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PROVIDENCE (AP) —
Five Rhode Island charter
schools are asking to add
more than 900 seats. and
state Education
Commissioner Deborah A.
Gist is recommending
accepting the requests.
The requests will be considered Monday by the
Council on Elementary and
Secondary Education, the
Providence Journal reported. The schools are in
Providence, Woonsocket,
South Kingston and
Pawtucket.
Charter schools are public schools that have greater
flexibility over school
hours, curriculum, hiring
and budgeting. About 7,000
students attend 25 charter
schools in Rhode Island,
which has 140,000 students
overall.
Stephen Nardelli, executive director of the Rhode
Island League of Charter
Schools, told the newspaper
there were 13,000 applications for about 1,000 charter
school openings last year.
“I think we’ve been
around for a bit now, and
we've had a number of successful charters,” Nardelli
said. “They are in a position
where they need to expand
in order for them to offer
more programming.”
Beacon Charter School
for the Arts high school in
Woonsocket wants to add a
middle school with 174 students.
The International Charter
School in Pawtucket, which
has dual language programs
in English and Spanish, and
English and Portuguese, has
324 students in kindergarten
through fifth grade. It wants
to add 306 students from
kindergarten through eighth
grade.
E-cigarettes A-list attraction for teens
Tobacco Free Rhode Island and
Woonsocket Prevention Coalition
say more regulation is sorely needed in this rapidly expanding market
that clearly sees young people as an
important component.
“We just want to keep it out of
the hands of kids, whether it’s e-cigarettes, tobacco or alcohol,” said
Lisa Carcifero, executive director of
the prevention coalition. “If you
give them a start with something
that’s addictive, that’s a lifelong
journey they’re going to struggle
with.”
Studies show that if kids can get
through their teens without picking
up an addictive habit, they’re far
less likely to do so when they get
older, Carcifero says.
E-cigarettes are often pitched as
a comparatively healthy alternative
to regular smoking, or a tool to help
dug-in smokers quit. But Carcifero
and others say the jury is still out on
the health risks associated with
long-term use of e-cigarettes.
There’s no question they contain
nicotine, which is addictive and
many public health agencies call a
“poison.” But there are other substances that are ingested during the
use of e-cigarettes that carry potential health risks, Carcifero says.
Health effects topic
of heated debate;
states take the lead
on regulating use
By RUSS OLIVO
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WOONSOCKET – Check out
this product pitch for “Caramel
Apple” and take a guess what’s for
sale.
“Imagine, as sweet caramel falls
over a delightfully crisp and fresh
apple, perfectly blending your
favorite balance of sweet and
refreshing flavors,” it goes.
Is this something to eat, like
candy? Cookies?
Despite the alluring appeal to the
senses, the product at hand isn’t for
eating. It’s e-liquid, the stuff that’s
inhaled from – you guessed it – ecigarettes. In the booming market
for electronic nicotine delivery systems, it’s easy to find scores of
products with fruity, whimsical
names critics and health advocates
say are targeted toward minors,
especially on the Internet:
Bubblegum, Windmill Cookie,
Circus Cotton Candy.
Online vendors looking for a
piece of what the New England
Journal of Medicine estimates to be
a roughly $12 billion a year pie in
the U.S. may still be beyond the
easy reach of state regulators and
the Food and Drug Administration.
But as of Jan. 1 Rhode Island joined
a growing number of states attempting to make it harder for e-cigarettes and accessories to be sold to
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The use of e-cigarettes, such as the one above, from which flavored e-liquid
can be inhaled, has created a new area of debate about smoking, particularly
for teens. While Rhode Island’s legislators have approved restrictions on
youth access to e-cigarettes, their Massachusetts counterparts have not.
minors from brick and mortar
stores.
The new law bans the sale of ecigarettes and accessories to anyone
under 18 and also requires vendors
to obtain an annual license, similar
to those required of regular cigarettes and other traditional tobacco
products.
Anti-smoking groups like
SINCE 2003, when they were
first invented, e-cigarettes have
burst into the marketplace with a
ferocity that most entrepreneurs
only dream about, and states have
been moving faster to regulate them
than the federal government.
An e-cigarette is basically a
metal tube designed to look like a
AN UNWELCOME RETURN
Republican
Congress
tasked with
fixing budget
White House hopes
ride on avoiding
unforced stumbles
By ALAN FRAM
Associated Press
Congressional Gold Medal, the highest award Congress has to honor
civilians.
“Senator Brooke led an extraordinary life of public service,” Obama
said in a statement Saturday. “"As
the first African-American elected as
a state’s Attorney General and first
African-American U.S. Senator elected after reconstruction, Ed Brooke
stood at the forefront of the battle for
civil rights and economic fairness.”
Massachusetts Gov. Deval Patrick,
the state’s first black governor, said:
“I have lost a friend and mentor.”
Secretary of State John Kerry, a former U.S. senator from
Massachusetts, said Brooke showed
“remarkable political courage.”
A Republican in a largely
Democratic state, Brooke was one of
Massachusetts’ most popular political
WASHINGTON — In the
first Republican-dominated
Congress to confront
President Barack Obama,
GOP leaders will focus on
bolstering the economy and
cutting the budget — and oh
yes, avoiding self-inflicted
calamities that make voters
wonder if the party can govern competently.
When the new Congress
raises the curtain Tuesday,
Republicans will run both the
House and Senate for the
first time in eight years. GOP
leaders want to showcase
their legislative priorities,
mixing accomplishments
with showdowns with Obama
but shunning government
shutdowns and other chaotic
standoffs.
Another priority is minimizing distractions like the
recent admission by No. 3
House leader Steve Scalise,
R-La., that he addressed a
white supremacist group in
2002.
“Serious adults are in
charge here and we intend to
make progress,” incoming
Senate Majority Leader
Mitch McConnell, R-Ky.,
told The Associated Press
recently.
McConnell says the
Senate’s first bill would force
construction of the Keystone
XL oil pipeline, which
Republicans call a job creator
but Obama and many
Democrats say threatens the
environment.
The House leads off with
legislation letting small companies sidestep some requirements of Obama’s prized
health care overhaul by hiring veterans, followed by
other measures weakening
that law and pushing the
Keystone pipeline.
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After a virtually snow-free month, winter returned to downtown Woonsocket late Saturday afternoon as a complex storm
dropped one to two inches of snow across the region before turning to rain during the evening, with freezing precipitation
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Ed Brooke, first black man elected
to U.S. Senate, dies at age 95
Mass. Republican won
landmark race in 1966
By SYLVIA WINGFIELD
and MARK PRATT
Associated Press
BOSTON — Former U.S. Sen.
Edward W. Brooke, a liberal
Republican who became the first
black in U.S. history to win popular
election to the Senate, died Saturday.
He was 95.
Brooke died of natural causes at
his Coral Gables, Fla., home, said
Ralph Neas, Brooke’s former chief
counsel. Brooke was surrounded by
his family.
Brooke was elected to the Senate
in 1966, becoming the first black to
sit in that branch from any state since
Reconstruction and one of nine
blacks who have ever served there —
Former U.S. Sen. Ed Brooke (R-Mass.)
including Barack Obama.
After Obama’s presidential election in 2008, Brooke told The
Associated Press he was “thankful to
God” that he lived to see it. And with
the president on hand in October
2009, Brooke received the
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Congress
Other bills likely early would
block Obama’s executive actions
on immigration and ease environmental and business regulations
that the GOP contends stifles job
growth. Additional bills would cut
spending, squeeze Medicare and
other benefit programs, revamp tax
laws, finance highway construction
and speed congressional approval
of trade treaties.
“We’re focused on job creation,” said House Majority Leader
Kevin McCarthy, R-Calif., and
running “a more efficient, effective, accountable government.”
Democrats say the GOP’s goal
is cutting taxes on the rich while
crippling Obama’s accomplishments, including expanded health
coverage and restrictions on financial institutions.
“In the minority, your role is to
play defense and stop the worst
from happening,” said Sen. Dick
Durbin of Illinois, the No. 2 Senate
Democrat.
Republicans captured Senate
control in November’s midterm
elections, adding nine seats for a
54-46 advantage that includes two
Democratic-leaning independents.
A 13-seat gain swelled their House
majority to a commanding 246-188
with one vacancy, the result of
New York Republican Michael
Brooke
figures during most of his
12 years in the Senate.
Brooke earned his reputation as a Senate liberal in
part by becoming the first
Republican senator to pub-
Grimm’s planned resignation following his guilty plea on a tax evasion charge.
With McConnell and House
Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio,
jointly mapping an agenda and
scheduling long congressional
work periods, goals and potential
pitfalls include:
DISTRACTIONS
AND THE CALENDAR
GOP leaders still face tea party
lawmakers. Their recalcitrance
helped produce stalemates with
Obama that excited conservative
Republican voters but appalled
others, causing GOP approval to
plummet. Top Republicans want to
ensure that Scalise’s 2002 speech,
for which he has apologized, doesn’t hurt their efforts to appeal to
more diverse voters.
Another complication: By
autumn 2015, the developing presidential race could distract voters
from congressional Republicans’
messaging.
“We want things arriving at the
president’s desk, and a lot of those
things happening sooner rather
than later,” said Rep. Tom Cole, ROkla. “It’s not helpful to us if we
drag into spring or summer and the
stories are, ‘It’s a do-nothing
Congress’ or a confrontation.”
ENOUGH REPUBLICANS?
licly urge President Richard
Nixon to resign. He helped
lead the forces in favor of
the Equal Rights
Amendment and was a
defender of school busing to
achieve racial integration, a
bitterly divisive issue in
Boston.
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McConnell will often need at
least six Democrats for the 60
Senate votes required to overcome
filibusters, procedural delays
aimed at scuttling bills.
Republicans will need two-thirds
majorities in each chamber, impossible without Democratic support,
to override Obama vetoes that
await bills threatening his health
care law and his actions easing
immigration rules.
McConnell says at an upcoming
House-Senate Republican retreat,
he will warn, “Don’t get your
expectations so high that you’re
inevitably going to be disappointed.”
IMMIGRATION
Funding for the Department of
Homeland Security, which enforces
immigration laws, runs through
late February.
House Republicans plan to
quickly vote to finance that agency
through September but are still discussing how to use that bill to
block Obama’s executive actions
deferring deportation for millions
of immigrants in the United States
illegally. That measure’s Senate
fate and GOP strategy for an
Obama veto remain unclear.
Republicans rule out a sweeping
immigration overhaul like the
Senate-passed, bipartisan 2013
He also lent his name to
the Brooke amendment to
the federal housing act,
passed in 1969, which limited to 25 percent the amount
of income a family must
pay for rent in public housing.
Incoming Senate
Majority Leader Mitch
McConnell on Saturday
recalled his first impression
of the newly elected senator
when McConnell was a
Senate staffer and described
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measure. They plan narrower bills
that could attract Democrats, bolstering border security and easing
immigration restrictions on highly
skilled and farm workers.
HEALTH CARE
Republicans are itching to vote
to repeal Obama’s 2010 health care
law, knowing that would never get
his signature.
They’re preparing measures
repealing the medical device tax
and ending the requirement that
people buy medical coverage. They
would also exempt companies
from providing coverage to
employees who work under 40
hours weekly, up from the current
30 hours.
BUDGET AND TAXES
The new House Budget
Committee chairman, Rep. Tom
Price, R-Ga., expects his chamber
to approve a budget similar to
blueprints written by former chairman Paul Ryan, R-Wis., ending
deficits in a decade, trimming
spending and overhauling benefits
like Medicare. Senate Republicans
want belt-tightening, but
McConnell didn’t promise a balanced budget in 10 years.
Republicans want to rewrite tax
laws, but progress is uncertain.
They want to lower rates for cor-
Brooke as “a model of
courage and honesty in
office.”
“Even from across the
Senate chamber, you could
sense that this was a
Senator of historic importance,” the Kentucky
Republican said in a statement. “Indeed, he was.”
Late in his second term,
Brooke divorced his wife of
31 years, Remigia, in a
stormy proceeding that
attracted national attention.
Repercussions from the
case spurred an investigation into his personal
finances by the Senate
Ethics Committee and a
probe by the state welfare
department and ultimately
cost him the 1978 election.
He was defeated by
Democrat Rep. Paul E.
Tsongas.
Tsongas’ widow, U.S.
Rep. Nikki Tsongas, said
Saturday that Brooke’s
career was “as courageous
as it was historic.”
In a Boston Globe interview in 2000, Brooke
recalled the pain of losing
his bid for a third term.
“It was just a divorce
case. It was never about my
work in the Senate. There
was never a charge that I
committed a crime, or even
nearly committed a crime,”
Brooke said.
In 2008, pioneering
newswoman Barbara
Walters said she had an
affair with the then-married
Brooke in the 1970s, but it
ended before he lost the
1978 election. She called
him “exciting” and “brilliant.”
Brooke received the
Presidential Medal of
Freedom in a White House
ceremony in 2004. Five
porations and for businesses whose
owners pay individual taxes, with
lost revenue recovered by eliminating unspecified tax breaks.
Democrats want the exercise to
raise fresh revenue, partly to boost
dwindling highway funds.
ALSO PLANNED
Price wants to use legislation
preventing a federal default,
around summer, to pressure
Obama to cut spending, calling
such bills “pinch points to get
good policy.” McConnell said with
GOP congressional control, a
default showdown is unneeded
because of other opportunities,
such as must-pass spending bills,
that the GOP can use to constrain
agencies.
Republicans want to send
Obama measures that the GOP-led
House passed the past two years
but died in the Democratic-run
Senate. These include bills blocking Environmental Protection
Agency curbs on pollution and
easing business regulations. The
GOP calls these measures job creators; Democrats call them favors
for special interests.
Republicans also want to consider legislation blocking Obama’s
normalized relations with Cuba,
penalizing Iran and authorizing
force against Islamic State militants.
years later, when Brooke
received the congressional
honor in Washington, he
cited the issues facing
Congress — health care, the
economy and the wars overseas — and called on lawmakers to put their partisan
differences aside.
“We’ve got to get together,” Brooke said, turning his
eyes to Senate GOP Leader
McConnell. “We have no
alternative. There’s nothing
left. It’s time for politics to
be put aside on the back
burner.”
As Brooke sought the
Senate seat in 1966, profiles
in the national media
reminded readers that he
had won office handily in a
state where blacks made up
just 2 percent of the population — the state that had
also given the nation its
only Roman Catholic president, John F. Kennedy.
He beat Democrat
Endicott Peabody, a former
governor who also supported civil rights, by a 3-to-2
margin despite predictions
of a “white backlash”
against him.
Commenting on Brooke’s
election and other developments that day, Martin
Luther King Jr. said that
“despite appeals to bigotry
of an intensity and vulgarity
never before witnessed in
the North, millions of white
voters remained unshaken
in their commitment to
decency.”
Brooke had parlayed his
probes of local corruption
into a successful run for
state attorney general in
1962, when he became the
highest ranking black elected official in the nation. He
won re-election as attorney
general in 1964 even though
Democrats dominated other
races.
Somewhat aloof from the
civil rights movement of
the 1960s, especially the
militant wing, he said
blacks had to win allies, not
fight adversaries. But he
also said of civil rights
leaders: “Thank God we
have them. But everyone
has to do it in the best way
he can.”
He had refused to
endorse Sen. Barry
Goldwater for president in
1964, commenting later,
“You can’t say the Negro
left the Republican Party;
the Negro feels he was
evicted from the
Republican Party.”
The son of a Veterans
Administration lawyer,
Brooke was raised in a middle-class black section of
Washington, attending segregated schools through his
graduation from Howard
University in 1941. He
served in an all-black combat unit in World War II,
and later settled in Boston
after graduating from
Boston University Law
School.
Brooke was diagnosed
with breast cancer in 2002
and went public the following year, saying he wanted
to encourage men to perform self-examinations
and advocating that insurance companies cover
male mammograms.
Brooke is survived by
his second wife, Anne
Fleming Brooke; their son
Edward Brooke IV; his
daughters from his first
marriage, Remi Goldstone
and Edwina Petit; stepdaughter Melanie
Laflamme, and four grandchildren.
Obama pays tribute to Brooke’s leadership abilities
HONOLULU (AP) —
President Barack Obama
says former U.S. Sen.
Edward W. Brooke stood at
the front of the battle for
civil rights and economic
fairness in the U.S.
Obama says Brooke
sought to build consensus
and understanding regardless
of political party. He says
Brooke was always working
to find practical solutions to
the country’s challenges.
Brooke died Saturday at
95.
Obama says he and first
lady Michelle Obama are
sending their sympathy to
Brooke’s family, friends and
Massachusetts residents.
Obama praised Brooke in
a statement issued while he
was vacationing in Hawaii.
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DOT announces week’s construction projects, closings
Slatersville bridge
work leaves lane
restriction in area
PROVIDENCE —
The following travel advisories have been issued by the
R.I. Department of
Transportation and are effective
for the upcoming week. All
schedules are weather-dependent
and subject to change. Follow
DOT on Twitter at
www.twitter.com/RIDOTNews
for up-to-the-minute travel information.
2015 for ongoing construction at
the Providence Viaduct.
Bristol/Portsmouth and
Newport/Jamestown: Lane closure information for the Mt.
Hope Bridge and the Pell
(Newport) Bridge is available
from the R.I. Turnpike and
Bridge Authority.
Cranston: Exit 3B (Reservoir
Avenue/Route 2) off Route 10
South is now closed. Please use
Exit 3A.
Providence: Truck traffic is
restricted to the right lane from
the Westminster Street overpass
over routes 10 South and 6 West
to the routes 6/10 interchange,
and on Route 6 East at the routes
6/10 interchange.
Interstate Highway
Restrictions
Hopkinton/Richmond/West
Greenwich: I-95 North and
South, from Exit 1 (Route 3) to
Exit 5 (Route 102), right shoulder closures on the exit ramps for
erosion control and lighting
work, Monday-Friday from 7
a.m. to 3 p.m.
East Providence: The East
Shore Expressway Bridge over
Warren Avenue (Exit 7 off of I195 East) is posted for use by
vehicles under 17 tons. Signed
detour for heavier vehicles.
Providence: Traffic using Exit
22 (Downtown Providence/routes
6 and 10) has been redirected to
a temporary off-ramp. The existing ramp will be closed until Fall
Upcoming
Bridge Closure
Providence: The Atwells
Avenue Bridge, which carries
Atwells Avenue over the
Woonasquatucket River, is
scheduled to close for approximately one year, beginning on
Monday, for repairs. Drivers
heading westbound on Atwells
Avenue will use Eagle Street and
Valley Street, while eastbound
traffic will follow Valley Street,
Delaine Street and Harris
Avenue. A small section of
Harris Avenue will also be closed
to westbound traffic at this time.
Click here for detour maps.
E-cigarettes
cigarette or a cigar. They’re equipped with a
battery that powers a heating element which
converts flavored e-liquids into an aerosol or
vapor that is inhaled by the user. The latter
term is the one that’s caught fire colloquially, giving rise to “vape shops” as places
where e-cigarettes and related products are
sold.
E-liquids contain a number of components, including propylene glycol, one of the
key ingredients in antifreeze and a known
carcinogen.
Earlier this year, the American Lung
Association called on the Food and Drug
Administration to get tougher on the e-cigarette industry, which currently operates with
virtually no federal oversight, despite growing evidence that young people are using ecigarettes in large numbers.
“The American Lung Association is very
concerned about the potential health consequences of electronic cigarettes, as well as
the unproven claims that they can be used to
help smokers quit,” the ALA said. “There is
presently no government oversight of these
products and absent Food and Drug
Administration regulation, there is no way
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Street work
Providence: Providence Place
East, from Harris Avenue to Park
Street, left lane and sidewalk
closed for construction, MondayFriday from 4 a.m. to noon.
Noise is anticipated.
Providence: Promenade Street
West, from Park to Holden
streets, right lane and sidewalk
closed for construction, MondayFriday from 4 a.m. to noon.
Noise is anticipated.
Providence: A new traffic pattern is now in effect on
Wickenden Street, from Benefit
Street to the Point Street Bridge.
Those traveling west on
Wickenden Street will be restricted from turning left onto South
Water Street To access I-195,
motorists will turn right onto
South Main Street, left onto
James Street, and a left onto
South Water Street to reach the
on-ramp to I-195 East.
Providence: Dyer Street is
now two-way, and parking is not
permitted. This change is part of
the reconstruction of Dyer Street,
between Ship and Orange streets,
and is scheduled to last through
the end of the year.
Providence: Dyer Street, from
Peck to Ship streets, two-way
traffic pattern in place for construction associated with the
Iway (I-195 Relocation Project).
Providence: Visit the City of
Providence’s online calendar for
traffic restrictions.
consumers to know what chemicals are contained in e-cigarettes and what the short- and
long-term health implications may be.”
The ALA said there are presently almost
500 different e-cigarette brands available in
7,700 flavors. In 2009, the FDA conducted
initial lab tests on some and found detectable
levels of cancer-causing chemicals.
There are now at least a dozen shops in
the state that bill themselves exclusively as
vape shops, but e-cigarettes are sold at many
more convenience stores, smoke shops and
other vendors. There is at least one vape
shop in Woonsocket, and one just over the
city line.
A couple of vendors expressed support
for restricting sales to adults when contacted
by phone earlier this week.
“It’s a law that’s needed,” said a man who
identified himself only as John, who
answered the phone at City Vapor & E-Cig
of Rhode Island in Cumberland. “Eighteen
and over is the way it should be.”
While the National Centers for Disease
Control has been tracking a fast-growing
increase in the use of e-cigarettes by children of middle and high school ages, the
FDA has merely proposed some new restrictions that are still in limbo.
The CDC has openly condemned the use
of e-cigarettes as an unsafe practice. The
Barrington: Massasoit
Avenue East and West, from
Martin Avenue to County Road,
an alternating traffic pattern is
anticipated for construction,
Monday-Friday from 7 a.m. to
3:30 p.m.
Newport: On Route 138A,
including America's Cup Avenue,
from Bridge Street to Memorial
Boulevard, and Memorial
Boulevard, from Thames Street
to Bellevue Avenue, lane and
shoulder closures possible for
curb and sidewalk work,
Monday-Friday from 6:30 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Bristol/Portsmouth and
Newport/Jamestown: Lane closure information for the Mount
Hope Bridge and the Pell
(Newport) Bridge is available
from the R.I. Turnpike and
Bridge Authority.
North Smithfield: Route 5
(Providence Pike), between Main
and Church streets in
Slatersville, there is a single-lane
alternating traffic pattern due to
bridge condition. Portable traffic
signals are in place to direct
vehicles over the bridge.
South Kingstown: Railroad
Avenue, at the Route 138 overpass, is currently closed. Follow
signage for access to the main
and overflow parking lots for
Kingston Station. Traffic on
Route 138 is not affected.
Narragansett: Great Island
Road, north and south, from
Galilee Escape to Basin roads,
CDC says it routinely logs adverse health
effects associated with the use of e-cigarettes, including seizures, respiratory problems and other ailments, but it also cautions
that there is no direct causal link.
“We know e-cigarettes are not safe for
youth,” Dr. Tim McAfee, director of CDC’s
Office on Smoking and Health, said recently.
The most recent data issued to date
regarding the frequency of the use of e-cigarettes was published in a study released by
the CDC in December. The National Youth
Tobacco Survey showed 4.5 percent of all
high school students and 1.1 percent of all
middle school students had used e-cigarettes
within the past 30 days in 2013, but some
states have done more localized studies suggested the numbers are significantly higher.
While the FDA keeps its distance, states
are increasingly stepping into the regulatory
void. Rhode Island is among 40 states that
no longer permit the sale of e-cigarettes to
minors.
But neighboring Massachusetts is one of
10 states where children 17 and younger can
purchase e-cigarettes legally, according to
the CDC.
The new restrictions that took effect Jan.
1 were championed in the legislature by
Senate Majority Leader Dominick J.
Ruggerio (D-Dist 4, Providence, North
one lane of alternating traffic for
bridge work, Monday- Friday
from 7 a.m. to 3:30 p.m.
Hopkinton: In the Park &
Ride on Route 3 at the I-95 interchange, construction vehicles
will be present in the commuter
lot. Ample parking will remain
for RIPTA commuters.
North Kingstown: Railroad
Ave., between Hidden Lane
Drive and Liberty Road, lanes
restricted because of bridge condition.
South Kingstown: A new
traffic pattern is in place with
one lane in each direction and a
center turning lane on Route 108
(Kingstown Road), from Old
Mountain Field to the
Narragansett town line. Use caution as traffic signals are in the
process of being upgraded.
Warwick: Route 1 (Post
Road) North, from West Shore
Road to Veterans Memorial
Drive, two lanes closed for construction, Monday-Friday from 6
a.m. to 4:30 p.m. Expect delays.
Warwick: Route 1 (Veterans
Memorial Drive) South, from
Route 1 at Post Road Extension
to Route 5 (Greenwich Avenue),
one lane closed for construction,
Monday-Friday from 6 a.m. to
4:30 p.m.
Warwick: Route 117
(Centerville Road), from
Diamond Hill Road to Tollgate
Road, one lane closed for construction, Monday-Friday from 6
a.m. to 4:30 p.m.
Providence) and in the House of
Representatives by Rep. Helio Melo (D-Dist.
64, East Providence).
The new law will prohibit the sale and
use of those products by anyone under the
age of 18.
It would also require stores where these
items are sold and which already post signs
prohibiting the sale of tobacco products to
minors to post new signs that list the prohibition not only for cigarettes and tobacco,
but also for electronic nicotine delivery system products.
The law also requires any person engaging in the business of selling e-cigarette
products, including distributors and dealers,
to secure a license annually from the
Department of Health, with a separate application and license required for each place of
business operated by the license applicant.
The fee for a license is not to exceed $25.
Any individual cited for a violation of the
licensing requirement would face a fine of
$500.
“We need to keep our youth from experimenting with or using any kind of tobacco
products, and it’s counterproductive to that
goal to allow them to use these nicotine
delivery systems, no matter how glamorous
the makers want them to appear,” Ruggerio
said.
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THE CALL — Sunday, January 4, 2015
UPS & DOWNS
Thumbs up (though we reserve the right to reverse the call, based on what
happens overnight) to Mother Nature for a lack of severe winter weather so
far. After some recent winters where this area has been hit hard by snow,
ice, potholes and all the aggravation coming with them, we could use a
break around here.
Thumbs down to House Speaker Nick Mattiello for his recent rhetoric
about wanting to shut down HealthSourceRI as a way of closing the state’s
roughly $100 million deficit. Can the state’s health care exchange be run
more efficiently? Certainly. But with employer health care less available.
with less coverage, than it used to be, the HSRI clientele who don’t want to
deal with federal bureaucracy might just disagree with the Speaker’s view.
Thumbs up for the $1 increase in minimum wage, to $9 per hour, in Rhode
Island that went into effect Thursday. It puts more cash into the economy,
and more voters and legislators throughout the country, whether their
states are red or blue, realize it. The $15 minimum wage is a bit extreme,
but goosing the minimum should goose spending, to the benefit of all.
Thumbs down to House Majority Whip Steve Scalise (R-La.), who apparently sees no problem with having attended the conference of a white nationalist group in 2002 while a state legislator. Demanding a real apology
seems useless, since his party’s House leadership, not wishing to jeopardize the votes of those who hold racist views, has rallied around him.
GOP seemingly reluctant
to shake off Duke legacy
Just when I thought David Duke had
gone the way of the Betamax, buggy whips
and record stores, the former Ku Klux
Klan leader, Republican politician and jailbird re-emerged to haunt the new
Republican-controlled Congress.
Republican Steve Scalise of Louisiana,
the new House majority whip, apologized
this past week for an honest “error in judgment” that led him to speak in 2002 to the
European-American Unity and Rights
Organization, a white nationalist group
founded by Duke.
Scalise, a state legislator at that time, said he
didn’t remember much
about the event except
that he spoke against a
major state tax proposal
and knew nothing of a
Duke connection. Had he
known the EURO members were a bunch of
Clarence Page
Duke-related white
supremacists, he said, he
never would have appeared.
Kenny Knight, a neighbor of Scalise
and longtime political adviser to Duke,
complicated the story in two conflicting
interviews. He confirmed Scalise’s appearance in a Washington Post interview, then
partly backpedaled the next day, telling the
New Orleans Times-Picayune that Scalise
actually spoke to a local and unrelated
civic group two hours before the Duke
group’s event.
Did Scalise apologize for an appearance
he never made? No problem. By then
Speaker John Boehner and other House
leaders had given Scalise a pass for his
“error in judgment,” as Boehner put it, noting that Scalise had apologized.
Still the controversy raises an intriguing
question that haunts his party’s prospects
nationwide: What does a Republican have
to do to get elected in places like
Louisiana, where David Duke’s conservatism sounds mainstream as long as
Duke’s name isn’t mentioned?
Scalise has a long record of blasting
Duke without condemning all of Duke’s
views. In a quote widely recited in recent
days. Stephanie Grace, a political reporter
and columnist with The Advocate of Baton
Rouge, a gay and lesbian news magazine,
recalls Scalise telling her that he was “like
David Duke without the baggage,” meaning he supported the same policy ideas but
didn’t share the same feelings about
minorities.
Scalise took the same better-than-Duke
pose in 1999 when both he and Duke were
considering a race for Congress. “Duke has
proved that he can’t get elected, and that’s
the first and most important thing,” Scalise
told the Capitol Hill newspaper Roll Call.
Scalise is hardly alone with that
approach. Ever since Duke ditched his
Klan robes in the 1970s, tailored his rhetoric to play the white-victim card and
switched from the Democrats to the Grand
Old Party in 1988, mainstream
Republicans have tried to lose Duke but
not his voters.
The “Duke Factor” proved to be a force
to be reckoned with. Duke successfully
won a seat in the Louisiana Statehouse in
1989 and served until 1992, representing a
district in the same area Scalise now represents. In a 1990 Senate race, Duke
received 44 percent of the statewide vote,
including a majority of the white vote.
After repudiations from establishment
Republicans in 1991 he lost the governorship but picked up 55 percent of the white
vote. “I won my constituency,” he
declared.
Since then he has spent much of his
time finding new audiences in which to
stoke racial, ethnic, religious and immigration anxieties overseas. In 2003 he served
prison time after pleading guilty to filing a
false tax return.
Yet, as much as he is denounced by
some Republicans, others have purchased
Duke’s mailing and phone lists, and even if
they do not seek his open endorsement,
they would rather not have him openly
campaigning against them.
Consider the position in which this
leaves Scalise. He comes from one of the
most Republican districts in one of the
country’s most conservative states. Yet the
trust Scalise has generated with tea party
conservatives in the House, while working
cordially with other members, made him a
top choice to win the whip post in June. He
has been a valuable ally to help Boehner
unify his GOP caucus and keep his own
whip job safe, barring further embarrassing
disclosures.
But the re-emergence of Duke in mainstream GOP news does nothing to help the
party reach its larger goal of broadening its
base to attract a more diverse electorate in
presidential election years. So far the party
has found it easier to rebuke Duke than to
risk losing his voters.
Clarence Page, a member of the Tribune
Editorial Board, blogs at
chicagotribune.com/pagespage.
As others see it: College rankings
The Boston Herald, Jan. 2, 2015
Even the president of President
Obama’s alma mater thinks his plan for
the government to begin ranking colleges
and universities may be flawed — a sign
of a way-out-there initiative that in our
view ought to be scrapped.
Harvard President Drew Faust has her
own reasons for questioning the U.S.
Department of Education’s plan to begin
rating institutions of higher education —
both public and private — based on
“affordability and value.”
“I think it raises the issue of what do
you rate them for?” Faust recently told
The Washington Post. “It goes back to
what is college worth. What are you
going to say? Is it all going to be about
how much more money an individual
makes with a college degree?”
In part, yes.
The administration wants to evaluate
colleges and universities based on such
categories as graduation rates and postgraduation employment and earning
potential and the level of individual student debt.
The effort is pitched as a way to make
the institutions more accountable for
what they charge students — and ulti-
mately more affordable, since the feds
would reward colleges and universities
that they deem a better “value” with more
generous federal aid.
Call it a combination of intensive
bureaucratic micromanagement — and
wishful thinking.
Faust was measured in her comments
to the Post but suggested the evaluations
“"should be very complex portraits of
institutions. And not reduce an institution
to a simple metric.”
Our own concerns lean toward the wisdom of having the federal government
engage in this exercise at all — taking on
what U.S. News & World Report and
Peterson’s and the College Board and
school-based counselors not to mention
parents and students themselves have
managed to do on their own for decades.
The federal government provides all
kinds of aid to private and public institutions, which appears to be the justification for the new ranking system. So will
the federal government begin ranking the
“affordability and value” of the green
energy companies it invests in? What
about the anti-crime initiatives it supports?
What shall we empower the White
House to “rank” next?
Make commitments in 2015,
not just resolutions
It’s 2015. People everywhere are making resolutions…lose weight, read more,
quit smoking, etc. To resolve is the act of
finding an answer or solution to a problem. Yet most of our resolutions are never
achieved. According to Marti Hope
Gonzales, Associate professor of psychology at the University of Minnesota, just six
weeks after making a resolution, 80 percent of people either have broken them or
cannot even recall what they resolved. And
of course, we feel like losers when we
don’t achieve these goals.
According to Amy Cuddy, a social psychologist and Harvard Business School
professor, the process of making resolutions then failing to achieve them could
actually be doing more harm than good:
We set ourselves up to fail, and when we
do, our self-esteem tanks, making us even
less motivated than we were before making the resolution. Among the many reasons why so many of us fail is the fact that
our focus tends to be largely if not entirely
on personal improvement. In a highly individualistic culture, it is not surprising that
people tend to think largely about personal, not societal, changes.
To that end, I suggest that instead of
making resolutions, we should make commitments for the new year. The word commitment means “the state or quality of
being dedicated to a cause, activity, etc.”
Some would say this is simple semantics,
that commitment means almost the same
thing as resolution. But I argue that making a commitment connotes a much more
sustained emphasis on something, hence
the word “dedicated” in the definition.
Further, when most of us think of commitment, we think of relationships, which by
definition involves someone other than
ourselves. My idea, then, is that we should
pledge to be committed to a cause or activity that betters others or our communities.
Clearly, there is no shortage of community
needs for which our assistance would be
tremendously beneficial.
I recommend the making of commit-
GUEST COMMENTARY
By Laura Finley
ments instead of resolutions because not
only would more people will get involved
in community-level instead of merely personal change, but more involvement in the
community inevitably results in new
friendships and interests. It also feels
good, and, according to the National
Corporation for National and Community
Service, results in a number of positive
health benefits for older adults, including
lower mortality rates, lower rates of
depression later in life, and increased functional ability. Youth who are involved in
their schools or communities tend to earn
better grades and are less likely to engage
in risky behaviors.
For all of us, volunteering or serving
our communities results in reduced stress
and helps build emotional resilience.
According to Sheryl WuDunn and
Nicholas Kristof, authors of the new book
“A Path Appears: Transforming Lives,
Creating Opportunity,” who both underwent brain scans to see which parts of the
brain were activated by engaging in charitable acts, “the parts of the brain that light
up when you give are the same areas that
light up when you indulge in pleasures like
when you’re eating ice cream or falling in
love.”
New year, new commitments. Let’s go.
Laura Finley, Ph.D., teaches in the
Barry University Department of Sociology
& Criminology and is syndicated by
PeaceVoice.
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OBITUARIES/REGION
Robyn L. Fink
NORTH SMITHFIELD
— Leo P. Jolly, 99, of No.
Smithfield, passed away
peacefully on
Friday at his
residence. He
was the loving
husband of the
late Anna
(Melnyk) Jolly.
Born, Nov. 16,
1915 in
Woonsocket ,
he was the son
of the late George J. &
Alma (Gagnon) Jolly.
He resided in No.
Smithfield all his life. Mr.
Jolly was a carpenter all his
life. His proudest achievement was that he built four
homes in No. Smithfield for
his family. He was a communicant & collector for St.
John The Evangelist Church
in Slatersville, He was a
member of the No.
Smithfield Senior Citizens
& the American Legion Post
# 85 of Woonsocket.
He enjoyed going to
Foxwoods with his family &
friends. He served in the US
ARMY during WWII. He is
survived by 2 sons James L.
Jolly of Harrisville, RI, &
John W. Jolly of No.
Smithfield. 4 Grandchildren
& 3 Great Grandchildren.
He was the brother of the
late Lucien, Alfred &
Beatrisse Jolly & Jeannette
Losardo.
His Funeral will be
Tuesday at 9:00 A.M. from
the Kubaska Funeral, 35
Harris Ave. Woonsocket,
with a Mass of Christian
Burial at 10:00 A.M. in St.
John The Evangelist
Church, Church St.
Slatersville, RI. Burial will
be in St. Michael’s
Ukrainian Catholic
Cemetery , Blackstone, MA.
Relatives & Friends are
invited. Visitaion hours are
Monday from 6:00 to 8:00
P.M.
Kubaskafuneralhome.com.
WOONSOCKET —
Raymond D. Patrie, 93, of
Woonsocket died Wednesday
at Landmark Medical Center.
He was the loving husband of
the late Pasqualina “Patsy”
(Coccoli) Patrie
who passed away
in 1998.
Born in
Woonsocket he
was a son of the
late Urbain and
Juliette
(Rocheleau) Patrie.
He was a lifelong
resident of the city.
Mr. Patrie
served in the U. S.
Army during WWII in the
European Theatre. As a corporal with Co. K, 330th Infantry
Regiment, 83rd Infantry
Division, he was in the
Normandy, Northern France
Rhineland and Ardennes campaigns. Ray was wounded in
action and received the Purple
Heart, Combat Infantry Badge,
European African MiddleEastern Theater Campaign
Ribbon, American Theater
Campaign Ribbon, Good
Conduct Medal and Victory
Medal.
Ray was employed at
Miller Electric for many years
before retiring in 1986. He
previously worked at Guy’s
Market on Providence St. in
Woonsocket.
Ray was a member of the
Lt. Harold Flynn Post 263. He
enjoyed playing cards and
watching wrestling.
He was the brother of the
late Omer and Emile Patrie,
Beatrice St. Onge and Violet
Durand. He is survived by his
loving nieces and 8 nephews
and their families.
His Mass of Christian
Burial will be Tuesday at
10:00 am in Precious Blood
Church, 94 Carrington Ave.
Woonsocket. Burial with
Military Honors will follow in
St. Charles Cemetery,
Blackstone. Visiting hours are
Tuesday morning from 8:30 930 am, prior to Mass, in the
Menard-Lacouture Funeral
Home, 127 Carrington Ave.
Woonsocket. In lieu of flowers
memorial donations may be
made to the RI Veterans Home
480 Metacom Ave. Bristol, RI
02809.
menardfuneralhome.com
WOONSOCKET —
Robyn L. Fink, 47, of
Woonsocket died peacefully
Thursday evening January
1, 2015 at home surrounded
by her family. She was
the loving
wife of
Robert G.
Fink. They
were married
on August
28, 1993.
Born in Framingham she
is survived by her father
Richard York and stepmother Maureen York of
Woonsocket. She lived in
Franklin as a child and
resided in Woonsocket for
most of her life. She was a
graduate of Woonsocket
High School Class of 1985.
Robyn held many
careers. Some of the careers
she enjoyed were time at
Menard Enterprises where
she met her husband Bob,
Janelle’s Trucking and
Demers Beef.
Robyn was active with
the PTA at the Leo Savoie
Elementary School. She was
completely devoted to her
family and in her spare time
enjoyed the arts, painting
and making crafts.
In addition to her beloved
husband Bob, Robyn was
the proud mother of David
DeCoste Jr. and his wife,
Marise, Amy, Zack and
Jason all of Woonsocket.
She adored her granddaughter Ava DeCoste. Robyn is
also survived by her sister
Renee Foreman of MA and
her other sisters Diana
Gamache of North
Smithfield and Maureen
Gazaille of Georgia and her
extended family and friends.
Visiting hours will be
Monday from 4-8 pm in the
Menard-Lacouture Funeral
Home, 127 Carrington Ave.
Woonsocket. A service in
celebration of Robyn’s life
will be held during visitation at 7:30 pm. Burial will
be private. In lieu of flowers
memorial donations may be
made to St. Jude Children’s
Research Hospital, 501 St.
Jude Pl. Memphis, TN
38105.
menardfuneralhome.com
Frank Rocco
Rambone Jr.
Eva M. Forbes
By TERENCE McARDLE
The Washington Post
Little Jimmy Dickens, the
diminutive country singer
and Grand Ole Opry star
best known for his humorous novelty songs, such as
"May the Bird of Paradise
Fly Up Your Nose," died
Friday at a hospital near
Nashville, Tennessee. He
was 94.
The Opry announced the
death and said the cause was
cardiac arrest.
Dickens, who stood 4foot-11, was known as "the
little man with the big
voice."
He endeared himself to
country audiences with his
jovial personality, rhinestone-studded suits and a
crackerjack band that
included some of the finest
session players in Nashville.
Dickens's size became a
running joke during his performances.
WOONSOCKET — The
Stadium Theatre and
Shining Light Productions
will present the musical
‘Buddy’ — The Buddy
Holly Story in the theater’s
grand hall for three performances only.
The story follows
Buddy’s meteoric rise to
fame from his country
music roots to the top of
the record charts to his
death in 1959.
“I am extremely honored to have the opportunity to direct The Buddy
Appeals court won't delay
or move Tsarnaev trial
BOSTON (AP) — The
trial of marathon bombing
suspect Dzhokhar Tsarnaev
can begin as scheduled
Monday in Boston after a
federal appeals court ruled
that the defense had not met
the "extraordinary" standard
required to justify its intervention.
The 1st U.S. Circuit Court
of Appeals announced its
decision Saturday. Tsarnaev's
lawyer had asked the court to
delay the trial and move it
out of Massachusetts, saying
he couldn't get a fair trial in a
place where so many were
affected by the bombings.
The appeals court ruled 21 to avoid intervening in the
trial's timing and location.
"The judges in the majority are satisfied that full consideration has been given to
the issues raised by the petition, and it is clear that the
petition falls short of meeting
the requirements for issuing
the extraordinary writ of
mandamus," two judges said
in the majority opinion. One
judge dissented, saying he
didn't have enough time to
carefully consider the petition filed Wednesday.
One of Tsarnaev's attorneys, Miriam Conrad,
declined to comment
Saturday.
Tsarnaev has pleaded not
guilty to 30 charges connected to the April 2013 explosions that killed three people
and wounded more than 260
others. Some of the charges
carry the death penalty.
On Friday, U.S. District
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Playing the role of
Buddy Holly is Adam
Landry from Woonsocket.
Although Landry is just 20
years old, he has been on
stage t the Stadium Theatre
for over 25 shows.
Show dates are Friday,
Jan. 23 at 7:30 p.m.,
Saturday, Jan. 24 at 7:30
p.m. and Sunday, Jan. 25 at
2 p.m.
Admission is $21 and
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Judge George O'Toole, who
is presiding over Tsarnaev's
case, said jury selection
should start as scheduled
because it would be too
inconvenient to delay it. He
had denied a defense request
Dec. 29 for a delay.
O'Toole said Friday that
delaying the start "would
cause some unknown degree
of disruption" to the more
than 1,200 people called as
potential jurors and to the
court. He had granted a twomonth trial delay last fall and
also rejected a previous
request to move it.
Whaling museum holds
'Moby-Dick' marathon
NEW BEDFORD, Mass.
(AP) — The New Bedford
Whaling Museum is holding
its 19th annual "Moby-Dick"
Marathon this weekend, but
this year's event has a twist.
For the first time, the
annual reading of the
American classic will include
an event just for children.
Marathon organizers tell
The Standard-Times that
about 20 children have
signed up to read an abridged
version of Herman Melville's
book from 3 p.m. until 6 p.m.
on Saturday and 10 a.m. until
noon on Sunday.
The nonstop, cover-tocover adult reading begins at
noon Saturday and usually
takes about 25 hours
English visiting author
Philip Hoare will start the
reading, some of which will
be held at the nearby
Seamen's Bethel, made
famous in the novel as the
Whaleman's Chapel.
CUMBERLAND —
The Cumberland Public
Library will be starting its
popular Lego club in the
Children’s Room.
The group starts on
Saturday, Jan. 3 and meets
through Saturday, Feb. 28
from 10 a.m. to 1 p.m.
The library supplies the
Lego blocks, and children
need only to bring their
skills and ideas. The group
is best for children 4 years
old and older. Participants
can take part in a weekly
challenge or take part in
their own project. No registration is needed.
For information, please
contact the Children’s Room
at 333-2552, ext. 3. or visit
cumberlandlibrary.org.
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Holly Story,” said director
Mike Landry. “I was definitely hesitant to take on
such a big project.
However, after reading the
script and listening to all
the amazing music, I was
hooked on the story.
‘Buddy’ is more a ‘play
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amazing combination!”
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orchestra, instead the
actors on state play the
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BURRILLVILLE — Eva
M. Forbes 67, of Black Star
Rd. died
Friday, January
2, 2015 at
home, surrounded by her
loving family.
She was the
wife of
William T.
Forbes. Born
in Woonsocket, she was a
daughter of the late Ernest and
Gertrude (Giguere) Peloquin.
Eva worked as a seamstress
for Sadwin’s Manufacturing
for several years. She was a
long time member of Our
Lady of Good Help Church,
and a volunteer for Meals on
Wheels.
Besides her husband she
leaves two sons, William C.
Forbes and his wife Lisa of
Burrillville, and Thomas E.
Forbes and his wife Kerri of
North Smithfield, a brother
Ernest Peloquin and a sister
Yvette Martinelli both of
Woonsocket, and four grandchildren, Christopher, Jacob,
Will, and Larissa.
Her funeral will be held
Tuesday at 8:30 AM from the
Fournier & Fournier Funeral
Home, 99 Cumberland St.
Woonsocket, with a Mass of
Christian Burial at 10:00 AM
in Our Lady of Good Help
Church, Victory Hwy.,
Burrillville.
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Buddy Holly story at the Stadium
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BURRILLVILLE —
Frank Rocco Rambone, Jr.,
58, passed away Friday,
January 2, 2015, surrounded
by his loving
family at the
Milford
Regional
Hospital,
Milford MA.
He was the
husband of
Jacqueline
A. (Gonyea)
Rambone and the son of
Margaret (Lynes) Chiarini
and the late Frank Rocco
Rambone Sr. Mr. Rambone
was a skilled carpenter and
laborer for many years for
the State of Rhode Island.
Besides his loving wife
and mother, he leaves his
son Frank Rocco Rambone
III and his wife Christal, his
daughter Jolene Ernestine
Rambone, his brother
Robert J. Rambone and
many loving nieces and
nephews, extended family
and friends. Frank was first
and foremost a family man,
but aside from being a loving husband and father, he
was a genuine friend. He
loved spending time in the
woods hunting, raising farm
animals, and driving his
Chevy Nova hot rod.
His funeral will be held
on Wednesday, January 7,
2015 from the TUCKERQUINN Funeral Chapel, 643
Putnam Ave. (Rt.44)
Greenville at 9:30am, with a
Mass of Christian Burial in
St.Joseph Church Sayles
Ave., Pascoag at 11am.
Burial will be private.
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Job a key to staying out of prison
Mass. silk-screening
ministry offering
design training
By CYRUS MOULTON
The Daily Item
LYNN, Mass. (AP) —
They hear it all the time: Give
an ex-convict a job, and he or
she will stay out of jail.
For Straight Ahead
Ministries, that’s too simple.
“I think giving the guys a
job is the easy part,” Straight
Ahead Ministries Silkscreen
manager Sokhan Prak said.
“The hard part is being at the
job and having the conversation if they mess up.”
Prak, 25, understands this.
He started working with
Straight Ahead Ministries at
the age of 14 when he began
getting involved in local
gangs. The program never
gave up on him, and now he
is in charge of a studio at the
ministry’s offices on Munroe
Street, where ex-convicts or
at-risk youth can learn how to
use a silk-screen machine to
produce T-shirts and other
clothing.
“Our mission is to train
these guys so that if they are
in a real work environment,
they can have these skills,”
Prak said.
Straight Ahead has had the
silk-screening machine for
years, and Prak first learned
how to use the device when
he was a teenager. He first
joined Straight Ahead staff as
an outreach worker and didn’t
have much time to dedicate to
teaching clients about the
silk-screening process.
This September, Prak took
over the silk-screen studio full
time as part of the ministry’s
renewed focus on the work
program. His goal is to make
the studio a nonprofit business with a team of full-time
workers who are clients in the
ministry.
“I would love to have it
make money,” Prak said, “but
it’s more to have guys coming
in here and working and seeing that they’re committed
and saying ‘Man, I love working here.’ Seeing them have a
passion for their job and taking ownership.”
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showing up late or not at all,
not being committed to the
task and basically setting
themselves up for failure.
But just as Straight Ahead
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“When you plant a seed, it
takes a while to see the
results,” Prak said. “We see
guys transform. That’s the
part I enjoy most, seeing them
stick with it. I think that’s
also the toughest part for all
of us — me and the guys
working here ... the way we
work, if someone’s late or
doesn’t show up, I don’t fire
them, we have a conversation,
they take some time off, and
come back when they're
ready.”
Now Prak is ready to show
the community what Straight
Ahead can do.
“By hiring us here, you are
investing in the youth of the
city,” Prak said.
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and you can chop
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MONTPELIER, Vt. (AP) — The Vermont
Department of Forests, Parks and Recreation is
accepting applications for its annual roadside
firewood lottery to allow Vermonters to cut and
haul their own firewood from state woodlots.
Since the 1970s, the department has given
residents access to woodlots for firewood, but
the program became so popular that the department started a lottery system for permits in
2009.
Foresters mark which trees can be cut. The
lots are typically located near woods roads that
are accessible by four-wheel drive vehicles.
Mechanical skidding is not allowed.
After the wood is cut, the lots must be left in
a condition acceptable to the forester in charge;
trees cannot be left hung up, stumps must be cut
close to the ground and brush must be dragged
away from the road and out of steams, ditches
and culverts, the department said.
The permits cost $30 each and are valid for
one season, typically from early July to early
October.
Applications, which are limited to one person
per household, and due by Jan. 16. There is no
fee to apply.
The drawing takes place at the end of
February and lot winners are usually notified in
March.
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The studio has designed
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a bit of trial and error. He
admitted that he did not think
of himself as particularly
good at drawing or art and
said it was difficult for him to
learn how to use the computer
software to produce designs
as well as the machine that
actually printed the design.
Ministry director Jason
Ludwig said the trial-anderror involved in mastering a
skill is essential for the ministry’s clients.
Ludwig said that when
clients start working at a new
job and/or are given a new
responsibility, they experience
“transformation or tension.”
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pull their tension down a little
lower, and a little lower, to
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Henton can’t lift Friars, B2
Bruins fall in overtime, B2
P-Bruins lose in shootout, B2
Mounties go 0-1-1 in weekend
games vs. B.H., LaSalle, B3
THE CALL, Sunday, January 4, 2015 — B1
Boys’ hockey
Northmen snare third, Broncos fifth in Winter Classic
Medfield, Mass.
captured annual
tourney crown
By JON BAKER
[email protected]
BURRILLVILLE – Burrillville
High chief Bill Robinson couldn’t
have been in a better mood on
New Year’s Night, and it wasn’t a
surprise as to why.
Not only did his Broncos’ icemen salvage fifth place in their
own Burrillville Winter Classic
with a superb 7-0 non-league triumph over Lincoln on Thursday,
but the tournament itself was a
resounding success.
It was a terrific way to end the
event, one in which Robinson
seemed miffed with his troops after
settling for a 5-5 tie with eventual
third-place North Smithfield in
Monday’s opener, then suffered a
10-2 loss to tourney champion
Medfield, Mass. 24 hours later.
(For the record, Medfield’s
Warriors captured the crown with a
5-2 decision over Medway on
Thursday night).
“I’m not satisfied with fifth, but
I am with the way the kids played
for the entire tournament,”
Robinson said. “I wasn’t thrilled
with that game against North
Smithfield, but I thought we
played great in
the second and
third periods of
the game against
Medfield.
“They played
with heart and
guts and passion,
and they skated
Chad Stone very well against
Lincoln, too,” he
said. “I just watched North
Smithfield defeat a very good
Cumberland team, 6-1, for third,
butt that’s just how it goes in tournaments like these. You have to
battle through fatigue because
we’re all playing three games in
four days.
“They key to this win was the
guys stuck to our system, they kept
their legs moving for 45 minutes. I
was most impressed with the balanced scoring and the way we
played solid hockey in all three
zones, which is what you need to
be successful. They were really
good in playing away from the
puck, anticipating two passes
ahead.”
He also said he received positive reactions from the coaches
about the way the tourney had
been run.
“A few coaches came up and
thanked me for hosting a great
tournament; in fact, Paul Nadeau,
the North Smithfield coach, told
me it was great for his team to be
playing against such quality com-
MLB
HALL CALL
Pedro Martinez waits for word from Hall of Fame
JIMMY GOLEN
Rhode Island
beats Saint
Louis 65-53
R.B. FALLSTROM
AP Sports Writer
NOTABLE ACHIEVEMENTS
BOSTON
A
s a broadcaster for the
Los Angeles Dodgers,
Nomar Garciaparra
has watched Clayton
Kershaw become the dominant
pitcher in the National League,
winning three of the last four NL
Cy Young Awards — the last
one unanimously.
But when fans ask if he’s ever
witnessed anyone as good as the
L.A. left-hander, Garciaparra
stops them cold.
“Hang on,” he says, “I got to
play with Pedro Martinez.”
The former Red Sox shortstop was already in Boston when
the reigning NL Cy Young winner arrived from the Montreal
Expos in 1997. And he saw the
Dominican right-hander win the
AL award twice with the Red
Sox, in back-to-back seasons in
1999-2000 that established him
as one of the most dominant
pitchers in baseball history.
In that two-year period — in
the middle of a golden age of
hitting — Martinez went 41-10
with a 1.90 ERA and 597 strikeouts. After that, all he did was
anchor the staff that helped the
Red Sox earn their cathartic
World Series victory in 2004,
ending an eight-decade drought.
Martinez went on to pitch
four seasons with the New York
Mets, three of them injuryplagued, and returned to the
World
Series
with
the
Philadelphia Phillies in 2009
before retiring. Five years later,
he is eligible for the baseball
Hall of Fame and likely to be
among the inductees announced
Tuesday.
See PEDRO, page B4
Photo by Arthur Malone/Flickr
Pedro Martinez salutes the Fenway Park crowd during a visit in
2010. Martinez, who retired after the 2009 season, is eligible for
Hall of Fame election this year for the first time.
• 1991 The Sporting News Minor
League Player of the Year,
Albuquerque Dukes, Pacific Coast
League
• 8-time All-Star (1996-2000, 2002,
2005 & 2006)
• 3-time League Cy Young Award
Winner (1997/NL, 1999/AL &
2000/AL)
• AL Pitcher’s Triple Crown (1999)
• 1999 All-Star Game MVP
• 5-time League ERA Leader
(1997/NL, 1999/AL, 2000/AL,
2002/AL & 2003/AL)
• AL Wins Leader (1999)
• 2-time AL Winning Percentage
Leader (1999 & 2002)
• 3-time AL Strikeouts Leader (1999,
2000 & 2002)
• NL Complete Games Leader (1997)
• AL Shutouts Leader (2000)
• 15-Win Seasons: 7 (1997-2000,
2002, 2004 & 2005)
• 20-Win Seasons: 2 (1999 & 2002)
• 200 Innings Pitched Seasons: 7
(1996-2000, 2004 & 2005)
• 200 Strikeout Seasons: 9 (19962000 & 2002-2005)
• 300 Strikeout Seasons: 2 (1997 &
1999)
• Won a World Series with the Boston
Red Sox in 2004
Source: Baseball-Reference.com
PITCHING REGULAR SEASON CAREER STATS
YEAR
1992
1993
1994
1995
1996
1997
1998
1999
2000
2001
2002
2003
2004
2005
2006
2007
2008
2009
Totals
TEAM LG
LA
NL
LA
NL
MON NL
MON NL
MON NL
MON NL
BOS AL
BOS AL
BOS AL
BOS AL
BOS AL
BOS AL
BOS AL
NYM NL
NYM NL
NYM NL
NYM NL
PHI
NL
5 teams
LEVEL
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
MLB
W
0
10
11
14
13
17
19
23
18
7
20
14
16
15
9
3
5
5
219
L
1
5
5
10
10
8
7
4
6
3
4
4
9
8
8
1
6
1
100
ERA
2.25
2.61
3.42
3.51
3.70
1.90
2.89
2.07
1.74
2.39
2.26
2.22
3.90
2.82
4.48
2.57
5.61
3.63
2.93
G
2
65
24
30
33
31
33
31
29
18
30
29
33
31
23
5
20
9
476
GS
1
2
23
30
33
31
33
29
29
18
30
29
33
31
23
5
20
9
409
CG
0
0
1
2
4
13
3
5
7
1
2
3
1
4
0
0
0
0
46
SHO
0
0
1
2
1
4
2
1
4
0
0
0
1
1
0
0
0
0
17
SV
0
2
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
3
SVO
0
3
1
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
0
4
IP
H
R
8.0
6
2
107.0 76 34
144.2 115 58
194.2 158 79
216.2 189 100
241.1 158 65
233.2 188 82
213.1 160 56
217.0 128 44
116.2 84 33
199.1 144 62
186.2 147 52
217.0 193 99
217.0 159 69
132.2 108 72
28.0 33 11
109.0 127 70
44.2 48 18
2827.1 2221 1006
ER
2
31
55
76
89
51
75
49
42
31
50
46
94
68
66
8
68
18
919
HR HB BB
0 0 1
5 4 57
11 11 45
21 11 66
19 3 70
16 9 67
26 8 67
9 9 37
17 14 32
5 6 25
13 15 40
7 9 47
26 16 61
19 4 47
19 10 39
0 2 7
19 6 44
7 4 8
239 141 760
IBB
0
4
3
1
3
5
3
1
0
0
1
0
0
3
2
1
3
0
30
SO AVG
8
.200
119 .201
142 .220
174 .227
222 .232
305 .184
251 .217
313 .205
284 .167
163 .199
239 .198
206 .215
227 .238
208 .204
137 .220
32 .284
87 .294
37 .273
3154 .214
WHIP
0.88
1.24
1.11
1.15
1.20
0.93
1.09
0.92
0.74
0.93
0.92
1.04
1.17
0.95
1.11
1.43
1.57
1.25
1.05
GO/AO
0.98
1.04
1.14
1.03
1.06
0.83
0.85
0.76
0.57
1.15
0.76
0.94
See CLASSIC, page B2
Mens’ College
Basketball
PEDRO MARTINEZ
AP Sports Writer
petition,” he said. “It was a lot of
work, but my hat’s off to the
Burrillville High School Hockey
Parents group. The committee did
a fantastic job of getting volunteers
in a variety of areas.”
Among them: BHS Hockey
Parents President Terry Robinson
(who has two sons, Ben and Billy,
on the Broncos’ squad – they’re
Coach Robinson’s nephews);
Treasurer Denise Stone; and his
wife Kelly.
“They’re the backbone of the
Parent Boosters, and they were
phenomenal,” Robinson said. “We
couldn’t have done it without their
desire to help out, as well as plenty
ST. LOUIS — Hassan Martin scored
all but two of his 15 points in the second
half and added a team-high eight
rebounds, helping Rhode Island put away
Saint Louis 65-53 in an Atlantic-10
Conference opener on Saturday.
Gilvydas Biruta had
10 of his 14 points in
the first half for the
Rams (9-3), who have
won four in a row overall — all by double figures. They’ve won six
of seven in the series.
Milik Yarbrough had
19 points and eight
Biruta
rebounds for Saint
Louis (8-6), the two-time defending A-10
champions, who couldn’t overcome a season-worst 21 turnovers. Ash Yacoubou
See RHODY, page B2
Starks, O’Shea lift
Bulldogs to 67-63
win in NEC opener
SMITHFIELD – Senior guard Dyami
Starks tied his season high with 25 points
while classmate Joe O’Shea added a season-best 18 points and nine rebounds to
lead the Bryant University men’s basketball
team to a 67-63 victory over LIU Brooklyn
on the road Saturday in the 2014-15
Northeast Conference opener.
With less than five minutes left in regulation, the Bulldogs (4-6, 1-0 NEC) took
their first lead since the opening minutes of
the contest, 50-49, on a 3-pointer from
Starks and would not relinquish the lead for
the remainder of the game despite a strong
Blackbird (4-8, 0-1) push through the final
whistle.
See BRYANT, page B2
NFL Playoffs
Cam, defense power
Panthers past Cards
Romo back, Stafford seeks
playoff win in Cowboys-Lions
SCHUYLER DIXON
AP Sports Writer
ARLINGTON, Texas (AP) —
Tony Romo’s first playoff game in
five years is a second chance for
the quarterback on the other side,
Detroit’s Matthew Stafford.
Who knows how many more
opportunities there will be for the
34-year-old Romo with the Dallas
Cowboys, who have one playoff
win since the last time they were
anywhere near the Super Bowl
nearly 20 years ago.
The Lions? They go into
Sunday’s wild-card game at
Stafford’s hometown team with
just one postseason victory in the
Super Bowl era after Stafford lost
STEVE REED
AP Sports Writer
See COWBOYS, page B4
Colts, Bengals quarterbacks try to change legacies
MICHAEL MAROT
AP Sports Writer
INDIANAPOLIS — Andrew
Luck and Andy Dalton have similar achievements listed on their
resumes — and similar glaring
holes.
Each made the Pro Bowl as a
rookie. Each has three straight
seasons with double-digit wins.
Neither has missed the playoffs,
and both understand their legacies
will be determined by postseason
successes and failures.
On Sunday, the two young
See COLTS, page B4
Photo by Keith Allison/Flickr
Carolina quarterback Cam Newton
earned his first playoff win on
Saturday as the Panthers beat the
Arizona Cardinals 27-16 in the wild
card round of the NFC playoffs.
Newton threw for 198 yards and two
touchdowns.
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — Cam
Newton finally has his first playoff victory — with a big assist
from his defense.
The fourth-year quarterback
threw for 198 yards and two
touchdowns, Carolina’s defense
set an NFL record for fewest
yards allowed in a postseason
game, and the Panthers defeated
the Arizona Cardinals 27-16 on
Saturday.
It was Carolina’s first playoff
win in nine years and Newton’s
first playoff victory since entering
the league as the No. 1 overall
pick in the 2011 draft.
Jonathan Stewart ran for 123
yards and a touchdown on a rain-
soaked afternoon.
The Panthers held Arizona to
78 yards, intercepted Ryan Lindley
twice and sacked him four times.
Carolina had 386 yards.
The Panthers (8-8-1) will play
at top-seeded Seattle next weekend if Dallas beats Detroit on
Sunday. If the Lions win, the
Panthers play at Green Bay.
After a 9-1 start, Arizona’s
once promising season was
undone by a rash of injuries,
including to quarterbacks Carson
Palmer and Drew Stanton.
The New York Giants held the
previous NFL record for fewest
yards in a postseason game, holding Cleveland to 86 yards on Dec.
21, 1958.
See PANTHERS, page B4
SPORTS
B2 THE CALL
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Classic
NHL
Continued from page B1
of other parents. They all put together a fantastic event.”
BHS turned a close game (1-0
advantage after the initial session)
into a rout with five goals in the span
of 6:37 midway through the second.
Senior captain Chad Stone led the
Broncos with two goals and two
assists, while junior Tyler Kearney
chipped in a goal and two assists,
classmate Riley Tupper a goal and
three assists and senior Tom Libby a
goal and an assist.
Sophomores Mike Keable and
Tyler Gustafson notched the other
goals.
All told, Burrillville outshot the
Lions by a whopping 54-9; freshman
Bryan McConnell stopped all nine
shots he faced, while LHS keeper
Tyler Joly finished with 47 saves.
As for the Northmen, they exploded for three goals over the first 10:51
of the opening stanza and sailed to
the 6-1 victory over the Clippers
(who fell to 6-2-0 overall).
Senior assistant captain Brad
Shatraw mustered a hat trick, while
junior Kyle Evangelista registered
two goals and an assist, senior captain Jake Decelles the first goal, junior Matt Pasquariello three assists
and classmate Noah Menard two
assists.
In the seventh-place contest,
Barrington outdueled Bellingham, 52.
Ryan’s OT goal gives Senators 3-2 win over Bruins
Third-place game
Cumberland
0 – 0 – 1-- 1
North Smithfield
3 – 0 – 3-- 6
First period: NS – Jake Decelles (Kyle
Evangelista, Noah Menard) :16; NS –
Evangelista (Tom Mowry) 5:21; NS –
Evangelista (Riley Boucher, Menard) 10:51.
Second period: No scoring.
Third period: NS – Brad Shatraw (Matt
Pasquariello, Ben Stone) 4:06; CUMB – Ryan
Whalen (Derek Bross) 9:39; NS – Shatraw
(Matt Pasquariello) 11:56; NS – Shatraw
(Matt Pasquariello, Adam Blakemore) 14:06.
Shots on goal: Cumberland 18; North
Smithfield 18. Goalie saves: Leo Lake
(CUMB) 12, Mark Pasquariello (NS) 17.
Fifth-place game
Burrillville
1 – 5 – 1 -- 7
Lincoln
0 – 0 – 0 -- 0
First period: B – Tyler Kearney (Pat
McConnell) 6:48.
Second period: B – Tyler Gustafson (Kearney,
Nick Koprusak) 3:30; B – Chad Stone (Riley
Tupper, Tom Libby) 3:56; B – Mike Keable
(Joe White) 7:12; B – Stone (Tupper) 9:37; B
– Libby (Tupper, Stone) 10:07.
Third period: B – Tupper (Kearney, Stone)
11:24.
Shots on goal: Burrillville 54; Lincoln 9.
Goalie saves: Bryan McConnell (B) 9, Tyler
Joly (L) 47.
Rhody
Continued from page B1
had 11 points and seven rebounds
but missed the front end of the bonus
twice in the second half.
Saint Louis hit seven of its first 11
shots and led by as many as eight
points in the first half. Biruta had a
put-back and a layup in transition to
cap an 11-1 run, giving him 10
points overall and putting Rhode
Island ahead 26-24 and it was tied at
27 at the half.
Rhode Island negated another fast
Saint Louis start in the second half,
with Jarvis Garrett scoring the last
five in a 13-0 run that made it 45-37.
E.C. Matthews added 12 points
and Biggie Minnis had 10 for Rhode
Island. The Rams entering allowing
opponents an average of 56.9 points,
among the best in the nation.
Saint Louis is 93-24 in seven seasons in the Chaifetz Arena but has
five new starters and is just 6-4 at
home this season.
JIMMY GOLEN
AP Sports Writer
BOSTON — Ottawa coach
Dave Cameron chooses not to fret
about his team’s five fruitless
power plays against Boston,
including a pair of 5-on-3 advantages in which the Senators failed
to score.
“You never pull your hair out
after a win,” he told reporters
after Bobby Ryan scored 46 seconds into overtime to give Ottawa
a 3-2 victory over the Bruins on
Saturday.
Kyle Turris also scored for the
Senators, and Mike Hoffman
deflected one in with 4:15 left in
the third period to force overtime.
Craig Anderson made 26 saves
for Ottawa, which has won two in
a row but hasn’t scored on a
power play in 19 tries over six
games since Dec. 19.
Brad Marchand and Torey
Krug scored for Boston, and
David Krejci assisted on both
goals. Tuukka Rask stopped 23
shots for the Bruins.
Marchand gave Boston a 2-1
lead midway through the third
period, then Boston killed its second 5-on-3 of the game. But
Gryba’s slap shot deflected off
Hoffman’s skate and past Rask to
tie it.
“You kill a big one and then
you come back and get a bad
bounce,” Krejci said. “So you’ve
got to make sure those bad
bounces don’t happen. You got to
make sure the puck is 100 feet
away from our net.”
Ryan, who had a hat trick in
Monday’s win over Buffalo,
scored the game-winner when
Erik Karlsson attracted the attention of the defense before sliding
it into the slot.
“I just tried to beat my guy to
the net and hope that something
kind of came off of (Rask),” said
Ryan, who also scored the gamewinner in a shootout on Dec. 13
in Ottawa’s last visit to Boston.
“Karl did one better and put it in
my feet. ... I just luckily enough
looked down and it was there and
was able to find a way to get it
in.”
It was the second straight overtime game for the Bruins. On
Wednesday, they scored two late
second-period goals to tie Toronto
before falling in a shootout.
This time, Boston blew the
lead and the game despite killing
a pair of 5-on-3 advantages early
and getting a power play of its
own in the final three minutes.
The game was scoreless for 32
minutes until Clarke MacArthur
occupied a couple of Bruins
behind the Boston net and left the
puck free for Turris. He swooped
in, slid toward the goal and wristed it into the tight spot over
Rask’s right shoulder to make it
1-0.
Boston tied it four minutes
later when Zdeno Chara screened
Anderson and Krug’s slap shot
from the point found the net.
Marchand gave Boston a 2-1 lead
midway through the third when he
skated around and into the slot
before putting a wrist shot past
Anderson.
Boston then killed off a second
two-man disadvantage, but
Hoffman tied it when he deflected
Gryba’s slap shot past Rask. The
Senators killed off a power play
when Milan Michalek tripped
Adam McQuaid with 2:47 left.
NOTES: Both teams are on the
front end of a back-to-back. The
Bruins play at Carolina on
Sunday, and the Senators return
home to play the Tampa Bay
Lightning. ... The Senators
recalled D Chris Wideman from
Binghamton of the AHL. ...
Men’s College Basketball
AHL
P-Bruins drop
overtime shootout
to Portland, 1-0
Marquette
gets past PC,
75-66 despite
Henton’s 28
MILWAUKEE (AP) — Juan
Anderson made 6 of 8 shots and
finished with 18 points to lead
Marquette to a 75-66 win over
Providence on Saturday.
Anderson banked in a 3-pointer, Jajuan Johnson made a jumper,
Luke Fischer’s had a fast break
dunk and Anderson capped the 90 run to give Marquette a 58-46
lead, its largest of the game, with
9:51 left.
LaDontae Henton stopped the
run with a 3-pointer and added
another to cut Providence’s deficit
to six points, but the Friars didn’t
get closer than four points the rest
of the way.
Freshman Sandy Cohen III had
Bryant
Continued from page B1
The Black and Gold built their
lead to as many as seven, 62-55,
with 51 seconds to play on a layup
by junior point guard Shane
McLaughlin (10 points, 4 assists).
The teams traded points from there
until a triple from Martin
Hermannsson with 28 ticks to play
closed the margin to a single possession, 63-61.
McLaughlin and Hermannsson
traded a pair of made free throws to
run the clock down to 13 seconds,
but the Blackbirds would be forced
to foul McLaughlin after the junior
took possession of the inbounds
pass with seven seconds left on the
clock, and McLaughlin would nail
both freebies to finalize the 67-63
victory.
On The Banner
PHOTO FEATURED IN PIC OF THE DAY LAST WEEK
November 22, 2014 - Burrillville defender Jake Wilson (87)
pressures North Smithfield senior quarterback Cody DeMarie (6)
during third quarter action at Alumni Field in Burrillville Saturday.
Ernest A. Brown/RIMG photo
Jan. 23
Red Sox host winter baseball weekend
BOSTON — The Boston Red Sox will introduce a
weekend getaway of hot stove fun for fans and families Jan. 23-25. “Baseball Winter Weekend” at
Foxwoods Resort Casino in Mashantucket,
Connecticut includes a Town Hall Meeting with Red
Sox leaders, autographs with Red Sox players, and
round-table discussions on a variety of baseball topics. It also includes a full baseball festival for fans of
all ages and clinics for kids.
Tickets and weekend packages, including the
option for discounted hotel accommodations, went
on sale today at redsox.com/winterweekend. A
pass for all three days is $50 per adult and $10 for
children 14 and under. Toddlers under three are
free. A one-day pass for Saturday, when the bulk of
the activities are scheduled, is $40 per adult, $10
Photo by Louriann Mardo-Zayat | lmzartworks.com
Forward LaDontae Henton continued his excellent season on Saturday with
28 points in a losing effort at Marquette.
a season-high 12 points, all in the
first half, for Marquette (9-5, 1-1
Big East). Fischer had 11, Matt
Carlino 10, and Derrick Wilson
had eight points, six rebounds and
The Bulldogs shot 41.9 percent
from the floor thanks to a 56.7 percent clip in the second half alone,
also pulling in a season-high 45
rebounds to win the margin on the
glass. Starks added seven rebounds
and three assists in 40 minutes of
action, going 10-for-21 from the
floor and hitting all three of
Bryant’s treys. Sophomore Dan
Garvin added eight points and
eight rebounds.
Martin paced the Blackbirds and
the contest with 27 points off 10of-16 shooting from the field, while
LIU Brooklyn as a team shot just
30.4 percent from the field and 24
percent from downtown.
Hermannsson was the only other
Blackbird to finish in double figures with 14 points, adding seven
rebounds and five assists.
Nura Zanna tied O’Shea’s gamehigh mark on the glass with nine
five assists.
LaDontae Henton was 9 of 23
from the field, including 6 of 12
from 3-point range, for 28 points
for Providence (11-4, 1-1).
rebounds (6 points).
The Blackbirds led for all but
two minutes of the first half, using
six-straight points from
Hermannsson to take over an 11-7
advantage just over five minutes
into the game. The six-point spurt
was part of a larger 15-5 LIU
Brooklyn run that saw the hosts
build their largest lead of the frame,
20-12, on a Joel Hernandez layup
with 7:04 left in the stanza.
The Bulldogs would respond
just over three minutes later with a
9-3 run of their own to draw back
within a single possession, 25-22,
with 1:17 left on the first-half
clock. Seven of the nine points
would come from the hands of
O’Shea.
Trevin Woods would score the
final basket of the frame with 53
ticks remaining to send the
Blackbirds into the locker room
PORTLAND, Maine –
The Providence Bruins fell to
the Portland Pirates on saturday thanks to an overtime
shoot out goal from Jordan
Szwarz.
Providence had 5 shots on
goal in the first period but
were not able to capitalize on
any of them. Jeremy Smith
blocked all 7 of Portland’s
shot on goal, keeping the
game scoreless.
In the second and third,
although Providence outshot
Portland 23-14, they were
still unable to break the tie.
With the game scoreless,
the Providence Bruins and
the Pirates went into overtime. After a full seven minutes of overtime, the teams
forced a shootout. McKenna
was able to block all three
shots from Bruins Flick,
Camara, and Warsofsky.
with a 27-22 edge.
LIU Brooklyn opened up a 10point, 34-24, lead three minutes
into the second half, but the
Bulldogs got hot from there, chipping away at the Blackbirds’ margin until they trailed by only two,
42-40, with 11 minutes remaining
in the contest. Bryant shot 8-of-12
from the field through the opening
10 minutes of the frame.
Martin made it a five-point
spread in favor of the Blackbirds
with nine to play, but Starks would
score the next seven Bulldog points
– interrupted only by a
Hermannsson jumper – to tie the
score at 47-47 and bring the clock
down to 6:15 to go.
The Bulldogs will look to sweep
the opening set of Northeast
Conference contests, taking on
NEC favorite St. Francis Brooklyn
Monday afternoon (4 p.m.).
NEW ENGLAND SKI REPORT
LEBANON, N.H. (AP) — Latest skiing conditions, as
supplied by SnoCountry Mountain Reports.
Conditions are subject to change due to weather,
skier/rider traffic and other factors. Be aware of
changing conditions. For more information go to
www.snocountry.com
Rhode Island
Yawgoo Valley — Fri 6:37 am MG machine groomed
8 - 12 base 5 of 12 trails, 40% open, 3 of 4 lifts,
Mon-Wed: 12p-8p; Thu-Fri: 10a-9p; Sat: 8:30a-9p,
Sun: 8:30a-5p; Jan 02-04: 8:30a-9p;
Massachusetts
Berkshire East — Thu 9:36 am MG machine
for children. Season Ticket Holders’ prices (for
adults) are reduced by $10. Their children’s price
for the three-day pass is $8.
The entire Red Sox roster, including coaches, has
been invited to attend.
Red Sox alumni and Wally the Green Monster will
also be in attendance.
The weekend will begin Friday night with the introduction of the participating players, followed by a
fan-interactive Town Hall Meeting with Red Sox
Principal Owner John Henry, Chairman Tom
Werner, President/CEO Larry Lucchino, Executive
Vice-President/General Manager Ben Cherington,
and Manager John Farrell. The event will be televised by NESN.
Throughout the day on Saturday, fans will have an
opportunity to meet players and receive autographs,
take photographs with the three World Series
Trophies, and see such Red Sox artifacts as Silver
Bats, Gold Gloves, MVPs, and Cy Young Awards.
groomed 6 - 24 base 11 of 45 trails, 25% open, 64
acres, 4 of 5 lifts, Mon-Fri: 9a-4:30p; Sat/Sun:
8:30a-4:30p;
Blandford — Plan to Open 01/02
Blue Hills — Thu 9:52 am variable machine
groomed 4 - 8 base 2 of 12 trails, 17% open, 2 of
4 lifts, Thu/Fri: 9a-9p; Sat: 9a-9p; Sun: 9a-5p;
Open Thu-Sun;
Bousquet — Fri 6:49 am MG machine groomed 10
- 36 base 12 of 23 trails, 53% open, 3 of 5 lifts,
Mon-Fri: 9a-9p; Sat: 9a-9p; Sun: 9a-4p;
Bradford — Fri 6:21 am loose granular machine
groomed 15 - 24 base 7 of 15 trails, 47% open, 5
Fans can test their fastball at the Red Sox pitching
booth, meet Wally the Green Monster, and attend
hour-long discussions from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. on
such topics as “Breaking into Broadcasting,” “The
Rise of Statistical Analysis,” and “1975: A Magical
Season.”
Winter Weekend concludes Sunday with a series
of baseball clinics on hitting, pitching, baserunning,
and coaching conducted by Red Sox coaches and
alumni.
Winter
Darlington Girls’ Softball League plans
Friday night winter clinics
PAWTUCKET — Winter clincis for the Darlington
Girls’ Softball League for its 10-and-under division are
currently underway each Friday night. On and after
of 10 lifts, Mon-Fri: 12p-10p; Sat: 8:30a-4:30p, 6p10p, Sun: 8:30a-4:30p;
Catamount — Fri 12:31 pm packed powder
machine groomed 16 - 24 base 24 of 35 trails, 68%
open, 6 miles, 80 acres, 5 of 6 lifts, sm Thu/Fri: 9a4p, Sat/Sun: 8:30a-4p;
Jiminy Peak — Fri 6:39 am MG machine groomed
12 - 39 base 35 of 45 trails, 78% open, 11 miles,
150 acres, 8 of 9 lifts, sm Mon-Fri: 9a-10p,
Sat/Sun: 8:30a-10p;
Nashoba Valley — Fri 4:36 pm MG machine
groomed 5 - 7 base 14 of 17 trails, 83% open, 8 of
10 lifts, sm Mon-Fri: 9a-10p; Sat/Sun: 8:30a-10p
Dec. 10, the clinics take place at Goff Junior High
School, from 7 to 9 p.m.
The winter clinics for the league’s instructional players will be held on Wednesdays from 6 to 7 p.m.,
beginning Jan. 7 at Fallon Memorial Elementary
School on 62 Lincoln Ave.
Contact Maryellen at [email protected] or
visit www.leaguevue.com/DGSoftball for more information.
Upper Deck Baseball Academy seeks
players for 9&U squad
CUMBERLAND — Upper Deck Baseball Academy
Looking for players for there 9&U baseball team.
To get a private workout call Upper Deck at 3341539. There is no fee for the tryout.
SPORTS
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Boys’ hockey
The Hawks’ Andrew
Hopgood tacked on an insurance goal in the third period
to make the final score 3-1.
On Saturday night the
Mounties looked as if they
would blow LaSalle right out
of the building, taking a 3-0
lead a few minutes into the
second period, on scores by
Patrick Holmes, Kevin
Valentine and Keith Phaneuf.
But LaSalle was determined to make a game of it,
and answered with three
power play goals in the second and third periods to send
the game into overtime.
The game ended in a 3-3
tie after two scoreless OT
periods.
Men’s College Basketball
AP Sports Writer
NEWARK, N.J. — Jay
Wright wasn’t complaining
after No. 6 Villanova had its
record-tying 13-game winning streak to start the season stopped, and his 300th
win with the Wildcats put on
hold.
Tough games are par for
the course in the Big East
Conference, and Villanova
(13-1, 1-1) came up just
short against young and
improving Seton Hall.
Khadeen Carrington hit a
go-ahead layup with 1:38 to
play in overtime and Seton
Hall knocked off its second
ranked foe this week, defeating Villanova 66-61 on
Saturday.
“We didn’t play our best,
but I think it’s because Seton
Hall played a little bit better,” Wright said, adding that
he was proud of his team.
“They executed a little bit
better defensively and I
thought their guys made
some shots and we didn’t.”
The Wildcats struggled in
almost all aspects of their
game, except on defense.
They shot 31 percent from
the field, 21 percent from 3-
point range and a woeful 57
percent from the free throw
line, missing 15 attempts.
Make a couple of those
and the result is different.
Seton Hall (12-2, 2-0)
would not be denied just
days after upsetting No. 15
St. John’s on Wednesday.
Not even despite a career
day by Wildcats’ big man
Daniel Ochefu, who had 19
points and 24 rebounds, personal bests.
“It’s obviously always
tough to lose,” said Wildcats
guard Darrun Hilliard, who
had 14 points before fouling
out in overtime. “It’s tough.
But this team is more than
one loss. So many times
we’ve been on the other end
and felt great. Now it’s our
turn. It’s tough. We’ll bounce
back.”
Carrington finished with a
career-high 17 points, while
Sterling Gibbs added 20 for
the Pirates.
Carrington’s drive gave
Seton Hall a 62-61 lead.
After Ryan Arcidiacono
missed a drive at the other
end, he added two free
throws with 22.5 seconds to
go after the Pirates got an
offensive rebound following
Gibbs’ 3-point attempt.
NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL
Top 25 Fared
The Associated Press
Saturday
1. Kentucky (13-0) did not play. Next: vs.
Missisippi, Tuesday.
2. Duke (13-0) beat Boston College 85-62.
Next: at Wake Forest, Wednesday.
3. Virginia (12-0) at Miami. Next: vs. N.C. State,
Wednesday.
4. Wisconsin (13-1) did not play. Next: at
Northwestern, Sunday.
5. Louisville (12-1) did not play. Next: at Wake
Forest, Sunday.
6. Villanova (13-1) lost to Seton Hall 66-61, OT.
Next: at No. 15 St. John’s, Tuesday.
7. Gonzaga (13-1) at Portland. Next: vs. San
Francisco, Thursday.
8. Arizona (12-1) did not play. Next: vs. Arizona
State, Sunday.
9. Iowa State (10-1) vs. South Carolina. Next:
vs. Oklahoma State, Tuesday.
10. Utah (11-2) did not play. Next: vs. UCLA,
Sunday.
11. Texas (12-2) beat Texas Tech 70-61. Next:
vs. No. 18 Oklahoma, Monday.
12. Maryland (14-1) beat Minnesota 70-58.
Next: at Illinois, Wednesday.
13. Kansas (10-2) did not play. Next: vs. UNLV,
Sunday.
14. Notre Dame (14-1) beat Georgia Tech 8376, 2OT. Next: at No. 19 North Carolina,
Monday.
15. St. John’s (11-3) lost to Butler 73-69. Next:
vs. No. 6 Villanova, Tuesday.
16. Wichita State (11-2) did not play. Next: vs.
Illinois State, Sunday.
17. West Virginia (13-1) beat TCU 78-67. Next:
at Texas Tech, Monday.
18. Oklahoma (10-3) beat No. 22 Baylor 7363. Next: at No. 11 Texas, Monday.
19. North Carolina (10-3) at Clemson. Next: vs.
No. 14 Notre Dame, Monday.
20. Ohio State (12-3) beat Illinois 77-61. Next:
at Minnesota, Tuesday.
21. Washington (11-2) did not play. Next: at
Stanford, Sunday.
22. Baylor (11-2) lost to No. 18 Oklahoma 7363. Next: vs. No. 13 Kansas, Wednesday.
23. Northern Iowa (11-2) did not play. Next: vs.
Loyola of Chicago, Sunday.
24. Colorado State (14-0) at New Mexico.
Next: vs. Wyoming, Wednesday.
25. Georgetown (9-4) beat Creighton 76-61.
Next: vs. Marquette, Tuesday.
NCAA MEN’S BASKETBALL
College Basketball Power Index
Keith Glantz
Russell Culver
Through Games of January 1
CURRENT LAST
TEAM
RATING RATING
Kentucky
13-0
99
99
Duke
12-0
94
94
Wisconsin
13-1
92
94
Gonzaga
13-1
91
91
Arizona
12-1
90
89
Louisville
12-1
90
90
Villanova
13-0
90
90
North Carolina
10-3
89
89
Texas
11-2
89
87
Virginia
12-0
89
89
Kansas
10-2
87
87
Ohio St.
11-3
87
87
Florida
7-5
86
86
Iowa St.
10-1
86
86
Michigan St.
9-5
86
86
Oklahoma
9-3
86
85
Utah
10-2
86
85
Wichita St.
11-2
86
87
Iowa
10-4
85
85
Oklahoma St.
10-2
85
85
VCU
10-3
85
85
Xavier
10-3
85
84
Arkansas
10-2
84
84
Maryland
13-1
84
82
Minnesota
11-3
84
84
Notre Dame
13-1
84
85
Syracuse
9-4
84
84
Georgetown
8-4
83
83
N. Iowa
11-2
83
83
SMU
10-3
83
83
Stanford
8-3
83
83
UConn
6-5
83
83
FAVORITE
at Indianapolis
at Dallas
West Virginia
12-1
Butler
10-4
BYU
12-4
Illinois
10-4
San Diego St.
11-3
St. John’s
11-2
Georgia
8-3
Green Bay
11-3
Miami
10-3
Oregon
10-3
Baylor
11-1
Cincinnati
9-3
Colorado St.
14-0
Dayton
10-2
George Washington 10-3
Georgia St.
8-4
Iona
8-5
Kansas St.
7-6
LSU
10-2
NC State
10-4
Providence
11-3
Purdue
9-5
South Carolina
8-3
UMass
7-6
UTEP
8-4
Washington
11-1
Wyoming
12-2
Alabama
9-3
California
10-3
Colorado
7-5
Creighton
9-5
Davidson
9-2
Indiana
11-3
Louisiana Tech
9-4
Mississippi
8-4
Nebraska
8-5
Pittsburgh
10-3
Rhode Island
8-3
83
82
82
82
82
82
81
81
81
81
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
80
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
83
82
82
83
82
83
81
81
82
81
80
80
80
79
81
79
79
82
80
80
81
80
80
79
80
80
80
79
81
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
79
CULVER-GLANTZ LINE
NFL Playoffs
Sunday
OPENTODAY O/U
5 3½ (49)
6½ 6½ (48)
UNDERDOG
Cincinnati
Detroit
Oregon
NCAA Football
Jan. 12
Championship
At Arlington, Texas
7
7
(75)
TODAY
COLLEGE FOOTBALL
9 p.m.
GoDaddy Bowl, Toledo vs.
Arkansas St., at Mobile, Ala.
ESPN
MEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
ESPNEWS UCF at Temple
Noon
ESPNEWS Houston at Tulsa
2 p.m.
FSN UTSA at North Texas
3 p.m.
4:30 p.m. or 1:30 p.m. CBS UNLV at Kansas
5:30 p.m. ESPNU Illinois St. at Wichita St.
FS1 Arizona St. at Arizona
7 p.m.
ESPNU Louisville at Wake Forest
8 p.m.
ESPNU Washington at Stanford
10 p.m.
NFL
Wild-Card Games
Cincinnati at Pittsburgh
Detroit at Dallas
1:05 p.m.
4:40 p.m.
CBS
FOX
1 p.m.
8 p.m.
NESN Boston at Carolina
NBCSN Dallas at Chicago
NHL
PREP FOOTBALL
9 p.m.
Semper Fidelis All-American Bowl,
East vs. West, at Carson, Calif.
FS1
SOCCER
8 a.m.
FA Cup, round 3, Crystal Palace at
Dover
10:30 a.m. FS1 FA Cup, round 3, Manchester United
at Yeovil Town
12:30 p.m. FS1 FA Cup, round 3, Hull City at Arsenal
FS1
WOMEN’S COLLEGE BASKETBALL
No. 6 Villanova loses for
first time this season
TOM CANAVAN
NFL PLAYOFFS
SPORTS ON THE AIR
Mounties drop 3-1
decision to Hawks,
grab tie with Rams
WOONSOCKET – Mount
St. Charles dropped a 3-1
decision to Bishop
Hendricken on Friday night
at Adelard Arena.
The Hawsk jumped out to
an early lead with two goals
in the first two minutes of
play, with Brandon
Waterman and Reilly Miller
finding the net for the visitors.
Mount responded late in
the first period with a goal
by Jacob Glod, on an assist
by Keith Phanuef. But the
Hawks defense and goalie
Matthew Kenneally (24
saves) made the lead stand
up by shutting out Mount the
rest of the way.
THE CALL B3
1 p.m.
2 p.m.
3 p.m.
4:30 p.m.
5 p.m.
ESPN2 UConn at St. John’s
NBCSN St. Louis at George Mason
ESPN2 South Carolina at LSU
FS1 West Virginia at Oklahoma
FSN TCU at Texas Tech
TRANSACTIONS
Saturday’s Sports Transactions
The Associated Press
BASKETBALL
National Basketball Association
HOUSTON ROCKETS — Assigned G Nick
Johnson to Rio Grande Valley (NBADL).
FOOTBALL
National Football League
BALTIMORE RAVENS — Placed LB Arthur
Brown on injured reserve.
GREEN BAY PACKERS — Signed C Joe
Madsen to the practice squad.
SAN FRANCISCO 49ERS — Signed DE
Lawrence Okoye to a futures contract.
HOCKEY
National Hockey League
DALLAS STARS — Claimed D David
Schlemko off waivers from Arizona.
Reassigned D Jyrki Jokipakka to Texas (AHL).
NASHVILLE PREDATORS — Placed F Taylor
Beck on injured reserve. Recalled Fs Miikka
Salomaki and Viktor Stalberg from Milwaukee
(AHL) and F Zach Budish and D Garrett
Noonan from Cincinnati (ECHL) to Milwaukee.
NEW JERSEY DEVILS — Recalled D Mark
Fraser from Albany (AHL).
American Hockey League
CHARLOTTE CHECKERS — Returned F A.J.
Jenks to Toledo (ECHL).
SYRACUSE CRUNCH — Assigned G Allen
York to Florida (ECHL).
ECHL
ECHL — Suspended Colorado F Darryl
Bootland one game and fined him an undisclosed amount.
ALLEN AMERICANS — Added G Josh
Trimberger as emergency backup.
ELMIRA JACKALS — Traded D Rob Florentino
to Florida to complete an earlier trade.
ONTARIO REIGN — Loaned D Ryan Parent to
St. John’s (AHL).
TULSA OILERS — Released G Brady Hjelle.
Released G Jordan Crudo as emergency
backup. Signed G Kevin Murdock.
THIS DAY IN SPORTS
Compiled By PAUL MONTELLA
By The Associated Press
Jan. 4
1970 — The Minnesota Vikings become the
first expansion team to win the NFL title by
beating the Cleveland Browns 27-7 in 8degree temperatures in Bloomington, Minn.
1970 — Kansas City’s defense, highlighted by
four interceptions, three in the final quarter,
carries the Chiefs to a 17-7 victory over
Oakland Raiders in the last AFL title game.
1976 — The Dallas Cowboys become the first
wild-card team to make it to the Super Bowl
with a 37-7 rout of the Los Angeles Rams in
the NFC title game.
1986 — Eric Dickerson shatters the NFL playoff record with a 248-yard rushing performance and two touchdowns to lead the Los
Angeles Rams to a 20-0 win over the Dallas
Cowboys.
1991 — Fu Mingxia, a 12-year-old from China,
becomes the youngest world titlist in the history of any aquatic event by winning the
women’s platform gold medal at the World
Swimming Championships in Perth, Australia.
1992 — Mike Gartner of the New York
Rangers scores his 1,000th NHL point with a
power-play goal in the third period of a 6-4
loss to the New Jersey Devils.
1997 — The Jacksonville Jaguars, in their second year, beat the Broncos in Denver to
advance to the AFC Championship game.
2000 — Top-ranked Florida State, the preseason No. 1, holds off Virginia Tech 46-29 in
the Sugar Bowl to finish 12-0 and win the
national championship. Florida State is the
first team to go wire-to-wire in The Associated
Press’ poll since preseason rankings began in
1950.
2002 — Michael Jordan becomes the fourth
player in NBA history to score 30,000 points,
reaching the milestone for the Washington
Wizards in an 89-83 win over his old team,
the Chicago Bulls.
2003 — Bode Miller wins his second straight
World Cup giant slalom in Kranjska Gora,
Slovenia to move into first place in the World
Cup overall standings. It’s the first time an
American man has held the overall lead since
Phil Mahre in 1983.
2005 — Matt Leinart throws five touchdown
passes and Southern California overwhelms
Oklahoma 55-19 in the Orange Bowl. USC
(13-0) is the first team to repeat as AP national
champions since Nebraska in 1994-95 and
joins Florida State in 1999 as the only teams
to go wire-to-wire — from preseason to post
bowls — as No. 1.
2006 — Second-ranked Texas ends Southern
California’s 34-game winning streak, beating
the two-time defending national champion 4138 in the Rose Bowl. The Longhorns also
snap USC’s record string of 33 consecutive
weeks as the No. 1 team in The Associated
Press Top 25. The Longhorns, a unanimous
choice, wins a national championship for the
first time since 1969.
2010 — Boise State stuns Texas Christian in a
Fiesta Bowl duel of unbeaten BCS busters.
After the Broncos pull off a gutsy fake punt at
their own 33-yard line, Doug Martin scores
the decisive touchdown to give No. 6 Boise
State a 17-10 victory over third-ranked TCU.
The Broncos are the second school ever to
go 14-0, joining Ohio State in 2002.
2012 — Geno Smith ties a record for any bowl
game with six touchdown passes, including
four to Tavon Austin, and West Virginia sets a
bowl scoring record by beating Clemson 7033 in the Orange Bowl. West Virginia’s point
total broke the bowl record established six
days earlier when Baylor beat Washington 6756 in the Alamo Bowl.
2013 — Heisman Trophy winner Johnny
Manziel runs for two touchdowns, passes for
two more and has a Cotton Bowl-record 516
total yards as Texas A&M wraps up its first
SEC season with a 41-13 win over Oklahoma.
Manziel sets an FBS bowl record with his 229
yards rushing on 17 carries, and completes
22 of 34 passes for 287 yards.
2013 — Mikaela Shiffrin becomes the first
American woman to win two World Cup races
before turning 18. The 17-year-old captures a
slalom in Zagreb, Croatia by a massive 1.19second margin. Her first victory came last
month in Sweden.
2014 — Andrew Luck throws four second-half
touchdown passes and scores on a fumble
recovery, leading the Indianapolis Colts from a
four-TD deficit to an historic 45-44 comeback
victory over the Kansas City Chiefs in a wildcard game. It was the second time in playoff
history a team rallied from a deficit of 28 or
more points to win.
AHL STANDINGS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP
L SL
OL Pts
SL GF
Pts GA
GF GA
GP
W W
L OL
Manchester 33 24 7 1 1 50 111 74
Providence 33 17 13 3 0 37 92 85
Portland
34 18 15 1 0 37 86 82
Worcester 31 13 14 3 1 30 81 88
St. John’s 34 12 16 5 1 30 76 109
East Division
GP
L SL
OL Pts
SL GF
Pts GA
GF GA
GP
W W
L OL
Scranton
35 20 12 1 2 43 86 73
Hershey
33 16 12 4 1 37 79 75
Lehigh Valley 32 15 12 4 1 35 81 90
Binghamton 32 15 14 2 1 33 105 101
Norfolk
33 12 19 1 1 26 74 106
Northeast Division
GP
L SL
OL Pts
SL GF
Pts GA
GF GA
GP
W W
L OL
Springfield 34 22 10 2 0 46 105 90
Syracuse
34 21 9 4 0 46 98 90
Hartford
33 18 11 2 2 40 88 93
Albany
32 14 11 2 5 35 85 91
Bridgeport 32 15 13 3 1 34 102 94
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Midwest Division
GP
L SL
OL Pts
SL GF
Pts GA
GF GA
GP
W W
L OL
Rockford
35 20 11 3 1 44 99 82
Chicago
34 18 12 4 0 40 102 85
Grand Rapids32 17 11 3 1 38 101 84
Milwaukee 32 15 12 2 3 35 87 84
Lake Erie
32 14 13 2 3 33 91 110
North Division
GP
L SL
OL Pts
SL GF
Pts GA
GF GA
GP
W W
L OL
Utica
33 22 6 5 0 49 95 75
Adirondack 36 20 14 1 1 42 97 97
Hamilton
34 15 13 6 0 36 92 93
Toronto
35 14 15 6 0 34 76 96
Rochester 34 14 19 1 0 29 96 100
West Division
GP
L SL
OL Pts
SL GF
Pts GA
GF GA
GP
W W
L OL
Oklahoma City3322 7 2 2 48 106 90
San Antonio 33 19 11 3 0 41 109 102
Texas
31 13 10 8 0 34 87 94
Charlotte
32 11 17 3 1 26 71 95
Iowa
33 11 20 1 1 24 81 111
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for overtime loss.
AHL SCHEDULE
Saturday’s Games
San Antonio 4, Toronto 3, OT
Albany at Bridgeport, 7 p.m.
Texas at Charlotte, 7 p.m.
St. John’s at Hartford, 7 p.m.
Rochester at Adirondack, 7 p.m.
Wilkes-Barre/Scranton at Hershey, 7 p.m.
Iowa at Utica, 7 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Lake Erie, 7 p.m.
Providence at Portland, 7 p.m.
Worcester at Springfield, 7 p.m.
Syracuse at Binghamton, 7:05 p.m.
Lehigh Valley at Norfolk, 7:15 p.m.
Rockford at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Hamilton at Milwaukee, 8 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Albany at Bridgeport, 3 p.m.
Texas at Charlotte, 3 p.m.
Manchester at Springfield, 3 p.m.
Worcester at Providence, 3:05 p.m.
Monday’s Games
No games scheduled
Tuesday’s Games
Manchester at St. John’s, 6 p.m.
San Antonio at Adirondack, 7 p.m.
Norfolk at Wilkes-Barre/Scranton, 7:05 p.m.
Texas at Oklahoma City, 8 p.m.
NBA CALENDAR
Ohio St.
Jan. 5 — 10-day contracts can be signed.
Jan. 10 — Contracts guaranteed for rest of
season.
Feb. 13-15 — All-Star weekend, New York.
Feb. 19 — Trade deadline (3 p.m. EST).
April 15 — Last day of regular season.
April 18 — Playoffs begin.
The Associated Press
Wild-card Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 3
Arizona at Carolina, 4:35 p.m. (ESPN)
Baltimore at Pittsburgh, 8:15 p.m. (NBC)
Sunday, Jan. 4
Cincinnati at Indianapolis, 1:05 (CBS)
Detroit at Dallas, 4:40 p.m. (FOX)
Divisional Playoffs
Saturday, Jan. 10
Baltimore, Indianapolis or Cincinnati at New
England, 4:35 p.m. (NBC)
Arizona, Detroit or Carolina at Seattle, 8:15
p.m. (FOX)
Sunday, Jan. 11
Arizona, Dallas or Carolina at Green Bay, 1:05
p.m. (FOX)
Indianapolis, Cincinnati or Pittsburgh at
Denver, 4:40 p.m. (CBS)
Conference Championships
Sunday, Jan. 18
NFC, 3:05 p.m. (FOX)
AFC, 6:40 p.m. (CBS)
Pro Bowl
Sunday, Jan. 25
At Glendale, Ariz.
Team Irvin vs. Team Carter, 8 p.m. (ESPN)
Super Bowl
Sunday, Feb. 1
At Glendale, Ariz.
AFC champion vs. NFC champion, 6:30 p.m.
(NBC)
NBA STANDINGS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
W
WL PctL
d-Atlanta
24
8
d-Toronto
24
9
d-Chicago
23
10
Washington
22
10
Cleveland
19
14
Milwaukee
17
17
Brooklyn
16
16
Miami
14
19
Indiana
13 21
Boston
11
19
Orlando
13 23
Charlotte
10 24
Detroit
9 23
New York
5 30
Philadelphia
4 27
WESTERN CONFERENCE
W
WL PctL
d-Golden State
26
5
d-Portland
26
7
d-Memphis
24
8
Dallas
24
10
Houston
22
10
L.A. Clippers
22
11
San Antonio
20
14
Phoenix
19
16
New Orleans
17
16
Oklahoma City
17
17
Sacramento
14
19
Denver
13 20
Utah
11 22
L.A. Lakers
10 23
Minnesota
5 26
d-division leader
EASTERN CONFERENCE
GB
Str Home
Away Away
Conf Conf
Pct L10
GB
L10
Str Home
.750
—
8-2
W-3
14-3 10-5 17-6
.727
½
7-3
L-2
14-3 10-6 15-5
.697 1½
8-2
W-1
9-6 14-4 15-5
.688
2
6-4
L-2
14-4
8-6 15-6
.576 5½
5-5
W-1
11-7
8-7 15-8
.500
8
5-5
L-1
7-7 10-10 11-11
.500
8
6-4
W-3
8-8
8-8 11-11
.424 10½
3-7
L-3
6-12
8-7 10-12
.382
12
6-4
W-2
7-9 6-12 8-10
.367
12
4-6
L-1 8-10
3-9 8-11
.361
13
3-7
L-2
4-11 9-12 9-17
.294
15
4-6
L-5
7-12 3-12 7-11
.281
15
6-4
W-4
3-13 6-10 6-11
.143 20½ 0-10 L-10
3-14 2-16 4-17
.129 19½
2-8
L-4
0-14 4-13 3-13
WESTERN CONFERENCE
GB
Str Home
Away Away
Conf Conf
Pct L10
GB
L10
Str Home
.839
—
7-3
W-3
13-1 13-4 16-5
.788
1
9-1
W-4
15-2 11-5 11-6
.750 2½
6-4
W-3
13-4 11-4 16-4
.706 3½
7-3
W-4
13-5 11-5 10-7
.688 4½
5-5
L-1
11-6 11-4 15-8
.667
5
6-4
W-2
14-4
8-7 12-6
.588 7½
3-7
W-1
11-5
9-9 12-13
.543
9
7-3
W-1
8-7 11-9 9-10
.515
10
6-4
W-1
11-4 6-12 13-11
.500 10½
6-4
W-2 10-7 7-10 9-12
.424
13
3-7
W-1 8-10
6-9 11-13
.394
14
3-7
L-3
9-8 4-12 7-11
.333
16
5-5
L-1 6-10 5-12 5-12
.303
17
3-7
L-1
4-12 6-11 6-19
.161
21 0-10 L-10
3-12 2-14 2-17
NBA SCHEDULE
Philadelphia at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Dallas at Cleveland, 1 p.m.
Brooklyn at Miami, 6 p.m.
Sacramento at Detroit, 6 p.m.
Milwaukee at New York, 7:30 p.m.
Toronto at Phoenix, 8 p.m.
Indiana at L.A. Lakers, 9:30 p.m.
Monday’s Games
Cleveland at Philadelphia, 7 p.m.
Charlotte at Boston, 7:30 p.m.
Dallas at Brooklyn, 7:30 p.m.
Washington at New Orleans, 8 p.m.
Houston at Chicago, 8 p.m.
New York at Memphis, 8 p.m.
Denver at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Indiana at Utah, 9 p.m.
L.A. Lakers at Portland, 10 p.m.
Atlanta at L.A. Clippers, 10:30 p.m.
Oklahoma City at Golden State, 10:30 p.m.
Friday’s Games
Brooklyn 100, Orlando 98
Cleveland 91, Charlotte 87
Dallas 119, Boston 101
Detroit 97, New York 81
New Orleans 111, Houston 83
Oklahoma City 109, Washington 102
Indiana 94, Milwaukee 91
Phoenix 112, Philadelphia 96
Atlanta 98, Utah 92
Golden State 126, Toronto 105
Memphis 109, L.A. Lakers 106
Saturday’s Games
Charlotte at Orlando, 7 p.m.
Boston at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Miami at Houston, 8 p.m.
Utah at Minnesota, 8 p.m.
Washington at San Antonio, 8:30 p.m.
Memphis at Denver, 9 p.m.
Atlanta at Portland, 10 p.m.
NBA LEADERS
SCORING
G FG FT
Harden, HOU . . .32 265 260
James, CLE . . . .29 256 171
Anthony, NYK . . .30 270 135
Bryant, LAL . . . . .30 241 185
Davis, NOR . . . . .32 296 168
Wade, MIA . . . . .25 227 111
Curry, GOL . . . . .31 254 115
Aldridge, POR . . .29 263 122
Griffin, LAC . . . . .33 288 163
Lillard, POR . . . . .33 244 144
PTS
869
731
717
713
760
580
716
663
746
723
AVG
27.2
25.2
23.9
23.8
23.8
23.2
23.1
22.9
22.6
21.9
FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE
FG
FGA PCT
Wright, BOS . . . . . .112 153 .732
Jordan, LAC . . . . . .133 188 .707
Chandler, DAL . . . .132 198 .667
Zeller, BOS . . . . . . .115 180 .639
Howard, HOU . . . . .139 231 .602
A. Johnson, TOR . .127 219 .580
Davis, NOR . . . . . . .296 527 .562
Stoudemire, NYK . .148 265 .558
Favors, UTA . . . . . .189 346 .546
Thompson, CLE . . .122 226 .540
3-POINT FIELD GOAL PERCENTAGE
3FG 3FGA PCT
Korver, ATL . . . . . . .92
178 .517
Babbitt, NOR . . . . .36
70
.514
Lee, MEM . . . . . . .41
81
.506
Butler, WAS . . . . . .50
101 .495
Beal, WAS . . . . . . .44
95
.463
REBOUNDS PER GAME
G OFF DEF TOT AVG
Jordan, LAC . . . . .33 140 312 452 13.7
Drummond, DET . .32 156 261 417 13.0
Chandler, DAL . . .33
Randolph, MEM . .26
Vucevic, ORL . . . .30
Gasol, CHI . . . . . .30
Aldridge, POR . . . .29
Duncan, SAN . . . .29
Davis, NOR . . . . . .32
Asik, NOR . . . . . . .29
135
97
90
76
80
77
85
103
263
200
241
254
230
233
250
190
398
297
331
330
310
310
335
293
ASSISTS PER GAME
G
AST
Wall, WAS . . . . . . . . . . .32 332
Lawson, DEN . . . . . . . . .32 325
Rondo, DAL . . . . . . . . . .29 289
Paul, LAC . . . . . . . . . . . .33 310
Curry, GOL . . . . . . . . . .31
242
Lowry, TOR . . . . . . . . . .33 253
James, CLE . . . . . . . . . .29 221
Carter-Williams, PHL . . .24
174
Holiday, NOR . . . . . . . . .33 238
Teague, ATL . . . . . . . . . .29 204
STEALS PER GAME
G
STL
Curry, GOL . . . . . . . .31
65
Brewer, HOU . . . . . . .30
61
Wall, WAS . . . . . . . . .32
65
Paul, LAC . . . . . . . . . .33
67
Allen, MEM . . . . . . . .26
52
12.1
11.4
11.0
11.0
10.7
10.7
10.5
10.1
AVG
10.4
10.2
10.0
9.4
7.8
7.7
7.6
7.3
7.2
7.0
AVG
2.10
2.03
2.03
2.03
2.00
BLOCKED SHOTS PER GAME
G
BLK AVG
Davis, NOR . . . . . . . . .32
93 2.91
Jordan, LAC . . . . . . . .33
78 2.36
Gasol, CHI . . . . . . . . . .30
68 2.27
Ibaka, OKC . . . . . . . . .34
76 2.24
Duncan, SAN . . . . . . . .29
62 2.14
NHL STANDINGS
EASTERN CONFERENCE
Atlantic Division
GP
OT Pts
GF GA
GP
W WL OTL Pts
GF GA
Montreal
38 25 11 2 52 104 88
Tampa Bay
40 24 12 4 52 130 106
Detroit
38 20 9 9 49 108 95
Toronto
39 21 15 3 45 129 117
Florida
36 17 10 9 43 84 93
Boston
39 19 15 5 43 103 106
Ottawa
37 16 14 7 39 100 101
Buffalo
39 14 22 3 31 76 130
Metropolitan Division
GP
OT Pts
GF GA
GP
W WL OTL Pts
GF GA
Pittsburgh
38 24 9 5 53 117 90
N.Y. Islanders 38 26 11 1 53 119 104
Washington
37 19 11 7 45 108 96
N.Y. Rangers 35 20 11 4 44 107 89
Columbus
35 16 16 3 35 89 110
Philadelphia 38 14 17 7 35 104 115
New Jersey 40 13 20 7 33 85 115
Carolina
38 11 23 4 26 75 101
WESTERN CONFERENCE
Central Division
GP
OT Pts
GF GA
GP
W WL OTL Pts
GF GA
Nashville
37 25 9 3 53 113 84
Chicago
38 25 11 2 52 119 81
St. Louis
38 22 13 3 47 111 97
Winnipeg
38 19 12 7 45 96 92
Minnesota
36 18 14 4 40 103 99
Dallas
36 17 14 5 39 108 118
Colorado
38 15 15 8 38 98 113
Pacific Division
GP
OT GF
Pts GA
GF GA
GP
W W
L OTL Pts
Anaheim
40 25 9 6 56 111 107
Los Angeles 40 19 12 9 47 112 103
Vancouver
36 21 12 3 45 105 97
San Jose
38 20 13 5 45 104 96
Calgary
40 21 16 3 45 115 105
Arizona
37 14 19 4 32 86 121
Edmonton
39 8 22 9 25 83 133
NOTE: Two points for a win, one point for
overtime loss.
NHL SCHEDULE
Friday’s Games
Colorado 2, Edmonton 1, SO
Florida 2, Buffalo 0
Montreal 4, New Jersey 2
Pittsburgh 6, Tampa Bay 3
Carolina 2, Philadelphia 1
Minnesota 3, Toronto 1
N.Y. Islanders 2, Calgary 1
Anaheim 4, St. Louis 3
Saturday’s Games
Ottawa 3, Boston 2, OT
Nashville 7, Los Angeles 6, OT
Philadelphia at New Jersey, 7 p.m.
Buffalo at N.Y. Rangers, 7 p.m.
Montreal at Pittsburgh, 7 p.m.
Toronto at Winnipeg, 7 p.m.
Minnesota at Dallas, 8 p.m.
Columbus at Arizona, 8 p.m.
Detroit at Vancouver, 10 p.m.
St. Louis at San Jose, 10:30 p.m.
Sunday’s Games
Boston at Carolina, 1 p.m.
Florida at Washington, 3 p.m.
Tampa Bay at Ottawa, 7 p.m.
Dallas at Chicago, 8 p.m.
Columbus at Colorado, 8 p.m.
Nashville at Anaheim, 8 p.m.
N.Y. Islanders at Edmonton, 9:30 p.m.
Monday’s Games
San Jose at Winnipeg, 8 p.m.
COLLEGE FOOTBALL BOWL GLANCE
Sunday, Jan. 4
GoDaddy Bowl
At Mobile, Ala.
Toledo (8-4) vs. Arkansas State (7-5), 9 p.m.
(ESPN)
Saturday, Jan. 10
Medal of Honor Bowl
At Charleston, S.C.
American vs. National, 2:30 p.m.
Monday, Jan. 12
College Football Championship
At Arlington, Texas
Sugar Bowl winner vs. Rose Bowl winner,
8:30 p.m. (ESPN)
Saturday, Jan. 17
East-West Shrine Classic
At St. Petersburg, Fla.
East vs. West, 4 p.m. (NFLN)
NFLPA Collegiate Bowl
At Carson, Calif.
National vs. American, 4 p.m. (ESPN2)
Saturday, Jan. 24
Senior Bowl
At Mobile, Ala.
North vs. South, 4 p.m. (NFLN)
NFL CALENDAR
Associated Press
Jan. 3-4, 2015 — Wild-card playoffs.
Jan. 10-11 — Divisional playoffs.
Jan. 18 — Conference championships.
Jan. 25 — Pro Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.
Feb. 1 — Super Bowl, Glendale, Ariz.
Feb. 16 — First day for teams to designate
franchise or transition players.
Feb. 17-23 — NFL combine, Indianapolis.
March 2 — Final day to designate franchise or
transition players.
March 10 — All teams must be under the
2015 salary cap; all 2014 player contracts
expire; free agency begins.
March 19 — Trading period for 2015 begins.
March 22-25 — Annual league meeting,
Phoenix.
April 6 — Teams with new head coach can
begin offseason workouts.
April 20 — Teams with returning head coach
can begin offseason workouts.
April 30-May 2 — NFL draft, Chicago.
SPORTS
B4 THE CALL
Pedro
Continued from page B1
Like Randy Johnson, who
is also making his first
appearance on the ballot,
Martinez is a virtual certainty to be enshrined in July;
each has a chance to break
Tom Seaver’s record of
98.84 percent of the ballots
cast.
Also like Johnson,
Martinez was an imposing
presence on the mound. But
while the 6-foot-10 left-hander could intimidate with his
size, Martinez accomplished
as much with control that
allowed him to use all parts
of the plate — including the
inside.
When he came out of the
bullpen in relief for the
finale of a 1999 AL Division
Series game against
Cowboys
Continued from page B1
to New Orleans in his only
try three years ago.
“I feel like I have been in
the middle of it right now so
I’m not too worried about it,”
said Stafford, who grew up in
the Dallas area. “I’m just trying to win every game if I
can. You know you have to
deal with all that kind of stuff
and had some success and
some years I’d like to have
back, too. It’s an ongoing
process.”
“Coach Process” — that’s
what Jason Garrett is called
sometimes because of his
affinity for the word — led
the Cowboys (12-4) to the
NFC East title after three
straight 8-8 seasons ended
with a loss that kept them out
of the playoffs and fueled
questions about his job security that are gone now.
Romo was the league’s
most efficient quarterback
with a boost from NFL rush-
Colts
Continued from page B1
quarterbacks get another
chance to fill in some of those
gaps when the Colts and
Bengals meet in a wild-card
round game.
“I don’t think just getting
to the playoffs has ever been
Cleveland, the Indians batters were visibly deflated.
Martinez, who had left Game
1 with a back strain, pitched
six innings of no-hit relief to
finish off the series.
“I wanted to make my
presence be felt,” Martinez
said this summer when he
returned to Boston for induction into the franchise Hall
of Fame. “Every time I went
out there, I wanted to make
sure that you knew, that you
were aware, that I wasn’t
kidding out there. That this
was my job. That I’m here
and I’m going to be responsible for it.”
In all, Martinez finished
with a 219-100 record and a
2.93 ERA. He struck out
3,154 batters and walked 760
in 2,827 innings. He twice
won 20 games, twice struck
out more than 300 batters
and twice posted an ERA
ing leader DeMarco Murray,
who gained 1,845 yards
behind a stout offensive line
rebuilt through three firstround picks in the past four
drafts — tackle Tyron Smith,
center Travis Frederick and
guard Zack Martin.
Apparently knowing he
had more help, Romo predicted in training camp that
his best years were ahead of
him despite back surgery that
ended his 2013 season a
game early. And his message
didn’t change after another
back injury kept him out of
one game this year.
“I think more than anything it’s just about playing
the right way and being the
best version of yourself and
figuring out how to create
that,” said Romo, who is 1-3
in the playoffs after beating
Philadelphia and losing to
Minnesota during the 2009
season. “We’ve done a really
good job being very efficient
and explosive in the pass
game and we’ll continue
hopefully to do that.”
good enough in this building,” Luck said this week.
The Colts’ franchise quarterback learned his lesson the
hard way.
After directing one of the
greatest one-season turnarounds in NFL history in
2012, Luck came up short
against eventual Super Bowl
champion Baltimore in the
below 2.00. He was an eighttime all-star, and five times
he led the major leagues in
ERA.
In 1999, he went 23-4
with 313 strikeouts and a
2.07 ERA. He started the
All-Star Game at Fenway
park and struck out five of
the six batters he faced,
including fellow Hall of
Fame candidates Larry
Walker, Sammy Sosa, Mark
McGwire and Jeff Bagwell,
as well as Barry Larkin, who
was inducted in 2012.
On Sept. 10 of that season, he fanned 17 New York
Yankees — no one’s ever
done that before or since —
during a one-hitter in which
he faced one batter over the
minimum. (Martinez does
not have an official no-hitter,
though he did pitch nine perfect innings for Montreal in
1995 before giving up a dou-
Sunday, January 4, 2015
ble to lead off the 10th.)
After dispatching the
Indians in the first round of
the ‘99 playoffs, Martinez
pitched seven shutout
innings in Game 3 of the
ALCS to beat Roger
Clemens and the rival
Yankees. After the season, he
was a unanimous choice as
the league’s top pitcher and
missed adding the AL MVP
because two voters left him
off their ballots entirely.
He won his third Cy
Young award the next year,
going 18-6 with a 1.74 ERA
that was half of the next-best
mark in the AL, Clemens’
3.70. Martinez allowed 0.74
walks and hits per inning
pitched — the fewest for a
full season in baseball history.
His pitching brought electricity to Fenway.
On days he pitched,
Dominican flags fluttered in
the stands and fans chanted
his name while banging
drums to a Latin beat. The
Boston Globe began running
its baseball stories in Spanish
alongside the English ones.
Martinez himself wasn’t
above partaking in the festivities — when he wasn’t pitching. His antics during one
game were so distracting that
Garciaparra tied him to a
dugout pole with athletic tape
— saving the last piece to
cover Martinez’s mouth.
“I wanted to be loose on
the days I don’t pitch. In the
same way, I wanted to keep
my teammate loose,” said
Martinez, who is now a special assistant to Red Sox general manager Ben Cherington.
“The season is really long. If
you don’t have fun, especially Martinez is pictured during
the 2004 World Series parade
on the days you’re not perin Boston.
forming, it’s going to be a
long season out there.”
Things to consider as the
Lions (11-5) for go for their
first playoff win since beating the Cowboys 38-6 during
the 1991 season.
SUH’S OUT, THEN
HE’S IN: Detroit defensive
tackle Ndamukong Suh was
suspended Monday for stepping on Green Bay quarterback Aaron Rodgers’ leg
twice in the regular-season
finale, which the Packers
won to secure the NFC North
and a first-round bye. But the
suspension was rescinded a
day later, a decision that
could go a long way toward
determining whether the
league’s best rushing defense
can keep Murray under 100
yards for just the fifth time
this season.
“You can’t worry about
things like that,” Murray
said. “You’ve just got to play
ball and try to execute what
you do offensively.”
THE LAST TIME:
Calvin Johnson had the second-highest receiving total in
NFL history with 329 yards
in Detroit’s 31-30 win over
Dallas last season, when
Stafford drove them 80 yards
in less than a minute for the
winning score in the final
seconds. High-priced Dallas
cornerback Brandon Carr
was the primary victim, and
first round of the playoffs.
Last year, after engineering the second-biggest comeback in postseason history,
Luck spent the offseason pondering how to reduce
turnovers. He blamed himself
for throwing three interceptions that helped put Indy in a
28-point deficit against
Kansas City, and then threw
four more picks the next
week in a 43-22 loss at New
England.
Now Luck is eager to
prove two-time AFC South
champion Indianapolis (11-5)
is ready to take another big
step.
Dalton’s postseason problems are just as obvious.
In three playoff games, all
losses, he’s thrown one touchdown pass, six interceptions
and accumulated a passer rating of 56.2. Another defeat
would put Dalton in a tie with
Warren Moon for most consecutive opening-round playoff losses by a quarterback.
History is not on the
Bengals’ side, either.
Cincinnati (10-5-1) is 0-6 in
road playoff games, has lost
seven straight in Indy and
hasn’t won in the playoffs
since January 1991.
If Dalton ends that misery,
he might finally silence the
critics.
“Winning in general is
how quarterbacks are
judged,” Dalton said. “If you
win a lot in the regular season
but you haven’t won a lot in
the postseason, then they’re
going to say that you couldn’t
do something.”
Here are some other things
to watch Sunday:
LIFE WITHOUT A.J.:
The Bengals announced
Saturday that receiver A.J.
Green won’t play because of
a concussion. How much of
an impact could Green’s
absence have? When the
four-time Pro Bowler missed
the first Colts game with an
injured right big toe, the
offense went nowhere in a
27-0 loss. The Bengals need
Plan B to work out better this
time.
LINE DANCE: Indy’s
offensive line isn’t even close
to full strength. Right tackle
Gosder Cherilus went on
injured reserve earlier this
week with groin, hip and
shoulder injuries. Right guard
Hugh Thornton (shoulder)
has been ruled out. A.Q.
Shipley, who started at left
guard in Week 17, is doubtful
with an ankle injury, too. But
after using 10 starting combinations this season, coach
Chuck Pagano doesn’t expect
a drop-off.
GIVE IT TO HILL: One
major change in Cincinnati’s
offense since the last game
has been the emergence of
rookie running back Jeremy
Hill. He had only four carries
at Indy. Since then, he’s
become the starter and produced four games with at least
140 yards. If he has a big
game this weekend, it’ll take a
lot of pressure off Dalton.
Panthers
interference penalty on Tony
Jefferson on third down gave
Carolina a new set of downs,
and Newton took advantage.
He found wide-open fullback
Mike Tolbert in the left flat
for a 1-yard touchdown and a
27-14 lead.
The Cardinals (11-6) had
one last chance to get in the
game when Newton was hit
from behind and Rashad
Johnson recovered the ball
and returned it to the
Carolina 8. But All-Pro Luke
Kuechly ruined any chance
of an Arizona comeback
when he stepped in front
Larry Fitzgerald and intercepted Lindley’s pass at the
5.
Carolina outgained
Arizona 208-65 in the first
half, but entered the locker
room trailing 14-13 after two
costly turnovers led to two
Cardinals touchdowns.
The Panthers were in
complete control when
Stewart put his team up 10-0
with a nifty, spinning 13-yard
run and the defense came up
with three stops to start the
game.
But the momentum turned
when Carolina punt returner
Brenton Bersin inexplicably
crouched down on the soggy
field like a shortstop, only to
have the ball bounce off his
right thigh.
Arizona’s Justin Bethel
recovered at the Carolina 30.
The Cardinals cashed in six
plays later on a 1-yard pass
from Lindley to a wide-open
Darren Fells in the back of
the end zone after the
Panthers bit on a play-action
fake. It was Fells’ first career
touchdown catch.
Later in the second quarter, Newton avoided pressure
and threw toward Jerricho
Cotchery, who turned inside
while the pass went outside.
Newton pointed at him in
frustration after Antonio
Cromartie returned the interception 50 yards.
Arizona made it 14-10 on
a 1-yard run by rookie
Marion Grace. The score was
initially ruled a fumble but
overturned when officials
reviewed the play and realized the ball had broken the
plane of the goal line.
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Tony Romo returns to the playoffs today after a five-year
drought. He’ll take on a Lions defense regarded as one of the
best in the league.
Continued from page B1
It appeared the Panthers
wouldn’t get the record, but
Arizona began lateraling the
ball around the field on the
final play and lost 19 yards.
It was a fitting end to
Arizona’s offensive struggles. The Cardinals managed
12 yards in the second half
and had eight first downs for
the game.
Trailing by one at halftime
the Panthers scored two
touchdowns in a span of 1
minute, 32 seconds late in
the third quarter to take control.
Rookie running back
Fozzy Whittaker caught a
pass in the flat from Newton,
reversed fields and got a key
block from Kelvin Benjamin
to spring him for a 39-yard
touchdown.
On the ensuing kickoff,
Melvin White stripped
returner Ted Ginn Jr., a former Panther, at the Arizona 3
and Kevin Reddick recovered for Carolina. A pass
he was on the wrong side of
history again this year when
Odell Beckham Jr. of the
New York Giants made a circus catch over him.
“Last year, he got the best
of us,” Carr said. “The good
thing about football is you
get a chance to do it again.”
DON’T FORGET
ABOUT DEZ: Cowboys
receiver Dez Bryant had a
sideline tantrum last year in
Detroit after Stafford fooled
the Cowboys by sneaking the
ball over the goal line for the
winning TD, negating a pair
of scores from Bryant. He
also left the sideline early in
another gut-wrenching loss at
home to Green Bay, but this
year all of his headlines have
been on the field — and
between the sidelines. He
broke Terrell Owens’ franchise record with 17 touchdown catches.
“Just across the board
they’re explosive offensively,” Lions coach Jim
Caldwell said. “They’ve got
all kinds of weapons.”
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Sunday
Jan.
Monday
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Friday
Saturday
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Cumberland
Pawtucket
Woonsocket
North Smithfield
Cumberland
• Widow support group meets
every Sunday — the first two
Sundays of the month are at the
Community Chapel on Diamond
Hill Rd. The second two are at
Emerald Bay Manor, Diamond
Hill Road. All meetings 2 p.m.
Call 401-333-5815.
• Fogarty Manor Tenant
Association BINGO is open
Monday and Wednesday Nights,
doors open at 4p.m. and the
game starts at 6:30 p.m. until 8
p.m. The address is 214
Roosevelt Ave.
• Adult knitting circle at the
Woonsocket Harris Library runs
from 7 to 8:30 p.m.. Knitters
and crocheters of all levels of
experience are invited to attend
this crafting circle. Led by experienced knitter and crocheter,
Jen Grover. Donations of yarn
are appreciated.
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Attleboro
Franklin
• Sturdy Memorial Hospital is
having a prostate cancer support
group from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in
Conference Rooms A, B and C.
For more information, call 508236-7010.
• The Society of St. Vincent
dePaul of St. Mary’s Church will
have its monthly food drive at all
masses for the weekend.
Woonsocket
• Ranger Talks, Museum pf
Work & Culture, 1:30 p.m.,
Union Hall; Paul Bourget on
“Sherman’s Design of War:
Marching Through Georgia in
1864.”
• The Lego club will run from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays
through Feb. 28. The library
supplies the Lego bricks and
children 4 and older can follow
a challenge or create their own
project. No registration needed.
Attleboro
• Sturdy Memorial Hospital is
having a stroke support group at
the Michael J. Poissant Clinical
Education Center. Call 508236-7151 for more information.
Central Falls
• The Korean War Veterans
Association Ocean State
Chapter No. 1 will meet at the
American Legion Post 79, 44
Central St at 3 p.m. in the hall.
The group is always looking for
more Korean War veterans to
join. Call Ted martins,
Commander at 4401-864-5507
for information.
Central Falls
• Eugene T. Lefebvre VFW
Post 1271 meeting, 10 a.m.,
Knights of Columbus Hall, 20
Claremont St.
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• CrAfternoons are back at the
North Smithfield Public Library,
Fridays from 2 to 4 p.m. (or
until materials run out), drop-in
when you can, no registration
necessary. Each Friday there
will be set out in the children’s
room a simple craft that can be
completed by kids of all ages.
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Blackstone
Cumberland
• The Cumberland Public
Library’s children’s room is holding a “Milk and Bookies” program from 6 to 7 p.m. for children in grades 3 to 5 only. The
group will be reading Louise
Arnold’s “Golden & Grey” and will
be eating themed cookies as
well. Visit cumberlandlibrary.org
for more information.
• Tales for Fours and Fives will
be Wednesdays at 10 a.m. at
the Cumberland library. This is a
chance for parents to connect
with their preschooler through
stories, songs and movement
activities. No registration is
needed.
• The Blackstone library is hosting a LEGO club for children
ages 6 and older. Participants
can stick to the given challenge
or free build whatever they
chose. Registration is requred.
Visit Tressy at the library or call
508-883-1931.
• Julien Ayotte, a local awardwinning author will be discussing his two novels, “Flower
of Heaven” and “Dangerous
Bloodlines” at 1 p.m. at the
Cumberland Public Library.
• Those with little to no knitting
experience may learn how to
knit at the Blackstone library on
Mondays. The class is for children older than 10 and any
adult. The class runs from 6 to
7:30 p.m.
Woonsocket
• The Woonsocket Knights of
Columbus will have a social
meeting at All Saitns church
Hall, 323 Rathburn St., at 7
p.m. The movie, “Courageous”
will be shown. The event is
open to families, the public and
anyone interested in knowing
more about the Knights. This
will be casual and enjoyable.
• Staff member Donna Ansell
will host a book group on “The
Round House” by Louise
Erdrich at 6:30 p.m. at the
library.
Foxboro
• All are invited to a stained
glass luncheon sponsored by
the Foxboro Christian Women’s
Club at noon. The luncheon is
$14 and will be held at the
Lafayette House Restaurant on
Route 1 in Foxboro.
Reservations can be made by
calling Arline at 508-883-8588.
Attleboro
Cumberland
• Sturdy Memorial Hospital has
a support group for those with
friends or family who have cancer from 5:30 to 6:30 p.m. in
Conference Room A. Call 508236-7010 for more information.
• Babies and books story time
for infants up to 23 months old is
at 10 a.m. This is a chance for
parents to connect with their baby
through stories, rhymes and
songs. This runs through Feb.
23. No registration needed.
Cumberland
• The Lego club will run from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays
through Feb. 28. The library
supplies the Lego bricks and
children 4 and older can follow
a challenge or create their own
project. No registration needed.
Lincoln
• Vietnam Veterans of America,
James Michael Ray Memorial
Chapter No. 818 will meet at 7
p.m. at the Lincoln Senior
Center, 150 Jenckes hill Road.
Dinner begins at 6 p.m. All
Vietnam Veterans welcome. For
more information, call Joe
Gamache at401-651-6060.
Cumberland
• Tales for Twos story time is
Thursdays at 10 a.m. at the
Cumberland library. This is a
chance to engage with your twoyear old with language skills,
story and song. Adult required to
attend. No registration necessary. This ends Feb. 26.
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Pawtucket
Attleboro
Woonsocket
North Smithfield
Cumberland
• Fogarty Manor Tenant
Association BINGO is open
Monday and Wednesday Nights,
doors open at 4p.m. and the
game starts at 6:30 p.m. until 8
p.m. The address is 214
Roosevelt Ave.
• Cancer support group meets
from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in
Conference Rooms B and C of
Sturdy Memorial Hospital. Call
the Oncology department at
508-236-7550.
Cumberland
• Widow support group meets
every Sunday — the first two
Sundays of the month are at the
Community Chapel on Diamond
Hill Rd. The second two are at
Emerald Bay Manor, Diamond
Hill Road. All meetings 2 p.m.
Call 401-333-5815.
Cumberland
• Tales for Fours and Fives will
be Wednesdays at 10 a.m. at
the Cumberland library. This is a
chance for parents to connect
with their preschooler through
stories, songs and movement
activities. No registration is
needed.
Cranston
• Tales for threes story time is
at 10 a.m. for parents and children 3 years old. There will be
stories, smiling and singing.
This ends Feb. 24. No registration is needed.
• Adult knitting circle at the
Woonsocket Harris Library runs
from 7 to 8:30 p.m.. Knitters
and crocheters of all levels of
experience are invited to attend
this crafting circle. Led by experienced knitter and crocheter,
Jen Grover. Donations of yarn
are appreciated.
Woonsocket
• Ranger Talks, Museum pf
Work & Culture, 1:30 p.m.,
Union Hall; Chip Bishop on “A
Love Designed in Newport” and
book signing of “Quentin &
Flora: a Roosevelt and a
Vanderbilt in Love during the
Great War.”
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• The Cranston Clergy
Association is having a musical
celebration of the life of Dr.
Martin Luther King Jr. at 7 p.m.
at the Park Theatre, 848 Park
Ave. The event is free.
• CrAfternoons are back at the
North Smithfield Public Library,
Fridays from 2 to 4 p.m. (or
until materials run out), drop-in
when you can, no registration
necessary. Each Friday there
will be set out in the children’s
room a simple craft that can be
completed by kids of all ages.
• The Lego club will run from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays
through Feb. 28. The library
supplies the Lego bricks and
children 4 and older can follow
a challenge or create their own
project. No registration needed.
Cumberland
• Tales for Twos story time is
Thursdays at 10 a.m. at the
Cumberland library. This is a
chance to engage with your twoyear old with language skills,
story and song. Adult required to
attend. No registration necessary. This ends Feb. 26.
Cumberland
• Babies and books story time
for infants up to 23 months old is
at 10 a.m. This is a chance for
parents to connect with their baby
through stories, rhymes and
songs. This runs through Feb.
23. No registration needed.
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Cumberland
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Cumberland
• Teen Anime group meets
Mondays from 3:30 to 5 p.m.
except for holidays and school
vacations. There will be drawing,
movie clips and discussion. Call
333-2422 for more information.
• Tales for threes story time is
at 10 a.m. for parents and children 3 years old. There will be
stories, smiling and singing.
This ends Feb. 24. No registration is needed.
• Tales for Fours and Fives will
be Wednesdays at 10 a.m. at
the Cumberland library. This is a
chance for parents to connect
with their preschooler through
stories, songs and movement
activities. No registration is
needed.
• Tales for Twos story time is
Thursdays at 10 a.m. at the
Cumberland library. This is a
chance to engage with your twoyear old with language skills,
story and song. Adult required to
attend. No registration necessary. This ends Feb. 26.
Our Saviour’s church, 500
Smithfield Road, will hold a
meat raffle in the church hall at
6:15 pm. A free light supper
and beverages will be served.
There are 10 raffles and tickets
are three for $2, or you may
buy a raffle pass for $20. There
will be plenty more than just
meat raffled off. The church
asks you kindly donate at can
of soup or crackers for the food
drive. Call Pat at 766-5998 for
information.
• The Lego club will run from
10 a.m. to 1 p.m. on Saturdays
through Feb. 28. The library
supplies the Lego bricks and
children 4 and older can follow
a challenge or create their own
project. No registration needed.
Cumberland
• Babies and books story time
for infants up to 23 months old is
at 10 a.m. This is a chance for
parents to connect with their baby
through stories, rhymes and
songs. This runs through Feb.
23. No registration needed.
Send your community events to [email protected] or woonsocketcall.com
LEISURE
C2 THE CALL
Sunday, January 4, 2015
Technology
Martin came, Reddit conquered. So now what?
By MILES PARKS
Special To The Washington Post
NEW YORK — A day
before he was to speak at
Harvard, Erik Martin was
walking his 5-year-old mutt,
Mog, down a few Brooklyn
streets to a park.
Martin is in roomy blue
jeans that fall over faded
blue Nike sneakers. A few
weeks ago, he was managing
Reddit, one of the largest
websites in the world. Now,
he’s unemployed.
The longtime manager of
one of the world’s most successful start-up Internet companies leans down to bag
Mog’s droppings. The next
day, he’ll speak on a panel
about journalism for social
change at the Igniting
Innovation Summit on Social
Entrepreneurship in
Cambridge.
Time magazine named
Martin to its list of the most
influential people in the
world in 2012, when Reddit
was less than a fifth of its
current size. The site, said to
be valued at $500 million,
boasted more than 174 million unique visitors in
September 2014, just weeks
before Martin announced his
resignation as general manager on Oct. 13.
“If the Web’s most powerful images are the ones that
go viral, then Erik Martin
oversees the most infectious
petri dish around,” Time said
of Martin in 2012. “Since its
founding in 2005, the site
has avoided the influence of
corporate brands and selfpromoting celebrities,
instead favoring the sometimes questionable taste du
jour of its hive mind.”
Martin’s transition from
Reddit could reflect future
generations of entrepreneurs
with varying interests as the
Internet enters its “second
generation,” a time when
young people coming into
the workplace have had
access to the Internet for
their entire lives. His leadership at Reddit helped shape
the model of Internet freedom we experience today.
“’A.D.D.’ is a very good
term to describe what is
going on in the Internet
world,” says Kathleen Allen,
a professor of entrepreneurship at the University of
Southern California, about
tech entrepreneurs. “Even if
they make it big, they tend to
start something new. It’s a
lifestyle sort of thing.”
So what’s the next step
for Martin, a 37-year-old
barbecue-loving, early-’90s
rap connoisseur and media
guru considered an expert on
communication in the digital
age?
“It’s called A--h---- on
Demand,” he says with a
slight giggle.
It’s called A--h---- on
Demand.
To understand Martin’s
day-to-day work while he
was at Reddit, one has to
have at least a broad understanding of the vast informational ocean he was tasked
with overseeing. Reddit’s
aforementioned 174 million
unique visitors hail from 186
countries and tallied more
than 6.1 billion page views
in September alone.
Part of his job involved
meeting with potential advertisers, giving people the
“Reddit 101,” as he says, and
finding ways to monetize a
free service.
The company “runs
roughly break-even”
through advertising and revenue-generating perks, says
Sam Altman, president of
the start-up incubator Y
Combinator, an investor in
Reddit.
“What I care about is not
revenue right now, what I
care about is getting to a billion users,” Altman says.
Martin’s job as general
manager, a role that he took
on in 2011 after coming in as
a community manager in
2008, was to make sure his
employees were appeasing a
crowd that at some point got
too big to be completely
monitored by staff members.
Martin remembers times
when he would check the
site at 3 or 4 a.m. “just to
make sure something horrible wasn’t happening.”
While the site became too
big to surveil, that responsibility was also inherently
unnecessary. The premise of
Reddit is based on free
By ANN HORNADAY
The Washington Post
Photo for The Washington Post by Yana Paskova
As general manager of Reddit, where free speech reigns supreme, Erik Martin helped
shaped today’s model of Internet freedom. The Brooklyn resident, here walking his dog.
Mog, is working on a new start-up.
speech. A crude eyesore of a
site, the giant message board
is as close to endless content
as you can find on the
Internet.
Threads unspool after a
person posts a link or message, and the universe
responds with an avalanche
of comments. The appeal is
in its unpredictability.
“It’s endless. It’s like
100,000 comments per day.
It’s impossible to read all
that — no one should read
all that,” Martin says.
Users can subscribe and
add to subcategories, called
subreddits, or they can create
their own communities to
serve their interests. The
majority of the site is suitable for all viewers, but it’s
also impossible to mention
Reddit, and the role Martin
has played in shaping the
concept of free speech on the
Internet, without mentioning
the grimy elements that often
generate more media coverage than anything else.
You need not look hard to
find racism, offensive language and borderline illegal
content, if that’s what you’re
looking for. Recently, floods
of stolen nude pictures of
female celebrities such as
actress Jennifer Lawrence
TV’s classical-music problem:
When stereoytype trumps fact
By ANNE MIDGETTE
The Washington Post
Last month, Amazon posted the entire first
season — 10 episodes — of a new series
about classical music, “Mozart in the Jungle.”
The series, which stars such luminaries as
Bernadette Peters, Malcolm McDowell and
Gael García Bernal, is nominally based on the
book with the same title by Blair Tindall, an
oboist, that rocked the easily scandalized classical-music world when it came out in 2005.
All the book actually revealed was that classical musicians, in the 1980s, had sex and did
drugs, much like people in other fields, but
classical music is supposed to exist in some
higher realm, at least to those who love it.
(How soon they forget Franz Liszt.)
Tindall did, however, spend a lot of time
doing research to back up her assertions that
the classical-music field is not all it’s cracked
up to be and to present a no-holds-barred portrayal of the realities of that world. The
Amazon series is another matter altogether.
As I mentioned in a review last month, it
seizes on the sex-and-drugs part of the equation and goes off into some cloud-cuckooland fantasy of what the field might look like
that has almost nothing to do with reality.
Here’s the thing, though: Research was
done. Quite a lot of research, in fact. I’ve
heard from several people since my review
appeared who were approached by the
show’s creators about serving in some advisory capacity. And there’s evidence that the
writers — Roman Coppola, Jason
Schwartzman, Paul Weitz and Alex Timbers
— had facts at their disposal.
Example: When the series protagonist, a
young oboist named Hailey (Lola Kirke),
auditions for the “New York Symphony,” the
conductor Rodrigo (Bernal) decides to hire
her on the spot. But we can’t hire her, he’s
told; we already have four oboes. “Well,
then,” he says (I paraphrase), “I’ll change the
first performance of the season to the Mahler
8th, because it has a fifth oboe. My contract
specifies that I can change up to three performances a season.” I imagine the writers’
glee at having tracked down a piece that calls
for five oboes. But they utterly missed the
bigger picture, which is that the Mahler 8th
— called the “Symphony of a Thousand”
because of the size of the forces required,
including a full chorus and eight vocal
soloists — is a major undertaking for any
Time for new
rules of film
fact-checking
orchestra. The thought of doing it because you
need to accommodate an oboist is, for anyone
in the field, extremely funny.
If you’re not in the field, though, it probably sounds like pedantic nitpicking.
When I sat down to write about the show, I
had a whole catalogue of this kind of error. A
member of the most prestigious orchestra in
New York would never run out after a performance to play a Broadway show, even if
the timing allowed it (concerts and Broadway
shows start about the same time, last I
looked), or play weddings and receptions for
extra money; they pull in six-figure salaries
and already work full time. A new music
director would never be announced as a surprise in the middle of a concert. The head of
the symphony board does not run the orchestra. A conductor would not bus the whole
orchestra to rehearse in a vacant lot to help
them loosen up. But it’s TV, you say, and this
kind of thing happens all the time; does it
really matter, if it’s fun to watch?
I realize that the alchemy of the entertainment media has a way of transforming the
realities of any profession: medicine in
“Grey’s Anatomy,” the legal world in “The
Good Wife.” But when it comes to classical
music, there’s an added factor: The popular
image of classical music has a stronger hold
on its depiction than any mere fact can challenge. Classical music is better, truer, more
noble: That’s its meme, as it were. So people
who are trying to depict it almost can’t help
themselves. The creators of “Mozart in the
Jungle” may have wanted to be hard-nosed
and irreverent, but then they have Bernal’s
character (a Gustavo Dudamel-like charismatic visionary) communing with Mozart, in the
best tradition of cheesy 1930s biopics.
Here is what’s a little different about
“Mozart in the Jungle”: The series comes at a
time when the conventional wisdom has
grasped the idea that there’s something wrong
with the classical-music field. Tindall’s book
is one of many pieces of evidence that there is
some kind of problem. That problem is
vaguely outlined in the series: Tenured
orchestra musicians are too old! The field is
too elitist! We need someone with vision to
lead us down a new path! You can read variations on this theme in a range of “Classical
music is dead” articles in a number of publications (often answered by outraged cries of
“No, classical music is just fine!” from insiders and purists).
and Olympic athlete
McKayla Maroney were
uploaded via a subreddit
called The Fappening. An
example of the conflicted
role Reddit plays in aggregating the Internet, the site’s
statement about the subreddit
jumped from resigned to
sympathetic to defensive
regarding the decision to
host it.
“While current US law
does not prohibit linking to
stolen materials, we deplore
the theft of these images
and we do not condone
their widespread distribution,” the statement read.
“Nevertheless, reddit’s platform is structurally based
on the ability for people to
distribute, promote, and
highlight textual materials
as well as links to images
and other media. We understand the harm that misusing our site does to the victims of this theft, and we
deeply sympathize.
“Having said that, we are
unlikely to make changes to
our existing site content policies in response to this specific event.”
Reddit eventually banned
the subreddit after users
repeatedly posted images
that broke site rules for child
pornography.
Although Martin says he
was phasing out of his duties
as general manager by the
time the pictures leaked, his
general thoughts on moderation helped mold how Reddit
dealt with the situation and
how the company will probably deal with the many others that are sure to follow.
Unless law enforcement is
involved, the content basically goes untouched, even the
ugly, even the untrue.
Without that freedom, the
credibility and appeal of an
anonymous message-board
Web site would be tarnished.
Martin compares the company’s role in moderation
and censorship to running
any other type of business,
putting it in metaphorical
terms while eating at his
favorite restaurant,
Hometown Bar-B-Que.
“If you and I get into a
serious argument in this
restaurant,” he says, “no one
would expect the manager to
come out, determine who is
right and kick one of us out.
No, he would say, ‘You both
get out.’ Or he would say,
‘Leave me alone.’ But like, if
I stab you, the manager
might call the police. But
short of that ...”
‘Tempest’ adds a jolt of pageantry
By ROGER CAITLIN
Special To The Washington Post
WASHINGTON —
Ethan McSweeny’s muchpraised production of “The
Tempest” at the
Shakespeare Theatre
Company boasts some
pretty big actors. But none
so big as these: In the middle of the handsome production set on white sand
and beneath a decaying
proscenium arch comes a
trio of goddesses meant to
bless the engagement of
Prospero’s daughter,
Miranda.
The first, Iris, is a surprise with a large head
floating above a torso, connected to a pair of hands
lofted high above on sticks
by only a bolt of gauzy iridescent textile redolent of
her title as goddess of the
rainbow. With a team of
actors-turned-puppeteers
beneath her, she floats in on
sticks, 10 to 13 feet from
head to boot of the fabric.
Then comes Ceres, an
even bigger presence at
about 14 feet — mostly
head. The goddess of agriculture is colored in copper earth tones. But both
are topped by perhaps the
biggest piece of stagecraft
in the theater’s history: an
18-foot-tall Juno — queen
of the gods and wife of
Jupiter — with a reach
between her hands of
about 52 feet.
Its head is so large it
can’t quite be removed
from the stage area. It’s so
large it couldn’t fit in the
rehearsal hall (instead, they
went through its moves at
the stage shop). And it’s so
large it draws gasps when it
appears.
The pageantry is the
kind you’d expect in a
Mardi Gras parade, a street
demonstration or a Bread
and Puppet show.
The puppets, glittering
with color and jeweled
tones, provide a spellbinding way to prove the height
of Prospero’s power right
there in Act 4, Scene 1.
Strong acting by a cast
that includes Geraint Wyn
Davies, Sofia Jean Gomez
and C. David Johnson and
the text by the Bard (“We
are such stuff as dreams
are made of”), under
McSweeny’s direction,
remain the hallmark of the
production.
But the vivid accents in
the form of the giant goddess heads, in the bold
wings of a harpy and in the
more subtle shadows of
pursuing dogs are testament to how puppetry has
become more ingrained in
modern stagecraft.
In an era when a galloping puppet is at the
heart of a production like
“War Horse” or in Julie
Taymor’s jungle creatures
in “The Lion King,” the
selective use of puppeteering is growing in stage
productions.
For McSweeny, it was a
way to deal with a difficult
part of “The Tempest” —
the change of tone in the
masque segment of the
play.
“Every director of ‘The
Tempest’ has to confront
this,” says McSweeny, who
was fresh out of college
and an assistant director the
last time he did “The
Tempest” at the
Shakespeare Theatre
Company — in 1997.
The masque was the
tradition of a song or special entertainment meant
solely for the royal court
of the 15th and 16th centuries. “In Shakespeare’s
time, it was fashionable to
include these things in a
play, like a dance number
in a musical or a ballad, in
Act 2,” McSweeny says.
“Will this ever end?”
That’s President Lyndon
Baines Johnson speaking to
an aide early in “Selma,”
Ava DuVernay’s stirring,
ambitious drama about
Martin Luther King Jr. and
the voting rights movement
of 1965.
In the movie, Johnson —
weary from having passed
the Civil Rights Act of 1964
— is talking about King’s
push for a federal law protecting blacks’ right to vote.
But he could just as well be
talking about the controversy that has engulfed
“Selma” since its release on
Christmas. No sooner had
critics (this one included)
given the movie rapturous
reviews than the fact-checkers began to descend, in a
ritual as time-honored as the
swallows returning to San
Juan Capistrano.
The Gotcha Game has
become as reliable a feature
of awards season as red-carpet gaffes and snits about
snubs. But as “Selma” has
been put through the
wringer in the past couple
of weeks, the ritual is wearing thin. What’s more, it has
taken on the tiresome contours of a Manichean
choice: You’re either on the
side of art or on the side of
truth; gauzy poetic license
or cold, hard facts. If you
admire “Selma,” you are
perforce being unfair to
Johnson’s legacy. If you
think DuVernay has taken
too many liberties with
chronology and characterization, you play into the
age-old habit of preferring
your civil rights stories
delivered by way of a white
savior — like the heroic
FBI agents in “Mississippi
Burning” or plucky Emma
Stone in “The Help.”
Thanks to a burgeoning
population of historians,
book- flogging authors and
TV-ready firsthand witnesses, a ubiquitous social
media culture and a voracious 24/7 news cycle, the
fact-checking-industrial
complex is clearly well
entrenched. “What X Gets
Wrong About Y” is a format
as irresistible to click-happy
websites as sex listicles and
Kardashians.
But if the Gotcha Game
is here to stay, we can at
least agree on some new
rules. And we can begin by
adjusting our own attitudes
toward fact-based films and
their inevitable nit-pickers.
Rather than the dualistic
one’s-right-one’s-wrong
model, it behooves audiences to cultivate a third eye
— a new, more sophisticated way of appreciating both
the art and the reality that
inspires it.
Plenty of movies this
season are amenable to
third-eye viewing:
“Unbroken,” Angelina
Jolie’s hugely successful
adaptation of the book
about World War II hero
Louis Zamperini, is catching flak for giving his spiritual journey short shrift.
“The Imitation Game,”
about the British codebreaker Alan Turing, isn’t
gay enough. “Foxcatcher,”
about wrestler Mark
Schultz and John E.
DuPont, is a little too gay.
But by far the most distressing push-back campaign has been aimed at
“Selma,” in which Johnson
appears as an important
supporting character, cajoling, bullying and horsetrading with King over timing and tactics of the voting rights legislation they
both supported. As portrayed in galvanizing performances by David
Oyelowo and Tom
Wilkinson, these two canny
political players emerge as
fascinating, often contradictory characters, one
whose genius lies in grassroots activism, the other in
Washington realpolitik.
To those who watch and
listen to “Selma” carefully,
they’ll realize that Johnson
isn’t presented as the story’s
villain. Far from it.
FAMILY
Sunday, January 4, 2015
THE CALL C3
Young survivor of gunshot to head makes recovery, heads home
By MORIAH BALINGIT
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — For the
past three months, 9-year-old
Jaydan Stancil has called hospital
rooms home, passing from the
hands of doctors and nurses to
surgeons and physical therapists.
His mother, Monique Nichols, has
become his roommate, spending
every night with him except for
the one week when she was hospitalized herself with a tear in her
stomach lining.
It had been this way since
Jaydan arrived at Prince George’s
Hospital Center with a bullet
lodged in his brain on Oct. 3, cradled by a D.C. police officer in
the back of a cruiser. He was hit
as he left a playground near his
home at the Mayfair Mansions
apartment complex in Washington
about 9 p.m., caught in the crossfire of two men shooting at each
other.
On Wednesday, Jaydan, whose
recovery has been described as
miraculous, was released from
MedStar National Rehabilitation
Hospital, walking on his own
with a slow and tenuous gait
because of weakness that still
afflicts the left side of his body.
He wore a helmet to protect his
brain near where part of his skull
had been removed.
Asked what he was thinking
about as he waited to be loaded
into the family’s SUV, he said,
“Home.”
But along with questions about
her son’s recovery, Nichols has no
idea where the family will call
home now that they have left the
hospital. She said she knows she
cannot return to Mayfair, that the
emotions are too raw.
“I just fear for my safety,” she
said, adding that her short-term plan
is to stay with a friend in Laurel,
Maryland. “My son has been shot
already. They’re coming around
there just any time shooting.”
In some ways, the departure is
bittersweet as it means leaving
the sanctuary of the hospital,
where Nichols knew her son
would be safe. She shared a bed
with him, an arrangement that he
did not always appreciate. She
made the room “homelike,” decorating it with a Seattle Seahawks
banner, basketball hoops, a
Christmas tree and photographs
of his siblings.
Still, Jaydan’s release signals
Washington Post photos by Marvin Joseph
Jaydan Stancil, age 9, who was shot in the head Oct. 3 is shown playing
with wrestling figures after one of his physical therapy sessions at the
National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C., on Dec. 9. 2014.
Monique Nichols embraces her son Jaydan Stancil in his hospital room. He
is wearing a helmet to protect his brain near where part of his skull had
been removed.
Gunshot victim Jaydan Stancil , 9 leaves MedStar National Rehabilitation Hospital in Washington, D.C. on Dec. 31,
2014. with his oldest sibling Emonee Nichols, 23 (left) and his mother Monique Nichols (right).
tremendous progress. In the aftermath of the shooting, a minister
was called to pray over the boy
because he was not expected to
survive more than a half-hour, his
mother said. But as the minister
grasped his palm, the boy moved
his hand, the start of a recovery
that has impressed his doctors.
Since then, Jaydan has
relearned to walk, although he
still requires a wheelchair. With
the aid of a harness, he stood on
his own and bested hospital
An overlooked way to lower monthly student debt payments
By DANIELLE DOUGLAS-GABRIEL
The Washington Post
By the time Wayne Tibak graduated from
college this spring, he had more than
$118,000 in student debt. Then came the
monthly payments, $1,700 due every month.
Tibak started working two jobs, one during
the day at Home Depot and another at night
at Wal-Mart. But it wasn’t nearly enough to
make the math add up.
So he turned to Google, typing “student
loan payments” into the search bar. That’s
when Tibak discovered a government program he’d never heard of — one that lets
borrowers cap their monthly loan payments
depending on how much income they’re
earning.
The White House has enacted broad initiatives to give students more options for
repaying their loans. Yet only 14 percent of
Americans with federal student debt are
enrolled in government plans that allow
them to lower their payments if they’re not
making enough money to cover them,
according to the Department of Education.
The plans are designed to prevent borrowers like Tibak from defaulting on their loans,
a problem faced by about 20 percent of people repaying college debt. The trouble is that
many of these borrowers are unaware of
their repayment options. And even those in
the know are often confused by the myriad
choices, terms and paperwork.
“There is no question that we need better
information, better loan counseling, outreach
after people enter repayment to make sure
that borrowers know their options,” said
Lauren Asher, president of the Institute for
College Access & Success (TICAS), an education nonprofit. “And those options need to
be improved.”
With national student debt approaching
$1.3 trilion and many young graduates struggling to find jobs that pay enough to cover
their monthly payments, these flexible
repayment plans are critical.
The Obama administration, meanwhile, is
redoubling its efforts to get the word out
about these repayment plans. But some
worry that the efforts may not be enough to
reach those who most need the help.
“The White House needs to be convening
all of the different agencies that work on student loans, and saying how do we all collectively get the word out?”said Chris Hicks, an
organizer for Jobs With Justice’s Debt-Free
Future campaign. “There’s got to be an
expectation of better service [while borrowers are still in school], where before you
graduate they say, ‘If you’re not sure what
your job is going to be, there is something
called income-based repayment.’ “
Understanding the options
The government has allowed borrowers
to repay amounts based on their income for
the last 20 years, but the Obama administration expanded the number of options and
eligibility.
Plans vary based on the type of federal
loan, and only loans provided by the government are eligible.
One of the most widely available plans is
what’s known as the income-based repayment (IBR) program, which covers new and
older loans. It caps payments to about 15
percent of your income and forgives any
balance that exists after 25 years. The calculation is based on your discretionary
income, or whatever you earn above 150
percent of the federal poverty line ($17,505
for a single person).
If you make $30,000, for instance, your
discretionary income would be $12,495.
That means your monthly loan payments
would initially be capped at $156.18. You
have to update your financial information
every year, so the more you make the more
you will pay.
After his Google search and a subsequent
post seeking advice on Reddit, Tibak asked
his loan servicer, Navient, about the repayment options available to him. The company
told him he was eligible to have his federal
loan payments lowered from $976 a month
to $105 a month through IBR.
Since Navient also manages his private
loans, the company was able to lower those
payments from $725 a month to a little
under $400 a month by reducing the interest
and extending the years of repayment.
While borrowers can directly apply online
for the plan offering the lowest payment,
they can also enroll through their student
loan servicers, the middlemen who collect
payments.
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game of H-O-R-S-E on a kid-size
hoop.
“I’m overjoyed with Jaydan’s
recovery,” Nichols said. “He’s
been through a lot . . . he just
took it blow by blow and over-
came every obstacle in his way.”
But questions about the future
loom. Nichols says she wants to
permanently relocate her family
from their old apartment, where
Jaydan had the top bunk in a
room he shared with his two older
brothers. Nichols said that
Mayfair was safe at one time but
that that changed in the past year.
Jaydan had noticed, too.
“I thought everything was
going to be fine, and then summer
came and all this fighting and
stuff started happening and the
shootings,” he said. “I’m excited
to leave the hospital, and I really
don’t want to back to Mayfair.”
Despite her appeals to city
officials, Nichols said she has
been unable to find help in locating new housing. She said that
she texted Police Chief Cathy
Lanier and that the chief offered
to help get Nichols out of
Mayfair.
But Lanier, in an email to
Nichols, said that while she was
sincere in her offer to help, she is
limited in what she can do as a
public safety official.
In the meantime, Nichols said
she will relish Jaydan’s progress.
For New Year’s Eve, she planned
to take him to a hotel with an
indoor pool because he loves to
swim. She said she would allow
him to stay up late and ring in the
holiday with sparkling apple
cider, another of his favorites.
“I want to get out and breathe
some fresh air,” she said.
Guide to be healthy may consider environment
WASHINGTON (AP) — The government issues dietary guidelines every five
years to encourage Americans to eat
healthier. This year’s version may look at
what is healthy for the environment, too.
A new focus on the environment would
mean asking people to choose more fruits,
vegetables, nuts, whole grains and other
plant-based foods — possibly at the
expense of meat.
The beef and agriculture industries are
crying foul, saying an environmental
agenda has no place in what has always
been a practical blueprint for a healthy
lifestyle.
An advisory panel to the Agriculture
and Health and Human Services
Departments has been discussing the idea
of sustainability in public meetings, indicating that its recommendations, expected
this month, may address the environment.
The two departments will take those recommendations into account as they craft
the final dietary guidelines, expected by
the end of the year.
The guidelines are the basis for
USDA’s “My Plate” icon that replaced the
well-known food pyramid in 2010 and is
designed to help Americans with healthy
eating. The guidelines will also be integrated into school lunch meal patterns and
other federal eating programs.
A draft recommendation circulated by
the advisory committee in December said
a sustainable diet helps ensure food access
for both the current population and future
generations.
A dietary pattern higher in plant-based
foods and lower in animal-based foods is
“more health promoting and is associated
with lesser environmental impact than is
the current average U.S. diet,” the draft
said.
That appears to take at least partial aim
at the beef industry. A study by the journal
Proceedings of the National Academy of
Sciences last year said raising beef for the
American dinner table is more harmful to
the environment than other meat industries such as pork and chicken.
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Sunday, January 4, 2015
Divorcee’s dating plan hits immediate snag
DEAR ABBY: After a year
of separation and divorce, I
have decided to dip into the
online dating world at 45. My
plan was to carefully select
three to five men over the next
few months and just date,
without diving into a relationship or into bed.
To my surprise, the first
man I met, “Darren,” is a great
guy. He treats me wonderfully,
is respectful, makes me laugh,
and I love spending time with
him. Now I’m no longer interested in meeting anyone else.
But I am forcing myself to
stick to “the plan.”
Darren is aware of this. He
respects my decision, but says
he’ll convince me to choose
him. Am I making a mistake
by continuing to date others? I
have real feelings for Darren
and feel awkward about continuing with my plan. I think I
should guard my heart.
Perhaps dating others will help
me take things more slowly.
Any thoughts?
— CAUTIOUSLY
OPTIMISTIC
DEAR OPTIMISTIC: If
you hadn’t met someone as
compatible as Darren, I would
say full speed ahead with your
plan. But if you feel awkward
going out with others, then you
shouldn’t be doing it.
This is not to say you
should rush into anything with
Darren. It takes time to really
get to know someone. Take the
time because in the early
months of a relationship, both
parties are in the “selling”
phase. You can always decide
to go back to Plan A.
sister interacting with her abusive husband seems like a sensible choice to me. Yes, you
made the right decision, and
you should stick with it.
DEAR ABBY
Jeanne Phillips
DEAR ABBY: My sister
“Diane” lives across the country and is an active alcoholic. I
have been sober for 13 years,
with the exception of a relapse
in 2012. I have an 11-year-old
daughter.
In addition to the alcoholism, Diane is in an abusive
marriage. I have seen it firsthand when I visited her.
During each of these visits we
have argued, she and her husband have fought, and Diana
has drunk heavily.
I have decided to not
expose my daughter to my sister’s drama. It was sad and
stressful for me when I witnessed it. Diana is hurt and
now refuses to speak to me.
Did I make the right decision?
— SAFE & SOBER IN
OAKLAND
DEAR SAFE & SOBER:
I’m sorry your sister is hurt,
but as a parent, it’s up to you
to decide what you want your
impressionable daughter to see.
That you don’t want her to be
exposed to your alcohol-addled
DEAR ABBY: I recently
started dating a woman I
have been friends with for a
few years. She’s smart,
funny, has many wonderful
qualities, and I’m starting to
fall in love with her.
She’s attractive — except
for one thing that could easily
be fixed. I don’t know if I’m
being shallow, so if that’s the
case, please tell me. She has a
bit of a mustache.
Is there a way I can tactfully ask her to remove it without
hurting her feelings? Or should
I just be grateful I found someone who wants to be with me
and keep quiet?
— TACTFULLY
CHALLENGED
DEAR CHALLENGED:
If you and this lady have
been friends for years, you
should know each other well
enough to level with each
other. Because the mustache
is “distracting,” ask her why
she has never done anything
about it. However, if she opts
to keep it, you’ll have to love
her just as she is.
Dear Abby is written by
Abigail Van Buren, also
known as Jeanne Phillips,
and was founded by her
mother, Pauline Phillips.
Contact Dear Abby at
www.DearAbby.com or P.O.
Box 69440, Los Angeles, CA
90069.
Breast-feeding makes me miserable
SOLUTIONS TO PUZZLE ABOVE
Dear Prudence,
My husband and I had
a baby girl five months
ago. Before she was
born, we had a long conversation about breastfeeding versus formula
and decided that breastfeeding was best and that
I would try to do it for a
year. The problem is that
I'm completely miserable. I work full-time
and it's really stressful to
fit pumping into my
schedule. My breasts are
constantly sore and I am
always exhausted. Our
daughter is beautiful and
healthy and I want to do
the right thing, but I
don't know how much
longer I can bear this.
DEAR PRUDENCE
Emily Yoffe
My husband doesn't want
me to stop. Every time I
mention formula, he
gives me all the reasons
why breast-feeding is
best. He suggests I talk
to our doctor or La
Leche League. I don't
want to pump her full of
chemicals or have her
immune system suffer,
either, but I'm desperate.
What can I do? I feel so
guilty about all of it.
—Running Dry
Dear Running,
Mom, return the
pump, toss the lactation
bra, and get an economysize container of formula. At great personal cost,
you have breast-fed your
daughter, she has gotten
plenty of benefit, and
now she would benefit
even more from a happy,
rested mother.
You are doing no harm
to your child by weaning
her. Breast-feeding is
making you miserable,
and that's all your husband needs to know. He
has no skin in this game,
so don't let him bully
you. You both want
what's best for your
daughter, and that means
switching to formula.
—Prudie
APPS OF THE WEEK
By APPOLEARNING.COM
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There's the old adage that
practice makes perfect.
Perhaps an antiquated measure of success, students
enrolled in mathematics
classes should not underestimate the power of math
drills. These five mobile
apps are perfect for daily
practice at home and in the
classroom, so teachers take
note!
HOROSCOPES
By HOLIDAY MATHIS
ARIES (March 21-April 19). No one
likes the know-it-all — that is until the time
when no one else seems to know anything
and the immediate world seems in peril.
That’s when the know-it-all suddenly
becomes a hero.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20). Whatever
isn’t bringing the desired result needs to
stop. Then you evaluate and rework it.
Repeat the process until you do get the
desired result.
GEMINI (May 21-June 21). People think
it’s not easy to be relentlessly positive, but
when you truly feel blessed, it’s not hard at
all. Someone in your environment will be
irresistibly attracted to your positivity.
CANCER (June 22-July 22). Though you
might not be happy with the way a relationship is going, agree to keep working until a
compromise is reached. You will make outstanding progress in physical exploits, especially if competition is involved.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22). You may not
always see things the way they really are —
that’s the artist in you. Dare to be even more
fanciful in your strong point of view. The
world will respond to your extrapolation.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22). In regard to
those obnoxious posts on social media:
Your envious reaction is the best response
you could hope for. Jealousy teaches you
what you really want out of life.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 23). Nature will
call you to build your nest, DIY-style. The
required components will be easy to come
by. Just add love, and assemble. Your crew
will fluctuate, as they normally do.
SCORPIO (Oct. 24-Nov. 21). Your luck
has changed for the better — celebrate.
That certain looming presence will not be
an issue. You will not be worried about
perceptions, so you’ll do far more than you
did last week.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21). Many
will witness the same event, each with different recollections. You will pay close attention
to the nuances of human interaction, so your
version will be the most accurate.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19). Your
mysterious persona will attract romance.
The domestic situation will calm down.
People who seem unfeeling actually have
been hurt too many times to trust.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18). You have
ambitions, and you also have the power to
meld them into a lifestyle. Your travel plans
will change, and tonight you will meet
someone impressive.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20). Don’t
believe what you hear from a salesperson.
Take creative, not financial, risks. You can’t
trust the signal from your cell, but your
internal compass will tell you right from
wrong.
King of Math (iOS,
Android, $1.99)
Hear ye, hear ye, the
King of Math requests your
presence! This exceptional
game challenges players to
answer questions in many
mathematics subjects, from
addition and subtraction to
statistics and equations.
Students start off as farmers climbing the societal
ladder by correctly answering math questions. The
game, which is fantastic for
improving problem solving
skills and efficacy with
numeracy, is best suited for
Middle School students.
Besting the app will take
some time, as there is a
high volume of in-game
achievements and stars to
collect. Students will want
to improve their level,
because no one wants to be
the court jester!
Math Drills (iOS, $1.99)
Barebones in terms of
bells and whistles, Math
Drills focuses on practices
related to addition, subtraction, division and multiplication. The app is customizable and challenges students
to work on problems until
they arrive at correct solutions. Math Drills keeps tabs
on the progress of up to 50
students, which helps teachers determine which need
more one-to-one instruction.
While other apps rely on
gimmicks or gamification,
and Math Drills does not
include distracting features.
It makes for a solid supplement to a math teacher's lesson plan.
Math Workout (iOS,
Android, Free)
Math Workout operates
as a timed daily exercise
meant to sharpen the mathematical section of your
mind. If a player answers
incorrectly, their smartphone vibrates and the
problem turns red. Each
session keeps track of
speed and the number of
incorrect answers. In addition to the four basics, students can play I'm Feeling
Clever (all four-in-one
test), The Brain Cruncher,
Times Table Master, and
Math Blaster Challenge. In
The Brain Cruncher, students are given a starting
number, then 10 total operations one at a time -- a pen
and paper is certainly
required for working
through the problem.
Unfortunately, the app does
include a Google Ads banner at the bottom of the
screen, so students need
nimble fingers to avoid
accidentally installing additional apps.
Quick Math+ (iOS,
$1.99)
Quick Math+ offers sim-
ilar order of operations
problems in four games,
but adds negative numbers
and indices. The developer's ambition is to improve
student fluency in arithmetic, estimation skills,
memory and more.
Students can 'write' on the
iPad or iPhone screen with
their finger or a stylus and
the app tracks progress for
parents and teachers. Quick
Math+ is worth downloading because it flips the
script a bit when it comes
to math drill games, as students are rewarded for
more than just finding the
answer. They need to know
each operation, inside and
out.
Number Line 2 (iOS,
Free)
It's important to note that
Number Line 2: A Game of
Fractions, Decimals &
Percents is free until the
end of 2014! Students can
select either single or multiplayer sessions, the latter
matching players using
Game Center. The game
starts with a fractions, decimals and percents on the
screen and students must
drag them onto the number
line from lowest to highest.
They have four minutes to
complete and receive
instant feedback, as correctly ordered circles turn
green and incorrect turn
red. Additional numbers
appear as players add to the
number line. This math
drill game might frustrate,
so it's recommended students read through the
instructions a few times
before starting.
TRAVEL
Sunday, January 4, 2015
THE CALL C5
Trip talk: Fat bikes and Disney virgins
THE WASHINGTON POST
Q: I’d never heard of “fat biking” on
snow until I read the piece (by Melanie
D.G. Kaplan). What a great idea! I love
the idea of an alternative to skiing at
winter resorts. Do you know if this is
available anywhere in, say, Virginia or
West Virginia?
A: This is definitely a trend that started in the West, but fortunately for us, it’s
headed our way! I just called
Wintergreen and Canaan
Valley/Timberline, and none of them rent
fat bikes. I know there are places in New
England, where they have more dependable snow, but in the Mid-Atlantic, I
would suggest calling some bike shops
on the Eastern Shore to see whether they
are open and have rentals in the winter.
A lot of them have fat bikes for riding on
sand in the summer.
- Melanie Kaplan
Q: I have never taken my children to
Orlando (I know) and I’m wondering
where to start. First, at 12 and 9, have
they aged out? If not, how do I start
planning? Do we want an all-inclusive
package where we stay at a Disney property, or something a la carte? Thanks for
any guidance you can provide!
A: If you’re a Disney newbie, I’d recommend working with a travel agent
who can find a package that allows you
to do minimal planning. A competent
agent can find a package that includes
on-resort accommodations, dining and
tickets. You pay one price and they
worry about everything else. Travel
Leaders, a large agency chain, has an
online list of Disney specialists if you
navigate to “Walt Disney World” in
Florida under “Destinations” on their
site, TravelLeaders.com. You can also
visit the American Society of Travel
Agents page, ASTA.org, for a referral.
(Disclaimer: Travel Leaders sponsors the
forums on my site.)
- Christopher Elliott
Q: I have an animal allergy. How
does the airline accommodate me if my
seatmate decides his cat or dog has to
come along for the ride?
A: Unfortunately, the animal and
owner have more rights than you under
current law. I covered this in a Navigator
column published online Oct. 9. If you
have allergies, you have to carry an
EpiPen, just in case.
- C.E.
Q: I am headed to Italy in March and
am planning to visit Venice and Rome.
Researching different options, it looks
like the most economical route is using a
Web site such as
EuropeanDestinations.com or GoToday.com, which would get me on
flights without a horribly long layover
much cheaper than I can if booking on
my own. I’m just leery about the hotel
options. Have any of you used them for
vacation purposes, and how was your
experience? Also, no one seems to have
an answer that I can find: Why are there
no more direct flights from IAD to
Rome?
A: I don’t think any of us has used
these independent tour companies, but if
‘Pure Michigan’ campaign launches
winter ad effort
LANSING, Mich. (AP) — The state’s “Pure
Michigan” tourism campaign has launched its winter
advertising effort.
Travel Michigan, which is part of the Michigan
Economic Development Corp., says that TV and radio
ads began this week in key markets in the Midwest and
parts of Canada. The ads will run through the end of
January.
The campaign involves partners including some
cities, attractions and industry groups. The campaign
has a total budget of about $1.5 million, including
roughly $250,000 from those partners.
Travel Michigan says the 2014 Pure Michigan
Winter Travel Guide also is available, offering ideas for
seasonal activities.
The state says it uses the “Pure Michigan” brand for
“business, talent and tourism initiatives.”
Car-charging station planned for Brattleboro
Photo for The Washington Post by Erik Petersen
A bison searches for food in Yellowstone National Park in Montana. During season
transitions, day-tour operators can tell visitors exactly what’s open.
the flights meet your schedule and are
cheaper than you’re finding by booking
directly, I can’t see much of a downside.
Both of these companies have good reputations, and I’m fairly certain that they
offer a variety of hotels at various price
points, so you should find one that
works. Monograms is another company
that offers independent tours. As for the
nonstop flight to Rome from Washington
Dulles, I believe United only offers this
service during high season (summers).
- Carol Sottili
Q: I wonder if Melanie knows of any
dog-friendly winter resorts east of the
Mississippi?
A: Salamander Resort, Nemacolin
Woodlands and Inn at Perry Cabin all
pass muster with my beagle!
- M.K.
Q: I was just checking out
Yellowstone. It looks like late
March/early April falls between the winter and summer season for the park (it
seems like the snow coach tours are
done by then). Are there other non-skiing outdoor activities/sights you would
recommend in the area?
A: Yes, the snow coach tours are no
longer offered by late March/early April.
As for other activities, much depends on
the weather. I’d start by getting in touch
with some day-tour operators to see
what may be offered then. Also, just
north of Yellowstone is a fun resort
called Chico Hot Springs that may be
worth a visit. And the town of Jackson is
also in the vicinity.
- C.S.
Q: My son and I are going to London
for spring break (March 31 to April 12).
I found a direct flight on British
Airways for $840 per person round trip
from Philadelphia to Heathrow.
Everything from Dulles was much more
expensive or there were fewer options.
Would you book it, or might prices
come down? Or should I be looking
elsewhere? I don’t want a sketchy airline.
A: You won’t find an $840 round-trip
fare for nonstop flights to London out of
Dulles or BWI at that time of year.
There is new competition out of
Philadelphia airport — both Delta and
America are planning new nonstop
flights from there to London — which
explains the lower fares. If you’re willing to connect, you may want to wait for
a sale from Washington on Icelandair or
American. But if you need nonstop
flights on those dates, and you’re willing to travel to Philadelphia, I’d book it.
- C.S.
Q: We’re doing a getaway in
February/March, sans child. We are considering Austin, New Orleans (been
before), San Diego, San Francisco or a
Napa trip. We’ll have five days including flying. Any thoughts on the best
option? We like good food, wine, wandering and exploring.
A: San Diego is your best bet for
great weather at that time of year. Austin
won’t be cold, but it may rain. San
Francisco and Napa will be cool and
there’s a good chance of precipitation.
And you’ve already seen New Orleans.
Looking at your interests, San Francisco
is the best choice if you’re willing to put
up with 60-degree days and some rain.
Second choice would be Austin.
- C.S.
Q: Was thinking about trying the
Iceland stopover trip and then heading
to England or France. What’s the best
time of year to do this? I want to see the
Northern Lights.
A: Winter is better because it’s darker. And there is some evidence that late
winter/early spring during a new moon
is best.
- C.S.
Climate change threatens the existence of the world’s most amazing bird
By CHRIS MOONEY
The Washington Post
“Moonbird,” they call him.
Or sometimes, just “B95” -the number from the band on
his leg. Moonbird is the most
famous, charismatic member
of a group of mid-sized
shorebirds called Rufa red
knots, whose numbers have
plummeted so dramatically in
the past several decades that
they just became the first bird
ever listed under the
Endangered Species Act with
climate change cited as a
“primary threat.”
Rufa red knots are among
the avian world’s most
extreme long-range flyers
(especially in light of their
relatively small size). They
travel vast distances -- some
flying more than 18,000
miles -- in the course of an
annual migration that begins
in Tierra del Fuego,
Argentina, and extends all the
way up to the Canadian
Arctic (and back again).
Which brings us to
Moonbird’s distinction:
Because he is so old -- he is
at least 21 -- he is believed to
have flown as many as
400,000 miles in his lifetime.
The distance to the moon
varies, depending on where it
is in its orbit, but the average
distance is about 237,000
miles. Thus, Moonbird has
not only flown the distance it
takes to reach the moon — he
has also covered the bulk of
the return voyage.
We know Moonbird’s age,
explains nature writer Phillip
Hoose (who has written an
eponymous book about him),
because he was originally
banded in 1995. And even
SHORTS
Christophe Buidin
The Rufa red knot named “Moonbird,” or “B95,” photographed in a crowd of birds at
Fortescue, New Jersey.
then, he was an adult bird,
meaning he was at least 2
years old. Since then, the
same bird, with the same tag,
is still being spotted, most
recently in May 2014 in New
Jersey. That would make
Moonbird at least 21 years
old, a true Methuselah for his
species.
As a red knot, “if you can
make it past your first year,
you’ll live to be 6 or 7,” says
Hoose. “The idea of a bird
that’s 21, or 22, or even
older, is really extraordinary.”
Assuming that Moonbird
is still living -- the last sight-
ing was in May -- there are
reasons to wonder whether
there will ever be another
bird that is his equal. Why?
Simply put, his subspecies
has been devastated, and climate change will only make
matters worse — making
extreme survival of the sort
that Moonbird has achieved
that much more difficult.
“It will become harder for
a Rufa red knot to have that
kind of longevity,” says
Hoose.
According to the Fish and
Wildlife Service, there has
been a 75 percent decline in
numbers of Rufa red knots
since the 1980s. One key reason is that the birds, during
their northward migration,
stop off in Delaware Bay in
May and dine on the buried
eggs of horseshoe crabs — a
food source upon which they
vitally depend. But those
crabs saw their numbers
plummet when fishermen
realized that if they chopped
up horseshoe crabs and threw
them in the water, the smell
would draw in eels and
conch. When numbers of
horseshoe crabs crashed, so
did numbers of the birds.
BRATTLEBORO, Vt. (AP) — Tesla Motors Inc. is
opening a Supercharger site in the southern Vermont
town of Brattleboro, its farthest north site in the country, where drivers of the company’s electric cars can
recharge their vehicles.
The eight-bay charging station has been built in the
Price Chopper parking lot, the Brattleboro Reformer
reported. Tesla is awaiting a permit to attach the charging stations to the electric grid.
The Supercharger can charge a battery in one of the
company’s Model S electric vehicles, halfway, in about
20 minutes and a fully charged Model S can travel for
about three hours, the newspaper reported.
Tesla has been adding to its Supercharger network
since 2012. It has about 150 charging stations in the
United States and hopes to have a station every 120-150
miles in the next few years. Tesla car owners can
charge their vehicles for free at the stations.
Tesla recently opened a station in Hooksett, New
Hampshire. Plans for stations include West Lebanon,
West Springfield, Massachusetts, and White River
Junction.
Tesla Communications Manager Will Nicholas said
the Brattleboro site is the farthest north Supercharger in
the U.S. for the company and one of the first in a rural
area.
“This station will enable people to travel to Vermont
from Connecticut, New York and Massachusetts,”
Nicholas said. “We’re very excited to be as far north as
Vermont.”
This week’s travel bargains around the globe
THE WASHINGTON POST
• Intrepid Travel is taking 30 percent off all overland
trips — more than 50 in South America, Africa and
Asia — through the year. For example, the 20-day
adventure from Quito, Ecuador, to Lima, Peru, now
starts at $804 per person, down from $1,148. Taxes
included, but add $600 for the “kitty fund.” Several
departures available April through November. For this
category of travel, adventurers pack cooking and camping gear in an overland truck and drive from destination
to destination. Book by Jan. 5. Use promo code 11648.
Info: 800-970-7299, www.intrepidtravel.com.
• Save 30, 40 or 50 percent on more than 280 Best
Western hotels in Great Britain. For example, the Best
Western Passage House Hotel in Devon, England, starts
at $60 a night, including taxes — a savings of 50 percent. The Best Western Cross Lanes Hotel in Wrexham,
Wales, starts at about $70 a night — a 40 percent savings. Book and stay by March 31. Look for the “Winter
Offer” label. Info: www.bestwestern.co.uk.
• At the Magdalena Grand Beach & Golf Resort, on
the Caribbean island of Tobago, pay for four nights and
receive a free fifth night and three rounds of golf for
two with cart. A five-night stay in a deluxe oceanfront
room, including breakfasts and tax, starts at $1,439 per
couple, a savings of $360; the free golf is worth $296
per couple. The Escape the Winter Blues deal is valid
on all-inclusive and bed-and-breakfast packages for
travel through April 15. Book by March 31. Info: 866353-6222, www.magdalenagrand.com/special-offer.
• Tom Harper River Journeys is offering 20 percent
off two river cruise packages in Southeast Asia. The 12night Burma trip departing March 27 now starts at
$3,199 per person double and includes three nights at
the Sule Shangri-La hotel in Yangon, a nine-night cruise
on the Irrawaddy River and a flight from Mandalay to
Yangon. The 15-night Vietnam and Cambodia trip
departing March 30 now starts at $3,359 per person
double and includes seven nights’ hotel rates, one night
aboard a traditional junk boat, s seven-night cruise on
the Mekong River and s flight from Hanoi to Siem
Reap, Cambodia. Both trips also include all meals,
sightseeing tours, shore excursions, airport transfers,
tips and taxes. Book by Jan. 12 at 855-464-2773 and
request code ASIA15; starting price is based on cabin
availability. Info: www.tomharper.com.
• Condor Airlines is offering summer sale fares from
BWI Marshall to destinations across Europe. For example, nonstop flights to Frankfurt start at $945 round trip,
including taxes; nonstops on other airlines start at
$1,843. Travel June 27-Sept. 5. Flights operate from
BWI on Mondays, Thursdays and Saturdays; some
dates are sold out. Book by Jan. 5 at
www.condor.com/us.
• Globotours has a two-city package to Japan starting
at less than $2,000. The Tokyo and Kyoto vacation
starts at $1,699 per person double and includes roundtrip air from Los Angeles to Tokyo; round-trip Hikari
bullet train from Tokyo to Kyoto; three nights each at
the Tokyo Hilton Hotel and the New Miyako Hotel (or
similar) in Kyoto; city tours and activities; transfers;
and taxes. Air from Washington to L.A. (typically
around $350) is not included. Book by Jan. 6. Select
departures offered January through May; for lowest
rate, travel April 15-25. A $60 surcharge applies to outbound weekend travel. By comparison, international air
is about $1,000, and the bullet train is more than $110
one way. Info: 800-988-4833, globotours.net.
• World Spree is offering an India package from
$1,499 per person double. The tour includes round-trip
air on Air China from New York to Delhi; nine nights’
lodging in Delhi, Agra, Ranthambhore and Jaipur; 14
meals; ground transportation; daily tours, including two
game drives in Ranthambhore; transfers; and taxes. The
lowest price applies to select departures in April 2015
and 2016 and includes a $100 discount for payment by
cash or check. Priced separately, airfare and hotels cost
about $1,597 per person. Book by Jan. 31. Info: 866652-5656, www.worldspree.com/tours-to-india.aspx.
Prices were verified Thursday, but deals sell out and
availability is not guaranteed. Restrictions may apply.
BUSINESS
Bad barley crop probably won’t affect 2015 beer prices
C6 THE CALL
By LISA BAUMANN
Associated Press
HELENA, Mont. — Problems
with the 2014 malt barley crop in
the western United States have
resulted in the worst year for malting production in the nation, but
beer drinkers likely won’t have to
shell out an extra couple dollars for
their favorite brews.
Much of the nation’s large-scale
brewing is done in the Midwest,
says Collin Watters of the Montana
Wheat and Barley Committee, but
barley growing has been pushed farther west as corn and soy have
become more profitable to grow.
This year, farmers and maltsters
have been scrambling to salvage a
large portion of the crop hit by heavy
rains in August, especially in
Montana and Idaho, the top two barley-growing states in the U.S.
Growers in North Dakota and
Alberta, Canada, faced similar issues.
“They always see a little bit of
rain at harvest but never as widespread as it was this year,” Scott
Heisel, vice president at the
American Malting Barley
Association, said. “The industry has
never had to deal with this issue on
this scale before.”
Fields with half of Montana’s
crop and 85 percent of Idaho’s were
inundated, leading the barley to start
germinating in the field, Heisel said.
That’s a problem, because maltsters
want to control the germination
under special conditions in their
facilities.
When germination begins in the
field, the barley kernels will die at
unpredictable rates. And once it
dies, it’s useless for malting and
brewing, according to Mark Black,
manager at Malteurop North
America’s malting plant in Great
Falls, Montana. Malteurop_with 27
sites in 14 countries— is the leading
producer of malt in the world.
“We need to control that germination to get enzymes available
and active for brewers,” he said.
“It has no value other than feed at
that point.”
The starch in each barley kernel
is key, as it’s turned to sugar in the
brewing process, head brewer Sean
Tobin with Helena-based Lewis and
Clark Brewing Company explained.
More malt is needed to produce
beers with higher alcohol content,
such as bocks and hefeweizens, he
added.
“A lot of people think darker
beers are heavier and have more
alcohol in them but it’s not really
true,” he said.
Nearly 120 million bushels of
malt barley was used in 2014 for
malting and brewing in the U.S.,
Heisel said. He added it’s too soon
to tell how much of the crop will
end up as feed because maltsters
and farmers are still in the midst of
trying to use it.
To that end, Black said his company and others have been storing
unaffected barley and rushing to
process as much of the germinating
crop as possible.
“Every day we can keep using it
is better for the industry,” Black
said. “I hope we can continue to utilize it throughout next year, but it
could all die tomorrow.”
MillerCoors Brewing has worked
diligently to use as much of the crop
as they could and made up the difference by purchasing barley from
growers in other parts of the world,
materials manager Wade Malchow
said. That has allowed them to meet
production schedules and keep
prices steady, he said.
“We don’t foresee any impacts on
our pricing structures for our barley
growers or MillerCoors because of
these historically challenging weather
conditions,” he said.
Small-scale craft brewers seem
not to be worried, either, if Tobin is
any indication. Tobin said he’s
stayed in close contact with his
sales representatives at Malteurop,
but said so far that the tight crop
hasn’t negatively affected his beer
prices or ability to make beer.
“It is something to worry about
but every year there’s potentially
something,” he said. “We’ve had
bad malt years and bad hops years
and breweries just have to get in a
protective mode and do things like
contract with suppliers guaranteeing
a certain amount at a certain price.”
Despite the 2014 crop, Watters
said that the industry “has been able
to make it work.”
“Your average beer drinker will
probably never know anything happened,” Heisel said.
Sunday, January 4, 2015
IN BRIEF
Washington Trust provides
$2.6M in financing for
Walgreens in Providence
WESTERLY —
Washington Trust’s
Commercial Real Estate
Group recently provided $2.6
million to Curo Elmwood,
LLC, for the refinancing of a
Walgreens store located at 533
Elmwood Ave. in Providence.
The 2.13-acre property,
well located in South
Providence, provides customers with 13,930 square-feet
of retail space including a
pharmacy drive through window. Walgreen’s is the largest
drugstore chain in the US, and
the Elmwood Avenue location
is currently one of the
Company’s highest producing
stores.
“With the heavy traffic on
Elmwood Avenue and familiarity of the Walgreens name,
this property is primed for
continued success,” said
Joseph J. MarcAurele,
Washington Trust Chairman
and Chief Executive Officer.
Curo Elmwood, LLC is
managed by Curo Enterprises
out of New York.
Boston labor leader
becomes IBEW VP
BOSTON — International
Brotherhood of Electrical
Workers International
President Edwin D. Hill
appointed Michael P. Monahan
as International Vice President
of the union’s 2nd District,
directing all IBEW affairs in
New England.
Monahan, longtime business manager of Boston-based
IBEW Local 103, recently
joined the 2nd District as an
international representative
and will now oversee New
England’s 40,000-plus IBEW
members and over 50 local
unions. He takes over Jan. 2.
“Equally as savvy in the
boardroom as he is in the
union hall, Mike earned his
stake as one of the country’s
foremost labor leaders the
moment he took charge of
Local 103 in 2003,” said
IBEW International President
Edwin Hill.
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Activities
Jan. 5
Pitch League 8:30 a.m.
Knit & Crochet 9:30 a.m.
URI Pharmacy 10:30 a.m.
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Seniors In Motion 1 p.m.
Jan. 7
Knit & Crochet 9:30 a.m.
Senior Fitness 10 a.m.
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Adult Tap Class 1:45 p.m.
Washington Post photo by Jahi Chikwendiu
Veteran remembers an act of bravery
By MICHAEL E. RUANE
The Washington Post
Albert Darago had never fired a
bazooka before. He was an “ack-ack”
guy, a fuse-cutter on a 90mm antiaircraft
gun. But on Dec. 19, 1944, the brass was
looking for volunteers to go after some
German tanks. And Darago said sure.
He was a 19-year-old, color-blind
draftee, a native of Baltimore’s Little
Italy and a musician who played piano
and clarinet. He was no hero, he said.
But when Adolf Hitler launched the
massive attack that began World War II’s
bloody Battle of the Bulge, he had not
reckoned on GIs like Darago.
Seventy years ago, Darago, now
89, crept down a long, open hill with
a loaded bazooka, figuring that he
was going to die. He peeked over the
top of a hedge and, at a distance of a
few yards, fired at a German tank,
disabling it.
He then scampered back up the hill
under heavy fire. “We were in open territory,” he said. “You didn’t need a sharpshooter. Anybody with a gun could have
killed us.”
He received the Distinguished Service
Cross, the second-highest award for
valor, after the Medal of Honor.
A few weeks ago marked the 70th
anniversary of the start of the Battle of
the Bulge, so called because of the bulge
that the massive surprise German attack
made on the Allied lines.
It was a full-scale, last-ditch assault
by the German army on Hitler’s western
front, five months before the war in
Europe ended.
About 19,000 Americans were killed
in the wintry, month-long battle, 47,500
were wounded, and 23,000 were captured or were reported missing in action.
Recently, “Al” Darago sat in an easy
chair in his apartment in Parkeville, Md.,
with his medal framed on the wall above
the piano, and said all he had done was
help disrupt the Nazi timetable.
By December 1944, the Allies
thought that Nazi Germany was near
defeat. Allied armies had surged across
France after the D-Day landings that
June and had crossed into Germany in
some places.
“We thought the war was about over,”
said retired Army Lt. Gen. Claude
“Mick” Kicklighter, chairman of the
Friends of the National World War II
Memorial’s board. “We were caught by, I
think, almost total surprise.”
On Dec. 16, 1944, the Germans
attacked with more than 200,000 troops
and hundreds of tanks along a 75-mile
front through the rugged Ardennes forest
in Belgium and Luxembourg.
The area, in part, was patrolled by relatively weak U.S. forces — green troops
who had just arrived, and battle-weary
soldiers who needed a rest, said National
Archives senior curator Bruce Bustard,
whose father fought in the battle.
For most of the green troops, “it was
the first Christmas they’d been away
from home,” said retired Brig. Gen.
Creighton W. Abrams Jr., whose father
commanded a tank battalion in the battle.
“And there they were fighting to liberate
Europe.”
As the German army overran U.S.
defenses, they were met by pockets of
stiff resistance, including some of which
had hundreds of African American
troops in the then-segregated Army.
The most famous resistance came
from the 101st Airborne Division and
other units in the Belgian crossroads village of Bastogne. When the Germans
called on the beleaguered Americans
there to surrender, their commander,
McAuliffe, replied, “Nuts!”
But there were other stubborn
American outposts, Bustard said, “small
groups of U.S. soldiers who are delaying
the German advance.”
“Maybe it’s a company,” he said.
“Maybe its a squad of U.S. soldiers that
held on to a crossroads for an extra 10 or
15 minutes.”
In Darago’s case, it was a guy or two
with a bazooka — a shoulder-fired antitank weapon.
He had been part of his artillery gun’s
loading team in the mobile 143d
Antiaircraft Artillery Battalion. The gun
fired a potent round that resembled a
small missile, and it could be used
against aircraft, tanks or troops.
On Dec. 19, 1944, his outfit was
caught up in the fighting near a Belgian
town called Stoumont, north of Bastogne
and west of Malmedy, where German
soldiers had executed American POWs
two days earlier.
“We were coming into Stoumont,”
Darago said. “They told us to unload the
ammunition . . . and start digging foxholes, because the Germans are right
down that hill and [would] be up here
pretty soon.’”
As Darago dug and as the ground
around was hit by enemy fire, he met a
friend, Roland Seamon, then 19, from
Shinniston, W.Va.
“He said, ‘Hey, Al, they’re looking
for volunteers to go down this hill and
knock this tank out. They’ve got a couple tanks down there. We should go
down and knock them down,’ “ Darago
recalled.
They approached a lieutenant and
Durago asked, “What did you have in
mind?” The officer explained, and
Darago and Seamon volunteered.
They were given bazookas, a weapon
Darago said he had never fired before. “I
didn’t know the first thing about them,”
he said.
The officer advised the two to fire
into the tanks’ rear-engine compartment,
according to a 1945 article about their
deeds in the Stars and Stripes newspaper.
The bazookas were loaded, and the
pair set off separately, Darago said.
There was no cover, and he headed
down the hill under fire, according to his
medal citation.
“I knew I was going to get it before I
got down there, but God was with me,”
he said.
At the bottom of the hill was a hedge.
He stuck his weapon over it and spotted,
not two but four German tanks backed
up by infantry.
“I pulled the trigger,” he said. “And
you never heard such a racket and noise
when that thing hit. . . . I heard them hollering and screaming.”
He said he didn’t linger and ran back
up the hill as German soldiers fired at
him.
The lieutenant asked how he had
done.
“I got a hit,” Darago said he responded. The officer said, “How about going
down and making sure?”
With a reloaded weapon, he crept
down the hill again, looked over the
hedge and spotted his tank, apparently
immobilized. He fired again and got
another hit, and this time it caught fire.
Again, he escaped.
Seamon, who Darago said died several years ago, had similar success. Both
received the Distinguished Service
Cross, with its blue and red ribbon and
cross and eagle medallion.
Last week, Darago,who has white
hair and hearing aids, sat in the light of a
reading lamp with his eyeglasses on a
cord around his neck. His wife of 66
years, Dorothea, sat nearby.
“Believe it or not, I didn’t even think
about it,” he said of volunteering for the
task. “It was something that had to be
done and we did it. . . . I never considered myself brave. . . . Somebody had to
do it, and I was there.”
As dementia spreads, bank tellers become caregivers in Japan
By KANOKO MATSUYAMA
Bloomberg News
TOKYO — They would enter the
bank and ask for their cash. Yuriko
Asahara, behind the counter, would
check where they would stash it — in the
side pocket of a handbag or perhaps deep
down in a shoulder bag.
Asahara wasn’t spying. She knew
she’d have to remind them within an
hour or two. Many of her clients suffered
from dementia, and over two decades the
bank manager became a self- taught
expert in the disease.
Globally, an estimated 44.4 million
people suffer from dementia and the figure is projected to triple to 135.5 million
in 2050 as the population ages,
Alzheimer’s Disease International estimates. Nowhere is the problem more
acute than in Japan, where an estimated 8
million people have dementia or show
signs of developing it. By 2060, 40 percent of Japanese will be over 65, up from
24 percent today, according to National
Institute of Population and Social
Security Research.
“At first I didn’t understand why
they would lose things so many times
in a day and I got frustrated,” said
Asahara, a former branch manager at
Japan Post Holdings Co., the country’s
biggest holder of bank deposits.
“Gradually, I learned to look them in
the eyes and to be sensitive about what
could be occupying their minds.”
The Japanese government, faced with
record debt, is raising premiums and
reducing access to state-funded nursing
homes. With about 520,000 elderly on
waiting lists for placement, many spend
their days wandering in shopping malls
and making trips to their banks to check
their savings.
Companies are encouraging workers
like Asahara, 64, who retired this year, to
help forgetful elderly navigate their
stores. The push stems partly from a
sense of civic duty. It’s also a realization
that helping seniors is good for business.
The market for goods and services purchased by seniors reached 100 trillion
yen ($830 billion) in 2012, according to
NLI Research Institute in Tokyo.
Corporations targeting elderly business is part a nationwide phenomenon to
reckon with a graying Japan. About 5.4
million people, from apartment managers
to bank employees, retailers and even
children, have taken a government-funded course to learn about dementia and
how best to behave with people who
show signs of the disease.
Aeon Co.’s program, which began in
2007, has trained about 10 percent of the
retailer’s 400,000 employees. Clerks who
once scolded customers for opening food
packages and for eating without paying
are learning to show more empathy, said
Haruko Kanamaru, general manager of
social affairs at Aeon.
The focus on seniors is “a large portion of our business strategy,”
Kanamaru said.
Menu
Jan. 5
Creamy vegetable soup
Salisbury steak or chef
salad with sliced chicken
Herb whipped potato
Green beans
Jello
Jan. 6
Manicures 8-10:30 a.m.
Events committee 9:30
a.m.
URI SNAP 10:30 a.m.
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Zumba Gold 1:15 p.m.
Al Darago, 89, a Battle of the Bulge veteran, sits at home in Parkeville, Md., where he hangs his Distinguished Service Cross.
During the battle, he says, he blew up a tank with a bazooka.
Entertainment with Vini
Ames 10:30 a.m. sponsored
by Trinity Healthcare
Bingo 12:30pm
Line Dancing 1:45pm
Cribbage League 6-8pm
Jan. 8
Blood Pressure 9-11 a.m.
Trim-A-Tree 9 a.m.
Entertainment with Bud
Pistachio 10:30 a.m.
(Sponsored by Friendly
Home)
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Line Dancing 1:45 p.m.
Cribbage League 6-8 p.m.
Jan. 6
Minestrone soup
Chicken cacciatore over
pasta or chef salad w/ ham
and swiss
Brocolli
Tapioca pudding
Jan. 7
Tomato rice soup
Liver and onions or chicken patty sandwich
Herb whipped potato
Mixed vegetables
Oreo cookie
Jan. 8
Chicken noodle soup
Yankee pot roast or chef
salad w/ ham salad
Baked potato w/ sour
cream
Peas and onions
Brownie
Jan. 9
Manicures 8-10:30 a.m.
Chair Exercise 10 a.m.
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Gentle Yoga/Meditation
1:15 p.m.
Jan. 12
Pitch league 8:30 a.m.
Knit and crochet 9:30 a.m.
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Seniors in motion 1 p.m.
Jan. 13
Manicures 8-10:30 a.m.
Water aerobics 9:30 a.m.
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Zumba gold 1:15 p.m.
Jan. 14
Knit and crochet 9:30 a.m.
Senior fitness 10 a.m.
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Adult tap class 1:45 p.m.
Jan. 15
Blood pressure 9-11 a.m.
Coffee with Colleen 9:30
a.m.
Entertainment with Kim
Oakes 10:30 a.m., sponsored
by Oakland Grove
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Line dancing 1:45 p.m.
Cribbage league 6-8 p.m.
Jan. 16
Manicures 8-10:30 a.m.
Chair exercise 10 a.m.
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Gentle yoga/ meditation
1:15 p.m.
Closed Jan. 19
Jan. 20
Manicures 8-10:30 a.m.
Insight 10:30 a.m.
Diabetic support group 10
a.m.
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Zumba Gold 1:15pm
Jan. 21
Knit and crochet 9:30 a.m.
Senior Fitness 10 a.m.
Bingo 12:30 p.m.
Adult tap class 1:45 p.m.
Jan. 22
Blood Pressure 9-11 a.m.
Volunteers meet 9:30 a.m.
Jan. 9
Manhattan clam chowder
Baked tilapia w/ lemon or
turkey sandwich
Herbed brown rice
Pacific vegetables
Tropical fruit
Jan. 12
Portuguese kale soup
Baked pork patty or chef
salad with seafood salad
Herb whipped potato
Winter blend vegetable
Marble pudding
Jan. 13
Cream of broccoli soup
Swedish meatballs or chef
salad with sliced chicken
Egg noodles
Spinach
Jello
Jan. 14
French onion soup with
croutons
Grilled chicken or ham
sandwich
Tomato basil rice
Dilled carrots
Pears
Jan. 15
Tomato vegetable soup
Baked meatloaf or chef
salad with egg salad
Oven roast potato
California vegetables
Lorna Doone
Jan. 16
Cabbage soup
Stuffed pepper or tuna
salad roll
Parsley potato
California vegetables
Fresh fruit
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Blockbuster is out, doctor is in as clinics fill space
By DONI BLOOMFIELD
Bloomberg News
NEW YORK — With
video stores and retailers
closing their doors, retail
real estate has had a tough
half-decade. The cure?
Urgent care clinics.
The clinics, storefronts
staffed with doctors to treat
common ailments or minor
injuries, are filling vacancies left by struggling retailers like RadioShack and
Best Buy as they close locations. They’re moving into
those street and shopping
center fronts at their fastest
pace ever, according to
Scott Mason, managing
director of Cushman &
Wakefield’s health- care
group.
In 2014 there was “an
increase in retail medicine
in all of its different dimensions,” Mason said in a
phone interview.
“You look for retail outlets with high visibility,
high traffic patterns, and
signage capabilities.”
That approach, Mason
said, is referred to as “the
Blockbuster strategy.”
The number of walk-in
retail clinics in the U.S. has
risen 20 percent since 2009,
to 9,400 last year, according
to the Urgent Care
Association of America.
Operators also see new
demand for convenient
health-care services as more
than 10 million people are
insured under the Patient
Protection and Affordable
Care Act.
Medical tenants pay
higher rents, come with
good credit, and tend to
sign longer leases, said
Dave Henry, chief executive
officer of Kimco Realty in
New Hyde Park, New York.
So far this year his company has signed 40 medical
leases, an increase from the
34 in 2013 and 27 in 2012.
“For us as a large landlord
of lots of shopping centers,
it’s nice,” he said.
For customers, the clinics
Bloomberg News photo by Doni Bloomfield
With video stores and retailers closing their doors, retail real estate has had a tough halfdecade. The cure? Urgent care clinics. Shown, a City Practice Group of New York MD Urgent
Care Clinic in New York.
fill a gap. Patients who
can’t get a last-minute
appointment with their doctor or don’t have one can
turn to urgent care instead
of overcrowded hospital
emergency rooms.
When Kelly Davis’s son
woke up days before
Christmas with a fever and
vomiting, the pediatrician’s
office was closed and the
child didn’t seem sick
enough for the emergency
room. Instead, Davis went
to a clinic.
“It seemed more effective than going to an ER,”
Davis, 33, of Baton Rouge,
Louisiana, said in a phone
interview. “We just needed
to make sure it wasn’t going
to get worse before
Christmas. Instead of heading to the ER on Christmas
we decided to go to an
urgent care real quick.”
In fact, research suggests
the growth in walk-in clinics still hasn’t outpaced
demand. Reliance on the ER
has increased under Patient
Protection and Affordable
Care Act, in part because
people in remote or urban
areas don’t have access to
enough primary-care doctors, a Wayne State
University study found this
month.
The real-estate market,
meanwhile, is still recovering from the 2007 recession
and consumers buying more
goods online, which has left
prime locations up for grabs
for companies like City
Practice Group of New
York, whose 39 clinics
include a former
Blockbuster location in
Nanuet, New York.
“We see those as opportunities to fill a void,” said
Nedal Shami, City
Practice’s chief operating
officer. “We see it very
much, almost like a bank,
and want to be on Main and
Main on the corner.”
Vacancy rates at malls
hovered at 7.9 percent this
year after peaking at 9.4 percent in the third quarter of
2011, according to REIS Inc.
That’s still significantly
above the 5.6 percent rate in
2007. Neighborhood and
community shopping centers
are slowly climbing back as
well, with a vacancy rate of
10 percent this year.
The rise of clinics has
also influenced the job market, with employment in
outpatient centers like
urgent care growing by 20
percent since 2010, according to the Federal Reserve
Bank of St. Louis. That
compares with a 7.2 percent
increase for general healthcare jobs and 6.9 percent
for all non-farm jobs.
Private equity firms and
venture capitalists have
poured more than $3 billion
into urgent care clinics
since 2010, according to
Pitchbook, a research firm.
Some Affordable Health
Care plans offer cheaper
monthly premiums in
exchange for high
deductibles, which may
steer more patients to
urgent-care clinics.
While it cost about $94
to treat a sore throat at a
local urgent care center in
2013, treating the same
symptoms would total more
than $590 at an emergency
room, according to
CareFirst Inc., a Maryland
health insurer. Flu treatment
at a retail clinic cost around
$128; the same procedures
would total $804 in an ER.
Some hospitals have
begun opening their own
urgent-care clinics to
relieve emergency rooms
and draw more patients
into their systems.
Vanderbilt University
Medical Center in Nashville
is building clinics in retail
settings like the second
floor of a bank.
The expansion was partly
inspired by the hospital’s
first major push off its main
campus in 2009, when
Vanderbilt took over a large
portion of Nashville’s first
enclosed mall, One Hundred
Oaks, to house dozens of
specialty clinics.
“We are a level-one trauma center and our emergency room is packed all
the time,” said Janice
Smith, chief administrative
officer of the hospital’s offcampus system, in a telephone interview. “We’re
trying to decamp those
patients that truly don’t
need the emergency room
care to facilities that can
give them the quality of
care that they need.”
While urgent care has a
part to play, primary physicians should still remain
central to medicine, according to Manish Ozu, an
emergency room doctor and
medical director at Anthem.
“We always stress the
primary-care relationship
first,” Ozu said in a phone
interview.
Obama to highlight economic
policies in push toward speech
By DAVID NAKAMURA
The Washington Post
HONOLULU — President
Barack Obama plans to make
an aggressive push to tout his
economic policies ahead of his
State of the Union address on
Jan. 20, starting with a swing
through three states after he
returns to Washington early
Sunday from two weeks of
vacation in Hawaii.
Obama will highlight the
rebirth of the auto industry
in Detroit on Wednesday,
discuss the recovery of the
housing market during a stop
in Phoenix on Thursday and
talk about additional efforts
to boost education and jobs
in a visit with Vice President
Joe Biden in Tennessee on
Friday, a White House
spokesman said.
In addition to citing
progress the administration
has made, Obama also will
announce new actions that he
intends to enact without waiting on Congress and highlight
during his State of the Union
address, the official said.
The president’s travels
come at a time of economic
growth as the unemployment
rate has fallen to 5.8 percent,
the lowest of Obama’s
tenure, and the stock markets
are at near-record high levels. White House aides caution that the economic recovery remains tenuous and that
the president understands
that wages have stagnated
and many Americans continue to struggle.
“The proposals announced
next week will be a mix of
executive actions and legislative proposals,” White House
spokesman Eric Schultz said.
The strategy is aimed at
building on what Obama aides
described as a wave of
momentum after the president
announced a series of executive actions since the midterm
elections. Although Democrats
lost big at the polls, and
Republicans will have control
of both chambers of Congress
over the next two years, the
White House believes it has
put the GOP on the defensive
over the past two months.
Obama announced major
changes on immigration policy, a potentially far-reaching
climate deal with China and a
restart of diplomatic relations
with Cuba. His poll ratings
have improved.
White House aides and
Democratic allies have
described the president as
feeling less politically constrained since the midterms.
Yet by touting his achievements in a series of campaignstyle events and announcing
new executive actions, Obama
risks angering Republicans at
a time they are assuming more
power in Washington. That
could make it more difficult to
find common ground on areas
where the White House sees
potential for compromise —
such as tax reform and trade.
Another administration
official dismissed such concerns, saying the White
House viewed the passage of
the $1 trillion spending bill
last month as an example of
bipartisanship, even as
Republicans denounced
Obama’s moves on immigration, climate and Cuba. That
bill, backed by the administration, passed the House
with significant Republican
support, even though
Democrats were divided.
In his travels, Obama will
aim to keep the discussion
focused on expanding opportunity for the middle class at a
time when administration officials believe Republicans will
be focused on rolling back
Obama initiatives such as the
executive actions on immigration and his signature healthcare law.
In the GOP’s weekly
address Saturday, Rep.
Rodney Davis, R-Ill., touted
a bill that would change the
health law, calling it too
expensive for local businesses. Instead, David said, the
House GOP is promoting a
bill called the “Hire More
Heroes Act” that would
exempt veterans already
enrolled in health-care plans
through the Defense
Department or the
Department of Veterans
Affairs “from being counted
toward the employee limit
under the health-care law.”
Many factors
in rate drop of
city murders
By REID WILSON
The Washington Post
WASHINGTON — In
1990, at the height of a
decade-long crime wave
that swept the nation,
2,245 people were murdered in New York City.
In 2014, police investigated just 328 homicides in
the five boroughs — a
precipitous drop of 85
percent that’s being duplicated in major cities
across the country.
Preliminary figures
suggest 2014 will continue a decade-long trend of
falling crime rates, especially in major cities once
plagued by violent crime.
Criminologists say the
decrease is linked to several factors, some of
which are the product of
smart policing, others
completely out of authorities’ control. But they also
say the lack of a consensus on what’s gone right
has them convinced that
crime rates could spike
once again.
But the numbers are
encouraging: Chicago
recorded an all-time high
of 504 killings in 2012,
but just two years later
homicides were down to
392, and the overall crime
rate has declined to its
lowest rate since 1972.
Charlotte, N.C., recorded
42 killings last year, the
lowest since Mecklenburg
County began keeping
records in 1977.
Philadelphia’s murder
rate has declined from 322
in 2012 to 245 this year.
Just 19 slayings were
recorded in San Jose, the
nation’s 11th-largest city,
down from 24 the year
before.
Even crime-plagued
Detroit, which has one of
the highest murder rates
in the country, is improving: The 304 homicides
recorded this year are
down from 333 in 2013,
the lowest rate since 2010
and the second-lowest
number since 1967.
In the first half of the
year, Phoenix police
investigated just 43 homicides, down from 52 in
the first half of 2013; final
statistics for the Phoenix
area haven’t been released
yet. Kansas City, Mo.,
was on pace to reach its
lowest rate since 1967.
The Federal Bureau of
Investigation and the
Bureau of Justice
Statistics both collect
crime data at the end of
each year and issue
reports throughout the
year. Final statistics for
2014 won’t be available
for several months.
James Alan Fox, a
crime statistics expert and
professor of criminology,
law and public policy at
Northeastern University,
pointed to four major factors contributing to the
falling crime rate across
the country:
• Long prison sentences, which have lengthened on average since
sentencing reform initiatives in many states in the
1990s, have kept more
criminals behind bars,
albeit at a significant cost
to state budgets.
• Improved community
policing strategies are
sending cops to places
where crime is more likely to occur, as a prevention method. Technologies
like video surveillance
and acoustic sensors,
which can hear gunshots
before residents report a
crime, are improving
police response, too.
• A changing drug market has plunged the cost
of heroin near historic
lows, reducing crime
associated with the drug
trade. Pollack added that
the end of the crack epidemic of the 1990s and
2000s has also contributed
to a decline in drug-related violence.
• And an aging population is less likely to commit crimes. The fastest
growing segment of the
population is seniors, an
age at which far fewer
crimes are committed.
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