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Sunday River Community Fund
Mission Statement
The Sunday River Community Fund is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the communities that make up the Sunday River area: Newry, Bethel, Hanover, Andover, Rumford, Mexico, Dixfield, Greenwood, Woodstock, Albany and Gilead. The fund encourages the growth of existing community service and cultural organizations as well as the development of new organizations that will involve and improve the lives of those who live, work and recreate in the Sunday River area.
The Sunday River Community Fund
The Sunday River Community Fund is a donor-advised fund housed at the Maine Community Foundation and is dedicated to improving the quality of life in the communities that make up the Sunday River area. Local organizations will have the opportunity to request financial assistance from the fund and be able to develop long-range plans for growth.
The fund supports charitable organizations whose primary purposes are to enhance the quality of life and meet service needs in the designated communities. The fund prefers to grant monies toward special projects that have a clear and measurable impact.
Projects and requests that in time become self-sufficient and broaden their fundraising activities are preferred. The fund is not intended to become the sole source of financial support.
In 2015, the Sunday River Community Fund has already allocated donations to the Bryant Pond Learning Center, the Town of Bethel Recreation Department, the Adroscoggin River Watershed Council, the Mahoosuc Pathways, the Lifeflight Foundation, and the Bethel Library Association. In past years, organizations such as Project Opportunity, the Mahoosuc Land Trust, Rumford Group Homes, Inc., and the Bethel Historical Society, and more have received funds as well.
Who heads up the fund?
The fund is administered by an Advisory Committee to be appointed as follows:
- Two employees of Sunday River elected by the staff of Sunday River
- Two employees appointed by Sunday River management
- Two community members appointed by Sunday River management
Where do fund monies come from, how are they allocated?
The fund accepts tax-deductible contributions in the form of cash or check. Additionally, this newly conceived fund encourages the employees of Sunday River to contribute on a volunteer basis through a payroll deduction program. The contributions made through the payroll deduction program will be matched by Sunday River.
We hope that property owners, vendors, suppliers and friends will find this an excellent vehicle to make their community service donation.
We invite other local businesses and their staff to also become involved in this vital community program. The funding guidelines dictate that all grants will be given to organizations that benefit the communities in the Sunday River region.
By encouraging all segments of the community to participate in the fund, a broad base of interest in charitable activity will develop. Through the coordinated efforts of its people, working together toward a common goal of improving the quality of life in the area, the fund will flourish.
The fund allocates monies twice a year, in April and October, to cultural, community service and other organizations that request grants by submitting formal applications for specific projects. The Advisory Committee makes decisions based upon the requests it receives.
Making a donation
Tax-deductible contributions to the Sunday River Community Fund are being accepted now. Contributions may be made by check, payable to: MCF | Sunday River Community Fund, at Maine Community Foundation, 245 Main Street, Ellsworth, ME 04605.
Tax-deductible contributions to the Sunday River Community Fund are being accepted now. Contributions may be made by check, payable to: MCF | Sunday River Community Fund, at Maine Community Foundation, 245 Main Street, Ellsworth, ME 04605.
Request Requirements
All requests to the Sunday River Community Fund must be submitted in writing by March 15 or September 15 each year to the Secretary, Sunday River Community Fund, Sunday River, PO Box 4500, 15 South Ridge Road, Newry, ME 04261. The fund prefers that organizations request funds only once during the calendar year, and may not receive grants for more than 3 consecutive years.
The following information must be included:
- Name of organization.
- Mailing address.
- Contact person and telephone number.
- Purpose of organization.
- Copy of IRS 501-C(3) certification or equivalent documentation.
- Names of staff and brief backgrounds, if different from previous information submitted.
- Names of board and affiliations if different from previous information submitted.
- Budget summary, if applicable, including previous year's actual financial statement and projected budgets for the next three years.
- Amount requested from the Fund.
- Expected amount of funding from other sources.
- Explanation of need for and anticipated use of funds.
- Anticipated impact and benefits to be realized in the community from expenditure of funds.
If monies from a grant will be used to support another organization, that organization must be specifically named in the request letter.
Eligibility Criteria
- Organizations requesting funding must have Internal Revenue code 501-C(3) nonprofit status.
- Organizations must demonstrate a clear need for private financial support.
- A clear impact on the communities that make up the Sunday River area must be shown.
The Sunday River Community Fund does not provide funding for the following:
- Any political campaign on behalf of any issue or candidate.
- Endowment funds.
- Religious activities.
- Individual fundraising efforts and/or events (Walk-A-Thons, Telethons, etc.).
- Goodwill advertising of a public relations or publicity nature or testimonials.
- Agencies that are members of United Way organizations, except in emergency situations.
- Athletic events that do not benefit qualified organizations as stated in Eligibility Criteria.
With the establishment of this Fund, we are proud to announce that the Sunday River area now has a way to enhance the quality of life of its people and making it a better place to live.


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On July 26, 1999, at 5:01 p.m., 57-year-old Al Polito walked into Gold Coast Check Cashing, a squat, pink, concrete-block building on the corner of Margate Boulevard and U.S. 441, with an FBI microphone strapped to his body. He was there to meet John Mamone, a six-foot-two, 260-pound New Jersey native known as "Big John."
FBI agents believed that Mamone was a soldier in the Trafficante organized crime family and that he used the check-cashing business as a front for money laundering, loan sharking, and gambling. Polito's instructions were to lure Mamone into discussing Mob activity.
But that afternoon, Big John had more than the Mafia on his mind. "I want tickets for Ricky Martin," he told Polito, according to the FBI transcript. "That's what you got to get for me. Can you get me Ricky Martin?"
Polito was eager to please. He dialed his cell phone. "OK, listen," he said. "I already got tickets to Cher, but I may need to get some more tickets. And what about Ricky Martin?"
Then a pause. "He's putting them aside for me," Polito told Mamone.
"Backstage passes, OK?" Mamone said.
"Four to six for Ricky Martin, yeah," Polito said into the phone, then disconnected.
"And backstage passes?"
"Ah, I don't know about that," Polito answered. "I'm trying." They both laughed.
"And dinner with Ricky Martin after the show," Mamone said. They laughed again.
"You know, I did that with Bon Jovi."
"Yeah, Bon Jovi," Polito said.
By this point, the FBI operation had uncovered only a suburban dad hoping to fulfill his young daughter's desire to see Ricky Martin shake his bonbon. But then Polito's cell phone rang.
"Hello?" Polito said after answering.
The person on the line responded, and the voice was audible to Mamone. "Sounds like Fat Ralphie," Mamone said, referring to New York Luchese crime family member Ralph Lento. "You can hear his fucking voice right from here."
Polito handed the phone to Big John. "What do you like?" Fat Ralphie asked.
"Who do you like tonight?" Mamone then asked Polito, handing back the phone.
"Ah, Cubs. Oh, they should be about 150, 160," Polito answered.
"Favorite?" Fat Ralphie asked.
"Yeah," Polito said.
That's when Fat Ralphie, a convicted wise guy, talked about placing a bet for an unspecified amount on the night's Cubs- Expos game. Just like that, the FBI sting had implicated Big John in running an illegal sports-betting operation. But that was only the beginning. Seventeen months later, federal prosecutors would indict him and 18 other Trafficante soldiers and associates on racketeering charges alleging that the organized crime outfit pulled in millions through extortion and other illegal means.
Once pinched, Big John would violate the Mafia's secret code: He would flip, agreeing to provide the federal government with information on organized crime activity in exchange for a reduced sentence and protection from retribution. Now incarcerated under the federal Witness Security Program, Mamone has become one of a growing number of mobsters nationwide who have turned on their crime associates. In fact, Mamone was one of at least two Mob rats to provide information that led to a headline-grabbing federal indictment earlier this year of six up-and-coming Mafia associates who ran a South Florida marijuana smuggling ring that stretched from Mexico to the Northeast United States.
Yet there was more to Big John than organized crime. In many ways, he was the perfect example of the contemporary wise guy -- and his personal vulnerabilities reflect the decline of the once-powerful criminal organization. His neighbors in the gated subdivision of Eagle Point in Coral Springs, where he and his wife, Grace, owned a $413,000 house, describe him as a devoted husband and father to his sons, 11-year-old Francesco and 10-year-old Joseph Vincent. He coached his boys' peewee football team, and when federal authorities finally threw him in the slammer, 85 suburban parents petitioned a federal judge to release him temporarily so he could coach the playoff games -- alleged Mafia ties be damned.
"The people who know these guys always say they're really nice," said Scott M. Deitche, author of the recently published Cigar City Mafia, a history of the Trafficante crime family. "They'd see them in the neighborhood and wave."
The Italian-American Mafia has declined steadily in power and influence over the past half-century. Zealous prosecution in the 1960s and '70s weakened the Mob nationwide, tearing it permanently from the wealth of money and power it enjoyed in the early 20th Century. Today, the Mafia is one of several ethnic criminal organizations operating in the United States; among the others are the Russians, Mexicans, and Cubans. In fact, during the '80s, as South Florida became a hub for South American cocaine, the Sicilian Mafia operating in the area reportedly established a loose alliance with the Colombian cartel.
It isn't Al Capone's gang anymore, but the Mafia remains intact and significant. It consists of 24 units, often referred to as families, that operate throughout the United States. Their structure is rigidly hierarchal. Among the best-known clans are the five that divide New York City: Bonanno, Colombo, Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese. Each has operated in Florida, which has become something of the sixth borough of New York organized crime.
But in the Sunshine State, the five families must contend with another unit of the Mafia: the Trafficantes. Founded by Santo Trafficante Sr., a Sicilian immigrant who lived in Tampa, this organization gained influence by operating casinos in Cuba during the 1950s. After the Communist revolution in 1959, the Trafficantes were sent back to Tampa.
Yet Florida was always too large a market for the Trafficantes to operate in in isolation. In June 1980, a Bonanno capo met with Santo Trafficante's son to ask permission to operate in South Florida. The conversation was documented by the FBI in its famous Donnie Brasco investigation.
The Gambino and Philadelphia crime families quickly followed the Bonannos. Sunny Florida became a Mob destination. "Guys from all over the country, especially the Northeast, winter there," said Steve Lenehan, a former Mob associate from New Jersey. "They leave their families behind and fly solo. With them comes their attitudes and identity, which is always criminal. You can say it's a working vacation for most."
Lenehan, who spent 30 years as an associate to Mob families in New York and New Jersey, has become known as one of the most cooperative government witnesses in Mafia history. In August 1994, federal prosecutors popped him on racketeering charges. Faced with 20 to 50 years in the can, Lenehan flipped. Wearing an FBI wire for two years, he collected evidence that led to the conviction of 26 mobsters from the Bonanno, Bruno-Scarfo, Gambino, Genovese, and Luchese crime families.
He first met John Mamone in October 1989. Lenehan was then a driver for a Bonanno capo, while Mamone worked as an associate with the Genovese family. "We had mutual friends doing time at Danbury Federal Correctional Institute," Lenehan said. At the time, Mamone was in the construction business, and Lenehan was drumming up Mob action in New Jersey. "The idea was for Mamone and I to hook up and do some things together, a piece of which would go to [my friend] Marco [Minicchio]'s wife and kids," Lenehan explained. "I liked John right off, but nothing ever panned out. Later, when Paul 'Doc' Gaccione was released from prison, he and Mamone began to control much of the construction trade unions in Hudson County, New Jersey."
Gaccione was a large Italian-American with tanned skin and thinning brown hair streaked with gray. Indeed, Mamone and Gaccione -- whom Mafia members termed the Blues Brothers because they were inseparable -- lorded over the construction trade. In March 1990, according to an indictment that would not be filed for eight years, Gaccione and Mamone visited an Asbury Park, New Jersey, contractor to collect on kickbacks related to condo construction. Mamone punched out the business owner while Gaccione prevented the man's secretary from calling police. The pair later admitted to the crime.
The allegation came as part of a 56-count indictment in 1998 that claimed Mamone, purportedly working for a former police officer turned mobster named George Weingartner, was involved in the 1988 murder of a Genovese skipper.
Weingartner surprised prosecutors by committing suicide early in the trial; he ran a hose from the tailpipe of his car to the driver's-side window after making a videotaped statement in which he said he was happy to "screw up [the government's] case that's cost them millions and millions of dollars."
It worked. As a result of the suicide, Mamone was allowed to plead guilty to commercial bribery and Gaccione to attempted witness tampering. They cut deals for four and three years' probation, respectively.
Weingartner's would prove to be the first of two suicides closely related to Mamone.
The problems with the law had come at an awkward time for Big John. He'd started a new life in Florida, having moved to Broward County in 1992 after it became clear that he was not in line for a promotion with the New Jersey Genoveses. "Florida," Lenehan said, "seemed like a good place to start over."
Florida has long been the Mafia's backyard. Since Al Capone first came to Miami Beach in 1928, gangsters have mixed fun and sun with business opportunities, ranging from beachside casinos to investment scams based in inconspicuous office spaces along Federal Highway. Until recently, the Mafiosi have generally lived on the stretch of sand between Miami Beach and Hollywood.
But South Florida's population gradually migrated north to the sprawling suburbs of western Broward County, and the Mafia followed. Indictments over the past decade illustrate that -- like the fictional Sopranos of New Jersey -- today's Mob is a suburban one, with members and associates living amid the subdivisions and strip malls that extend from Coral Springs to Margate to North Lauderdale.
"They're going where the money is," Deitche said. "There's a lot to be made in Palm Beach and Broward counties. It's just the natural progression. You don't see the Italians in Miami Beach any longer."
Big John, whose family on both sides is from Italy, and Grace chose Coral Springs to raise Francesco and Joseph, who were then babies. In April 1993, the couple purchased a house at 1960 Augusta Dr. for $375,000, paying $175,000 in cash and financing the balance. They settled into the family lifestyle, raising their two boys in a gated neighborhood with manicured lawns and good schools. Soon, they had a daughter to round out their family.
In Coral Springs, the Mamones were as anonymous and inconspicuous as anyone, living in a bland subdivision surrounded by six-foot concrete walls and protected by an unarmed security guard. Karen Kirsner, whose home is next door to the family, admitted that, though she never suspected her neighbor was a mobster, she never became close to the Mamones. "To be honest, I've lived here 13 years, and I think they've lived here 11 years," she said. "But I don't know. I really don't know much about them at all."
Those who knew the family, though, unabashedly praises them. Of course, given the Mob ties, some wanted to remain anonymous. "They were really nice, really nice people," recalled one neighbor who asked not to be named. "We were all shocked to hear about John. Nobody expected that."
"We knew him from the area," recalled another neighbor, Johnny Diaz. "He was a man of great character. I didn't know anybody that didn't like John. I found him to be an extremely intelligent person."
By most accounts, Mamone was a devoted family man who never let on to neighbors about his criminal dealings. His priorities were his children. "You can tell a lot about people by the way they treat kids," Diaz said. "My interactions, my dealings with John, do not exemplify the stereotype of people involved in organized crime."
Mamone's local court records seem to back up that assessment. No criminal charges, no major civil disputes. His legal run-ins in Broward were garden variety: a quarrel with an insurance company in which Mamone was plaintiff and an outstanding debt from New Jersey that Mamone settled.
But his reality is better reflected in FBI reports and federal indictments. After leaving the New Jersey Genoveses, Mamone began work for Trafficante capo "Uncle Steve" Raffa. Mamone was a star recruit. He had experience and could provide guidance to the Young Turks. With Raffa's help, Mamone was able to accomplish a goal that had eluded him as a Genovese associate. In the mid-'90s, he became amico nostra, a made man.
Mamone soon became Raffa's lieutenant and by the late '90s controlled much of the South Florida outfit's day-to-day operations, ensuring that bookmakers were working and that loan installments were being paid on time. According to an FBI report, he ran the crime enterprise from his check-cashing business, which was located near City Hall and police headquarters in Margate. Mamone laundered millions of dollars in Mafia proceeds, registering money as legitimate income or skimming it off the top. According to federal court documents, Mamone would regularly provide high-interest loans that referred to interest rates as "points." A $40,000 loan would receive one to one and a half points. That, according to an FBI report, meant that Mamone would charge one percent interest per week, or a 52 percent annual rate.
By the summer of 1999, the FBI was eager to collar Raffa and Mamone. According to a report, federal agents successfully lured three witnesses who had high-interest loans with Mamone to cooperate. They were all hoping to avoid prosecution -- and save their chins from Mafia knuckles. Of the three witnesses, only one is named in court documents: Al Polito, the snitch who tried to obtain Ricky Martin tickets for Mamone.
The FBI operation marked the first time authorities had infiltrated the Florida crime family without arousing suspicion. In 1994, the bureau had attempted to introduce two undercover agents into the Trafficante family's South Florida branch. Raffa, however, quickly sniffed them out.
Federal agents soon learned that among the bookmakers who worked for the Trafficantes' gambling operation was Frederick "Freddy" Scarola, then an olive-skinned 57-year-old with gray hair and bushy eyebrows. Like many Mob associates in South Florida, Scarola worked with multiple clans, doing business with both Mamone and the Bonanno clan. "Once you get down to South Florida, you can move from family to family," Deitche explained. "It's not like New York. The market is wide open down there."
Authorities soon determined that Scarola was an unreliable earner for Mamone, owing the Trafficante soldier at least $10,000. During Polito's July 26, 1999, visit to Gold Coast Check Cashing, after the discussion about concert tickets, Mamone turned the conversation to Scarola, who had recently renegged on a promise to make loan payments. "Where's this little motherfucking Freddy?" Mamone said. "That's what I want to know. Where's this little cocksucker?"
"Let me tell you what happened," said Polito, who also owed money to Mamone.
"I'm more fucking irritated at him than you," Mamone continued. "'Cause he lied to me. He was gonna meet me on Sunday before he left, and he never met with me, this motherfucker." Mamone then mentioned that he talked to Scarola on the phone. "Freddy wants to argue with me on the phone," he explained. "Freddy, I told Freddy to go buy a fucking plane ticket for Arizona, motherfucker, 'cause when I came back, you've, you've had it."
"You, you, you know what," Polito interrupted. "You -- "
"I can't find this little cocksucker right now."
"People tell you it's like -- "
"He'll show up when he has the money, I know," Mamone said, coughing. "He avoids everything, this small cocksucker."
"Yeah, he does," Polito agreed.
"You can call your fucking cousin, your uncles, your brother," Mamone said, recalling his conversation with Scarola. "Call anybody you fucking want. Buy a fucking plane ticket. Don't be there when I get back."
Yet the $10,000 Scarola owed Mamone was a small amount in the context of the operation. Not only was there the local business but federal authorities learned that the South Florida Trafficantes were using the check-cashing firm to launder money from a Ponzi scheme based in South Carolina. According to the FBI investigation, more than $30 million from scammed investors flowed through Gold Coast Check Cashing in 1999.
By the winter of that year, federal agents were steadily building a case against Raffa, Mamone, and the rest of the Trafficantes. Wiretaps had established solid evidence on the principals; next, the agents were working undercover, scoping out the storefront from parked cars and nearby businesses to collar others involved in the enterprise.
That's when Charles Clay, a 24-year veteran of the Margate Police Department, entered the picture. In December 1999, he noticed that a car near Gold Coast Check Cashing had a New Jersey plate but not the required windshield sticker. After Clay approached the vehicle, the driver identified himself as an FBI agent. Clay left, and surveillance continued. The next month, on January 7, 2000, the FBI executed a search warrant at Gold Coast.
In February, according to court records, Clay was drinking at Bobby Rubino's Place for Ribs, a restaurant in North Lauderdale owned by the sons of former Gambino crime boss Paul Castellano. He told the bartender about stopping the undercover FBI agent, and the bartender reportedly retold the story to Scarola (see "Charlie Numbers," New Times, March 3, 2004).
On February 4, 2000, at 8:27 p.m., Scarola, eager to please due to the $10,000 debt over his head, called Mamone on his cell phone. An FBI wiretap intercepted the call. "Um, I just, ah, found out something you got to know," he told Mamone. "Um, you know your, your place over there? On [U.S.] 441? You know it's still being watched?"
"Yeah," Mamone responded. "I figured it would be."
Mamone would soon be swept up in a 70-count indictment that threatened to put him behind bars for the next 50 years.
The FBI closed the investigation in spring 2000. In October of that year, federal prosecutors indicted Raffa, Mamone, and 17 others, including Scarola and Clay, on racketeering charges. It was the fiercest blow the federal government had dealt to the Trafficantes, threatening to decapitate the crime family's entire South Florida operation.
Mamone found himself facing prison for the first time since New Jersey prosecutors tried to nail him. Yet Mamone's life had a mysterious way of following patterns. One month after the indictment, on November 16, 2000, Raffa hanged himself in his Pembroke Pines home. His suicide was the second -- after Weingartner's -- closely linked to Mamone. No evidence suggested foul play.
This time, the death did not prevent prosecutors from coming down hard on the Coral Springs mobster.
Granted bond, Mamone was placed under house arrest, with agents monitoring his two phone lines. His check-cashing business was shut down; his legal bills mounted.
Then once again, the contradictions of Mamone's life surfaced. When Mamone wasn't pinching Mob associates for money, he spent his time coaching his sons' championship football team. As it happened, Mamone's indictment and subsequent house arrest came at a bad time for the Rams. The team was about to enter the playoffs.
On November 5, 2000, Mamone gathered the players and their parents in his Augusta Drive home and tearfully explained that he could no longer lead them. A torrent of support followed. The players' parents petitioned U.S. District Judge Patricia A. Seitz to allow Mamone to coach the playoff games. A letter, written by Assistant Coach Michael Noshay and signed by 85 parents, read in part:
"I do not wish to minimize the importance of the legal situation involved, but these children and their parents should not be punished for a scenario they could do nothing about. I can only respectfully implore Your Honor to think about the innocent young boys and girls involved, their months of hard work at practice and in games, and the unfair consequences of not having John Mamone as coach for these last few games.
"John loves these kids and they love him," the letter continued. "Coaching these children is something John does from his heart; you can see it in his face, his smile, and his full dedication to the team. You could see it last night through the tears as he brought everyone together to explain the situation and apologize for the circumstances."
Noshay didn't respond to interview requests. Neither would another of Mamone's friends in Coral Springs, Joseph Attenasio, return calls from New Times. But Attenasio wrote a letter in Mamone's defense. "I have known Mr. John Mamone for the past six years," he wrote. "We have gone to many social occasions together, including affairs with our children... In my opinion, John Mamone is the proverbial real family man."
Seitz chose to continue Mamone's house arrest, and one year later, in December 2001, Mamone violated the omertà, the Mafia's secret code. He flipped, agreeing to plead guilty to one count of racketeering conspiracy and provide information about the Mafia in exchange for a reduced sentence. He received nine and a half years.
Mamone showed that his wife and children were more important to him than the Trafficante family, Deitche explained. "Not everybody can flip," Deitche said. "You have to have something to give up. I'm sure there are guys that want to flip but don't have anything to give. That leads me to believe, and this is speculation, that Mamone is up on the current goings-on."
But Mamone's decision to cooperate with law enforcement proved temporarily disastrous for his family. Once Mamone's plea became public, Grace and their three children fled to his attorney's office, fearful for their lives. Their panic was well-founded. The FBI had notified them that the Mafia had issued a contract on Mamone's life. "What may happen to a Mob informer is not in general dispute," Mamone's attorney, David Rothman, told the court.
With the exception of the imprisoned patriarch, the family eventually returned home and continues to live in Coral Springs. Going after wives and children is not something the Mafia is likely to do. "They're not going to touch the family," Deitche said.
Now imprisoned in Marianna, Florida, near the Alabama border, Mamone is known simply as JAM #07803-0062. For his protection, the federal Bureau of Prisons keeps Mamone in solitary confinement. Rothman has argued that it's slowly pushing his client toward insanity. "Mamone suffered extraordinary psychological damage," Rothman told the court. "He paced his jail cell in prison-issued shoes without soles, scarring and callusing the bottom of his feet while he paced in his tiny cell in claustrophobic terror."
But insane or not, Mamone's information has led to additional charges against the Mafia, including a January indictment that alleges a group of South Floridians ran a multimillion-dollar marijuana smuggling operation that stretched from Mexico to the Northeastern United States.
As noon approaches on February 19, Robert Lewandowski, a 37-year-old with a square head, wide jaw, and a small bald spot on the apex of his scalp, sits in U.S. District Court in Fort Lauderdale. Lewandowski, a thickly built man wearing a green V-neck shirt and faded jeans, is in the beginning stages of a trial that could put him behind bars for the next 30 years.
A young knee-breaker who appeared to have had a successful crime career ahead of him before he was popped, Lewandowski is learning a hard lesson about today's Mafia: Only fools live by omertà.
Earlier this year, federal prosecutors indicted Lewandowski and five others for their involvement in a South Florida-based marijuana smuggling ring. The group was led by Joe Russo Jr., whose Mafia-associate father was indicted with Mamone in 2000. According to the indictment, Russo Jr.'s drug enterprise worked with the Trafficante crime family. Russo allegedly contracted with one of Mamone's dozen front companies, an interstate trucking concern called Gateway Transportation, to move freight loads of cannabis. In all, the federal government alleges, the organization raked in $80 million from the sale of 66,000 pounds of marijuana.
Russo's smuggling operation began modestly, the government claims, using U.S. Mail, Federal Express, personal vehicles, and motor homes to move drugs from stash houses in California and Arizona to the Northeast and Florida. But it would resort to any means, including murder and kidnapping, to ensure the safe delivery of drugs, prosecutors allege. The government had been pursuing the group since 1993, arresting some grunts and drivers through the years, but could never establish enough evidence to indict the principals and decapitate the organization.
Then the government found an apparent solution in Mamone and one of his indicted associates, David Bell. According to court records, the two men have provided information about the South Florida drug enterprise. Although officials will not discuss what the men have said, it's clear that they are at least partially responsible for the six-count indictment. At a hearing on January 16 for alleged drug-ring associate David Tobin, whose indicted older brother is still on the run, defense attorney Samuel I. Burstyn grilled FBI Special Agent Christopher Derrickson about who was providing the government with information on his client.
"Mr. Bell didn't ever tell you he saw David Tobin do anything wrong, did he?" Burstyn asked Derrickson. "Mr. Mamone never told you that he saw David Tobin do anything wrong, did he?"
"That information," Derrickson responded, "I am not going to answer..."
"Indeed, Mr. Mamone doesn't even know David Tobin, does he, sir?"
"... We have information... that individuals that you have named do, in fact, know who David Tobin is."
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Prosecutors may be strong-arming Mamone to stick to the story. That could explain why the indictment not only charges Big John with facilitating large shipments of marijuana but also alleges that Grace tampered with a witness, though it does not specify how or whom. If convicted, she could receive ten years in prison. Her attorney would say only, "We have no comment for you people."
Steve Lenehan understands why Mamone flipped. He wore an FBI wire for two years. Lenehan says he knew that if he didn't become a government witness, someone else would have brought him down anyway. Big John Mamone, he says, was no fool. He has a wife, three kids, a real family. In 2012, Mamone will be a free man -- a 61-year-old, still young enough to coach his grandchildren's football team.
"I was shocked when I read Mamone flipped but not that shocked," Lenehan said. "John Mamone was always very sharp and respectful, definitely not a thug. A very bright guy and a tough guy."
There will be more John Mamones. In the next two years, several South Florida Trafficante associates indicted in 2000 will be released from prison. "As long as there is vice, greed, and excess wanted by the buying public," Lenehan said, "you'll have organized crime."


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Alexandra wrote:JodieO wrote:guitargirl wrote:We have VERY similar tastes, which reminds me, I saw the Vampire diaries first 6 episodes at the weekend. I NOW see the appeal of Damon. I don't like Not Edward though.
You're a smart lady. Not Edward is a total weenie.
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AUBURN � A jealous rage resulted in an attempted murder charge after a Providence man tried to run over his ex-girlfriend with his car in a hotel parking lot early Wednesday, according to police.
In addition to attempted murder, James L. Miranda, 27, of Providence is charged with assault and battery with a dangerous weapon (motor vehicle), aggravated assault and battery, domestic assault and battery, two counts of leaving the scene of a personal injury accident, failing to stop for a police officer, negligent driving, unlicensed driving and violation of a protection order from the state of Rhode Island.
Auburn Police Chief Andrew J. Sluckis Jr. said a clerk at La Quinta Inn, 446 Southbridge St., called 911 about 12:30 p.m. to report a disturbance in the parking lot.
While officers were en route, Alyssa Giglio, 24, of Pawtucket, R.I., and her new boyfriend, whom police would not name, were in the parking lot, yelling at each other after discovering that the tires of her car had been slashed, Chief Sluckis said.
While they were yelling, Ms. Giglio was contacted on her cellphone by Mr. Miranda, her former live-in boyfriend. He sent Ms. Giglio a photo of her standing next to her vehicle with the slashed tires, as well as the message that he was watching her, Chief Sluckis said.
As she was looking at the phone, Mr. Miranda allegedly drove around the corner, accelerated and struck Ms. Giglio from behind with his car. Ms. Giglio's head hit the car's windshield, and she was thrown over the roof and the trunk of the vehicle and landed on her head on the pavement in the parking lot, Chief Sluckis said.
Ms. Giglio was taken to an area hospital by Auburn Fire Department ambulance. She suffered hip and head injuries and was listed in stable condition, Chief Sluckis said.
In addition, the mirror of Mr. Miranda's car allegedly struck Ms. Giglio's new boyfriend, who refused medical treatment, Chief Sluckis said.
Witnesses provided a description of Mr. Miranda's vehicle. Auburn Police Officer Justin Starkus saw the car on Route 20, near the Auburn-Worcester line, and tried to pull it over. Instead, police said, Mr. Miranda fled at high speed into Worcester, heading toward Millbury.
Mr. Miranda crashed his vehicle and fled on foot near Routes 20 and 146.
Auburn Police requested assistance from the state police, Worcester police, Millbury police and Sutton police.
Sutton Police Officer Christopher Cowan and his police dog began to search the area with Auburn Police Officers Brian Kennedy and Starkus.
The police found Mr. Miranda hiding in heavy brush that runs alongside the Worcester & Providence Railroad, Chief Sluckis said.
He was being held at the Auburn Police Department awaiting arraignment Thursday in Central District Court in Worcester. Bail was set at $50,000.
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The Sony Playstation Move motion controller is on the market since last month. In Europe the Move controller for the PS3 is apparently a big hit. According to German newspaper Die Welt, Sony has sold already 1.5 million Move controllers in Europe and that the company struggles to keep the controller in stock at retailers.
Sony has already upped the production capacity for the Move controller. A quick check shows that it is not that difficult to find a Playstation Move controller in stock. Amazon UK has even a sale on the Playstation Move Starter Pack with 17% savings. The supply situation seems to be more tight in Germany. Amazon DE has mostly 3rd party offers for the Playstation Move accessories.
Wow. Looks like Sony underestimated Move's popularity. Sony you should have more confidence in your hardware. It was always the best and still is. You don't even need celebrates to tell us how good Move is. We already know.
I don't think Sony underestimated the demand. Looking at the sales it looks asif they launched with at least a 2 million initial shipment while ramping up production for the holiday season. The lack of advertising was intentional as they are still ramping up production. Expect lots of advertising middle November onwards.
..they are holding back stock like Microsoft are doing with Kinect tho right?
Also they dont even get a game with the starter bundle, imagine how much more they could sell if they had the sports champions bundle. Europe has been a big market for the ps3 i dont understand why they wouldnt take full advantage by giving them the bundle the US gets. Europe would apprectiate it more imo but marketing they need to give deals to lesser markets to raise sales in that region.
So people believe Sony but when MS says demand is really high, it's false? Also, I'm not sure I truly believe 1.5 million have been sold. There are no official numbers for much of Europe, so it's basically hearsay.


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The Velodrome (affectionately known as the Pringle)
The imagery was taken during the park's construction so the park doesn't look quite as attractive in Street View as it does now that it is completed, but nevertheless this new imagery does allow you to take a virtual walk around the location of this year's Olympics.
Wembley Stadium
Various other locations around London are also hosting Olympics events. One of the most attractive is Horse Guards Parade, which is the venue for the beach volleyball.
Horse Guards Parade (Beach Volleyball)
In the spirit of Olympic fair play I also have to give a shout out to Bing Maps, whose Bird's Eye view imagery of the Olympics Park is pretty stunning.
This shot of the stadium shows that a map of the river Thames has been created on the stadium pitch, providing a little clue as to what we can expect in tonight's opening ceremony.
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My ThinkPad Bluetooth Laser Mouse is a truly wonderful device, except that ever so often the mouse buttons stop working; e.g., I can click on the X close icon at the top right of a window and nothing happens. I've found that running through all the possible button clicks, including tilting of the scroll wheel, will get it working again. My assessment is that the Lenovo Mouse Suite software gets confused ever so often about the state of the mouse buttons; i.e., software problem, not a hardware problem. Frequency is about 1 event in 20 hours of use. What must I do to get support?
Windows 7 x64 with all updates
ThinkPad X220 with integrated Bluetooth
Lenovo Mouse Suite: 6.47 (upgrading to 6.48)
UPDATE: Just had this happen again (still running 6.47). Tried lots of things with the mouse and the only thing that resolved the problem was to tilt the mouse wheel (first to the left and then to the right).
UPDATE: I've recently had the scroll wheel tilt left and right assigned to Backward and Forward respectively, and I don't recall having this problem before I made those assignments, so I've changed both of those assignments to Disabled to see if that makes a difference. I've also updated the Mouse Suite software to version 6.48.
Solved! Go to Solution.
From further investigation:
100% Reproducible Failure
When I opened Firefox 11.0 with only a single tab, the window control icons (Minimize, Maximize, Close) would highlight properly on mouseover and work properly when clicked. When I then opened or switched to another tab, there was no highlighting on mouseover and they no longer responded to clicks. Other mouse actions did work properly, including window control icons in other applications I tested.
I uninstalled and then reinstalled Firefox 11.0, set it to a new empty profile, but the problem persisted. I checked for other reports of this problem in Firefox, and while I did find a (very) few similar reports, I found nothing to indicate a general problem in Firefox.
Successful Fix
I uninstalled ThinkPad Bluetooth Laser Mouse, Lenovo Mouse Suite, ThinkPad UltraNav Utility, ThinkPad UltraNav Driver, and rebooted, which installed just the TrackPoint with the Microsoft PS/2 Compatible Driver, and the problem did not recur. I think installed the two UltraNav packages with System Update, and then the Lenovo Mouse Suite with the ThinkPad Bluetooth Laser Mouse, and the problem still did not recur. It continues to work properly.
My Assessment
My assessment is that something subtle had gotten screwed up in Lenovo UltraNav and/or Mouse Suite, which was corrected by uninstalling and then reinstalling everything. I do not think this is a problem in Firefox.
This was happening to my firefox as well... driving me nuts!
I unloaded the lenovo mouse suite and it was fine... Guess I'll just forego the mouse suite until they provide an update.
I have the same problem, but only on maximized windows. It happens periodically, regardless of applicaiton. If I unmaximize the offending window, the left mouse button works fine. I'm going to try your "uninstall/reinstall" and see what happens.
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The teenage years are something all people all have in common: a rocky road to adulthood, with quite a few bumps along the way.
During this time, a place to relax and hang out is a refuge for teens, and having a safe place to do this, with supervision to guide teens to the destination of adulthood is important.
Here in Los Alamos, the Los Alamos Teen Center provides that safe place for teens, despite the bad reputation a hub for teen activity often accumulates.
As noted by the Teen Center staff, those who have an opinion of the teen center are very polarized in their views.
As one anonymous White Rock teen said, "Isn't the teen center a druggie hang out?" A non-participant at the teen center, this teen represents one of the two main camps of opinion in the Los Alamos community about LATC. There are those who have experienced the teen center, and those who have not. Los Alamos native and LAPS School Board Vice President Kevin Honnell offers a contrasting voice, calling the teen center "long overdue." With more than 200 teens visiting each week, the influence of the teen center is a very real concern.
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Once in a while, a movie slips under your radar. For about, oh, 20 years. In 'Big-screen blind spot,' we sit down with those 'classic' movies everybody but us has seen and give them the nostalgia critic treatment.
Confession: Until last week, I hadn't seen "Cool Runnings", the fictionalized account of the true story of the first Jamaican bobsled team and their debut at the 1988 Calgary Olympics
Had I seen it in 1993 at the age of 8: My sincere hope is that I would have just laughed and enjoyed the wacky story and fun moments. If there's a kid critically analyzing films at eight, he or she should be given a ball and sent outside immediately.
Now: Meh. From Doug E. Doug's character named Sanka Coffie (a groan-worthy pun) to Malik Yoba's bald bobsledder named Yul Brenner, this is one of the better examples of a movie targeted to kids that has enough jokes to keep adults from rolling their eyes the entire time. Disguised as lighthearted fare, the film has decent lessons; with themes of redemption (the John Candy character atones for a past disgrace) and facing adversity (including Junior's rebellion against his father's wishes and the entire concept of the team even competing), "Runnings" inspires without being preachy. Those positives notwithstanding, the movie bored me. It was so generic that I predicted plot points before they happened. Sports movies aren't necessarily surprising, but I remained frustrated by the simplistic writing. Then I remembered the movie was made for children, so rather than needlessly slam "Cool Runnings," I'll acknowledge that between the wacky characters, the bar fight scene (a hilarious excuse for a brawl if I've ever seen one) and all of the quotes this movie planted in my head ("I see a bad ass mutha that won't take crap off of nobody!"), I can understand why my peers loved it so much when they were younger.
Must be noted: This movie was scored by Hans Zimmer. Yes, the same composer who scored movies like "Gladiator," "Inception," and "The Dark Knight." I'm just going to leave that there.


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They are wise-cracking debt-reduction duo Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles; anti-tax activist Grover Norquist and Federal Reserve Chairman Ben Bernanke.
Bernanke, one of the first to use the term "fiscal cliff," warns repeatedly of the dire consequences of going over the precipice of across-the-board spending cuts and tax increases in January absent congressional action.
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Simpson and Bowles — chairmen of Obama's now-defunct deficit commission — have stoked the flames of fiscal reform with frequent public appearances.
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Yet Democrat Bowles says this could be the "magic moment" for a deal.
Obama visited a Falls Church, Va., family Thursday to highlight his call for raising taxes on top wage-earners a day after Treasury Secretary Timothy Geithner said the administration would "absolutely" go over the cliff absent a deal to raise top tax rates.
Simpson, a retired GOP senator from Wyoming, denounced "threats going back and forth, we're going to do this, we're going to go off the cliff..."
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Wednesday, April 14, 2010
Album art: "employed to sell the most enriching and satisfying of all home entertainment."
The album cover demands the services of talented painters, designers, photographers, illustrators, graphic artists, sculptors and typographers.
They work in such varied media as oil, casein, gouache, tempera, drawing, collage, mosaic, cartoon, lithograph, sculpture, woodcut, engraving, and more than any other medium at the present time - the color photograph.
All of these art forms are employed to sell recorded music, the most enriching and satisfying of all home entertainment.
Visual art, like music, is a highly personal, creative process of the mind and spirit. Art used for album covers must assume the secondary, hard-working role of handmaiden to music. Whether treated editorially or as a poster...
... it must command attention.
To be successful the album cover must simultaneously accomplish three different objectives: it must interest, inform, and influence.
The first two "I's" are entirely dependent on the art concept and typography. While the art is an important factor when determining the third "I", the buyer's major interest is the recording artist and the repertoire reproduced. Most phonograph record purchases are calculated rather than purchased by impulse. The buyer of classical recordings generally has a higher level of taste and culture than the "pop" record enthusiast.
It follows naturally that the serious creative artist or photographer is allowed considerable more latitude when the product is directed to a discerning, sophisticated audience.
* Here's something rather exceptional: the Knuckles O'Toole album above is not only signed by illustrator Tracy Sugarman, but he receives a prominent credit line below his illustration. Even more exceptional, Sugarman gets a lavish write up on the back of the album as well -- something I've never come across before.
Jones may have rightly felt the artist and his work played a secondary role to the musician and repertoire, but in this case the artist was showcased in a manner most others could only dream about!
* My Illustrated Album Covers Flickr set.
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- Rich2:36 AM
Yes, it used to be a delightful experience to rummage through the music store. The advent of shrunk CD's has reduced this pleasure.ReplyDelete
I don't know when the first fold-out long-play vinyl-record covers appeared...there was no limit for cover art at those times.
Great examples shown here once more!
Another great post Leif. Thanks.ReplyDelete
I'm glad you've decided to do a series on album art. I think some of the older stuff is just brilliant. You rarely see anything like that now.ReplyDelete
hi , i found your blog i really loved it =) i have a term paper aboutReplyDelete
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Stifel (NYSE:SF) raised Urban's price target to $24 from $17 with a "buy" rating, while UBS (NASDAQ:UBS) upped the retailer to $37 from $28 and Wedbush raised its target to $33 from $28, both on "neutral" ratings.
The upbeat outlook on the Philadelphia-based retailer comes as the maker of apparel for young adults has been trying to revamp its merchandise and open new stores. The company, which already operates more than 400 stores in the U.S., Canada and Europe, plans to open about 51 new stores this year.
Urban Outfitters' second quarter also benefited from its direct-to-consumer business, which was led by higher traffic at its web site. The retailer said it expects to benefit from online sales through the remainder of the year.
The retailer posted earnings for the period ended July 31 of $61.3 million, or 42 cents a share, up from $56.7 million a year ago, or 35 cents, and topping average analyst estimates of 33 cents in a Thomson Reuters poll.
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Matching Memory Games for Design Lovers (And Their Kids)
Memory games are great fun but the big manufacturers tend to favor corny images. Luckily, there some great sets out there that appeal to kid and adult tastes alike.
Most of these have been around a few years (a testament to their appeal since they are still being made) and Jonathan Adler is the latest to bring his signature (colorful!) take to the classic memory matching game.


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I love what Chris Sale did to Tampa Bay on Monday. I have no idea how the White Sox let him do it.
The young, left-handed starter torched a first-place Rays team for 15 strikeouts, one short of the team record and the most in that silly building that is embarrassing even for Bud Selig's Major League Baseball.
Sale's masterful performance required 115 pitches. How do the Sox let him throw 115 pitches?
How did the Sox go from a starter with a tender arm to making Sale the closer after a weekend off to returning him to the rotation to letting him throw 115 pitches?
Sale underwent an MRI recently that showed no damage. He has won his last three starts. Great, but he was still feeling something in his arm to spark the Keystone Sox's conflicting talk and confusing changes that led to the X-ray. The Sox said they were moving Sale to the bullpen because they wanted to take the long view of his career. There's no reason to think they would do otherwise then or now.
So how does this guy get to 115 pitches?
And how does he throw that many sliders?
Sale said the slider was the pitch putting the strain on his arm, or at least, the number of sliders he was throwing caused discomfort. He seemed intent on throw more fastballs since the MRI, but Sunday, the slider was his out pitch 11 of the 15 times.
So, it was back to greater demands on that whippy left arm attached to that spindly body. After Monday, Sale has thrown 57 2/3 innings this season, which is about two good starts from topping the career-most 71 he threw last season. That would leave Sale with more than a half-season to go when every inning is a career best for a guy who had some kind of arm issue already.
I'm not a doctor and I don't play one on the web, but how does that guy throw 115 pitches in May?
Smart or not, Sale had no doubt he was going out there for the eighth inning.
"I felt just as good,'' Sale said. "Obviously, the situation dictated going out there and giving everything you've got left. I talked to Jake Peavy in the seventh. He said, 'Hey, your pitch count is up there, leave it all out there.' I felt I did that.''
Listening to Peavy is part manning up and part playing on the expressway.
Peavy's attitude is all about winning the next pitch and the one after that and the one after that. It's the kind of attitude you want from everyone on your team.
Peavy's attitude also is crazed. It needs to be reined in or sat on, take your pick. Peavy and now apparently Sale need a babysitter.
Peavy's 2011 season died after he volunteered his surgically repaired right shoulder muscle to pitch four innings of relief in June. Peavy's July was awful, his August was bad, and he was done before September was over.
It wasn't Peavy's fault. Blame Ozzie Guillen and Don Cooper. A guy like Peavy needs an adult in charge. And if a grown man needs that, then a kid like Sale certainly needs a chaperone.
Sale's health is vital for now and the future. That's especially true with John Danks on the disabled list because of a shoulder problem while the Sox find themselves in contention for the AL Central.
Say this for the Sox, though: They have a history of keeping pitchers healthy and making them better. Sale appears to be a particularly acute project in that regard.
Maybe Sale is too young to know the difference between pain and injury, thus requiring a reassuring MRI. Maybe everybody fell on the grenade for him, creating some laughable excuses for decisions. Maybe Sale can handle more than he thinks, which seems to be the way the Sox approached the experiment Monday.
Whatever, Dr. Cooper had better hope there are no results to hear about before Sale's next scheduled start.


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WASHINGTON (AP) — President Barack Obama on Tuesday thanked Singapore for its military cooperation as the U.S. prepares to rotate ships through the prosperous city-state to boost its presence in the Asia-Pacific.
The U.S. president met with Prime Minister Lee Hsien Loong, the third Asian leader to visit the White House this year, as the Obama administration pursues closer ties with countries in the region.
Singapore is a close defense and economic partner of the U.S., and later this month, the U.S. will begin rotational deployments of Navy vessels there. That's part of the Obama administration's "pivot" to the Asia-Pacific region as the U.S. disentangles itself from a decade of conflict in Iraq and Afghanistan.
"We have extremely close military cooperation. And I want to thank Singapore for all the facilities that they provide that allow us to maintain our effective Pacific presence," Obama told reporters.
Defense cuts at home and turmoil in the Middle East have raised doubts in Asia about the U.S. ability to sustain that strategic rebalance to the region. But Obama made his diplomatic priorities clear by traveling to Myanmar, Cambodia and Thailand soon after his November re-election, and then by hosting the leaders of Japan and Brunei. South Korea's new president will visit in May.
It was Lee Hsien Loong's first Oval Office meeting in six years and comes as the U.S. pushes for completion by fall of a trans-Pacific free trade pact. Singapore is one of 11 countries taking part in the negotiations. The U.S. and Singapore already have a bilateral free trade pact, and Obama described the Southeast Asian state as an "outstanding" economic partner.
Speaking later to U.S. businessmen, Lee urged the U.S. to adopt a more active trade agenda in Southeast Asia that would set a positive example to the rest of the world when protectionist sentiments are rising.
Lee welcomed U.S. engagement in Asia and urged it to build strategic trust with a rising China, which he said understands that its success depends on a stable international environment.
He said while China's development represents a major shift in the balance of power, the U.S. will remain the dominant power for decades to come.
Lee is the eldest son of Singapore's founding prime minister, Lee Kuan Yew. During his four-day visit, he will also travel to New York City and meet with Mayor Michael Bloomberg.
His visit takes place against the backdrop of tensions in the South China Sea, where several of Singapore's neighbors have been unnerved by actions by China to assert its disputed territorial claims over small islands and reefs in resource-rich waters where the busy sea lanes are crucial to world trade.
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Far be it from us to kick the New York Times when it's down. But along with the issues of corruption, plagiarism, fabrication and bias, the Times has serious problems with simple competence. This item from yesterday's Corrections section is illustrative:
"A sports article on Sunday about the history of Roland Garros, the tennis stadium where the French Open is played, misstated the year in which the Germans began using it as a prison camp for Jews. It was 1940, not 1939."
Not so long ago, pretty much anyone would have known that World War II started in the fall of 1939 with the German invasion of Poland, and that Germany followed up in May of 1940 by invading France. Even the French were not so feeble as to allow the Germans to use their stadia as prison camps a year before they were invaded.
Presumably editors at the Times read this stuff before they publish it. Maybe it's a sign of the decline of civilization; maybe just a sign of the decline of the Times.
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The Bruins know one of their primary assignments as Round 2 of their best-of-7 playoff series moves to Montreal: They must figure out a way to stifle the Canadiens' power play, which has beaten them for four goals in just two games.
BOSTON – The Bruins admit it's a thing of beauty, but they're sick of looking at it.
The Canadiens, understandably, can't get enough of it.
So as this second-round series moves to Montreal for Games 3 (Tuesday) and 4 (Thursday), we can expect the next round of adjustments. For the Bruins, somewhat fortunate to be tied 1-1 in the best-of-7, the most important task is pretty obvious: They have to find a way to stifle a power play that has torched them for four goals on nine chances – a 44.4 percent success rate – and one double-overtime winner.
"Their power play has shown up," said defenseman Torey Krug, "and our penalty killing hasn't."
The Bruins blame themselves on a couple of counts.
First, they haven't done enough to limit the damage inflicted by point man P.K. Subban, who has figured in all four Montreal power-play strikes, highlighted by his double-OT goal in Game 1.
Second, they've given the Habs too many opportunities to practice their power play.
"It's simple – not get in the penalty box," said Andrej Meszaros, asked for a solution. We have to make sure to do a better job – not retaliate, or just not take stupid penalties."
The B's don't necessarily feel they've deserved to be shorthanded so often over the series' first two games, arguing that at least in some cases, Canadiens should have accompanied them to the penalty box. Since they've been the superior team in the series during 5-on-5 situations (7 goals scored, 3 allowed), the Bruins' interest in keeping the sides even is obvious, but so is the fact that they'll be penalized from time to time. And they're not likely to survive the series if the Habs continue to score on almost half of their power-play chances.
"We definitely have to improve," Krug said. "Special teams win you hockey games."
The B's would also like to get something from their own power play (0 for 5 in this series), but at this point, keeping a clean sheet against the Habs' power play might be just as good.
To do so, though, they've got to find a way to keep the puck off the stick of Subban, who has generated both of his goals and one assist from the same general area – five to 10 feet inside the blue line, and between the faceoff dots. From there, he has launched wrist shots or one-timers through traffic that have beaten goalie Tuukka Rask through screens or been tipped by Thomas Vanek.
"Somehow, we haven't been able to get into that shooting lane," coach Claude Julien said. "Some great tip-ins by Vanek, but there is no doubt that those shots are getting through from the back end and we just have to get better at that."
Young defensemen like Krug and Dougie Hamilton, although obviously unhappy to see Subban succeed so often, are also impressed and envious.
"I've asked a couple times how he gets so much time up top," said Krug, who mans the left point on one of the Bruins' power-play units. "I feel like when I'm up there, I don't get that much time. It seems like he's working with a lot of space."
"He gets all his shots through," said Hamilton, a right-point man on a different unit, "and the way he moves and passes is pretty much perfect, for how to run a power play. There's a lot of guys in the league I watch on power plays and he'd be one of them."
But the B's have seen enough already. Whether by some extra effort or a penalty-killing adjustment, they know they need – and expect to see – a change for the better, and soon.
"Sometimes the other team's power play just breaks you down and finds the holes," Rask said. "It's a tactical battle, too, sometimes.
"We just have to get better. We definitely have to clean up that area."
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