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Caroline English moves up ice. Photo courtesy Holy Cross Athletic Dept.

Caroline English is a hockey player with a rare mix of skills: She’s both aggressive and lighthearted and that combination has taken her places in her collegiate career. The 22-year-old junior at Holy Cross College has come a long way since her days in the Dorchester Youth Hockey League. Now she scores game-winning goals against University of Massachusetts Boston, as she did this past Saturday.

 In the three years the Dorchester native has been playing on Holy Cross’s women’s hockey team, she has notched 53 points and has been named ECAC Rookie of the Week, AT&T Crusader of the Week, and to the ECAC All-Academic Team.

This season she was voted assistant captain of her team and elected to the Jansen Leadership Academy.
English is a player who constantly motivates her teammates, according to her coach, Peter Van Buskirk.

“She has such a positive attitude and she is able to connect with everyone. She’s always upbeat and maintains that attitude regardless of what happens on the ice,” Van Buskirk said.

English joined St. Ann’s Color Guard with her sister when she was six years old, but abandoned it a year later for hockey. She broke in her first pair of skates fifteen years ago at the Devine Ice Rink in Neponset.

Her best friend, Jimmy Hayes — who recently made his NHL debut on the Chicago Blackhawks — played the sport. “I wanted to be like him, so that’s really how I started,” said English.

A self-proclaimed tomboy, she joined the Dorchester Youth Hockey League, where her teammates were almost all boys.

English’s mother, Moira, remembers a game where Caroline went down hard on the ice and her father, Jim, didn’t think she was going to get back up. “After that, the boys always had her back,” said Moira.

Aside from her DYH experience, English also skated for Charles River Girls Hockey and at Boston Latin Academy. She was accepted into Tabor Academy as a sophomore and played there for three years, where she was the captain of her team.

English was recruited by Van Buskirk and he has not been disappointed. “She’s been a first-line player since she arrived. She had very good skating speed, was very competitive, and good puck skills. I was happy to recruit her,” he said.

Fresh off her team’s latest win, English was eager to talk about Saturday’s game.

“It felt really good. I’ve been in a funk with scoring. [Teammate] Stacey Hochkiss kept setting me up and I kept missing so it felt good to finally put it in the net,” said English of her game-winning goal.

When English isn’t playing hockey, she spends time mentoring young students at Quinsigamond Elementary School in Worcester, where she has worked for the past three years. She helps her coach at the school’s ice rink sharpening skates, and also works at a coffee shop on campus. She hopes to work with kids after graduating.

“I love working with kids. I have a lot of little cousins that I see all the time,” she said.

Moira is very close to her daughter and is proud how Caroline has developed as a hockey player and a person. “She puts her heart and soul into the game. It’s a thrilling ride to watch her,” she says.

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Published: Feb 12, 2012 02:00 AM
Modified: Feb 10, 2012 06:04 PM

DOT, residents discuss Smith Level Road plans
6 issues remain controversial

BY TAMMY GRUBB, Correspondent

CARRBORO - Neighbors and representatives of the N.C. Department of Transportation hashed out their differences last week over the utility easements and rights of way needed to upgrade and expand Smith Level Road.DOT division engineer Mike Mills apologized for any public confusion about the necessary easements and said DOT staff had reduced some and eliminated others. One area that did not change was in front of homes between BPW Club Road and Willow Oak Lane, where the steep slope requires wider construction and drainage easements to be placed a certain way, he said."We've probably got less impact now than we did at the public hearing in 2010," Mills said.DOT staff also agreed Tuesday to review six remaining issues, including what landscaping to replace, the neighborhood impact of prohibiting left turns out of Willow Oak Lane and how work at the Culbreth Road intersection will affect a Teal Place homeowner.The discussion followed a November meeting in which DOT representatives couldn't provide easement details. The aldermen asked DOT to meet with neighbors and return with more information. Neighbors told town staff early this year that DOT representatives were meeting with them individually.Mayor Mark Chilton thanked DOT representatives and neighbors Tuesday for a respectful discussion."Sometimes people get drawn into the temptation to attack the employees of the state Department of Transportation. I think it's clear that the people at DOT are trying to mitigate the impacts here," Chilton said.No left turnBerryhill neighbors thanked DOT for making some easement changes, preserving a neighborhood sign and considering compensation for one of two rock walls at the Willow Oak Lane entrance. DOT also added a high-visibility pedestrian crosswalk at Smith Level Road.However, neighbors continued to push for the inclusion of a left turn from Willow Oak Lane to the north.DOT's plan allows northbound drivers to turn left into the Berryhill neighborhood, but those leaving to go downtown must turn south and make a U-turn at BPW Club Road. The other option is to drive through the neighborhood to BPW Club Road and turn left at the Smith Level Road traffic light."If it's unsafe for a car to stop there and turn, how safe is it for me to cross that street with that speeding traffic coming down the road to take a bus for which the bus stop is exactly on the opposite side?" resident Anil Peres-da-Silva asked.Alderwoman Jacquie Gist asked if DOT staff had studied how the change might affect neighborhood safety. They had not, Mills said."I think there is a reason why people believe this is going to increase the traffic through their neighborhood," Gist said. "Before this change is implemented, I think that's one piece of information that's very vital to the safety of the community."Property questionsOther residents, particularly in the Enclave and Teal Place neighborhoods, questioned the required amount of private property, easement locations and whether utilities could be moved or buried.Phyllis Holt, who has lived for 11 years at the corner of Culbreth Road and Smith Level Road, said her front door is just 16 feet from DOT's construction stake. Holt said that would put traffic and the "big state machine" in her front yard, and the homeowners association would be compensated for her loss, because it owns the land."I appreciate that the DOT is working to alleviate and attend to our concerns, but I'm the big loser, and it's really sad," she said.The aldermen agreed the changes would be extremely detrimental and asked DOT staff to find a way to mitigate the effects.The final plans for the $3.5 million expansion project are expected in September, with construction running from early 2013 to 2015.The project approved in 2010 shows a two-lane Smith Level Road, with a landscaped median from the Morgan Creek Bridge to BPW Club Road and a center turn lane from there to Rock Haven Road. The traffic light at Rock Haven Road will be replaced with a roundabout.Bike lanes and sidewalks will be built on the road's western side and from the bridge to just south of Woodcrest Street on the east. Federal and state money will pay for the road work and 70 percent of the sidewalk construction, with the town picking up the remaining 30 percent, or roughly $55,000. OWASA will pay for a third of the cost to move water lines, Mills said.Mills said the Smith Level Road planning process has played a key role in changing the way DOT staff approaches other situations around the state, Mills said. While it's difficult to anticipate how a utility company's easement regulations will apply to a specific parcel, the staff is trying to make more information available to residents at the beginning of a project, he said.Alderman Dan Coleman advised DOT staff to work on how they handle residents' concerns about what will happen to their property, as well as how the staff approaches property owners about potential changes."I know 20 years ago, we did not do that," Mills said. "With this project, we're trying to be more sensitive to the community."

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Contrary to expectations, Google's entertainment system project will have nothing to do with streaming TV shows, and instead will focus on music. "Google Inc. is developing a home-entertainment system that streams music wirelessly throughout the home and would be marketed under the company's own brand," The Wall Street Journal's Amir Efrati reports. Considering that the masses have yet to embrace the current streaming TV devices, leaving space for something revolutionary to address a market niche, we wonder why Google has chosen music as the priority for its first Google-made gadget. 

In some ways, perhaps it makes sense. Google's never made something on its own. The company outsourced hardware to Logitech and Sony for its TV, and look how well that went. Sales lagged, and Logitech eventually slashed prices. Instead of debuting its first wholly Google product with something risky and flashy like TV, this might act as a nice test drive for a future mind-blowing all-inclusive streaming wonder product (in our dreams). Google has all the other parts to create an Apple-esque Airplay set-up, which streams music from iTunes to other Mac products. Google has tablets and phones. Google has a music store. Putting it all together should go rather smoothly. 

But, this niche doesn't really need filling. All the current less-than-ideal "streaming TV" sets and boxes incorporate music services, like Spotify and Pandora. So why just focus on music? 

In fairness, it's unclear from the Journal report whether Google only has musical aspirations. "Digital media" could mean shows and movies. What is clear is that streaming is the future. According to new research via The New York Times's Brian Stelter, the 12- to 34-year-old demographic is spending less time in front of a set:

Adults ages 25 to 34, for instance, watched about four and a half fewer hours of television in the third quarter of 2011 than at the same time in 2010 — the equivalent of about nine minutes a day. Viewers ages 12 to 17 also watched about nine fewer minutes a day. The demographic in between, those ages 18 to 24, watched about six fewer minutes a day.

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