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TR stays ahead of phishing scams

LIFE ABOARD AN AIRCRAFT CARRIER NIOC Sailors’ first time at sea

Fraudsters Phishing for Sailors’ Identities

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Story by MCSA Wyatt Anthony

n today’s society, cyber warfare is becoming more and more prevalent. For years, criminals known as “phishers” have been attempting to fraudulently acquire sensitive information from individuals through the internet.

“Phishing is a form of social engineering where attackers use emails or malicious websites in an attempt to obtain personal information by posing as a trustworthy organization,” said Information Systems Technician 3rd Class Nicole Pond, with the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (CVN 71) Network Security’s CS-2 division.

Often, internet fraudsters attempt to impersonate a business to trick users into providing personal information through social media, e-mails, text messages or internet pop-ups.

“There are many different common warning signs that an email could be a phishing attempt,” said Pond. “Some signs include: alarmist messages, threats of account closures, promises of money for little or no effort, and requests to donate to a charitable organization. But the most common giveaway tends to be bad grammar and misspellings, especially if the email claims to be from a reputable source.”

To help combat these attacks at home, the Department of Defense’s (DoD) Defense Information Systems Agency (DISA) offers free McAfee antivirus software, available for download through the DoD Repository website (www.disa.mil), to military personnel.

A successful phishing attempt could seriously diminish the ship’s combat readiness. So Sailors must be careful when using a command computer.

“Hackers or other individuals could cause serious harm to communications or other things vital to our ship’s mission if they’re able to intercept any passwords or PIN’s sent out or used on the ship’s server,” said Pond.

If Sailors suspect they have been the target of a phishing scam, they should report it.

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Information Systems Technician 3rd Class Nicole Pond, from TR’s Network Security’s CS-2 division, monitors for any possible intrusions or security threats.

“If an attempt is made towards an individual, no matter what rank or rate, do not open the suspicious email attachment. They may contain links or other malware that could infect and damage our ship’s network,” said Pond. “Forward all information to Network Security via our email, netsec@cvn71.navy.mil.”

“If you suspect that you’ve responded to a phishing scam with personal or financial information, there are steps you should do immediately,” said Pond. “First, change the passwords or PINs on all your online accounts that you think might have been compromised.

Then contact Network Security so we can begin safeguarding the ship, and report the scam to the Internet Crime Complaint Center and to the Federal Trade Commission at spam@uce.gov.”

NIOC Sailors First Time at Sea Story by MCSN William Spears

ailors from the Navy Information Operations Command (NIOC), stationed at Fort Gordon in Augusta, Georgia, are underway aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) to experience ship life.

For many of these sailors, it is their first experience aboard a ship.

“We are trying to give these Sailors a taste of what Navy life is like beyond the shore,” said Cryptologic Technician (interpretive) 1st Class Steven Sorkin, leading petty officer for the NIOC Sailors. “We’ve had nothing but positive feedback. They are loving it. It’s not every day that a Sailor volunteers to go mess cranking and then asks to go back.”

The NIOC Sailors have been receiving a crash course in ship life, said Sorkin.

They have been mess cranking, toured the brig and been up to the bridge. They asked permission to relieve the helm and, under instruction, steered the ship.

“Going up to the bridge was probably my second favorite thing,” said Cryptologic Technician (interpretive) 2nd Class Londyn Barrett. “I got to see how everything worked together and now I can kind of tell what the ship is doing.”

Barrett said her favorite thing is being on Vulture’s Row watching flight operations.

“I told everyone that if they can’t find me, I’m probably up there,” said Barrett.

“I think that everyone should do this. Its been amazing. I told them not to look for me when we pull into port because I’m going to be hiding in a cabinet because being here is so amazing,” said Barrett.

The opportunity to come aboard as a guest is a pilot program for fleet familiarization. Sailors who spend most of their time at shore commands come to the fleet and see what life is like beyond the beach, said Sorkin.

“Most of these Sailors do their job at a desk back home on a beach,”

said Sorkin. “They don’t really get to see what their work does for the fleet. We want to do more of these fleet familiarization trips so junior Sailors get exposure to the fleet, so they can more appreciate what fleet Sailors do, how their work contributes and how every shop contributes to the mission.”

It’s an amazing experience to be on the ship and see the real camaraderie of the Navy, which isn’t really seen at a shore command, said Barrett.

“In our community we don’t necessarily see our leadership every day.

I think it’s impressive that the XO comes on [the 1MC] every morning and his positive attitude affects everyone. The positivity trickles down. I would stay at sea for every tour of my career if I could,” said Barrett. “It’s been amazing.”

The opportunity to visit the fleet has motivated these Sailors to do their jobs even better when they get home, said Sorkin. They are able to see how their job affects the Sailors in the fleet and get an idea what sea-life is like.

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

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

X Still Marks Sunken Spot; Gold Awaits The discovery of sunken gold conjures up visions of riches: Swiss bank accounts and lazy afternoons on faraway beaches, daiquiris in hand.

But the quest to salvage the S.S. Central America — which went down in 1857 in a hurricane off South Carolina carrying 425 souls, as well as thousands of coins, bars and nuggets of California gold — has produced a quarter-century of broken dreams and legal nightmares.

The bones of the sidewheeler were discovered in 1988, nearly a mile and a half down. The finder hauled up glittering coins and boasted of treasure worth $1 billion.

But paralysis ensued as waves of insurers and angry investors filed rival claims. Recovery of the shipwreck languished as courtrooms echoed with charges of fraud. In 2012, the finder became a fugitive.

Now, with the legal obstacles cleared, a private company working with a court-appointed receiver has become the first to revisit the shipwreck in two decades. The ship is still heavy with treasure.

On April 15, the company, Odyssey Marine Exploration, lowered a robot into the depths of the Atlantic Ocean and hauled up five gold bars weighing 66 pounds — worth about $1.2 million as metal and more as artifacts. That step, the company says, opened a new chapter in the saga of the Central America that will include raising the rest of the gold and exploring the deteriorating shipwreck.

“We want to show that it can be done right,” Gregory P. Stemm, Odyssey’s chief executive, said in an interview. “It’s a great opportunity.”

When it sank, the Central America was steaming toward New York with a cargo meant to strengthen the city’s banks. The 280-foot vessel was carrying so much gold — commercial and personal riches from the California fields estimated at three tons, as well as a rumored secret federal shipment of 15 tons — that its loss contributed to the Panic of 1857, considered the first global financial crisis.

WILLIAM J. BROAD

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Gazprom Stanching Ukraine Gas Flow CHASLOVTSY, Ukraine — As Ukraine tries to contain a pro-Russian insurgency convulsing its eastern region, a perhaps more significant struggle for the country hinges on what happens beneath the ground here in a placid woodland in the far west, on the border with Slovakia.

This is where about $20 billion in Russian natural gas flows each year through huge underground pipelines to enter Europe after a nearly 3,000-mile journey from Siberia. It is also, the pro-European government in Kiev believes, where Ukraine has a chance to finally break free from the grip of Gazprom, Russia’s state-controlled energy behemoth.

Ukraine has for more than a year been pushing to start socalled reverse flow deliveries of gas from Europe via Slovakia to Ukraine, thus blunting repeated Russian threats to turn off the tap.

An agreement signed last week between Slovak and Ukrainian pipeline operators opened the

way for modest reverse-flow deliveries of gas from Europe, where prices are much lower than those demanded by Gazprom for its direct sales to Ukraine.

But the deal fell so far short of what Ukraine had been lobbying for that it left a nagging question: Why has it been so difficult to prod Slovakia, a European Union member, to get a technically simple and, for Ukraine and for the credibility of the 28-nation bloc, vitally important venture off the ground?

Some cite legal and technical hurdles, but all agree that a major obstacle has been the power and reach of Gazprom, which serves as a potent tool for advancing Russia’s economic and geopolitical interests, and is ultimately beholden to President Vladimir V. Putin. Gazprom enjoys considerable clout inside the European Union, which gets a third of its gas imports from Russia and is itself vulnerable to Russian pressure.

Slovak pipelines, according to Ukrainian officials and experts,

could move up to 30 billion cubic meters of gas from Europe to Ukraine a year — more than all the gas Ukraine is expected to import from Russia this year.

Instead, the majority stateowned Slovak firm that runs the system, Eustream, has offered only a small, long-disused subsidiary pipeline that still needs engineering work. Once the work is finished in October, Eustream will provide just a tenth of the gas Ukraine has been looking for from Europe. The company says that small amount can be increased sharply later.

Here in Chaslovtsy, in southwestern Ukraine, where technicians from Ukraine’s pipeline company, Ukrtransgaz, and Gazprom monitor the flow of Russian gas into Slovakia, the Ukrainian head of the facility, Vitaly Lukita, said he wondered whether gas would ever flow the other way.

“We are all ready here, but I don’t know why the Slovaks are taking so long,” Lukita said.

ANDREW HIGGINS

Paul Casts Wide Political Net in Day at Races LOUISVILLE, Ky. — On the afternoon of the Kentucky Derby, Rand Paul, the state’s junior Republican senator and likely presidential candidate, spilled out of an elevator in the exclusive Jockey Club Suites of Churchill Downs with an entourage of women with flower-adorned hats, men in seersucker suits and Rupert Murdoch.

Paul’s guest was a special one.

The Kentucky senator’s libertarian brand of politics and deep reservations about American intervention have prompted more than a bit of wariness in The Wall Street Journal’s editorial page, on Fox News and in other influential media outlets that are owned by Murdoch.

For the would-be candidate and arguably the most powerful broker in Republican politics, Saturday’s day at the races — filled with betting, losing, drinking and a long chat over kettle corn that was part getting-to-know-you and part political audition — marked a potential turn in the race for president. That Murdoch, no novice

when it comes to matters of political imagery, allowed himself to be paraded for six hours around the boisterRand Paul ous and bourbon-drenched grounds like a prize horse behind a proud jockey amounted to a message to more establishment Republicans that, as Murdoch put it, “I’m very open minded.”

“I thought it would be fun to have him come down,” Paul said.

“I’ve never been to the Kentucky derby,” explained Murdoch, 83, who said Paul invited him about a month ago. “I said absolutely.” He added, “It’s a good thing for me. He’s a very interesting man.”

For more than a year now, Paul, 51, has been the most interesting man in Republican politics. His efforts to expand the Republican Party, and distinguish himself as a presidential candidate, have led

him to reach out to constituencies often outside the GOP’s blinders.

That, and a confluence of issues that have played to his strengths, have resulted in Paul being the hottest ticket in politics.

Establishment power brokers, most notably Mitch McConnell, the endangered Kentucky senator and Senate minority leader, have courted Paul in the hopes of obtaining some of his popularity.

Noting that McConnell was facing “tough race,” Murdoch said that the McConnell had benefited from Paul’s endorsement, and so, in turn, had Paul. “A smart move,” he said. “For everybody.”

The two joined the party of media consultants, aides, friends, family and performer Lucie Arnaz on the balcony. They cheered the horses running around the track and then grew silent at the finish.

“My horse was in third in the last hundred yards and then died,” Paul said.

“Died,” commiserated Murdoch.

JASON HOROWITZ

INTERNATIONAL

Outlying Regions Spinning Away From Kiev’s Grip ODESSA, Ukraine — Russian-speaking regions of Ukraine spun further out of the central government’s control on Sunday as a mob stormed a police station in this Black Sea port and freed from detention 67 pro-Russian militants, on the same day that Ukraine’s prime minister was visiting the city.

It was intended to be a chance for the prime minister, Arseniy P. Yatsenyuk, to express condolences for the dozens of people who died here on Friday in street fighting and in a horrific fire at a trade union building, and to re-enforce the government’s narrative that Russia and inept or disloyal local police were to blame.

Yatsenyuk criticized the police, suggesting that if they had done their jobs instead of concentrating on soliciting bribes at a market, “these terrorist organizations would have been foiled.”

“There were dozens of casualties resulting from a well-prepared and organized action against people, against Ukraine and against Odessa,” Yatsenyuk said, speaking at a news conference on Sunday morning, western and Ukrainian news media reported. He denounced Russia’s claim that Ukraine was not seeking a compromise with its Russian-speakers.

“The process of dialogue had begun, only it was drowned out by the sound of shooting from automatic rifles of Russian production,” Yatsenyuk said.

Yatsenyuk said the violence showed that Russia wanted to kindle unrest in Odessa, as it had in eastern Ukrainian cities.

Odessa is a major port between the Crimean peninsula, annexed

by Russia in March, and the Russian-backed separatist enclave of Transnistria in Moldova on Ukraine’s eastern border.

President Vladimir V. Putin, in a speech last month, hinted at a claim to an entire arc of Russian-speaking regions in the east and the south of Ukraine by calling these provinces of steppe and Black Sea coastline Novorossiya, or New Russia, as they were known after Catherine the Great’s conquest of the region in the 18th century.

Russia has said it does not intend to invade, though tens of thousands of its troops are still positioned on the border. ANDREW E. KRAMER

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Survivors’ Hopes Fade in Wake of Landslide ABI BARAK, Afghanistan — With hope gone that the 2,100 people thought to be buried by a mountain of mud could be rescued, most efforts in this remote corner of northern Afghanistan have turned toward keeping the rest alive.

Survivors gathered away from the mass grave that was once a third of their village on Sunday, jostling for aid in an open-air market of sorts. Thousands congregated around neatly stacked boxes of blankets, mats, oil and flour as elders shouted from makeshift platforms, orchestrating the delivery of the badly needed goods.

But Burhanuddin had no time for that. Along the base of this picturesque valley, where a massive chunk of earth cleaved from a neighboring mountain cascaded onto his and nearly 300 other homes on Friday, he was digging.

His hands were bruised and swollen, and his eyes brimmed with tears. With his shovel, he had gouged a 10-foot hole above the spot where he believed his family had been interred.

“I know they are all dead — my wife, my two sons and my daughter,” said Burhanuddin, 56, who goes by a single name. “I know it is just a waste of time, but my heart doesn’t stop. It keeps telling me to dig more and try harder.”

Life was already hard in Abi Barak, once a village of roughly

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1,000 homes tucked into a remote district of Badakhshan Province, between the borders of China and Tajikistan. The homes are built of mud, fashioned from the same hills they inhabit. There is no electricity, and residents share communal wells, trucking buckets of water up a steep ravine to their compounds, which fan out across the inclines of the stunning valley of rolling mud and grass mountains.

Overwhelmed by the sheer scale of the disaster, his neighbors stood along the edge of the churned mud floor, where even the smell of death had been buried.

Burhanuddin’s story offers an account of one of the biggest natural disasters visited on Afghanistan in more than a decade. His experience is hardly unique; it is a standin for the hundreds of others who lost wives, children, mothers and

After a large landslide on Friday, Afghan villagers took refuge in makeshift shelters on Sunday.

Officials say more than 2,000 people could be dead.

fathers in the landslide on Friday.

Hamad Agha, 14, was buried in a blanket of earth for more than an hour before he and his father were rescued. His mother and sister perished. “I am going to dig until I find them,” he said, wiping away his tears. “I know they are somewhere there, if not alive, at least I will see their bodies.”

Laila, 18, lost his entire family when the mountain fell on his home. Nasrullah, a shy 12-year-old, lost his father.

Azim, 25, swallowed the loss of his wife, children, mother and father with a weary resignation forged over decades of strife.

“What can I do?” he asked, surrounded by throngs of others sharing similar loss. “It is only by God’s will that this happens.”

AZAM AHMED and HABIB ZAHORI

In Brief No Charges for Sinn Fein Leader Gerry Adams, the leader of the Irish political party Sinn Fein, was released from police custody without charges on Sunday after four days of questioning into a gruesome 1972 Irish Republican Army murder of a widow with 10 children. But the police will hand over a file of potential evidence against him to prosecutors, police officials said.

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President Woos Former Backers Battling an array of defectors from the African National Congress during a long campaign, President Jacob Zuma, speaking at the party’s final rally in a vast soccer stadium in Soweto, South Africa, on Sunday, urged former supporters to return to the A.N.C. With just three days left before the general election on Wednesday, Zuma extended a conciliatory hand to former colleagues, allies and backers who had become bitter rivals and critics.

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Rebel Stronghold Is Captured Government troops in South Sudan launched a counteroffensive against rebel forces on Sunday to

retake two important northern towns just days after South Sudan’s president told the United States that he would hold talks with his rebel opponent. “Our forces recaptured the town of Nasir in the morning and the town of Bentiu in the afternoon,” said Col. Philip Aguer, a spokesman for the South Sudanese military. “The rebels are now fleeing toward the Ethiopian border and our troops are pursuing them.” Nasir, which is in Upper Nile State about 19 miles from South Sudan’s border with Ethiopia, had been a stronghold for the rebel forces led by Riek Machar, the country’s former vice president. (NYT)

Libyan Leader Quickly Challenged After a long search, Libya’s transitional Parliament appeared to have finally selected a new prime minister on Sunday, choosing Ahmed Maitiq, a businessman, during a chaotic legislative session. But almost as soon as Maitiq was sworn in, lawmakers who said the vote had been conducted improperly challenged his appointment. As a result, it remained unclear whether the caretaker prime minister whom Maitiq was supposed to replace was willing to leave his post. Another vote was abandoned last week when armed men stormed Parliament. (NYT)

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Secret C.I.A. Arms Cache Likely Kept in Texas WASHINGTON — In passing references scattered through once-classified documents and cryptic public comments by former intelligence officials, it is referred to as “Midwest Depot,” but the bland code name belies the role it has played in some of the C.I.A.’s most storied operations.

From the facility, located somewhere in the United States, the C.I.A. has stockpiled and distributed untraceable weapons linked to preparations for the Bay of Pigs invasion and the arming of rebels and resistance fighters from Angola to Nicaragua to Afghanistan.

Yet despite hints that “Midwest” was not actually where it was located, the secrecy surrounding the C.I.A. armory has survived generations of investigations. In a 2007 essay on the 20th anniversary of the Iran-contra affair, for example, a congressional investigator noted that the facility where the C.I.A. had handled missiles bound for Iran remained classified even as other “incredi-

ble things were unveiled during the hearings.”

But three years ago, it became public that the C.I.A. had some kind of secret location at Camp Stanley, an Army weapons depot just north of San Antonio and the former Kelly Air Force Base, though its purpose was unclear.

And now, a retired C.I.A. analyst, Allen Thomson, has assembled a mosaic of documentation suggesting that it is most likely the home of Midwest Depot.

In December, he quietly posted his research, which he has updated several times with additional clues, on the website of the Federation of American Scientists. In an email exchange, Thomson argued that the Midwest Depot’s history should be scrutinized.

“I have worried about the extent to which the U.S. has spread small arms around over the decades to various parties it supported,” he said. “Such weapons are pretty durable and, after the cause du jour passed, where did

they go? To be a little dramatic about it, how many of those AK47s and RPG-7s we see Islamists waving around today passed through the Midwest Depot on their way to freedom fighters in past decades?”

Spokesmen for the Pentagon and the C.I.A. declined to comment. A public affairs officer for Camp Stanley said its mission was to be a weapons storage and testing facility for the military.

There is no outward indication of what would be one of the C.I.A.’s three known facilities in the United States, along with its headquarters in Langley, Va., and Camp Peary, a military base near Williamsburg, Va., known by its code name, “The Farm,” that is believed to be used for training.

Camp Stanley has a low-key gated entrance, and a few nondescript warehouses are visible from its perimeter fence. Rows of bunkers are nestled deeper into the base, according to satellite images.

CHARLIE SAVAGE

Youthful Blood May Hold Key to Reversing Aging Two teams of scientists published studies on Sunday showing that blood from young mice reverses aging in old mice, rejuvenating their muscles and brains.

The research could lead to treatments for diseases like Alzheimer’s disease. “I am extremely excited,” said Rudolph Tanzi, a professor of neurology at Harvard Medical School, who was not involved in the research. “These findings could be a game changer.”

The research builds on centuries of speculation that the blood of young people contains substances that might rejuvenate older adults.

In the mid-2000s, Thomas A. Rando, a professor of neurology at

Stanford University School of Medicine, and his colleagues joined old and young mice for five weeks and then examined them. The muscles of the old mice had healed about as quickly as those of the young mice.

To pinpoint the molecules responsible for the change, Dr. Amy J. Wagers, a member of Rando’s team, and her colleagues found that a protein called GDF11 was abundant in the blood of young mice and scarce in old ones. In the current issue of the journal Science, they report on an experiment on skeletal muscle in mice. They found that GDF11 revived stem cells in old muscles, making old mice stronger and increasing their endurance.

In a study published Sunday in the journal Nature Medicine, Dr. Saul Villeda, a faculty fellow at the University of California, San Francisco, and his colleagues unveiled more details of what young blood does to the brains of old mice.

After parabiosis, they found the neurons in the hippocampus of the old mice sprouted new connections. They then removed the cells and platelets from the blood of young mice and injected the plasma that remained into old mice.

That injection caused the old mice to perform better on memory tests.

Villeda said he was stunned. “To be honest, it’s still pretty insane for me,” he said.

CARL ZIMMER

Nine in Circus Aerial Act Injured When Harness Collapses As thousands of parents and children watched, eight women dangling in the air at a Ringling Brothers and Barnum & Bailey circus performance in Providence, R.I., on Sunday crashed some 30 feet to the ground when the harness from which they were hanging suddenly collapsed.

The eight performers fell atop a dancer in the ring. All nine were taken to a hospital, according to a statement from Feld Entertain-

ment, which owns Ringling Brothers.

Many in the crowd of about 4,000 at the Dunkin’ Donuts Center gasped and screamed when the performers came plummeted.

No spectators were injured, said Peter Gaynor, the director of the Providence Emergency Management Agency, and the injuries to the performers did not appear to be life-threatening, he said.

Seven people were admitted

to Rhode Island Hospital, including one person in critical condition, said Jill Reuter, the hospital spokeswoman. She declined to provide their current conditions, citing privacy laws.

A YouTube video of the accident, an audience member can be heard saying, “Were they supposed to fall like that?”

The next three shows, two on Sunday and one on Monday, were canceled.

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In Brief Gay Bishop to Divorce Bishop V. Gene Robinson, who made history as the first openly gay bishop in the Episcopal Church, has announced that he and his husband are planning to divorce. Robinson, who last year retired as the head of the Episcopal Diocese of New Hampshire, disclosed the breakup of his marriage in a note to other Episcopal bishops and an essay in The Daily Beast, where he is a columnist.

Robinson, 66, became a global lightning rod in 2003, when the diocese elected him as a bishop. His election, and the decision by the Episcopal Church nationally to approve the election results, was controversial because it came at a time when many Christian denominations viewed homosexuality as sinful, and were not ordaining openly gay clergy. (NYT)

Economist Who Won Nobel Dies at 83 Gary S. Becker, a Nobel Prize-winning economics professor and longtime columnist for Business Week whose research illuminated motivations about such aspects of everyday life as marriage, crime, addiction, racial discrimination and birthrates, died on Saturday in Chicago. He was 83. His death, after a long illness, was announced by the University of Chicago, where he was university professor of economics and of sociology. Becker remained active into his late 70s.

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Twin Sisters Reunite After 78 Years Apart It has been 78 years since Ann Hunt and Elizabeth Hamel were last together — in their mother’s womb. The twin sisters were reunited last week for the first time since birth in Fullerton, Calif., thanks to a nudge from their children and help from a psychology professor, the Orange County Register reported Sunday. Hunt, who lives in England, was given up for adoption and only learned she had a twin when she began looking for her birth mother after her adopted mother died. Hamel, who lives in Oregon, always knew she had a twin but says she never thought she would see her. “How lovely to see you in the flesh,” Hamel said, as she embraced her sister at a hotel in Fullerton. (AP)

BUSINESS

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Bloomberg Gains 2 Veteran Political Journalists John Heilemann and Mark Halperin, political journalists known for their detailed, gossip-filled books on the past two presidential campaigns, will join Bloomberg to start a new site that will focus on American politics and policy.

The new project, Bloomberg Politics, is part of a broader strategy put in place by Justin B. Smith, who was appointed chief executive of Bloomberg Media Group last summer after serving as president of Atlantic Media.

Heilemann and Halperin, who are the authors of the best sellers “Game Change” and “Double Down,” are the “epitome of the type of quality journalistic talent that moves seamlessly between different kinds of platforms,” Smith said.

They will anchor a daily television program, as well as write news articles and take part in live events.

A start date for the site has yet to

be set. The site might also expand to include international coverage.

New employees would be hired, though Smith declined to specify a number. Current Bloomberg reporters and editors will contribute, from Washington and New York.

A number of start-up news sites have recently hire brand-name journalistic talent. They include Ezra Klein, formerly of The Washington Post; Nate Silver, formerly of The New York Times; and Glenn Greenwald, formerly of The Guardian,. More established companies, like Yahoo — which has hired Katie Couric — are also seeking increased relevance and readership.

In an interview on Friday, Smith said his goal at Bloomberg was to build “a portfolio of content brands, born of the web but on different kinds of media platforms.” The brands will focus on topic areas

but cut across the various forms of media that Bloomberg offers: television, digital video, print, online, radio and the lucrative financial information terminals whose subscription fees are responsible for 82 percent of its more than $8.5 billion in annual revenue.

In hiring Heilemann and Halperin, Bloomberg has landed two journalists with experience across television, print and digital media. Heilemann had been at New York magazine, and Halperin at Time. At ABC earlier in his career, Halperin founded and edited the political blog The Note.

“Mark and I have known Josh and Justin for a long time,” Heilemann said of Josh Tyrangiel, the editor of Bloomberg Businessweek, and Smith.“This is a chance to do something we’d never be able to do again.”

RAVI SOMAIYA

Hedge Fund Asks S.E.C. to Delay Trading Disclosures David Einhorn, the billionaire hedge fund manager whose stock picks are closely watched on Wall Street, is not a big fan of so-called copycat traders who simply latch onto his ideas — especially when it costs his investors money.

Last November, in a previously undisclosed letter to the Securities and Exchange Commission, Einhorn asked for a seven-day delay in disclosing that his fund, Greenlight Capital, was amassing a stake of 47 million shares in Micron Technology, which makes memory chips.

Einhorn’s firm said it needed to keep its buying secret — and kept out of a regular quarterly report that most money managers file

with the agency — to prevent a surge in Micron shares.

“Mirror trading by ‘copycats’ could lead to unwarranted volatility and inflated prices in the security,” a representative for Einhorn’s firm wrote in the Nov. 14, 2013, letter, which was obtained via a Freedom of Information Act request.

Einhorn’s request to the S.E.C. for confidential treatment illustrates the zealous approach some managers in the $2.7 trillion hedge fund industry take when it comes to keeping their trading positions out of the public eye. But it also reflects the risk that can come with being a money manager like Einhorn, who has cultivated press coverage over

the years when it suits his interests.

Paul G. Hodgson, a principal at BHJ Partners, a corporate governance consulting firm, said money managers were taking advantage of what he called a “loophole” in the confidential treatment process that enables them to keep positions secret until the S.E.C. decides on the request. He said managers might be less inclined to take advantage of the loophole if the S.E.C. moved faster in reviewing requests.

“It is a little hypocritical of money managers to exploit that loophole because they want press attention when it serves their interests,” Hodgson said.

MATTHEW GOLDSTEIN

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In Brief New Podcasts Start On Slate on Monday The digital magazine Slate will start two new podcasts on Monday: The Gist, with the former NPR reporter Mike Pesca, its first daily podcast intended to deliver news and opinion to afternoon drive-time listeners, and Money, hosted by the financial writer Felix Salmon. Slate’s additional investment in podcasts comes as other news publications have shrunk their podcasting offerings in favor of video programming. Andy Bowers, the executive producer of Slate’s podcasts, says podcasting is entering a new golden age, with popular shows by the comedian Marc Maron and the sportswriter Bill Simmons bringing new listeners to the medium.

(NYT)

Powerade Dropping Disputed Ingredient Coca-Cola is dropping a controversial ingredient from its Powerade sports drink, after a similar move by PepsiCo’s Gatorade last year. The ingredient, brominated vegetable oil, had been the target of a petition by a Mississippi teenager, who questioned why it was being used in a drink marketed toward health-conscious athletes. The petition on Change. org noted that the ingredient is linked to a flame retardant and is not approved for use in Japan or the European Union. This week, bottles of Powerade in fruit punch and strawberry lemonade flavors being sold in several major cities no longer list the ingredient. (AP)

Advertisers Are Seeking a ‘Second Screen’ Connection With Viewers In recent episodes of “Game of Thrones,” viewers have seen scenes of theft, rape, infanticide, cannibalism, beheading, crucifixion, castration, incest, murder and dismemberment.

While taking all this in, perhaps they would like to think of a snack, beer or cleaning product, too?

The popular HBO series about a bloody civil war in a mythical feudal land reaches a coveted demographic of younger, wealthier viewers. But with no televised advertisements during the show, companies are trying to reach viewers through their smart-

phones, tablets and laptops with Twitter and Facebook posts.

This is “second-screen advertising,” a rapidly flourishing marketing trend. More than 80 percent of smartphone and tablet owners use their devices while watching television, according to Nielsen.

And in trying to reach these multitasking viewers who keep one eye on the show and the other on social media, advertisers are making up the rules as they go.

When it comes to “Thrones,” the show’s 14 million viewers have proved irresistible to consumer companies — but the program’s

serious subject matter has posed a challenge for advertising teams.

Take one Twitter post by Bud Light: “Arriving late to a party might work for Arya, but not for bandwagon fans,” it said, referring both to the series’s johnny-come-lately viewers and to a child who arrives at a castle just after the massacre of her family.

Humor has tended to generate better responses on Twitter and Facebook, the two biggest platforms for second-screen ads. Many posts have punned on popular refrains from the show. References to dragons and death abound.

Tim Horton’s, the Canadian coffee and doughnut chain, showed a basket of pastries decorated like dragon eggs accompanied by the words “Mother of Donuts.”

“Your customers are still watching television, and the ones that watch it with a second screen are more engaged than those who don’t,” wrote Michael Guay of Deloitte Digital in an analysis of the market. “But that engagement shifts away from the television during commercials. Syncing your ad with the second screen keeps the viewer engaged.”

ANNIE LOWREY

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BUSINESS

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

New Ideas in Lighting Get Closer to Market

Tumblr Founder Stands by Its Sale

WOBURN, Mass. — Since government regulations began phasing out the traditional light bulb in 2012, the once-simple visit to the lighting aisle has become an exercise in navigating a dizzying array of choices and terminologies, especially for new kinds of compact fluorescents and LEDs. Now, those choices are about to become even more complicated. Two start-up companies are poised to begin selling bulbs that use entirely different technologies — one borrowed from heavy industry and the other from old-fashioned televisions — but meet the new energy standards.

Whether they can capture customers who remain stubbornly wedded to incandescent light is anybody’s guess. But that both have come this far is an indication of how unsettled the consumer lighting market remains, despite years of promotion for the new energy-saving options.

“It’s going to be a really long putt to try to replace the incandescent,” said Mark Rea, director of the Lighting Research Center at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute.

“People hate change of any kind. ” Now, at a small lab here, just outside Boston, a glass artist in dark goggles blows specially designed tubes, one tiny component of a new bulb to be called Finally. A few yards away, a scientist examines

Overseeing the bake-out process on the Finally light bulb, made by a start-up near Boston.

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multicolored graphs representing the spectrum of colors the bulb emits. And in a corner, dozens of the lights glow upside down, part of the company’s internal quality control.

It is all part of the quest of John Goscha to build a better light bulb.

His start-up, which has hired engineers from established light makers like Osram Sylvania and Philips, shrank an electronic apparatus to a three-inch antenna wrapped in copper wire. That creates a magnetic field inside the bulb that prods mercury to produce ultraviolet light, which in turn creates visible light when it interacts with a special phosphor coating the glass.

Goscha plans to sell the bulb for $8, making it competitive with some of the cheapest LEDs. But its path is not yet cleared.

Take, the Vu1, a bulb that was

supposed to come to market more than three years ago. It was available for a time, but had production problems and was withdrawn.

William B. Smith, the company’s chief executive, said it is only now ready to begin shipping to stores.

The Vu1, which will be available first for use in recessed fixtures, uses a technology like that of cathode ray tubes in televisions, a “state-of-the-art 1940s technology,” Smith said, in which electrons hit a cocktail of phosphors on the glass, which then glows.

“Twenty years from now, we’ll walk into a room and OLED is going to be covering your entire ceiling and it’s going to dim automatically and it’s going to be able to figure out your mood and it’s great,” Smith said. “Thanks, Captain Kirk. But we’re not there.”

DIANE CARDWELL

When Yahoo bought Tumblr for $1.1 billion a year ago, it sent a ripple of excitement — and anxiety — through the tech industry. Would Yahoo and its chief executive, Marissa Mayer, breathe new life into Tumblr? Or would Yahoo smother the start-up, as it did after acquiring GeoCities and Flickr?

So far, the worst fears have begun to dissipate. Tumblr, a microblogging platform, has more than doubled its staff to 220, and its audience continues to grow, up 22 percent in the last year, to 40 million visitors a month, according to comScore.

“The most terrifying thing to me was that this would change the company in any way,” David Karp, Tumblr’s founder and chief executive, said in a recent interview. “But almost a year in, they have lived up to everything they promised.”

Still, the coupling has not yet solved the major issue that has long stumped Karp and Tumblr: How to generate significant revenue growth from the service.

“The stakes are as high as they’ve ever been,” said Karp, 27. He said the pressure was not coming from the “mother ship,” but from “proving that we can be a great, great business.”

JENNA WORTHAM

A Key Player in a Scandal, Feeding the Media’s Appetite Words are sometimes no match for pictures. So when I suggest that V. Stiviano may understand and avail herself of the current American media culture better than anyone, it is The Media worth taking a look equaTion at our subject.

Now, it is V. Stividavid Carr ano’s world and we are just staring at it.

She describes herself on her Instagram profile — 175,000 followers and counting — as “Artist, Lover, Writer, Chef, Poet, Stylist, Philanthropist.” She might want to add “practitioner of applied media philosophy.”

Stiviano, 31, is the woman whose voice appears on the mysteriously leaked tape on which Donald Sterling, the owner of the Los Angeles Clippers, is heard making racist comments. And she is the one who has grabbed a page out of the Daft Punk play-

book and obscured her face with a shield. Well played, V. Stiviano.

Interviewed from behind the shield outside a Los Angeles restaurant, she said she was pretty sure where this was all going: “One day, I will become president of the United States of America.”

If so, she will probably have to lose the mask at some point.

If you wanted to see into how all the components of the modern media ecosystem interact, you could not come up with a better real-time experiment than the Sterling story. Leaked tape, gossip site, social media storm, mainstream media frenzy, confessional interview with Barbara Walters, celebrity intervention — it’s all there, down to the basketball court on the yacht of the tech billionaire Larry Ellison, and the speedboat that trails behind him to pick up stray balls.

Think of it as a expression of

contemporary American greatness.

This one ticks all the boxes, including the most inflammatory one: In spite V. Stiviano of all the talk about a post-racial America, no topic moves the needle like race.

It had sex as well. Although Sterling is married and is said to be 80 years old, his soured relationship with Stiviano, reported to be his mistress, proved his undoing. (Her lawyer denies they had a romantic relationship.)

And all this happened in Los Angeles, the epicenter of pop culture. Still, no one in Hollywood could devise a script this perfect.

“This is a story that was tailor-made for the Internet age,”

said Neetzan Zimmerman, editor in chief of Whisper, a social network built on confessions.

For Sterling, the Internet is now a microwave oven, and he is on the wrong side of the glass.

V. Stiviano put him there. They would seem to have little in common, but it struck me that they were both exemplars of the American capacity for reinvention.

Both have legally changed their names. Sterling was born Donald Tokowitz, but switched his surname because it resonated with success. Maria Vanessa Perez re-branded as V. Stiviano, perhaps because she knew it would sound better in the reality show that is unfolding before us.

Even before her handiwork unfolded, Stiviano seemed to know she was destined for big things.

“One day I will look back at Instagram,” her profile reads, “& say, ‘I’ve been there & I’ve done that.’ ”

ARTS

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Rush for Deals Before Top Art Goes to Auction ‘Spider-Man 2’ In many ways this year’s spring auctions, which begin on Tuesday, follow a familiar pattern: hefty catalogs, more and more art to sell, the promise of multimillion dollar prices for blue-chip names.

But a close reading of those jumbo catalogs shows that at least half of the postwar and contemporary art so lavishly pictured has a committed buyer already lined up — before the auctioneer even steps onto the podium.

Thanks to the growing number of collectors willing to spend more than $25 million on a single work of art, along with the increasing perception of art as investment, this season more buyers are jumping at the chance to put bids in early, becoming what are called guarantors of desired works.

Auction house experts and seasoned collectors see this rush to get into the mix as fueling a speculative fever more typical of day trading on the Nasdaq than the once-refined pastime of buying art for aesthetic pleasure. Many of today’s new buyers, these sources say, are more interested in the art of the deal than in the art itself.

At auction time, if the final price is higher than the one promised by the guarantor, that person makes money — around 20 percent of the difference, which can translate into millions of dollars in profits. If the guarantor’s offer is higher, he or she goes home with the art.

“It’s a win-win situation,” said Abdallah Chatila, a contemporary

Some critics say the frenzy to lock up artworks in advance is making auctions a system in which much of the magic has disappeared. “When I started 25 years ago, collecting was romantic, but it’s not anymore,” said Philippe Ségalot, a former Christie’s expert who is now a private dealer. “Today it’s become business and guaranANDREW COWIE/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES tees are just part of the equation.”

Jeff Koons’s stainless steel train filled This spring, dealwith bourbon attracted attention from ers familiar with their the hedge-fund billionaire Steven A. collections say David Cohen and the comedian Steve Martin.

Ganek, the former hedge fund managart collector who lives in Switzer- er, is believed to be parting with land and who has guaranteed two a Twombly and a Warhol; Steve artworks at Christie’s May sales. Wynn, the casino magnate, a de “I really want both works, and if Kooning; and Ronald O. Perelman, they sell for more than the guaran- the New York investor, a Rothko.

Most of the works have guarantees. tee, it can also be very lucrative.”

On Saturday, among those spotSotheby’s reported $280 million in guarantees as of April 15, over ted perusing the sales — which infour and a half times the $60.2 mil- clude two Monets, multiple Picaslion figure for the first quarter of sos, Jeff Koons’s six-foot sculpture 2013; the proportion from outside of Popeye and his stainless steel parties is still in flux. As a publicly train filled with bourbon, each estraded company, Sotheby’s is re- timated at more than $25 million quired to report guarantees. Chris- — were the hedge-fund billionaire tie’s, which is privately owned, is Steven A. Cohen, the comedian not, but officials confirmed it has Steve Martin, the cosmetics heir $400 million in guarantees to sell- Ronald S. Lauder and his wife, Jo ers this season, of which $300 mil- Carole, and the financier Donald B. Marron.

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Swings Not Soars

LOS ANGELES — “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” took in $92 million over the weekend, ushering in Hollywood’s all-important summer blockbuster season and validating a sizable gamble by its maker, Sony Pictures Entertainment.

With estimated production and global marketing costs of roughly $400 million, no movie this summer will cost more. And few releases will carry more baggage: Sony already has two more “Amazing Spider-Man” sequels in the works and is planning at least two spinoffs.

So far, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” is holding up to the extreme pressure — by a thread.

Compared with those for its predecessor, reviews were sharply worse. The sequel’s North American weekend total was on the low end of prerelease estimates and a bit softer than the opening gross delivered last month by “Captain America: The Winter Soldier.”

Sony called the results “spectacular” and “phenomenal,” noting that “The Amazing Spider-Man 2” has taken in an additional $277 million overseas in three weeks of release, a stout total.

“We’re well on our way, exactly where we need to be,” Rory Bruer, Sony’s president of worldwide distribution, said in an interview on Sunday. “The holds overseas have been absolutely terrific — the picture has been hanging in there like a rock from week to week, and I expect the same thing here in the U.S.” Booked into a total of 4,324 locations over the weekend, “The Amazing Spider-Man 2,” directed

by Marc Webb and starring Andrew Garfield and Emma Stone, had no competition in new wide releases. About 43 percent of all ticket sales came from 3-D screenings, including at Imax theaters and other large-format auditoriums.

Sony has been positioning the PG-13 “Amazing Spider-Man 2” as a family film, perhaps in part because the coming weeks are relatively bereft of major movies that fit that description. The next big release is “Godzilla,” from Warner and Legendary Entertainment, which thunders into theaters on May 16 and is expected to be, well, a box office monster — even if this version of the radioactive lizard is too fat, as Japanese fans have been loudly complaining.

BROOKS BARNES

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JOURNAL

Libertarians Trail Meter Readers, Telling Town: Live Free or Else expired meters before $5 tickets can be written, and leave a business card saying that “we saved you from the king’s tariff.”

Welcome to Sherwood Forest, N.H., where these acts of charity are part of a broader effort by two-dozen activists, most of them from someplace else, to unshackle Keene from the “violent monopoly” of government and its enforcers. The matter of parking has become so contentious that a third parking officer, an ex-soldier who served in Iraq, quit last year because, he says, he could no longer take the videotaping and the taunts that “I had condoned the droning of brown babies.” So contentious the mayor, the city manager and the city attorney all declined even to say hello.

KEENE, N.H. — In most places, the parking enforcement officer reflects the municipal compact. Armed only with a gadget that can spit out a ticket at the forgotten drop of a dime, the officer quietly serves civic and commercial life by ensuring that meters are fed.

In most places, yes. But not in Keene, a city of 24,000, where parking officers figure in a philosophical tug of war between a band of activists who live by the motto “Free Keene,” and the great majority of residents who were unaware that their city was in bondage.

Keene’s two parking officers, both women, are often videotaped by young adults known as “Robin Hooders.” They track the whereabouts of the officers by two-way radio, feed

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The situation became even more surreal, with Keene hiring a private investigator to follow and videotape the activists following and videotaping the enforcers.

But some local residents are speaking out in their stead by challenging the activists through a Facebook page with the unwieldy name of “Stop Free Keene!!!” One of its organizers, Andrea Parkhurst Whitcomb, is asking the relative newcomers a fundamental question: “Who asked you to come free us?”

The activists selected this city of 24,000 for liberation mostly because it lies within that flinty bastion of Yankee individualism known as New Hampshire, where “Live Free or Die” is carved into the collective granite.

In 2003, a libertarian-leaning group called the Free State Project decided this state could be a liberty lover’s paradise if enough like-minded people settled here. A dozen years in, the project is about three-quarters of the way toward achieving its goal of having 20,000 people commit to relocating to the state. One of the “early movers,” Ian Freeman, a Floridian, set out to push local buttons.

There have been marijuana gatherings in the central square. Make-believe drinking of alcohol at City Council meetings. Leafleting outside public schools. And many video-recorded encounters in which the activists are the faux-innocent heroes of their narratives, holding accountable the employees of a government they do not generally recognize.

Freeman said that some in the larger Free State Project disapproved of his tactics, but he has no remorse. “We’ve brought millions of dollars of press coverage.”

Still, the imperfect municipal compact of Keene has been around since 1753, and things have a way of sorting themselves out. A local man is facing charges that he chased and threatened two Robin Hooders. And city officials are considering raising the cost of parking in the Shire of Keene, to 50 cents an hour.

DAN BARRY

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OPINION

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

A Better Economy, Still Far From Good The good news from last week’s economic reports is this: April was the best month for job growth in quite a while. Employers added 288,000 jobs, bringing the average for the last three months to a respectable 238,000.

But let’s keep this milestone in perspective: Wages remained flat, nearly 10 million unemployed people are looking for jobs, and millions more have become so disenchanted that they have given up on finding work altogether.

That the unemployment rate fell to 6.3 percent in April from 6.7 percent a month earlier is due mainly to the fact that the number of people looking for jobs fell. The percentage of Americans 16 and over who are working or looking for work was just 62.8 percent, the lowest level since the late 1970s.

Moreover, even if job growth continued at last month’s solid, steady pace, the country would not have a labor market as healthy as the one it had before the recession started in December 2007 until the end of 2016, according to calculations by Heidi Shierholz of the Economic Policy Institute in Washington. Put differently, it would take the economy nine years to recoup the jobs lost during the recession plus those needed to employ new workers during the slow recovery.

The economic recovery that began in June 2009 has been the weakest the country has experienced since World War II, according to an analysis by the Federal Reserve Bank of Minneapolis. But it did not have to be. Lawmakers

in Washington have repeatedly undermined the recovery by emphasizing deficit reduction rather than economic growth.

The lawmakers have also stood in the way of proposals that would have helped the unemployed and workers at the lowest rungs of the economy.

To take two recent outrages, the Republican-controlled House has refused to take up a measure passed by the Senate that would reinstate extended unemployment benefits to people who have been out of work for six months or more. The long-term unemployed make up more than one-third of everyone who is classified as unemployed — those out of work and looking for a job — but helping them strikes legislators like Tom Cole of Oklahoma as “pie in the sky.”

And last week, Senate Republicans blocked a vote on a bill that would have raised the federal minimum wage to $10.10 an hour, from $7.25 an hour, which would help the working poor while providing a much-needed boost to the economy. But Sen. Lamar Alexander, R-Tenn., would have you believe that giving the poorest workers a raise is a “stale, bankrupt, ineffective policy.”

People like Cole and Alexander speak as if the formal end of the recession five years ago put everything right. But everything is not right for the millions of Americans whose jobs, wages and livelihoods disappeared in those dark days.

Are Pap Smears on the Way Out? Women who want to be screened for cervical cancer have just received a new option — and a new quandary. The venerable Pap smear, which has been the only screening tool to look for cancer in asymptomatic women for many decades, now has a rival, a genetic test that looks for the viruses implicated in causing cervical cancer.

Adding a new option seems a positive development. Yet some critics have opposed using the new test as a primary screening tool lest it displace the Pap test, which has been credited with cutting the incidence and death rate from cervical cancer sharply in recent decades.

The Food and Drug Administration recently approved the new test, which detects the DNA of the human papilloma virus, or HPV, which causes almost all cases of cervical cancer.

The test, developed by Roche, is performed on a sample of cells taken from the cervix. It identifies 14 types of HPV that pose the highest risk of causing cervical cancer. The Pap test involves examining a cervical sample under a microscope to look for abnormalities that might be cancer or precursors of cancer.

Which test is better?

The F.D.A. made no comparative judgment.

It said a well-designed study by Roche provided reasonable assurance the test was safe and effective when used as a primary screening tool.

An advisory committee had unanimously recommended the F.D.A. approve the Roche test to be used for primary screening. The test has been used in conjunction with Pap smears or as a follow-up test when the Pap results were ambiguous. An advisory panel in Australia has said an HPV test would be more effective, save more lives and be just as safe as a Pap test.

HPV testing has some advantages over Pap tests. The study showed that it was better able to detect precancerous lesions and a better predictor of whether a woman who tested negative would remain free of lesions for the next three years. It is also more objective than Pap tests, which rely on the judgment of health professionals viewing slides under a microscope.

However, a coalition of 17 consumer, women’s and health groups opposed the approval on grounds that the new test had not been adequately tested, will create confusion and might lead to expensive, invasive, potentially harmful follow-up procedures. The HPV test can cost twice as much as a $40 Pap smear.

The test is not expected to replace Pap smears in the United States any time soon. Professional societies must develop guidelines on when and how to use it. But it is welcome news that an effective new screening test for cervical cancer is available should women prefer that option.

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CHARLES M. BLOW

Eye-for-an-Eye Incivility The botched Oklahoma execution of Clayton Lockett has called our continued use of the death penalty in this country back into question. In many ways, the death penalty is an abhorrent attempt to sate an irrational cultural bloodlust, rooted in vengeance and barbarism and detached from data.

To be sure, Lockett was no angel. He was convicted of first-degree murder for shooting a young woman, Stephanie Neiman, and watching as accomplices buried her alive. And according to The Associated Press: “In addition to the murder charge, Lockett was found guilty of conspiracy, first-degree burglary, three counts of assault with a dangerous weapon, three counts of forcible oral sodomy, four counts of first-degree rape, four counts of kidnapping and two counts of robbery by force and fear. The charges were after former convictions of two or more felonies, according to the court clerk’s office.”

Those sentenced to death have often been convicted of heinous, nearly unspeakable crimes. But is state-sponsored eye-for-an-eye justice truly a mark of a civilized society? How do we not, as a culture, descend to the same depravity of the person who takes a life — or multiple lives — when we, in turn, take the murderer’s life? Do our haphazard attempts to rid the world of evil imbue us with it?

Lockett’s execution was by all accounts a gruesome affair, as he gasped and writhed on the gurney, a vein collapsed and he suffered a heart attack. How does a death like this pass constitutional muster, with our guarantee against “cruel and unusual punishment”?

Our continued use of the death penalty does not put us in good company. According to a 2014 report from Amnesty International, “only nine countries have continuously executed in each of the past five years — Bangladesh, China, Iran, Iraq, North Korea, Saudi Arabia, Sudan, U.S.A. and Yemen.”

Unfortunately, the death penalty is part of this country’s blood memory. According to a chart published last week by Time magazine and derived from data collected by M. Watt Espy, John Ortiz Smykla and the Death Penalty Information Center, America has executed 15,717 people since 1700, most of them hanged. The peak year for executions was 1935 with nearly 200 people put to death. In 2014, 20 people have been put to death, all by lethal injection.

Even steps toward remedying the problem raise questions. As Prof. Jeffrey A. Fagan of Columbia Law School put it, “As states across the country adopt reforms to reduce the pandemic of errors in capital punishment, we wonder whether such necessary and admirable efforts to avoid error and the horror of the execution of the innocent won’t — after many hundreds of millions of dollars of trying — burden the country with a death penalty that will be ineffective, unreasonably expensive and politically corrosive to the broader search for justice.”

We are standing on the graves of the executed, and it is not a morally elevated position.

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SPORTS

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

Swat at the Buzzer Seals Game 7 for the Nets

Hamlin Is Victorious

TORONTO — As seconds ticked off the game clock here Sunday afternoon, Kyle Lowry was scampering away from Deron Williams and Kevin Garnett, desperate to find any free NETS 104 space to fling RAPTORS 103 up a final shot.

Brooklyn wins Lowry disseries, 4-3 covered an opening that seemed not to exist, slipping between two players and skipping into the paint, as Paul Pierce was trying to regain his balance under the basket, having taken a whack from Patrick Patterson. There were mere milliseconds remaining on the clock, and the Nets were leading the Toronto Raptors by 1 point, when Lowry released the ball.

Exactly one year ago, Williams and the Nets were ingloriously dumped from the playoffs, losing a brutal Game 7 in Brooklyn

against the Chicago Bulls. At that time, Garnett and Pierce were still Boston Celtics, themselves 24 hours removed from a first-round loss, and had little knowledge of where they might end up.

Twelve months later, they were wearing a different uniform but still together, wanting more.

Pierce, able to gather his weight, lunged forward to challenge Lowry’s shot and got his left palm on the ball, sending it back the other way as the buzzer sounded. He punched the air and screamed while the crowd at Air Canada Centre stood stunned. For several seconds, the only audible sounds came from the Nets dancing on the court, celebrating their 104-103 Game 7 victory, which earned them a trip to the Eastern Conference semifinals to face the Miami Heat.

“We’re still trying to earn our respect — as a team, as a fran-

chise, the city of Brooklyn,” Pierce said after the game. “It’s so gratifying to get the Game 7 that they didn’t get last year.”

ANDREW KEH SPURS 119, MAVERICKS 96 Tony Parker scored 32 points, and the host San Antonio Spurs led by as many as 31 on their way to 119-96 victory over the Dallas Mavericks on Sunday, closing out a tense first-round series in seven games.

Manu Ginobili scored 20 points, Danny Green added 16, and Tim Duncan and Kawhi Leonard each had 15 for San Antonio, the top seed in the Western Conference.

The Spurs advanced to face the fifth-seeded Portland Trail Blazers, who upset the Houston Rockets in a six-game series that ended Saturday.

Dirk Nowitzki had 22 points and 9 rebounds to lead the eighth-seeded Mavericks.

(AP)

Schedule Takes Toll on Rangers as Penguins Tie Series PITTSBURGH — The Rangers played their fourth game in six days on Sunday, and it looked as if the workload had caught up to them. Unable to keep up with a Pittsburgh PENGUINS 3 team intent RANGERS 0 on making Series is tied, 1-1 them expend precious energy, they lost, 3-0.

The Rangers return to Madison Square Garden on Monday night with this second-round best-ofseven series tied at a game apiece.

With Game 3, the Rangers will become the first N.H.L. team in 25 years to play five playoff games over a seven-day stretch.

They have insisted that all the

high-pressure hockey is not a strain, but it did not look that way in Game 2. Their power play went 0 for 4, extending its streak without a goal to 29 tries.

Henrik Lundqvist, who had 32 saves, was finally beaten halfway through the game on a goal from defenseman Kris Letang.

The puck bounced in off the stick of Dan Girardi, who was trying to break up a pass by Letang.

Lundqvist gave up a second goal with 3 minutes 30 seconds left in the game, while the Penguins were on a power play. Jussi Jokinen scored on a rebound, but Lundqvist very nearly caught it as he stretched across the crease. Evgeni Malkin

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added an empty-net goal with 54 seconds to play. JEFF Z. KLEIN BLACKHAWKS 4, WILD 1 Bryan Bickell Bickell had a goal and two assists, and host Chicago beat the Minnesota Wild, 4-1, on Sunday to take a 2-0 lead in a Western Conference semifinal series.

Brandon Saad scored his first two goals of the postseason, and the Blackhawks earned their sixth consecutive win. Corey Crawford made 18 saves.

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Denny Hamlin won the Aaron’s 499, holding onto the lead when a late caution ended the race. (AP)

A.L. SCO R E S SATURDAY’S LATE GAMES Cleveland 2, Chicago White Sox 0 Detroit 9, Kansas City 2 L.A. Angels 5, Texas 3 SUNDAY Chicago White Sox 4, Cleveland 3 Tampa Bay 5, Yankees 1 Oakland 3, Boston 2, 10 innings Minnesota 5, Baltimore 2 Detroit 9, Kansas City 4 Seattle 8, Houston 7 Texas 14, L.A. Angels 3

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SPORTS JOURNAL

MONDAY, MAY 5, 2014

Mayweather Sticks His Jabs and Punch Lines LAS VEGAS — Already annoyed that the discourse after his latest victory had veered toward a controversy over his opponent’s gloves, Floyd Mayweather Jr. shot a stiff glare at Analysis a man who shouted at him during his postfight news conference Saturday night.

Marcos Maidana, Mayweather’s opponent, was told he could not wear the gloves he originally intended to wear. But it was the unexpected yell, not the question, directed at him that had Mayweather’s full attention.

He made the man identify himself, and when the man said he belonged to Maidana’s camp, Mayweather laid in, “Ain’t never fought a day in his life, and if he did fight, he’ll never get to this level.”

The legion of Mayweather fans filling the ballroom began to cheer, and the welterweight champion seized on the moment, realizing that his congregation was getting fired up.

If Maidana had won, Mayweather continued, “We wouldn’t be talking about the gloves.”

During Saturday night’s news conference, Mayweather, 37, commanded the center of a wide, three-row-deep dais packed mostly with members of his team. He did most of the talking, told Maidana when to step to the microphone and speak, and

(35-4) to give Mayweather much of a challenge. But from the opening bell, Maidana, 30, charged at Mayweather, pushing him against the ropes and roughhousing him throughout the fight with holds, head butts, JOHN GURZINSKI/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES wayward blows Floyd Mayweather Jr., right, landed a right and looping shots.

Mayweather did to Marcos Maidana’s temple on Saturday. not dance around the ring as much as usual, instead called up Maidana’s trainer when electing to stand toe-to-toe with he needed an interpreter. He Maidana and exchange shots. interrupted when he wanted to Asked whether the fight change the direction of the conagainst Maidana was the toughversation and verbally swatted est of his career, Mayweather away hecklers. joked, “Toughest wrestling He was by turns charming: match.”

“Congratulations on the new Maidana supporters at the baby; she’s beautiful,” he told news conference took exception.

Maidana. And sarcastic: “I One Buenos Aires native began thought that I was a boxer and shouting at Mayweather. he was a W.W.E. wrestler.” And “Anybody who’s from a differangry, “Put the ring back up,” he ent place than you is wrong and said, adding that he would give you are always right,” the man Maidana a rematch right then. said to Mayweather.

The area where Mayweather “Sir, I never said that,” Maydid most of his manipulation on weather said. “I never said Saturday night, though, might I’m right. Sir, my hands do the have been in the ring. Few extalking.”

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In Brief Rangers Shell Angels Tyler Skaggs knew he wasn’t going to be around for long Sunday after throwing 36 pitches in the first inning and giving up three runs. In fact, it turned out to be the shortest of his 19 major league starts. The Los Angeles Angels’ left-hander lasted 2 ‚ innings, surrendering six runs, eight hits and three walks in a 143 loss to the Texas Rangers. (AP)

Holmes Ekes Out Win More than two years after undergoing brain surgery, J. B. Holmes is a winner again on the PGA Tour. Holmes made it harder than he needed to on the final hole at Quail Hollow until rapping in a 3-foot bogey putt for a 1-under 71 and a one-shot victory over Jim Furyk in the Wells Fargo Championship in Charlotte, N.C. (AP)

Giants Sweep Braves Brandon Crawford homered twice, and the San Francisco Giants beat Atlanta, 4-1, on Sunday to complete a three-game sweep that extended the Braves’ losing streak to six — their longest since dropping eight straight in May 2012. Madison Bumgarner (3-3) struck out nine as the Giants won their fifth in a row.

(AP)

Nets Know How to Beat the Heat: Unconventionally If there has been one defining characteristic of the Nets since Brook Lopez went down for the season, it is flexibility. Coach Jason Kidd has done well to make Analysis the most of what he has, but this flexibility is possible only because of the Nets’ physical skill sets and intelligence. Not only do the Nets have players like Paul Pierce and Shaun Livingston, who can fulfill a variety of needs and defy traditional definitions of their positions, they have a team smart enough to adjust on the fly.

This is crucial against their second-round opponent, the twotime defending champion Heat, because the Nets cannot compete with LeBron James and crew on Miami’s terms. The Nets need a measure of guerrilla tactics to unsettle their opponents.

The Nets’ unconventional mixture of talent and savvy has

already resulted in the first 4-0 season series sweep of the Heat since James joined Dwyane Wade and Chris Bosh in Miami.

But every game was competitive.

Only one was decided by more than a single point, and that game went to double overtime. Furthermore, Wade, the star guard, played in only two of the four. But it is hardly a fluke that the Nets succeeded against the Heat.

Miami employs systems of play with rigid rules, especially on defense. The Heat fly around the court and swarm relentlessly, but in predictable patterns. The system is designed to attack ball handlers, especially in pick-androlls, and create havoc where the offense wants to impose order.

The Heat are more aggressive on defense than almost any team in the league, but they can get away with it because of their personnel. Not only do James,

Wade and Bosh cover the entire court with fast strides and long arms, they also are as quick mentally, often reading the next pass before the offense does. Still, the Nets have ways of punishing the Heat’s disruptive defense.

The most straightforward way of avoiding what the Heat do best is to forgo running pick-and-rolls by throwing the ball to the post.

Shaun Livingston and Deron Williams enjoy size advantages on their Heat counterparts, and there are times when Miami’s Shane Battier will be overmatched covering Joe Johnson.

Wherever their advantage lies, the Nets excel at finding and exploiting it. To capitalize on mismatches, the Nets keep a 3-point threat at power forward, whether that’s Pierce or Mirza Teletovic.

Against the Heat, Johnson, Livingston and Pierce all exceeded their season scoring averages.

The Heat, too, prize flexibility, and after a week off following a first-round sweep, the Heat will be prepared for the unique challenge posed by the Nets.

That is why, to have a real chance, the Nets must stay nimble and unconventional. If James and company, like great sluggers, see the same pitch too many times, they will hit it out of the park.

The best policy is no strict policy.

James can decode any defense, so keep changing the cipher.

The Heat have grown as a team. Once an awkward mix of supreme talents, James, Wade and Bosh now complement one another. Accounting for free throws and 3-pointers, all three Heat stars had career-best shooting seasons. Each year, they have refined the system. The Nets hope their unorthodox brand of basketball can throw a wrench into it.

BECKLEY MASON

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS

Some Education and Training Applications down May 3 and 18 PENSACOLA, Fla. (NNS) -- As part of the Naval Education and Training Professional Development Technology Center’s (NETPDTC) annual Continuity of Operations Plan (COOP) test, three large Navywide applications will be offline beginning at approximately 8 a.m. Saturday morning May 3 and Sunday morning May 18.

The outages will occur as systems transfer production processing to and from their alternate COOP location onboard the Naval Service Training Command in Great lakes, Illinois.

“Critical systems for the Naval Education and Training Command regularly exercise their ability to function prop-

erly at the COOP location,” said David Schisler, director of operations and infrastructure for NETPDTC. “The outages will be fairly short as systems transfer and remain active in Great Lakes until they return operations to Saufley Data Center two weeks later.”

According to the Naval Education and Training Command’s (NETC) Chief Information Officer (CIO) Robyn Baker, the COOP testing is vital for the training enterprise to function as a result of outside interruptions.

“The data center services NETC training around the world and the annual tests verify that the systems will function properly at the COOP location in the event of a hurricane, disaster, or other emergency,” said Baker.

“We’ve scheduled the transfers on weekends to minimize the impact to our customers.”

Applications which will be unavailable May 3 and 18 include:

- Navy E-Learning (NeL/ETMDS) - Fund Administration and Standardized Document Automation (FASTDATA) - Corporate enterprise Training Activity Resource System (CeTARS) For more information about the Naval Education and Training Professional Development Technology Center, visit https://www.netc.navy.mil/ netc/netpdtc/.

Additional information about the Naval Education and Training Command is available by visiting https://www.netc. navy.mil.

USNS Spearhead Completes Series of Africa Partnership Station Engagements

By U.S. Naval Forces Europe-Africa/U.S. 6th Fleet Public Affairs

ATLANTIC OCEAN (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy’s first-inclass joint high-speed vessel USNS Spearhead (JHSV 1) left the U.S. 6th Fleet area of operations, May 2, after more than three months of operating in the European and African theaters.

Since entering the theater in late January, Spearhead conducted maritime security operations in the Mediterranean, participated in multinational maritime exercises Saharan Express and Obangame Express, conducted a bi-lateral maritime law enforcement operation, and delivered more than 22.5 tons of humanitarian supplies

under the U.S. Navy’s Project Handclasp program.

“I am extremely proud of the work Spearhead has achieved in theater, primarily for her efforts in supporting Africa Partnership Station and the pillars that program represents,” said Vice Adm. Phil Davidson, commander, U.S. 6th Fleet, who recently visited the ship during a port visit in Gabon. “I commend the Sailors and civilians who performed superbly over the course of their work here in U.S. 6th Fleet. They accomplished a wide range of mission sets and had a positive impact on maritime security.”

In addition to the Express

series exercises, Spearhead conducted Africa Maritime Law Enforcement Partnership (AMLEP) with Ghana, patrolling Ghanaian waters with an embarked boarding team consisting of Ghanaian navy and marine police personnel, a Ghana fisheries agent, and members of a U.S. Coast Guard law enforcement detachment. The combined

boarding team boarded three vessels fishing illegally, and the fisheries agent recorded six infractions under Ghana fisheries regulations.

“Missions like AMLEP showed just how important those types of activities are to partnerships and maritime security,” said Capt. Marc Lederer, Africa Partnership Station mission commander embarked on Spearhead. “The civilian mariners and military detachment exemplified an outstanding synergy to execute this deployment.”

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WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

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