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LOCKED AND LOADED

TR receives more than 1,600 tons of ordnance

L.A.D.I.E.S. Night on TR Real talk from Sailors of all ranks

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Story by MCSA Wyatt Anthony he aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) completed its first weapons onload in more than five years as it took on more than 1,600 tons of ordnance.

The massive onload was the first onload for 85 percent of the Aviation Ordnancemen aboard TR. “We’ve had very extensive training with all of Weapons Department, from G-1, G-2, G-3 and G-4, up to this point to ensure that we are one hundred percent ready for this weapons onload,” said Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Christopher Duff, with Weapons Department. “A lot of our training revolved around maneuvering magazines and other canisters on a forklift, and also some elevator training.”

It took two days for TR to receive the munitions from the dry cargo/ammunitions ship Medgar Evers (T-AKE 13).

“For something of this caliber we have to make sure that we are all getting enough rest,” said Aviation Ordnanceman Airman Jasmine Davis, who participated in her first weapons onload.

“Without enough rest something like this can be a lot more dangerous than it already is.”

Communication from every tier of each department and division was essential to the successful and safe completion of the operation, Aviation Ordnanceman 1st Class Samuel Goodmon, temporarily assigned to TR from Weapons Department G-5 of the aircraft carrier USS Dwight D. Eisenhower said Duff.

(CVN 69), checks munitions brought onboard during a weapons on-load from the “It’s really key that we have everyone talking to each other, dry cargo/ammunitions ship Medgar Evers (T-AKE 13). U.S. Navy photo by Mass whether it is to warn others of an approaching hazard, or the Communication Specialist Seaman Jenna Kaliszewski elevator operators communicating with personnel that deliver our ammo to the magazines,” said Duff. “We have to have that Officer, who supervises the loading of the magazine, to the Team communication so we know what to send down and when to send it Leader, who directs the show, and team members who physically down.” handle the loads of ordnance.

The weapons onload was a coordinated effort between all of “If you take away the weapons, then this is just a big floating Weapons Department’s divisions. From the Quality Assurance Petty airport,” said Aviation Ordnanceman 2nd Class Justin Hilton.

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eadership through Attitude, Discipline, Integrity, Empowerment, and Self-Esteem (L.A.D.I.E.S.) aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) held a mentorship meeting in the ship’s foc’sle May 5.

L.A.D.I.E.S. aims to give young women access to mentorship in a casual rank-free setting.

“As a junior Sailor I didn’t have any senior female leadership to look to,” said Senior Chief Cryptologic Technician (technical) Alyssa Lavers.

“The more that I see [in the Navy the more I think] there is something that can be gained from the direct mentorship of senior females to junior females.”

The senior enlisted personnel have a wealth of knowledge, experience and advice to give junior Sailors, said Lavers. Her goal is to have one meeting every underway and she hopes to increase participation.

“This is not really a directed brief, it’s more about us getting together to talk about trials and tribulations and what we’ve done to get past those obstacles,” said Lavers.

L.A.D.I.E.S. strives to create an environment focused on the personal development of Sailors.

“A lot of people tell me that I’m the big scary senior chief, but in situations like this, we can present ourselves as more approachable rather than trying to fix hair or uniforms that are out of regulations. We can be more mentors and protégés,” said Lavers.

“I didn’t know what to expect, I thought it was going be another [regulations] meeting about what we can and cannot do, but it left me realizing that I am not the only one who has struggled,” said Machinist’s Mate 3rd Class Ashley Colbert.

Sailors came together to share the stories, experiences, struggles and

the challenges they have faced in the Navy.

“It’s a little unnerving standing up and sharing my story but if it helps others, I’m more than willing to do it,” said Lavers.

Sharing their stories motivates Sailors to come together and create an environment rich with knowledge and experience, said Lavers. Each participant brings with them the opportunity to gain a new perspective, one that could change a shipmate’s life.

Senior Chief Cryptological Technician (technical) Alyssa Lavers speaks at a L.A.D.I.E.S meeting in the foc’sle.

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Chinese Giant Will Go Public, Listing in U.S. The Chinese e-commerce behemoth the Alibaba Group filed paperwork on Tuesday in the United States to sell stock to the public for the first time.

“Alibaba is the fastest-growing Internet company in one of the fastest-growing economies in the world,” said Sameet Sinha, an analyst with B. Riley & Company, a boutique investment bank in Los Angeles. “They are like an Amazon, an eBay, and a PayPal.” In the filing, Alibaba said it intended to raise $1 billion in an initial public offering, but the company is expected ultimately to raise $15 billion to $20 billion, which would make it the biggest American I.P.O. since Facebook’s $16 billion offering in May 2012. When it makes its debut on the New York Stock Exchange or the Nasdaq market, Alibaba is expected to have a share price that could value the company at roughly $200 billion. [Page 5] The size of the offering means that Alibaba shares will probably find a home in a broad swath of mutual funds and pension funds, and thus indirectly in the portfolios of small investors around the world.

Wall Street has been eagerly awaiting the Alibaba I.P.O., seeing it as a chance to buy into China’s enormous growth. Online shopping there is expected to grow at an annual rate of 27 percent, according to the iResearch Consulting Group.

Yet the offering will also shine a bright light on a company whose complex web of businesses and dealings may put off potential shareholders. Alibaba warned prospective investors that Chinese laws and regulations are difficult to understand and predict.

American companies like Google and eBay can only dream of making the kind of profit margin that Alibaba enjoys. In the 2013 calendar year, Alibaba had net income of $3.56 billion on revenue of $7.95 billion. That translates into a profit margin of roughly 45 percent. In comparison, eBay mustered a 17.8 percent margin.

(NYT)

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Climate Changes Already Seen In U.S. Major Study Declares That Issue Has Moved ‘Firmly Into the Present’ The effects of human-induced climate change are being felt in every corner of the United States, scientists reported Tuesday, with water growing scarcer in dry regions, torrential rains increasing in wet regions, heat waves becoming more common and more severe, wildfires growing worse, and forests dying under assault from heat-loving insects.

Such sweeping changes have been caused by an average warming of less than 2 degrees Fahrenheit over most of the country in the past century, the scientists found. If greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide and methane continue to escalate at a rapid pace, they said, the warming could conceivably exceed 10 degrees by the end of this century.

“Climate change, once considered an issue for a distant future, has moved firmly into the pres-

ent,” the scientists declared in a major new report.

The report’s region-by-region documentation of changes that are occurring in the United States, and of future risks, makes clear that few places will be unscathed — and some, like northerly areas, are feeling the effects at a swifter pace than had been expected.

Alaska in particular is hard hit. Glaciers and frozen ground in that state are melting, storms are eating away at fragile coastlines, and entire communities are having to flee inland The study, known as the National Climate Assessment, was prepared by a large scientific panel overseen by the government and received final approval at a meeting Tuesday.

The White House wants to maximize its impact to drum up a sense of urgency among Americans about climate change — and thus to build political support for a contentious new climate change regulation that President Obama plans to issue in June.

In the Northeast, the report found a big increase in torrential rains and risks from a rising sea

that could lead to a repeat of the kind of flooding seen in Hurricane Sandy. In the Southwest, the water shortages are likely just a foretaste of the changes to come.

The report did find some benefits from climate change in the short run, particularly for the Midwest, such as a longer growing season for crops and a longer shipping season on the Great Lakes. But it warned that these were likely to be countered in the long run by escalating damages, particularly to agriculture.

One of the report’s most striking findings concerned the rising frequency of torrential rains.

The report found that the eastern half of the country is receiving more precipitation in general. And over the past half-century, the proportion of precipitation falling in very heavy rain events has jumped by 71 percent in the Northeast, by 37 percent in the Midwest and by 27 percent in the South, the report found.

“It’s a big change,” said Radley M. Horton, a climate scientist at Columbia University in New York who helped write the report.

JUSTIN GILLIS

New Kidnappings in Nigeria as U.S. Offers Aid ABUJA, Nigeria — A second kidnapping of schoolgirls in Nigeria’s northeast by Islamist militants put new pressure on the country’s troubled government, which had been hoping to showcase its emergence as Africa’s largest economy this week.

Men suspected of being fighters from the group Boko Haram kidnapped 11 more girls in Nigeria’s northeast, local officials said Tuesday, an intensification of its campaign against female education and the Nigerian government since the abduction of hundreds of schoolgirls three weeks ago.

The spectacle of redshirted protesters in the streets of Abuja, angry at the government for its tepid response to the crisis, put President Goodluck Jonathan under an uncomfortable spotlight as executives from across the world arrived in private jets to attend the Africa meeting of the World

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The mother of a missing girl in Abuja, Nigeria, on Tuesday.

Economic Forum.

The new kidnappings underlined the inability of the Nigerian government to protect civilians from the growing insurgency. Not a single girl has been rescued.

On Tuesday the United States offered to provide a team of experts, including military and law enforcement officers, along with hostage negotiators and psychologists, to assist the Nigerians in

recovering the girls, an offer accepted by the government here.

A viral social media campaign, using the hashtag #BringBackOurGirls, has brought new infamy to Boko Haram, which has been operating in Nigeria for more than a decade. The group’s goal is to radically undermine the secular Nigerian state. The heightening concerns have led to daily anti-government protests, which continued Tuesday with a demonstration outside the defense headquarters here.

In the latest kidnapping, more girls were taken from their homes late Sunday night in the villages of Warabe and Wala, said Hamba Tada, an official in the area. The militants descended from surrounding hills heavily armed, forcing the girls aged 12 to 15 into an 18-seater bus and warning locals not to alert the authorities. ADAM NOSSITER

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INTERNATIONAL

In Brief Vatican Says It Ousted 848 Priests in Decade The Vatican has dismissed more than 800 priests for sexual abuse of children in the past decade and paid billions of dollars in compensation, senior Vatican officials told a United Nations panel on Tuesday. The disclosures were made on the second day of hearings by a United Nations committee in Geneva reviewing the Roman Catholic Church’s compliance with an international treaty prohibiting torture. Archbishop Silvano Tomasi, the Vatican’s representative in Geneva, told the panel that in addition to 848 priests dismissed between 2004 and 2013, 2,572 members of the clergy had been disciplined for sexual abuse, putting children beyond their reach.

(NYT)

China Detains Activist A prominent civil rights lawyer has been detained by the Beijing police one month before the 25th anniversary of the deadly crackdown on the Tiananmen protest movement, friends and human rights groups said on Tuesday.

The lawyer, Pu Zhiqiang, 49, was summoned by the police on Sunday and formally detained the next day on suspicion of “picking quarrels and provoking trouble,” his associates said. Pu is one of a handful of rights advocates and scholars who met in Beijing on Saturday to discuss the 1989 crackdown. The June 3-4 anniversary of that event in Tiananmen Square is a sensitive period in China, and security officers often detain outspoken activists to prevent them from commemorating the hundreds who died.

(NYT)

Tapes to Be Returned Boston College officials said Tuesday that they would relinquish their secret interviews with former Irish paramilitaries if the interviewees, who spoke years ago under a guarantee of confidentiality, wanted them back. The college, which is the repository for an oral history project on the Troubles in Northern Ireland, was forced by court order last year to give up tapes and transcripts of some of the highly sensitive interviews to the Police Service of Northern Ireland.

(NYT)

Russia Tightens Reins on Internet Dissenters MOSCOW — Russia has taken another major step toward restricting its once freewheeling Internet, as President Vladimir V. Putin quietly signed a new law requiring popular online voices to register with the government, a measure that lawyers, Internet pioneers and political activists said Tuesday would give the government a much wider ability to track who said what online.

Putin’s action on Monday borrowed a page from the restrictive playbooks of many governments around the world that have been steadily smothering online freedoms they once tolerated.

If innovations like Twitter were hailed as recently as the Arab uprisings as the new public square, governments like those in China, Pakistan, Turkey, Iran and now Russia are making it clear that they can deploy their tanks on virtual squares, too.

Widely known as the “Bloggers Law,” the new Russian measure specifies that any site with more than 3,000 visitors daily will be considered a media outlet akin to a newspaper and be responsible for the accuracy of the information published.

Besides registering, bloggers can no longer remain anonymous online, and organizations that provide platforms for their work such as search engines, social

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networks and other forums must maintain computer records on Russian soil of everything posted over the previous six months.

“This law will cut the number of critical voices and opposition voices on the Internet,” said Galina Arapova, director of the Mass Media Defense Center and an expert on Russian media law.

Putin has already used the pliable Russian Parliament to pass laws that scattered the opposition, hobbled nongovernmental organizations and shut down public protests. Now, riding a wave of popular support after hosting the Winter Olympics and annexing Crimea, he has turned his attention to regulating the Internet.

Aside from the Internet law signed Monday, Putin signed a new profanity law that levies heavy fines for using four common vulgarities in the arts.

The actual impact of the law will not be measurable until after

A new law signed by President Vladimir V. Putin requires popular online voices to register with the Russian government.

it goes into effect on Aug. 1, Arapova said. Punishments start at fines that can reach up to $142,000 or temporarily closing the blog, if the law is actively enforced.

Like the Internet law, the ban on four vulgar words was met with a combination of dismay and derision among artists. (The words, not mentioned in the law either, are crude terms for male and female genitalia, sex and a prostitute.) Many people thought it would be widely ignored, but the very idea that the Kremlin was trying to censor the arts rankled.

“We feel like we are back in kindergarten again when they said, ‘Don’t pee in your bed and don’t eat with your hands and don’t use that word,’ ” said Viktor V. Yerofeyev, a popular writer. “On the one hand the Russian government says the Russian people are the best. On the other hand, it doesn’t trust the people.”

NEIL MacFARQUHAR

As Ukrainian Election Looms, a Campaign for Influence KIEV, Ukraine — Russia and the West maneuvered on Tuesday ahead of a seemingly inevitable clash over Ukraine’s plan to hold a presidential election on May 25 that Western powers view as crucial to restoring stability and that the Kremlin says will be illegitimate, particularly if the government in Kiev cannot first stabilize the country.

From the perspective of Russian officials, allowing an election to go forward when no pro-Russian candidate has a real chance of winning would seriously weaken the Kremlin’s influence in Ukraine.

Russia has made clear that it wants the election to be delayed.

The country’s foreign minister, Sergey V. Lavrov, pressed the point again on Tuesday, insisting the interim government end bloodshed and amend the Constitution to devolve power to the regions, and that it do so before

Ukrainians are asked to choose a new leader. Such changes would presumably address the demands by some pro-Russian separatists in eastern Ukraine for a new system that would weaken the central government.

“Holding elections in a situation where the armed forces are being used against part of the population is rather unusual,” Lavrov said at a news conference in Vienna, where about 30 foreign ministers met to discuss Ukraine.

At the Vienna meeting, the British foreign secretary, William Hague, said that Russian worries about violence were disingenuous as the Kremlin had fed the conflict in Ukraine to undermine the presidential election.

Further complicating the issue, the Ukrainian Parliament decided on Tuesday not to hold a national referendum at the same time as the presidential election. Some leaders

in eastern Ukraine who support the provisional government had proposed holding the two the same day to help defuse tensions.

Ukraine’s interior minister said Tuesday that four government soldiers and about 30 pro-Russian rebels had been killed in clashes a day earlier near the city of Slovyansk. Rebels also forced down a Ukrainian Mi-24 helicopter, which was later destroyed, in the town of Krasny Liman, near Slovyansk.

In a little-reported episode on Monday, the Ukrainian security service said it had seized 1.5 kilograms of contraband uranium from a vehicle in the southern region of Chernovtsy. The car had license plates from Transnistria, the pro-Russian breakaway region of Moldova. Nine occupants of the car were detained, eight Ukrainian citizens and one Russian, according to the Interior Ministry.

DAVID M. HERSZENHORN

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NATIONAL

Sotomayor Finds Her Voice Among the Justices WASHINGTON — “I am a lawyer’s judge,” Justice Sonia Sotomayor said last year. “I write very technically.”

That was true at the time. But something has changed in the current Supreme Court term.

In opinions concerning human rights abuses, the death penalty and affirmative action, Sotomayor has found her voice.

“She’s setting a public agenda,” said Cristina Rodriguez, a law professor at Yale. “And her willingness to talk about how biography informs judgments challenges a lot of people’s notions about what the law is supposed to do.”

Sotomayor, 59, is a kind of folk hero to the adoring crowds who attend her public appearances by the thousands. Her memoir was a best seller. Some call her “the people’s justice.”

Others attacked her in unusually personal terms after she became the first beneficiary of affirmative action to defend the practice from the Supreme Court bench, sum-

marizing in emphatic tones her 58-page dissent from a decision upholding Michigan’s ban on using race in admissions Justice Sonia decisions at the state’s public Sotomayor universities.

“Race matters,” she wrote, “because of the slights, the snickers, the silent judgments that reinforce that most crippling of thoughts: ‘I do not belong here.’ ” National Review called the dissent “legally illiterate” and “a case study in the moral and legal corrosion that inevitably results from elevating ethnic-identity politics over the law.” Linda Chavez, a New York Post columnist, said Sotomayor was “unable to divorce her legal reasoning from her own sense of racial grievance.”

Both articles said Sotomayor’s reasoning was of a piece with her

most famous comment, made in a 2001 speech as a federal appeals court judge. “I would hope,” she said, “that a wise Latina woman with the richness of her experience would more often than not reach a better conclusion than a white male who hasn’t lived that life.” At her 2009 confirmation hearings, Sotomayor disavowed the remark, saying it was a “rhetorical flourish that fell flat.”

Sotomayor seems eager to tangle with Chief Justice John G. Roberts Jr. She called his views on race “out of touch with reality.”

In her Supreme Court opinions, Sotomayor has introduced a new vocabulary. She was the first to use the term “undocumented immigrant.” In her recent dissent, she proposed another change.

“Although the term ‘affirmative action’ is commonly used to describe colleges’ and universities’ use of race in crafting admissions policies,” she wrote, “I instead use the term ‘race-sensitive admissions policies.’ ” ADAM LIPTAK

In Missouri Politics, Deeper Partisan Divide Emerges JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. — Last September, Gov. Jay Nixon, a Democrat, pulled off a political long shot: He lobbied so successfully against a tax-cut bill championed by the Republican-controlled Legislature that the lawmakers were unable to override his veto.

This week, the Republicans struck back. Banding together in the final days of their legislative session, the Republicans overrode Nixon’s veto of a new tax bill and passed a $620 million income tax cut.

The move came only weeks after some Republicans in the House flirted with an effort to impeach Nixon. One lawmaker said

the governor was guilty of misconduct for allowing same-sex couples to file joint tax returns; another said he took too long to hold special elections to fill legislative vacancies.

Timothy Jones, the House speaker, said in a statement minutes after the House vote on Tuesday that the override “showed Missourians why they elected a Republican supermajority to the Missouri Legislature.”

The legislation will cut the top individual income tax rate to 5.5 percent, from 6 percent, starting in 2017, provided state revenue is growing. It also provides a 25 percent deduction for business income reported on personal tax returns.

After the override vote, Nixon, who has warned that the tax cut would hurt efforts to pay for education and downgrade the state’s credit rating, issued a statement calling the legislation “a very real threat to the principles of fiscal discipline that have helped us maintain our spotless AAA rating for decades.” Moody’s downgraded Kansas’ credit rating last week, citing its recent tax cuts and pension liabilities.

In an interview, Nixon struggled to come up with another time that his relations with the Legislature had become so unfriendly.

“People tend to posse up in the last two weeks,” he said. “It feels pretty partisan.”JULIE BOSMAN

Establishment Republicans See Victory in Senate Primary WASHINGTON — In a boost for establishment Republicans and their hopes to gain control of the Senate, Thom Tillis won the North Carolina primary on Tuesday, avoiding a potentially contentious runoff by capturing more than 40 percent of the vote.

Tillis, the State House speaker, will now be able to focus his campaign on Sen. Kay Hagan, the first-term Democrat who polls

suggest will be vulnerable in what is expected to be one of the nation’s costliest Senate races.

Buoyed by support from mainstream Republican groups, Tillis held an advantage from the start over his two biggest challengers, Greg Brannon, a libertarian-leaning physician, and Mark Harris, a Baptist pastor. With nearly 90 percent of precincts reporting, Tillis had received 46 percent of the

vote, while Brannon had 27 percent and Harris 18 percent.

Tuesday was the beginning of a busy spring primary season, with elections scheduled nearly every week over the next two months.

Many of the Republican contests will feature a Tea Party-versus-establishment dynamic, which will offer insight into which faction is faring better with party loyalists.

JONATHAN MARTIN

In Brief Kansas G.O.P. Inquiry The F.B.I. is investigating fund-raising and lobbying activities of associates of Gov. Sam Brownback of Kansas, an inquiry that follows his efforts to consolidate control of the state’s Republican Party during his first three and a half years in office. Since as early as 2012 and as recently as last month, the F.B.I. has been interviewing former lawmakers and lobbyists in Topeka about whether some of Brownback’s current staff members and former aides-turned-lobbyists acted improperly in soliciting campaign contributions and clients, according to two Kansas Republicans.

They said they have been questioned by an F.B.I. agent based in the Kansas capital. The governor has denied wrongdoing. (NYT)

Bills to Rein in N.S.A. Senior members of the House Judiciary and Intelligence committees have agreed on similar but rival bills that would restrict the National Security Agency’s ability to collect Americans’ phone call data in bulk. The Judiciary Committee is expected on Wednesday afternoon to mark up and pass a compromise version of a bill sponsored by Rep. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. It has the support of several top lawmakers of both parties on that panel. The Intelligence Committee is expected to mark up and pass a similar bill on Thursday, staffers said.

Both bills would curtail the government’s ability to collect bulk records about Americans. (NYT)

Lewinsky Interview Monica Lewinsky says there’s no question her boss — Bill Clinton — “took advantage” of her when he was president. But she says their affair was consensual and if there was any abuse involved, it came afterward, when Clinton’s inner circle tried to discredit her and the president’s opponents used her as a political pawn. The former White House intern, now 40, writes about her life in the next issue of Vanity Fair magazine, out this month. In released excerpts, she said she was perhaps the first Internet era scapegoat and wants to speak out on behalf of other victims of online humiliation.

(AP)

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BUSINESS

Bayer to Buy Merck’s Consumer Care Business saw opportunity in global expansion of some of Merck’s most popular products in the United States — like Claritin, Afrin and Coppertone. He said about 70 percent of Merck’s consumer products sales were in the United States.

The purchase price of $14.2 billion includes a payment related to the sales of Claritin and Afrin in countries where those drugs are available only by prescription.

The deal is the latest in a series of blockbuster transactions this year in the pharmaceutical industry, as drug makers look to bolster their existing product lines or shed underperforming assets in noncore business lines.

Last month, the Swiss pharmaceutical giant Novartis and GlaxoSmithKline of Britain agreed to swap more than $20 billion in assets, including combin-

ing Novartis’s over-the-counter pharmaceutical business with Glaxo’s consumer drug business.

The combined Novartis-Glaxo consumer business would be a potential rival to Bayer’s overthe-counter business after the Merck transaction, with products that include Novartis’s Excedrin pain reliever and Maalox antacid, as well as Glaxo’s Aquafresh toothpaste and Nicorette gum.

Dekkers said the Bayer and Novartis-Glaxo deals highlighted a broader trend in the consumer products industry as players increasingly seek bargaining power with major drugstore chains like Walgreens and CVS. “Shelf space is important, and the bigger you are, the better you can negotiate with those people,” he said.

CHAD BRAY and KATIE THOMAS

‘Frozen’ Helps Lift Profit for an Energized Disney LOS ANGELES — The stunning success of “Frozen,” surging theme park spending, strong merchandise sales and higher fees for ESPN combined to deliver quarterly results for the Walt Disney Company that were nothing short of spectacular.

Even the ratings-challenged ABC and Disney’s turbulent video game division delivered solid growth.

Disney on Tuesday reported net income for its fiscal second quarter of $1.92 billion, or $1.08 a share, an increase of 27 percent from $1.51 billion, or 83 cents a share, in the same period a year earlier. Excluding one-time items, Disney had earnings in the current quarter of $1.11 a share —

billed by Robert A. Iger, Disney’s chief executive, as “the highest in the history of the company.’’

Analysts had been expecting 96 cents a share.

An animated princess musical, “Frozen” has taken in $1.18 billion worldwide since opening in November, and the “Frozen” soundtrack has become the biggest hit of the season, selling nearly 2.5 million copies in the United States and ranking No. 1 on Billboard’s album chart 12 times.

Iger said “Frozen” now ranks as one of the top five franchises in terms of revenue, putting it up there with the likes of “Toy Story” and Winnie the Pooh.

As a result of “Frozen,’’ Walt

Disney Studios reported operating income of $475 million, up from $118 million a year earlier.

The studio also got a boost from strong DVD and digital sales of “Thor: The Dark World.”

Disney’s largest division, Media Networks, which includes ESPN, the Disney Channel and ABC, delivered operating income of $2.13 billion, a 15 percent increase.

Operating income at Walt Disney Parks and Resorts totaled $457 million, a 19 percent improvement from the year-earlier period. The results were hurt by the timing of Easter, which moved related family vacations into Disney’s third quarter.

BROOKS BARNES

Twitter Plunges as Shares Hit Market From Early Holders SAN FRANCISCO — Shares of Twitter went into free fall on Tuesday, as early investors became eligible to sell their shares on the market for the first time. The company’s shares dropped 17.8 percent, to close at $31.85, their lowest level since Twitter’s initial public offering in November.

Young companies that go public typically restrict employees and investors from selling stock for a period of time to prevent the market from being inundated with shares. The end of that period can dampen share prices.

In Twitter’s case, that end arrived in concert with growing concerns about the microblogging company’s ability to capture a mainstream audience.

On Tuesday, 480 million shares owned by insiders became eligible for sale.

Robert Peck of SunTrust Robinson Humphrey estimated that as many as 200 million newly released shares could soon enter the market. The prospect of all that new stock flooding the market triggered a frenzy of selling. About 135 million shares traded hands, 10

times the normal volume.

Shares of Twitter initially sold for $26 and then nearly tripled by December, to $75 a share, even as Twitter had yet to turn a profit.

But in the last few months, concerns over user growth have cut the company’s stock price in half.

In its two quarters as a public company, Twitter has disappointed Wall Street, posting anemic user growth numbers even as revenue more than doubled in the first quarter, to $250 million.

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LONDON — The German drug maker Bayer said on Tuesday that it had agreed to acquire Merck’s consumer care business for $14.2 billion, a deal that will make Bayer one of the largest providers of over-the-counter products.

Bayer gains control of several well-known brand names, including Claritin, Coppertone and Dr. Scholl’s.

Merck will make an upfront payment to Bayer of $1 billion as part of the agreement, to be followed by payments of up to $1.1 billion for achieving sales milestones.

Bayer’s chief executive, Marijn E. Dekkers, said the company jumped at the chance to buy Merck’s consumer portfolio because Bayer was looking to enlarge its already significant consumer products line. Dekkers said he

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BUSINESS

After Huge Payday, a Test for Yahoo Executives SAN FRANCISCO — For Yahoo, the initial public offering of stock in the Alibaba Group will unlock the door to a giant trove of cash. Depending on the price of the deal, Yahoo likely will receive $10 billion to $15 billion for its 9 percent stake in the Chinese e-commerce company.

The I.P.O. will also bring an end to the honeymoon of Yahoo’s chief executive, Marissa Mayer. Since she was hired in the summer of 2012, investors have paid little attention to her efforts to revive Yahoo and instead focused on what would happen with Yahoo’s longstanding investments in Alibaba and Yahoo Japan.

At Yahoo’s current stock price of $36.49, some analysts say investors are buying those foreign investments and getting Yahoo’s core operations free.

When Alibaba begins trading as a public company, however, that crutch will disappear. Mayer will then have to prove to Wall Street that she has a viable plan to save Yahoo and will use the Alibaba windfall wisely.

“What do you do with that money?” asked Robert S. Peck, an analyst with SunTrust Robinson Humphrey, who estimates that Yahoo will end up with about $8 billion after taxes.

Analysts predict that Yahoo will spend a large portion of the proceeds from the Alibaba stock sale to buy back shares of Yahoo.

A buyback would in theory make the company’s shares more valuable because each remaining share would have a slightly bigger claim on Yahoo’s business.

Yahoo is likely to keep the rest of the money for acquisitions, adding to the $2.9 billion in cash and short-term liquid investments it already has.

Under Mayer, Yahoo has made dozens of tiny acquisitions, and one large one — the $1.1 billion purchase of Tumblr last May. In recent months, rumors have swirled that Yahoo was sniffing at larger prey, like Snapchat or an online video service that would help it compete with Google’s YouTube.

Yahoo Japan operates independently from Yahoo, which owns about 35 percent of the company. Yahoo’s stake is worth about $9.2 billion.

During an April conference call to discuss the company’s first-quarter financial results, Yahoo’s chief financial officer, Kenneth A. Goldman, suggested that the company would look more closely at international acquisitions as a way to CUN SHI bolster the company’s foreign presence.

Whatever Yahoo does, shareholders want some assurance that it fits a broader strategy, Peck said. “Don’t waste our money,” he put it. “Don’t pay $17 billion for something with no revenue, like WhatsApp,” the instant-messaging service bought

by Facebook for roughly that sum early this year.

When Alibaba begins trading as an independent stock, many investors who bought Yahoo as a proxy for the fast-growing Chinese company will simply buy Alibaba directly.

Those who continue to buy Yahoo, analysts say, will expect Mayer and her top executives to show better results from its business of delivering Internet services and advertising to 800 million users a month.

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Big Profits at Alibaba, but Many Unknowns in Filing The Alibaba Group opened its books on Tuesday, revealing a company raking in extraordinary profits from its vast online marketplaces in China.

Despite a parade of impressive headline numbers, investors may find themselves struggling to see how real its earnings are.

The company says, for instance, that $248 billion worth of goods were sold on its marketplaces in 2013, an amount more than that of Amazon and eBay combined. And Alibaba’s revenue grew 57 percent in the first nine months of 2013, a faster rate than at Facebook.

More important, Alibaba’s profit margins will generate envy across Silicon Valley. The strong figures are encouraging some stock analysts to value the company north of $200 billion, which

would be higher than I.B.M.’s stock market capitalization.

To put their own price on Alibaba, investors will most likely try to compare it against other technology companies. That may be difficult. While Alibaba shares characteristics of some wellknown tech names, it is, over all, quite unlike any of them.

Like Amazon, Alibaba dominates its home e-commerce market. But, unlike Amazon, it does not amass large amounts of inventory. Instead, it merely matches buyers and sellers.

Alibaba is growing faster than eBay, Facebook and Google. Its revenue surged 57 percent in the first nine months of last year.

Compared with those American companies, Alibaba has far less revenue. But what gets investors excited is how much

profit it earns on those sales. Alibaba’s operating profits in the first nine months of 2013 totaled $3.1 billion, which was equivalent to 48 percent of revenue — a margin that is far higher than at Google, eBay and Amazon.

Still, investors seeking to fully understand Alibaba may feel short-changed. For one, the company did not provide crucial numbers that would allow outsiders to better gauge the performance of the two online marketplaces that generate nearly all of its revenue.

Alibaba makes most of its money from two major websites that dominate e-commerce in China.

Taobao is a hectic-looking online bazaar where consumers can buy almost anything. The other is Tmall, a more streamlined marketplace where well-known brands are sold. PETER EAVIS

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Tuesday: Merck & Co. Inc., down $1.52 to $57.11.

Bayer will spend more than $14 billion to acquire the company’s non-prescription medicine and consumer care business.

Twitter Inc., down $6.90 to $31.85.

Stock lock-ups that had prevented insiders from selling shares expired, sending the stock of the social media company to a new low.

Office Depot Inc., up 66 cents to $4.83.

The retailer will close at least 400 stores as its merger with OfficeMax resulted in an overlap of store locations.

The Hillshire Brands Co., up $1.22 to $36.52. The packaged meat company beat per-share projections by a dime after raising prices to offset the rising cost of pork and beef.

Athenahealth Inc., down $17.57 to $109.21. Hedge fund manager David Einhorn said investors have vastly overvalued the software maker, saying its shares could plunge 80 percent.

Discovery Communications Inc., down $3.06 to $74.71. Higher costs overseas overshadowed better-than-expected profit as well as strong revenue numbers from the cable channel company.

(AP)

DINING

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Squid: Make It Tender, Make It Quick If you are a calamari fan and you also care about choosing sustainable seafood, look no further.

Get thee to a fishmonger and buy some squid. It won’t set you back much; a pound of City KitChen squid costs only DaviD tanis a few dollars.

By rights, something that tastes so good should cost a lot more.

At the fish stand, a gorgeous pile of fresh squid, pinky-purple speckled skin glistening and eyes bright, is a sight to behold. I always think fresh is better, but frozen squid is a perfectly good option, if not as picturesque.

Most people buy squid already cleaned and ready to cook anyway. This means it has been gutted, scraped and rinsed, then divided into bodies (or tubes) and tentacles, both of which are delicious.

Squid is adaptable, willing to take on nearly any sort of seasoning, whether a simple olive oil-garlic-herb marinade or a complex spiced one.

The general rule of squid cookery: Cook it briefly over high heat to keep it tender. Use a wok or sauté pan for a quick stir-fry, or batter the squid for deep or shallow frying. Or try squid grilled over hot coals.

Though classic fried calamari with marinara sauce is tempting, it may be best experienced in

The secret to great squid frying is to keep the oil at the proper temperature and never crowd the pan.

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a rowdy tavern. At home, with cocktails or pinot grigio, you may want to serve fried squid with a hit of Chinese five-spice powder for a change of pace, so tasty it needs only a squeeze of lime.

The secret to great frying is to keep the oil at the proper temperature and to never crowd the pan. An exhaust fan is nice, too.

Five-Spice Crisp-Fried Squid Time: 45 minutes Yield: 4 to 6 servings 1 › pounds cleaned squid, bodies cut crosswise into 1-inch pieces, tentacles halved Vegetable oil, for frying 1 cup cornstarch ⁄ teaspoon cayenne 1 teaspoon kosher salt › teaspoon black pepper › teaspoon five-spice powder 1 or 2 serrano chiles, split lengthwise and sliced thinly crosswise Cilantro sprigs, for garnish

Lime wedges, for serving 1. Rinse squid well in cold water, then drain well and pat dry with kitchen towels.

2. Heat 2 inches of vegetable oil in a wok or cast-iron pan. Adjust heat to maintain 375 degrees.

3. In a medium bowl, stir together cornstarch, cayenne, salt, black pepper and five-spice powder.

Set bowl near stove.

4. Dip squid pieces into cornstarch mixture, one by one, and immediately slip carefully into hot oil. Let fry, making sure not to crowd the pan. (Use 2 pans or work in batches if necessary.)

Turn pieces with tongs to ensure even cooking. When squid is lightly browned, after about 2 minutes, remove pieces and blot on paper towels.

5. Transfer squid to a serving bowl and sprinkle with chiles.

Garnish with cilantro and serve with lime wedges.

In Brief Houston Pralines, Now Traveling A dozen sugary pralines come nestled in a gift box as an indulgent Mother’s Day gift. It’s the first time these pralines, served at Brennan’s of Houston, have been sold outside of the restaurant. Their texture is velvety and somewhat soft, and they are truly irresistible: $24.99 plus shipping from Brennan’s of Houston, brennanshouston.com.

(NYT)

Cronut Inventor Wins Award Dominique Ansel, whose pastry shop in SoHo gave us the Cronut, was named outstanding pastry chef by the James Beard Foundation. The awards for chefs, restaurateurs and other food and drink professionals were announced Monday evening at a gala presentation at Lincoln Center, and New York winners were more scarce this year than last. Garrett Oliver of Brooklyn Brewery won in the wine and

spirits category, and Sirio Maccioni of Le Cirque was recognized for lifetime achievement. Outstanding restaurateur was Barbara Lynch of Menton in Boston, and best new restaurant was Pêche Seafood Grill in New Orleans.

(NYT)

A Guide At Your Fingertips The “Joy of Cooking” is an app for iPad. As in the book, Joy’s fire-hose of information — how to frost a cake, make salt-cured lemons, field-dress a gut-shot animal — is overwhelming, but the digital design makes it easier to navigate through 4,500 recipes.

(If you’re looking for something specific — say, a lemon dessert — you’ll have to work around the search function, which turns up every recipe that contains lemon.) The app is based on the 2006 edition. Timers, menus, shopping lists and voice control are bundled in, along with color photography, a Joy of Cooking first: $9.99 at the app store.

(NYT)

A Bit of Audacity To Thrive On On a warm night, the door to Dotory is propped open, and cold glasses of barley tea, tasting like toasted water, are handed around. There is soju, too, steeped with dill hungry City and cucumber, cleaner than Ligaya vodka and deadMishan ly, poured into cups so small that the mildest of gestures sends them flying. Jazz piano rustles from the speakers, and then the train crashes by and we all quake awhile.

Dotory is a tiny, mostly serene bastion of quiet eccentricity in the slightly less-trodden environs of southeastern Williamsburg, Brooklyn. Few are the restaurants equipped with both a faux fireplace complete with electric log, and in the bathroom, a thumbtacked Balthus print and a book of paintings by Camille Bombois. Pink-tipped paper lanterns fringe the windows; utensils are slung in Café Caribe cans.

If there’s a wait, you’ll cool your heels outside on a bench fashioned from orange-and-whitestriped traffic barricades.

The owner, Haegeen Kim, a native of Seoul, South Korea, is something of an accidental chef.

After coming to the United States nearly two decades ago for art school, she waited tables at Cendrillon, a Filipino spot in SoHo. When the owners decamped for Ditmas Park, Brooklyn, in 2009, she was asked to join the kitchen at their new restaurant, Purple Yam, where she cooked for three years.

At Dotory, which opened in December, Kim’s best dishes are the ones truest to her heritage.

Pa jun, a thick pancake of rice and tapioca flours, has the requisite crackly borders and a gold mesh on top, with green scallions and chives peeking through. Ask to add seafood, and little bombshells of sweet shrimp come embedded in its gooey insides. It is a dish to soothe a drunk. Of equal splendor is kimchi fried rice mobbed by gochujang-marinated pork and topped with a rakish sunny-side-up egg, the yolk already leaking.

The rest of the menu is a bit of a shrug. But by the end of the evening, the train is a distant rasp.

The patter of jazz has died away, and that murmur from the speakers is “Stayin’ Alive.”

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JOURNAL

Nuns Just Want to Have Fun? Just Listen to This One Sing television show “The Voice.”

There, she belts out a hip-shaking rendition of “No One,” by Alicia Keys, that brings down the house and goes viral on the Internet. Gossip magazines have splashed her on their covers in her habit and featured her in articles.

“It’s a very good piece of content,” said Marco Tombolini, a producer of the program, who has seen its ratings jump. “It just is.”

In Italy few stories match that of Sister Cristina, who is now 25. Both Keys and Whoopi Goldberg, the star of “Sister Act,” the 1992 comedy hit about singing nuns, have offered praise on Twitter. Sister Cristina has since won a “battle round” by outdueling another contestant during a duet of Cyndi Lauper’s

ROME — A true if unlikely tale: Young woman enrolls at a drama school sponsored by nuns, where the artistic director is a former Italian erotic film actress who redirected her career after a religious awakening. The students are selected to perform before the pope at St. Peter’s Square, but during rehearsals the young woman, Cristina Scuccia, fractures an ankle.

Unable to perform, Scuccia, commits to becoming a nun. She travels to Brazil to work with poor children and then returns to Italy to live in a convent in Milan. Except she is still a talented singer, so talented that she wins a Christian singing competition, and then auditions on March 19 for Italy’s version of the

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What once was nothing more than a singing show with mediocre ratings has Cristina become a TV phenomenon Scuccia in Italy, with no shortage of potential story lines: Will Sister Cristina survive until the final round in early June? Will she convert her singing coach — the Italian rapper J-Ax — to Catholicism? And why has her appearance stirred such a huge reaction in Italy and beyond?

“My dream was to be a singer,” Sister Cristina told ANSA, the state news agency. “The Lord has made use of my wish to call me to him, and is taking me to realize my dream in a way that I could have never imagined.”

To some observers, the success of Sister Cristina is another byproduct of the new tone established during the first year of the papacy of Pope Francis. If it once might have seemed inappropriate for a nun to even appear on the show, now the outpouring of public support is seen as more proof of the so-called Francis effect.

“The Voice” still has weeks to go, with the promise of higher and higher ratings when Sister Cristina appears. The “Girls Just Want to Have Fun” program roughly quadrupled the ratings the show had registered before she joined it in March.

After the duet, the decision of which woman would advance, Sister Cristina or the other singer, was left to J-Ax. He chose Sister Cristina. Before his decision, one of the other judges, Raffaella Carrà, praised Sister Cristina and laughingly told her not to worry.

“I’m convinced J-Ax will choose you,” Carrà said. “Otherwise, he’ll go to hell!”

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Nigeria’s Stolen Girls Three weeks after their horrifying abduction in Nigeria, 276 of the more than 300 girls who were taken from a school by armed militants are still missing, possibly sold into slavery or married off. Nigerian security forces apparently do not know where the girls are and the country’s president, Goodluck Jonathan, has been shockingly slow and inept at addressing this monstrous crime.

On Tuesday, the United Nations Children’s Fund said Boko Haram, the ruthless Islamist group that claimed responsibility for the kidnappings, abducted more young girls in the same part of the country over the weekend.

The group, whose name roughly means “Western education is a sin,” has waged war against Nigeria for five years. Its goal is to destabilize and ultimately overthrow the government.

The group’s leader, Abubakar Shekau, said in a video released on Monday, “I abducted your girls. I will sell them in the market, by Allah.”

This is not the first time Boko Haram has attacked students, killing young men and kidnapping young women. The security situation in Northeast Nigeria has steadily deteriorated.

In the first three months of this year, attacks

by Boko Haram and reprisals by government security forces have killed at least 1,500 people, more than half of them civilians, according to Amnesty International. Until now, there has been little response to the violence. But the kidnapping of so many young girls, ages 12 to 15, has triggered outrage and ignited a rare antigovernment protest movement in Nigeria.

On Sunday, after weeks of silence, Jonathan

admitted that “this is a trying time for our country,” and he said that Nigerians were justified in their anger against the government and appealed for international help. The reaction of Jonathan’s wife, Patience, was stunningly callous; according to state news media, she told one of the protest leaders, “You are playing games. Don’t use schoolchildren and women for demonstrations again.”

Boko Haram’s claim that it follows Islamic teachings is nonsense. A pre-eminent Islamic theological institute, Al-Azhar in Egypt, denounced the abductions, saying it “completely contradicts the teachings of Islam and its tolerant principles.” Although Boko Haram is believed to number no more than a few hundred men, Nigerian security forces have been unable to defeat them.

Jonathan initially played down the group’s threat and claimed security forces were in control. It wasn’t until Sunday, more than two weeks after the kidnappings, that he called a meeting of government officials, including the leader of the girls’ school, to discuss the incident. There is no doubt the intelligence and investigation help President Obama offered on Monday is needed.

The kidnappings occurred just as Jonathan is about to hold the World Economic Forum on Africa, with 6,000 troops deployed for security. That show of force may keep the delegates safe, but Nigeria’s deeply troubled government cannot protect its people, attract investment and lead the country to its full potential if it cannot contain a virulent insurgency.

The Global Polio Threat, Back Again Just when it looked as if polio was headed toward eradication around the world, the disease is once again on the march.

The World Health Organization declared on Monday that the spread of polio virus to new countries in 2014 had become “a public health emergency of international concern” that warranted aggressive measures to control transmission. It was timely advice on the eve of what is typically the onset of the high season for transmitting the virus.

Only two infectious diseases have ever been eradicated — smallpox and rinderpest, a viral cattle disease — but there were expectations that polio would soon join them. That hope dimmed when three countries where the polio virus was thought to be bottled up allowed the virus to be carried beyond their borders.

Pakistan, which has the largest number of domestic cases largely because Taliban factions have forbidden vaccinations and attacked health care workers elsewhere, has spread the virus to neighboring Afghanistan.

Syria, rived by civil conflict, has spread cases to neighboring Iraq, and Cameroon has spread cases to neighboring Equatorial Guinea.

The W.H.O. said that residents of these coun-

tries should be vaccinated before traveling abroad and be provided with certificates as proof. The agency has no enforcement powers, but under a 2007 global treaty all three countries are supposedly required to ensure that the recommended steps are taken.

The W.H.O. also named seven other nations as infected with the polio virus but not yet exporting it. These included Afghanistan, Equatorial Guinea, Ethiopia, Iraq, Israel, Somalia and Nigeria. It said these nations should “encourage” their citizens to follow the same procedures. And it urged all nations infected with polio to carry out more vigorous immunization campaigns.

The total number of cases in 2014 is small — 68 as of April 30, up from 24 by that date in 2013.

This is far less than the hundreds of thousands of people who were crippled or killed by the disease every year even three decades ago.

But experts are concerned that the virus could spread to a large number of polio-free nations that are torn by conflicts or have very fragile public health systems. In the meantime, vigorous vaccination efforts, backed by public and private donors, are clearly required in any nation with polio cases.

THOMAS L. FRIEDMAN

Go Big, Get Crazy Up to now, Russia’s president, Vladimir Putin, has been playing a weak hand in Ukraine very well. Putin thinks he knows his adversaries better than they know themselves. He thinks the Americans will never be serious about energy, the Europeans will never be serious about sanctions, the Ukrainian reformers will never be serious about governance.

There has been much talk about President Obama’s “leadership” of late. All I know is that, if Obama wants it, Ukraine provides him an ideal legacy leadership opportunity. With one initiative he could simultaneously make America stronger, Putin weaker, the planet healthier and our grandchildren safer.

Our short-term ability to influence Putin has to rely on targeted sanctions. But the serious way to weaken Putin is with an American domestic grand bargain on energy that unleashes forces that, over time, begin to impact the global price and availability of oil and gas.

Obama should offer Republicans the Keystone XL pipeline, expanded oil drilling and fracking and, in return, demand a revenue-neutral carbon tax, a national renewable portfolio standard that would require every utility in America to gradually introduce more renewable power, and a national building code for energy efficiency.

The White House released a study that found the effects of human-induced climate change impacting every corner of our country, not to mention the world. So such a grand bargain could not be a more timely and necessary win-win-win strategy. It would simultaneously increase our leverage against Putin and Mother Nature. Obama should throw caution to the wind and go big.

But, as I said, Putin thinks he knows us better than we know ourselves. He is not without reason: for decades, both parties in America have failed to develop an energy strategy, and we’ve paid for it — with oil price shocks, wars, pollution and climate change.

And Putin thinks he knows the Europeans better, since so many are beneficiaries of his oil and gas. So far, Europe’s response has been more hand-wringing about Putin than neck-wringing of Putin.

The Ukrainian reformers, too, have a huge role to play. They must find a way to conduct free and fair elections in as much of Ukraine as possible on May 25 and then quickly move to parliamentary elections and constitutional reform to put in place the basis for decent governance. The last thing Putin wants is a fairly elected reformist government in Kiev.

Putin may think he’s Superman, but America, Europe and the Ukrainian reformers collectively have the ability to generate the Kryptonite that would render him powerless: European unity, Ukrainian government legitimacy and U.S. energy. Those are the things of which he is most afraid. What they all have in common, though, is that they’re hard, entail serious choices and will require extraordinary leadership to achieve.

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Heat Snuff Nets’ Hope of an Early Series Edge MIAMI — Before Game 1 of the Eastern Conference semifinals, some wondered whether the Nets might be uniquely suited to be trouble for the Miami Heat.

The Nets were HEAT 107 4-0 against the Heat NETS 86 during the regular Miami leads season. They had series, 1-0 Paul Pierce and Kevin Garnett — longtime rivals and postseason tormentors of LeBron James — on their payroll.

But on Tuesday night, the Heat took those notions and obliterated the Nets, 107-86, in front of a capacity crowd at American Airlines Arena to take a 1-0 series lead.

The previous 25 times in which teams met in a best-of-seven postseason series after one of the teams had gone 4-0 or better against the other in the regular season, the team that had swept the regular-season matchups went on to win the playoff series.

The Nets may struggle to maintain that trend.

Pierce and Garnett were nonfactors, scoring a combined 8 points and shooting 3 for 10 from the field before spending most of the fourth quarter on the bench.

Joe Johnson and Deron Williams led the Nets with 17 points apiece.

The Heat cracked open the game with a 15-2 run in the third quarter. The most rousing play during that stretch came when James drove inside, straight at Andray Blatche, rose up while absorbing contact and rattled the ball in from six feet out. The building filled with noise as the Heat went up by 14 points.

James led the Heat with 22 points to go with five rebounds and three assists. Four of his teammates scored in double figures. The Heat shot 56.8 percent from the floor and scored 52 points in the lane.

After sweeping the Charlotte Bobcats, the Heat had eight days to rest. The Nets had only one day off after their Game 7 win over the Toronto Raptors, which capped an intense opening series.

After raving about the fans in Toronto, the Nets appeared to have somewhat less to worry about in Miami. Seconds before tipoff, Dwyane Wade skipped along the sidelines and gesticulated toward the half-empty stands, receiving only a tepid response.

But it was plenty loud as the Heat delivered their haymakers in the second half.

This series is rich with interpersonal subtext and intrigue. It positions the league’s two-time defending champions against its most expensive team. And it brings one of the game’s best players, James, face to face with Pierce, who has been perhaps his fiercest rival.

ANDREW KEH

Canadiens Make Most of Chances to Top Bruins MONTREAL — P.K. Subban, Dale Weise and Lars Eller each had a goal and an assist, Carey Price made 26 saves, and the Montreal Canadiens N.H.L. beat the Boston Roundup Bruins, 4-2, on Tuesday night to take the lead in their Eastern Conference semifinal playoff series.

Tomas Plekanec also scored for the Canadiens, who were outplayed for long stretches but made the most of quick-strike attacks. The Canadiens are up two games to one, with Game 4 set for Thursday in Montreal.

Patrice Bergeron and Andrej

Meszaros scored for the Bruins, who outshot Montreal 28-26.

For the third straight game, the Canadiens held a 3-1 lead in the third period. This time, they didn’t let it completely slip away.

Tuukka Rask was pulled with 2:20 left to play, and only four seconds later, Meszaros beat Price with a high shot through traffic off a feed from Milan Lucic. But the Bruins failed to get the equalizer in the frantic final minute. Then Eller got loose to score into an empty net with three seconds to go.

WILD 4, BLACKHAWKS 0 Erik Haula and Mikael Granlund scored goals less than 3 minutes apart

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early in the third period, and the Minnesota Wild recovered from a sluggish start for a 4-0 victory over the Chicago Blackhawks on Tuesday in Game 3 of their conference semifinal series. Ilya Bryzgalov made 19 saves in the shutout.

Zach Parise put the exclamation point on the win with a power-play goal and Granlund tacked on an empty-netter with 1:17 left. Chicago leads the series, two games to one.

Game 4 is on Friday in Minnesota.

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Heavyweight Ellis Dies Jimmy Ellis, a heavyweight champion who sparred with an up-and-coming Muhammad Ali and later fought some of the era’s best boxers, died on Tuesday at a Louisville, Ky., hospital.

He was 74. Ellis, who held the W.B.A. heavyweight title from 1968 to 1970, had Alzheimer’s disease in recent years.

(AP)

A.L. S CO RES MONDAY’S LATE GAMES L.A. Angels 4, Yankees 1 Seattle 4, Oakland 2 TUESDAY Cleveland 4, Minnesota 2 Detroit 11, Houston 4 Baltimore 5, Tampa Bay 3 Boston 4, Cincinnati 3, 12 innings

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SPORTS JOURNAL

WEDNESDAY, MAY 7, 2014

Winning Isn’t Everything: Warriors Fire Coach Last year, it was George Karl, Lionel Hollins and Vinny Del Negro. This year, so far, it is Mark Jackson.

Continuing an N.B.A. trend of teams firing coaches after successful, 50-win seasons, the Golden State Warriors fired Jackson on Tuesday, ending a three-year tenure in which the Warriors became one of the better teams in the league.

The move, based more on personality conflicts than on-court coaching acumen, creates an opening to lead a young, rising team led by the All-Star guard Stephen Curry.

Some have speculated that the Warriors are interested in Iowa State Coach Fred Hoiberg.

As with most firings, the team kept the rationale murky. The Warriors were 51-31, their best record in 22 years, and reached the

playoffs for the second season in a row: Golden State’s first back-to-back postseason a p p e a ra n c e s since 1991 and Mark Jackson 1992. Seeded sixth in the playoffs, and missing the injured center Andrew Bogut, the Warriors lost to the Los Angeles Clippers in seven games.

Jackson, 49, had one season left on his contract with Golden State.

But he has had a bristly relationship with management.

The N.B.A., perhaps more than any other major league, has made a habit of firing coaches despite their win totals. In 2013, Memphis fired Hollins after he boosted the winning percentage during each of his full four seasons and the Griz-

zlies reached the conference finals for the first time. Denver fired George Karl after the Nuggets were 57-25, the best record in franchise history.

JOHN BRANCH CLIPPERS OFFICIAL OUT The N.B.A. took another step in trying to clean up from the Donald Sterling scandal, announcing Tuesday that Andy Roeser, the Los Angeles Clippers’ president and Sterling’s longtime lieutenant, had been put on an indefinite leave of absence.

The move was not surprising, given Roeser’s deep ties to Sterling and his statement, which infuriated many inside the organization, attacking the credibility of the woman in the audio recording that captured Sterling’s racist remarks.

When the N.B.A. announced Friday that it would soon appoint a new chief executive for the Clippers, it was apparent that Roeser’s time was nearing an end. (NYT)

Titles, Not Awards, Are What Define the Greats MiaMi Welcome, Kevin Durant, to LeBron James’s world. Enjoy yourself, while being mindful of every competitive stumble.

Someone is liable On PrO to kick you when BasKetBaLL you’re down.

The N.B.A.’s Harvey worst-kept secret Araton since Donald Sterling was revealed to be undeserving of an N.A.A.C.P. award was made official Tuesday when Durant was named the most valuable player for the 2013-14 season.

In claiming 119 of 125 first-place votes, Durant prevented James from winning the league’s most prestigious individual honor for the third straight season.

“He deserved it for sure, big time on his part,” James said.

For those anointed as the N.B.A.’s most gifted and talented, there is only so much patience when it comes to the delivery of a title, only so much time allowed to get everything in order.

Like James, Durant was hailed for leading the Thunder to the finals relatively early in his career, in his fifth year, only to fall in five games to James — a mentor of sorts — and the Heat. Without his injured co-star, Russell Westbrook, he got a pass for losing in the second round last season to Memphis. But the anvil of accountability was about to land on

MARK D. SMITH/USA TODAY SPORTS, VIA REUTERS

Kevin Durant won the M.V.P. award but will face the blame should his team miss the title.

Durant’s head, mocked as he was

by The Oklahoman newspaper as “Mr. Unreliable” for playing poorly last week in a Game 5 defeat to Memphis at home.

Durant, a humble assassin, thanked his critics for motivating him to do better.

“He’s the M.V.P., there’s more expectation now, more pressure on him,” said the Nets’ Shaun Livingston, who played parts of two seasons with the Thunder in 2009.

“But I don’t think he’s a guy that has trouble performing under the lights.”

That said, the Thunder were routed by Chris Paul and the Los Angeles Clippers to open their Western Conference semifinal on Monday night. The shine could

soon come off the trophy.

It wasn’t always this way for N.B.A. elites. Back in the day, Jerry West lost in eight of his nine finals appearances. His nickname, mind you, was Mr. Clutch.

In an expanded and watered-down league, the best players could be isolated and exposed on teams without enough supporting talent. Even on those with greater depth, the standard for how much the franchise star should shoulder was distorted by the shoe-company-affected coverage of the Michael Jordan dynasty in Chicago. Jordan’s more than capable teammates — including the Hall of Famer Scottie Pippen — were derided as the supporting cast, or, worse, as Jordanaires.

If Durant falls short of the finals as the newly knighted M.V.P., he can expect a few unflattering comparisons to James.

And if James should fail to win a third straight title, he will surely be reminded that Jordan did it twice.

“Everybody’s journey is different,” James said when asked about what came with his M.V.P. trophies.

Without elaborating, he sure made it sound like a burden as much as a blessing. Fair or not, it’s the world they live in, the terms of being the chosen ones.

Win it all, or else.

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In Brief Cheerleader Sues Jets The Jets became the fourth N.F.L. team to be sued by their cheerleaders for back wages.

Krystal C., a former member of the Flight Crew, said in a class-action complaint filed in state court in New Jersey that the team failed to pay her for mandatory practices and appearances. Krystal, who did not provide her last name out of safety concerns, was paid $150 a game. When including nonpaid work, she was paid $3.77 an hour, she contended. (NYT)

Teen Leads United James Wilson, 18, made his debut for Manchester United with two goals in a 3-1 victory over Hull in the Premier League on Tuesday, keeping alive the team’s chances of qualifying for the Europa League. United moved 3 points behind sixthplace Tottenham in the race for the final European spot.

(AP)

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS Navy’s Newest Electronic Attack Aircraft Reaches Centennial Milestone ST. LOUIS (NNS) -- The U.S. Navy officers and distinguished visitors from Missouri and Illinois gathered for a ceremony May 5 in St. Louis, Missouri, to celebrate the production of the 100th EA18G Growler.

The Growler, the newest advancement in the Navy’s electronic attack (EA) arsenal, is a variant of the Block II F/A18F Super Hornet and is the Navy replacement for the EA-6B Prowler.

The airborne electronic attack aircraft combines modern advances in Airborne Electronic Attack systems and weapons with the tactical versatility, advancements and capabilities of the Block II Super Hornet.

“The EA-18G Growler is a high demand asset that is equally critical in disrupting our enemies operations as it is enhancing our own,” said Capt. Frank Morley,

By Marcia Hart

program manager for the F/A18 and EA-18G Program Office (PMA-265) during the ceremony at Boeing.

Next week, Capt. Darryl Walker, commander of the Electronic Attack Wing, U.S. Pacific Fleet (CVWP), will accept delivery of the aircraft on behalf of Electronic Attack Squadron (VAQ) 129 in Whidbey Island, Washington, before its transfer

to a designated operational squadron in the fleet.

The Growler is designed to perform an array of airborne electronic attack missions, operating from either the deck of an aircraft carrier or land-based fields, similar to the EA-6B Prowler. Through these capabilities, warfighters may jam or suppress enemy radar and communication systems to protect friendly assets in the air and on the ground.

“NAVAIR (Naval Air Systems Command) is continuing to advance the capabilities of the Growler as the U.S. Navy’s electronic attack mission becomes more robust and potential adversaries up their game with

increasingly lethal air defenses,” Morley said.

With new technologies, such as the Next Generation Jammer (NGJ), the Growler will have greater capabilities in the EA arena then its predecessor.

Currently, the Growler still uses the Prowler’s ALQ-99 Jammer Pods, slated to be replaced with the NGJ in the early 2020s. The NGJ features active electronically scanned array antennas and a lighter, more aerodynamically shaped pod, which can allow for faster airspeed bringing greater lethality and capability to the EA-18G. The EA-18G program remains on the same schedule and cost projected when the program began in 2003, and the aircraft is projected to serve beyond 2040. The Navy accepted its first Growler Aug. 3, 2006.

23 Nations to Participate in World’s Largest Maritime Exercise

By Commander, U.S. Third Fleet Public Affairs

SAN DIEGO (NNS) -- Twentythree nations, 47 ships, six submarines, more than 200 aircraft and 25,000 personnel will participate in the biennial Rim of the Pacific (RIMPAC) exercise scheduled June 26 to Aug. 1, in and around the Hawaiian Islands.

The world’s largest international maritime exercise, RIMPAC provides a unique training opportunity that helps participants foster and sustain the cooperative relationships that are critical to ensuring the safety of sea lanes and security on the world’s oceans. RIMPAC 2014 is the 24th exercise in the series that began in 1971.

Hosted by U.S. Pacific Fleet, RIMPAC 2014 will be led by U.S. Vice Adm. Kenneth Floyd, commander of the U.S. Third Fleet (C3F), who will serve as the Combined Task Force (CTF)

Commander. Royal Australian Navy Rear Adm. Simon Cullen will serve as deputy commander of the CTF, and Japan Maritime Self Defense Force Rear Adm. Yasuki Nakahata as the vice commander. Other key leaders of the multinational force will include Rear Adm. Gilles Couturier of the Royal Canadian Navy, who will command the maritime component, Air Commodore Chris Westwood of the Royal Australian Air Force, who will command the air component, and Marine Corps Maj. Gen. Richard Simcock, who will command the land component. RIMPAC 2014 will also include a special operations component for the first time, to be led by U.S. Navy Capt. William Stevens.

Two nations, Brunei and the People’s Republic of China, will

participate in RIMPAC for the first time in 2014.

Also new at RIMPAC this year are two hospital ships, USNS Mercy and PLA (N) Peace Ark which will participate in the exercise.

The theme of RIMPAC 2014 is “Capable, Adaptive, Partners.”

The participating nations and forces will exercise a wide range of capabilities and demonstrate the inherent flexibility of maritime forces. These capabilities range from disaster

relief and maritime security operations to sea control and complex warfighting.

The relevant, realistic training syllabus includes amphibious operations, gunnery, missile, antisubmarine and air defense exercises as well as counterpiracy, mine clearance operations, explosive ordnance disposal and diving and salvage operations.

This year’s exercise includes forces from Australia, Brunei, Canada, Chile, Colombia, France, India, Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia, Mexico, Netherlands, New Zealand, Norway, People’s Republic of China, Peru, the Republic of Korea, the Republic of the Philippines, Singapore, Thailand, Tonga, the United Kingdom and the United States.

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WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

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GHOSTBUSTERS 2

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SNOW WHITE AND THE HUNTSMAN

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JACK RYAN: SHADOW RECRUIT

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YOUNG FRANKENSTEIN

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