backtracking after the “Uncle Sugar” speech. In fact, Huckabee sent an email to his supporters replaying his remarks.

Then he asked for a donation.

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SPORTS

In Brief

Anthony, ‘Locked In,’ Breaks a Scoring Record Carmelo Anthony did not need to scream, dance, pump his fists or point skyward after his 45-foot heave at the halftime buzzer went through the net at Madison Square Garden KNICKS 125 on Friday. His BOBCATS 96 stoic expression — eyes staring ahead, lips puckered, nostrils flaring — said enough about his emotions on this night.

It was the most difficult of his 23 field goals against Charlotte, but that was all relative, really. All of it seemed easy, just so easy, as if he were playing one-on-one to 100 in a game he could not afford to lose. The shots kept going up, up, always up. And on this night, they almost always went in.

By the end of the first quarter of the Knicks’ 125-96 win, Anthony had 20 points. With 5 minutes 51 seconds left in the half, he had 30.

By 10:05 in the third, he had 40.

The Bobcats had no answers, nobody they could use to stop Anthony’s torrid stroke, nothing they could do to funnel the ball out of his grip. Michael Kidd-Gilchrist, Josh McRoberts and Anthony Tolliver were yield signs on his one-lane highway to Knicks history.

When his night was over, with 7:18 remaining, Anthony had set a franchise scoring record (62 points), breaking the mark of 60 set by Bernard King on Christmas Day 1984. He also broke Kobe Bryant’s record for points scored (61) at the Garden, which opened in 1968. It was the highest single-game total in the N.B.A. since 2007, when Bryant scored 65 against the Portland Trail Blazers.

Wilt Chamberlain scored 73 points as a San Francisco Warrior against the Knicks in the old Garden in November 1962.

“I came into this game locked in,” Anthony said after the Knicks broke a five-game losing streak.

“It’s a zone you get in sometimes.”

It hardly seemed to matter that Anthony did not record a single assist (he did have 13 rebounds).

This was not a night for passing.

Anthony caught a hot stroke, coupled with a grinding determination to end the 16-27 Knicks’ five-game losing streak. So for 48 minutes, only one player on the court seemed to matter.

“Since I’ve coached him, he’s been unbelievable,” Coach Mike Woodson said. “Tonight was one of those nights for him. He got it going, and everything he was throwing up was going in.”

Anthony finished 23 for 35 from the field, including 6 for 11 from 3-point range and 10 of 10 from the free-throw line.

ZACH SCHONBRUN

Nadal Dismantles Federer Once Again to Reach Final MELBOURNE, Australia — For all of Roger Federer’s myriad accomplishments, for the 17 Grand Slam singles titles and the 302 weeks spent atop the rankings, there remains one serious issue with his greatest-of-all-time résumé. That issue is Rafael Nadal.

As far as rivalries go, theirs is remarkably consistent, and has been for almost 10 years. Take Friday.

That was Federer-Nadal, match 33, in the semifinals of the Australian Open. As has been the case since 2007 whenever they have squared off in Grand Slam tournaments, Nadal won and Federer lost and the dialogue about their places in history shifted again.

The match played out with Nadal in front, with Nadal in control, with Nadal stinging Federer with backhands and slinging Federer around the court. For nearly two weeks now, Federer had played like the Federer of old — but Nadal beat that Federer, too, for the most part.

This installment ended after 2 hours 24 minutes. It was not particularly close, the final score, 7-6 (4), 6-3, 6-3 in favor of Nadal.

So continued the strangest thing about their rivalry, which ranks, oddly, among the most compelling and most lopsided in sports. In 33 meetings, Nadal holds 23 wins, a roughly 70 percent success rate.

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Nets Beat Mavs by 1 Mirza Teletovic scored 24 of his 34 points in the second quarter and Deron Wiliams had 18 points and 11 assists as the Brooklyn Nets beat the Dallas Mavericks 107-106 Friday night for their fourth straight win.

The Nets improved to an N.B.A. best 9-1 in January. Paul Pierce had 12 points and Kevin Garnett added 10 points and 11 rebounds for Brooklyn. Former Net Vince Carter had 19 points and Dirk Nowitzki added 18 points for the Mavs, who lost their second straight game. For Williams, it was his third straight game off the bench since returning to the Nets from a left sprained ankle.

He had only one turnover in 35 minutes.

(AP)

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Yankee Stadium Games Offer Icy Glamour A giant New York City subway map adorns the outfield grass. A children’s hockey rink bounded by blocks of ice covers the home-plate area. Large crests of the Rangers and Devils rest atop the two dugouts. Stretching between first base and third is the rink itself, glinting bright under a cold winter sun.

This is Yankee Stadium as it has never been seen before: a hockey portrait framed by a blanket of snow.

That, in its icy grandeur, will be the scene of the N.H.L. Stadium Series, the first hockey games played at the Stadium. The Rangers will face the Devils there on Sunday afternoon and then the Islanders on Wednesday night. Each game is expected to attract a crowd at or near the Stadium’s capacity of about 50,000.

Sunday’s weather forecast calls for temperatures around 15 degrees, partly cloudy skies, a brisk westerly wind and virtually no chance of snow.

“Bright sun on Sunday afternoon — maybe war paint for Hank?”

Rangers forward Brian Boyle said, referring to goalie Henrik Lundqvist.

Wednesday night should be bitter cold, with the temperature expected to be in the single digits and little chance of snow.

“Being outside under the stars and the bright lights at Yankee Sta-

Crowds at or near capacity are expected at Yankee Stadium. me much — the colder it is, the harder the ice gets,” said Rangers defenseman Ryan McDonagh, who grew up in BENJAMIN NORMAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Minnesota.

Devils forward Jaromir Jagr, the dium will surely be a great event,” said John Tavares, the Islanders’ 41-year-old Czech star who is the N.H.L.’s seventh all-time scorer captain.

The teams’ benches will be heat- and an inveterate joker, claimed ed, and performers will emerge to be a baseball fan who has never from warm rooms to make their been to Yankee Stadium. “In our appearances. The cast of “Jersey culture, baseball is a very popular Boys” and Southside Johnny and sport,” he said, arching an eyebrow. the Asbury Jukes are among the “It’s No. 2, just after hockey.”

Devils goalie Martin Brodeur, acts performing Sunday. CeeLo who has been part of the crossGreen will sing Wednesday night.

But the fans will have to dress Hudson River rivalry since he first warmly, with hand and foot warm- played against the Rangers in April ers recommended, just as the fans 1992, said he expected Devils fans did at Wrigley Field, Fenway Park to be passionate about their team’s and Michigan Stadium for previous moment in the winter sun.

“Players come and go, but teams outdoor games.

“The night game gives it a new stay, fans stay — I think that’s what wrinkle — it’s going to be cold with makes that rivalry so special,” Brothe polar vortex taking a second deur said. “The Devils fan learns to hate the Rangers fan. I’m not sure swing,” Boyle said.

Nearly all of the players said they the Rangers fan hates that much the Devils fan, but I know our fans were excited about the games.

JEFF Z. KLEIN “Cold temperatures don’t bother hate them.”

Fears Rattle Athletes and Families as Games Approach Athletes and their families are becoming increasingly anxious about possible terrorist attacks at the Winter Olympics in Sochi, so much so that some families have decided not to attend and others plan to curtail their activities once they get to Russia.

No American athletes have canceled plans to compete because of the threats. But with talk about unrest in the region and threats from would-be suicide bombers, some family members say they are reconsidering longheld plans to support the athletes at the Games. “It’s getting to the point where our lives are on the line if we go there,” said Tim Oshie, whose son, T. J., is on the U.S. hockey team. “They’re talking about terrorizing families. I’d rather stay in the homeland.”

In the most recent in a series of unnerving incidents, the Olympic teams from the United States and

some European countries received emails earlier this week warning them that they would be attacked if they took part in the Games.

The messages were determined to be hoaxes, but the episode added to the skittishness permeating the mood as the Feb. 7 opening ceremony approaches. Members of Congress have expressed concern about the safety of the 10,000 or so Americans set to travel to Sochi.

“We’re all thinking the atmosphere is not going to be supereasy when we get there,” said Julia Mancuso, a three-time medalist in skiing who is competing in Sochi.

Patrick Sandusky, a spokesman for the U.S. Olympic Committee, the organization responsible for the delegation of American athletes, refused on Friday to answer questions about whether athletes and their families had expressed concern to officials, what kind of guidance the organization was

giving athletes regarding security and whether special security measures would be provided in Sochi.

On Friday, the Obama administration sought to quell fears, saying that it had adequate plans in place to protect the security of athletes, sponsors and American visitors to the Games. “We’ve been working long and hard to liaise with the Russian security forces,” a senior administration official told reporters.

Christian Niccum, a member of the U.S. luge team, said that among the emails the athletes had received about security, one stressed that they should not take part in political protests or do anything to draw attention to themselves as “loud Americans,” as he put it.

That is fine with him. “I’m not going to worry about it,” he said.

“To be honest, I’m just going sledding.”

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Ex-Player Sentenced To 180 Days in Jail The former Dallas Cowboys player Josh Brent was sentenced Friday to 180 days in jail and 10 years’ probation for a car crash that killed his teammate Jerry Brown. Brent, 25, was convicted Wednesday of intoxication manslaughter for the 2012 crash in Dallas that killed Brown, a passenger in Brent’s car. Brent could have been sentenced to 20 years in prison. Blood tests put Brent’s blood alcohol content at 0.18 percent, which is more than twice Texas’s legal limit to drive, 0.08 percent.

(AP)

Giants’ Diehl Retires Giants offensive lineman David Diehl retired after an 11-year career that included two Super Bowl titles. Diehl, a fifth-round draft pick in 2003, missed only 12 games in his career and starting at every position on the line but center. Diehl was selected to the 2009 Pro Bowl.

(AP)

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS

VCNO Speaks to Sea Service Leadership Association

By Defense Media Activity

Vice Chief of Naval Operations Adm. Mark E. Ferguson addressed members of the Sea Service Leadership Association (SSLA) during the organization’s Leadership Engagement Luncheon held at the Pentagon, Jan. 23.

During his remarks, Adm. Ferguson explained that while the Navy is leading the way on diversity issues, there is still more to do.

“Our Navy faces many challenges, but our diversity helps us meet these challenges.

Today, we have the most diverse force in our history.

We also have the highest quality force in our history.

Our Sailors are energized, innovative, focused on

teamwork and the mission,” explained Adm. Ferguson. “We must focus on how to sustain the quality of that force.”

SSLA, established in 1978, is a non-profit organization dedicated to providing professional development through networking, education,

and mentorship of women from in the U.S. Navy, U.S. Marine Corps, and U.S. Coast Guard. As a member of the Navy and Marine Corps Council, SSLA advises the Secretary of the Navy on issues affecting Navy and Marine Corps personnel and their families.

“Organizations like SSLA provide the mentorship and support that are so important to career progression,” Adm. Ferguson said. “When you come to forums like this one, you get the opportunity to ask yourself, ‘what is possible for me’ and ‘what is possible for my future?’. That is the core of mentoring -- to show people a vision of a future that

they could not imagine for themselves. For me, that is an important role of SSLA.” Mentorship and leadership development are core functions of the organization.

“Our luncheons also allow military personnel an opportunity to interact with senior leaders who otherwise wouldn’t have such an opportunity in their daily duties, and also network with people outside of their own communities,” explained Cmdr. Katie Shobe, deputy director, Research Protections Division, and Warfighter Protection and Applications Divisions at the Office of Naval Research.

PACOM Prepares for 21st-century Asia-Pacific

By Cheryl Pellerin, American Forces Press Service

America’s rebalance to the Asia-Pacific region is on track, and U.S. Pacific Command is staying on top of the growing sophistication of today’s weapon systems in what PACOM commander Navy Adm. Samuel J. Locklear III calls “the most militarized region in the world.”

Locklear briefed the press at the Pentagon this morning on PACOM’s progress in leading the Defense Department’s rebalance to the Indo-AsiaPacific and the United States’ relative dominance in the region with such systems heading into the 21st century.

“The rapid technological advancement of warfare capabilities and the

proliferation of these capabilities across the globe will challenge us in the future,” Locklear said.

“We must also ensure that we invest in the proper mix of defensive and offensive capabilities for our ships,” he added, “... and that the [ships’]

capabilities are both lethal and dominant.”

The security push in the region comes with the growth of economies and because of the increasing defense requirements of Asia-Pacific nations.

“They’re buying ... 21st-

century weapons. They’re not the same weapon systems we dealt with 30 years ago ... so it stands to reason that our relative dominance in those technologies and weapons systems will have diminished over time,” the admiral said.

“That’s not something to be afraid of,” he added. “It’s just something to be pragmatic about.”

Discussing country-by country highlights of ongoing operations, Locklear began with PACOM’s contribution to the multinational Operation Damayan, established to help the Philippine government with the deadly aftermath of November’s supertyphoon Haiyan.

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