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ROUGH RIDER USS THEODORE ROOSEVELT (CVN 71)

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January 29, 2014 • DAILY

inside: Sticker of approval and Walking blood bank

Electrical Safety

Story and Photo by MCSA Matthew Young

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ne of the worst case scenarios that any Sailor onboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) can imagine is a fire breaking out on the ship. Shipboard electrician’s mates can help prevent fires by safety checking Sailors’ personal electronic equipment.

Sailors are required to have all personal electronic equipment, such as cell phones and laptops, safety checked by an electrician before they use it aboard Theodore Roosevelt.

“Safety checks are important. We don’t want anybody to get shocked or start a fire,” said Electrician’s Mate 2nd Class Joseph Castro, assistant work center supervisor of the electrical safety shop. “It’s a big deal. (Safety checks) also saves us some work too, because (electric equipment) can pop our fuses if (Sailors) are running items with too much amperage.”

Personal items must be in good condition to pass the safety inspection.

“The item has to pass a physical integrity check,” said Castro. “We’re going to take a look at that particular piece of equipment and make sure there are no nicks, cuts, any exposed wiring or holes on the actual insulation to make sure they’re not exposing that conductor to the outside. We want to make sure that the item won’t shock anybody or start a fire.”

Once the equipment passes inspection, an electrician signs off on the equipment and gives it a sticker of approval.

Although most items in good condition get the signed sticker of approval, there is a list of items not allowed onboard.

Prohibited items include, but are not limited to, microwaves, refrigerators and personal fans. Check the Theodore Roosevelt

Electrician’s Mate 3rd Class Erin Zboray performs an electrical safety check on a cell phone charger.

instruction on electrical equipment, TR instruction 5100.5 K, Enclosure 21, for the full list of prohibited items.

“We’re here. We’re available,” said Castro. “Come down and get your safety checks done.”

The electrical safety shop is located at 2-185-3-6. The shop is open Monday through Friday from 0900-1100,13001600,1800-1900, and Saturday 0900-1100,1300-1600 while underway. Call the electrical safety shop at J-Dial 5685.

The Life Blood of TR

Story by MC3 John M. Drew

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he term “walking blood bank” may sound ominous, but it could mean the difference between life and death to a shipmate.

USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (CVN 71) walking blood bank is composed of Sailors who volunteer to donate blood to injured shipmates.

“It’s a program we have in place in case of a mass casualty.

The surgeon will call down and notify us that a transfusion is necessary for a patient,” said Lt. Cmdr. Medrina Gilliam, Theodore Roosevelt’s walking blood bank coordinator. “We don’t carry any blood on this ship whether underway or on deployment. It’s our only way of having blood onboard and available in a time of need.”

TR does not carry blood onboard due to storage and refrigeration limitations. The ship’s medical staff could not perform transfusions without Sailors willing to donate blood to their shipmates.

“When [patients] are marked ‘red,’ it means that person needs surgery immediately,” said Gilliam. “We would need two people to donate for that one person to have a better chance of surviving.”

By signing up as a volunteer, Sailors could save a shipmate’s life.

“I want people to know that it’s not a requirement, but it is important,” said Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Moriah Marlowe. “Just come down to medical and tell us you want to sign up, and we’ll walk you through everything that’s needed.”

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WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014

Rebels in Syria Claim Control Of Resources BEIRUT, Lebanon — Islamist rebels and extremist groups have seized control of most of Syria’s oil and gas resources, a rare generator of cash in the country’s war-battered economy, and are using the proceeds to underwrite their fights against one another as well as President Bashar al-Assad, American officials say.

While the oil and gas fields are in serious decline, control of them has bolstered the fortunes of the Islamic State in Iraq and Syria, or ISIS, and the Nusra Front, both of which are offshoots of Al Qaeda. ISIS is even selling fuel to the Assad government, lending weight to allegations by opposition leaders that it is secretly working with Damascus to weaken the other rebel groups.

Although there is no clear evidence of direct coordination between the group and Assad, American officials say his government has facilitated the group’s rise not only by purchasing its oil but by exempting some of its headquarters from airstrikes.

The Nusra Front and other groups are providing fuel to the government, too, in exchange for electricity and relief from airstrikes, according to opposition activists in Syria’s oil regions.

The scramble for Syria’s oil is described by analysts as a war within the broader civil war, one that is turning what was once an essential source of income for Syria into a driving force in a conflict that is tearing the country apart.

“Syria is an oil country and has resources, but in the past they were all stolen by the regime,” said Abu Nizar, an antigovernment activist in Deir al-Zour. “Now they are being stolen by those who are profiting from the revolution.”

He described the situation in his oil-rich province as “overwhelming chaos.”

The Western-backed rebel groups do not appear to be involved in the oil trade, in large part because they have not taken over any oil fields.

(NYT)

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Obama Tackling Issues on His Authority WASHINGTON — After five years of fractious political combat, President Obama declared independence from Congress on Tuesday as he vowed to tackle economic disparity with a series of limited initiatives on jobs, wages and retirement that he will take without legislative approval.

Promising “a year of action,” Obama used his State of the Union address to chart a new path forward relying on his own executive authority. But the defiant, “with or without Congress” approach was more assertive than any of the individual policies he advanced.

“I’m eager to work with all of you,” Obama told lawmakers in a 65-minute address. “But America does not stand still — and neither will I. So wherever and whenever I can take steps without legislation to expand opportunity for more American families, that’s what I’m going to do.”

The president’s appearance at the Capitol came at a critical juncture as he seeks to define his remaining time in office.

He touched on foreign policy, asserting that “American diplomacy backed by the threat of force” had forced Syria to give up chemical

President Obama entering the House on Tuesday for his State of the Union address. minimum wage to $10.10 an hour for future federal contract workers and the creation of a new GABRIELLA DEMCZUK/THE NEW YORK TIMES Treasury savings weapons and that “American di- bond for workers without access plomacy backed by pressure” had to traditional retirement options.

He proposed incentives for brought Iran to the negotiating table. And he repeated his plan to trucks running on alternative pull troops out of Afghanistan this fuels and higher efficiency stanyear and threatened again to veto dards for those running on gasosanctions on Iran that disrupt his line. And he announced a meeting on working families and a review diplomatic efforts.

But Obama’s message cen- of federal job training programs.

Republicans responded by tered on the wide gap between the wealthiest and other Ameri- blaming Obama for the country’s cans. “The cold, hard fact is that economic problems, but the pareven in the midst of recovery, too ty’s leaders avoided the language many Americans are working of last year’s government shutmore than ever just to get by, let down and hoped to present what alone to get ahead,” he said. “And Rep. Cathy McMorris Rodgers of too many still aren’t working at Washington called “a more hopeall. So our job is to reverse these ful, Republican vision” intended to appeal particularly to women trends.”

To do so, Obama announced in a midterm election year.

PETER BAKER an executive order raising the

Sign of Chill: E.U. Doesn’t Set Table for Putin BRUSSELS — President Vladimir V. Putin of Russia has for years trumpeted grand ambitions for Moscow’s relations with the European Union, pushing to break down visa barriers and urging the creation of what he calls a “harmonious economic community stretching from Lisbon to Vladivostok.”

On a visit to the Brussels headquarters of the 28-nation bloc on Tuesday, however, Putin did not even get dinner. That customary courtesy was pulled from a sharply curtailed program — a small sign of the way escalating tensions over Ukraine have scrambled even basic rituals of diplomacy, chilled relations between Moscow and Brussels, and taken some of the shine off Putin’s image as a leader who can turn any crisis to his advantage.

As the European Union hosted the Russian leader for an “E.U.Russia Summit” that lasted just three hours instead of the usual two days, the pillar of the Kremlin’s policy toward Ukraine, President Viktor F. Yanukovych, looked increasingly wobbly in the face of unrest that has spread to Russian-speaking areas previously rock solid in their support of him and his pro-Moscow tilt.

Early Tuesday, Mykola Azarov, the prime minister and a staunch ally of Yanukovych, resigned hours before the Parliament was due to hold a no-confidence vote that appeared likely to strip him of his powers. His departure was the latest sign of building momentum for the opposition, which first took to the streets in November after Yanukovych abruptly spurned a sweeping trade and

political deal with the European Union.

“This is a crucial moment,” said Michael Emerson, the European Union’s former envoy to Moscow.

“A few weeks ago it looked as if Putin was winning. Now Putin is losing. This should be the setting for a thorough rethink by both parties, particularly Russia.”

Russia, Emerson said, needs to show that “all its talk about a ‘common European house’ from Lisbon to Vladivostok is not just a slogan and that Ukraine can be comfortable with both the E.U. and Russia.”

The struggle over Ukraine is emblematic of the growing cleavages between Russia and Europe, as each has sought to extend its influence to the populations of the old Soviet Union.

ANDREW HIGGINS

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INTERNATIONAL

Palestinian Says He Can Accept Transition Period TEL AVIV — President Mahmoud Abbas of the Palestinian Authority said in an interview shown Tuesday that he could accept an Israeli military presence in the West Bank for a three-year transition period as part of a peace deal. But Abbas said “whoever proposes 10 or 15 years for a transition” was not serious about an agreement.

The question of who should be responsible for security and for how long, has been central in the peace talks between the Israelis and the Palestinians that started this summer.

Israel has long insisted that it can depend only on its own soldiers, not an international force, with some leaders suggesting they might stay for 40 years or more. Palestinian officials have said they could not tolerate even a single Israeli soldier patrolling their future state, though they have acknowledged that some transition period would most likely be required.

“We say that a transition period not exceed three years, during which Israel will withdraw gradually,” Abbas said in a videotaped interview shown at an Israeli security conference here. “We are willing to allow a third party to take Israel’s place during and after a withdrawal in order to soothe our concerns and Israel’s.” He suggested NATO. A spokesman for Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu of Israel declined to respond to Abbas’s comments, and Netanyahu himself did not directly address them in his own speech on Tuesday night at the conference. But Netanyahu said that “the Palestinian state must be demilitarized,” and that any deal would require “security arrangements that are embedded in the hands of Israel so we will be able to secure ourselves and protect ourselves.”

Netanyahu, who met last week with Secretary of State John Kerry, distanced himself from the “framework” that Kerry is expected to present soon that will lay out core principles for continuing the negotiations. “These are American positions,” he said.

“Israel does not have to agree to everything America presents.”

JODI RUDOREN

Greeks Work to Promote a ‘Social’ Economy ALONIA, Greece — The feisty owner of a small family business that makes detergents has never had time for anticapitalist firebrands. So he was “suspicious and skeptical” when he was approached by left-leaning activists campaigning to purge “profiteers” from the market.

But, struggling to keep his business afloat under the weight of unpaid invoices and constant demands for bribes, the owner, Savvas Mavromatis, decided to give their proposal a shot. He started selling his products directly to consumers for cash at fixed prices through a nonprofit collective.

Fourteen months later, he credits the group with saving his enterprise from a Greek economic meltdown.

“We are in the middle of a terrible crisis and are just looking for solutions,” said Elias Tsolakidis, the driving force behind the socalled no-middlemen movement in northern Greece. “We don’t have a magic wand. We are not communists and we are not capitalists, but we are trying to help people survive.”

In the view of widening numbers here, Greece’s market-driven system has broken down, a victim of corruption, budgetary mismanagement by the state and

Businesses have started to rely on volunteer networks to provide cheaper goods and sell directly to customers.

Members of the Voluntary Action Group.

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the overbearing demands of global financial markets.

In response, experimental ventures like the one Mavromatis joined have sprung up across Greece. While they may not offer a long-term solution, and are too small to alter the overall shape of the economy, they represent a bottom-up effort to address an economic crisis whose closest antecedent may be the aftermath of World War II. Attacks on modern profit-driven capitalism are hardly new in Greece, where Syriza, a coalition of radical leftist forces, narrowly lost the last national election in 2012 and, according to opinion polls, is now the country’s most popular party. But Syriza, like

many other left-wing parties across Europe, has had a hard time matching fiery criticism of “neo-liberal” economics with concrete actions to ease economic pain, including 27 percent unemployment.

Flush with cash for the first time since Greece’s economy went into a nosedive in 2008, Mavromatis recently bought a new MercedesBenz truck to transport his detergents from his factory in a village near the town of Katerini, the regional capital, and has expanded his product line to include toilet paper. Even after six straight years of recession, he said, “people need to wash clothes, do their dishes and go to the bathroom.”

ANDREW HIGGINS

In Brief U.N. Takes New Steps in Africa The United Nations Security Council voted unanimously on Tuesday to impose a travel ban on and freeze the assets of people suspected of war crimes in Central African Republic, as the European Union prepared to send a battalion to protect civilians from an unrelenting sectarian war there.

The resolution approved by the Security Council did not name perpetrators of violence who are to face sanctions; that will be taken up later. Last week, Secretary of State John Kerry raised the threat of American sanctions as well.

(NYT)

Chicken Sales Suspended in China Several areas in China have banned the sale of live chickens, and the Hong Kong government started culling 20,000 of the birds on Tuesday as fears grew over the spread of avian influenza. The decision to kill the chickens, all from a single Hong Kong market, came after officials detected a new case of the deadly H7N9 virus in a bird imported from mainland China.

(NYT)

Abuse Victim to Be Compensated The European Court of Human Rights ruled on Tuesday that a 49-year-old Irish woman was enti-

tled to compensation for the government’s failure to protect her from sexual abuse as a child when she attended a publicly financed Roman Catholic primary school in the 1970s. The ruling overturned a series of decisions by Irish courts over the past decade. The case was brought by Louise O’Keeffe, who was 9 years old when she was abused by a lay teacher at a school in County Cork in the 1970s.

The teacher, Leo Hickey was not charged until after his retirement in 1995, when 386 criminal offenses were brought against him involving 21 former pupils. He was imprisoned in 1998 for three years after pleading guilty to 21 charges.

(NYT)

‘Water Monsters’ May Be Gone Mexico’s salamander-like axolotl may have disappeared from its only known natural habitat in Mexico City’s few remaining lakes. It’s disturbing news for an admittedly ugly creature, which has a slimy tail, plumage-like gills and a mouth that curls into an odd smile. The axolotl is known as the “water monster” and the “Mexican walking fish,” and its only natural habitat is Lake Xochimilco, which is suffering from pollution. Biologist Luis Zambrano of Mexico’s National Autonomous University says researchers are planning a search for the creatures, which still survive in labs and breeding tanks. (AP)

NATIONAL

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014

Executive Order Is an Option With Limits WASHINGTON — President Obama’s State of the Union address represented a study in scaled-down ambition.

A man who entered the White House yearning for News sweeping achieveAnalysis ments finds himself five years later threatening an end run around gridlock on Capitol Hill by using executive orders, essentially acknowledging the limits of his ability to push an agenda through Congress and the likelihood that future accomplishments would be narrow. He urged Republicans to join him in a “year of action,” but signaled he would act unilaterally when bipartisan agreement remained out of reach — a possibility he raised himself.

“The question for everyone in this chamber, running through every decision we make this year, is whether we are going to help or hinder this progress,” Obama told lawmakers as he reminded them of last year’s damaging

government shutdown.

Executive orders like the one he will employ to raise the minimum wage paid by federal contractors may be the only route available to Obama given deep hostility from the Republican majority in the House and a Congress increasingly focused on the 2014 elections.

But with some notable exceptions, only so much can be delivered through the president’s pen if he is not using it to sign legislation. He cannot raise the minimum wage for most workers, overhaul the Social Security system, grant legal status to millions of undocumented immigrants, reorder spending and taxes, or make fixes to the health care law.

“There is nothing like legislation,” said Rahm Emanuel, the Chicago mayor and a former House member who advocates the strong use of executive power. “But given the challenges that are mounting, the country cannot afford Congress to go M.I.A.”

Despite the modest budget and spending deal completed earlier this month, Congress seems more of a legislative graveyard than ever. Lawmakers cannot find a way to extend emergency jobless benefits even when leaders of both parties acknowledge the aid could be approved.

If Congress cannot move on economic and social policy that Democrats and Republicans embrace and that would be a victory for both parties, how can real disagreement be bridged?

Finding consensus only gets harder from here. The midterms are already taking over the conversation, intensifying scrutiny on every vote and making lawmakers even more reluctant to take chances. The growing sense that Republicans have a chance to win the Senate in November raises the prospect that the president’s final two years could be consumed by veto fights with opposition majorities in the House and Senate.

CARL HULSE

Popular Flood Insurance Law Is a Bipartisan Target A major flood insurance bill was a rarity when it passed what is widely derided as a do-nothing Congress in 2012, but a year and a half later, there is an enthusiastic bipartisan effort to gut it.

This week the Senate is expected to approve a measure that would block, repeal or delay many of the key provisions of the Biggert-Waters Flood Insurance Reform Act, which was sponsored by Rep. Judy Biggert, R-Ill., and Rep. Maxine Waters, D-Calif.

Waters is now leading an effort in the House to gut the legislation, and this week, the Senate is expected to pass a measure that would stymie the law.

What happened?

It appears to be another Washington story of unintended consequences, and a warning, environmentalists say, of the rising costs of climate change. Most important, the bill may be a preview of the fights to come over who will pay those costs.

The Biggert-Waters measure sought to reform the nation’s nearly bankrupt flood insurance program, ending federal subsidies for insuring buildings in floodprone coastal areas. Over the past decade, the cost to taxpayers of insuring those properties has soared, as payouts for damage from Hurricanes Katrina, Irene,

Isaac and Sandy sent the program $24 billion into debt.

The aim of the measure was to shift the financial risk of insuring flood-prone properties from taxpayers to the private market.

But a year after the law passed, coastal homeowners received flood insurance bills that were two, three, even 10 times higher than before. “Never in our wildest dreams did we think the premium increases would be what they appear to be today,” Waters said.

The Senate bill is expected to pass on Wednesday or Thursday, after which it will head to the Republican-controlled House.

CORAL DAVENPORT

House Votes to Restrict Federal Payments for Abortions WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted on Tuesday to impose tighter restrictions on federal payments for abortions, thrusting the issue into the polarizing politics of an election year.

The bill stands no chance of being passed by the Democraticcontrolled Senate, but that mattered little to members of both parties, who seemed to relish the chance to accuse their opponents

of blatantly twisting the issue to their political advantage.

The House vote was 227 to 188.

Six Democrats voted yes, one Republican voted no and another voted present.

“Here we go again,” said Rep. Barbara Lee, D-Calif. “It’s another battle in the war on women.”

Republicans, bristling at accusations that they are hostile to women’s rights, said Democrats were unfairly characterizing

their motives. “I will say it again,” said Rep. Virginia Foxx of North Carolina, “we are not attacking women’s health care.”

Existing law like the Hyde Amendment, first enacted in 1977, already restricts federal financing for abortion services. But because the Hyde Amendment must be renewed every year, Republicans said their proposal would only codify what has been the law of the land. JEREMY W. PETERS

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In Brief Frigid Blast Disrupts Life in the South In Alabama, snow made roads impassable and forced some schools to prepare to keep students overnight. Many people in metro Atlanta planned to sleep in offices and hotels. Just weeks after a polar vortex left nearly half the nation shivering, the governors of Alabama, Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, North Carolina and South Carolina declared states of emergency this week as arctic air returned with a vengeance. And temperatures plunged to well below zero in parts of the northern Plains. Texas and parts of the Deep South recoiled under cold weather they rarely experience. Freezing rain was forecast for the Gulf Coast, and up to nine inches of snow was expected in parts of North Carolina by Wednesday. “It might be more fun for the kids, but it completely interrupts our business,” said Amber Schoepp, a florist in Atlanta.

(NYT)

In N. Carolina, Four Shot on Playground The police in Rocky Mount, N.C., are searching for a man who sprayed a church playground with gunfire, striking four youths and leaving a 12-year-old boy in critical condition. The Rev. James D. Gailliard at Word Tabernacle Church said the shooting happened Monday as about two dozen teenagers played basketball. It came days after a funeral for a 15-year-old who was walking home with a friend when a car pulled up and someone started firing.

(AP)

Air Force Expands Inquiry Into Cheating Defense Department officials said on Tuesday that 30 more Air Force members had cheated on tests of their knowledge of how to launch nuclear missiles, doubling the number caught up in the scandal. The expanded list comes two weeks after the Air Force announced that a drug inquiry had been widened to include a scandal in which 34 officers responsible for safeguarding nuclear weapons had cheated, or were aware of cheating, on monthly tests.

(NYT)

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014 4

BUSINESS

THE MARKETS

Businesses Object to VW Unionization Drive CHATTANOOGA, Tenn. — At the Volkswagen plant nestled in Tennessee’s rolling hills, a unionization drive has drawn attention as business groups worry about organized labor’s efforts to gain its first foothold at a foreign-owned automobile plant in the South.

Unlike most companies that confront unionization efforts, Volkswagen — facing a drive by the United Automobile Workers — has not mounted a vigorous campaign to beat back the union; instead VW officials have hinted they might even prefer having a union. And while unions that seek to organize American factories often complain that the playing field is tilted because they do not have access to workers in the plant, here the union opponents are the ones protesting what they say is an uneven field.

The anti-U.A.W. forces are making themselves heard, warning that if the U.A.W. succeeds here, that will lend momentum to unionize two other prestigious German-owned plants: the Mercedes-Benz plant in Alabama and the BMW plant in South Carolina.

Two of Tennessee’s most prominent Republicans, Gov. Bill Haslam and Sen. Bob Corker have repeatedly voiced concerns that a U.A.W. victory would hurt the plant’s competitiveness and the state’s business climate.

A business-backed group put up a billboard declaring, “Auto Unions Ate Detroit. Next Meal: Chattanooga,” while a prominent anti-union group, the National Right to Work Committee, has brought legal challenges against the U.A.W.’s effort, asserting that VW officials improperly pres-

sured workers to back a union.

The billion-dollar VW plant opened in 2011 there to great fanfare. It was expected to buoy Chattanooga’s image as a place to do business. There was no whiff of unionization.

But Chattanooga’s business community grew alarmed last September when the U.A.W. asked VW for union recognition, saying a majority of the plant’s 1,600 assembly workers had signed cards seeking union representation.

Mike Burton, 56, a quality assurance worker who has set up an elaborate anti-union website, No2uaw.com, said he thought the union would lose an election.

“When you see what the U.A.W. did in Detroit, you have to worry about what it will do here,” he said.

STEVEN GREENHOUSE

With Ad Dollars Elusive, Yahoo’s Revenue Falls SAN FRANCISCO — Under the turnaround plan devised by Yahoo’s chief executive, Marissa Mayer, the company gained traffic and mobile users in 2013 and launched a bevy of products, like a slick digital food magazine and a mobile weather app.

Despite Mayer’s labors, Yahoo is still falling farther behind in the race for Internet advertising.

The company said Tuesday that revenue and operating profits declined in the fourth quarter of 2013 and would continue to drop in the first quarter of this year.

Analysts project that Yahoo’s biggest competitors, Facebook and Google, will post big gains, especially in the hot area of mobile advertising where Yahoo makes so little money that it

doesn’t even break out the numbers.

“It continues to dramatically underperform,” said Mark Mahaney, an Internet analyst with RBC Capital Markets. “There is a window of opportunity, and of course, it’s closing, as you see innovation and momentum for other platforms like Twitter and Facebook.”

Mayer, a former Google executive who was recruited to run Yahoo in 2012, seems to understand the problem, even if it is unclear whether she can reverse the company’s decline.

“In 2014, we will continue our efforts around people, products and traffic, while concentrating our efforts on revenue,” she told investors and analysts in a web-

cast to discuss the company’s results. But she also warned that it would take years to get Yahoo truly competitive.

Yahoo reported fourth-quarter revenue of $1.27 billion, down 6 percent from $1.35 billion in the quarter a year ago. That was roughly in line with Wall Street’s expectations.

Net income for the quarter, which ended Dec. 31, was $352 million, or 33 cents a share, up from $274 million, or 23 cents a share. However, the results were lifted by a $49 million gain from the sale of patents.

Using a measure of profits that focuses only income before taxes, stock options and other costs, the company’s profits declined.

VINDU GOEL

Ford Reports a $3 Billion Quarterly Profit on Tax Gains DETROIT — Ford Motor said on Tuesday that its fourth-quarter earnings rose 90 percent, to $3 billion, mostly because of favorable tax benefits related to investments in its European operations.

Ford, the nation’s No. 2 automaker, said that its pretax profit fell to $1.28 billion, from $1.68 billion in the period a year earlier.

But the company said it benefited from $2.1 billion in special tax gains during the quarter.

The lower pretax earnings re-

flected slimmer operating margins in the intensely competitive North American vehicle market and losses in its European and South American operations.

For the full year of 2013, Ford reported net income of $7.16 billion, about a 26 percent increase from the previous year.

Ford’s chief executive, Alan R. Mulally, called the yearly performance outstanding, and said Ford expected “solid” results in 2014 as it adds several new products.

Ford is second in size among domestic carmakers, behind General Motors. Chrysler, No. 3, reports its earnings on Wednesday, and G.M. is scheduled to report on Feb. 6.

The fourth quarter was Ford’s 18th consecutive profitable quarter, but the company expects tighter margins and higher capital spending in 2014, as it introduces nearly two dozen new vehicles worldwide, including a revamped version of its top-selling F-150 pickup truck. BILL VLASIC

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BUSINESS

After BRICs Fall, the‘Fragile Five’ Is Coined The long-running boom in emerging markets came to be identified, if not propped up, by wide acceptance of the term BRICs, shorthand for the fastgrowing countries Brazil, Russia, India and China. Recent turmoil in these and similar markets has produced a rival expression: the Fragile Five.

The new name, as coined by a research analyst at Morgan Stanley last summer, identifies Turkey, Brazil, India, South Africa and Indonesia as economies that have become too dependent on skittish foreign investment to finance their growth ambitions.

The term has caught on in large degree because it highlights the strains that occur when countries place too much emphasis on stoking fast rates of economic growth.

It also raises pressing questions about not just BRICs but emerging markets in general.

The Morgan Stanley report came out in August, when there were reports that the Federal Reserve would soon reduce its bond-buying program. The term that report coined became a quick and easy way for investors to give voice to fears of a broader emerging markets rout, propelled by runs on the Turkish lira, Brazilian real and South African rand.

These fears were realized this

Istanbul in Turkey, which raised interest rates 4.25 percentage points on Tuesday.

GURCAN OZTURK/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES

week when Turkey, seen by most investors as the most fragile of the Fragile Five, raised interest rates by 4.5 percentage points on Tuesday.

The sharper than expected increase by the country’s central bank was intended to persuade foreign investors, as well as corporate and household savers, to hold on to their lira instead of exchanging them for dollars.

As with other members of the Fragile Five, Turkey relies heavily on fickle short-term investment flows from foreigners to finance gaping current account deficits — the result of which has been a currency that many investors say is overvalued.

And while there have been sharp outflows from Turkey and some of the other members of

the Fragile Five, broadly speaking, foreign investors have retreated from the asset class as a

whole.

None of which surprises Jim O’Neill, who, as an economist at Goldman Sachs in late 2001, came up with the phrase BRICs as a way to highlight the long-term growth potential of large emerging market economies.

“I still believe these are the best investment opportunities in the world,” said O’Neill, who acknowledges being irritated at having to defend his thesis each time there is an emerging market wobble.

O’Neill, who recently left Goldman and now works independently, has just come up with yet another, similarly dynamic club.

This one, of populous countries with high growth potential, he calls MINTs, for Mexico, Indonesia, Nigeria and Turkey.

LANDON THOMAS Jr.

Ukraine’s Uncertainties Include Financial Lifeline KIEV, Ukraine — As Ukraine’s political crisis has deepened, an economic question looms: Will Russia continue to bail out the country if it again tilts to the West?

After months of protests, and the resignation Tuesday of the country’s prime minister, the opposition in Ukraine appears closer than ever to achieving its goals, chief among them compelling the government to reject trade and aid deals with Russia and to turn to the European Union instead.

But that political victory might quickly turn into an economic crisis. There is no financial package ready to replace the Russian aid. Without foreign assistance, Ukraine is all but certain to either default on its debt or devalue its currency. Russia in December provided $3 billion of a total aid package of $15 billion. It is scheduled to disburse an additional $2 billion by Friday.

By the end of the week, it will become clear whether Russia will follow through with the second strand of the financial lifeline to the government of President Viktor F. Yanukovich, despite his decision to open reconciliation talks with the pro-Western opposition and his loss of control over regional governments.

In response to a written query, the Russian Ministry of Finance’s news service declined to comment on its intentions.

“It would be amazing if the Russians decided to put money on the table now, given all that is going on,” Vladimir Tikhomirov, chief economist at Otkritie Financial Corporation in Moscow, said.

The Ukrainian Ministry of Finance issued a statement on Monday saying that it was preparing to issue bonds as scheduled, but gave no indication whether the Russians had promised to purchase them as agreed. Ukraine is

burdened with large budget and current-account deficits and the central bank is quickly depleting its gold and foreign currency reserves.

Ukraine’s recessionary economy has hung as a grim backdrop to the recent street protests. The country’s 2014 budget includes a deficit equivalent to 4.3 percent of gross domestic product.

The Russian money and a reduction in natural gas prices charged by the Russian company Gazprom are subsidizing that spending gap and propping up the national currency, the hryvnia, and staving off default on the government’s debt.

The Ukrainian stock market, not surprisingly, has taken a downward turn. The Ukraine Exchange index has fallen more than 70 percent in the last three years, and 8.9 percent of that decline came in the last week.

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., up $1.62 to $49.66. Strong sales on its ships and demand for last-minute international bookings helped the cruise operator post a fourth-quarter profit.

DR Horton Inc., up $2.06 to $23. The homebuilder said its first-quarter net income jumped 86 percent as selling prices for its houses rose 10 percent to $275,600.

Martin Marietta Materials Inc., up $3.97 to $106.75. The granite, limestone and gravel seller is buying Texas Industries in a deal worth $2.06 billion, creating a leading supplier of building materials.

Abercrombie & Fitch Co., up $1.66 to $36.27. The teen retailer said it is terminating a corporate defense strategy and separating its chairman and chief executive roles.

Apple Inc., down $44 to $506.50.

Shares of the iPhone maker fell after reporting a lackluster first-quarter performance and a cautious second-quarter revenue outlook.

American Airlines Group Inc., up $1.78 to $31.96. The airline reported a $2 billion loss for the fourth quarter, but its results still beat Wall Street expectations.

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DINING

WEDNESDAY, JANUARY 29, 2014

All This And a Bag Of Chips The Super Bowl, to be played Sunday night, is for all intents and purposes a national holiday.

We gather as friends and family in the presence of our hearth-like big-screen televisions, and we eat and drink, cheer and despair against a backdrop of beauty and violence combined. But why must the food be so bad? As a nation we have conquered other holidays with succulent turkeys and briskets moist from the oven, great barbecue and piles of cookies.

The Super Bowl has inspired no such excellence. Instead, the holiday menu generally runs to frozen pizzas, buckets of wan delivery chicken, cans of cheese dip and stale ranch-flavored chips.

Far more delicious possibilities abound. So if you must have nachos, why not make good ones?

Or take a few minutes in the morning to make your own dip — clam dip, say, because clam dip is a taste of the 1950s that should never have disappeared — and allow it to cure in the refrigerator until kickoff, then serve it with spears of red pepper, celery or endive along with the requisite potato chips.

Finally, you could fry chicken in the early afternoon and serve it at room temperature at halftime, with copious amounts of hot sauce to counter the sweet-saltiness of the meat. John Currence introduced me to the joys of brining the chicken in a thyme- and garlicscented mixture of Coca-Cola that not only infuses the meat with

Clam dip is a taste of the 1950s that should never have disappeared.

You could use cherrystones or littlenecks, chopping them raw into the cream. But using canned chopped Americanharvested clams is no crime, and the addition of a few teaspoons of the liquor in the can will help flavor the dip almost as well.

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moisture but also slightly tenderizes it as well.

Cooking for the Super Bowl should not be arduous. Make a plan and execute it, just as the coaches and captains will on Sunday. No matter the outcome of the game, victory will be yours.

SAM SIFTON CLAM DIP

Time: 5 minutes, plus an hour refrigeration Yield: Serves 6 to 8 1 pint sour cream 1 cup cooked and cooled chopped clams, from approximately 2 dozen littleneck clams, or 2 small cans of chopped clams, with three tablespoons of their liquor 1› tablespoons fresh lemon juice, or to taste › teaspoon Worcestershire sauce › teaspoon cayenne pepper › teaspoon kosher salt ≠ teaspoon ground white pepper

1. In a small bowl, combine the sour cream and clams and mix well.

2. Add the lemon juice, Worcestershire, cayenne pepper, salt and white pepper. Adjust seasonings to taste. Cover and refrigerate until chilled, at least an hour.

3. To serve, place a bowl of dip on a platter with spears of red bell pepper, celery and endive, or with salted potato chips.

COKE-BRINED FRIED CHICKEN

Time: 1 hour, plus 3 to 5 hours brining Yield: 4 to 6 servings For the brine: 5 cups Coca-Cola 1 tablespoon kosher salt 10 sprigs fresh thyme 4 cloves garlic, peeled and sliced 4 teaspoons mild hot sauce like Crystal, Texas Pete or Cholula 8 to 12 chicken thighs For the seasoned flour: 3 cups all-purpose flour

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1 tablespoon kosher salt 2 teaspoons ground black pepper 2 teaspoons smoked Spanish paprika 1› teaspoons garlic powder 1› teaspoons onion powder 1 teaspoon cayenne pepper For the frying: 3 cups peanut oil 1 cup lard or peanut oil.

Hot sauce, for serving 1. Make the brine: Combine cola, salt, thyme, garlic and hot sauce in a large metal bowl and stir until the salt has dissolved. Add the chicken thighs, cover and refrigerate 3 to 5 hours.

2. Make the seasoned flour: In a wide, shallow bowl or pan, combine the flour, salt, pepper, paprika, garlic powder, onion powder and cayenne.

3. Heat oven to 350 degrees. Put the peanut oil in a large heavybottom pot or Dutch oven over medium heat until it reaches 375 degrees. While the oil heats, remove the chicken from the brine and pat dry. Dredge the thighs in the flour and shake to remove excess.

4. Working in batches of 2 or 3 at a time, carefully lower thighs into the hot oil. The oil temperature will plummet when the cold chicken goes into the pan; turn up the heat and carefully monitor the temperature. Cook for a little more than 3 minutes on one side, a little more than 3 minutes on the other, and then a final 3 minutes on the first side. Remove to a wire rack or paper towel to drain.

5. The juices should run clear when the chicken is poked with a knife. If necessary, transfer the browned chicken to a baking sheet and bake until the internal temperature reaches 180 degrees on a instant-read thermometer.

Serve hot or at room temperature with hot sauce.

In Brief Colorful Liqueurs If you have visited the Amalfi Coast or Capri, you may have sipped limoncello. But how about a mandarin orange version of that popular liqueur? Francesco Amodeo, from Furore, near Amalfi, discovered that a crumbling building on the family property had been a distillery dating to the 1880s and had been used to pro- DAN NEVILLE/THE NEW YORK TIMES duce artisanal liqueurs with fruit from their orchards. He has revived the tradition, and now he has entered the New York market. In addition to limoncello and

the lovely mandarinetto, there are others in jewel-like tones, including fennel (anise); an intense nocino (green walnut); prickly pear to sweeten tequila cocktails; and a dark, syrupy Concerto: Don Ciccio & Figli liqueurs, donciccioefigli.com, $30 to $37 for 750 milliliters at cellar.com; $26 to $31, the Park Avenue Liquor Shop, 212-685-2442, parkaveliquor.com.

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this branch of her original bakery in Westchester, there are loaf cakes, layer cakes, muffins and more. Instead of butter or other dairy, she uses organic shortening and tofu sour cream. She does use eggs: By the Way Bakery, 2442 Broadway (90th Street); 212877-0806; btwbakery.com.

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Having Cake Without Gluten Helene Godin’s moist, rich baked goods are not too sweet. And by the way, they are also gluten- and dairy-free, thus the name of her new bakery on the Upper West Side. At

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OBITUARY

A Folk Revivalist Who Used His Voice to Bring Out a Nation’s was devoted to songs that had been passed on through generations of people singing and playing together. He was determined — in an era when recording was much rarer and broadcasting limited — to get those songs heard and sung anew, lest they disappear.

That put him at the center of the folk revival of the 1950s and 1960s. Collectors found songs that had archetypal resonance, sung in unpretty voices and played with regional quirks, and transcribed them to be learned from sheet music. The folk revival prized authenticity — the work song recorded in prison, the fiddle tune recorded on a back porch — and then diluted it as the making of amateur collegiate strum-alongs. Seeger and his fellow folk

Pete Seeger sang until his voice wore out, and then he kept on singing, decade upon decade. Seeger, who died on Monday at 94, sang for children, folk-music devotees, union members, civil-rights marchers, antiwar protesters, environmentalists and everyone else drawn to a repertoire that extended from ancient ballads to brand-new songs about every cause that moved him. But it wasn’t his own voice he wanted to hear.

Although Seeger summed up Vietnam-era frustration when he wrote “Waist Deep in the Big Muddy,” he wasn’t simply a protest singer or propagandist. Like his father, the musicologist Charles Seeger, and his colleague the ethnomusicologist Alan Lomax, Pete Seeger

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revivalists freely adapted old songs to new occasions, using durable old tunes to carry topical thoughts, speaking of a “folk tradition” of communal authorship and inevitable change.

It was an era of purists generating the impure, and, sloppy or saccharine as it could be, it turned out well. Folk-revival ditties Pete Seeger pointed their more dedicated listeners — particularly musicians — back to original versions, extending the reach of regional styles. The hootenanny movement spurred people to play music instead of passively consume it, and the noncommercial, do-it-yourself spirit — though not the sound of banjos and acoustic guitars — would resound in punk-rock, which had its own kind of protest songs.

Even more important, the folk revival, with Seeger as one of its prime movers, introduced American pop to a different America: the one outside Tin Pan Alley and Hollywood, where a volunteer gospel choir could sing with more gumption than a studio chorus, and where a decades-old song about hard times could speak directly to the present. The folk revival reminded the pop world that songs could be about something more than romance — a notion that the revival’s greatest student and transformer, Bob Dylan, would run with.

Seeger’s discography runs to dozens of albums: topical songs, Mother Goose rhymes, banjo instruction, African songs, lullabies, blues, Civil War songs, Spanish Civil War songs and far more. His canon was selective but not exclusive; he wanted all those songs to get more chances. His cultural mission was democratic.

His mission was political too, of course. In 2012, Seeger told an interviewer on WNYC how he would like to be remembered: “He made up songs to try and persuade people to do something,” not just say something.

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OPINION

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

MAUREEN DOWD

The Diminished State of the Union

Dealing With Pot

Every winter since 2009, President Obama has stood at the podium of the House and pleaded for the cooperation of Congress. For the last three State of the Union speeches, he has largely been ignored. That has left a growing trail of unfinished business: background checks for gun buyers, immigration reform, a higher minimum wage, tax fairness, universal preschool.

This year was different. Obama’s speech on Tuesday night acknowledged the obvious: Congress has become a dead end for most of the big, muscular uses of government to redress income inequality and improve the economy for all, because of implacable Republican opposition. As a result, the remainder of Obama’s presidency will be largely devoted to a series of smaller actions that the White House can perform on its own.

Taking the offensive by veering around Congress isn’t new for the administration, but it is more important than ever. As the president forcefully described, inequality has deepened and upward mobility has stalled. If Republicans in Congress stymie the public’s needs and desires, Obama should employ every tool in his box to bypass those barriers.

Most of the executive actions in the speech have the potential to make a difference, though their diminished scope demonstrates the lost potential caused by political intransigence.

Raising the minimum wage to $10.10 for federal contract workers might benefit only a few hundred-thousand people, but it increases the pressure on other businesses and, ultimately, Congress to raise the wage for everyone. (The $10.10 wage, however, provides an income too paltry to celebrate as a huge achievement.)

The increased focus on federal job-training

efforts and manufacturing institutes could help reduce unemployment by improving job skills to match the market, as will a $100 million competition to goad high schools into improving science, technology and math learning. A new retirement account could help people save money.

But he left out an executive ban on discrimination by contractors against employees based on sexual orientation and gender identity. That would have made a strong statement about fairness in spending taxpayer money. He could also have prohibited contractors from retaliating against employees who disclose or seek salary information, which would help women know when they are being paid less.

The only way to truly affect the economy on a mass scale, and to make a difference for tens of millions of people instead of a few hundred thousand, is to persuade Congress to go along on the major initiatives the president was forced to repeat in his remarks, such as extending jobless benefits and creating highquality preschool for all 4-year-olds, and especially raising the minimum wage.

One particularly promising request the president made of Congress was to expand the earned-income tax credit, which now benefits 15 million families a year, to workers without children. That would not only boost the incomes of many at the bottom of the ladder, but it would provide the incentive to work that many Republicans say they support. Pushing for a vote would reveal whether Republicans are so opposed to anything Obama wants that they would reject their own ideas. As important as executive orders can be, they should not replace showing that Republicans are voting against the public’s wishes.

Argentina on the Brink More than a decade after it defaulted on its foreign debts, Argentina is again facing a financial crisis caused largely by misguided government policies.

The administration of President Cristina Fernández de Kirchner recently devalued the peso and relaxed some capital controls in an effort to preserve the country’s dwindling foreign reserves. The government is hoping these steps will ease some of the pressure on the peso, which does not float freely against the dollar. But Argentina needs to do a lot more to address inflation and other underlying economic problems that have led investors and ordinary citizens to bet against the peso.

In the years after its default in 2002, which wiped out the savings of millions of people, Argentina enjoyed a fast-growing economy thanks in part to the booming world demand for soybeans and other commodities. But Kirchner squandered the recovery in recent years by increasing spending on wasteful subsidies and financing the government partly by printing pesos. As a result, inflation has shot

up; independent economists estimate that consumer prices jumped 28 percent last year.

Kirchner has also hurt the economy by picking unnecessary fights with private businesses and investors. In recent years, she nationalized an oil company, an airline and pension funds. And, in 2011, the country implemented controls on how many pesos its citizens could convert into dollars, which has helped create a black market for currency transactions and undermined public confidence in the government’s economic policies. A recent poll showed that three-quarters of those polled said the economy was headed in the wrong direction.

Government officials have begun taking some small steps to correct past mistakes. For example, the economy minister, Axel Kicillof, has been negotiating compensation for the oil company, YPF, that the government seized in 2012. And Argentina will put out a new inflation index next month to convince the I.M.F. to accept its official data again. But Kirchner will have to take much bolder steps to repair the damage.

Denver There’s a lot of giggling in Colorado, and about Colorado, these days.

Except by the state’s leaders, who are like uneasy chaperones at a rowdy school dance.

“It’s insane,” says Sen. Michael Bennet.

“It’s no fun,” says Gov. John Hickenlooper, who admits he winces when he hears latenight pot shots, like Jimmy Fallon’s barb: “Stoners took a moment to thank Governor Hickenlooper, then they spent a few hours just saying the word ‘Hickenlooper.’ ” Both Bennet and Hickenlooper opposed the recreational pot referendum. The pair of Democrats seem as if they wandered out of a Frank Capra movie; they have the sort of innocent, zany charm that you rarely see in a profession that stamps out spontaneity.

But how will the role of pioneer scouts in a spacy odyssey affect their promising national ambitions? “Luckily, I don’t have serious national aspirations,” Hickenlooper says, “so that doesn’t really become much of an issue.”

He wouldn’t want to be Hillary’s vice presidential pick? “She wouldn’t do it,” he replies, “because by that time I’ll be 64.”

“Great social experiments always have risk,” says Hickenlooper, who, amid floods, fires, droughts and shootings, finds the pot issue bogarting his time. The state must conjure up a regulatory system, sort out legal and banking complexities, and quickly try to head off deleterious effects.

The infusion of young people into Colorado made the seismic shift inevitable, he said, because they thought banning pot was “absurd.” Hickenlooper is bracing himself for the first traffic or workplace fatality traced to pot, which is far more potent now and sometimes spurs an acid-trippy effect, and he’s working on an anti-pot-smoking campaign directed at teenagers.

Now that the rollout has been a success, the governor can once more think about his reelection race. He and the writer Helen Thorpe had a friendly separation in 2012 and are raising their 11-year-old, Teddy, together. The governor’s strategists have warned him that he might need to be a monk.

“I really can’t date,” he says. “Political enemies would attack whoever the person was for whatever reason unless it was just exactly perfect.”

Looking dubious, he ventured: “I might meet someone that’s just perfectly, you know, uh, normal, appropriate in every way.” But, he notes, it was hard enough the first time. “I was 49 when I got married,” he said.

Isn’t celibacy too much of a sacrifice to ask?

“I think it’s terrible,” Hickenlooper says with a grin. “But my campaign team is not so shy.”

The governor says he smoked pot in his 20s to feel more comfortable in social settings, but that he hasn’t done it “in decades.”

“It makes you slow down and clumsy,” he says. “I wouldn’t do it even if I was completely by myself in the forest or whatever.”

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SPORTS

In Brief

Volunteers at Issue for N.F.L. as Revenue Soars Volunteerism has become as much a part of the Super Bowl as the Roman numeral identification of games, allowing those who cannot attend the game to be a part of the festivities by welcoming those who can.

When the Super Bowl was last played in a cold-weather city, with the Giants edging the New England Patriots, 21-17, in Indianapolis to close the 2011 season, members of both teams were left with a warm and fuzzy feeling. They received blue-and-white scarves that were knitted by members of the community.

Alfred Kelly, the chief executive of the New York-New Jersey Super Bowl Host Committee, estimated that 9,000 residents of the tristate area would serve as volunteers in the days leading to Sunday’s N.F.L. championship game at MetLife Stadium in East

Rutherford, N.J. That is far fewer than the 20,000 who were initially contemplated. And the feel-good interaction between volunteers and chilled visitors is somewhat overshadowed by current and potential litigation.

The N.F.L. opted to hire temporary paid workers for positions in which volunteers had historically been used in an apparent response to a class-action suit brought by the firm Outten & Golden against Major League Baseball, which did not pay volunteers at the All-Star FanFest at Javits Center in July.

“Due in part to the size and complexity of the Super Bowl, we determined that it was advisable to use paid staff in certain roles this year,” said Brian McCarthy, an N.F.L. spokesman.

With about $10 billion in annual revenue, the N.F.L. certainly has

the wherewithal to pay workers.

In fact, the N.F.L. is paying several thousand security workers to patrol Super Bowl Boulevard in Midtown Manhattan. But in bidding to host the games, cities and teams put together a package of enticements, from hotel rooms to convention centers, and they often promise volunteers as a way to provide logistical support and local enthusiasm.

That help will be used at Super Bowl Boulevard, a 13-block stretch from Herald Square to Times Square that has been turned into an outdoor festival.

Paid workers will also be present at the media center and at various game-day events. It is unclear whether such staffing will become part of the cost of doing business for what is, by far, the most prosperous sports league.

TOM PEDULLA

College Players Take a Step Toward Unionization CHICAGO — The increasingly contentious and complicated relationship between the N.C.A.A. and its top amateur athletes took another step toward a legal showdown on Tuesday when a group of Northwestern University football players appealed to the National Labor Relations Board with the first effort by college athletes to join a labor union.

Kain Colter, Northwestern’s starting quarterback last season, was joined by Ramogi Huma, the president of the newly formed College Athletes Players Association, and Leo W. Gerard, the president and political director of United Steelworkers, to announce that a

petition had been filed on behalf of Colter and his teammates to seek union representation.

“This ends a period of 60 years when the N.C.A.A. has knowingly established a pay-for-play system while using terms like ‘studentathlete’ and ‘amateurism’ to skirt labor laws,” Huma said.

Though payment of players at Football Bowl Championship schools and Division I basketball schools has become a thorny issue, Colter said medical care, particularly expenses after graduation, was his biggest concern.

“The same medical issues that professional athletes face are the same medical issues collegiate

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athletes face, except we’re left unprotected,” Colter said.

Colter, who has exhausted his college eligibility, described the current N.C.A.A. model as resembling a “dictatorship” and endorsed relaxing transfer restrictions, scholarships that cannot be revoked because of injury and a trust to support players upon graduation.

The N.C.A.A. issued a rejoinder in a statement by its chief legal officer, Donald Remy. “This unionbacked attempt to turn studentathletes into employees undermines the purpose of college: an education,” he said.

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M.L.B. Approves New Cap for Pitchers Major League Baseball has approved a protective cap for pitchers, hoping to reduce the damage from line drives. The heavier and bigger new hat will be available for testing during spring training on a voluntary basis. Major leaguers and minor leaguers will not be required to wear it. (AP)

With 6 Goals, Bruins Ruin Thomas’s Return Milan Lucic scored twice and the Bruins spoiled goalie Tim Thomas’s return to Boston with a win over Florida. It was the third straight six-goal game for the Bruins, known more for their defense, after wins of 6-1 and 6-3.

Thomas won the Conn Smythe Trophy as the playoffs most valuable player in 2011 when Boston won the Stanley Cup. (AP)

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Football Fans, Don’t Forget: It’s New Jersey The Jets’ Aviators and the Giants’ G Line perform in front of the New Jersey Hall of Fame trailer Tuesday.

Newark

As the rest of the world streamed into the Prudential Center on Tuesday for a religious service known as Super Bowl media day, a singular, This defiant voice called Land from black loudspeakers propped outside a Dan Barry nearby tractor-trailer.

“My friend, I’ll say it clear,” that voice sang. “I’ll state my case, of which I’m certain.”

The disembodied Sinatra was calling out from the New Jersey Hall of Fame’s mobile museum.

And what the kid from Hoboken was telling these visitors was: Not for nothing, “friend,” but you ain’t in Manhattan.

Super Bowl XLVIII takes place Sunday at MetLife Stadium in East Rutherford, N.J. It is geographic fact that East Rutherford is in New Jersey. But in the last week, it seems, the Hudson River dried up and New York City extended westward by dozens of miles to claim selective glory.

For example, the National Football League recently helped to construct a fan-dazzling roadway in Midtown Manhattan called Super Bowl Boulevard. It has souvenir shops, activities for kids, autograph opportunities — even a 60-foot-high toboggan run.

That is because this Brigadoon boulevard runs through Manhat-

ah Vaughan, the baseball player Larry Doby, and the actor Jack Nicholson.

Bud Abbott, from Asbury Park. And Lou Costello, from Paterson.

KARSTEN MORAN FOR THE NEW YORK TIMES Now who’s on first?

Bruce Springsteen. A singer. tan’s Times Square.

Ever hear of him? Freehold.

The honor of serving as host to These were among the many the Super Bowl, then, has played inductees in the New Jersey Hall into New Jersey’s complex about of Fame. Each of them inhabited being That Place Next to the this 53-foot-long tractor-trailerCapital of the World. cum-museum parked just outside “The Big Apple may have Suthe Super Bowl news media conper Bowl Boulevard, but no one trivance granted to Newark. is going to score any touchdowns The hall of fame was founded in in Times Square,” Sen. Robert 2005 in part “because we were alMenendez said. So there. ways getting bashed,” said Steve All of this explains why the Edwards, the president of the hall New Jersey Hall of Fame chose of fame’s foundation. to park itself on some prime New Standing beside a glass display Jersey soil and remind visitors case containing a sacred New that they are, in fact, in New JerJersey relic — a denim jacket sey. Where, you ask? Very funny. once worn by Jon Bon Jovi — EdHow about after the Garden wards became the only person in State rearranges your face, it the immediate area to drop the responds by saying: Thomas name of Aristotle, who was not Edison. A New Jersey guy. The from New Jersey, in explaining tennis great Althea Gibson, the the hall’s lofty message to schoolastronaut Buzz Aldrin, the poet children: “Actualize your highest William Carlos Williams, the sufsense of self.” fragist Alice Paul, the singer Sar-

DeVry University, an Unlikely Olympic Powerhouse They have no mascot or motto, no home rink, oval or stadium.

They have no hockey team, curling squad or figure skaters. They have no coaches, no athletic director, and their basketball team once lost by 117 points.

But for all that, this week, DeVry University could lay claim to being one of the nation’s most prominent athletic institutions.

On Monday, DeVry landed 15 students on the national Olympic team headed for the Sochi Games, including serious medal contenders in Alpine skiing, bobsled and luge, courtesy of a partnership the university signed in late 2011 with the U.S. Olympic Committee.

And while the pedigree might not be impressive, members of Team DeVry say the price (often free) and the hours (unusually flexible) are.

“I have heard people say, ‘Oh, DeVry, it’s not Stanford.’ Well, ye-

ah, it’s not,” said Steven Holcomb, a gold medalist in bobsled at the 2010 Vancouver Olympics and a DeVry undergraduate in computer science.

DeVry is one of dozens of licensees and sponsors — like McDonald’s and Nike — who pay for the right to align themselves with Team USA, and use the Olympic rings to sell everything from eyeglasses to grape jelly. The deal, the terms of which were not disclosed, runs through the 2016 Games. It made DeVry an official education provider to a large pool of hopefuls, offering reduced or waived tuition for the university’s classes, which can be taken online and can cover subjects as diverse as laboratory science and video game programming.

Olympic officials said the arrangement was popular for its young amateurs, many of whom struggle to balance classes with

rigorous training schedules, especially for the winter sports, where facing top international competitors often means traveling overseas during the academic year. Many of those athletes also train in remote areas — such as Lake Placid, N.Y., or Park City, Utah — not well-served by uppertier, brick-and-mortar educational institutions.

Indeed, while the Summer Games are often fed by athletic powerhouses like Auburn, Florida and Southern California, the Winter Games draw from a more eclectic group, including small colleges like Utah Valley, Alaska Pacific and the Community College of Rhode Island. The leading Olympic feeder this year is Westminster College, a four-year liberal-arts college in Salt Lake City, which counts 3,100 students — and more than 20 Olympians.

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27 18 9 63 137 138 Phoenix 25 18 10 60 154 160 Calgary 18 27 7 43 119 165 Edmonton 17 32 6 40 144 190 NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.

In Brief Dismissal Sought Of Rodriguez Suit Major League Baseball is seeking a speedy dismissal of New York Yankee Alex Rodriguez’s lawsuit challenging a season-long suspension for the use of three prohibited performance-enhancing substances. Howard Ganz, an M.L.B. lawyer, said in a letter to United States District Court Judge Edgardo Ramos that the suit should be dismissed because a court is not empowered to reexamine the merits of an arbitration award.

(AP)

United Triumphs Robin van Persie made a goalscoring return from injury for Manchester United in the English Premier League. Van Persie took just six minutes to score after almost two months out as United beat Cardiff, 2-0, to stay 6 points out of fourth place. (AP)

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS

Future USS Coronado (LCS 4) Begins Sailaway

From PEO LCS Public Affairs

The Navy’s newest littoral combat ship, the future USS Coronado (LCS 4), departed from the Austal USA shipyard in Mobile, Ala., Jan. 27, en route to her commissioning site in Coronado, Calif.

Coronado is the fourth littoral combat ship delivered to the Navy, and the second LCS of the aluminum, trimaran Independence variant. It is scheduled to be commissioned April 5, and will be homeported in San Diego, Calif.

“It is exciting to see Coronado, operated by her Navy crew, exiting the new construction yard en route to her homeport,” said Capt.

Tom Anderson, LCS Program Manager. “There is a great sense of pride among the

many who were involved in her construction in seeing her headed to sea to do what she was built to do.”

During her transit to the West Coast and prior to her commissioning, Coronado will conduct hull, mechanical, and electrical system shakedown events as well as navigation checks and combat systems test events. Additionally,

the crew will participate in training events to continue honing their familiarity with the Independence variant.

Prior to sail away, the Navy’s Board of Inspection and Survey (INSURV) conducted acceptance trials aboard Coronado. INSURV found the ship’s performance to be “strong” following what was hailed as “the most

complete and rigorous trial on the Independence variant to date,” and recommended the vessel be accepted.

LCS 4 incorporated a number of design changes based on lessons learned from the first ship of class, USS Independence (LCS 2).

These changes are now part of the baseline design and are being incorporated in the construction of follow-on ships of the Independence variant.

The Austal USA team has Jackson (LCS 6), Montgomery (LCS 8), Gabrielle Giffords (LCS 10) and Omaha (LCS 12) under construction in Mobile, Ala. In March 2013, construction contracts were awarded for Manchester (LCS 14) and Tulsa (LCS 16).

Surface Navy Association Recognizes Circadian-based Watch Efforts with Literary Award From Chief of Naval Personnel Public Affairs

The Surface Navy Association (SNA) presented its annual Literary award at the SNA National Symposium in Washington, D.C., Jan. 14-16, 2014.

Each year, the Surface Navy Association presents a Literary Award to recognize articles that address areas within Surface Navy or Surface Warfare. For 2013, the awardees are Capt.

John Cordle, USN (Ret) and co-author Dr. Nita Shattuck.

“A Sea Change in Standing Watch,” published in the January 2013 issue of Proceedings, addresses the challenges and benefits of implementing a circadian-based watch schedule to improve the work to rest ratios of Sailors

onboard Navy ships through two lenses; a Navy commander and a sleep expert at the Naval Postgraduate School (NPS).

Inspired by a Proceedings article in 2000 highlighting a crew divided in half with each working 12-hour blocks, and no stranger to fatigue as a career Surface Warfare

Officer (SWO), Capt. Cordle explored various concepts and schedules to address the issue of sleep fatigue to improve morale. While in command of the USS San Jacinto (CG 56), his crew adapted a watchbill that fit the needs of the ship and individuals during a one-month training cycle.

“Everyone was in a stable 24-hour day, standing the same watch every day, and 9 hours off... to eat, sleep and PT,” said Cordle. “The shorter watches... allowed for better focus and less fatigue.”

Similarly inspired by SWO students at the NPS, sleep expert Dr. Nita Shattuck worked with her students on projects to see how to bring

visibility to fatigue among the Fleet and what could be done to address it.

Dr. Shattuck continues to conduct tests with Naval officers. Since the release of this award-winning article, Dr. Shattuck and her team have collected data from two additional ships and are working to validate, in lab study, the differences between the optimized watchbills on the body’s natural circadian rhythm. With the marriage of data from the ships working to tailor circadian-based schedules with lab results, Dr. Shattuck and her team are confident to see sleep patterns dictating increases physical health and Fleet morale.

LEARNING THE

M-9

Photos by MCSN Bounome Chanphouang

Sailors TAD to security reaction force (SRF) train in remedial action drills, which teach Sailors how to fix malfunctions and get the weapon back in the fight.

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