Burial Vaults Inspire a Celebration of a Church Opposed to Slavery

A Hip-Swiveling Workout That’s Steamy in Every WayBy DANIEL KRIEGER

For those averse to working out in gyms or who wouldn’t go for a jog if they were paid to, there are still enjoy-able ways to get going without feeling as if it were Exercise with a capital E. That’s what three dozen women were after when they attended a recent Jamaican-inspired dancehall fitness class at Ripley-Grier Studios in Mid-town Manhattan. The class, called Brukwine, is an invi-tation to women of all shapes and siz-es to shed their inhibitions and move

with abandon. It’s geared toward those who may steer clear of more traditional types of exercise, and it offers a spin on the sultry moves that accompany Jamaican-style dancehall music. Brukwine is all about breaking out and moving the hips — something that the creators, Tamara Marrow, 35, and Autavia Bailey, 34, know all about. They have performed with the dance-hall star Sean Paul, pop stars like Be-yoncé, Taylor Swift, Britney Spears and Rihanna.

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In Testimony, Mother Who Killed Son, 8, Denies She Forcibly

Drugged Him

By DAVID W. DUNLAP

The bodies discovered at a SoHo con-struction site belonged to members of the multiracial Spring Street Presbyte-rian Church, which was sacked by an-ti-abolition mobs in 1834. In the fall of 2007, some New York-ers vowed that the Trump SoHo tow-er would be built only over their dead bodies.Rudolphus Bogert and Louisa Hunter were not among them. It’s not that they were in favor of the project. It’s just that their dead bodies, and those of about 190 other mem-bers of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church, had been removed from the construction site a few months earli-er, in an emergency recovery effort by archaeologists after four burial vaults

were discovered under an old parking lot. Miss Hunter, a 16-year-old who died in 1825; Mr. Bogert, a 76-year-old mer-chant and volunteer fireman who died in 1842; and their fellow congregants were reburied in June at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. A memorial service is to be held Oct. 19 at the imposing First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue, between West 11th and 12th Streets.“This will be a celebration of the church’s abolitionist stance,” said David Pultz, the archivist at First Presbyteri-an, who has been involved in the ar-chaeological and reinterment project since January 2007. “The church’s his-tory had been forgotten, like the vaults had been forgotten.” The remains as they were found in 2006. Further investigation uncovered four 19th-century

burial vaults under a parking lot. Credit David Pultz

Tamara Marrow, second from right with hat, leading her Brukwine class at Ripley-Grier Studios in Manhattan. Credit Cassandra Giraldo for The New York Times

It so happened that his new Vence home had a pretty, prophetic name: Villa le Rêve, Dream House. And re-markable art came into being under its roof, though never easily. The cultural critic Edward W. Said, in his book on “late style” in art, wrote: “Each of us can readily supply evidence of how it is that late works crown a lifetime of aesthet-ic endeavor. Rembrandt and Matisse, Bach and Wagner. But what of artistic lateness not as harmony and resolu-tion, but as intransigence, difficulty, unresolved contradiction?” I would say that Matisse had at least one foot in the second category. Surgery had left him debilitated, ba-sically chair and bed bound. Painting and sculpture had become physical challenges and, I think, emotionally, too freighted with make-it-new demands. At the same time, sheer relief at hav-ing survived mortal crises prompted a rush of creativity. His solution, before he even recognized it was such, was almost child-simple. He picked up more manageable materials and tools: sheets of paper paint-washed by assistants, sturdy scissors, and plain tailor pins. What he made from them was a hybrid of chromatic brilliance and dimension-al complexity, work that was not quite painting, not quite sculpture and — this

‘Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,’ a Victory Lap at MoMABy HOLLAND COTTER

Near the end of his life, Henri Matisse’s preferred attire was evening wear, by which I mean pajamas. They were the ideal uniform for the invalid, insomniac night worker and waking dreamer he had become in the decade before his death at age 84 in 1954. And it is the dreamer and worker we meet in “Henri Matisse: The Cut-Outs,” a marvelous, victory-lap show that arrives from Lon-don, where it drew more than 500,000 viewers at the Tate Modern last sum-mer, and opens in a larger form at the Museum of Modern Art on Sunday. Why is late Matisse pulling such crowds? Partly because of a popular image of the elderly artist, derived from photographs and long in circulation, as a serene, bespectacled pasha propped up in a bed in sunny Nice surrounded by doves and flowers. And the cutouts themselves, so photogenic, have an exceptionally direct appeal: color, line, beauty without reservation. But the reality, of the life and the work, was far more complicated. In the years around 1940, Matisse must have felt he was living a nightmare. In 1939, he and his wife of more than four decades legally parted ways, at her instigation. Two years later, he was found to have abdominal cancer and underwent a grueling operation. During World War II, he fled Paris, only to have danger follow him. In 1943, he had to abandon his apartment in Nice when the city was threatened with bombardment and rent temporary quarters in Vence several miles away.

Miles of Steam Pipes Snake Beneath New YorkBy GREG MOYER

First developed in the 1880s, New York City’s steam system is the largest in the world. No other urban steam sys-tem comes close. Today, 105 miles of steam pipe run beneath the streets of the city, deliver-ing steam to 2,000 buildings for heating and cooling. Steam also sterilizes hos-pital equipment, presses clothes, and cleans restaurant dishes and cutlery. This episode of “Living City,” a video series about New York’s infrastructure, looks at the history of the city’s steam system and explores how a technology that eliminated chimneys from the sky-line in the early 20th century is helping reduce carbon emissions and provide a cleaner source of energy for New York in the 21st. The film tours the East 14th Street Consolidated Edison cogeneration plant, where 55 percent of the city’s steam is produced, and looks at the underbelly of some of New York’s most recent buildings to see how steam is in-corporated into modern urban planning and design.

was the really radical part — not neces-sarily permanent. Cut-paper art, decoupage, was not new to Matisse. He had been using it to wrestle with compositional ideas since the 1930s, which is when the MoMA show begins. For him, decoupage was labor intensive, even when used for what were technically sketches for work in other mediums: Adamant, infuriated doggedness was his way. He forced models to sit for hours, days, weeks, to the point of collapse, as he painted and scraped. A few of his early cutouts look like the art of an outsider-style obses-sive. The visual elements in 1937-38 cut-paper design for a Ballet Russe de Monte Carlo production, are fairly spare: two dancers, one standing, one leaping, against a dark blue ground. But the piece’s surface is chopped-up and lumpy, like sculptural relief, with paint-stroke-size slivers of paper layered three deep and held down with thumb-tacks. Puncture marks that dot the sliv-ers are records of the many times each had been pinned, unpinned, reposi-tioned and pinned again. For Matisse, self-appointed purvey-or of luxe, calme, and volupté, it seems that trial-and-error rawness, some evi-dence of struggle, validated the work.

You find a lot of such evidence in the zesty pinned-paper maquettes he made in 1943 for his book “Jazz,” for which he had high hopes. But when it was finally published in 1947, he hated it. All the ir-regularities of texture, the paper-on-pa-per depths, what Matisse referred to as the “sensitivity” of the designs, were missing. Printing had cleaned and pressed them in high-contrast graphics, polished, perfect and dead. From this, he took a lesson: Value the original, fragile and rough; that’s the art. But he was already figuring this out before the book appeared. One day in Paris, in 1946, he cut a small bird shape from plain white paper. It wasn’t much, but he liked it and asked an assistant to pin it to the wall to hide a stain. Then he cut some more. (The show has a delightful short film in which he finish-es cutting out a big fingery algae form, then struggles to tame it as if it were a squirming octopus.) Before long, two walls of the room were filling up with cutouts in the shape of birds, fish, and marine vegetation, loosely pinned and lifting with every breeze. Under Matisse’s direction, the patient studio crew shifted the pieces around until he was satisfied that he had two complete murals. One he called “Oceania, the Sea,” the other “Oceania, the Sky.” Together, they evoked a trip to Tahiti he had made years before. The obvious question, though, was what to do next with such mutable, piecemeal creations. Questions about the practicalities of exhibiting, storing, and selling them quickly arose. most at-tractive and prescient about this art was its impermanence. But it was made de-cades before the rise of Conceptualism, before an aesthetic based on immateri-ality and flux would be embraced, even institutionalized. So the wall pieces were disman-tled, the pins removed, the cut-paper elements transferred to supports and glued down.

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Burial Vaults Inspire a Celebration of aChurch Opposed to Slavery

In the fall of 2007, some New York-ers vowed that the Trump SoHo tow-er would be built only over their dead bodies. Rudolphus Bogert and Louisa Hunter were not among them. It’s not that they were in favor of the project. It’s just that their dead bodies, and those of about 190 other mem-bers of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church, had been removed from the construction site a few months earli-er, in an emergency recovery effort by archaeologists after four burial vaults were discovered under an old parking lot. Miss Hunter, a 16-year-old who died in 1825; Mr. Bogert, a 76-year-old mer-chant and volunteer fireman who died in 1842; and their fellow congregants were reburied in June at Green-Wood Cemetery in Brooklyn. A memorial ser-vice is to be held Oct. 19 at the impos-ing First Presbyterian Church on Fifth Avenue, between West 11th and 12th Streets. “This will be a celebration of the church’s abolitionist stance,” said Da-vid Pultz, the archivist at First Presby-terian, who has been involved in the archaeological and reinterment project since January 2007. “The church’s his-tory had been forgotten, like the vaults

had been forgotten.” It is not just that a great window has opened on 19th-century urban life (one-third of the remains were those of children, and half of them suffered from rickets). A link has been forged to New Yorkers who were in the forefront of early battles against slavery. For its principles, regarded as fa-natical, if not demonic in the day, the church was sacked by a mob during citywide riots in 1834. The Spring Street Presbyterian Church had be-gun admitting African-Americans into full membership in 1820, while slavery was still legal in New York State, Mr. Pultz said. The multiracial character of the con-gregation has generally been corrob-orated by the remains exhumed from the vaults, said Shannon A. Novak, an associate professor of anthropology at Syracuse University, who studied the remains from 2007 until 2014, working with Thomas Crist of Utica College, Jo-di-Lynn Barta of Madonna University in Michigan and Joan Brenner-Coltrain of the University of Utah. Laight Street Presbyterian Church, were targets of the anti-abolition and anti-black mobs that took over city streets in July 1834.

Excavators for the Trump SoHo hotel project in 2006 came upon the human remains of nearly 200 members of the Spring Street Presbyterian Church, which was sacked by rioters in 1834. Credit Fred R. Conrad

Ruth Fremson/The New York Times

NEW YORK TODAY

New York Comic Con Adds Sites and Activities

Nelson Mandela and Fela Anikulapo Kuti rose to prominence in very differ-ent circumstances, but both were driv-en by overarching visions for change in their countries. This weekend, events in Brooklyn and Harlem pay tribute to their enduring legacies. On Saturday, BRIC, the nonprofit arts and media group, will host a “Fela Frol-ic” in honor of this Nigerian musician, who died at 58 in 1997. Things kick off at 2 p.m. with a slate of free fam-ily-friendly activities, including a scav-enger hunt through the BRIC House, an African drumming workshop by Dellwyn Gilkes, a family dance class with Iris Wilson, a screening of the doc-umentary “Finding Fela” and a perfor-mance by the Afrobeat ensemble Zon-go Junction. At 8 p.m., a “Jump N Funk” party starts, with the D.J. Rich Medina on hand and Sahr Ngaujah, who starred in Bill T. Jones’s acclaimed Broadway show “Fela!,” hosting and performing. Tickets for the evening portion are $10 in advance and $14 at the door. On Sunday afternoon, the Apollo The-ater presents a free panel discussion

on the cultural and political connection between Harlem and South Africa, in-cluding Mandela’s historic visit to New York in 1990 after his release from pris-on. The event is part of the theater’s Af-rica Now! festival, a celebration of that connection that also commemorates Mr. Mandela’s inauguration as presi-dent 20 years ago. (Mr. Mandela died at 95 last year.) The actor, singer and activist Harry Belafonte and David Din-kins, the former New York mayor, take part along with a handful of journalists, professors and artists. The event will also feature performances by WBAI-FM D.J.s and the South African Harlem Voices choir. (Saturday, 2 p.m. to midnight; 647 Fulton Street, at Rockwell Place, Fort Greene, Brooklyn; 718-683-5600, bri-cartsmedia.org.) Most of us seem to be shaped by a sense of place, whether it’s where we were born, an adopted home, a brief but resonant sojourn or a region of the imagination. “Iceland: Artists Respond to Place,” an exhibition running through Jan. 10 at Scandinavia House. Admis-sion is free.

Zelda, the Resident Turkey of Battery Park, Is Feared Dead

By ASHLEY SOUTHALL

Zelda, the famed wild turkey who made Battery Park in Manhattan her home and drew a devoted local follow-ing for more than a decade, is feared to be dead. The plumed denizen of the park has not been seen since a wild turkey was run over by a car last month while strolling down South Street near Pier 11, Nicole Brownstein, a spokeswom-an for the Battery Conservancy, said on Wednesday. Ms. Brownstein said a U.P.S. work-er and a custodian on South Street told interns on Sept. 26 that they saw sanitation workers scooping up the tur-key’s body that day. The group waited almost two weeks to announce her death, fearing a case of mistaken iden-tity. But Zelda, the only known wild tur-key in Manhattan, has not been seen since, she said. “We waited to see if she would show up and she didn’t,”.

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The organizer of New York Comic Con says it has found a way to pack more people into an already packed show. The event, which celebrates the cross-roads of comic books and pop culture, draws such huge crowds that the 151,000 tickets sold out in hours this year, leaving many fans clamoring for a way to im-merse themselves in their favorite tales of science-fiction and fantasy. But even as the convention expands, it faces criti-cism that it has lost its focus. Ticket sales for conventions like New York Comic Con totaled about $600 mil-lion in the United States last year, accord-ing to a study by Eventbrite, an online ticketing and events service. Revenue from ticket sales for the New York con-vention increased 40 percent this year over 2013, and ReedPop, the conven-tion’s organizer, says it wants it to grow even more. The problem is that attendance, which was 133,000 last year, has reached the capacity of the Jacob K. Javits Conven-tion Center, where the convention opened on Thursday and will run through Sun-day. But as the number of conventions and attendance have surged in recent years, in part because of the popularity

of the annual Comic-Con International in San Diego, money can be made by adding events at other sites. So this year, ReedPop broadened the scope of New York Comic Con, adding a weeklong series of events, called Super Week. “The investment is well north of a million dollars to get this going,” Lance Fensterman, the glob-al vice president of ReedPop, said of Super Week. “We were not shy about launching this thing. It’s 110 events in 25 venues all over the city.” But Mr. Fensterman acknowledged that any return on the investment might not appear for a few years. “We are not worried about how it will pay off this year, but in five or 10 years,” he said, adding that he hoped it would become as well known as oth-er New York events like Fashion Week and Advertising Week. “We want this to be an anchor in the fall.” Some critics complain that the ex-pansion ambitions of such conven-tions take the focus away from comic books, but industry specialists say the strategy could pay off for the organiz-ers and for businesses that rely on tourism. The city reported in 2011 that the economic impact of the convention was $50 million, a number that Reed-Pop says grew to $70 million last year. “They are looking at this as a cat-egory they think they can grow,” said Milton Griepp, the founder of ICv2, a website that tracks the industry. “New York is the media capital of the world, and Reed is a good show operator that has been able to build on that.” ReedPop has plenty of experience managing pop culture conventions. It

runs the Chicago Comic and Enter-tainment Expo, the Star Wars Cele-bration in Anaheim, Calif., the U.F.C. (United Fighting Championship) Fan Expo in Las Vegas and several video game conventions. It has global am-bitions as well. ReedPop announced this week that it would sponsor a com-ic book convention in Paris next year. It already has shows in Australia and India. “They help us with better vendors for setting up the infrastructure,” said Jatin Varma, the founder of Comic Con India and ReedPop’s partner there. “They are experts; they know how to move people to these events.” ReedPop is focusing its experience on New York. But the logistics of the

cramped, crowded city pose a chal-lenge to the ambitions for more space. In San Diego, Comic-Con Interna-tional spills into the streets of the Gas-lamp Quarter, taking over restaurants, bars, parking lots and even Petco Park and the USS Midway aircraft carrier. To overcome transportation obsta-cles, ReedPop worked with Chevro-let and Uber to offer free rides to Su-per Week events. Several New York restaurants will park food trucks near the convention center to offer more choices. But a bigger challenge may come from comic book fans themselves, who complain that the inclusion of movies, television and video games has pulled attention away from comic

Mandela and Fela, Honored in Dance and Song

Comic book fans, some dressed as their favorite characters, bought out the 151,000 conven-tion tickets in just hours. Credit Fred R. Conrad/The New York Times

Fela Anikulapo Kuti’s memory will be honored at BRIC in Fort Greene, Brooklyn. Credit Laurent Rebours/Associated Press

In Testimony, Mother Who Killed Son, 8,Denies She Forcibly Drugged HimBy JAMES C. McKINLEY Jr

The woman accused of killing her son in the Peninsula Hotel broke down into tears on the witness stand on Wednes-day, as she admitted to a hushed court that she had tried to kill herself and her 8-year-old son through a lethal dose of drugs.But the woman, Gigi Jor-dan, strongly denied the prosecutors’ account of the murder: that she had climbed on top of her son and brutally forced a liquefied mix of drugs and al-cohol down his throat with a syringe.Her testimony comes about four weeks into the murder trial in State Supreme Court in Manhattan, and about four and a half years after the death of her son.Ms. Jordan, 53, was asked by her lawyer, Allen Brenner, if she had injected drugs into her son’s mouth, pinching his nose, covering his mouth and compelling him

to swallow.“No, I did not,” she an-swered.“Did you give your-self and your son an amount of drugs that you believed would take your life and his?” the lawyer asked“Yes, I did,” she said, and began to weep. Justice Charles H. Solo-mon handed her a box of tissues.Then Ms. Jordan, a former nurse who made millions of dollars with a home health care company, said there were circumstances and pressures that drove her to take such a drastic step.She has never disputed that she killed

her son, but has described it to re-porters and in a bail application as a mercy killing. In an unusual defense, her lawyers have contended that she was in the grip of an extreme emotional disturbance created by her belief that she was about to be murdered, and that her son would end up in the custody of her second husband, a man she be-lieved had tortured and raped the boy. If a jury agrees, that defense could re-sult in a manslaughter conviction. The police found the boy, Jude Mirra, dead in a bed at the Peninsula Hotel at about noon on Feb. 5. The door had been bar-ricaded with a chair. Ms. Jordan was on the floor next to the bed, surrounded by pills. A pill crusher and a syringe used to force feed patients were discovered, along with empty vodka bottles.

At Smith’s Bar in Manhattan, One Last Drink Before the Neon Goes DarkBy MOSI SECRET

“I know! I know!” the bartender shouted to her long-faced customers. They came in waves, crashing toward the familiar bar counter for one last tipple, one last memory of what once was, and may never be again. They all seemed to ask, “Can you believe it?” She threw up her hands and waved them off in mock consternation. Yes, Smith’s Bar and Restaurant is closing. The neon-lit northwest corner of 44th Street and Eighth Avenue has stayed the same for decades, hosting Broadway stagehands, prostitutes, tourists and commuters, drunks, Hell’s Kitchen residents, sailors — even a murder and a suicide. Now it is going the way of, well, the rest of the old Times Square area. Details are still scant. The management at Smith’s is not saying why the bar is closing, and the bartenders, like Meghan, who in her impossibly thick Brooklyn accent can say the sweetest things using the most offensive language, are not saying much either — only that Thursday night would be the bar’s last. But the regulars hardly pressed for details, so familiar was the narrative of out with the old and in with the new. Better to pull up and have a drink. Or a shot, for that matter. “It was the last vestige of pre-Giuliani New York City,” said Andrew Hecht, 55, a Brooklyn-born writer who used to live in Hell’s Kitchen and was in town from Las Vegas. He had been walking around the bar in circles, drink in hand, taking it all in for the last time. “I was sad when I heard it was going to close down. It’s an institution in the neighborhood.” “It was everything from business suits going to Port Authority to old drunks puking on their shoes,” Mr. Hecht added. “It was a nice mixture.” He got lost for a moment in a reverie of long nights at Smith’s; then he said with a smile that none of his tales were fit for publication. The scene on Wednesday night, the bar’s penultimate, was part spirited farewell and part run-of-the-mill boozing. A group of Smith’s employees clustered at one end of the bar, downing shots and sharing laughs. Some patrons came to watch the last game of the World Series or the New York Knicks’ season opener.

FOR those averse to working out in gyms or who wouldn’t go for a jog if they were paid to, there are still enjoy-able ways to get going without feeling as if it were Exercise with a capital E. That’s what three dozen women were after when they attended a recent Jamaican-inspired dancehall fitness class at Ripley-Grier Studios in Mid-town Manhattan. The class, called Brukwine, is an invi-tation to women of all shapes and siz-es to shed their inhibitions and move with abandon. It’s geared toward those who may steer clear of more traditional types of exercise, and it offers a spin on the sultry moves that accompany Jamaican-style dancehall music. Brukwine is all about breaking out and moving the hips — something that the creators, Tamara Marrow, 35, and Au-tavia Bailey, 34, know all about. They have performed with the dancehall star Sean Paul, pop stars like Beyoncé and Jennifer Lopez and others. They started Brukwine in 2012 as “a workout, first and foremost,” Ms. Mar-

row said. In a dimly lit long room, participants faced mirrors in rows. Some were wearing Brukwine-emblazoned short shorts, tops, leggings or hats. A trained assistant known as a Brukwine Gyal guided them through stretches. Then, after many of the women put on pumps, platforms and stilettos (sneakers are also fine), a second Brukwine Gyal led hip-isolation practice to “Every Gyal a Mine,” by Demarco. Like belly dancing, Brukwine involves hip movements that call for lots of muscle independence. Ms. Bailey stepped to the front in golden stilettos. She drew cheers from the boisterous crowd and began demonstrating the routine of the day, which she and Ms. Marrow choreo-graphed for a song called “Touch You,” by Konshens. Ms. Bailey counted slowly as the class followed along with her steps and the rhythmic hip gyrations called “wines,” which she said were “the ba-sis of our whole workout.” The wines, varying in speed, are performed with a

circular flow punctuated by a comple-mentary move called a “tick,” a jerk of the hips resembling the ticking motion of a clock. “Get that hip in it,” she told the class, which went through some rounds be-fore taking it from the top with the mu-sic at a club-like volume. Then Ms. Marrow, in neon pink stilettos, walked the class through the next piece in the routine at an easygoing pace. It includ-ed more steps, a neck and body roll and a “drop,” in which everyone squat-ted down and sprang back up. At the end of the 60-minute class, the room steamy and bodies glistening, the group went through it once more, followed by loud cheers, laughter and excited chatter. Kadian Abrahams, a 25-year-old Ja-maican lingerie designer who lives in Midtown, recalled how worn out she had been after her first class a week earlier. “I was sore in places I didn’t know I could get sore,” she said, smiling. But that didn’t stop her from putting on

her platform boots and returning for more, as much for the intensity of the full-body workout as for the friendly at-mosphere. (Those with counters have said that the hourlong Brukwine ses-sion can burn 1,000 calories.)

Devin Edwards, 33, an administra-tive assistant who lives in St. Albans, Queens, said she had been to almost every class for more than a year and was in much better shape as a result. “Gyms are boring — this is not,” said Ms. Edwards, in a Brukwine shirt and pumps. “It’s sexy to work out in heels,” she added, and some say it makes the routine more strenuous. The Brukwine creators feel strong-ly that there is a place for sexiness in exercise, achieved by giving women license to let loose. “We want women to feel confident about themselves,” Ms. Marrow said. “Everyone can be sexy.”

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A Hip-Swiveling Workout That’s Steamy in Every Way

By SABRINA TAVERNISE

WASHINGTON — Facing sharp questioning at a Congressional hear-ing on Thursday about the troubled handling of Ebola cases in the United States, federal health officials said that a nurse with Ebola would be trans-ferred to a specialized unit at the Na-tional Institutes of Health in Maryland, to ease the burden of the Dallas hospi-tal where she became infected. Health officials said that the hospital, Texas Health Presbyterian, is strained in its efforts to monitor dozens of oth-er health care workers who may have been exposed to the virus, and that the nurse, Nina Pham, was being trans-ferred at the hospital’s request. “They are now dealing with at least 50 health care workers who may poten-tially have been exposed,” Dr. Thomas R. Frieden, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, told members of the House Energy and Commerce Committee. “That makes it quite challenging to operate, and we felt it would be more prudent to focus on caring for any patients who come in with symptoms.” The hearing thrust the deadly virus and the government’s halting manage-ment of it into the realm of politics in the midst of a national election season. “Errors in judgment have been made,” said Tim Murphy, a Republican from Pennsylvania. “We have been told,

‘Virtually any hospital in the country that can do isolation can do isolation for Ebola.’ The events in Dallas have proven otherwise.” Ms. Pham was part of the medical team that cared for Thomas Eric Dun-can, a Liberian who died of Ebola last week. She is to be moved to the N.I.H. facility in Bethesda, Md., on Thursday evening, where she will take one of the unit’s two beds. She is in stable condi-tion. A second nurse infected at Texas Presbyterian was moved on Wednes-day to Emory University Hospital in Atlanta, which has successfully treated two American Ebola patients. Both nurses worked in the hospital’s intensive care unit, and Dr. Frieden said that investigators’ “leading hypothesis” was that the women became infected in the first few days of caring for Mr. Duncan, when, according to hospital officials, they were wearing basic pro-tective gear but had not yet upgraded to full biohazard suits. Dr. Daniel Varga, the chief clinical officer for Texas Health Resources, the medical group that oversees Tex-as Health Presbyterian Hospital, said during the hearing that since the pa-tient was having diarrhea when he was admitted, “shoe covers were added shortly thereafter,” implying that care-takers had not been wearing them at first. “Do you know how long it took to put those shoe covers on?” asked Diana

DeGette, Democrat of Colorado.“I don’t,” said Dr. Varga, who was speaking by video link. She asked whether there had been real training on the job for health work-ers.“No,” Dr. Varga said. Another sharp line of questioning dealt with why the second nurse, Am-ber Joy Vinson, was allowed to fly from Cleveland to Dallas on Oct. 13 even after she called the C.D.C. from the airport and told them she had a slight fever. It was not known yet that she had contracted the virus.Continue reading the main story Con-tinue reading the main storyContinue reading the main story “Were you part of those conversa-tions?” Mr. Murphy asked Dr. Frieden.“No, I was not,” Dr. Frieden responded.“I have not seen the transcript of that conversation,” he added. “My under-standing is that she reported no symp-toms to us.” Ebola is one of the world’s most le-thal diseases, but is contagious only through contact with bodily fluids, and health officials say it is highly unlikely that passengers on Ms. Vinson’s flight were at risk. Over all, the three-hour hearing was relatively cordial. “I respect you,” Mr. Murphy said to Dr. Frieden, during an exchange about a ban on travel from affected countries, which Republican lawmakers contin-

ued to press for. Fred Upton, a Republican from Mich-igan, said he wanted to know why fed-eral authorities could not simply look at incoming people’s travel histories “and say, no, you’re not coming here.” Dr. Frieden countered that people would continue to travel to the United States, but it would be harder to track them. He also pointed out that Amer-ican citizens made up a significant share of those arriving from the affect-ed countries. But lawmakers did not give up.“There’s no restrictions for travel on humans, but what about dogs?” said Morgan Griffith, Republican of Virginia. “Don’t you think we should at least re-strict the travel of dogs?” In his opening statement, Dr. Varga apologized for what he said were mis-takes made by the Dallas hospital in the original diagnosis of Ebola. “Unfortunately, in our initial treatment of Mr. Duncan, despite our best inten-tions and a highly skilled medical team, we made mistakes,” he said in remarks prepared for the hearing. “We did not correctly diagnose his symptoms as those of Ebola. And we are deeply sorry.” Correction: October 16, 2014 An earlier version of this article mis-identified the flight taken by Amber Joy Vinson after she called the C.D.C. and said she had a slight fever, as well as the date of the flight.

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NATION & WORLD

By KEN BELSON

REDMOND, Wash. — Few things are left to chance when it comes to N.F.L. games. Strict rules govern everything from the uniforms to the referees to the condition of the field. So when Microsoft agreed to a long-term sponsorship of the N.F.L. last year, the company knew it would be doing business with a meticulous partner. It learned this firsthand when it developed a Surface tablet computer for players and coaches to use during games start-ing this season. In months of discussions with N.F.L. teams, technology experts and the league’s competition committee, Mi-crosoft was told the tablets had to be rugged enough to survive drops, easy enough to use in a hurry and big enough for several people to see its screen at once. They had to work in ex-treme temperatures (hot and cold), re-sist glare and hold a battery charge for a full game, and they had to work on a secure wireless network without delays. A cart holding up to 16 tablets had to have strong wheels so it could be rolled onto the sideline; a tilted top to prevent cups from being left there; and a pow-er supply, a heater and a cooler inside to maintain optimal tablet performance. Microsoft insisted that the box be paint-ed cyan, the same color as the tablet. “We needed to make sure this can withstand the rigors of the N.F.L.,” John Haley, the manager of one of Micro-soft’s development labs, said as he held a small replica of the cart, made with a 3-D printer. “We tried to find a balance between weight, durability and utility.” As the N.F.L. heads toward mid-season, the toughened tablets, which download high-definition photographs of plays moments after they occur, have blended into the sidelines. But their de-velopment offers a window into the rela-tionship between the N.F.L. and its busi-ness partners, particularly those vying for one of the few spots on a field that tens of millions of fans see every week. The tablets are also a study in how the relationships between sports leagues and their sponsors have evolved, from the days when companies were happy to pay to have their names on billboards in return for tickets to now, when they push to embed their products in a game. “There are definitely more compa-nies trying to be more a part of the ac-tion and essentially using the sport as a demo ad for their product,” said Bob Dorfman, who writes the Sports Market-ers’ Scouting Report. “There is a strong

connection between the product, sports and performance aspect of it.” Microsoft is not the first company to win a spot on the field. In tennis, for instance, I.B.M. has pro-vided statistics to fans in the stadium and at home as a way to show corpo-rate decision-makers technology they can harness. For decades, N.F.L. players have tak-en drinks from orange Gatorade jugs, the contents of which are often dumped on the winning coach. Coaches wore Motorola headsets before Bose won that spot this season. Nike, Riddell and others have provided athletic gear. Microsoft’s relationship with the N.F.L. is more complex because it is not just trying to sell tablets to consumers and football coaches. It is also trying to in-crease the profile of its Xbox game con-soles. Since November, millions of users have been able to use their Xbox Ones as set-top boxes to receive updates on their fantasy football teams, invitations to play the Madden video game and ac-cess to RedZone and video highlights from the N.F.L. — all while watching live games. The multifaceted sponsorship was not cheap, and it is one reason the N.F.L. took in $1.1 billion in sponsorship rev-enue last year. Microsoft will reported-ly pay the N.F.L. $400 million over the five-year life of the deal, figures that the company and the league would not con-firm. Whatever the number, Yusuf Mehdi, who oversees marketing and strate-gy for Microsoft’s devices and studios, which includes the Xbox and the Sur-face, said it was money well spent. “By far, the N.F.L. is the crown jew-

el of entertainment,” he said while showing off the Xbox at the company’s headquarters, east of Seattle. “It has that fan passion, and we have that with the Xbox. And on the sideline, it really showcases what Microsoft can do when it brings its full muscle to bear.” The question of how to create the “sideline of the future” arose a couple of years ago, said Brian Rolapp, the executive vice president for media at the N.F.L. As Motorola’s deal with the league was coming to a close, league officials thought about things they want-ed to improve. One was the black-and-white photos of every play of every game, he said. For years, assistants grabbed the photos off printers on the sideline, stuffed them into three-ring binders and gave them to coaches and players to review. But the photos were grainy and cumbersome to collate and could not be annotated. The N.F.L. spoke to several technology companies before settling on Microsoft, partly because it could produce a tablet for the sideline and turn the Xbox into a conduit for N.F.L. content. Microsoft, meanwhile, saw the value in getting its products in front of millions of fans. “I’m not sure where sponsorship deals end and media deals begin,” Rolapp said. “People spend a lot of time on a 30-second commercial trying to convey the attributes of their product. This actu-ally shows it.” Introduced in the preseason, the tab-lets have worked largely as designed. Brian Schneider, special teams coach of the Seattle Seahawks, said he liked that the photos were delivered to his tablet in seconds because he often had to chase players running on and off the field. The clarity of the photos and the

ability to zoom in help him highlight the blocking schemes and decoys of op-posing teams. “It’s so much clearer; you can get so much more information,” Schneider said at the Seahawks’ training complex. “I used to wait for the photos to arrive, and I’d get antsy. Now, I get the pho-tos by the time the players come off the field.” Giants quarterback Eli Manning said he liked being able to look at up to four images on one screen instead of thumbing through four pages, and he can enlarge the images as needed. “I look to see if there’s a way the de-fense tipped its hand before the play was called,” Manning said. “The tech-nology is a help. The more information, the better off we are.”Continue reading the main story Contin-ue reading the main storyContinue reading the main story While more sophisticated than the old photos — which are still printed as backups — the tablets have limits. Teams can have only 13 of them on the sideline and 12 in the coaches’ booth, and all of them must be returned after games so photos and annotations can be erased. Players cannot take selfies because the cameras have been dis-abled, and the tablets have no other programs installed and cannot be con-nected to the Internet. There have been hiccups, most no-tably when the wireless network oper-ated by the N.F.L. has crashed, forcing teams to use the paper backups. Bill Belichick, coach of the New England Patriots, said the network had tempo-rarily failed during games. But, he said, the paper photo delivery has crashed, too, not to mention the problems with the radios that coaches use to speak to their quarterbacks. “I’d say that’s all kind of part of the game,” Belichick said last month. “I can’t think of too many games where we haven’t had something along” the way. Microsoft has made adjustments. Software was adjusted to prevent the tablet from overheating and to make it possible to scroll through photos while zoomed in, instead of having to back out, select a new photo and zoom in again. Microsoft also added a favorites button so coaches could quickly return to photos they liked. Wireless signal and battery indicators were added.

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Microsoft developed a Surface tablet computer for players and coaches to use during games starting this season. Credit David Richard/Associated Press

SPORTS

Nets and Kings Continue N.B.A.’s Basketball Diplomacy in ChinaBy BECKY DAVIS BEIJING — In China, there is one bastion of American capitalism and culture that nobody is shy about supporting: the N.B.A. The country’s insatiable appetite for American hoops was on full display this week in Shanghai and Beijing, where the Brooklyn Nets played the Sacramento Kings. The Global Games — as N.B.A. teams’ games outside North America have come to be known — are greeted here as the sports equivalent of the Academy Awards. It is the one time each year that fans can glimpse retired basketball stars and watch players whom they have studied on CCTV 5 broadcasts play live. “The N.B.A. is just too thrilling,” said Wang Lianying, 24, smoothing an “I ♥ NBA” sticker on her cheek while a Chinese M.C. directed the crowd at the 18,000-seat MasterCard Center to roar its approval for the Brooklynettes, the Nets’ cheer squad. “I was here last year and just had to come again.” The N.B.A. averages five million viewers per game in China for its TV broadcasts, three million more than for its cable broadcasts in the United States last year, and has 80 million followers on its Chinese social media accounts, making it the country’s most popular sports league, by that measure. With preseason pilgrimages like this one, the league hopes to cultivate new audiences and cash in on its growing Chinese fan base. With an estimated 300 million Chinese people playing basketball nationwide, the room still left for market growth appears immense. “For anyone that wants to go global, you have to be relevant in China,” said Brett Yormark, the Nets’ chief executive, who has made six trips to China in the past year and a half. Last year, the Agricultural Bank of China, one of China’s “Big Four” state-owned banks, was a Nets sponsor, and Yormark said the team was close to developing three or four other major partnerships with Chinese companies. “They see us as the bridge from Beijing to Brooklyn.” The N.B.A. is fortunate that the broad appeal of its sport transcends national lines. When even Xi Jinping, China’s president, is a fan — he took in a Los Angeles Lakers game while in the United States in 2012 — you get the privilege of promoting your brand through cooperation with the Chinese

Giants Briefed on Ebola Before Dallas TripBy BILL PENNINGTON

EAST RUTHERFORD, N.J. — With a game at Dallas on Sunday, the Giants have taken steps to ensure that their players, staff and entire traveling party have been briefed on the deadly Ebola

government at its highest levels. “It wasn’t that long ago when people spoke of Ping-Pong diplomacy, but I think we’ve now entered the era of basketball diplomacy,” David Shoemaker, chief executive of N.B.A. China, said. Thanks to basketball diplomacy, a number of American N.B.A. employees had the chance to experience an authentic, if less celebrated, slice of modern Chinese reality while hunting for some night life. After a dinner of crisp-skin roast Beijing duck the night before the game, Hwa Wu, stage manager at N.B.A. Entertainment, and three other N.B.A. employees found themselves in Qianhai, where the streets of bars cupping a placid urban lake have English names like “Facing the Water Beautiful Scenery Pub” and the live pop music emanating from each battles to be the most earsplitting. The next night, crowds already drained from the crush of rush hour were subjected to a gantlet of scalpers before being released from the maw of the Beijing subway. Every four steps a scalper stood sentinel, each slapping a thick wad of crisp 100 renminbi notes against his palms and accosting anyone who made eye contact. “Do you need tickets? How many? I’ve got a great deal,” said one gentleman,

virus that has infected two health care workers in a Dallas hospital, where one man died of the disease last week.Spurred by the N.F.L., which distribut-ed an informational letter about Ebola to every team on Monday, the Giants provided employees with what amount-ed to an Ebola fact sheet that included several paragraphs about how Ebola was spread, key risk factors and other practical advice. In general, the letter informed the teams that the chance of players or employees contracting the disease was extremely low. The letter was written by the medical directors of the Duke University Infection Con-trol Outreach Network. The N.F.L. has partnered with Duke in the past and has regularly sent N.F.L. franchises perti-nent medical information issued by the

who offered courtside seats with a face value of 3,200 renminbi for 2,000 renminbi (about $325) and whose cheapest nosebleed seats would have still set a fan back 200 renminbi, a bit over $30.Inside the stadium, fans waited impatiently all evening for the Nets to put Kevin Garnett into the game, chanting, “K.G.! K.G.!” during every timeout in the hopes of getting him off the bench. At halftime, Wang Shuo, 27, a lifelong basketball fan, said that he was enjoying the game, but also that he, like many others, had come to see some star players rather than support a particular team. “The most exciting thing all evening has been waiting for K.G. to play.” He never did, causing disappointed fans to start trickling out in the fourth quarter.Except when breaking out the K.G. chants, the crowd was subdued; at times, it seemed almost as if the fans might break out into golf claps. American standards failed to translate and rouse them — not the part of the “Cha Cha Slide” that instructs everybody to clap their hands, and certainly not the Baha Men’s query, “Who let the dogs out?” There was silence where each responding “Who?” should have been. “Last year, Kobe Bryant was here, so the crowds were so much more high, more full of energy,” said Jia Guo, a

university, a league spokesman said. “At this point we do not advise screen-ing of players or staff to make sure that they have not had close contact with anyone who traveled to or from areas where Ebola is now endemic,” wrote Drs. Daniel Sexton and Deverick An-derson, who are also professors within the infectious diseases division of Duke University Medical Center. “We do recommend that medical personnel educate their players and staff about the need to inform club med-ical personnel in the unlikely event that they actually have such contact. This informa-

cameraman for Chengdu Radio and TV. Though the players were groomed to say only the most positive things about their interaction with Chinese fans, the Nets guard Deron Williams nonetheless admitted postgame that the crowd lacked a certain energy. “At times it was a little dull, but they like exciting plays, and when those exciting plays happen, they cheer,” he said.

The crowd was at its most enthusiastic when the retired N.B.A. players Peja Stojakovic, Vlade Divac and Mitch Richmond were trotted out to center court by a sequined Kings dance team handler. Terry Rhoads, managing director of Zou Marketing, a strategic sports branding firm, put the country’s fascination with N.B.A. stars in context by noting that fans here are always in search of the most superlative athletes. “They’re enamored with the best,” he said. When it comes to basketball, the N.B.A. has that market cornered. China’s own league, the Chinese Basketball Association, remains dependent on a Soviet-style system of player. development that struggles to churn out top talent — one of the country’s last real traces of socialism. At Wednesday night’s game, fans’ comparisons of the Chinese league to the N.B.A. were met with laughs and scoffs.

tion can then be used along with consultation with local public health departments and local infectious disease experts to assess wheth-er any further actions are needed.”The letter continued: “Other than the recommendation that medical person-nel educate their staff about the need to report exposures to persons who re-cently traveled to or from West Africa, additional new policies, procedures or activities by team physicians and ath-letic trainers designed to prevent Ebola infections in their team members are not recommended.”

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The Kings’ Darren Collison tried to get around the defense of Brook Lopez on Wednesday in the Nets’ 129-117 victory over the Kings in Bei-jing. Credit Ng Han Guan/Associated Press

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