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Duane Griith skitters across the water during Ski Freeze, an annual event put on by the Collierville Ski Club to beneit The Dream Factory of Memphis. Griith was among 21 people who braved the 47-degree water temperature to take part in the event last Thursday at Mud Island River Park.
By Jane [email protected]
901-529-2512
Pity Bill Whitten and his choice of friends. When most of Greater Mem-phis was home, warm and
watching football or parade loats in Pasadena on TV, Whitten was
stoically coming to terms with his reality.
Save for a sud-den electrical storm, there was
no way he was getting out of Mud Island River Park last Thursday without a lap on skis in the chilly, gunmetal-gray water.
“My wife says I need to ind some new friends,” said Whitten, 57, a heavy-equipment operator for the city of Memphis.
Thirty years ago, he used to wa-ter ski in his bare feet. His mistake was telling his buddy Kevin Davis.
The two have a history of practical jokes and jabs.
“Look what he went and did,” Whitten says, calling up a dirt-car racing site on his smartphone
to show a knot of hecklers on the pledge request Davis had posted.
“My wife called her pledge in of
FUNDRAISER
‘Adrenaline rush’Rain and cold only sweeten
the boast at annual Ski Freeze
Dawn Mulrooney holds her son, Stacey, 9, as they ride in a boat during Ski Freeze. Stacey is one of this year’s beneiciaries — he and family are going to Disney World.
By Linda A. [email protected]
901-529-2702
Hardly anyone disagrees, Holly Swogger said, when she asks if a veteran’s service is worth $100.
It is with that premise that Swogger hopes to raise mil-lions for the construction of the West Tennessee Veterans Home somewhere in Shelby, Fayette or Tipton counties.
Organizers of the efort must raise $25 million toward the construction of the 144-bed skilled nursing facility and have launched Project 100, an efort that asks busi-nesses, churches, govern-ments and other organiza-tions to donate $100 for each vet who is an employee or member.
Telling people that you have to raise $25 million seems like an impossible amount, said Swogger, chair-woman of the overall efort.
“So what we thought about doing is just breaking it down to smaller amounts,” she said.
There are 71,000 veterans in Shelby, Fayette and Tipton counties who go to church, have a job and are part of a civic or community organi-zation.
If people from those churches, workplaces and civic groups raise $100 for each of their veterans, that’s $300 a vet, she said.
And $300 for each of the 71,000 veterans is $21.3 mil-lion.
“The idea is that every-body contributes a little bit,” she said.
Asking the organizations to raise money for “their”
SHELBY COUNTY
Donate ‘a little bit’ for veteransProject 100 aims to fund nursing facility
See VETS, 2
See FREEZE, 2
INSIDEMore photos from the annual Ski Freeze. 6
Special to The Weekly
The Miss Collierville Scholarship Pageant, an oicial preliminary of the Miss America Pageant, will be Saturday at the Harrell Theater.
Twelve area young women will be competing for the two prestigious titles — Miss Collierville 2015 and Miss Collier-ville’s Outstanding Teen 2015.
At 2 p.m., the younger contestants will com-pete for the teen title and young princesses will be presented during a special coronation ceremony. At 7 p.m. the older contestants will compete. Both shows will feature large produc-tion numbers and exciting contestant competitions. Contestants will compete
in the interview, talent, itness, evening wear and onstage question. Admis-sion is $15 for each show. Tickets will be available at the door prior.
Hayley Lewis, Miss Ten-nessee 2014, will join Miss Collierville/Miss Tennes-
see 2011 Erin Hatley to host the event.
“The Miss Collierville Scholarship Organiza-tion has a long history of providing scholarship and community advocacy for Collierville,” said Elyssa Howell, Miss Collierville
2014. “Each winner will receive educational schol-arship, a host of prizes and the opportunity to compete at the 2015 Miss Tennessee Scholarship Pageant and Miss Ten-nessee Outstanding Teen Pageant.”
MISS COLLIERVILLE PAGEANT
12 area young women to vie for crowns
Known for its award-winning productions, the 2015 Miss Collierville Scholarship Pageant will feature local entertainers in Broadway-style song and dance numbers.
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Inside the Edition
CALENDAR OF EVENTS
Places to go, people to see. Whether you’re looking for a speciic event or just something to do, check out our listings. CALENDAR, 11
NEW AT THE ZOOThe Memphis Zoo has projects underway to bring visitors new experiences in 2015. NEWS, 2
PREP HOOPSLeague play is heating up, so we look at who are the top boys and girls teams to watch out for. SPORTS, 18
veterans instead of simply giving to the home “makes it personal,” Swogger said.
Swogger began the quest for an area veterans home in 2006. The clos-est veterans home is in Humboldt, Tenn., some 90 miles northeast of Mem-phis.
The Federal Depart-ment of Veterans Afairs will pay 65 percent of the cost to build the more than $60 million home, but only after 35 percent of the money is raised locally.
The efort has raised more than $2.65 million, including a $2 million commitment from Shelby County, Swogger said.
The irst group to accept the Project 100 challenge was the Harry M. Craw-ford American Legion Post 252 in Millington.
“It’s always good to be the irst,” said Lee Buch-
schacher, the post’s adju-tant (inance oicer).
The post has 128 mem-bers and has formed a committee to help raise money toward the home, Buchschacher said.
“The idea was to en-courage all veterans who picked up a rile, stood watch, went through basic training and served their country to give,” he said.
Swogger is happy for the post’s commitment, but doesn’t believe this should be about veterans raising money for veterans.
Local governments and the greater community should pledge their sup-port and honor the vet-erans, she said, “Because they already gave.”
In the News
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There’s an underlying smell of raw wood and the irregular
buzz of power tools at the Memphis Zoo, where mul-tiple projects are in prog-ress to bring new experi-ences to visitors in 2015.
They represent a more than $1.2 million investment by the zoo.
And it does not include the Zam-bezi River Hippo Camp, a $16 mil-lion exhibit scheduled to open in the spring of 2016.
All of the new exhibits will be free and included in the admission cost.
“We want to be fresh, stay fresh and give our visitors value and give them some things they haven’t seen before,” said Sally Harper, the zoo’s director of operations.
The biggest new attraction will be Memphis Zoo Takes Flight, a bird show with 30 individual birds, including the Andean condor, (the largest raptor in the world), a Eur-asian Eagle owl, a double yellow-headed Amazon parrot and apalm cockatoo.
Untethered, the birds are al-lowed to ly over the heads of zoo guests in an amphitheater that will seat about 850 people. The tempo-rary exhibit comes from Natural Encounters Inc. in Winter Haven, Fla., and runs Feb. 28 through Oct. 31, Harper said.
Zoo Tunes, an experience that lets visitors play oversized out-door musical instruments, will be installed near the rides area, she said.
Little Chick How Do You Grow is a new exhibit in Once Upon a Farm that shows, through the use of eggs and live chicks, the stages in a chicken’s development. And the aquarium is being prepared for incoming jellyish, cuttleish, sea horses and an octopus.
The budgies, small birds that visitors are allowed to feed, will be moved near the rides so their old aviary can be incorporated into Zambezi.
Memphis-based Mayer Con-struction is handling most of the work, Harper said.
But there are challenges.
“Weather is huge, (but) it’s not just cold. Here in Memphis, rain is the biggest challenge,” Harper said. “And just the time frame. We have a general contractor we use, so we’ve got to have a really tight schedule so he has time to move between them.”
And of course money is always a challenge, she said
The zoo is owned by the city of Memphis and receives some money and services from the city. But the bulk of its funding comes from the gate, retail, concessions and donations, Harper said.
For zoos, the season begins in late winter and spring with school groups, and continues during the summer and into fall, said Don Moore, a senior scientist with the Association of Zoos and Aquari-ums and the National Zoo in Washington, D.C.
During the down time, facili-ties’ personnel spend time on the infrastructure while animal-care folks use the time to catch up on things and fulill many AZA re-quirements, such as emergency drills for ire, weather and animal escape, he said.
“So we try to get that stuf done in the ofseason so we can make every single visitor’s experience really, really fresh when all the visitors come in during the high visitation months,” Moore said.
MeMphis Zoo
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Eleanor Hays, 5, reaches for her dad, Ryan Hays, as she tumbles backward during a turn around the Memphis Zoo’s skating rink. The zoo is a busy place with visitors to the seasonal skating rink and construction projects kicking into high gear.
KEEPING BUSYMultiple projects
in progress at Memphis Zoo
HOW TO HELPTo learn more about the West Tennessee Veterans home or to make a donation, go to veterans-home.com.
VETS from 1
$500 to get me of,” he said. “It didn’t work.”
A half-hour later, with the air temperature at 38 degrees and the water a balmy 47, Whitten was on the swaying dock in a bor-rowed wet suit, waiting his turn behind the boat in Ski Freeze, the annual New Year’s Day toast to bravado put on by the Collierville Ski Club.
For 25 years, all pro-ceeds have gone to the The Dream Factory of Mem-phis, a group that grants the wishes of disabled or chronically ill children.
By 11:30, 21 people had paid $30 each to partici-pate, including Kelsey Jacobson, 30, who wowed the crowd in a bikini.
“Now, it feels really nice out,” she said, her skin a mass of dripping goose bumps. “It’s a good adrena-line rush.”
The tribute to chutz-pah began 38 years ago with ive or six skiers. Ju-lie Yancey, 59, was one of them and has participated every year since.
“It started on Kilowatt Lake,” she said. “It was a group of us just missing summer and thinking of something fun we could do. It built from there.”
The event, which has contributed $250,000 to The Dream Factory, eventually moved to the cobblestones, then to the Mud Island River Park, where last Thursday, the calm and courageous were suiting up or enjoying a postlap accomplishment.
“It was fun. Now that I’m through, it was a blast, kind of like being in the Army,” said Philip Pisani, 64, who landed headirst in the wa-ter just as his lap ended.
“Boy, I thought I had it. Then my plan backired. H-o-o-ooooo,” he said, rubbing his hands over his hair and face, the cold
droplets mixing with the rain just starting to fall.
This year’s event was expected to produce $10,000 for The Dream Factory, according to vol-unteer Brian Juengling.
“It will be enough to grant two or three wishes,” he said. “We get a lot of re-ferrals from hospitals. And also from families who have had wishes granted. They see a child in the hos-pital and call us.”
Stacey Mulrooney, 9, is one of this year’s recipi-ents.
He and his immedi-ate family will be going to Disney World, said his mother, Dawn Mulrooney.
“I don’t know how we were chosen. We were walking around at Ger-mantown Fest and some-one told me I should ill out the information. I illed it all out, and we were cho-sen,” she said, tucking a blanket in around Stacey, who was headed for a ride of his own on the ski boat.
FREEZE from 1
GermantownPolice reports
DEC. 27
■ a female adult was arrested for possession of drug paraphernalia in the 6500 block of South poplar Woods Circle at 5:58 a.m.
■ Computer equipment was stolen from an unlocked vehicle in the 7200 block of eastern avenue at 9:56 a.m.
■ a window was damaged in a vacant residence in the 6500 block of South poplar Woods Circle at 2:43 p.m.
■ entry was attempted into two vehicles but nothing was reported missing in the 7300 block of Deep Valley Drive at 4:18 p.m.
■ a vehicle struck a utility pole at Wolf river boulevard and Johnson road at 7:58 p.m.
DEC. 28
■ Someone entered two unlocked vehicles, taking miscellaneous items in the 8300 block of beaverwood Drive at 6 a.m.
■ Someone forced entry into the victim’s vehicle by breaking a window and took a backpack in the 7500 block of Conner Cove at 2:02 p.m.
■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown and Crestridge at 12:45 a.m.
■ Vehicle struck a utility pole causing no injuries at Johnson and Wolf river at 12:20 p.m.
DEC. 29
■ Someone damaged a sculpture in the 1900 block of exeter at 8:12 a.m.
■ Someone took wiring from a home under construction in the 9100 block of N. enclave Green lane at 8:43 a.m.
DEC. 30
■ Someone took a laptop computer from the victim’s residence in the 2500 block of overlook Drive at 3:30 p.m.
■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries at Germantown and Wolf Trail at 11:36 a.m.
■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries in the 7600 block of Farmington at 5:48 p.m.
DEC. 31
■ Someone contacted the victim via phone posing as a law enforcement oicer asking them to send money to pay for ines in the 2100 block of Gorham place at 2:53 p.m.
■ Someone opened a pay pal account using the victim’s information in the 1500 block of lawton Trail at 2:56 p.m.
■ Someone contacted the victim via phone posing as a law enforcement oicer asking them to send money to pay for ines in the 7400 block of oak run at 5:10 p.m.
JAN. 1
■ Someone took a ring and necklace from a room in the 7800 block of Walking horse Circle at 10:05 a.m.
■ Two vehicles collided causing no injuries in the 7500 block of poplar at 7:40 a.m.
G R E AT E R M E M P H I S
on Location ilm fest seeks entries
The On Location: Mem-phis Film & Music Fest is accepting entries for the 2015 festival, which this year moves from its tra-ditional late April slot to Labor Day weekend.
The 16th-annual event is set for Sept. 3-6, with most ilms scheduled to screen at Malco’s Studio on the Square.
Filmmakers may sub-mit work in the Feature, Documentary, Live Action Short, Animation and Mu-sic Video categories. Films from all over the world are welcome, as well as ilms from the Mid-South.
Interested ilmmakers should visit the On Loca-tion: Memphis website and click on the “International Fest Submissions” link near the top of the page.
MpD oicer in ight has clash history
A month before Mem-phis Police oicer Craig Brewer was involved in a ight on Christmas Eve with Shelby County depu-ties, he was investigated by his department for a ight near his Bartlett home.
His police ile includes several investigations over the last four years, includ-ing some oicer-involved shootings.
Brewer, 36, is charged with aggravated assault and two counts of simple assault after the Dec. 24 incident at TJ Mulligan’s at 2821 Houston Levee.
According to his MPD Internal Afairs ile, Brew-er fractured another man’s face after a ight outside his Bartlett home Nov. 6.
According to his em-ployee ile, Brewer and his wife were involved in a public argument when a man, identiied as Hunter Foster, walked by and at-tempted to intervene. Brewer, who was of-duty, and Foster fought.
In the recent ight on Christmas Eve, Brewer has been relieved of duty and placed on nonenforcement status as investigators re-view the incident.
Brewer is due in court on the charges on Jan. 16.
The Commercial appeal
By Jennifer [email protected]
901-529-2372
Four Germantown residents will interview for the open seat on the Board of Mayor and Al-dermen on Friday.
The board met Tuesday to narrow its list from the 19 appli-cants — which included former alderman Frank Uhlhorn, who withdrew his application — to the four to be interviewed.
Sherrie Hicks, David Jackson, Michelle Johns and David Kle-
van will be interviewed in an open meeting starting at 5 p.m. Friday. The board is expected to take nominations and name the new alderman at its regular meeting Monday.
The aldermen reviewed the applications over the weekend and each submitted a list of their top ive candidates. From that list, City Administrator Patrick Lawton narrowed the pool to eight. The four who made the irst cut but not the interview round were Charles Larkin, Mi-chael McCusker, Lyle Muller and
Joe Skelley. The aldermen each spoke
about the criteria they used in scoring the applicants.
Alderman Forrest Owens said he considered “was this man or woman a person of faith,” and added it “may not be the politi-cally correct thing to say.”
“That was important to me,” Owens said.
Alderman Rocky Janda said his top consideration was com-munity involvement.
“I looked heavily at their in-volvement in Germantown,” he
said. “That’s really important.”Of the top four candidates,
all have served the city in some capacity.
Hicks sat on the city’s planning commission from 2003 to 2007 and has also served on the design review committee and two home-owners association boards.
Jackson was recently accept-ed to serve on the city’s inance committee for 2015 but has also served on the neighborhood preservation committee.
Johns worked for the city part-time as the program and devel-
opment coordinator for Bobby Lanier Farm Park. She has also served on the farm park board and has involvement with the Dogwood Grove Homeowner’s Association.
Klevan’s résumé with the city is extensive, including serving the past six years as the chair-man of the planning commis-sion. He sat on the commission from 1997 to 2004 and left for three years while he was the chairman of the board of the Germantown Chamber of Com-merce.
GerMantown
4 residents to interview for open alderman seat
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Schools
CHASE MANGRUMSenior at Briarcrest
Family: Parents Greg and Christa Mangrum, sister, Greer Mangrum
Favorite subject and why: Government, because I will be able to apply the things I learn for the rest of my life.
Most challenging subject and why: Math, because numbers are not my thing.
What are some of your biggest accomplishments: Overcom-ing three knee surgeries in a year and a half and still playing
sports, president of the Wilson Society and school ambassadors.
Hobbies: Soccer, reading and art
Goals for the future: Live a successful life and remain strong in my faith in God.
Person you admire and why: My mom, because she always puts others irst.
Favorite movies, TV shows, books: The “Captain America” series, “NCIS,” “Bones,” “The Mentalist,” “The Biggest Loser,” too many good books to pick a favorite.
People would be surprised to
know: That I’m applying to the United States Military Academy at West Point.
What would you do if you were principal for a day: Push the school’s start time later to al-low students to sleep in.
Person you would like to meet: John Green, because he seems very intelligent and I would love to learn from him.
What would you do with $1 million: Pay of taxes, donate to charity, invest and save.
If you could change one thing in the world: Change how power usually leads to corruption.
To nominate a star student, e-mail Matt
Woo at [email protected].
Elizabeth Malone said her grand-mother is her teaching inspiration.
Chase Mangrum will apply to the U.S. Military Academy at West Point.
By Jennifer [email protected]
901-529-2372
With their cardboard tubes suiciently duct-taped together and
one end of the chute elevated, the Tara Oaks Elementary stu-dents were ready to take their very own roller coaster for a test drive.
“See if you can ix it or change it before you do your test,” fourth-grade teacher Julia Stock Carpenter told the students.
The two teams of about 25 students each huddled back around their cre-ations, searching each nook and cranny for a spot where a marble might get stuck traveling town the pipeline.
Satisied they had done their best, a countdown was initiated and a student dropped a marble down each tube. A distinct clacking sound made its way down the tubes before coming to a stop somewhere in the middle.
The kids immediately launched into their theories about why their test drive failed. “I think we have to work on less tape,” fourth-grader Amelia Robert said.
But before they could adjust their cre-ations, the bell for irst period rang, and the students were of to start their real school day.
The Collierville Municipal Schools fourth- and ifth-graders are part of a new before-school club focused on STEM — science, technology, engineer-ing and math.
Third-grade teacher Risa Elder, one of the club’s founders and advisers, said she realized the importance of STEM when her own children were applying for college and came across several STEM-related scholarships. Elder said she thought students should be exposed to the more hands-on aspects of those concepts at an early age. She pitched the idea to a few colleagues and school ad-ministrators and they asked students to apply for the club.
More than 80 students submitted an application, which included an essay about what they wanted to learn and what they thought they could bring to
the class. Fifty-four students are enrolled in the club and another 20 are on a wait-ing list. Elder said the class has particu-larly attracted students who don’t score well on tests. “These kids that think they are not good at science and math are inding out that they are,” she said.
They also “learn to fail,” Elder said. On a project about parachutes, the i-nal product the students created didn’t work, but Elder said the kids were able to make a list of concepts they had learned anyway.
The program, which Elder said ev-ery third-grader wants to join next year, is funded entirely through donations. The club has a pending grant applica-tion through the Collierville Education Foundation, but otherwise all supplies and dollars have come through parents and a few local businesses.
Amelia said she joined the club be-cause of her interests in science and math, but said it’s much more fun than the regular school day.
“In school you have to sit down and study, and in STEM you can stand and walk around and experiment with things,” she said.
IN THE CLASSROOM
Thinking caps on
Collierville STEM club provides hands-on learning
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From left, ifth-grade science teacher Tracy James talks with students Adrienne Dillon, 11, Cooper Johnson, 10, Dawson Batey, 10, and Nicole Rodri-guez, 10, about the design of their elf roller coaster during STEM class before school at Tara Oaks Elementary.
ELIZABETH MALONEFarmington Elementary School, third grade
Q What do you like most about your school?
A The administration is so sup-portive. The students are so
determined, focused and really want to learn. The parents are very involved, which makes all of the diference in the world. Farmington has a strong, supportive family feel to it. I just love it.
Q What was your favorite subject as a kid and why?
A I loved English, because I was good at it. Human nature
tends to work that way. We love the things we succeed in.
Q What was the most challeng-ing subject for you as a kid and
why?
A Math was my most challenging subject. It was just my deicit. I
still made A’s and B’s in it, but I had to work hard to get those grades. Every person has a deicit area, and that is okay.
Q What is the greatest challenge you face as an educator?
A I just need more hours in my day. Don’t we all? There is
always so much to do and such a short time to do it in. Another chal-lenge is we are told to diferentiate our instruction daily by the State of Tennessee’s evaluation process, yet we give a standardized test to each child at the end of the year. It makes sense that if our instruction is diferentiated, their test should be also.
Q What do you hope to accomplish as an educator?
A My main goal is to instill a love for learning. I want children to
know that they will learn the rest of their lives, not just while in school. It is hard for kids to comprehend that sometimes. I also am big on teaching empathy. I think our world would be a much better place if everyone possessed that quality.
Q What is the most rewarding mo-ment you’ve had as a teacher?
A The most rewarding moment for me as a teacher was when I
had worked and worked with a stu-dent on subtraction with regroup-ing. Finally, after many attempts, he got it. It was a moment I will never forget. His face lit up and just sim-ply glowed. We hugged, and I even cried. Teachers cry a lot — happy tears, of course.
Q Who is your teaching inspiration and why?
A My grandmother was a teach-er. I think it is in my blood. I
never, ever remember wanting to be anything else when I grew up.
Q Who is the person you most ad-mire?
A I most admire my husband. He is very unselish, gentle
and kind, yet strong. He is the most wonderful person I know. My mother runs a close second though.
Q When did you know you wanted to be an educator?
A I never thought of being any-thing else, so since I was a very
young child, I knew. My earliest memory is playing school in my bedroom. And I was a very mean teacher back then. But good news, I have changed.
Q If you weren’t a teacher, what would you be?
A I would be a party planner. I love the details of planning the
party. I actually love the planning of the party more than I do the ac-tual party.
To nominate an outstanding educator to be
featured, e-mail Matt Woo at woo@com-
mercialappeal.com.
TEACHER SPOTLIGHT
Malone wants to teach kids to love learning
STUDENT SPOTLIGHT
Surgery doesn’t slow down Mangrum
SNAPSHOTS
Collierville sis-ters Elea (left) and Darcy Corson joined students from the Collierville Arts Academy and dancers with the West Tennessee Youth Ballet to create a ballet movie of “The Nutcracker.” The movie was produced on-site by the Collierville Arts Academy. Darcy, 12, is a sixth-grader at Collierville Middle School and Elea, 9, is a fourth-grad-er at Tara Oaks Elementary.
Tara Oaks principal Tricia Marshall pres-
ents Wyatt Mutchler-Lee with the irst-
place trophy for winning the school’s Spell-ing Bee, which
was held in December.
Every Wednesday morning, Bailey Station Elementary Run Club students run around the campus for 45 minutes. The club became so popular, school oicials had to limit the number of students to 150. Parents, teachers and volunteers all had a hand in making the club a success.
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COLLIERVILLE SKI CLUB SKI FREEZE
Chris Williams is all smiles after emerging from the water during the 38th annual Ski Freeze beneiting The Dream Factory of Memphis. The annual fundraiser will help 9-year-old Stacey Mulrooney, who sufers from Cerebral Palsy, visit the theme parks of Orlando, Fla.
Zachary Griith, 13, rides the back of the boat to shore during the 38th annual Ski Freeze beneiting The Dream Factory of Memphis. This year’s event is expected to bring in approximately $10,000 for The Dream Factory.
Chris Williams prepares to be the irst skier pulled during the 38th annual Ski Freeze beneiting The Dream Factory of Memphis. The event lived up to its name with the air temperature hovering just above the freezing mark and the water temperature at a brisk 47 degrees.
PHOTOS BY MIKE BROWN/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
A participant in the 38th annual Ski Freeze beneiting The Dream Factory of Memphis catches air. This year 21 people braved 47 degree water temperatures in Wolf River Harbor to help raise money to send 9-year-old Stacey Mulrooney, who sufers from Cerebral Palsy, to Disney World in Orlando, Fla.
Carleigh Strat-ton’s feet can’t hide the cold after emerg-ing from the water.
Duane Griith pulls in tight to stay warm while loating in the water during the 38th annual Ski Freeze. This year, 21 people participated.
Kelsey Jacobson tries
to get warm after emerging from the water
during the 38th annual
Ski Freeze.
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In the News
By Jennifer [email protected]
901-529-2372
With an aching back and trou-blesome knees, 79-year-old Al-ice Funderburk requires regular medical attention, and she doesn’t want to go far for her care.
“To me, driving all around Mem-phis would really be a challenge,” the Germantown resident said.
Before her recent move into the Village at Germantown senior liv-ing facility from Mississippi, her sister told her how easy it would be to have her medical needs met in the city.
She was still surprised by how quickly she could get to her of-campus appointments.
“I left at 8:20 and I was here at 8:25,” Funderburk said from the lobby of the Methodist Diagnostic Center, just across South German-town Road from the senior living facility.
In just under two months, Fun-derburk has already taken advan-tage of a growing medical commu-nity in Germantown that employs almost 6,700 health care workers, according to city data.
The growth, which began 20 years ago and is expected to grow another 20 percent in the next 10 years, has spurred the creation of a medical corridor along Wolf River Boulevard on the north end of the city that now includes a range of orthopedic, cardiovascular and cancer treatment centers all within a few blocks. In just the last year, Germantown has seen the comple-tion of a $30 million expansion of Baptist Rehabilitation, approval of a 120,000-square-foot expansion of the orthopedic Campbell Clinic, and a proposal for a psychiatric hospital. A $5.5 million eye clinic is also under construction at Wolf River and Kimbrough.
The growth represents both a
healthy economic investment in Germantown as well as an increase in the number of oferings for resi-dents. From Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital’s Women’s and Children’s Pavilion to Stern Cardiovascular, the services avail-able span the life spectrum.
City Administrator Patrick Lawton said the growth has been steady over the last 20 years, and for the irst 10 years fostered itself without much direction from city government.
“I think we’d love to take credit for that happening but I think it’s the community itself,” he said.
Christmas Eve 1993, Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital was completely empty.
“It (was) only like a 50-bed hos-pital, but what do you do in a hospi-tal with a census of zero?” hospital CEO William Kenley asked. “We don’t have those problems any-more.”
The hospital, built in 1986 but taken over fully by Methodist in 1993, now boasts 309 patient beds, delivers almost 5,000 babies a year and completes an average of 1,000 surgeries a month.
Kenley said the growth has been incremental over the last two de-cades. The hospital sits south of the medical corridor, in the center of the city, but Methodist has also invested along the corridor with
surgery, radiation, diagnostic, car-diac and cancer centers.
Methodist is not the only cor-poration with a presence on the corridor, which 25 years ago was blank land along a two-lane Ger-mantown Road until the Camp-bell Clinic moved its campus from downtown Memphis to 15 acres in Germantown.
Campbell CEO George Hernan-dez said the clinic bought the land in 1990 knowing it was more than they needed at the time but rec-ognizing the advantage of having room to grow.
“It has certainly proven to be a really prudent decision,” Hernan-dez said. “That really was the start of what has turned out to be the medical corridor in Germantown.”
Baptist Rehabilitation irst came to Germantown, of Exeter Road, in the 1960s. But this year, in part-nership with Centerre Healthcare Corp., Baptist completed construc-tion on a $30 million rehab expan-sion of Wolf River.
Baptist vice president for gov-ernment afairs Keith Norman said the city’s planning in the early 2000s with Smart Growth devel-opment was an indication that Germantown was serious about developing a medical node in the community.
“When you look at Germantown you see a planned growth process,” Norman said.
Lawton said the next steps for growth involve improving the abil-ity to walk from the medical cor-ridor to the shopping and living
nodes, and to make overall well-ness a top city priority.
“We need to igure out where does government now plug in, in terms of continuing to encourage that and understanding those con-nections,” he said.
The idea that a healthy city should include healthy residents, he said, is “a story we’re just begin-ning to tell.”
The Village at Germantown — the city’s highest property tax payer at more than $11.6 million of assessed real estate value — boasts to perspective residents about its proximity to the medical corridor.
“That’s always been an attrac-tive piece of being here at the vil-lage, for seniors that live here but even for the children of the resi-dents that move here, being located centrally in a medical environ-ment,” Village director of health and wellness Melissa Rukstad said.
The Village has a $22 million health care expansion project un-derway and plans for an additional $8 million independent living reno-vation next spring.
Village executive director Ron Rukstad said the demographics of Germantown, from both an age and wealth standpoint, make the city attractive for medical prac-tices.
And with the medical corridor covering many of the needs of local seniors, Rukstad said the one-mile radius around the Village is hard to beat.
“It’s almost like you’re making it up,” he said. “It’s that good.”
GERMANTOWN
Medical corridor fuels economic health, convenience
TOP GERMANTOWN MEDICAL EMPLOYERS, 2014
■ Methodist LeBonheur Germantown Hospital: 1,291
■ Campbell Clinic: 400 ■ *Village at Germantown: 249 ■ Stern Cardiovascular: 240 ■ Baptist Rehabilitation: 184
Source: City of Germantown
* = partial medical services
BRANDON DILL/SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
Health care available in Germantown ranges from neonatal services at the Women’s and Children’s Pavilion at Methodist Le Bonheur Germantown Hospital — where nurse Dina Rylander tends to an infant in the neonatal intensive care unit — to cardiovascular and orthopedic specialists needed by older adults.
By Jennifer [email protected]
901-529-2372
A Germantown police captain served a three-day suspension for sending in-appropriate text mes-sages to a subordinate in the de-partment.
Capta in Jodi Whit-field was c h a r g e d with a per-sonal-con-duct violation last month. The captain “admitted to exchanging inappropriate texts” with a female lieu-tenant who he directly su-pervises, according to the police department’s state-ment of charges.
Whitfield waived his right to a hearing, which was scheduled for Dec. 22, and accepted the three-day suspension, accord-ing to an e-mail he sent to Deputy Chief Rodney Bright.
Human resources direc-tor Stephen Wilensky said the city did not investigate the texts further because Whitfield confirmed he sent them and waived his right to a hearing.
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Police captain disciplined for texts
Jodi Whitfield
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In the News
Photos and video of Shelby Swink and her bridesmaids covering her wedding dress with paint have gone viral.
COURTESY OF ELIZABETH
HOARD PHOTOGRAPHY
BRANDON DILL/SPECIAL TO THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
After her fiancé left Shelby Swink days before they were to be married, she, her bridesmaids and family held a ceremony on the former wedding date and “trashed” her once-white wedding dress with paint. Photos and video of the act have gone viral.
By Lesley YoungSpecial to The Commercial Appeal
On her wedding day, Shelby Swink dei-nitely wore something blue.
And green, and yel-low, and pink and purple. All over her wedding dress.
Swink, 23, of Germantown decided to use her custom-itted strapless white wed-ding gown as a canvas on which to pour out her emo-tions.
Five days earlier, her iancé had told her he didn’t love her and called of the wedding.
“I asked him if he was sure because this was inal stuf we were talking about. He said yes, he was sure, and that was the last time I saw him. He left to go stay with friends while I igured out (what to do),” said Swink, a nanny, volleyball coach and shop attendant.
“The next day was the hardest day because we had to tell everybody,” she said.
While she and her family and friends regrouped and considered their next steps, a suggestion showed up in the conversation more than once. She could trash her wedding dress. “We were all trying to igure out what to do with the dress. I could sell it. I could save it if I ever got married again. None of those options felt right,” Swink said. “Three people — my dad, one of my bridesmaids and my pho-tographer — all brought up the idea to trash the dress. I said, ‘That sounds pretty awesome.’”
Next, Swink had to tell her mother.“She was the one who bought the
dress and put all the money into it,” Swink said.
The mother of the bride was all for it.
“She was excited,” Swink said. “She made sure I knew that the money didn’t matter. The only thing that mat-tered to her was that if this made me happy, we were doing it.”
When they considered a date, the answer seemed pretty obvious.
On Saturday, Nov. 1, all of her fam-ily’s, friends’ and photographer’s plans were suddenly wide open, so why not trash the dress then and host a proper
photo shoot of the merry destruction? “My photographer joked and said
her plans got canceled that Saturday, so if I was free then ... ,” Swink said.
So on her scheduled wedding day, Swink put on the dress, ixed her hair in an updo, prettied her face it for a bride and showed up at Schilling Farms for the big day. Her photogra-pher, Elizabeth Hoard, prepared for the day like any other wedding shoot.
“I wanted to make sure I had the right lenses,” Hoard said. “I looked at the process to see how much daylight I
had. I wanted to make sure it would be perfect for her. I wanted to make sure she had something she could look back on and document this experience.”
The experience was an impressive one for Swink.
“I had been excited all week leading up to the shoot; then when I actually put the dress on and stepped out and everyone was ‘oohing’ and ‘ahhing,’ it reminded me of what would have happened if the wedding had gone through, and it was weird for me,” Swink said.
Armed with bottles of paint, the four bridesmaids in their two-tone strapless blue chifon gowns, her mother in the mother-of-the-bride black-and-white pantsuit, and her father in a tux made the transition for Swink.
“Once they started throwing paint, I was super happy. It really helped me literally let everything go,” Swink said. “I deinitely moved on. And it wasn’t just for myself, but everybody involved. They were a big part of the wedding, and they were all afected by the fact that it was canceled. Not just me.”
Swink couldn’t be more pleased by the photos.
“I love them,” Swink said.She loved them so much that she
posted the photos and wrote a blog about the experience on ofbeatbride.com.
That’s when her life changed dra-matically: She became an Internet sensation overnight.
Her story was picked up by social media, television and numerous news sites, and by New Year’s Eve, her story had reached more than 8 million clicks on Buzzfeed. “It’s crazy,” Swink said. “It’s amazing how many people I’ve reached.”
Swink sees her situation as an op-portunity to empower other women.
“It really is about staying positive and being conident in myself,” she said. “I hope I can show others not to let someone else deine your hap-piness. You have to be happy with yourself before you can be happy with someone else.”
Both her photographer and her sister, a bridesmaid, see her as a role model.
“She’s inspirational to me. She’s my big sister, so she’s always been a role model for me. Now she can be a role model for other women,” said her sis-ter, Sandy Swink, 19.
“It was amazing to watch her take control of her situation and her emo-tions and accept them and embrace them. She said, ‘I choose this. I choose a better way to go about these things,’” Hoard said.
What to do with the now-rainbow-colored dress?
After its run at Barefoot Bride, where the gown is displayed and the owner is ofering a portion of her sales to the nonproit Bee Free Revolution, Swink is thinking Iceland.
“There’s a museum there for broken relationships called Brokenships,” she said. “That would be pretty cool.”
TRASH THE DRESS
COURTESY OF ELIZABETH HOARD PHOTOGRAPHY
Swink decided to seek catharsis in her canceled wedding by trashing the gown, with a splash of help from family and friends.
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Home & Garden
By Vicki PayneThe Charlotte Observer (TNS)
Great design is all about editing; getting rid of what doesn’t work and keeping what does.
I think this week’s topic falls perfectly into this theory. It’s a question all of us face after Christmas: “Where the heck are you going to put all this new stuf? After years of strug-gling with this issue, I’ve inally found the solution.
This week, make room while doing something charitable for those less fortunate. I know I can hear you already saying, “I am too busy this week.”
Trust me — this is the best use of your time, and the process is quick, fun and painless. It’s a family project. You are going to break your entire house down into two areas, per-sonal and common spaces. It will only take one hour.
Start by enticing your family. Explain to them that great treasures await, but irst we have to make room.
Give each person a large shopping bag. In-struct them to go to their rooms and remove all the old, worn, unwanted items
from their dressers and closets. They just have to remove enough items to stuf the bag completely full. Any items that are beyond being useful to others get pitched into a garbage bag.
Make it a game. Set the timer for 40 minutes for individual rooms and instruct them to ask themselves these ques-tions regarding the things they have: Does it it? Is it stained or torn? Do I ever wear or use it?
Next, the common ar-eas. Each family member gets a cardboard box and an assignment, based on age, to tackle the clutter in playrooms, family rooms, coat closets and kitchen cabinets. Recycle old mag-azines and newspapers.
Set the timer for 20 minutes and let the edit-ing begin!
The reward? Take a ride to a local thrift store to de-liver the shopping bags of reusable items and then stop for pizza at a favorite restaurant. This will give you an opportunity to talk about how lucky your fam-ily is to have a home and gifts to share over the holi-day season.
ORGANIZATION
Make room in your house for presents
TRIBUNE NEWS SERVICE
The first step toward a new look for your home is deciding what it is you want. Whether it’s painting a wall or add-ing a new piece of furniture put your personality into it.
By Mary Carol GarrityTribune News Service
What decorating projects and plans do you have in store for the new year? Are you renovat-ing a key space like your kitchen or bath? Redeco-rating a well-used room, like your bedroom or family room? Hoping to add a bit more personal-ity to an area that feels blah or uninished? I like to make decorating-related New Year’s resolu-tions every year to spark my creativity. Want to join me? A few Nell Hill’s designers and I share resolutions for making your home more beauti-ful in 2015.
R E S O L U T I O N # 1 F R O M M A RY C A R O L :
Stop hoardingAfter many years living in our beloved old
home in Atchison, Kan., Dan and I have oicially moved to a bungalow near Kansas City. I loved my majestic ixer-upper and will always treasure the fabulous memories we made there, but I was more than ready to downsize, to have less home to take care of. As we got ready to move, I was blown away by how hard it was to go through all our stuf, deciding which things would go with us to our cottage and which would have to ind a new home.
I had no idea I was such a hoarder! Not to the point where someone was going to do a TV documentary on me, but still! As I stood in my basement and looked at the tubs and tubs of ac-cents I had saved through the years, I wished I had undertaken this task earlier and purged on a regular basis. But when I was done emptying out my closets and garage and basement, I felt fabulous and free. You don’t have to move to be-gin to sift through your belongings and simplify.
R E S O L U T I O N # 2 F R O M M A RY- CH R I S T I N E :
Find, embrace your own styleAs an interior designer, Mary-Christine has
seen lots of trends come and go. While it’s fun to incorporate new looks you love into your décor, her advice is to always be true to yourself and embrace a style that suits you. In 2015, she en-courages you to discover your signature style. It sounds really hard to do, but she says it’s actually super simple to pinpoint your decorating passion.
First, she says, igure out what you need from your home. For example, since she works with so much color and pattern every day as a designer, she needs her own home to be very simple and serene. You may be just the opposite. Next, ill your home with things you really love. You want to look forward to walking through your door every day and drinking in the furnishings and accents you’ve used to feather your nest.
R E S O L U T I O N # 3 F R O M S CO T T :
Don’t stop with just furnitureScott says he’s noticed that when people redo
spaces in their homes or move to a new home, they usually start the decorating process by
selecting the upholstered pieces they want to include in the room. The style and fabric they choose does a great job of setting the tone for the space. But that’s only the irst step, Scott explains.
Too often, he sees people stop with their re-design once the new sofa is in place. Then, they aren’t quite satisied with the results, and aren’t sure why. There’s an easy explanation, he says. The room isn’t done. A well-designed space in-cludes much more than great furniture.
All the other elements in the room, like the art-work, accessories, rugs and lighting, are essential for completing the design. They work together to give the room its individuality and dramatic lair, to ensure the space is a relection of you.
R E S O L U T I O N # 4 F R O M N I CO L E :
Add a bit of luxuryEveryone loves indulging in a little luxury
now and then. And Nicole says 2015 is the year to explore ways you can add some glitz to your everyday life through your home décor. Even if you like things casual and simple, a dot or two of glam will give your spaces a spark of new energy.
Nicole suggests picking one little space, maybe a corner of a room or one piece of furniture, and adding a touch of luxury there. Perhaps it’s toss-ing a pillow corded in a yummy velvet onto your bed, sofa or favorite chair.
Gold accents are super hot right now, so you will ind lots of options for adding sparkle to your home. How about replacing a tired old lamp with one that features a gold base or a gold-line shade? Place a cluster of gold pottery on your mantel or weave gold picture frames into the display on a side table. You will be surprised by how much a dash of gold warms spaces and makes you feel pampered.
R E S O L U T I O N # 5 F R O M K R I S T E N :
Explore the power of stripesStripes are Kristen’s new decorating crush. She
loves big, bold stripes. She loves little tiny stripes. She loves them turned vertically, horizontally and everywhere in between. She loves them on bedding, furniture and accents.
When she’s designing gorgeous custom beds, Kristen blends a variety of fabrics and patterns to add dimension to the grouping and give it vi-sual interest. Stripes are always a part of the mix. Want to freshen up your bedding this winter? Bring in a stripe, she advises, whether it’s a large, bold stripe duvet or just an accent pillow that features a ticking rule.
Stripes belong all over the house, Kristen main-tains. Drapes done in a striped fabric add height to a room. Want the window to look larger? In-clude a striped fabric going horizontally at the base of the drape. It will bring added weight to the space. Have you avoided using a bold stripe on a larger piece of furniture, like a sofa or chair, because you’re afraid it will be too much pattern? Don’t be, she says. It will add lots of drama to the room, and, when accessorized correctly, will recede into the background.
STYLE AT HOME
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The holidays are done — you survived, congratulations. Now it’s time to focus on you. Some may call it a “resolution,” but that term can be intimidating. Instead, let’s call it a to-do list of tweaks that can help improve our lives — whether it’s today, tomorrow, or twenty-two Thurs-days from now.
So feel free to pick a few items and knock ‘em out of the park, or go gung-ho and take on the entire list. Either way, we’ve got your back. And, as always, you
can ind highly rated providers on Angie’s List who are waiting in the wings to help you with any project along the way.
1. Organize your house: You don’t need a Type A personality to recognize the importance of keeping your home organized. But knowing and doing are two diferent things. “Start small,” says Jennifer Finch, owner of highly rated (on Angie’s List of top companies) Ultimately Or-ganized in California, Ky. “Pick out one room in your home that makes you the most anxious. Fo-cus on one corner of that room
irst. Once that’s done, move on to the next. Don’t get inundated by the enormity of the project.”
After you set your goals, be sure to schedule enough time to accomplish them.
2. Plan your dream remodel: Are you champing at the bit to inish your basement or build that new family room? A few things to consider: Whatever your budget may be, you’ll most likely exceed it. Meet with an architect, structural engineer or interior designer to deter-mine the scope of your plan and develop a realistic budget and
timeline. Revisit your inancial plan to make sure you have the funds to see the project through to completion.
3. Pick a color, paint a room: A little paint goes a long way, doesn’t cost a lot of money and can give your house some pi-zazz. If you don’t want to make a total color commitment, select one wall as an accent wall to display your favorite hue. Grab some smaller, sample-sized cans of paint for a trial run.
4. Give your house a checkup: Just like your body, your house needs a once-over at least once
a year. Look for obvious signs of damage or distress, but take note of the little things that might lead to bigger issues down the road. “In general, a homeowner’s worst enemy is moisture,” says Alan Chase, owner of highly rated Chase Home Inspections in Knox-ville, Tenn. “Outside, all roof shingles should be examined periodically for signs of loose, damaged or missing shingles that could produce a leak. All siding should be examined for signs of moisture intrusion that will develop into rot.
LIVING SMART
New year to-do list helps tackle a few home projects
From inside the house, just
about anything that once came
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composted.
By Joe Lamp’lgrowingagreenerworld.com (TNS)
I am a big fan of com-post. In my experience, I believe it’s the single best soil amendment you can add to any lawn or garden.
I’m also an eiciency nut. I’m always looking for the most productive way to take on any task. So it’s only natural that I ind one of the best ways to clean up the kitchen while making deposits into my compost bank is to gather all those food scraps from salads, vegetables and fruit.
Besides making great soil right at home, I cer-tainly try to do my part to reduce the pressure on our community landill. In fact, I’ve indoctrinated my family into this compost-ing-recycling obsessive world in which I live.
As part of our system, we now have a dedicated cabinet in the kitchen that houses two bins. One is for the daily compost and the other for recyclables. I thought it would be a tough sell to get my wife to go along with the ongoing storage of food waste inside the house. As it turns out, the biggest challenge is my
remembering to take it out at the end of each day.
As you collect daily scraps, you may be sur-prised to ind how much can actually be composted.
Inside the house, just about anything that came from a living source can be composted. From the kitch-en, add all fruit and vegeta-ble scraps, cofee grounds and ilters, paper towels and the roll, napkins, oat-meal, banana peels, egg-shells and tea bags.
From around the house, vacuum cleaner bags and contents, dryer lint, card-board rolls, clean paper (shredded is best), news-paper, cotton and wool rags, hair and fur and houseplants.
Take note, though: Don’t add meat products, bones, fats, grease, oils or dairy products. They create odors that can attract ro-dents and lies. And don’t compost pet waste, which can contain parasites, bac-teria, pathogens and virus-es dangerous to humans.
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from 5-11 p.m. at Rizzi’s Cafe and Paradiso Pub, 6230 Greenlee St. This charitable event will include live music and silent auctions for art, musical instruments, jewelry and more. Featuring performances by Kenny Brown, Craig Yarbrough, John McDowell and more.
BartlettBartlett City Beautiful presents the Bartlett Garden-
ing University series at the Bartlett Public Library, 5884 Stage Road, Saturday at 2:30 p.m. Master Gar-dener Tom Mashour hosts “Growing Vegetables in the Home Garden.” The free talk covers advantages and disadvantages of growing your own vegetables, location, watering and fertilizers. Call 901-386-8968.
Join The Boufants at 8 p.m. Jan. 17 at the Bartlett Performing Arts and Conference Center for a hair-raising performance. The group is known for big hair, bigger attitudes, bold voices and choreography. Tickets are $25. Visit bpacc.org or call 901-385-6440.
ColliervilleThe Miss Collierville Scholarship Pageant celebrates
20 years of community involvement Saturday at Har-rell Theatre, 440 Powell Road. Teen Pageant starts at 2 p.m. and Miss Pageant starts at 7 p.m. Categories include talent, itness, interview and evening gown. Admission price is $15 for each show. E-mail [email protected].
It’s Tea Time at The Morton Museum, 196 Main St. Children ages 4-12 and parents can experience a spe-cial tea time Saturday at 1 p.m. with treats and crafts, while learning about traditional tea etiquette during the late 19th century. Come dressed for tea or as you are. Call 901-457-2650 to register.
The Morton Museum also presents Portrait Paint-ing with Sue Foell. This course will teach adults (with some oil painting experience) how to paint portraits from photographs. Cost is $250 for six-week session. $75 non-refundable deposit required. Sessions are 10 a.m. to 1 p.m. Tuesday, Jan. 20 and 27 and Feb. 3 and 10. To register and receive supply list, call Sue at 901-490-9304 or e-mail [email protected].
The Collierville Twentieth Century Club will meet in the Halle Room of the Burch Library on Jan. 15. Re-freshments will be served at 4 p.m., and the meeting will begin at 4:30. Visitors are welcome.
Mother-Son Bowling Night will be Jan. 16 at Fun-
Quest Bowling Center, 440 U.S. 72. Cost is $30 per team and $15 for each additional son. Event begins at 5:30 p.m. with check-in, shoe pickup and lane assign-ments. Bowling will be from 6-8 p.m. Call 901-457-2770. Registration deadline is Saturday.
Free yoga classes are available at the Collierville Burch Library on Mondays through Jan. 26 from 6-7 p.m. Pre-registration requested at colliervillelibrary.org/events. Walk-ins are welcome as space permits.
CordovaGet your bike on every Saturday with Shelby Farms
BMX. Trophies and medals are awarded to the top three riders. Entry is $10. Register from 3:30-4:30 p.m. on the south side of the park at 6435 Walnut Grove. Race begins at 4:30 p.m. $5 practice runs available from 2-4 p.m. every Sunday through May 4. Visit shelbyfarmsbmx.com.
See more than 350 vendors at the Gun & Knife Show, this weekend in the West Pavillion of the Expo Cen-ter at Agricenter International, 7777 Walnut Grove. Admission is $10 for adults, $3 for children ages 6-12 and free for children ages 6 and under. Hours are 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Sunday. Visit rkshows.com/coupon.htm for $2 of admission. Call 563-927-8176.
Come to L’Ecole Culinaire, 1245 N. Germantown, Friday from 6-9 p.m. for the Spanish Flare Cooking Class designed for the at-home chef. Course cost is $95. Call 888-860-7270 or e-mail [email protected].
Covenant United Methodist Church, 8350 Walnut Grove, invites you to the “Snowball Gala” Saturday from 7-10 p.m. The event, sponsored by USA Dance Memphis, will feature recorded DJ ballroom music, chair and snowball dances. Bring a snack to share. Cost is $7 for members and $10 for nonmembers. Call 662-349-3720 or 901-853-1413 or visit usadance memphis.com.
The Memphis Runner’s Track Club will hold its Holiday Party on Saturday at Woodland Hills Event
Center, 10000 Woodland Hills Drive. All participants who registered for the entire Road Race Series at any time receive free entry. Admission is $15 for adults and $5 for children under 10. Come enjoy the awards cer-emony followed by a bufet dinner, music and dancing. E-mail [email protected].
The next meeting for AARP Cordova Chapter No. 5449 will be Jan. 15 at 11:30 a.m. at the Cordova Branch Library, 8457 Trinity Road. The topic will be “How AARP Membership Can Assist You.”
Registration is active through Jan. 29 for irst-time participants in the KidsTown Children’s Consignment Event. Buy or sell clothing and toys at Agricenter In-ternational, 7700 Walnut Grove, 10 a.m. to 7 p.m. Feb. 5, 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Feb. 6 and 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Feb 7. Event is free to attend. Visit consignkidstown.com.
Chuckles Comedy House, 1770 Dexter Springs Loop, presents comedian Don D.C. Curry, winner of the Bay Area Black Comedy Competition, for ive shows this weekend. Tickets are $30 and shows start at 7:30 and 10 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 8 p.m. Sunday. Visit chucklescomedyhouse.com or call 901-421-5905.
GermantownIn preparation for the Feb. 7 ACT test, ACT prep ses-
sions will be held through Feb. 2, from 5:30-7:30 p.m. Students are required to purchase “The Real ACT Prep Guide.” Classes are $200. Contact Keela Higgs at 901-413-6457. Register at the Parks and Recreation Department, 2276 West St.
An iPad basics class will teach users how to get the most from the device, including device navigation, photo and video management, utilizing the cloud, using Face Time and more. Be sure to bring your iPad to class. Class meets Tuesday and Jan. 15, from 9:30 to 11 a.m., at the Parks and Recreation oice, 2276 West St. Fee is $25. Call 901-757-7375. A similar class will be held for new iPhone users Tuesday and Jan. 15, from 12:30-2 p.m. The cost also is $25. Sign up at the Parks and Recreation oice.
MemphisBring the family to the 2015 Memphis International
Auto Show this weekend at Memphis Cook Conven-tion Center, 255 N. Main. Tickets are $8 for adults, $6 for children ages 6-12, military and senior citizens and free for children 5 and under. Children 12 and under will be admitted free on Sunday. Hours are 10 a.m. to 9 p.m. Friday and Saturday and 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Sunday. Visit memphis-autoshow.com or call 901-576-1200.
Celebrate Elvis’ birthday with two of his best mov-ies. A double feature screening of “Jailhouse Rock” and “Viva Las Vegas” will be 7 p.m. Friday at the Orpheum Theatre, 203 S. Main. Enjoy the King on the big screen in some of his best roles. Tickets are $22.50 and can be purchased by calling 901-525-3000.
The world-famous Harlem Globetrotters will take fan interaction to a new level 3 p.m. Saturday at FedEx-Forum. Tickets are $23 and up and can be purchased at all Ticketmaster locations, Ticketmaster.com, the FedExForum Box Oice or by calling 800-745-3000.
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HIStory XtravaganzaThe ECS band beat their drums and boldlyplayed their instruments as they welcomedForest Hill and Ridge Lake guests to the Maconcampus on Friday, October 31, for the SocialStudies Xtravaganza. “L’e’tat, c’est moi. I amthe State!” said French King Louis IV MartinLuther was there, nailing his 95 Theses to thedoor,Christopher Columbus stared throughhis telescope, and Betsy Ross busily sewedthe American lag. Also in attendance wereFlorence Nightingale, Elizabeth I, UlyssesGrant, Napoleon Bonaparte, Jane Austen, and Marie Antoinette trying to hold onto herhead. William Wallace, a.k.a. Middle School Principal Chuck Smith, amused the audience as hewalked down the aisle in a Scottish kilt, blue face paint and a giant sword to the sound of bagpipes.
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Sports
Sadler Goodwin of Evangelical Christian School recently signed his National Letter of Intent to play baseball next season at the University of Tennessee-Martin. With him on his signing day are his parents, Lesa and Jef Goodwin (front row), athletic director Geof Walters (back, left), ECS head baseball coach Duke Williams and ECS assistant coach Bill Edwards.
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They each attempted to shoulder responsibility for the loss.
Whether it was Univer-sity of Memphis junior for-ward Shaq Goodwin talk-ing about the rebound he didn’t get with 4:17 left that led to a momentum-swing-ing 3-pointer for Tulane or sophomore forward Austin Nichols saying he didn’t get more chances ofensively down the stretch because he was out of position or sophomore guard Pookie Powell describing how bad-ly he felt after turning the ball over on three straight possessions late, they each wanted to take the blame for the Tigers’ 74-66 home loss to the Green Wave last Saturday.
And perhaps that’s a good sign for Memphis (8-5, 1-1 American Athletic Conference) that it hasn’t splintered despite los-ing for the third time in a nine-game homestand that ended with Tulane.
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phis team that looked to be improving — albeit against some lower-level oppo-nents — since a 3-4 start in which some of the same problems that plagued it then resurfaced against Tulane — from giving up 24 points on 16 turnovers to its shaky perimeter play to not creating enough transition opportunities with its defense (Tulane had just eight turnovers; it averaged 14.4 coming in).
Now, with Memphis about to face one of the league favorites, SMU (10-4, 1-1), in its irst true road test of the season today in Dallas, the question is have the Tigers really improved or was their five-game winning streak a mirage of hope?
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“We just made some mistakes in some crucial times and that bit us in the rear end. Even though we lost, we are a better team than we were when we were 3-4. Bottom line,” Pastner said. “Even with the loss, we’re a better team. You can see our im-provement.
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A nationally televised game between the top team in Mem-phis and one of the nation’s most storied programs highlights this year’s American Residential Ser-vices/Rescue Rooter Penny Hard-away Hoopfest, which takes place today through Saturday.
The highlight game is Satur-day at Arlington, where ESPN will televise the 3 p.m. game between Hamilton — featuring University of Memphis signees K.J. and Dedric Lawson — and Oak Hill Academy, the top-ranked team in the nation ac-cording to MaxPreps.
There will be plenty of other interesting matchups that day as Germantown takes on University School (Louisiana) at 1 p.m. fol-lowed by Arlington and Chicago Simeon at 5 p.m. Southwind faces Christ Presbyterian Academy at 6:30 p.m. and White Station wraps things up against Chicago Whit-ney Young at 8 p.m.
Among the highly regarded prospects will be Simeon point guard Zach Norvell, who has an ofer from the University of Mem-phis; Oak Hill forward Dwayne Ba-con, who is headed to Florida State; Simeon forward D.J. Williams (Il-linois); and Oak Hill center Daniel Giddens (Ohio State).
The event starts today with three games at Dyer County, highlighted by the hosts taking on Murfreesboro Siegel at 8:30 p.m. On Friday, there will be a pair of games at Dyer County and two at Haywood County.
Admission is $10 for today and Friday’s games and $15 for Satur-day’s games.
HARDING ACADEMY STANDOUT HONORED
Although he’s just a freshman, Harding standout Will Lawrence is already well-known on the foot-ball recruiting trail. And it doesn’t look like things will be slowing down anytime soon.
Lawrence, a 6-4, 265-pounder, has been named to the MaxPreps 2014 freshman All-America team. He’s one of two players from Ten-nessee on the 29-man squad, join-ing Cofee County athlete Alontae Taylor.
An impressive list of schools has already ofered, including two of the schools that were in the BCS national championship playof, Ohio State and Alabama.
TCU, Ole Miss, West Virginia, Duke, Indiana, Kansas, Louisville, Cincinnati and Florida Atlantic also have ofered.
PREP NOTES
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BOYS BASKETBALL: A MID-SEASON LOOK AHEAD
HEATING UP
By Pete WickhamSpecial to The Weekly
It doesn’t take much to make the three-cornered neighborhood wars between Germantown, Houston and Collierville interesting. That means the coming Dis-trict 15-AAA season ought to be really interesting. Because all three bring much to the table this time around.
“Our district is tougher than any other in the area this year,” Germantown coach Marvis Davis said. “But if we play our game we can compete with anybody.”
The Red Devils are acting like a team intent on crashing the party this year, getting of to a 13-3 start and a No. 8 rank-ing in The Commercial Appeal’s Dandy Dozen before the Christmas tournament weekend began.
Led by 5-9 junior point Darrell Brown (20 ppg, 3+ 3-pointers a game), the Dev-ils have notched wins over Ridgeway, Arlington, Central, Bolton and a sweep of their games in the Memphis-Atlanta Classic. Their lineup is eight deep, in-cluding guard Dacoda Stone, Cooper Foreman and a pair of 6-6 frontline play-ers in Rodney Williams (9 ppg) and Ja-cob Ivey. All, except Stone, have played together since middle school and took their lumps together a year ago.
“When this group was in eighth grade I spent a lot of time hands-on with them in middle school prepping them for what they could expect (at this level),” Davis said. “What makes them go is their chem-istry.”
However, the Devils’ two losses were by four points to Houston and three to Collierville, who each have one big weap-on to bring to the table.
For the Mustangs (12-6), the weapon is senior guard Marlon Hunter, a Western Kentucky signee who is averaging over 26 points a night. Ty Robinson (13 ppg) and Justin Benton (9 ppg) are also scoring threats, and Coach William Buford has been excited by the potential shown by 6-5 freshman Ryan Boyce.
“He’s still trying to get out of middle school (habits) but he’s iguring it out how to play this game, and use his size. He’s got great mentality and defensive skills,” Buford said of the rookie.
Collierville senior Brett Warner (26 ppg), headed to Delta State, had a signa-ture game against Germantown with 33 points. Transfer J.B. Hayes (11.0) will be back this month after sufering a concus-sion. Veterans Drews Andrews (12.0) and Warner’s twin brother Brad bring experi-ence and versatility to a team that wants to make noise in a crowded loop. They did so early, knocking of Germantown before Christmas, then winning the Lew-isburg holiday tournament.
“We like being under the radar,” Col-lierville coach Justin Mooneyham said. “But this district is a monster.”
In 14-AAA, ninth-ranked Bolton (11-4) has found its legs under new head coach
Harold Scott, with megaprospect Jay-len Fisher orchestrating from the point. Bartlett (9-7), led by seniors Eric McGill and Jonathan Bowlan, raised some eye-brows by knocking of Germantown in the Fort Walton Beach tournament.
Briarcrest (16-3), ranked fourth in the Christmas Dandy Dozen, has balanced scoring and size with a junior dominated lineup that includes 6-7 Micah Thomas,
6-6s Maceo Woodard and Will Hrubes and guards Mark French and Adam Pike. After a state semiinal loss to MUS last year, the Saints’ big competition in Divi-sion 2-AA appears to be No. 3 CBHS, of to a 16-0 start. St. Benedict (11-7), under irst-year coach Josh Templeton and led by 6-4 senior Joey Magniico, got of to a 7-2 start before stumbling going into the holidays.
No. 11 St. George’s (12-2) has shown bal-ance with 6-4 seniors Conner Green and Justin Wertner and sophomore guards Chase Hayden and Noah Pope. Despite the departure of Skal Labissiere, ECS has put together a strong (13-4) start behind 6-3 senior Marcus Lytle, including a win over the Gryphons.
Down in DeSoto County, Olive Branch (11-4) had reeled of eight straight wins before a tournament loss to Bolton over the holidays. During that run, Eric Rom-baugh’s Conquistadors had been averag-ing 70 points a game. Horn Lake (11-5), Southaven (10-6) and Center Hill (9-5) are also of to good starts south of the border.
THERON MALONE/SPECIAL TO THE WEEKLY FILES
Bolton’s Jaylen Fisher (with ball) is a big reason the Wildcats are the team to beat in District 14-AAA. Germantown’s Jacob Ivey (on defense) is part of a talented group of Red Devils.
Local teams ready to get into heart of district play
By Pete WickhamSpecial to The Weekly
Hey, Mid-South basket-ball fans: Think the NBA West is nuts? The pros have nothing on the DeSo-to County large school girls basketball scene.
Start with defending state champion Horn Lake, who despite sending two stars to Division 1, still cruised into January with a 13-0 record, the No. 2 ranking in The Commer-cial Appeal’s Dandy Dozen Christmas week — and ab-solutely no wiggle room.
Right on Eagles’ tail feathers, iguratively and literally, is the still very-young, talented and hun-gry Olive Branch Conquis-tadors (16-1), led by the kid point guard who missed last year’s state champi-onship game with Horn Lake with an injury. The ‘Quistors were No. 3 in the Christmas week Dandy Dozen, and that’s literally only half the DeSoto story. Sitting in the ifth spot is another young, frisky bunch from DeSoto Cen-tral (15-3) and at No. 7 is Southaven (13-3).
“Four teams, loaded for bear,” said Horn Lake Coach Jana Thompson,
whose squad lost Olivia Cunningham (Murray State), A’Queen Hayes (Ole Miss) and two more starters — but has a core of ive seniors to keep things going. The ringleaders are senior point guard Alon-drea Rush (Delta State), averaging 10.8 points and four assists a game, 6-2 se-nior post Alexyse Thomas (11 ppg, 8 rpg, headed to Wright State) and DeSoto Central transfer Rod-neyshia Martin (13.2).
“The group (save for Martin) has been put-ting in work ever since they were sophomores. They’re excited to get their chance,” said Thompson, who also has a junior, Tae’lour Richardson, aver-aging 10.8 points and seven boards a game.
The county’s next big deal, individually, is 5-6 sophomore point guard Myah Taylor of Olive Branch, who is averaging 18 points a game — and about 2-3 ofers a week, according to coach Blake Jones. “Last week it was Alabama and Arizona … and I’ve lost count as to how many have come in,” Jones said of Tay-lor, who was injured in the state semiinal game and managed just a few seconds
of play in Horn Lake’s 74-39 rout in the inal.
“She got healthy and had some great camps over the summer, where she really got noticed,” Jones said. “And she wants another shot at a championship.”
The Quistors go eight deep, with sophomore Ma-hogany Vaught (14.5) and Savanna Geeslin (9.3), a ju-nior, the principal scoring options. Jones even got a bit of experience back when se-nior LaDaijha Watson com-ing back after a year away.
“We’ve matured, really added size in the weight room and the kids have taken to the phrase ‘Sec-ond place is the irst loser.’ ” said Jones, whose squad sufered a 20-point loss to Ridgeway over the week-end at Mississippi State’s Humphrey Coliseum.
The Jaguars have in-credible balance, with 5-8 senior Alayah Silas aver-aging 10.9 points a game, and four other players av-eraging between 8.6 and 9.4. Paul Hayden’s squad took a hit when 5-10 inside player Imani Johnson went out with a knee injury.
The only blemishes on Alicia Pickens’ Southaven squad’s record are losses to Pontotoc and Bartlett in
the Harding holiday tourna-ment. But they inished with a two-point win over ECS.
North of the border, Houston made its irst trip to the state tournament a year ago by staring down Ridgeway, and are of a 9-5 start that has them 12th in the Dandy Dozen going into the New Year. Chad Becker’s squad has a big gun in junior Jaida Roper, averaging 17.4 points a game.
But Becker said the real beauty of Roper is that “so many times you have a scorer like that and it’s Gladys Knight and the Pips. That’s not the case Jaida. It’s a blessing to have the most talented player on your team also be the low-est maintenance player.
“We lost seven seniors, six of whom are playing college ball, but right now we have a better record with this group,” said Becker, whose squad will grapple with top-ranked Ridgeway for supremacy once again in District 15-AAA. “These kids are still learning the game, but are willing to do whatever it takes. It’s exciting.”
Briarcrest Christian School (12-4), with a se-nior core led by Brynn and
Elise Holden, were holding down the sixth spot in the Christmas week Dandy Dozen and Lee Smith’s squad is taking aim at an-other trip to the state Di-vision 2-AA tournament (the Saints lost in the semi-inals last year). Division 2-A should be an interest-ing tussle featuring 9-7 ECS, led by junior Emily Lytle, and eighth-ranked Northpoint Christian (11-2), led by the backcourt of senior Karlie Hughes and sophomore Ashtyn Baker
with emerging freshman Lauren Gross.
In District 14-AAA, Ar-lington’s squad has started to emerge, building a 11-7 early-season mark and a third-place inish in the Dragon Fire Invitation-al, behind Tori Sewell. Bartlett (8-8) intrigues with the addition of trans-fer Charity Savage, who has the potential to be a one-person wrecking crew on any given night while Bolton (8-6), under new coach John Perkins, won
GIRLS BASKETBALL: A MID-SEASON LOOK AHEAD
Unbeaten Horn Lake heads lists of area programs of to strong starts
YALONDA M. JAMES/THE COMMERCIAL APPEAL
Briarcrest Christian School’s Micah Thomas has helped the Saints to a 14-3 start and the No. 4 ranking in the Dandy Dozen.
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Horn Lake’s Alexyse Thomas has helped the Tigers to a 13-0 start this season and the No. 3 ranking in the Dandy Dozen. Ol-ive Branch, DeSoto Central, Southaven and Northpoint Christian are other DeSoto County schools ranked in the Dandy Dozen.
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Food
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Turkish Eggplant Soup from “Soup for Two” by Joanna Pruess.
By Jennifer [email protected]
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The great thing about cooking a big pot of soup is that you can do it without a recipe. The flip side of that is that when we cook without a recipe, we tend to reach for
familiar ingredients and spices, con-sequently ending up with many dish-es that taste similar. And no one here is telling you to stifle your creativity — sometimes, it’s true, a recipe only gets in the way. Wave your soup flag, sister.
But how about branching out a little, with some directions to help? Our soon-to-be-family newspaper, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel,
recently gathered a collection of favorite soups for its website, and we’ve taken several of those, added some with Southern flair (would you look at how many times sweet potatoes show up in these recipes?), and thrown in a few soups based on some exotic favorite dishes, such as the Turkish eggplant soup.
Some are simple soups that can be ready in 30 minutes; others need a long simmer. There are hearty meat stews, vegetarian soups and some that can be made vegan by substituting vegetable stock for chicken stock. Whatever your pref-erence, you’ll find something new here. Make a pot or two, try new flavors and keep dinner simple and comforting on the cold nights to come.
GUINNESS BEEF STEW WITH PUFF PASTRY TOPPINGMakes 8 servings.
INGREDIENTS
¹/ ³ cup lour 1 ½ teaspoons salt (divided) ½ teaspoon black pepper 2 ½ pounds boneless chuck roast beef, cut into
2-inch cubes 4 tablespoons olive or canola oil (divided) 1 medium onion, peeled and chopped into
¼-inch dice 2 celery ribs, cut into ¼-inch dice 3 garlic cloves, peeled and inely chopped 2 tablespoons packed brown sugar 1 bottle (11.2 ounces) Guinness 1 can (8 ounces) tomato paste 3 ½ cups (28 ounces) beef broth 2 teaspoons dried thyme 1 teaspoon dried rosemary 2 cups washed unpeeled red potatoes (cut
into ½-inch dice) 2 ½ cups peeled carrots (cut into ¼-inch dice) 1 cup thawed frozen peas 2 tablespoons cornstarch, dissolved in ¼
cup water 1 piece (about 8 ounces, 12 by 8 inches)
puf pastry, thawed according to package instructions
— egg wash: 1 tablespoon heavy whipping cream combined with 1 egg
DIRECTIONS
1 in a large zipper-lock bag, combine lour, ½ teaspoon salt and the ½ teaspoon pepper. Place cubed beef in bag and shake to coat. remove loured meat and set aside while preparing Dutch oven. Discard remaining lour. heat 2 tablespoons of oil in a Dutch oven over medium heat. add half the meat and sear. remove and place in a clean bowl. add remaining oil as needed and brown remaining meat. Place meat in bowl with the other half of seared beef.
2 add onion, celery, garlic and brown sugar to pot that was used for beef. cook until onions are translucent, about 4 minutes. Pour beer into pot. add beef, tomato paste, beef broth, thyme, rosemary and remaining teaspoon salt. cover and simmer 45 min-utes, stirring occasionally.
3 add potatoes and cook 15 minutes over medium heat. add carrots and cook until carrots and potatoes are tender, about 15
more minutes. add thawed green peas. over medium heat, drizzle stew with the cornstarch-water mixture. Simmer 5 min-utes until thickened. Serve or proceed with puf pastry topping.
4 to serve with puf pastry top: Preheat oven to 375 degrees. Place inished stew in clean round baking dish or Dutch oven. Stew should come up to about ½ inch of the top of the baking dish. cover with puf pastry and brush with egg wash. Bake 15-20 minutes, or until pastry is pufed and lightly browned.
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
BLACK BEAN SOUPMakes 4 to 6 servings.
INGREDIENTS
½ pound smoked bacon, chopped ine 1 medium white onion, diced small 2 ribs celery, diced small 1 sweet red pepper, diced small 1 jalapeño, diced small (or to taste) 4 cloves garlic, minced 2 tablespoons tomato paste 1 teaspoon freshly grated ginger 1 teaspoon dried oregano 1 teaspoon ground cumin 1 teaspoon ground coriander ½ teaspoon dried thyme ¼-½ teaspoon ground cayenne (or to taste) ½ teaspoon ground allspice
¼ teaspoon ground nutmeg ¼ teaspoon ground cloves 6 cups vegetable or chicken stock 4 15-ounce cans black beans 1 small sweet potato, peeled and diced
small 2 cups frozen corn — Possible garnishes: cheese, cilantro, avo-
cado, sour cream, chopped tomato, torti-llas or chips
DIRECTIONS
1 Put bacon pieces in pot and cook over medium-high heat. when fat begins to render, add onion and celery and cook until soft and translucent. add peppers and gar-lic and cook 2 to 3 minutes until fragrant. add tomato paste and all seasonings and cook an additional 8 to 10 minutes.
2 add stock and soaked beans. Bring to a boil and then reduce to a simmer. cook partially covered 40 minutes, until beans are almost completely soft. if using, add sweet potato and corn. Finish cooking until beans are completely soft, along with sweet potato. Serve warm with garnishes.
tips: omit the bacon and use vegetable stock to keep this vegetarian. using roasted red peppers can replace the smoky taste that is lost.
Source: Milwaukee Journal Sentinel
TURKISH EGGPLANT SOUPServes 2.
INGREDIENTS
½ medium eggplant, american, italian or Japanese variety (6-7 ounces)
— Salt 3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil 1 medium onion, thinly sliced (2/3 cup) 2 large garlic cloves, inely chopped 3 tablespoons inely chopped lat-leaf
parsley 1 teaspoon fresh thyme leaves or 4 tea-
spoon dried 1¾ cups vegetable or chicken stock 1 tablespoon tomato paste 1 teaspoon freshly squeezed lemon juice ¾ teaspoon sugar — Salt and freshly ground black pepper 1 tablespoon julienne fresh mint leaves or
1 teaspoon dried leaves (added with the stock)
2 tablespoons crumbled feat for garnish (optional)
1 tablespoon pine nuts for garnish
DIRECTIONS
1 Peel the eggplant; slice it in half length-wise and crosswise into ¼-inch slices. Put the slices in a large strainer or colander, sprinkle with a teaspoon of salt, toss, and set aside to drain for 20-30 minutes. rinse under cold water and pat dry with paper towels.
2 in a medium-size saucepan, heat half of the oil over medium-low heat. add the onion and saute until wilted and lightly colored, 3-4 minutes, stirring occasionally. Pour in the remaining oil, stir in the garlic, eggplant, tomatoes, parsley and thyme; cover and cook over low heat until the eggplant is easily broken into small pieces with a wooden spoon, about 15 minutes, stirring a couple of times.
3 add the stock, tomato paste, lemon juice and sugar. if you’re using dried mint leaves, add them here. Season to taste with salt and plenty of freshly ground black pep-per and simmer for 10 minutes. taste to adjust the lavors. let soup cool to room temperature, if desired. Stir in fresh mint leaves, ladle into bowls, sprinkle on the feta if using, and the pine nuts, and serve.
Source: “Soup for two,” Joanna Pruess
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A boy dives into the water at the Malecon in Havana. Globe-trotting American tourists are hoping they can hop on a plane to Havana soon. But It still remains illegal for most U.S. citizens to travel to — and spend money in — Cuba.
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Musicians play trombones as a tourist from Colombia takes their picture along the Malecon in Havana, Cuba in July of 2013. President Obama’s announcement Dec. 17 of plans to re-establish diplomatic ties with the Caribbean nation gives hope to airlines, hotel chains and cruise companies.
By Scott MayerowitzAssociated Press
NEW YORK — Don’t rush to book that light to Cuba just yet.
While the U.S. plans to restore diplomatic ties with the Caribbe-an island nation, globe-trotting tourists won’t be able to hop on a plane to Havana anytime soon. It remains illegal for most U.S. citizens to travel to — and spend money in — Cuba. Congress would irst have to lift its half-century old trade embargo.
Still, travel companies are salivating at the chance to set up shop in Cuba. Delta Air Lines, JetBlue Airways, Hilton World-wide, Marriott International and
the Carnival Corp. all expressed interest last month.
With the renewed interest in Cuba, here are some answers to the most popular travel ques-tions.
Q: Can U.S. citizens vacation in Cuba?
A: Probably not. The presi-dent’s December announcement doesn’t open the door to most American travelers.
Q: Who can visit?A: The U.S. Treasury’s Oice
of Foreign Assets Control over-sees travel to Cuba. There are 12 categories of people who are allowed to visit. They include: close relatives of Cubans, aca-demics, those traveling on oi-
cial government business, those on humanitarian or religious missions, journalists and people on accredited cultural education programs.
A: I it into one of those groups. Where can I book a light?
Q: It’s not that simple. The government gives out licenses to tour operators who then help travelers obtain visas and sell spots on trips to Cuba. Many of them are mom-and-pop travel agencies in Florida, catering to Cuban-Americans. Others are large tour companies ofering weeklong educational trips for $3,000 to nearly $8,000 a person. American Airlines, JetBlue and Sun Country ofer charter lights
to the Cuban cities of Havana, Holguin, Santa Clara and Cien-fuegos, but the only way onto those planes is through one of these agencies.
A: Are there other ways for Americans to visit Cuba?
Q: The Cuban government doesn’t prohibit Americans from visiting. So for years, intrepid travelers have broken the U.S. law by entering Cuba via Mexico or Canada and asking oicials not to stamp their passports.
Q: How much do lights cost?A: Air Canada is charging $750
for nonstop lights in February from Toronto to Havana. A non-stop light on Cubana from Can-cun to Havana during the same
period is $410 and a trip to Ha-vana from Panama City on Copa Airlines is $670.
Q: How do U.S. travelers pay for things in Cuba?
A: Banks and credit card com-panies are prohibited from doing business in Cuba. So don’t ex-pect to see ATMs or businesses accepting Visa, MasterCard or American Express. In other words, bring lots of cash.
Q: How many cigars can I bring back home?
A: The U.S. government eased its export restrictions to allow travelers to bring up to $400 in goods out of Cuba. However, only $100 of that can be liquor or tobacco products.
Answers to frequently asked questions about travel to Cuba
By Scott MayerowitzAssociated Press
NEW YORK — Cuba was once a haven for sun-seeking American tour-
ists. Beautiful beaches, lively casinos and late-night danc-ing made it the perfect get-away, only an hour’s light from Miami.
But the Cuban revolution led by Fidel Castro and the subsequent Cold War embar-go of the communist island nation put an end to that.
President Barack Obama’s an-nouncement Dec. 17 of plans to re-establish diplomatic ties with Cuba doesn’t suddenly lift the ban on U.S. tourism. It does, however, give hope to airlines, hotel chains and cruise com-panies — all which have been quietly eyeing a removal of the travel ban — that they soon will be able to bring U.S. tourists to the Caribbean nation.
“Cuba is the largest country in the Caribbean, so there’s some exciting possibilities,” said Roger Frizzell, spokesman for Carnival Corp. He said “some infrastructure for cruis-ing already exists in the country,” although other issues “need to be taken into consideration if this mar-ket opens up.”
A handful of international com-panies already operate in Cuba. For instance, Spanish hotel chain Melia has 26 properties on the island. U.S. companies, like Hilton Worldwide
and Marriott International — the two largest chains by rooms — say they welcome any future opportunities to include Cuba in their rapidly growing global footprint.
“We will take our cues from the U.S. government, but look forward to opening hotels in Cuba, as companies from others countries have done al-ready,” Marriott CEO Arne Sorenson said via an e-mailed statement.
While most Americans are pro-hibited from traveling to Cuba and spending money there, close relatives of Cubans, academics and people on accredited cultural education pro-grams can visit. And there is a tiny, but robust business in transporting people to Cuba.
Most operators are tiny storefront travel agents in the Miami area with names like Alina’s Travel Co. and Gina’s Travel Services. Those agents
then charter planes from carriers like American Airlines to transport the groups.
About 124,000 U.S. citizens lew nonstop to Cuba last year, up from 77,000 in 2012, according to the De-partment of Commerce.
“Once people get a glimpse of Cuba, they always want to see more,” said Katharine Bonner, a senior executive at Connecticut-based tour operator Tauck, which runs tours there under a cultural exchange license. “Ameri-cans are very curious about a country that is 90 miles of our coast but has been of limits for so long.”
It is that isolation, in part, that is so appealing. There’s no McDonalds, no Starbucks. Bonner said once travel opens, there will be a rush to see Cuba before its gets “Americanized.”
“It’s almost like a country that has been frozen in time,” she said.
“There’s going to be a desire to see Cuba before it changes.”
The challenge for the industry will be to ofer trips to Cuba for eager tour-ists without alienating anti-Castro Cuban-Americans who stay in hotels or take cruises elsewhere. Regardless, for now, senior Obama administra-tion oicials say that travel to Cuba for tourist activities will remain pro-hibited.
U.S. airlines have been quietly dip-ping their toes in Cuba’s warm waters for years.
American Airlines dominates many of the routes to Latin America with its hub in Miami. It’s run char-ters to Cuba for more than 15 years, according to spokeswoman Martha Pantin. It now operates 20 weekly lights from Miami to Havana, Hol-guin, Santa Clara and Cienfuegos and from Tampa to Havana and Holguin.
JetBlue Airways started lying Cuba charters in September 2011. It’s a very small part of the airline’s business; just three weekly lights on Airbus A320s with 50 to 80 customers, either to Havana or Santa Clara.
Airlines are granted the right to ly international routes through bi-lateral agreements between U.S. and foreign governments. A similar agreement would need to be reached with Cuba irst. There is one dating back to 1953 — it was last updated on July 30, 1957 — that allows speciic routes from New York, Washington D.C., Houston, New Orleans and the Florida cities of Miami, St. Petersburg, Tampa, Fort Lauderdale and West Palm Beach.
The one immediate change for licensed travelers: they will now be able to return to the U.S. with $400 in Cuban goods, including tobacco and alcohol. Limited amounts of Cuban cigars might be the new hot souvenir.
Cuba
Tourists ride in classic cars along Havana’s Malecon. The tourist industry has been quietly eyeing a removal of the travel ban hoping that they soon will be able to bring U.S. tour-ists to Cuba.
libre?
Hold of booking a light; Cuba’s still of-limits for American tourists, for now
Horoscopes
Cryptoquip
Sudoku
For the kids
Sudoku is a number-
placing puzzle based on a
9x9 grid with several given
numbers. The object is to
place the numbers 1 to 9 in
the empty squares so that
each row, each column and
each 3x3 box contains the
same number only once.
SOLUTIONS: See BELOW for solutions to these puzzles
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By Frank StewartTribune Media Services
Sudoku
Bridge
Horoscope
ACROSS 1 Keys that get
“tickled” 8 Mysteries 15 Longtime
Volkswagen model
20 Port near Naples
21 Allay 22 Brand of
deodorant 23 SkyDome
national anthem 24 Harley-Davidson
product 26 TV’s Sajak 27 Meditation
sounds 29 With 64-Across,
Japan’s place 30 A teacher
prepares it 31 Also called 38 Nero’s 111 39 Political analyst
Myers 40 Devilish look 41 Black-and-white
bird 44 Optical storage
format for burning data
46 Put- — (pranks) 47 Ranch jaunt 49 “Socrate”
composer Erik 52 Black-and-white
bird 54 With 112-Down,
backbeat instruments
56 Billionaire Bill 57 Marking the
start of, as a 133-Across
60 Homer epic 62 Mani offerer 63 Hydroxyl-
containing compound
64 See 29-Across 66 Less jagged 70 Cuts down 72 Film set at Faber
College 76 Life-or-death 77 Shoe part 79 County south
of Niagara 80 — Pet 82 Org. backing
guns 83 Like films,
restaurants and bonds
86 Key of Chopin’s “Raindrop” prelude
89 Less abundant 92 Suspicious 94 Bump hard 95 Choir song 96 #1 Beatles hit
of 1964 98 Unbroken 100 Whaler, e.g. 102 Non-rush-hour,
say 103 Pilot 105 Some Japanese
cartoons 109 Uncle, in Rio 110 Pampering
treatment 114 Carport’s kin 117 Meal crumb 118 Sked guess 119 Dernier — (very
latest fashion) 120 Bed for eggs
Benedict
125 49ers’ home, for short
128 Fast Amtrak train
129 Creator of Tigger and Eeyore
130 Chemical salt in spinach and parsley
131 Epoxy, e.g. 132 How some things
are chiseled 133 An apt one is
spelled out by combining the first two letters of nine Across answers in this puzzle
DOWN 1 14-legged
crustacean 2 Move out of 3 Kansas city 4 Stimpy’s pal 5 Gershwin the
lyricist 6 Granted 7 “Me too” 8 Bolt down 9 Sydney’s state:
Abbr. 10 Patricia T.
O’Conner’s “Woe —”
11 Really go after 12 Showy parrot 13 Corporal on
“F Troop” 14 Sch. term 15 Actress Fonda 16 Bits of work 17 Alternative to
Wheat Thins
18 Compound in pottery glazes
19 Compounds paired with thymines in DNA
25 Nobody — (mine alone)
28 Sizzling bacon sound
32 Munsters’ boy 33 Worship 34 Japanese
mushroom 35 Author Kesey 36 Fed Eliot 37 After, to Gigi 42 Israeli desert
region 43 Got silver,
as hair 45 Was too long,
as a sentence 47 Was given no
choice 48 Suffix with
direct 49 Fish-on-rice
dish 50 Trembly tree 51 Mellows out 53 — fruit
(tangelo kin) 55 Munched 58 Not fitting 59 Less distant 61 “The way I — ...” 65 Frazier fighter 67 Black-clad
mercenary 68 Actor Flynn 69 Update the
arsenal of 71 Hollywood’s
Meryl 73 Dogfight
74 “Mighty Bruins” sch.
75 Frauds 78 Old Yankee
Combs 81 Stepping (up) 84 Analogous 85 Hollywood’s
Stiller 87 Middle
Corleone brother
88 Meat jelly 89 Wear for mob
quellers 90 Promise to
marry 91 Beats into
shape again 93 Part of BYO 97 Lots in life 99 Nothing at all 101 Paleolithic tool 103 Trim up, say 104 Adam and — 106 Gordon of
“Oklahoma!” 107 Typo list 108 One fishing
with a net 111 “— is an
island ...” 112 See 54-Across 113 “Challenge
accepted!” 115 “— Ask of You” 116 Composer
— Carlo Menotti
121 “Bali —” 122 Mel’s Diner
waitress 123 Orbitz listing 124 Born, to Gigi 126 Rural denial 127 Go by jet
ACROSS 1 Where it’s
lonely at, it’s said
7 Semi parts 11 Powder holder 14 It shrinks in
the light 19 Pass on, as
stories 20 Modern juice
ingredient 22 Striped beast 23 Mrs. King
on TV’s ‘‘Scarecrow and Mrs. King’’
24 Imports 25 Host Jay and
family 26 Su____ic 28 Political
capital? 30 Antimalarial
agent 31 Result of a burn 32 Ob____ly 35 ‘‘Game of
Thrones’’ airer 37 Din 40 Italian tourist
destination 41 Sultanate next
to an emirate 42 ‘‘Friday the
13th’’ sequel subtitled ‘‘Jason Lives’’
44 Bad-tempered, in Shakespeare
48 Something banned by international treaty
50 ____t 53 Sign of
summer 54 Fish-and-chips
fish 55 Bygone sports
cars 56 Call for 57 Arrive
casually, informally
59 They may be checked for checks
61 Opposite of ‘‘Brr!’’
63 Grp. with auditors
65 Checkout headache
66 Pack, as a car
70 D-Day locale 71 Lo____y 74 Soave, e.g. 75 Last 77 Masked
‘‘bandit’’ 78 W.W. II domain:
Abbr. 79 They start in
middle school 80 Ransom
specification 81 Soda nuts 83 Manhattan
neighborhood east of N.Y.U.
85 Anne Hathaway’s persona in 2012’s ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises’’
86 Sternward 89 ‘‘I’ve got good
news and bad news’’ speaker
91 Li____nt 94 It’s often
face-down in a jewelry store
97 Ibis relative 98 Messed (up) 99 Spices (up) 100 Part of town 102 Get back (to) 104 Flight-board
abbr. 105 Ca____t 110 One of a Latin
trio 112 It may follow
you or me 113 It may be
smoked in England
114 Wor____er 120 Eggs, e.g. 122 Like oysters as
an appetizer, often
124 ‘‘That’s completely wrong, you idiot!’’
125 Change, as a password
126 1976 hit for Hall & Oates
127 Curved fasteners
128 Some Deco works
129 ‘‘How pathetic’’ 130 Book of
Mormon book
131 Not marry Mr. Right, say
DOWN 1 Ride around
some parking lots
2 Half- 3 H’s 4 Sawbucks 5 Song on a
reunion tour, maybe
6 Virgin offering 7 Group of
like-minded thinkers
8 Boat direction 9 Executive
group 10 Pick up on 11 Relative of a
pound 12 Energy unit 13 It’s on the right
when you’re driving
14 Ends of the world
15 Luau staple 16 Plague, e.g. 17 Apple picker’s
pick? 18 Didn’t just talk 21 Instrument in
Vermeer’s ‘‘The Music Lesson’’
27 Shine, in product names
29 ‘‘Modern Family’’ co-star
33 Preposition between two times
34 .biz alternative
35 Fill-in-the-blanks activity
36 Like some cotton
38 Jefferson Airplane genre
39 Operate 42 Exfoliation tool
43 Let it all out 45 Chafe 46 E____hen 47 Unenthusiastic 49 Birdbrain 51 Yom Kippur
War politician 52 Partial
translation of ‘‘Auld Lang Syne’’
58 Ones who are never out of order?
60 Except 62 Duty 64 ‘‘Scary Movie,’’
e.g. 67 Like many toy
trucks 68 Anonymous 69 Up on things 71 Mailing to a
record exec, once
72 Preppy wear 73 Hot goods
76 Like talking in a theater, e.g.
79 Flap 82 Destination
between LAX and Sea-Tac
84 Some computer aids
86 Modern place to buy games
87 Stew about 88 Sirloin cut 90 Negligent 92 Drop the ball 93 ‘‘So much
for that’’ 95 Hit TV series
set in Las Vegas
96 High-school makeup test, for short?
101 Tapered off 103 Airport shuttle,
maybe
106 Rats and gnats 107 What you
might get by breaking 4-Down
108 0-100, e.g. 109 Classic
example of corporate malfeasance
111 Building block
115 ‘‘Hawaii Five-O’’ crime-fighter, informally
116 Isn’t square, say
117 News anchor Lester
118 I.M.F. part: Abbr.
119 Ask 121 Rebel leader 123 ‘‘I knew it!’’ Difficulty level ★★★★★
Answer to yesterday's puzzleSudoku is a number-placing puzzle based
on a 9x9 grid with sev-eral given numbers. The
object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the
empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box con-tains the same number only once. The difficulty
level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from
Monday to Sunday.
The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 62 minutes.
1-4-15
“You’re always writing col-umns about looking for extra chances as declarer,” Cy the Cynic grumbled to me as we had a sandwich in the club lounge. “Against an expert defender, what you may be giving yourself is a chance to go down.”
“So Ed nailed you again?” I asked.
Ed, my club’s best player, regularly takes Cy’s money in our penny games.
“We had a routine auction to 3NT,” the Cynic said, “and West led a spade against me. I had eight tricks and needed one more before the defenders led spades twice more to set up and cash the long spades. My best chance was in hearts: I could lead low from dummy to my queen. If it lost to the king, I could finesse with the ten next.”
“That gives you about a 75 percent chance,” I observed, “better than attacking the dia-monds and hoping West has the ten plus either the king or queen. If the cards lay well, you would make an overtrick.”
“But to give myself an extra chance, as you put it, to take nine tricks,” Cy said bitterly, “I led a diamond to the ace at the second trick. If nothing interesting happened, I would switch to hearts.”
“Something interesting did happen?” I asked.
“Ed was East, and he fol-lowed with the king of dia-monds! So I came back to my hand and led another diamond — and down I went. Ed took dummy’s nine with the ten and returned a spade. The defend-ers had to get back in to run the spades.”
There wasn’t much I could say to make Cy feel better. He made a reasonable, thoughtful play and ran into a resourceful defense.
Dear Harriette: My 12-year-old daughter has terrible acne. She has medication from her der-matologist and has begun to pay closer attention to cleaning her skin, but her face is almost always broken out in the most painful and unsightly bumps. She is terribly self-conscious about her skin condition, and I am at a loss for how to comfort her. Some of the children at school have made bad jokes, and now my daughter is reluctant to even go to class. How can I help her hold onto her confidence?
— Beyond The Bumps, Detroit
Answer: : Puberty is a di�cult time in most children’s lives because their bodies are chang-ing inside and out. Add acne to the equation, and it’s no wonder that your daughter is having a hard time.
Tell your daughter about puberty and the various things that happen to the body as it matures. While it may
seem impossible for her to understand, continue to remind her that this uncomfortable period will pass. If you remem-ber your experiences of puberty, share them with her. Also encourage her to look around at her classmates. Chances are some of them are begin-ning to have acne and other physical changes in their bodies, too. It may help her to notice that she is not alone.
Most of all, tell her how much you love her and how proud you are of her. Your faith in her is extremely important dur-ing this tender period.
Parent wants to comfort self-conscious daughter
HARRIETTECOLE
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Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You might be head-ing into a conflicting day where you feel pulled in many di�erent directions. Tonight: Go to bed early.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★★ You might want to communicate your bottom line and have a discussion that you have been putting o�. Tonight: Your choice.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ You seem to be en-joying yourself a little too much! Observe a tendency to be somewhat possessive. Tonight: Treat a loved one to dinner.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You might think that you are more in control of a situation than you really are. Tonight: A loved one could be challenging.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ You could decide to back out of a situation or stay mum, rather than cause yourself a problem. Tonight: Reassess your plans.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Bring friends to-gether for a fun happening. A loved one might surprise you with his or her reaction. Tonight: Hopefully you can juggle everything!
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★ No matter which way you turn, you seem to en-counter a problem. Tonight: Choose to be by yourself.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ A hefty amount of messages, calls and emails will need to be sifted through. Tonight: Call it a night.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Use extreme cau-tion with matters pertaining to your finances. Tonight: Favorite haunt, favorite person.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ You could be more de-m a n d i n g than you real-ize. The Full Moon might be taking an emotional toll on you. Tonight: The less said, the better.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★ You could opt for a whole new set of plans. The high energy of yesterday has dissolved. Tonight: Have a leisurely dinner.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★★ YA loved one could be set on spending some time with you now. You will need to juggle dif-ferent demands. Tonight: So many o�ers.
What the stars mean:
★★★★★Dynamic ★★★★Positive ★★★Average ★★
So-so ★Difficult
Today’s birthdayThis year you are able to see both sides of an argument, yet you won’t always know which one is right. If you are single, a relationship could be very intense at the beginning. You will learn how to accept oth-ers rather than criticize them. If you are attached, you might have difficulty being more lov-ing and accepting. CANCER cares about security as much as you do.
The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Fill-in-the-blanks
By Joe Krozel / Edited By Will Shortz
1-4-15
Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz
WHITE HAS A CRUSHERHint: Knock out the rook.
Solution: 1. Kg4! Ra5 2. c5! (the rook is out of the game), etc.
W I V S E O I S H H X D O A S C I J D S H
K I I M O S J I C S Z I K V S J I P Y W B S
U E B Y J P A X I H O D K Z D , D
U E I O O X I ’ O S Y D K K - M I T I K M I K C T I J O P K .
1-4 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: K equals N
By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate
Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
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CONTACT USChris Herrington, 529-6510, herrington @commercialappeal.com, or Mark Richens, 529-2373, [email protected].
SUNDAY BREAK
By Frank StewartTribune Media Services
Sudoku
Bridge
Horoscope
ACROSS 1 Keys that get
“tickled” 8 Mysteries 15 Longtime
Volkswagen model
20 Port near Naples
21 Allay 22 Brand of
deodorant 23 SkyDome
national anthem 24 Harley-Davidson
product 26 TV’s Sajak 27 Meditation
sounds 29 With 64-Across,
Japan’s place 30 A teacher
prepares it 31 Also called 38 Nero’s 111 39 Political analyst
Myers 40 Devilish look 41 Black-and-white
bird 44 Optical storage
format for burning data
46 Put- — (pranks) 47 Ranch jaunt 49 “Socrate”
composer Erik 52 Black-and-white
bird 54 With 112-Down,
backbeat instruments
56 Billionaire Bill 57 Marking the
start of, as a 133-Across
60 Homer epic 62 Mani offerer 63 Hydroxyl-
containing compound
64 See 29-Across 66 Less jagged 70 Cuts down 72 Film set at Faber
College 76 Life-or-death 77 Shoe part 79 County south
of Niagara 80 — Pet 82 Org. backing
guns 83 Like films,
restaurants and bonds
86 Key of Chopin’s “Raindrop” prelude
89 Less abundant 92 Suspicious 94 Bump hard 95 Choir song 96 #1 Beatles hit
of 1964 98 Unbroken 100 Whaler, e.g. 102 Non-rush-hour,
say 103 Pilot 105 Some Japanese
cartoons 109 Uncle, in Rio 110 Pampering
treatment 114 Carport’s kin 117 Meal crumb 118 Sked guess 119 Dernier — (very
latest fashion) 120 Bed for eggs
Benedict
125 49ers’ home, for short
128 Fast Amtrak train
129 Creator of Tigger and Eeyore
130 Chemical salt in spinach and parsley
131 Epoxy, e.g. 132 How some things
are chiseled 133 An apt one is
spelled out by combining the first two letters of nine Across answers in this puzzle
DOWN 1 14-legged
crustacean 2 Move out of 3 Kansas city 4 Stimpy’s pal 5 Gershwin the
lyricist 6 Granted 7 “Me too” 8 Bolt down 9 Sydney’s state:
Abbr. 10 Patricia T.
O’Conner’s “Woe —”
11 Really go after 12 Showy parrot 13 Corporal on
“F Troop” 14 Sch. term 15 Actress Fonda 16 Bits of work 17 Alternative to
Wheat Thins
18 Compound in pottery glazes
19 Compounds paired with thymines in DNA
25 Nobody — (mine alone)
28 Sizzling bacon sound
32 Munsters’ boy 33 Worship 34 Japanese
mushroom 35 Author Kesey 36 Fed Eliot 37 After, to Gigi 42 Israeli desert
region 43 Got silver,
as hair 45 Was too long,
as a sentence 47 Was given no
choice 48 Suffix with
direct 49 Fish-on-rice
dish 50 Trembly tree 51 Mellows out 53 — fruit
(tangelo kin) 55 Munched 58 Not fitting 59 Less distant 61 “The way I — ...” 65 Frazier fighter 67 Black-clad
mercenary 68 Actor Flynn 69 Update the
arsenal of 71 Hollywood’s
Meryl 73 Dogfight
74 “Mighty Bruins” sch.
75 Frauds 78 Old Yankee
Combs 81 Stepping (up) 84 Analogous 85 Hollywood’s
Stiller 87 Middle
Corleone brother
88 Meat jelly 89 Wear for mob
quellers 90 Promise to
marry 91 Beats into
shape again 93 Part of BYO 97 Lots in life 99 Nothing at all 101 Paleolithic tool 103 Trim up, say 104 Adam and — 106 Gordon of
“Oklahoma!” 107 Typo list 108 One fishing
with a net 111 “— is an
island ...” 112 See 54-Across 113 “Challenge
accepted!” 115 “— Ask of You” 116 Composer
— Carlo Menotti
121 “Bali —” 122 Mel’s Diner
waitress 123 Orbitz listing 124 Born, to Gigi 126 Rural denial 127 Go by jet
ACROSS 1 Where it’s
lonely at, it’s said
7 Semi parts 11 Powder holder 14 It shrinks in
the light 19 Pass on, as
stories 20 Modern juice
ingredient 22 Striped beast 23 Mrs. King
on TV’s ‘‘Scarecrow and Mrs. King’’
24 Imports 25 Host Jay and
family 26 Su____ic 28 Political
capital? 30 Antimalarial
agent 31 Result of a burn 32 Ob____ly 35 ‘‘Game of
Thrones’’ airer 37 Din 40 Italian tourist
destination 41 Sultanate next
to an emirate 42 ‘‘Friday the
13th’’ sequel subtitled ‘‘Jason Lives’’
44 Bad-tempered, in Shakespeare
48 Something banned by international treaty
50 ____t 53 Sign of
summer 54 Fish-and-chips
fish 55 Bygone sports
cars 56 Call for 57 Arrive
casually, informally
59 They may be checked for checks
61 Opposite of ‘‘Brr!’’
63 Grp. with auditors
65 Checkout headache
66 Pack, as a car
70 D-Day locale 71 Lo____y 74 Soave, e.g. 75 Last 77 Masked
‘‘bandit’’ 78 W.W. II domain:
Abbr. 79 They start in
middle school 80 Ransom
specification 81 Soda nuts 83 Manhattan
neighborhood east of N.Y.U.
85 Anne Hathaway’s persona in 2012’s ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises’’
86 Sternward 89 ‘‘I’ve got good
news and bad news’’ speaker
91 Li____nt 94 It’s often
face-down in a jewelry store
97 Ibis relative 98 Messed (up) 99 Spices (up) 100 Part of town 102 Get back (to) 104 Flight-board
abbr. 105 Ca____t 110 One of a Latin
trio 112 It may follow
you or me 113 It may be
smoked in England
114 Wor____er 120 Eggs, e.g. 122 Like oysters as
an appetizer, often
124 ‘‘That’s completely wrong, you idiot!’’
125 Change, as a password
126 1976 hit for Hall & Oates
127 Curved fasteners
128 Some Deco works
129 ‘‘How pathetic’’ 130 Book of
Mormon book
131 Not marry Mr. Right, say
DOWN 1 Ride around
some parking lots
2 Half- 3 H’s 4 Sawbucks 5 Song on a
reunion tour, maybe
6 Virgin offering 7 Group of
like-minded thinkers
8 Boat direction 9 Executive
group 10 Pick up on 11 Relative of a
pound 12 Energy unit 13 It’s on the right
when you’re driving
14 Ends of the world
15 Luau staple 16 Plague, e.g. 17 Apple picker’s
pick? 18 Didn’t just talk 21 Instrument in
Vermeer’s ‘‘The Music Lesson’’
27 Shine, in product names
29 ‘‘Modern Family’’ co-star
33 Preposition between two times
34 .biz alternative
35 Fill-in-the-blanks activity
36 Like some cotton
38 Jefferson Airplane genre
39 Operate 42 Exfoliation tool
43 Let it all out 45 Chafe 46 E____hen 47 Unenthusiastic 49 Birdbrain 51 Yom Kippur
War politician 52 Partial
translation of ‘‘Auld Lang Syne’’
58 Ones who are never out of order?
60 Except 62 Duty 64 ‘‘Scary Movie,’’
e.g. 67 Like many toy
trucks 68 Anonymous 69 Up on things 71 Mailing to a
record exec, once
72 Preppy wear 73 Hot goods
76 Like talking in a theater, e.g.
79 Flap 82 Destination
between LAX and Sea-Tac
84 Some computer aids
86 Modern place to buy games
87 Stew about 88 Sirloin cut 90 Negligent 92 Drop the ball 93 ‘‘So much
for that’’ 95 Hit TV series
set in Las Vegas
96 High-school makeup test, for short?
101 Tapered off 103 Airport shuttle,
maybe
106 Rats and gnats 107 What you
might get by breaking 4-Down
108 0-100, e.g. 109 Classic
example of corporate malfeasance
111 Building block
115 ‘‘Hawaii Five-O’’ crime-fighter, informally
116 Isn’t square, say
117 News anchor Lester
118 I.M.F. part: Abbr.
119 Ask 121 Rebel leader 123 ‘‘I knew it!’’ Difficulty level ★★★★★
Answer to yesterday's puzzleSudoku is a number-placing puzzle based
on a 9x9 grid with sev-eral given numbers. The
object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the
empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box con-tains the same number only once. The difficulty
level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from
Monday to Sunday.
The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 62 minutes.
1-4-15
“You’re always writing col-umns about looking for extra chances as declarer,” Cy the Cynic grumbled to me as we had a sandwich in the club lounge. “Against an expert defender, what you may be giving yourself is a chance to go down.”
“So Ed nailed you again?” I asked.
Ed, my club’s best player, regularly takes Cy’s money in our penny games.
“We had a routine auction to 3NT,” the Cynic said, “and West led a spade against me. I had eight tricks and needed one more before the defenders led spades twice more to set up and cash the long spades. My best chance was in hearts: I could lead low from dummy to my queen. If it lost to the king, I could finesse with the ten next.”
“That gives you about a 75 percent chance,” I observed, “better than attacking the dia-monds and hoping West has the ten plus either the king or queen. If the cards lay well, you would make an overtrick.”
“But to give myself an extra chance, as you put it, to take nine tricks,” Cy said bitterly, “I led a diamond to the ace at the second trick. If nothing interesting happened, I would switch to hearts.”
“Something interesting did happen?” I asked.
“Ed was East, and he fol-lowed with the king of dia-monds! So I came back to my hand and led another diamond — and down I went. Ed took dummy’s nine with the ten and returned a spade. The defend-ers had to get back in to run the spades.”
There wasn’t much I could say to make Cy feel better. He made a reasonable, thoughtful play and ran into a resourceful defense.
Dear Harriette: My 12-year-old daughter has terrible acne. She has medication from her der-matologist and has begun to pay closer attention to cleaning her skin, but her face is almost always broken out in the most painful and unsightly bumps. She is terribly self-conscious about her skin condition, and I am at a loss for how to comfort her. Some of the children at school have made bad jokes, and now my daughter is reluctant to even go to class. How can I help her hold onto her confidence?
— Beyond The Bumps, Detroit
Answer: : Puberty is a di�cult time in most children’s lives because their bodies are chang-ing inside and out. Add acne to the equation, and it’s no wonder that your daughter is having a hard time.
Tell your daughter about puberty and the various things that happen to the body as it matures. While it may
seem impossible for her to understand, continue to remind her that this uncomfortable period will pass. If you remem-ber your experiences of puberty, share them with her. Also encourage her to look around at her classmates. Chances are some of them are begin-ning to have acne and other physical changes in their bodies, too. It may help her to notice that she is not alone.
Most of all, tell her how much you love her and how proud you are of her. Your faith in her is extremely important dur-ing this tender period.
Parent wants to comfort self-conscious daughter
HARRIETTECOLE
SENSE & SENSITIVITY
Send questions to [email protected] or c/o Universal Uclick, 1130 Wal-nut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You might be head-ing into a conflicting day where you feel pulled in many di�erent directions. Tonight: Go to bed early.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★★ You might want to communicate your bottom line and have a discussion that you have been putting o�. Tonight: Your choice.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ You seem to be en-joying yourself a little too much! Observe a tendency to be somewhat possessive. Tonight: Treat a loved one to dinner.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You might think that you are more in control of a situation than you really are. Tonight: A loved one could be challenging.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ You could decide to back out of a situation or stay mum, rather than cause yourself a problem. Tonight: Reassess your plans.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Bring friends to-gether for a fun happening. A loved one might surprise you with his or her reaction. Tonight: Hopefully you can juggle everything!
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★ No matter which way you turn, you seem to en-counter a problem. Tonight: Choose to be by yourself.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ A hefty amount of messages, calls and emails will need to be sifted through. Tonight: Call it a night.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Use extreme cau-tion with matters pertaining to your finances. Tonight: Favorite haunt, favorite person.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ You could be more de-m a n d i n g than you real-ize. The Full Moon might be taking an emotional toll on you. Tonight: The less said, the better.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★ You could opt for a whole new set of plans. The high energy of yesterday has dissolved. Tonight: Have a leisurely dinner.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★★ YA loved one could be set on spending some time with you now. You will need to juggle dif-ferent demands. Tonight: So many o�ers.
What the stars mean:
★★★★★Dynamic ★★★★Positive ★★★Average ★★
So-so ★Difficult
Today’s birthdayThis year you are able to see both sides of an argument, yet you won’t always know which one is right. If you are single, a relationship could be very intense at the beginning. You will learn how to accept oth-ers rather than criticize them. If you are attached, you might have difficulty being more lov-ing and accepting. CANCER cares about security as much as you do.
The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Fill-in-the-blanks
By Joe Krozel / Edited By Will Shortz
1-4-15
Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz
WHITE HAS A CRUSHERHint: Knock out the rook.
Solution: 1. Kg4! Ra5 2. c5! (the rook is out of the game), etc.
W I V S E O I S H H X D O A S C I J D S H
K I I M O S J I C S Z I K V S J I P Y W B S
U E B Y J P A X I H O D K Z D , D
U E I O O X I ’ O S Y D K K - M I T I K M I K C T I J O P K .
1-4 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: K equals N
By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate
Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
Premier Crossword | Time For A Fresh Start
CONTACT USChris Herrington, 529-6510, herrington @commercialappeal.com, or Mark Richens, 529-2373, [email protected].
SUNDAY BREAK
By Frank StewartTribune Media Services
Sudoku
Bridge
Horoscope
ACROSS 1 Keys that get
“tickled” 8 Mysteries 15 Longtime
Volkswagen model
20 Port near Naples
21 Allay 22 Brand of
deodorant 23 SkyDome
national anthem 24 Harley-Davidson
product 26 TV’s Sajak 27 Meditation
sounds 29 With 64-Across,
Japan’s place 30 A teacher
prepares it 31 Also called 38 Nero’s 111 39 Political analyst
Myers 40 Devilish look 41 Black-and-white
bird 44 Optical storage
format for burning data
46 Put- — (pranks) 47 Ranch jaunt 49 “Socrate”
composer Erik 52 Black-and-white
bird 54 With 112-Down,
backbeat instruments
56 Billionaire Bill 57 Marking the
start of, as a 133-Across
60 Homer epic 62 Mani offerer 63 Hydroxyl-
containing compound
64 See 29-Across 66 Less jagged 70 Cuts down 72 Film set at Faber
College 76 Life-or-death 77 Shoe part 79 County south
of Niagara 80 — Pet 82 Org. backing
guns 83 Like films,
restaurants and bonds
86 Key of Chopin’s “Raindrop” prelude
89 Less abundant 92 Suspicious 94 Bump hard 95 Choir song 96 #1 Beatles hit
of 1964 98 Unbroken 100 Whaler, e.g. 102 Non-rush-hour,
say 103 Pilot 105 Some Japanese
cartoons 109 Uncle, in Rio 110 Pampering
treatment 114 Carport’s kin 117 Meal crumb 118 Sked guess 119 Dernier — (very
latest fashion) 120 Bed for eggs
Benedict
125 49ers’ home, for short
128 Fast Amtrak train
129 Creator of Tigger and Eeyore
130 Chemical salt in spinach and parsley
131 Epoxy, e.g. 132 How some things
are chiseled 133 An apt one is
spelled out by combining the first two letters of nine Across answers in this puzzle
DOWN 1 14-legged
crustacean 2 Move out of 3 Kansas city 4 Stimpy’s pal 5 Gershwin the
lyricist 6 Granted 7 “Me too” 8 Bolt down 9 Sydney’s state:
Abbr. 10 Patricia T.
O’Conner’s “Woe —”
11 Really go after 12 Showy parrot 13 Corporal on
“F Troop” 14 Sch. term 15 Actress Fonda 16 Bits of work 17 Alternative to
Wheat Thins
18 Compound in pottery glazes
19 Compounds paired with thymines in DNA
25 Nobody — (mine alone)
28 Sizzling bacon sound
32 Munsters’ boy 33 Worship 34 Japanese
mushroom 35 Author Kesey 36 Fed Eliot 37 After, to Gigi 42 Israeli desert
region 43 Got silver,
as hair 45 Was too long,
as a sentence 47 Was given no
choice 48 Suffix with
direct 49 Fish-on-rice
dish 50 Trembly tree 51 Mellows out 53 — fruit
(tangelo kin) 55 Munched 58 Not fitting 59 Less distant 61 “The way I — ...” 65 Frazier fighter 67 Black-clad
mercenary 68 Actor Flynn 69 Update the
arsenal of 71 Hollywood’s
Meryl 73 Dogfight
74 “Mighty Bruins” sch.
75 Frauds 78 Old Yankee
Combs 81 Stepping (up) 84 Analogous 85 Hollywood’s
Stiller 87 Middle
Corleone brother
88 Meat jelly 89 Wear for mob
quellers 90 Promise to
marry 91 Beats into
shape again 93 Part of BYO 97 Lots in life 99 Nothing at all 101 Paleolithic tool 103 Trim up, say 104 Adam and — 106 Gordon of
“Oklahoma!” 107 Typo list 108 One fishing
with a net 111 “— is an
island ...” 112 See 54-Across 113 “Challenge
accepted!” 115 “— Ask of You” 116 Composer
— Carlo Menotti
121 “Bali —” 122 Mel’s Diner
waitress 123 Orbitz listing 124 Born, to Gigi 126 Rural denial 127 Go by jet
ACROSS 1 Where it’s
lonely at, it’s said
7 Semi parts 11 Powder holder 14 It shrinks in
the light 19 Pass on, as
stories 20 Modern juice
ingredient 22 Striped beast 23 Mrs. King
on TV’s ‘‘Scarecrow and Mrs. King’’
24 Imports 25 Host Jay and
family 26 Su____ic 28 Political
capital? 30 Antimalarial
agent 31 Result of a burn 32 Ob____ly 35 ‘‘Game of
Thrones’’ airer 37 Din 40 Italian tourist
destination 41 Sultanate next
to an emirate 42 ‘‘Friday the
13th’’ sequel subtitled ‘‘Jason Lives’’
44 Bad-tempered, in Shakespeare
48 Something banned by international treaty
50 ____t 53 Sign of
summer 54 Fish-and-chips
fish 55 Bygone sports
cars 56 Call for 57 Arrive
casually, informally
59 They may be checked for checks
61 Opposite of ‘‘Brr!’’
63 Grp. with auditors
65 Checkout headache
66 Pack, as a car
70 D-Day locale 71 Lo____y 74 Soave, e.g. 75 Last 77 Masked
‘‘bandit’’ 78 W.W. II domain:
Abbr. 79 They start in
middle school 80 Ransom
specification 81 Soda nuts 83 Manhattan
neighborhood east of N.Y.U.
85 Anne Hathaway’s persona in 2012’s ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises’’
86 Sternward 89 ‘‘I’ve got good
news and bad news’’ speaker
91 Li____nt 94 It’s often
face-down in a jewelry store
97 Ibis relative 98 Messed (up) 99 Spices (up) 100 Part of town 102 Get back (to) 104 Flight-board
abbr. 105 Ca____t 110 One of a Latin
trio 112 It may follow
you or me 113 It may be
smoked in England
114 Wor____er 120 Eggs, e.g. 122 Like oysters as
an appetizer, often
124 ‘‘That’s completely wrong, you idiot!’’
125 Change, as a password
126 1976 hit for Hall & Oates
127 Curved fasteners
128 Some Deco works
129 ‘‘How pathetic’’ 130 Book of
Mormon book
131 Not marry Mr. Right, say
DOWN 1 Ride around
some parking lots
2 Half- 3 H’s 4 Sawbucks 5 Song on a
reunion tour, maybe
6 Virgin offering 7 Group of
like-minded thinkers
8 Boat direction 9 Executive
group 10 Pick up on 11 Relative of a
pound 12 Energy unit 13 It’s on the right
when you’re driving
14 Ends of the world
15 Luau staple 16 Plague, e.g. 17 Apple picker’s
pick? 18 Didn’t just talk 21 Instrument in
Vermeer’s ‘‘The Music Lesson’’
27 Shine, in product names
29 ‘‘Modern Family’’ co-star
33 Preposition between two times
34 .biz alternative
35 Fill-in-the-blanks activity
36 Like some cotton
38 Jefferson Airplane genre
39 Operate 42 Exfoliation tool
43 Let it all out 45 Chafe 46 E____hen 47 Unenthusiastic 49 Birdbrain 51 Yom Kippur
War politician 52 Partial
translation of ‘‘Auld Lang Syne’’
58 Ones who are never out of order?
60 Except 62 Duty 64 ‘‘Scary Movie,’’
e.g. 67 Like many toy
trucks 68 Anonymous 69 Up on things 71 Mailing to a
record exec, once
72 Preppy wear 73 Hot goods
76 Like talking in a theater, e.g.
79 Flap 82 Destination
between LAX and Sea-Tac
84 Some computer aids
86 Modern place to buy games
87 Stew about 88 Sirloin cut 90 Negligent 92 Drop the ball 93 ‘‘So much
for that’’ 95 Hit TV series
set in Las Vegas
96 High-school makeup test, for short?
101 Tapered off 103 Airport shuttle,
maybe
106 Rats and gnats 107 What you
might get by breaking 4-Down
108 0-100, e.g. 109 Classic
example of corporate malfeasance
111 Building block
115 ‘‘Hawaii Five-O’’ crime-fighter, informally
116 Isn’t square, say
117 News anchor Lester
118 I.M.F. part: Abbr.
119 Ask 121 Rebel leader 123 ‘‘I knew it!’’ Difficulty level ★★★★★
Answer to yesterday's puzzleSudoku is a number-placing puzzle based
on a 9x9 grid with sev-eral given numbers. The
object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the
empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box con-tains the same number only once. The difficulty
level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from
Monday to Sunday.
The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 62 minutes.
1-4-15
“You’re always writing col-umns about looking for extra chances as declarer,” Cy the Cynic grumbled to me as we had a sandwich in the club lounge. “Against an expert defender, what you may be giving yourself is a chance to go down.”
“So Ed nailed you again?” I asked.
Ed, my club’s best player, regularly takes Cy’s money in our penny games.
“We had a routine auction to 3NT,” the Cynic said, “and West led a spade against me. I had eight tricks and needed one more before the defenders led spades twice more to set up and cash the long spades. My best chance was in hearts: I could lead low from dummy to my queen. If it lost to the king, I could finesse with the ten next.”
“That gives you about a 75 percent chance,” I observed, “better than attacking the dia-monds and hoping West has the ten plus either the king or queen. If the cards lay well, you would make an overtrick.”
“But to give myself an extra chance, as you put it, to take nine tricks,” Cy said bitterly, “I led a diamond to the ace at the second trick. If nothing interesting happened, I would switch to hearts.”
“Something interesting did happen?” I asked.
“Ed was East, and he fol-lowed with the king of dia-monds! So I came back to my hand and led another diamond — and down I went. Ed took dummy’s nine with the ten and returned a spade. The defend-ers had to get back in to run the spades.”
There wasn’t much I could say to make Cy feel better. He made a reasonable, thoughtful play and ran into a resourceful defense.
Dear Harriette: My 12-year-old daughter has terrible acne. She has medication from her der-matologist and has begun to pay closer attention to cleaning her skin, but her face is almost always broken out in the most painful and unsightly bumps. She is terribly self-conscious about her skin condition, and I am at a loss for how to comfort her. Some of the children at school have made bad jokes, and now my daughter is reluctant to even go to class. How can I help her hold onto her confidence?
— Beyond The Bumps, Detroit
Answer: : Puberty is a di�cult time in most children’s lives because their bodies are chang-ing inside and out. Add acne to the equation, and it’s no wonder that your daughter is having a hard time.
Tell your daughter about puberty and the various things that happen to the body as it matures. While it may
seem impossible for her to understand, continue to remind her that this uncomfortable period will pass. If you remem-ber your experiences of puberty, share them with her. Also encourage her to look around at her classmates. Chances are some of them are begin-ning to have acne and other physical changes in their bodies, too. It may help her to notice that she is not alone.
Most of all, tell her how much you love her and how proud you are of her. Your faith in her is extremely important dur-ing this tender period.
Parent wants to comfort self-conscious daughter
HARRIETTECOLE
SENSE & SENSITIVITY
Send questions to [email protected] or c/o Universal Uclick, 1130 Wal-nut St., Kansas City, MO 64106.
Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You might be head-ing into a conflicting day where you feel pulled in many di�erent directions. Tonight: Go to bed early.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★★ You might want to communicate your bottom line and have a discussion that you have been putting o�. Tonight: Your choice.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ You seem to be en-joying yourself a little too much! Observe a tendency to be somewhat possessive. Tonight: Treat a loved one to dinner.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You might think that you are more in control of a situation than you really are. Tonight: A loved one could be challenging.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ You could decide to back out of a situation or stay mum, rather than cause yourself a problem. Tonight: Reassess your plans.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Bring friends to-gether for a fun happening. A loved one might surprise you with his or her reaction. Tonight: Hopefully you can juggle everything!
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★ No matter which way you turn, you seem to en-counter a problem. Tonight: Choose to be by yourself.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ A hefty amount of messages, calls and emails will need to be sifted through. Tonight: Call it a night.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Use extreme cau-tion with matters pertaining to your finances. Tonight: Favorite haunt, favorite person.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ You could be more de-m a n d i n g than you real-ize. The Full Moon might be taking an emotional toll on you. Tonight: The less said, the better.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★ You could opt for a whole new set of plans. The high energy of yesterday has dissolved. Tonight: Have a leisurely dinner.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★★ YA loved one could be set on spending some time with you now. You will need to juggle dif-ferent demands. Tonight: So many o�ers.
What the stars mean:
★★★★★Dynamic ★★★★Positive ★★★Average ★★
So-so ★Difficult
Today’s birthdayThis year you are able to see both sides of an argument, yet you won’t always know which one is right. If you are single, a relationship could be very intense at the beginning. You will learn how to accept oth-ers rather than criticize them. If you are attached, you might have difficulty being more lov-ing and accepting. CANCER cares about security as much as you do.
The New York Times Sunday Crossword | Fill-in-the-blanks
By Joe Krozel / Edited By Will Shortz
1-4-15
Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz
WHITE HAS A CRUSHERHint: Knock out the rook.
Solution: 1. Kg4! Ra5 2. c5! (the rook is out of the game), etc.
W I V S E O I S H H X D O A S C I J D S H
K I I M O S J I C S Z I K V S J I P Y W B S
U E B Y J P A X I H O D K Z D , D
U E I O O X I ’ O S Y D K K - M I T I K M I K C T I J O P K .
1-4 Today’s Cryptoquip Clue: K equals N
By Jacqueline BigarKing Features Syndicate
Jacqueline Bigar is at www.jacquelinebigar.com.
Premier Crossword | Time For A Fresh Start
CONTACT USChris Herrington, 529-6510, herrington @commercialappeal.com, or Mark Richens, 529-2373, [email protected].
SUNDAY BREAK
By Frank StewartTribune Media Services
Sudoku
Bridge
Horoscope
ACROSS 1 Keys that get
“tickled” 8 Mysteries 15 Longtime
Volkswagen model
20 Port near Naples
21 Allay 22 Brand of
deodorant 23 SkyDome
national anthem 24 Harley-Davidson
product 26 TV’s Sajak 27 Meditation
sounds 29 With 64-Across,
Japan’s place 30 A teacher
prepares it 31 Also called 38 Nero’s 111 39 Political analyst
Myers 40 Devilish look 41 Black-and-white
bird 44 Optical storage
format for burning data
46 Put- — (pranks) 47 Ranch jaunt 49 “Socrate”
composer Erik 52 Black-and-white
bird 54 With 112-Down,
backbeat instruments
56 Billionaire Bill 57 Marking the
start of, as a 133-Across
60 Homer epic 62 Mani offerer 63 Hydroxyl-
containing compound
64 See 29-Across 66 Less jagged 70 Cuts down 72 Film set at Faber
College 76 Life-or-death 77 Shoe part 79 County south
of Niagara 80 — Pet 82 Org. backing
guns 83 Like films,
restaurants and bonds
86 Key of Chopin’s “Raindrop” prelude
89 Less abundant 92 Suspicious 94 Bump hard 95 Choir song 96 #1 Beatles hit
of 1964 98 Unbroken 100 Whaler, e.g. 102 Non-rush-hour,
say 103 Pilot 105 Some Japanese
cartoons 109 Uncle, in Rio 110 Pampering
treatment 114 Carport’s kin 117 Meal crumb 118 Sked guess 119 Dernier — (very
latest fashion) 120 Bed for eggs
Benedict
125 49ers’ home, for short
128 Fast Amtrak train
129 Creator of Tigger and Eeyore
130 Chemical salt in spinach and parsley
131 Epoxy, e.g. 132 How some things
are chiseled 133 An apt one is
spelled out by combining the first two letters of nine Across answers in this puzzle
DOWN 1 14-legged
crustacean 2 Move out of 3 Kansas city 4 Stimpy’s pal 5 Gershwin the
lyricist 6 Granted 7 “Me too” 8 Bolt down 9 Sydney’s state:
Abbr. 10 Patricia T.
O’Conner’s “Woe —”
11 Really go after 12 Showy parrot 13 Corporal on
“F Troop” 14 Sch. term 15 Actress Fonda 16 Bits of work 17 Alternative to
Wheat Thins
18 Compound in pottery glazes
19 Compounds paired with thymines in DNA
25 Nobody — (mine alone)
28 Sizzling bacon sound
32 Munsters’ boy 33 Worship 34 Japanese
mushroom 35 Author Kesey 36 Fed Eliot 37 After, to Gigi 42 Israeli desert
region 43 Got silver,
as hair 45 Was too long,
as a sentence 47 Was given no
choice 48 Suffix with
direct 49 Fish-on-rice
dish 50 Trembly tree 51 Mellows out 53 — fruit
(tangelo kin) 55 Munched 58 Not fitting 59 Less distant 61 “The way I — ...” 65 Frazier fighter 67 Black-clad
mercenary 68 Actor Flynn 69 Update the
arsenal of 71 Hollywood’s
Meryl 73 Dogfight
74 “Mighty Bruins” sch.
75 Frauds 78 Old Yankee
Combs 81 Stepping (up) 84 Analogous 85 Hollywood’s
Stiller 87 Middle
Corleone brother
88 Meat jelly 89 Wear for mob
quellers 90 Promise to
marry 91 Beats into
shape again 93 Part of BYO 97 Lots in life 99 Nothing at all 101 Paleolithic tool 103 Trim up, say 104 Adam and — 106 Gordon of
“Oklahoma!” 107 Typo list 108 One fishing
with a net 111 “— is an
island ...” 112 See 54-Across 113 “Challenge
accepted!” 115 “— Ask of You” 116 Composer
— Carlo Menotti
121 “Bali —” 122 Mel’s Diner
waitress 123 Orbitz listing 124 Born, to Gigi 126 Rural denial 127 Go by jet
ACROSS 1 Where it’s
lonely at, it’s said
7 Semi parts 11 Powder holder 14 It shrinks in
the light 19 Pass on, as
stories 20 Modern juice
ingredient 22 Striped beast 23 Mrs. King
on TV’s ‘‘Scarecrow and Mrs. King’’
24 Imports 25 Host Jay and
family 26 Su____ic 28 Political
capital? 30 Antimalarial
agent 31 Result of a burn 32 Ob____ly 35 ‘‘Game of
Thrones’’ airer 37 Din 40 Italian tourist
destination 41 Sultanate next
to an emirate 42 ‘‘Friday the
13th’’ sequel subtitled ‘‘Jason Lives’’
44 Bad-tempered, in Shakespeare
48 Something banned by international treaty
50 ____t 53 Sign of
summer 54 Fish-and-chips
fish 55 Bygone sports
cars 56 Call for 57 Arrive
casually, informally
59 They may be checked for checks
61 Opposite of ‘‘Brr!’’
63 Grp. with auditors
65 Checkout headache
66 Pack, as a car
70 D-Day locale 71 Lo____y 74 Soave, e.g. 75 Last 77 Masked
‘‘bandit’’ 78 W.W. II domain:
Abbr. 79 They start in
middle school 80 Ransom
specification 81 Soda nuts 83 Manhattan
neighborhood east of N.Y.U.
85 Anne Hathaway’s persona in 2012’s ‘‘The Dark Knight Rises’’
86 Sternward 89 ‘‘I’ve got good
news and bad news’’ speaker
91 Li____nt 94 It’s often
face-down in a jewelry store
97 Ibis relative 98 Messed (up) 99 Spices (up) 100 Part of town 102 Get back (to) 104 Flight-board
abbr. 105 Ca____t 110 One of a Latin
trio 112 It may follow
you or me 113 It may be
smoked in England
114 Wor____er 120 Eggs, e.g. 122 Like oysters as
an appetizer, often
124 ‘‘That’s completely wrong, you idiot!’’
125 Change, as a password
126 1976 hit for Hall & Oates
127 Curved fasteners
128 Some Deco works
129 ‘‘How pathetic’’ 130 Book of
Mormon book
131 Not marry Mr. Right, say
DOWN 1 Ride around
some parking lots
2 Half- 3 H’s 4 Sawbucks 5 Song on a
reunion tour, maybe
6 Virgin offering 7 Group of
like-minded thinkers
8 Boat direction 9 Executive
group 10 Pick up on 11 Relative of a
pound 12 Energy unit 13 It’s on the right
when you’re driving
14 Ends of the world
15 Luau staple 16 Plague, e.g. 17 Apple picker’s
pick? 18 Didn’t just talk 21 Instrument in
Vermeer’s ‘‘The Music Lesson’’
27 Shine, in product names
29 ‘‘Modern Family’’ co-star
33 Preposition between two times
34 .biz alternative
35 Fill-in-the-blanks activity
36 Like some cotton
38 Jefferson Airplane genre
39 Operate 42 Exfoliation tool
43 Let it all out 45 Chafe 46 E____hen 47 Unenthusiastic 49 Birdbrain 51 Yom Kippur
War politician 52 Partial
translation of ‘‘Auld Lang Syne’’
58 Ones who are never out of order?
60 Except 62 Duty 64 ‘‘Scary Movie,’’
e.g. 67 Like many toy
trucks 68 Anonymous 69 Up on things 71 Mailing to a
record exec, once
72 Preppy wear 73 Hot goods
76 Like talking in a theater, e.g.
79 Flap 82 Destination
between LAX and Sea-Tac
84 Some computer aids
86 Modern place to buy games
87 Stew about 88 Sirloin cut 90 Negligent 92 Drop the ball 93 ‘‘So much
for that’’ 95 Hit TV series
set in Las Vegas
96 High-school makeup test, for short?
101 Tapered off 103 Airport shuttle,
maybe
106 Rats and gnats 107 What you
might get by breaking 4-Down
108 0-100, e.g. 109 Classic
example of corporate malfeasance
111 Building block
115 ‘‘Hawaii Five-O’’ crime-fighter, informally
116 Isn’t square, say
117 News anchor Lester
118 I.M.F. part: Abbr.
119 Ask 121 Rebel leader 123 ‘‘I knew it!’’ Difficulty level ★★★★★
Answer to yesterday's puzzleSudoku is a number-placing puzzle based
on a 9x9 grid with sev-eral given numbers. The
object is to place the numbers 1 to 9 in the
empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3 box con-tains the same number only once. The difficulty
level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from
Monday to Sunday.
The average solution time for this King Features crossword is 62 minutes.
1-4-15
“You’re always writing col-umns about looking for extra chances as declarer,” Cy the Cynic grumbled to me as we had a sandwich in the club lounge. “Against an expert defender, what you may be giving yourself is a chance to go down.”
“So Ed nailed you again?” I asked.
Ed, my club’s best player, regularly takes Cy’s money in our penny games.
“We had a routine auction to 3NT,” the Cynic said, “and West led a spade against me. I had eight tricks and needed one more before the defenders led spades twice more to set up and cash the long spades. My best chance was in hearts: I could lead low from dummy to my queen. If it lost to the king, I could finesse with the ten next.”
“That gives you about a 75 percent chance,” I observed, “better than attacking the dia-monds and hoping West has the ten plus either the king or queen. If the cards lay well, you would make an overtrick.”
“But to give myself an extra chance, as you put it, to take nine tricks,” Cy said bitterly, “I led a diamond to the ace at the second trick. If nothing interesting happened, I would switch to hearts.”
“Something interesting did happen?” I asked.
“Ed was East, and he fol-lowed with the king of dia-monds! So I came back to my hand and led another diamond — and down I went. Ed took dummy’s nine with the ten and returned a spade. The defend-ers had to get back in to run the spades.”
There wasn’t much I could say to make Cy feel better. He made a reasonable, thoughtful play and ran into a resourceful defense.
Dear Harriette: My 12-year-old daughter has terrible acne. She has medication from her der-matologist and has begun to pay closer attention to cleaning her skin, but her face is almost always broken out in the most painful and unsightly bumps. She is terribly self-conscious about her skin condition, and I am at a loss for how to comfort her. Some of the children at school have made bad jokes, and now my daughter is reluctant to even go to class. How can I help her hold onto her confidence?
— Beyond The Bumps, Detroit
Answer: : Puberty is a di�cult time in most children’s lives because their bodies are chang-ing inside and out. Add acne to the equation, and it’s no wonder that your daughter is having a hard time.
Tell your daughter about puberty and the various things that happen to the body as it matures. While it may
seem impossible for her to understand, continue to remind her that this uncomfortable period will pass. If you remem-ber your experiences of puberty, share them with her. Also encourage her to look around at her classmates. Chances are some of them are begin-ning to have acne and other physical changes in their bodies, too. It may help her to notice that she is not alone.
Most of all, tell her how much you love her and how proud you are of her. Your faith in her is extremely important dur-ing this tender period.
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Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ You might be head-ing into a conflicting day where you feel pulled in many di�erent directions. Tonight: Go to bed early.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★★ You might want to communicate your bottom line and have a discussion that you have been putting o�. Tonight: Your choice.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ You seem to be en-joying yourself a little too much! Observe a tendency to be somewhat possessive. Tonight: Treat a loved one to dinner.
Cancer (June 21-July 22) ★★★★ You might think that you are more in control of a situation than you really are. Tonight: A loved one could be challenging.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22) ★★★★ You could decide to back out of a situation or stay mum, rather than cause yourself a problem. Tonight: Reassess your plans.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) ★★★★ Bring friends to-gether for a fun happening. A loved one might surprise you with his or her reaction. Tonight: Hopefully you can juggle everything!
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) ★★★ No matter which way you turn, you seem to en-counter a problem. Tonight: Choose to be by yourself.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21) ★★★★ A hefty amount of messages, calls and emails will need to be sifted through. Tonight: Call it a night.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★ Use extreme cau-tion with matters pertaining to your finances. Tonight: Favorite haunt, favorite person.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) ★★★★ You could be more de-m a n d i n g than you real-ize. The Full Moon might be taking an emotional toll on you. Tonight: The less said, the better.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) ★★★ You could opt for a whole new set of plans. The high energy of yesterday has dissolved. Tonight: Have a leisurely dinner.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★★ YA loved one could be set on spending some time with you now. You will need to juggle dif-ferent demands. Tonight: So many o�ers.
What the stars mean:
★★★★★Dynamic ★★★★Positive ★★★Average ★★
So-so ★Difficult
Today’s birthdayThis year you are able to see both sides of an argument, yet you won’t always know which one is right. If you are single, a relationship could be very intense at the beginning. You will learn how to accept oth-ers rather than criticize them. If you are attached, you might have difficulty being more lov-ing and accepting. CANCER cares about security as much as you do.
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By Joe Krozel / Edited By Will Shortz
1-4-15
Today’s Cryptoquip Chess Quiz
WHITE HAS A CRUSHERHint: Knock out the rook.
Solution: 1. Kg4! Ra5 2. c5! (the rook is out of the game), etc.
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ARIES (March 21-April 19) HHHH Someone close to you will push hard to achieve what he or she wants. Others will re-act, and what started out as a normal request could explode into quite a ight. Try to prevent this from happening.
TAURUS (April 20-May 20) HHHHH Your imagina-tion seems to be going haywire. A brainstorming session could help take you in a new direction. Don’t allow someone to push you away because of a seem-ingly unresolvable problem.
GEMINI (May 21-June 20) HHHH Make calls in the morn-ing, when others appear to be more responsive. Someone’s temper might encourage you to retreat. Words spoken cannot be taken back. The less upset you create, the less you’ll have to resolve.
CANCER (June 21-July 22) HHHH You’ll want to focus on completing an important proj-ect. You could decide to deal with someone’s anger, or you might opt to walk away. Timing will be everything.
LEO (July 23-Aug. 22) HHHH You could be taken aback by everything that is go-ing on. How you handle a vola-tile friend will deine how you feel. Investigate options more openly with an eye to positive change. Someone might be a little too serious for your taste.
VIRGO (Aug. 23-Sept. 22) HHHH You might feel of in the morning, but later in the day you’ll feel like the lead player. Investigate opportunities that appeal to you. If a family mem-ber appears to be closed-of, give him or her some space.
LIBRA (Sept. 23-Oct. 22) HHH Pressure builds, and some of you could be easily antago-nized by a child or loved one. You might need to take a walk and commit to saying nothing for now. Focus on the big pic-ture and on the bonds that tie you together.
SCORPIO (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)
HHHH Defer to others, rather than ind yourself in the midst of a public squabble. If you can keep your eye on the big picture, you will land perfectly. Remain centered. You could feel uptight about a key issue that seems to be undermining your dealings.
SAGITTARIUS (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) HHHHH Reach out to someone whom you care about but might be irritated with. Un-derstand what is happening; you might want to pull back rather than trigger a reaction. Emotions could run high, though you aren’t likely to show them.
CAPRICORN (Dec. 22-Jan. 19) HHHH Deal with someone directly, and know that this person will be quite touched by your time and attention. Make a point of connecting with a friend who cares a lot about you. If you feel depressed or unhappy, share your feelings.
AQUARIUS (Jan. 20-Feb. 18) HHHH Others will demon-strate their caring, but not in the way you might expect. You could be too irritated to be gracious. Try your best to be appreciative, because you will not be able to mend a broken bridge quickly.
PISCES (Feb. 19-March 20) HHHHH You’ll be more on edge than you realize. Part of the problem could be that you seem to be holding on to your uglier feelings more than you have in the past. As a result, you’ll be more prone to getting the lu and other such ailments.
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Dear Miss Manners: Shrugs have always been poor manners, or at least that is what I was taught. When asked a question, you should give a proper verbal answer.
My stepson has now started to shrug in re-sponse to things, and then actually to say “Shrug” as his verbal response.
If you verbally say “Shrug” as an indication of your disinterest/not caring about a question, is that considered a proper verbal response?
Gentle Reader: The rudeness is not the fact of the shrug being nonver-bal — presumably you do not have a court reporter handy who needs oral re-sponses — but rather that it shows disrespect. This is true however the shrug is conveyed.
As parents, you or your husband should talk to your stepson and tell him that this is not acceptable behavior.
Dear Miss Manners: I had a ight with my girlfriend and we haven’t spoken since the week before Thanksgiving. She left a Christmas gift at my house today. I do not want to continue our relationship. What should I do with the gift?
Gentle Reader: Return it, with a polite note of thanks and the explanation that under the circumstances, you do not feel you can take advantage of her generosity. Not returning it might signal a possible willingness to return
Dear Miss Manners: I am a director at a church weekday program. After a meeting, it was brought to my attention by another teacher that texting was being done throughout. I am not sure what my ap-
proach to confronting the employees should be. I am upset that they did not feel it was important enough to give me their undivided at-tention.
Please advise on this matter. Our policy states that because we are a li-censed day care facility, we will not use our phones at work.
Gentle Reader: Remind-ing people of your policy at the beginning of a train-ing session is not out of place. But Miss Manners feels that your particular circumstances make the task easier than usual. Pass around an empty soup pot, and ask the trainees to de-posit their phones into it. In addition to enforcing the policy, you will be reminding your students that it is not diicult to imagine what might go wrong when bringing children, open flames and electronics into close proximity.
MISS MANNERS
Shrug instead of answer a sign of disrespect
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ACROSS 1 Sweet
liqueur 6 Cooking
mint 10 Take it easy 11 Emulates a
raptor 13 “West Side
Story” role 14 Duo
quadrupled 15 Wager 16 Dove call 18 Greek vowel 19 Fragrant
forage crop 22 Sewer
rodent 23 Bird abode 24 Regions
27 Dollar divisions
28 Workout makeup
29 Chicken — king
30 Expert at cajoling
35 Make mistakes
36 Guitar blaster
37 Broad st. 38 Colorings 40 Louvre
setting 42 Unadorned 43 Put in office 44 Yale
students 45 Cars’ scars
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crawlers 2 Make fresh 3 Select
group 4 Small rug 5 Track bets 6 Thread
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12 Begins 17 Halloween
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24 Desirable qualities
25 Editor’s request
26 Ever- lasting
27 Applauded 29 Money
machine 31 Chores 32 Singer
Carpenter 33 Kick out 34 Takes it
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Sudoku
Dear Annie: I lost my grandmother to suicide when I was 7. The day before Grandma died, she made comments to me about going away where I could not go with her and “going to be with her mother,” who had died. I did not understand what she was saying.
Several weeks after the funeral, I told my mother what my grandmother said to me. For years after, it felt as though my mother blamed me for her mother’s death.
Two years ago, I over-heard my mother tell a friend on the phone that she did, in fact, blame me for my grandmother’s death. I cannot tell you how much this hurt me. I am now in my 30s, and my mother and I have had other issues in the past, but never as hurtful as this. Since my grand-mother’s death, I have been in counseling for de-pression, my own suicide attempts and the unbear-able guilt that I feel.
The therapists have told me that Grandma’s death was not my fault, but how can I believe them when my own mother blames me? How do I explain to her that I was only 7 and didn’t un-derstand what Grandma was telling me?
— Abandoned
Dear Abandoned: You know your grandmother’s death was not your fault. You understand that at the age of 7, you could not possibly be held respon-sible for her suicide. Your mother wants to blame you because it is less pain-ful than blaming herself for not noticing how un-happy her mother was.
But frankly, there is no reason to blame anyone. The depression you su�er from (and that Grandma su�ered from) is likely a form of inherited mental illness. Please discuss this with your counselor, and ask about having your mother come with you.
Dear Annie: I am moved to respond to “Unhappy Mother of a Son.” I have been living that life. After getting professional help, I finally came to realize the fault is not mine. My daughter-in-law quite simply does not, for what-ever reason, want to share my son’s life with me.
If there are grandchil-dren, I would suggest “Unhappy” cultivate a relationship with them in whatever way possible. They have the right to make their own judg-ments. The hurt never goes away, but life is more than being a mother.
— Sad but Wiser
Answer to Saturday’s puzzle
by Thomas Joseph
Crossword
1/5/15
Answer to yesterday’s puzzle
Chess Quiz
Sudoku is a number-placing puzzle based on a 9x9 grid
with several given numbers. The object is to place the
numbers 1 to 9 in the empty squares so that each row, each column and each 3x3
box contains the same num-ber only once. The difficulty
level of the Conceptis Sudoku increases from Monday to
Sunday.
BLACK’S WORST KING MOVE?Hint: It allows a double threat.
Solution: 1. ... Kh6? is met by 2. Rf8! (threatens both 3. Rh8 mate and
3. b8=Q) Now, if ... Rxb8, simply 4 Rxb8.
Please email your questions to [email protected], or write to: Annie’s Mailbox, c/o Creators Syndicate, 737 3rd Street, Hermosa Beach, CA 90254.
Jumble Daily Bridge Club
Unlucky Louie straggled into the club lounge and told me he’d had a calamity.
“What now?” I asked wearily. In a penny game, Louie had been
declarer at six spades. “Looks like a reasonable contract to
me,” I observed. “West led the jack of clubs,” Louie
said, “and East covered dummy’s queen. If I drew trumps and led a diamond, I’d lose a diamond and a club. My only chance was to discard dummy’s club loser on my hearts and ru� my last club in dummy. So I had to give East four hearts and three trumps.”
SINGLETON Louie took the K-A of trumps and led
the five of hearts from dummy to his nine. (He could have played West for a singleton honor, but a low singleton was more likely.) When the nine won, Louie took three more hearts to pitch dummy’s last club and ru�ed his last club. Making six!
“Well done,” I said. “This is your idea of a calamity?”
“With all the good luck I needed to make that slam,” Louie mourned, “I’ll have only bad luck for the next five years.”
Questions and comments: Email Stewart at [email protected]
Aries (March 21-April 19) ★★★★ Your instincts are likely to lead you down a new path, where you’ll have greater impact and respect. Solutions seem to come to you easily. Tonight: All smiles.
Taurus (April 20-May 20) ★★★★★ Know that you are on the path to victory and happiness. You might question what previously had been nixed as a bad idea. Tonight: Initiate a conversation.
Gemini (May 21-June 20) ★★★ Take stock of your financial issues and goals. You might decide to approach your budget in a much more disciplined yet cre-ative way. Tonight: Make it your treat.
Cancer (June 21-July 22)★★★★ Understand more of what will be necessary to achieve a certain goal. You could be in a situation where you would pre-fer to approach a personal matter di�erently. Tonight: In the here and now.
Leo (July 23-Aug. 22)★★★ Many of your experiences and thoughts will play into your actions. You of-ten think too much about certain decisions. Tonight: Go along with a suggestion.
Virgo (Aug. 23-Sept. 22)★★★★ Defer to someone else, as a fam-ily situation might be preoccupying your thoughts and ideas at the moment. Consider working from home, where you would feel more content. Tonight: Gather with friends.
Libra (Sept. 23-Oct. 22)★★★★ You might want to consider your op-tions more carefully. Discussions will create diverse and exciting ideas. A neighbor could be somewhat touchy, so choose your words with care. Tonight: Hang out with a friend.
Scorpio (Oct. 23-Nov. 21)★★★★ You will be pressured to perform at the highest level possible. A financial mat-ter could be overwhelming. Tonight: Buy a token of a�ection for a loved one.
Sagittarius (Nov. 22-Dec. 21) ★★★★★ You might not have the whole story — just bits and pieces. Once you get through the issue at hand, you will witness a change of pace. Tonight: Swap ideas.
Capricorn (Dec. 22-Jan. 19)★★★★ Listen to news with an open mind. You have a lot going on, and you might feel overwhelmed by what is happening. To-night: Accept an invitation.
Aquarius (Jan. 20-Feb. 18)★★★★ You have a lot to do, and you will ac-complish it, as long as you don’t get involved in a situation where an older friend or boss could hold you back. Transform your ideas into actions. Tonight: O� to the gym.
Pisces (Feb. 19-March 20) ★★★★★ Your imagination might encourage you to sing a di�erent tune. You are likely to come up with several solutions after a brainstorming session. Tonight: Let the party begin.
Horoscope
This year you open up to new pos-sibilities and different ideas. You often keep your opinions to yourself. Your sense of humor might not strike many people as amusing. If you are single, you meet people easily, but you’ll be disappointed, as they are likely to be emotionally unavailable. Your love life becomes intense come fall. If you are attached, the two of you frequently can be found out on the town having fun together. As a couple, you should incorporate more clarity and start changing how you relate, preferring simplicity and clarity. CANCER is emotional about the same issues you are.
What the stars Mean
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By Jacqueline Bigar King Features Syndicate
In 1925, Democrat Nellie Tayloe Ross of Wyoming took office as America’s first female governor, succeeding her late husband, William, following a special election.In 1781, a British naval expedition led by Benedict Arnold burned Richmond, Virginia.In 1905, the National Association of Audubon Societies for the Protection of Wild Birds and Animals was incorporated in New York State.In 1914, auto industrialist Henry Ford announced he was going to pay workers $5 for an 8-hour day, as opposed to $2.34 for a 9-hour day. (Employees still worked six days a week; the 5-day work week was instituted in 1926.)In 1949, in his State of the Union address, President Harry S. Truman labeled his administration the Fair Deal.In 1957, President Dwight D. Eisenhower proposed assistance to countries to help them resist Communist
aggression in what became known as the Eisenhower Doctrine.
IIn 1970, Joseph A. Yablonski, an unsuccessful candidate for the presidency of the United Mine Workers of America, was found murdered with his wife and daughter at their Clarksville, Pennsylvania, home. (UMWA President Tony Boyle and seven others were convicted of, or pleaded guilty to, the killings.) “All My Children” premiered on ABC-TV.
In 1975, “The Wiz,” a musical version of L. Frank Baum’s “The Wonderful Wizard of Oz” featuring an all-black cast, opened on Broadway.
In 1983, President Ronald Reagan announced he was nominating Elizabeth Dole to succeed Drew Lewis as secretary of transportation; Dole became the first woman to head a Cabinet department in Reagan’s administration, and the first to head the DOT.
TODAY IN HISTORYToday is Monday, Jan. 5, the fifth day of 2015. There are 360 days left in the year.
MY ANSWER
God wants us to keep our bodies healthy
Q: My doctor keeps getting after me be-cause of my weight, but I’ve told him that my parents always enjoyed eating and it didn’t seem to hurt them any. And any-way, isn’t good food a gift from God? Why shouldn’t we enjoy it?
— Mrs. K.L.
A: I’m not a medical expert, of course, but I strongly suspect your doctor is con-cerned about your weight because he knows you’re in danger of damaging your health, and even shortening your life.
And I want to assure you that God is also concerned about this. He loves you and wants what’s best for you — and that in-cludes your health. We can’t control every-thing about our health, but we can control some things, and diet is one of them. This is one reason why the Bible commands us to avoid gluttony and overeating.
One of the false accusations made against Jesus by his enemies was that he
was “a glutton and a drunkard” (Luke 7:34).
You’re right when you say good food is a gift from God, and that he wants us to enjoy it. Think how dull our lives would be without it! God didn’t have to make food enjoyable, but he did, and it should be con-stant a reminder of his goodness to us.
But this must never be used as an excuse for abusing our bodies or neglecting our health (as I’m afraid you may be doing). Instead, God wants us to take care of our bodies and use them for his glory. The Bi-ble says, “You are not your own; you were bought at a price. Therefore honor God with your body” (1 Corinthians 6:19-20).
Listen to your doctor and follow his ad-vice for healthy living. Then ask God to help you become “self-controlled, upright, holy and disciplined” (Titus 1:8).
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Send your queries to “My Answer,” c/o Billy Graham, Billy Graham Evangelistic Association, 1 Billy Graham Parkway, Charlotte, N.C., 28201; call 1-(877) 2-GRAHAM, or visit billygraham.org.
By Frank Stewart Tribune Media Services
TODAY’S CRYPTOQUIP: BECAUSE ALL HIS MATERIAL NEEDS ARE TAKEN CARE OF BY
A GUY FROM HELSINKI, I GUESS HE’S A FINN-DEPENDENT PERSON.
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Community
Special to The Weekly
Once solely a volunteer organization, the Collier-ville Fire Department has expanded steadily over the years, keeping pace with the growing town.
Battalion Chief Daniel McPeake has been a mem-ber of the ire department for 40 years and has wit-nessed the changes to the department.
In 1970, McPeake was a student at Collierville High School when he joined the Collierville Fire Department as a paid-on-call firefighter. At the time, the ire department was, almost completely, run by volunteer — with the exception of two full-time members. The lack of
available paid-on-call ire-ighters during business hours made recruitment
of high school students a necessity to supplement staing requirements.
After graduating from Collierville High School, McPeake went on to suc-cessfully complete his training as a ireighter from the Tennessee State Fire Academy. Upon grad-uation from the academy, the Collierville Fire De-partment hired him full-time in 1975.
He continued his ire-service education by com-pleting the Emergency Medical Technician Pro-gram while enrolled at Shelby State Community College and holds a license as an Advanced Emergen-
cy Medical Technician with the Tennessee De-partment of Health. Dur-ing his 40-year career, he has risen from the rank of ire private to his current role as battalion chief.
As a battalion chief, McPeake is responsible for managing the day-to-day operations of ive irehouses and supervis-ing ire lieutenants at ire-ground operations. His 24-hour shift includes co-ordinating ire, emergency medical, hazardous mate-rial and technical rescue responses while oversee-
ing his staf.“As a battalion chief in
the operation division, McPeake brings with him an innovative style of work attributes with a di-verse ield of training and knowledge and an experi-enced dimension in leader-ship skills for the depart-ment,” said ire chief Jerry Crawford.
McPeake and his wife, Sherry, have been mar-ried for 39 years. They have two daughters, two grandchildren and one on the way. They reside in Rossville.
COLLIERVILLE
Daniel McPeake celebrates 40 years with fire dept.
LEFT: Daniel McPeake began working with the Collierville Police Department when he was a student at Collierville High School. RIGHT: McPeake has been with the department for 40 years.
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In the News
Weekend Pet Adoptions
■ Adopt a new best friend from the Mid-South Greyhound Adoption Option on Saturday at the Cordova PetCo, 1250 N. Germantown Pkwy., from noon to 2 p.m. Cost to adopt is $275.
■ Legg Up Cat Rescue Association will be at the Collierville Hollywood Feed, 3615 Houston Levee, 3-6 p.m. Fri-day, noon to 5 p.m. Saturday, and 2-5 p.m. and Sunday.
■ Baileys Arms Rescue will be at the Cordova Hollywood Feed, 1001 N. Ger-mantown Pkwy., from 2-4 p.m. Saturday.
■ Southern Friends Animal Shelters will be at the Olive Branch Hollywood Feed, 5070 Goodman Road, on Saturday, from 11 a.m. to 3 p.m.
E-mail information about pet adoption events to
Matt Woo at [email protected].
Name: Fiona Age: 1 year
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The Germantown Animal Shelter, 7700 Southern, is open 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Monday-Friday and 9:30 a.m. to 2 p.m. Saturday. The Humane Society, 935 Farm Road, is open 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Tuesday-Friday, 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. Saturday and 1-5 p.m. Sunday.
Humane Society photos by Phillip Van Zandt
By Tom HumphreySpecial to the News Sentinel
NASHVILLE — Tennes-see high school students would be required to pass the same civics test to get their high school degrees that immigrants must pass to become U.S. citizens un-der legislation sponsored for the upcoming session of the General Assembly by legislative leaders.
House Majority Leader Gerald McCormick says he decided to push the mea-sure after reading reports on the “pathetic” lack of knowledge about basic principles behind Ameri-can government and citi-zenship, especially among younger people.
Senate Majority Leader Mark Norris will sponsor the legislation in the Sen-ate, according to a spokes-woman.
“We want there to be some basic understand-ing of how government works,” McCormick said. “That’s what our democ-racy depends on.”
While aware there is controversy over the number of tests already required of students, the Chattanooga Republican said the new requirement is warranted and being considered in other states.
Civics Education Initia-tive, a group formed in 2013 with former U.S. Supreme Court Justice Sandra Day O’Connor as a key sup-porter, launched in Sep-tember an efort to have all 50 states require a civ-ics knowledge test by 2017. The organization’s website indicates at least seven states will be considering similar legislation.
According to the Civ-ics Education Initiative website on how the idea developed:
“Civics is being boxed out of the classroom today by an all-consuming focus on science, technology, English, and math (STEM).
Teachers and administra-tors are being given incen-tive to teach content that will be tested — tests that are being used in many cases to determine fund-ing and a host of outcomes for schools, students and teachers.
“While no one argued STEM isn’t important, the downside is that civ-ics and lessons on the Bill of Rights, Constitution and how our government works are being left by the wayside. Students are not learning how to run our country, how govern-ment is meant to operate as outlined in the Consti-tution and Bill of Rights, and more importantly, the history behind how our country came to be — the philosophy behind Amer-ica’s values.”
Also in September, the Annenberg Public Policy Center of the University of Pennsylvania released a national survey that found only 36 percent of Americans could name all three branches of the U.S. government and 35 per-cent could not name one branch. Only 27 percent knew it takes a two-thirds vote of the U.S. House and Senate to override a presi-dential veto and almost as many — 21 percent — thought a 5-4 U.S. Supreme Court decision is sent back to Congress for reconsid-eration, according to an Annenberg news release.
The bill iled by McCor-mick (HB10) declares that, starting Jan. 1, 2016, “a stu-dent shall pass a civics test composed of the one hun-dred (100) questions that are set forth within the civics test administered by the United States Citi-zenship and Immigration Services to persons seek-ing to become naturalized citizens.”
To pass, correct an-swers would be required on at least 60 percent of questions, just as required
for the naturalization test, which is reported as having a 97 percent passage rate.
The bill requires the State Department of Edu-cation to develop the test and distribute it to all local school boards.
“A public high school shall provide each stu-dent with the opportunity to take the test as many times as necessary for the student to pass the test. A student shall not receive a regular high school diplo-ma until the student passes the test,” says the bill.
Norris has promoted civ-ics education as a legislator and as current president of the Council of State Gov-ernments. In 2012, he and state Rep. Kevin Brooks, R-Cleveland, successfully sponsored a law that re-quires schools to assess students’ civics knowledge at some point in grades 4-8 and again at some point in grades 9-12 after involve-ment in a student project related to “understanding and relevance of public policy, the structure of fed-eral, state and local govern-ments and both the United States and Tennessee con-stitutions,” according to the legislature’s website.
The current naturaliza-tion test is administered orally, and a list of correct answers to 100 potential questions — 10 typically posed with six correct an-swers required — is made available to applicants and is posted online.
TENNESSEE LEGISLATURE
Bill would require high school seniors to pass civics test to graduate
Central High teacher Michael
McDaniel teaches the Medal of
Honor Conven-tion’s character
development pro-gram. A bill spon-
sored by state Rep. Gerald McCormick,
R-Chattanooga, would require
students to pass a test covering U.S. history and civics to graduate high
school.
MICHAEL PATRICK
NEWS SENTINEL
SAMPLE CIVICS TEST QUESTIONS1. Who was president during the Great Depression and World War II?
■ Franklin Roosevelt ■ Harry Truman ■ Calvin Coolidge ■ Richard Nixon
2. How many justices are on the Supreme Court?
■ 9 ■ 13 ■ 2 ■ 5
3. Which of these states does not border Mexico?
■ Oklahoma ■ Texas ■ Arizona ■ California ■ New Mexico
(Answers: 1. Franklin Roosevelt 2. 9 3.
Oklahoma)
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Samuel WaufordCovington High SchoolGeneral Scholarship
Samuel, a senior, enjoys being challenged academically. He holds a 4.0 unweighted grade point averageand scored 30 on the ACT. He has received the President’s Award the past two years and always takes the mostdifficult classes offered. He was selected for the Tipton County TOTAL Youth Leadership Program. Samuelis a highly involved member of FFA (Future Farmers of America). This year he has been on the Dairy Foodsteam that placed first in the region and second in the state (out of 196 schools). He also participated on theLand Evaluation Team that won the regional championship and placed second in the state. He was the statehigh individual with a score of 355 out of 400.
Through his involvement in FFA, Samuel has empowered more students to participate. He also hasshown a willingness to be a leader when needed, setting a positive example of how hard work and persistencecan pay off. He is a four-year member of the Fellowship of Christian Athletes, a two-year member of the crosscountry team and a member of the soccer team.
Ameshia ForrestRidgeway High SchoolGeneral Scholarship
Ameshia, a senior, is an outstanding student who has a strong work ethic. She holds a 4.7 weighted gradepoint average and is a candidate for the International Baccalaureate Diploma. She currently ranks third in aclass of 279 seniors. She won the William H. Sweet Award for Academic Excellence and qualified as a ScienceOlympiad Regional Finalist. She was a Memphis Police Department Black History Knowledge Bowl Finalistand a Debate City Championship semifinalist. She won first place in 2013 in the Poetry Out Loud Competition.
In addition, Ameshia was recently selected as a Ridgeway High School True Roadrunner for displayingadmirable character traits. She is a member of the National Honor Society, Beta Club, Chick-Fil-A LeaderAcademy, Memphis Prep Program, Best Buddies Club and Young Women of Excellence Club. She also hasperformed in plays at school and Theatre Memphis and serves as a mentor to elementary students in theater.
In the community, Ameshia has dedicated her time to support the family of a St. Jude patient. She servesas a friend and mentor to the patient and helps organize her schedule for appointments.
Georgette RedmondImmaculate Conception Cathedral SchoolGeneral Scholarship
Georgette, a senior, is a top student and leader. She holds a 4.42 weighted grade point average whiletaking almost every Honors and AP class the school offers. A consistent member of the Honor Roll, shewas elected vice president of the National Honor Society this year as well as president of Mu Alpha Theta,the math honor society. She has been on the board of Bridge Builders the past two years and was electedvice president of the Leadership Board this year. She was appointed Best Delegate in the People to PeopleAmbassador Program and was selected as one of 24 Memphians to be a part of the UT Summer ScienceInstitute. She also is in the National Society of High School Scholars.
Active throughout the campus, Georgette was selected as a Student Ambassador. She is a member of thebasketball team and served as captain last year. She is the Student Government Association Commissioner ofPublicity and a Community Building Group Leader. She volunteers at Cummings Street Missionary BaptistChurch, Dorothy Day House, Mid-South Food Bank and St. Vincent DePaul Food Mission.
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Ericka JamesCenter Hill High SchoolGeneral Scholarship
Ericka, a senior, is a well-rounded student who seamlessly balances rigorous academics with extracurricular activities andcommunity responsibilities. She holds a 4.46 weighted grade point average, scored 29 on the ACT and has been named a NationalAchievement Scholarship Semifinalist. She currently ranks fifth in a class of 200 seniors while taking the most challengingAdvanced Placement curriculum available at Center Hill. She also has been selected for the Millsaps College LeadershipConference, PSAT Leadership Team, Chick-Fil-A Leadership Council and the NorthCentral Youth Leadership Conference.
Because of her willingness to learn, Ericka sets an example for her classmates that is difficult to replicate. She asksfor and accepts help from others. She welcomes constructive criticism and views it as an opportunity for growth. Shesimply craves knowledge. She can change the climate of a classroom with her attitude to do whatever it takes to master theinformation in front of her.
In addition, Ericka volunteers at The Solemn Assembly Church Community Food Pantry, for Habitat for Humanityand for the Salvation Army’s Angel Tree Program
Jane MorrisonSt. Mary’s Episcopal SchoolGeneral Scholarship
Jane, a senior, is a talented scholar, competitive athlete and respected class leader. She holds a 4.62weighted grade point average and scored 33 on the ACT. She will graduate with six AP courses and 15 Honorscourses. Jane’s curiosity and initiative led her to engage in a research project studying pediatric obesity. Asan approved hospital volunteer, Jane works in a clinical setting alongside Dr. Joan Han in a collaborativeeffort between St. Jude Children’s Research Hospital, Le Bonheur Children’s Hospital and UT Health ScienceCenter. Jane is addressing commonalities in genetic traits of obesity occurring in rare diseases such as WAGRSyndrome.
Known for her skill, spirit and dedication, Jane was named captain of the soccer team and co-captainof the varsity basketball cheerleading team for MUS this year. She is secretary of the Spanish Club anda member of the National Honor Society, Beta Club, Stem Society and varsity tennis team. She started afinancial literacy club, which not only teaches students important skills but also has a service component toserve low-income individuals in Memphis. Jane also tutors inner city Sudanese refugees.
John HammondBriarcrest Christian High SchoolGeneral Scholarship
John, a senior, is an intelligent, well-read student and independent learner. He holds a 5.05 weighted grade pointaverage and scored 34 on the ACT. He has been named a National Merit Semifinalist and winner of the Yale Book Award.A diligent scholar, John has won multiple Silver Medals on the national Latin Exam. He is captain of the Knowledge Bowlteam and a member of the National Honor Society and The Wilson Society. John earned the rank of Eagle Scout aftercompleting a challenging project. He raised funds and built a new woodland trail at “For the Kingdom.”
An accomplished vocalist, John is a leader in the school’s very select and acclaimed a cappella group, “OneVoice.” He also is a lead actor in the drama department, where he played Captain Von Trapp in the production of “TheSound of Music.” John also is a varsity contributor in soccer and football.
Through his leadership in The Wilson Society, John changed the way in which teachers recycle by organizing astudent-led initiative to collect recyclables on a regular basis. He also organized the school’s Veterans’ Day chapel thelast two years.
Jake McClureSt. Benedict High SchoolGeneral Scholarship
Jake, a senior, strives for excellence in everything he does. He holds a 4.81 weighted grade point averageand currently ranks second in a class of 242 seniors. He scored a perfect 36 on the ACT and a 2370 on the SAT.He has been selected as a National Merit Semifinalist. He has taken 11 Honors courses and seven AP courses plusDual Enrollment English. He earned Magna Cum Laude and Maxima Cum Laude on the National Latin Exam. Asa junior, Jake was selected for and attended “Operation Catapult” at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology.
In addition, Jake is musically talented. He was selected for the school’s Show Choir and learned toplay the piano for the award-winning jazz band. He learned to sing bass and earned a spot in the All-WestTennessee Honor Choir. He also was a pianist for the West Tennessee Student Blue Jazz Band. He has beentapped for the National Honor Society, National Science Honor Society, National English Honor Society andMu Alpha Theta. He is a member of the Knowledge Bowl Team, the Robotics Team, and he is chair of theStudents for Life Club.
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The Collierville Twentieth Century Club met at Collierville United Methodist Church to hand out grant checks totaling $18,000. The money was raised during the club’s Fair on the Square. More than 35 individuals representing local educational and nonprofit institutions were on hand to receive money requested through the club’s annual grant program.
Just before the Christmas holiday break, the Kiwanis Club of Germantown was entertained by members of the Houston High School chorus under the direction of Dr. William Rayburn. Dressed in period costumes, the group ended their program with the popular holiday spoof, “Grandma’s Fruit Cake,” which is a crowd favorite.
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