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SPEAK YOUR MIND

TR to take Defense Equal Opportunity Climate Survey

AVOIDING POTENTIAL HAZARDS Supply Department’s S-9 keeps HAZMAT stored safely

Surveying TR’s Command Climate

Story by MC3 Heath Zeigler s there something on your mind? Here is your chance to let your voice be heard by the commanding officer. The Defense Equal Opportunity Climate Survey (DEOCS) will take place aboard the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71) May 12-30. “The survey is a management tool that commanders use to assess their organization’s climate and effectiveness. It is used to identify what is going well within the command and what could use some work,” said Chief Aviation Electrician’s Mate Wayne Buchanan, TR’s command climate specialist. The survey consists of multiple choice questions and “yes or no” questions. Sailors can also share their thoughts in separate comment sections. “The survey is an opportunity for Sailors to voice their opinions directly and anonymously to the commanding officer, whether it’s good or bad,” said Buchanan. The command assessment team will break down the collected data for further assessment once the survey is complete. “This will provide the commanding officer with a snapshot of the areas surveyed and gives [the CO] the opportunity to find ways to continue with what is working right, or correct what might need some attention,” said Buchanan. TR Sailors will receive a password and hyperlink that will direct them to a website where they can take the survey. The anonymous survey is voluntary and takes approximately 30 minutes. Sailors are encouraged to join focus groups after the survey is complete to help brainstorm ideas to improve TR’s climate. “Be open and honest about how you feel the programs are being run,” said Buchanan. “Help us, help you.”

A Necessary Hazard

Story by MCSN William Spears

upply Department’s S-9 division is indispensable to the aircraft carrier USS Theodore Roosevelt’s (CVN 71) Maintenance Material Management (3M) mission. The majority of maintenance performed on TR requires oils or chemicals classified as hazardous materials (HAZMAT) to complete the jobs. “We supply all the maintenance materials required for everyone else to do their job,” said Logistics Specialist 3rd Class Daniel Oropeza. To work with HAZMAT, Sailors must bring a maintenance or paint memo to the HAZMAT office. Memos for HAZMAT issue are required to keep detailed records of the location of all hazardous materials. Personnel must be in proper personal protective equipment (PPE), which includes gloves, goggles or an apron, when issuing or working with HAZMAT. HAZMAT can cause irritation to the skin and eyes, and can produce toxic fumes. The HAZMAT office needs to know where the materials are used to ensure proper ventilation and equipment is in place. “In order to reduce fire risks all materials must be stored a certain way,” said Logistics Specialist Seaman Nicholas Ferrari. The most common item checked out from the HAZMAT shop is paint. Supplies may remain checked out for 24-hours before Sailors must return them to HAZMAT for disposal or re-issue. “Materials must be returned to the HAZMAT shop so that they can be stored and disposed of properly. We offload them when we are in port and turn the materials over to civilian facilities where they are destroyed,” said Ferrari.

From paint used to touch up scratches and dings, to lubricating oils that keep engines and catapults running smoothly, HAZMAT is essential to the ship’s daily operations.

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Syria Rebels Agree to Leave Stronghold PUTIN HITS PAUSE IN UKRAINE CRISIS AMID SKEPTICISM

BEIRUT, Lebanon — Syria’s third-largest city, Homs, was one of the first to hold large demonstrations against President Bashar al-Assad. Protesters there were among the first to take up arms against the state, and the first to suffer indiscriminate bombardment by government forces. Homs long stood as a bellwether for a nation slowly, brutally, unraveling. A diverse community increasingly split along sectarian lines as populations fled, neighborhoods were destroyed and rebels held out in the Old City. On Wednesday, the last insurgent-held neighborhoods of the Old City appeared to be falling to the government, as the last fighters and their families began to evacuate under a deal freighted with symbolism for both sides. The government seeks to prove that through brute force and local talks, it can retake a major urban area. For its opponents, handing over enclaves that withstood a nearly two-year blockade is an emotional blow. But the deal was less than a full victory for the government, or a

complete defeat for the rebels. The fighters were allowed to flee with light weapons to a safe haven where they vowed to continue the battle. The deal did little to head off the Balkanization of the country as both sides refused a broad negotiated settlement to a war that has taken more than 150,000 lives. Even as insurgents fled, their representatives were in Washington pleading for weapons to shoot down government aircraft. And the Syrian government was preparing to reaffirm Assad’s hold on power by staging an election. “We are not asking our friends to send their sons to our country, and we are also not asking for a direct intervention, even one from the air,” Ahmad Assi al-Jarba, who leads the Syrian opposition coalition, said in an interview in Washington on Tuesday night. “We are asking for antiaircraft weapons in order to neutralize these planes, which are throwing the barrel bombs on us,” he added, referring to bombs, used by the Syrian Air Force, made from

barrels filled with shrapnel and explosives. “And we have plans and guarantees that these weapons will not fall into the wrong hands.” If the pact holds, it could be the most complex and far-reaching yet struck between combatants in the conflict. But the agreement offers no comprehensive way forward for a country that has suffered more than three years of fighting and millions forced from their homes. It does nothing to address government opponents’ underlying political grievances, deepened by the crackdown, or the mass displacement of residents. Some fighters wept and kissed the ground before boarding buses escorted by the United Nations, their belongings crammed into the single bag each was allowed, along with one rifle. About 600 of an estimated 1,900 people had left by day’s end, activists said. Many were Homs natives, leaving wrecked homes, dead friends and graffiti reading, “When I leave, be sure that I did my best to stay.” ANNE BARNARD

With Boy Shot, Regret on Montana ‘Castle Doctrine’ MISSOULA, Mont. — Teenagers call it garage hopping. The goal was to sneak into an open garage, steal some beer or other items and slip away into the night. It was dumb and clearly illegal. It was not supposed to be deadly. Around midnight on April 27, a 17-year-old exchange student from Germany named Diren Dede left the host home where he played Xbox and drained cans of Sprite to set off with a friend through his dark hillside neighborhood. They passed a home whose garage door hung partially open. Using a cellphone for light, Dede headed in. Inside the house, motion sensors alerted Markus Kaarma. 29, to an intruder’s presence. Two recent burglaries had put Kaarma and his young family on edge, his lawyer said, and he grabbed a shotgun from the dining room and rushed outside. He aimed into the garage and, according

to court documents, fired four blasts into the dark. Dede’s body crumpled to the floor. While Kaarma has been charged with deliberate homicide, Dede’s death has set off an outcry an ocean away in Germany, exposing the cultural gulf between a European nation that tightly restricts firearms and a gun-loving Western state. In his defense, Kaarma is expected to turn to Montana laws enacted five years ago that allow residents more legal protections in using lethal force to defend their homes. German consular officials have called for justice. In an interview with a German news agency, Dede’s father criticized what he called an American cowboy culture as having contributed to his son’s death. In Montana, which has one of the country’s highest rates of gun ownership, the killing has renewed criticism of the state’s

“castle doctrine” laws. Nearly every state has a law giving residents the legal right to defend their homes, but Montana passed a stronger law in 2009 that placed the burden on prosecutors to rebut claims of self-defense. These laws are expected to play a crucial role in the criminal case that has been filed against Kaarma, who is out on bond and is to be arraigned on Monday. His lawyer, Paul Ryan, says Kaarma feared for his family’s safety and panicked that night. “He doesn’t know who’s there, what they’ve got, anything,” Ryan said. “He just didn’t know what was going on. Then he started to shoot.” Dede’s host parents, Randy Smith and Kate Walker, say they have never locked their doors. “Whatever happened to turning the lights on and yelling, ‘Hey kids, go home’?” Smith said. Walker added, “Or closing the garage door?” JACK HEALY

MOSCOW — President Vladimir V. Putin, faced with rising violence in southeastern Ukraine that threatened to draw in the Russian Army at great cost and prompt severe new Western economic sanctions, pressed pause on Wednesday in what had started to look like an inevitable march toward war. But it remained unclear to analysts and political leaders on both sides of the Atlantic whether he was truly reversing course on Ukraine or if this was just another of his judo-inspired feints. Using a far less ominous tone than in previous remarks about Ukraine, Putin told a news conference at the Kremlin that Russia had withdrawn the troops menacing Ukraine from along the border and that he had asked separatists to drop plans for a referendum on sovereignty this Sunday. Russia would even accept Ukraine’s presidential election on May 25, he said, if demands for autonomy from the country’s east were recognized. Putin said Russia wanted to spur mediation efforts led by the Europeans. He said did not know whether talks between the warring sides in Ukraine were “realistic,” but was determined to give them a chance, in particular a suggestion from Chancellor Angela Merkel of Germany that the factions engage in a round-table discussion. While Western governments welcomed Putin’s apparent about-face, there was also abundant skepticism, based in part on his record in Crimea. Putin repeatedly denied that Russia’s soldiers were involved in the region, only to admit later that they were. A White House spokesman, Josh Earnest, told reporters traveling with President Obama aboard Air Force One that while the United States would welcome a Russian military pullback, “there has been no evidence that such a withdrawal has taken place.” NATO officials confirmed that on Wednesday, saying they saw no troop movements. NEIL MacFARQUHAR

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INTERNATIONAL

Judges Remove Thailand’s Leader BANGKOK — A Thai court on Wednesday ordered Prime Minister Yingluck Shinawatra removed from office, a highly divisive move and a victory for a powerful opposition movement that for six months has sought to overthrow the government. The Constitutional Court ruled that Yingluck abused her power when she transferred a civil servant to another post more than three years ago. The court ordered her to step down immediately along with all members of her cabinet who were in office at the time of the transfer. Yingluck’s party called the decision a “new form of coup d’état.” Leaders of Yingluck’s party quickly announced that a deputy prime minister, Niwattumrong Boonsongpaisan, would become acting prime minister. It was the third time since 2006 that a prime minister representing the political movement founded by Yingluck’s brother Thaksin Shinawatra has been removed by court order. The movement, which has its power base in the provinces, has won every election since 2001 but has antagonized the Bangkok establishment. The court’s decision throws into question elections announced for July 20, which the governing party was expected to win because of its strong support in the northern provinces. The Thai news media reported Wednesday that for security reasons, the judges and staff members of the Constitutional Court would not return to work until Tuesday. THOMAS FULLER

Kidnappings Reveal Schism Among Jihadists ABUJA, Nigeria — As word spread like wildfire on Twitter and Facebook that Nigerian militants were preparing to auction off more than 200 kidnapped schoolgirls in the name of Islam, a very different Internet network started quietly buzzing too. “Such news is spread to taint the image of the Mujahedeen,” wrote one dubious poster on a web forum used by Islamic militants. “I have brothers from Africa who are in this group,” attested another, insisting that they were like “the Quran walking the earth.” Boko Haram, the cultlike Nigerian group that carried out the kidnappings, was rejected long ago by mainstream Muslim scholars and Islamist parties around the world for its seemingly senseless cruelty and capricious violence against civilians. But this week its stunning abduction appeared too much even for fellow militants normally eager to condone terrorist acts against the West and its allies. “There is news that they attacked a girls’ school!” another astonished poster wrote on the same jihadi forum, suggesting delicately that Boko Haram may perhaps be killing too many noncombatants instead of armed enemies. He prayed that God would “hold them steady to the path” of Islam. The dismay of fellow jihadists at the innocent targets of Boko Haram’s violence is a reflection of the increasingly far-flung and ideologically disparate networks of Islamist militancy, which now include the remnants of Bin Laden’s puritanical camps, Algerian cigarette smugglers and a brutal Somalian offshoot.

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In Port Harcourt on Wednesday, Nigerians voiced their displeasure at the failure to rescue abducted schoolgirls. “The violence most of the African rebel groups practice makes Al Qaeda look like a bunch of schoolgirls,” said Bronwyn Bruton, an Africa scholar at the Atlantic Council in Washington. “And Al Qaeda at this point is a brand — and pretty much only a brand — so you have to ask yourself how they are going to deal with the people who are doing things so hideous even the leaders of Al Qaeda are unwilling to condone them.” Boko Haram is in many ways an awkward ally for any of them. Its violence is broader and more casual than Al Qaeda or other jihadist groups. Indeed, its reputation for the mass murder of innocent civilians is strikingly inconsistent with a current push by Al Qaeda’s leaders to avoid such deaths for fear of alienating potential supporters.

That was the subject of the dispute that led to Al Qaeda’s recent break with its former affiliate, the Islamic State of Iraq and Syria. What’s more, Boko Haram’s recruits and targets have always been purely local, not international. And it is centered on a messianic leader who claims to speak with God and demands that its adherents surrender all their possessions to the group, resembling a cult, like Uganda’s Lords Resistance Army, more than it does an orthodox Islamist movement. On Wednesday, as several Western governments prepared to send help to find the kidnapped girls, there were no reports any of any new expressions of support for Boko Haram from Al Qaeda. ADAM NOSSITER and DAVID D. KIRKPATRICK

In Brief Vietnam Confronts Ships Tensions in the South China Sea intensified Wednesday as Vietnamese vessels confronted Chinese ships that were working to place an oil rig off Vietnam’s coast, and Vietnamese officials claimed that their ships had been rammed by the Chinese vessels three days earlier. The skirmishing highlighted the hair-trigger tensions in the region as Asian nations try to contain China’s more aggressive posture in pursuing maritime claims in the South China Sea. (NYT)

Pakistani Activist Shot Dead Rashid Rehman, a veteran Pakistani human rights activist who had received threats for defending people charged under the

country’s blasphemy laws, was shot dead on Wednesday in his office in the southern city of Multan. Rehman’s office assistant and a visitor were seriously wounded and taken to a hospital, the police said. Zulfikar Ali, a senior police officer, said Rehman had received death threats in open court on April 9 for his work on a blasphemy case. (NYT)

from the right-wing fringes of British politics to call for sharp limits on immigration and for exiting the European Union, will perform strongly in the European Parliament elections that start on May 22. It appears poised to outpoll Cameron’s Conservative Party, and it may even vie with the Labour Party for first place in Britain. (NYT)

Populist Party Gains Muscle

2 Put to Death in Gaza Case

Before winning power, Prime Minister David Cameron once called them “fruitcakes, loonies and closet racists,” and a cabinet minister, Kenneth Clarke, dismissed them last year as “clowns.” But the U.K. Independence Party is showing that it cannot be laughed off. Polls suggest that the party, which emerged

The Hamas government on Wednesday executed two men convicted of collaborating with Israel. The killings Wednesday brought to 23 the number of people given the death penalty in Gaza since 2007, including seven gunned down during the eight-day battle between Israel and Gaza in November 2012. (NYT)

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Florida in Eye of Storm Over Climate Change MIAMI BEACH — The sunny-day flooding was happening again. During high tide one recent afternoon, Eliseo Toussaint looked out the window of his laundromat and watched bottle-green saltwater seep from the gutters, fill the street and block the entrance to his front door. “This never used to happen,’’ Toussaint said. “I’ve owned this place eight years, and now it’s all the time.” A new scientific report on global warming released this week, the National Climate Assessment, named Miami as one of the cities most vulnerable to severe damage as a result of rising sea levels. Still, Florida’s politicians, including two possible contenders for the presidency in 2016, are starkly at odds over what to do about it and whether the problem is even real. “The theme of the report is that climate change is not a future thing, it’s a ‘happening-now’ thing,’’ said Leonard Berry, a contributing author of the new report

and director of Florida Atlantic University’s Center for Environmental Studies. Sea levels have risen eight inches since 1870, according to the new report, which projects a further rise of one to four feet by the end of the century. Waters around southeast Florida could surge up to two feet by 2060, according to a report by the Southeast Florida Climate Compact. The national climate report found that although rapidly melting Arctic ice is threatening the entire American coastline, Miami is exceptionally vulnerable because of its unique geology. The city is built on top of porous limestone, which is already allowing the rising seas to soak into the city’s foundation, bubble up through pipes and drains, encroach on fresh water supplies and saturate infrastructure. County governments estimate that the damages could rise to billions or even trillions of dollars. In and around Miami, local of-

ficials are grappling with the new reality head on. “Sea level rise is our reality in Miami Beach,” said the city’s mayor, Philip Levine. “We are past the point of debating the existence of climate change and are now focusing on adapting to current and future threats.” In the face of encroaching saltwater and sunny-day flooding, he has supported a $400 million spending project to make the city’s drainage system more resilient to the rising tides. While local politicians can take action to shore up their community against the rising tide, they are powerless to stop what scientists say is the heart of the problem: the increasing fossil fuel emissions that continue to warm the planet. Scientists say that the scale of emission reductions necessary to prevent the most dangerous effects of global warming can only come as a result of national and international policies to cut carbon pollution. CORAL DAVENPORT

House Vote on Lerner Hints at G.O.P. Election Plan WASHINGTON — The House of Representatives voted on Wednesday to hold Lois Lerner, a former Internal Revenue Service official accused by Republicans of abusing power, in contempt, laying bare the bitter divide over which much of the midterm elections will be fought. It was a moment of high drama, complete with allegations that the White House oversaw a Watergate-style cover-up that helped steal a presidential election, and invocations of Sen. Joseph R. McCarthy and his delusions of a widespread conspiracy. Republicans spent much of the day laying out a case for why the

Obama administration is politically corrupt and, by extension, why Democrats could not be trusted with power. In doing so they revealed the issues that will form the basis of their campaign strategy. Republican leaders hope that with the series of events they set in motion with the vote, which passed 231-187 along party lines, they will expose a pattern of cover-up and political whitewashing by the White House. On Thursday the House is expected to approve a resolution to establish a select committee to investigate the 2012 attack on American facilities in Benghazi, Libya.

Republicans accuse the White House and Hillary Rodham Clinton, the former secretary of state, of repeatedly lying about what set off the killings. But Republicans have raised a delicate set of questions and opened themselves up to accusations that they are politicizing a tragedy that cost four Americans their lives and misusing congressional oversight authority for gain in an election year. Democrats have dismissively branded this “conspiracy week” and said that Republicans want to damage Clinton ahead of 2016 should she decide to run for president. JEREMY W. PETERS

Conflicting Rulings Cloud a Campaign Finance Inquiry An investigation into possible campaign finance violations involving conservative groups in Wisconsin and Gov. Scott Walker’s campaign committee has become entangled in back-to-back federal court rulings on whether it should continue. On Tuesday, a judge halted the investigation, giving a momentary victory to Walker, a Republican who is seeking re-election this fall and is sometimes mentioned as a

presidential possibility for 2016. The investigation had clouded Walker’s prospects and become a focus of attention for his critics. But on Wednesday, the United States Court of Appeals for the Seventh Circuit stayed the injunction, calling for a lower court review of an earlier, separate appeal. In a decision issued Tuesday, Judge Rudolph T. Randa of the United States District Court for the Eastern District of Wisconsin had

granted a preliminary injunction to stop the inquiry, determining that it infringed on the First Amendment rights of the Wisconsin Club for Growth, which had sued. Randa found that the Wisconsin Club for Growth had not improperly coordinated with Walker’s campaign committee and groups like Wisconsin Right to Life and United Sportsmen of Wisconsin as Walker sought to survive a 2012 recall election. MONICA DAVEY

In Brief Many Hispanics Exit Catholic Church By all accounts, Hispanics are the future of Catholicism in America. Already, most young Roman Catholics in the United States are Hispanic, and soon that will be true of the overall Catholic population. But the Hispanicization of American Catholicism faces a big challenge: Hispanics are leaving Catholicism at a striking rate. As an increasing percentage of the American Hispanic population is made up of people born in this country, a simultaneous, competing form of faith-switching is also underway: More American Hispanics are leaving Catholicism and becoming religiously unaffiliated. (NYT)

Insurance Executives Surprise Republicans House Republicans summoned a half-dozen health insurance executives to a hearing Wednesday envisioned as another forum for criticism of the Affordable Care Act. But insurers surprised Republican critics of the law by undercutting some of their arguments against it. Insurers testified that the law had not led to a government takeover of their industry, as some Republicans had predicted. Indeed, several insurers said their stock prices had increased in the last few years. The executives also declined to endorse Republican predictions of a sharp increase in insurance premiums next year. (NYT)

Woman, 93, Fatally Shot by Police Officer A 93-year-old Central Texas woman was fatally shot at her home by a police officer after she allegedly brandished a gun, the Hearne Police Department reported Wednesday. Pearlie Golden, a longtime resident who was affectionately known to her neighbors as Ms. Sully, was shot Tuesday night by Officer Steven Stem, the Robertson County District Attorney Coty Siegert said. Stem was responding to a 911 call about a disturbance involving a woman with a gun. The authorities said Golden “brandished a firearm” when Stem encountered her. He then shot her multiple times. (AP)

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BUSINESS

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U.S. Issues Safety Alert for Trains Hauling Oil The requirement includes disclosing the number of trains on a weekly basis, the specific routes the trains will travel and which counties they will cross. Until now, railroads were under no obligation to disclose any of that information. In addition, transportation regulators said they would urge shippers to stop using older tank cars to carry crude oil, recommending that they use cars with “the highest level of integrity in their fleet when transporting Bakken crude oil.” The announcements come a week after an oil train derailed in Lynchburg, Va., spilling 30,000 gallons into the James River, erupting into flames and forcing the evacuation of 350 people. It was the latest in a series of accidents that have caught reg-

ulators and railroads off guard. Last year an oil train exploded in Quebec, killing 47 people. Wednesday’s announcement included the regulators’ starkest language yet about the dangers of crude oil transport; the regulators have been accused by lawmakers and safety advocates of being slow-footed. The industry has traditionally been secretive about routing of its hazardous materials, citing security concerns. Earlier this year, railroads said they would treat oil as a hazardous material and agreed to speed limits, among other things, to increase safety. The Association of American Railroads said in a statement that rail companies would do “all they can to comply with the Department of Transportation’s emergency order.” JAD MOUAWAD

Yellen Won’t Be Pinned Down on Interest Rate Plans WASHINGTON — Janet L. Yellen, the Federal Reserve chairwoman, told Congress on Wednesday that the economy was growing at a decent rate and that the Fed intended to continue the stimulus campaign that it considered at least partly responsible. Central bankers are paid to worry, and Yellen also delivered a laundry list of things that could go wrong: The housing recovery has stalled, geopolitical tensions are rising, some asset prices are perhaps a little too high. But the overall tenor of her testimony was upbeat. The economy, she said, is shaking off a grim winter. The labor market is slowly improving. “Many recent indicators sug-

gest that a rebound in spending and production is already underway, putting the overall economy on track for solid growth in the current quarter,” Yellen told the Joint Economic Committee. The Fed is steadily cutting its monthly purchases of Treasury and mortgage-backed securities, now at $45 billion a month, and Yellen affirmed that it planned to end those purchases in the fall. The bank must then decide when to start raising short-term interest rates, which it has held near zero since December 2008. But Yellen, who suggested in March that the Fed might start raising rates about six months after it ended bond purchases, avoided affirming those com-

ments on Wednesday. Investors generally expect the Fed to start raising rates around the middle of 2015. Yellen said only that the timing would be determined by the progress of the recovery. Democrats generally praised the progress of the recovery. Republicans highlighted the weakness of recent growth while pressing for the Fed to curtail its efforts and questioning whether the Fed was flirting with inflation. Rep. Kevin Brady, the Texas Republican who is chairman of the committee, pressed Yellen repeatedly to set a timetable for raising interest rates. “There is no specific timeline for doing that,” she replied. BINYAMIN APPELBAUM

Growing Pains for a Goldman Sachs Investment Fund One of Goldman Sachs’s most notable investment vehicles, Petershill, has been less than extraordinary, effectively saved by one good bet among a number of duds, and the bank even came close to selling it to Credit Suisse in 2012. So when Goldman started a second version of Petershill, which buys stakes in big-name hedge funds, it came as something of a surprise to people in the industry. Now as the second incarnation seeks to raise money, will the original Petershill cast a long

shadow? Goldman says it is satisfied with the pace of fund-raising, but investors do not appear to be flocking to the new fund as quickly as they did to the first one. So far, Goldman has raised more than $200 million for Petershill II, which has a goal of $1 billion since it went to market last fall, according to public filings in March. The fund has raised an additional $190 million to date from offshore investors as well, according to Goldman. The original Petershill, started in 2007, when capital markets

were exuberant, reached its $1 billion goal in several months. “Based on the fact that it’s Goldman Sachs raising this fund, I am surprised that they haven’t raised more money,” said Donald A. Steinbrugge, a managing member of Agecroft Partners, a consulting and marketing firm. Andrea Raphael, a spokeswoman for Goldman, said the firm was “pleased with the pace of fund-raising” for Petershill II and that it had already attracted “a number” of the backers of the original fund.RACHEL ABRAMS

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Calling the movement of crude oil by rail an “imminent hazard” to the public, the Department of Transportation said Wednesday that railroads would be required to notify local emergency responders whenever oil shipments traveled through their states. The emergency order follows a spate of accidents that have raised concerns about the safety of trains that are carrying increasing amounts crude oil from the Bakken region of North Dakota across the United States. It said railroads with trains that carry more than one million gallons of Bakken crude, the equivalent of about 35 tank cars, must provide state emergency commissions with detailed information about their shipments within the 30 days. Typically, oil trains carry about 100 cars or more.

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The Rise of Alibaba, and an Internet Tycoon HONG KONG — The first time Jack Ma used the Internet, in 1995, he searched for “beer” and “China” but found no results. Intrigued, he created a basic web page for a Chinese translation service with a friend. Within hours, he received a handful of emails from around the world requesting information. It was an introduction to the power of the web that would drive Ma to create the Alibaba Group four years later. Today, Alibaba is China’s largest online retailer, with merchandise volumes that lag only Walmart, worldwide. The e-commerce giant is also moving forward with plans for a stock sale that is expected to rival Facebook’s $16 billion offering two years ago. If successful, the deal would help vault Alibaba and Ma, who owns 8.9 percent of the company, to the highest ranks of technology industry titans. Ma’s ascent to dot-com billionaire is remarkable for not following the traditional script. Ma, 49, has no background in computing and professes not to understand technology. Raised during China’s Cultural Revolution, Ma began his career as an English teacher. Instead, his role at Alibaba has always been as the company’s main strategist, a flamboyant motivator in chief to his staff and a

Jack Ma, 49, has always been the company’s main strategist, and a flamboyant motivator in chief to his staff. industries, starting ventures in banking and finance and mobile phone communications. LEFT: PETER PARKS/AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES He is even moving AGENCE FRANCE-PRESSE — GETTY IMAGES into the departrelentless opponent to those who ment store business and film prohave competed against him. Alib- duction. aba’s two main websites, Taobao “Innovation in many industries Marketplace and Tmall.com, now has been triggered by outsiders,” account for 60 percent of the pack- Ma wrote last June in an opinion ages shipped through the Chinese article in The People’s Daily, the postal system. official newspaper of the Commu“He effectively represents mil- nist Party — an unusual move for lions of people who now depend a private sector entrepreneur. on Alibaba for their livelihood,” He brings flair to the role. said Duncan Clark, who has At a 2009 stadium rally to celeknown Ma since the late 1990s brate the anniversary of Alibaba, and is the chairman of BDA Chi- he emerged on stage wearing a na, a consulting firm in Beijing. waist-length blond wig, a black “That’s a constituency. He’s a leather jacket with red flame and politician with a small ‘p.’ ” metal stud accents, sunglasses He has also proved to be a se- and lipstick. Raising a microrial disrupter — an outsider with phone, he ripped into a stilted rena knack for creating markets by dition of “Can You Feel the Love reimagining old industries like Tonight?” eliciting cheers from retailing or finance. Alibaba and the crowd of 16,000 employees. NEIL GOUGH and Ma are shaking up some of ChiALEXANDRA STEVENSON na’s most staid, state-dominated

Adding to DNA’s Alphabet, Raising Hope and Fear Scientists reported Wednesday that they had taken a significant step toward altering the fundamental alphabet of life — creating an organism with an expanded artificial genetic code in its DNA. The accomplishment might eventually lead to organisms that can make medicines or industrial products that cells with only the natural genetic code cannot. The scientists behind the work at the Scripps Research Institute have already formed a company to try to use the technique to develop new antibiotics, vaccines and other products, though a lot more work needs to be done before this is practical. The work gives some support to the concept that life can exist elsewhere in the universe using genetics different from those on Earth. “This is the first time that you have had a living cell manage an alien genetic alphabet,” said

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Steven A. Benner, a researcher in the field at the Foundation for Applied Molecular Evolution in Gainesville, Fla., who was not involved in the new work. But the research, published online by the journal Nature, is bound to raise safety concerns and questions about whether humans are playing God. The new paper could intensify calls for greater regulation of the budding field known as synthetic biology, which involves the creation of biological systems intended for specific purposes. All species, from simple bacteria to human beings, use the same genetic code. It consists of four chemical units in DNA, sometimes called nucleotides or bases, that are usually represented by the letters A, C, G and T. The sequence of these chemical units determines what proteins the cell makes. Those proteins in turn do

most of the work in cells and are required for the structure, function and regulation of the body’s tissues and organs. The Scripps researchers chemically created two new nucleotides, which they called X and Y. They inserted an X-Y pair into the common bacterium E. coli. The bacteria were able to reproduce normally, though a bit more slowly than usual, replicating the X and Y along with the natural nucleotides. In effect, the bacteria have a genetic code of six letters rather than four, perhaps allowing them to make novel proteins that could function in a completely different way from those created naturally. “If you have a language that has a certain number of letters, you want to add letters so you can write more words and tell more stories,” said Floyd E. Romesberg, a chemist at Scripps who led the work. ANDREW POLLACK

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Stocks on the Move Stocks that moved substantially or traded heavily Wednesday: Chesapeake Energy Corp., up $1.26 to $29.61. The natural gas driller essentially tripled its production-growth outlook for the year as its earnings surged along with production rates. Molson Coors Brewing Co., up $2.18 to $61.95. A shift to higher-margin beers is starting to pay off at the brewer, as is the early termination of a joint venture. GNC Holdings Inc., down $5.90 to $37.75. First-quarter earnings slid and the vitamin and supplement retailer cut its full-year outlook due to poor comparable-store sales. Whole Foods Market Inc., down $9.02 to $38.93. Another disappointing quarter led to a downgrade parade for the grocer, with at least five analysts cutting their ratings. Groupon Inc., down $1.39 to $5.33. A weak outlook overshadowed a better-than-expected quarter for the online deals company that is trying to reshape itself. Electronic Arts Inc., up $5.90 to $33.95. Large revenue increases from game downloads and other sources pushed the gamemaker beyond most projections in the last quarter. (AP)

STYLE

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Beauty Unmasked for All to See One is accustomed to seeing celebrity profiles beginning with avowals that the subject is wearing “no makeup,” and rolling one’s eyes. Yet, for a few seasons, either on the catSkin Deep walk, sidewalk Bee Shapiro or information superhighway, a no-makeup look seems to be emerging as the gold standard. In what is perhaps a bid for that modern buzzword “authenticity,” celebrities like Beyoncé and Gwyneth Paltrow post selfies, proudly barefaced, sometimes with the hashtag #nomakeup. Slate suggested the no-makeup “trend” may be linked to normcore, a questionable fashion movement inspired by a suburban aesthetic, while other commentators think it’s a balance between pragmatism and feminism. Emily Weiss, the founder and creative director of the beauty site IntoTheGloss.com, agreed that there’s a movement toward less-is-more. “Today, there’s an ease to dressing that’s crossing over into beauty,” she said. “It’s sort of the idea of breathability.” Diane Kendal, a New Yorkbased makeup artist, has become known for creating muted runway looks for designers like Prabal Gurung, Alexander Wang and Thakoon. Though Kendal says the look has always been part of her repertory, the scrubbed face “is definitely a nod to the ’90s,” she said. “That’s when a lot of the designers now were growing up and that’s something for them to reference. It looks much more modern and dynamic. Being fresh-faced gives you an air of confidence.” Kendal, who wears no makeup, says that for many in the fashion and beauty industries, perhaps

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Sutton Foster, the Tony-winning star of “Violet,” is one of the growing number of celebrities to adopt the no-makeup look. like Emmanuelle Alt, Tonne Goodman and Caroline de Maigret, going bare is the everyday mode. “Makeup is about creating an image, maybe a fantasy, and we’re working with it every day,” Kendal said. “I don’t wear it because it’s not about me.” Weiss agreed. “A full face and fake eyelashes are not the norm with editors,” she said, adding that “I’m really low maintenance” is the most common claim of her interview subjects, often models, actresses, stylists and editors. “We’re conditioned to think that you should be a bit embarrassed of your beauty routines or how much you do,” she said. “The more you do, the more sort of frivolous you are, maybe.” When the blogger Leandra Medine, known as the Man Repeller, wrote a post last month explaining why her daily routine doesn’t include makeup (part laziness and part comfort with her looks), it was so popular it crashed the site, she said. The article, which she said was written in 20 min-

utes, addressed comments (some of them insults) about going out in public without cosmetics. Medine said the response was overwhelmingly positive, but she was surprised it had struck such a nerve. “I don’t necessarily see my not wearing makeup as a social comment or that it’s because I work in a female-dominated industry,” she said. “I don’t say in the morning, ‘Look Leandra, here are a bunch of women, put that bronzer down.’ It’s more that I’m busy and whatever helps you get out the door and go to sleep easier.” Sutton Foster, the Tony-winning actress, is also a fan of the bare face. Though Foster is often in full pancake makeup, rouge, lipstick and lashes, playing glamorous characters onstage such as Reno Sweeney in “Anything Goes,” her usual offstage look is makeup-free. “In the morning, getting ready and going out in the world, I’d rather spend my time doing other things than staring at myself in the mirror,” she said.

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Set by Butter London Nails go from plain to pop with this set of glittering overcoats from the British brand known for its low-chemical lacquers. Moms can wear the black and silver, gold and shiny multicolor on a finger as an accent or polish all for full-on sparkle. ($25, butterlondon.com)

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Two Shoppers Create Label Simon and Hannes Hogeman, the brothers behind the cultish Stockholm-based e-shop Très Bien, became big names in the men’s wear blogosphere for their discerning selection of designer duds (Jil Sander and Lanvin, for example), up-and-coming labels (Undercover and Hood by Air) and classic outdoor wear (Carhartt and Nike). It was only a matter of time before they jumped into the sandbox themselves. And so they have, introducing their own line of men’s wear, which strikes a similarly ecumenical balance. Among the mix: an ultralight wool coat (about $380) and a long mesh T-shirt (about $110) as well as a slick leather zip shirt (about $657) and a sporty hooded parka (about $400). Available now at tres-bien.com. (NYT)

The French perfumer Kilian Hennessy contrasts sweet and spice in this heady scent, part of the In the Garden of Good and Evil collection. It includes fruits like lychees, blood oranges and black currants as well as fiery pimento berries and black pepper. If she’s not a fan of the fragrance, Mom can use the hard white snake-adorned case as a striking evening clutch. ($245, bergdorfgoodman.com)

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JOURNAL

When Freedom Is the Right to Stay Under Wraps testers blocked traffic in the square to deliver their demand for harsher measures against women who flout Iran’s obligatory Islamic dress code, especially now that the hot Tehran summer is approaching. Wednesday’s front in the long cultural war between Iran’s hardliners and those seeking reforms within its political system focused one of the cornerstones of Iran’s Islamic revolution: the obligatory veil. All women in Iran, including visiting dignitaries and tourists, are obliged to cover their hair and wear a coat, preferably just over the knees, in public. The state does not prescribe exact shapes, colors and sizes for the scarves and coats, so over the years many urban Ira-

TEHRAN — Cars honked frantically, their drivers in despair as separate columns of Iranian men and women in black chadors fist pumped their way through the capital’s afternoon rush on Wednesday, shouting for the government to arrest all women who were improperly veiled. “Corruption and immorality have engulfed the nation,” Shala Mousavi told a reporter for Iran’s state television. “We are forced to act.” The protesters descended on Fatemi square, right in the middle of this city of 12 million and a stone’s throw from the Interior Ministry building, casually defying a government ban on rallies conducted without permits. Nervous police officers stood by as the pro-

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nian women have come up with spectacular outfits, combining tight, hugging coats with fluorescent scarves the sizes of handkerchiefs from which locks of hair flow like endless waterfalls. While no woman in Iran ventures out on the city streets without a scarf, hard-liners, speaking on television and during Friday prayers frequently accuse such women of “roaming the streets practically naked.” Western clothes are also far from comfortable, one prominent ayatollah said on Wednesday, making it difficult to sit or stand. “Such dresses are in fact prisons and not clothes,” the ayatollah, Naser Marakem Shirazi, said in a statement. “Our clothing culture must be altered.” First, the state tried “cultural work,” (long debates by clerics on state television) to persuade women to fully cover up, pointing out that showing too many tresses can lead to “moral deprivations.” Recently, posters have gone up in Tehran, showing Iran’s national delicacy, the pistachio, and a text saying that everything that is good is wrapped up in a shell, just like the headscarf, the hijab. “But this is not working,” said one angry woman during the demonstration. “Every summer the ‘bad hijabi’s’ come out again. It is just awful.” Giving her name only as Massoumeh, she said she and her friends had rented a bus to travel from their poor neighborhood, Yaftabad, “in order to end this situation.” There are signs that the morality police and their hard-line backers may have a tough summer ahead. A newly created Facebook page posts photographs of Iranian women taking off their headscarves during tourist outings. The page, titled “Iranian Womens’ Secret Freedoms,’’ has received over 30,000 likes since Saturday. Its administrators are anonymous, and a profile picture above the page says, “We’re just ourselves.” THOMAS ERDBRINK

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OPINION

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EDITORIALS OF THE TIMES

Climate Disruptions, Close to Home Apart from the disinformation sowed by politicians content with the status quo, the main reason neither Congress nor much of the American public cares about global warming is that, as problems go, it seems remote. Anyone who reads the latest the National Climate Assessment, released on Tuesday, cannot possibly think that way any longer. The report is exhaustive and totally alarming. The study is the definitive statement of the present and future effects of climate change on the United States. Crippling droughts will become more frequent in drier regions; torrential rains and storm surges will increase in wet regions; sea levels will rise and coral reefs will die. Readers can pick their own regional catastrophes, but here are three: THE SOUTHWEST WILL FRY California’s relentless drought has been making headlines for years. But while there may be some cyclical relief, global warming will make things worse, increasing wildfires throughout the Southwest and in California, stunting crops and greatly increasing the region’s competition for water — its most precious natural resource. THE EAST WILL SOAK Hurricane Sandy provided a glimpse into a future that will bring more destructive storms because sea levels will rise, leading to bigger storm surges and greater risks for Americans who live in coastal areas. There will also be many more sudden and intense rains in parts of the South and in Florida. As for the sea level, the new report says that a rise of 6 feet cannot be ruled out. Much of South Florida sits at 4 feet above high tide.

ALASKA WILL KEEP MELTING A study 12 years

ago noted an astonishing 5.4 degree increase in the annual mean temperatures in Alaska, causing melting permafrost and dying forests. More of the same lies ahead: shrinking glaciers and summer sea ice and more global warming as the carbon trapped in the permafrost is released into the atmosphere as methane. The broad contours of the report are not news to President Obama, who stated in his State of the Union address that “the debate is settled. Climate change is a fact.” And he promised to impose through executive action new limits on carbon dioxide emissions that Congress has failed to deliver legislatively. And, so far, he has done so, announcing rules governing emissions from new power plants and stricter fuel-efficiency standards for heavy-duty trucks. But sterner tests lie ahead. For starters, Obama must devise new rules governing natural gas drilling, lest leaks of methane erase natural gas’s carbon advantage over coal. More important, he must follow through with the strongest possible new rules on existing power plants, which account for about 40 percent of the country’s carbon dioxide emissions. These rules will be hugely controversial, since regulating greenhouse gases from stationary sources is largely uncharted territory. The climate-change deniers in Congress and industry allies will be ferocious. The surest antidotes are presidential resolve, backed by voters sensitized to climate warming’s dangers. The new report should help on both fronts.

Amid Tensions, a Gesture From Putin If President Vladimir Putin of Russia means what he said on Wednesday, the standoff over Ukraine could be moving toward a resolution. After meeting with the Swiss president, Didier Burkhalter, who is the current chairman of the Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe, Putin said Russian troops have been pulled back from the Ukrainian border, and he urged pro-Russian rebels in southeastern Ukraine to call off a referendum on secession that they had scheduled for Sunday. As of Wednesday evening, however, NATO officials said they saw no pullback of the 40,000 Russian troops who have been threateningly massed on the Ukrainian border for several weeks now. Yet there was reason to hope that, at this stage in the crisis, Putin does have compelling reasons to step back from confrontation and make room for negotiations. One reason is that Putin may fear that the violence in southeastern Ukraine is heading in directions he may not be able to control. The events of recent days may have demonstrated to Putin that his strategy of manipulated rebellion could be getting out of hand. Putin may also think that he has achieved what he set out to do. From what can be gleaned

about his intentions, Russia’s goal since the annexation of Crimea in March has been to use the threat of similar annexations in southeastern Ukraine to press Kiev and the West to agree to a federation structure in Ukraine that would give Russia a strong influence over the eastern provinces and an effective veto against Ukraine forming alliances with the West. The interim government in Kiev has resisted any imposed federal structure, and for the West to press such a plan now could appear as surrender to Russia’s designs. However deviously Putin has exploited the divisions in Ukraine, the fact remains that historic, linguistic and religious differences exist in the country, and they cannot be legislated away. Devolving some power to the regions is in Ukraine’s interest, but it will work only if it is done by the Ukrainians. If this road to a federated structure is what the O.S.C.E., Ukraine, Russia, the United States and the European Union are discussing, the crisis may be nearing an end. If, however, Putin’s statements on Wednesday prove to be another feint, the United States and Europe are left with no choice but to press ahead with extensive and stern economic sanctions against Russia.

GAIL COLLINS

It’s the Viral Season Alas, poor J.D. Winteregg. We knew him … um, actually not very well at all. Winteregg ran as a Tea Party challenger to the House speaker, John Boehner, in this week’s Ohio primaries. He only got about 22 percent of the vote. So he’s gone, politically speaking. But not forgotten, thanks to his video charging Boehner with “electile dysfunction.” It went viral. Nearly 400,000 people watched it on YouTube alone. That’s way more than the viral video portraying Nancy Pelosi as a sheep-slaughtering zombie queen, which Pelosi’s opponent released in 2012. Although way less than the 2.7 million views that Dale Peterson, a candidate for Alabama agriculture commissioner, got for his 2010 video in which he accused his enemies of stealing his yard signs. Welcome to the viral video section of the American election scene. This all started, arguably, in 2010 when “Demon Sheep” gave candidates the idea that they could win piles of attention by putting something outrageous up on the web. “Demon Sheep” was from Carly Fiorina, a U.S. Senate candidate in California. Unlike most of the classics that followed, it was rather long, and viewers had to make their way through a whole lot of stuff before they got to the point, which was an actor wearing a woolly suit and glowing red eyes, crawling around a field. The trend that followed was very much in the spirit of 21st-century democracy. If you don’t have any money to pay for an actual ad campaign, there’s always the hope that you could post something online that will get you talked about, thus drawing in actual donations. If nothing else, it will certainly help pass the time. Think of viral videos as the Candy Crush of election cycles. Evidence suggests this year could produce a banner crop. In Iowa, Republican Senate candidate Joni Ernst made a national splash with “Squeal,” a video in which she bragged that she spent her youth castrating pigs. Now she’s at the head of the primary pack, with Sarah Palin in her corner and a new ad in which she shows off her gun and shoots at a target that is metaphorically Obamacare, while an announcer notes that she is a “mom, farm girl and a lieutenant colonel who carries more than just lipstick in her purse.” I miss the pigs already. You do not win this game with subtlety. Earlier this year, Dwayne Stovall, a totally unknown Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate in Texas, posted a video in which he sat on the back of a truck with his talking dog, insulting the Republican Senate establishment. Suddenly, he was no longer just an asterisk on the poll charts. He was Dwayne Stovall, the guy with the chatty golden retriever. It didn’t win him the election — viral videos almost never win elections — but it did give Stovall his moment of fame. During which he told The Daily Beast that he was disappointed that he was not getting that kind of attention for his position on the national debt.

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SPORTS

In Brief

NBC Extends Olympics Coverage Into Unknown NBC Universal agreed on Wednesday to pay $7.75 billion for the exclusive broadcast rights to the six Olympic Games from 2022 to 2032, highlighting with that staggering sum the supreme value that media companies are placing on live event programming in a market disrupted by modern viewing habits. As more viewers consume media on their own schedule often without commercials, broadcasters regard live events as the only content that compels most viewers to watch in real time, as one vast audience, without filtering out advertisers. The Olympics have long been NBC’s most prized possession, but ESPN has used its billions of dollars in annual subscriber fees to build a portfolio of enormous deals for live sports, and Fox, CBS and NBC have longterm agreements with the Nation-

al Football League. The agreement between NBC Universal and the International Olympic Committee also captures just how technologically frenetic the media landscape is. Once, such deals had to contemplate only television, but smartphones and tablets have become an increasingly large segment of the viewing audience, and no one can guess how people will watch sports in 2032. The new Olympic contract acknowledges this, stipulating that NBC will have the exclusive rights to broadcast the Games on whatever technology emerges between now and then. As the dominant force in Olympic television in the United States since 1992, NBC has shifted from the old-line model that utilized only broadcast television to one that added cable channels to one that, at last February’s Winter Games

in Sochi, Russia, embraced live video streaming of all events to computers, smartphones and tablets. NBC, which has swooped to make billion-dollar Olympic rights acquisitions before, is now looking at extending its dominion further than ever. By 2032, nearly all its top executives will have retired. NBC is, to an extent, using its successful Sochi template and planning to adapt along the way. An average of 21.4 million viewers watched the Sochi Games in prime time. But there were also 62 million digital users and 10 million live online video viewers. And in one finding from surveys conducted after the Sochi Games, 67 percent of people said that the Olympics were more enjoyable because there were more options to consume it than ever before. RICHARD SANDOMIR

Penguins Win 3rd in Row to Put Rangers on Brink Henrik Lundqvist breaking his stick over the crossbar in disgust after allowing a shorthanded goal could have been the defining ghastly image of the Rangers’ 4-2 loss Wednesday night at Madison PENGUINS 4 Square Garden. Or it could RANGERS 2 easily have been Pittsburgh leads Chris Kunitz’s series, 3-1 goal 57 seconds after Mats Zuccarello’s score gave the Rangers hope late in the game. Or it could have been the fans booing Martin St. Louis when he turned the puck over. Or it could have been the fans booing Rick Nash whenever he touched the puck.

Any or all of the above would capture the dire straits the Rangers find themselves in: a 3-1 series hole, with Game 5 and playoff elimination staring them in the face on Friday in Pittsburgh. The Rangers were tied, 1-1, when they were undone again by their inept power play (0 for 36) on which Brandon Sutter scored a shorthanded goal with 1 minute 33 seconds left in the second period. The play began when Penguins defenseman Kris Letang stole the puck from Nash and sent Brian Gibbons off on a breakaway. Gibbons never got a shot away, but Sutter tucked it home, and Lundqvist smashed his stick in anger.

WEATHER High/low temperatures for the 21 hours ended at 4 p.m. yesterday, Eastern time, and precipitation (in inches) for the 18 hours ended at 1 p.m. yesterday. Expected conditions for today and tomorrow. Weather conditions: C-clouds, F-fog, H-haze, I-ice, PC-partly cloudy, R-rain, S-sun, Sh-showers, Sn-snow, SS-snow showers, T-thunderstorms, Tr-trace, W-windy.

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Nash’s turnover was one of 32 committed by the Rangers; the Penguins had 17. The offense was hopelessly ineffective, firing a measly 15 shots at goaltender Marc-Andre Fleury. After a day off, the Rangers could not use fatigue as an excuse on this night — they were outclassed. After Jussi Jokinen gave the Penguins a 3-1 lead in the third period, Zuccarello beat Fleury with a backhand shot with 6:53 remaining. But Kunitz quickly killed the game, on assists from the Penguins’ superstars Sidney Crosby and Evgeni Malkin. JEFF Z. KLEIN 84/ 71 74/ 53 71/ 59 88/ 76 80/ 54 59/ 52 91/ 67 65/ 56 84/ 67 60/ 51 65/ 55 61/ 48 86/ 67 82/ 63

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Pacers Tie Series Roy Hibbert broke out of his playoff funk with a season-best 28 points and nine rebounds, leading the Indiana Pacers to an 86-82 victory over the Washington Wizards on Wednesday night that tied the Eastern Conference semifinal series at 1-1. It was a stark contrast to Hibbert’s abysmal, scoreless showing in Monday’s loss. Game 3 is Friday in Washington. The Wizards had won all four of their previous road playoff games — three at Chicago and Monday in Indianapolis.(AP)

A .L . SC O R E S TUESDAY’S LATE GAMES Yankees 4, L.A. Angels 3 Seattle 8, Oakland 3 WEDNESDAY Seattle 6, Oakland 4, 10 innings Cleveland 4, Minnesota 3 Oakland 2, Seattle 0, 2nd game Toronto 10, Philadelphia 0 Detroit 3, Houston 2 Baltimore 4, Tampa Bay 3 Boston 4, Cincinnati 3 Colorado 9, Texas 2 Chicago White Sox 8, Chicago Cubs 3

N.L . SC O R E S TUESDAY’S LATE GAME Kansas City 3, San Diego 1, 11 innings WEDNESDAY Pittsburgh 4, San Francisco 3 Miami 1, Mets 0 Washington 3, L.A. Dodgers 2 Arizona 3, Milwaukee 2 Kansas City 8, San Diego 0 St. Louis 7, Atlanta 1

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THURSDAY, MAY 8, 2014 10

SPORTS JOURNAL

Draft’s Growth Means There’s No Off-Season Imagine a sporting event that includes no bats, balls or fields, yet compels thousands of fans to wait hours for seats and attracts a larger television audience than many games do. Throw in months of buildup, a red carpet entrance and big corporate sponsors, and you have the N.F.L. draft. Once a sleepy roll call for football insiders that took place in smoke-filled hotel ballrooms, the draft has turned into the highlight of the league’s increasingly cluttered off-season. It feeds the seemingly insatiable desire for information about the nation’s most popular sport and the college players who learn their professional fates on live television. Two networks and more than 1,000 members of the news media will cover this year’s event at Radio City Music Hall, which amounts to a beauty contest rolled into a high-stakes lottery. Starting with the first pick, which belongs to the Houston Texans, the 3,500 fans in attendance will give a voice to the millions watching at home by cheering or booing the draftees, including 30 top-ranked players who will parade onstage. Though the Super Bowl was three months ago and next season’s kickoff is months away, the draft has managed to overshadow the postseasons of the N.B.A. and the N.H.L. This year, it is receiv-

During the 1967 draft, Commissioner Pete Rozelle used a blackboard to record the selections at the Gotham Hotel. N.F.L. in the news deeper into the off-season, one ROBERT WALKER/THE NEW YORK TIMES reason the league ing an extra boost from a new film, may continue to hold the event in “Draft Day,” which stars Kevin May. Commissioner Roger GoodCostner as the general manager ell also said the league could add a fourth day to the draft and perof the Cleveland Browns. “The draft is a unique business haps hold part of it in another city. The draft’s later date has led product in that it plays out in a perfect speed for people to watch and to grumbling from team officials, there is a limitless combination of who said they would have less teams and players,” said Robert time to work with their drafted Boland, who teaches sports man- players before training camp. agement at New York University. It also raised questions about whether a fourth draft day would “It’s a day of incredible theater.” That theater has grown ex- be too much of a good thing. What is clear, though, is that ponentially since the first draft, which was held in 1936. Now, the the draft will remain the league’s seven rounds over three days are most popular off-the-field event. “The draft is still great reality complemented by fan-related events, including autograph ses- TV,” said Seth Markman, who sions with retired stars and meet- leads draft coverage for ESPN, which drew 6.2 million viewers for and-greets with prospects. The draft is usually in late April, the first night of the draft last year. but it is two weeks later this year “I get more ticket requests for the because of a scheduling conflict draft than the Super Bowl.” KEN BELSON at Radio City. That has kept the

Sam and League Share Uncomfortable Scrutiny The N.F.L. draft, an auction of athletic aptitude with primeval roots and prime-time appeal, will begin Thursday night with an unprecedented subplot. An openly gay player with impressive credentials is in the pool of candidates, casting the usually myopic, football-centric draft in a societywide spotlight with resonant cultural significance. Michael Sam, a 6-foot-2, 260-pound defensive end from Missouri, is not expected to be among the initial 32 selections in Thursday’s first round. But on Friday and Saturday, as six more draft rounds play out, the tacit subtext of the event becomes when and if Sam will be selected. And should Sam be spurned — a possibility, draft analysts said — the N.F.L. could be backpedaling as it tries to explain how a college all-American could be unwanted after 256 draft picks.

“The N.F.L. is in a tough s p o t ,” said Wade Davis, a former professional football player who revealed he Michael Sam was gay after he retired and has since counseled Sam and N.F.L. executives. “If Michael Sam goes in the second or third rounds, people will say they made some team do that. If he is taken in the last rounds, people will say he was drafted late because he’s gay. “And while I am convinced the N.F.L. is more than ready to embrace a gay player, if Michael isn’t drafted, it will definitely be a setback.” Since early February, when Sam, then a senior at Missouri, went public about his sexual

orientation and became the first openly gay N.F.L. prospect, he has been among the most scrutinized players in predraft workouts. When he underperformed at the biggest of those auditions, the N.F.L. combine in late February, he plummeted to the back of the player rankings. At a public workout a month later, he improved at quantifiable athletic assessments like the 40-yard dash, his measured vertical leap and the number of times he bench-pressed 225 pounds, but a survey of various predraft rankings this week still lists him anywhere from 12th to 25th among defensive ends.” Sam has generally kept a low profile since February. “I just wish you guys would just see me as Michael Sam the football player,” Sam said at the combine, “instead of Michael Sam the gay football player.” BILL PENNINGTON

In Brief Sherman Signs Deal Worth $57.4 Million Richard Sherman signed a four-year contract extension on Wednesday with the Seattle Seahawks, making him one of the highest-paid cornerbacks in N.F.L. history. Sherman announced the deal on his website, saying it was for $57.4 million with $40 million guaranteed, through the 2018 season. The deal includes a reported $11 million signing bonus. It is a massive deal for a player who earned $375,000 in base salary as a rookie in 2011. “I guess this is how it feels to be a first rounder,” he said. (AP)

Brazilian Stars Off World Cup Roster Ronaldinho, Kaka and Robinho were left off Brazil’s World Cup roster by Coach Luiz Felipe Scolari, who selected just five players who went to the 2010 tournament. Goalkeeper Julio Cesar; defenders Thiago Silva, Dani Alves and Maicon; and midfielder Ramires were the only returnees from the tournament four years ago on the 23-man roster announced Wednesday. Fred, a forward on the 2006 World Cup roster, was selected after missing the 2010 tournament. (AP)

Closing In on Title Manchester City scored four goals in the final 26 minutes to beat Aston Villa, 4-0, moving the team 2 points clear of second-place Liverpool in the Premier League with one game to play. A draw should be enough for City in its last game against West Ham, because its goal difference is 13 better than Liverpool’s. (AP)

Stadium for Bills N.F.L. Commissioner Roger Goodell expressed optimism that the Bills will remain in Buffalo and suggested the franchise will need a new stadium to ensure its long-term viability. The Bills’ long-term future is uncertain after the team’s owner and founder Ralph Wilson died in March. Wilson’s estate is in the process of appointing an investment banking firm to oversee a sale of the team, which raises concerns of the Bills relocating. (AP)

YOURNAVY IN THE NEWS

CNO Explains Navy’s Compensation Reform (NNS) -- WASHINGTON (May 6, 2014) - Chief of Naval Operations testified before the Senate Armed Services Committee (SASC) encouraging Congress to accept and implement the Department of Defense budget proposal recommendation to slow growth of service members’ pay and compensation. “We cannot sustain our current personnel cost trajectory,” said Greenert. “We need to address this problem sooner rather than later.” Greenert stated both he and Master Chief Petty Officer of the Navy (MCPON) Mike Stevens heard in their travels around the fleet, a vast majority of Sailors and families believe that their compensation matches well with their civilian counterparts. Since 2001, Navy manpower has shrunk significantly due to the elimination of 25 ships from the fleet. Meanwhile rising personnel costs have spiked which have been a burden on the Navy’s ability to balance investments, said Greenert. “Our Sailors and families are not enthusiastic about compensation

By Chief Mass Communication Specialist Julianne Metzger

reform,” said Greenert. However, he added, “they were clear that their quality of service - their work environment - needs to improve.” The DOD proposed compensation reforms are estimated to generate a savings to the Navy of $123 million in fiscal year 2015 and $3.1 billion over the Future Years Defense Plan (FYDP). “I intend to reinvest any and all of these savings into Sailor Quality of Service enhancements,” Greenert said.

Greenert said quality of service enhancements resulting from proposed budget savings include: increasing sea pay, critical skills incentive pays; improving and constructing barracks, training buildings, MWR and fitness centers; providing school and trainings; purchasing tactical trainers and simulators; purchasing spare parts, tools and providing more maintenance opportunities. “All of these reinvestments address ‘dissatisfiers’ in our Sailors’ quality

of service,” said Greenert. “These enhancements help Sailors get their jobs done effectively and safely, while addressing our critical manning, training and equipping challenges.” If Congress denies authority for the DOD compensation savings proposals, the Navy would be unable to enact Sailor quality of service improvements. There would also be an additional bill of $4 billion resulting from pay raises. Greenert said that would compel the Navy to reduce readiness, shipbuilding and aircraft procurement even further. “Our Navy would be less ready, less modern and less able to execute the missions outlined in the Defense Strategic Guidance,” said Greenert. During the hearing it was evident these budget decisions are tough but necessary, Greenert explained. Under the current budget these choices are necessary to better balance Sailors’ needs to ensure the Navy remains forward and ready, he said.

USS Roosevelt Hosts Grandson of Ship’s Namesake

By Mass Communication Specialist 2nd Class Justin Wolpert, George H.W. Bush Strike Group (CVN 77) Public Affairs

MANAMA, Bahrain (NNS) -- The Guided-missile destroyer USS Roosevelt (DDG 80) hosted the family of the ship’s namesake, May 2. Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt’s grandson, H. Delano Roosevelt, took a tour of Roosevelt with family and friends during a scheduled port visit in Manama, Bahrain. The tour was led by Cmdr. Jay Clark, Roosevelt’s commanding officer. Sailors from the crew gave presentations about the various departments and capabilities of the ship including bridge fundamentals, navigation, engineering, damage control, aviation, search and rescue, and visit, board, search and seizure operations. “It was an honor and a privilege to introduce USS Roosevelt to Mr. Roosevelt,” said Cmdr. Jay Clark. “The crew, as well as myself, take immense

pride in being Roosevelt Sailors. I am sure that the grandson of our namesake saw that pride and knew we were honoring the legacy Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt left behind.” After the tour, Clark led the group into the wardroom, where officers were assembled to attend the Surface Warfare Officer (SWO) designation pinning of Chief Warrant Officer James Smith. As a surprise, Smith bestowed the honor of pinning the SWO device to Mr. Roosevelt. “It was dynamic,” said Smith. “To have the grandson of such a great man and woman, the namesakes of our ship, perform the pinning is a once in a lifetime occurrence I will never forget.” Following the pinning Cmdr. Clark presented Mr. Roosevelt with Roosevelt memorabilia including a signed picture of the ship. In return, Mr. Roosevelt presented Cmdr. Clark with a

coin from the battleship USS Iowa, which his family has been influential in helping to restore as a historical monument in Long Beach, Calif., where H. Delano Roosevelt and his family call home.

U.S. Navy Photo.

TR IN ACTION

Staff Commanding Officer Capt. Daniel Grieco

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WHAT’S ON underway movie schedule

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Ch. 66

Thursday May 8, 2014

Ch. 67

Ch. 68

0900

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

LAST VEGAS

GRAVITY

1100

AMERICAN HUSTLE

THE HELP

SPIDERMAN 3

1400

GHOST BUSTERS

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT

THE POSSESSION

1600

WINTER’S TALE

THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY

LOOPER

1830

OUT OF THE FURNACE

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S

CARRIE

2030

DALLAS BUYERS CLUB

LAST VEGAS

GRAVITY

2230

AMERICAN HUSTLE

THE HELP

SPIDERMAN 3

0130

GHOST BUSTERS

THAT AWKWARD MOMENT

THE POSSESSION

0330

WINTER’S TALE

THE BEST MAN HOLIDAY

LOOPER

0600

OUT OF THE FURNACE

BREAKFAST AT TIFFANY’S

CARRIE

*Movie schedule is subject to change.