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WOLFMOTHER REIGNS ‘VICTORIOUS’ The Australian metal band is keeping things retro. 10

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Danny Picard on Panda, Hanley Ramirez. 12

BACK TO ‘BAD’ In ‘Triple 9,’ Aaron Paul plays a junkie screw-up once again. But he says his character’s not another Jesse Pinkman. 8

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FBI Director James Comey and Apple Senior Vice President and general counsel Bruce Sewell will testify at a March 1 congressional hearing on encryption issues, the House of Representatives Judiciary Committee said in a statement Thursday. The hearing comes amid a dispute between the tech giant and the government over unlocking an iPhone used by one of the San Bernardino, California, shooters. REUTERS

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James “Whitey” Bulger was punished in prison for masturbating in his cell, Boston.com reported. Federal inmates are prohibited from all sexual activity. Bulger was caught in the act last June, and the punishment was 30 days in solitary. The incident was dug up by the Boston Globe, which found documents indicating Bulger was caught in the act with the lights on. He defended himself by saying, “I’m 85 years old. My sex life is over.” He also reportedly claimed he was just applying medicated powder to his irritated genitals. REUTERS

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President Barack Obama expressed optimism Thursday about the possibilities for a vaccine against Zika, a virus he said turned out to be not especially complicated. “We just had a meeting about Zika, where we actually think there’s a promising pathway for diagnostics and vaccines on this,” Obama said during a panel discussion about precision medicine. “It’s not a real complicated virus, apparently.” REUTERS

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New England Patriots Trey Flowers and Dion Lewis serve up pancakes for the kids during National Pancake Day at Boston Children’s Hospital on Thursday in Boston.

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A Salem police officer has been arrested after authorities said he purchased a bag of oxycodone pills from a street-level Lynn drug dealer. On Wednesday, Salem patrolman Matthew Scialdone, 35, was arrested while off duty before his afternoon shift when a Lynn drug task force observed a transaction between a motorist and two pedestrians, the Salem News reported. JASON NUCKOLLS

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A Massachusetts man wanted for a 27-year-old Philadelphia homicide was arrested Wednesday and is expected to be returned to Pennsylvania. Vicheth Prak, 43, was arrested by Lowell police accompanied by Philadelphia detectives, the Boston Globe reported. No specifics on the crime were given other than it being a homicide that took place in 1989. On Thursday, Prak was to be arraigned in Lowell District Court as a fugitive from justice, WTRF reported in a related article. JASON NUCKOLLS

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Boston police are searching for a man identified as a person of interest in an armed robbery investigation, the department said Thursday. Ongoing incidents of pedestrians being robbed with a 12-inch kitchen knife have been reported downtown, police said in a blog post. The department posted two pictures of a man to its site Thursday. SPENCER BUELL

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Art to brighten South Station A permanent installation, sponsored by the Women’s Transportation Seminar, arrives in spring 2017. SPENCER BUELL @MetroBOS

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After years of planning, months of searching and several public meetings, a Brooklyn artist with an eye for geography has been picked to install a permanent art piece at South Station. The project that will grace the transit hub is Ellen Harvey’s “Network,” a mosaic of hundreds of colorcoded glass pieces: subways are in black, rail in dark gray, roads in light gray and water in silver — all of them seeming to

Reserve building, though its final location could change. Harvey said she’s obsessed with maps and the way they serve as historical archives of politics, business and nature: how livestock paths became roads, how bodies of water became shopping districts, how highways and subways replaced rivers. “There is no romance in your soul if you don’t love a map,” she said. Harvey’s pitch was among nearly 200 applicants from 32 states and nine countries vying for the chance to create a piece of art for the space. The piece MBTA General Manager Frank DePaola is a gift to the city from the Boston wing of the Womended up where it is.” Right now, it’s destined en’s Transportation Semifor the angled ceiling at nar International to celethe Red Line entryway to brate “Women in Motion.” Harvey’s interpretathe station by the Federal sprout from the historic T station. The role of the T stop in the harbor city’s history, and the web of squiggly lines that its story left behind, are what inspired the piece, the U.K.-native and Harvard alumna told Metro in an interview. “Each layer has a different color and they all sort of converge on South Station in all these different ways,” she said. “It’s an interesting kind of interplay between the natural situation of the city and how it

“Compelling art enhances the appearance and impact of our stations, giving vibrancy to public spaces.”

The stairwell to the Red Line near South Station will soon be home to an art installation by Brooklyn-based artist Ellen Harvey. NICOLAUS CZARNECKI

tion of that prompt is subtle. She said she decided against making something that was too literal about the history of women in transit — after all, commuters only have a few seconds to pass by on their way to their trains. Because of this, she plans to place an image of a mermaid peering

through a surveyor’s tripod near the bottom of the piece, she said. “She’s not a traditional mermaid,” Harvey said. “She’s a little shout-out to all the women who have been involved in making all these transportation networks function.” The mosaic will likely make its debut in spring 2017, project manager

Jean Mineo told Metro. Installation will take about a week, she said. “Network” will be Harvey’s fourth project in a city transit stop. She also has two permanent installations at stations in New York and one in Chicago. WTS, which recently celebrated its 35th anniversary, aims to raise $150,000 for the project.

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one from a few years ago who promised he’d “change” everything. However, all the unknowns about your new fellow bring uncertainties. Sure, your little friend Minnesota ran off with that guy, Jesse, for a while, and we all remember California’s fling with Arnold. But we’re talking about all of you, America, and before you toss aside all of your more traditional dates, I just want you to be sure this is the serious candidate you want for your serious matters ahead. Again, I stress that this is your decision. Our family has been great for a long time because we are all free to make our own choices. I have the greatest faith that your decision will be right or we will eventually make it right. And you know, America, I will love you just the same.

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BEING ANTI-POLICE BRUTALITY DOESN’T MAKE ONE ANTI-COP The first time I wrote a Facebook post about my disappointment in the number of slain unarmed black teens due to police shootings – it was met with harsh criticism. Either the spouses or children of cops on my timeline immediately got defensive, telling me that I should “mourn for the cops,” that “all police aren’t bad” and I’m “ungrateful.” But since when was I not allowed to consider the life of those who died at the hands of police? How was grieving the death of another and calling for justice an affront to those lawful officers who don’t abuse their power? Given the recent, highly publicized transgressions made by some police organizations, you would think they felt above reproach. This week, police branches across the country are boycotting Beyoncé’s world tour given the recent awareness she

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message, that means they now can take away their ability to protect certain citizens? Yeah, no. When officers get defensive about those who question the unlawful behavior of some cops, it suggests that they are either naïve about police brutality or nonchalant about it. To reprimand those who do call out the injustices when they occur is undemocratic. It reduces the power of civilians and taxpayers who fund the defense of their communities and heightens their fear of those that are expected to protect them. How much has society allowed for other police chiefs or officers to critique the nature of those in their department that have obstructed justice? Not a lot. So we shouldn’t feel inclined to misrepresent those who speak out in a way that doesn’t actually inflict harm. Whether it’s myself or Beyoncé, we should all agree that free speech matters.

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In “Triple 9” Aaron Paul plays an ex-cop-turned-thief wrestling with a drug problem, among other issues. BOB MAHONEY, OPEN ROAD FILMS

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Acting always entails research, but “Triple 9” is a different story. In the new thriller, Aaron Paul plays a disgraced ex-cop who’s part of a gang of thieves filled out by former mercenaries and corrupt police officers. That meant doing ride alongs with the LAPD through East L.A. What he saw could have come right out of a movie, and not just “Triple 9” itself. “We pulled over this guy — I forget his name, but it was something that’s terrifying, like ‘Psycho,’” the actor, 36, recalls. The cop arrest-

ed him, finding a gun whose serial number had been shaved off. He already had two strikes against him, meaning he’d be in jail for the rest of his life. When they got back to the station, Paul wound up interviewing him, despite finding him to be the scariest person he’d ever seen. Then he got a surprise: “Turns out he was a big fan of ‘Breaking Bad.’” Every cast member from “Triple 9” has stories like this; Paul recalls one from co-star Casey Affleck’s own ride along, which involved a stand-off that ended with a perp leaping out of a window holding an infant in one hand, an AK-47 in the other. For Paul such tales stressed how real the film is — how the worst things we see in “Triple 9” and

“Breaking Bad” oftentimes really happen. Paul came away with a lot of respect for cops — he emphatically recommends doing your own ride along — but also an understanding that there’s no clean line between good and bad. “You would see these little kids, 7 or 8 years old, on their bikes. They’d see us pulling up, and they’d jump off their bikes and run into a store,” he recalls. Paul would watch the cops run after them and come back with proof they were selling drugs for a gang. “These kids don’t have a choice. It’s all they know. For the adults, it’s all they know. They’ve grown up on the streets their whole lives.” For Paul, “Triple 9” isn’t just another gig

about the underworld; it’s a film where he gets to again play an addict. And Paul didn’t want to be trapped forever in the “Breaking Bad” world. “I definitely got a lot scripts sent my way for drugged-out characters. That’s the last thing I wanted to do,” Paul says. “Triple 9” was an exception, and not only because of its comically big-name cast (in addition to Affleck, there’s Chiwetel Ejiofor, Anthony Mackie, Norman Reedus, Woody Harrelson and Kate Winslet, playing a Russian mafioso). The director, John Hillcoat, has a reputation for dark, brutal films about violence, including “The Proposition” and “Lawless.” Paul knew it would be an honest but humane look at the moral gray

zone. No character, from cops to robbers, is all bad or all good. “ Yo u ’ r e not sure who you’re supposed to be rooting for. You’re kind of rooting for everybody, and you don’t know why,” Paul says. Of course, returning to a project about a sometime junkie was n o s t a l gic, too. “It brought back a lot of fond memories of smoking meth onscreen,” he jokes.

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Wolfmother’s cool with being ‘retro’ The Aussie band’s back on tour to promote “Victorious.� RACHEL RACZKA @rachelraczka

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Wolfmother’s more than a decade of reinvention always cycles back

to years beyond those they’ve been active. The Grammy-winning Australian rock band have often been lauded as retro, echoing the stoner-metal likes of Black Sabbath — but meant in the most complimentary way possible. Their fourth studio album, “Victorious,� dropped last Friday from

Universal and the band kicked off a world tour Wednesday in Minneapolis. We caught frontman Andrew Stockdale to chat the album and what it’s like to be “retro.� This album release has been pretty digitally involved. You even have an app to color in the

album art. Yeah, people love that kind of thing. My daughter’s done it about 50 times. She thinks she’s going to win some sort of competition for it! It’s interesting how interactive things have become, and honestly some of their [submissions] look good, if not better than

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the actual cover. Is it weird having this kind of access between you and your fans? It’s funny because [social media] means so much now and defines you. First it was MySpace, so you’d get a million followers on MySpace and then no one was on MySpace. Then you’re like, “I have 30,000 followers on Twitter,� but then they’re like, “No one cares about Twitter.� You’re constantly trying to feature the latest social media thing and I

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Where did the concept come from? We had a few ideas pitched to us and this one had the tongue-incheek sort of comical ’60s kitsch thing happening. That made the “Victorious” scene friendlier because we didn’t have to be the oppressive force where there will be winners and losers. In the song you specifically say “She will be victorious,” but who

is she? She’s the mythical character in the song, but I have no idea who it is specifically. It just sounded good. I don’t know why. The album’s been out for about a week, have you peeked at any reviews? I haven’t read anything yet, to this point. My manager sent through reviews, and I said “Are they generally good or bad?” I’ll read through

them at some point. With this album — and the ones before it — you get called “retro” quite a bit. How do you take that? I think it’s a compliment. Everything’s connected to the past, and we’re all influenced from people before us and how they approached things in their style. I feel good about being called retro. I don’t see it as a criticism at all.

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It all comes back to production. That’s why the arrival of Pablo Sandoval and Hanley Ramirez to spring training was met with so much outrage. At least, that’s why I was furious with them over the weekend, when they both showed up to Fort Myers oozing the commitment level of a duo that didn’t have all that much to prove. I mean, those were some of the first words out of Sandoval’s mouth. “I don’t got nothing to prove,” he told reporters on Sunday, his first day in camp.

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That couldn’t be further from the truth when you sign a five-year, $95 million contract and finish your first season with the last-place Boston Red Sox hitting .245 with an OPS of .658, which was the 12th-worst OPS in Major League Baseball last year. Sandoval has plenty to prove in a Red Sox uniform while making that kind of money. So you would think he’d at least make it sound like he’s committed to improving upon a brutal 2015. Because he certainly didn’t look the part. And I get it, Sandoval has always been a big dude. Don’t waste your time tweeting me the photos. After all, I’ve defended the guy more than anyone else in this town over the last calendar year. But let’s face it, had Sandoval showed us a better attitude this week, perhaps his weight wouldn’t be as big a story. In fact, forget the attitude and the weight. Had Sandoval actually produced last year, this column would probably be about what the Celtics didn’t do at last Thursday’s NBA trade deadline or what

the Bruins should do at this Monday’s NHL trade deadline. Same thing goes for Ramirez. He signed a four-year, $88 million deal with the Red Sox and also had a horrible first year in Boston, hitting .249 with an OPS of .717. While his obesity wasn’t an issue when he reported to spring training last week — several days earlier than he was obligated to arrive — Ramirez decided the first “optional” weekend for positional players would be a good time to head down to Miami. Unbelievable. Especially considering that Ramirez is expected to play first base this season, a position he’s never played before. Some have called my fury an overreaction. Well, had either player actually earned their paychecks last season, I might tend to agree. But both Sandoval and Ramirez entered spring training as if they each hit .300 last year, played Gold Glove-caliber defense and helped the Red Sox to the playoffs. Reminder: None of those things are true. In fact, all of those things are pretty much the complete opposite

of what happened last year in Boston. So, yeah, like I said, it all comes back to production. When your everyday corner infielders make a combined $40 million, the expectation is that your combined RBI total will be more than 100, your OPS will be respectable, and your defense will be good enough where it won’t cost you enough games to keep you at the bottom of the AL East standings. The Red Sox are paying Sandoval and Ramirez to put in the effort, show a certain level of commitment and have a sense of pride to play for one of the most historic franchises in all of sports. More importantly, they’re paying Sandoval and Ramirez to help the team win, something they didn’t help do last year. And at the end of the day, that’s all we really care about. Winning. If you don’t win, we’ll know why. And we’ll expect you to fix it, or do everything you can to try. So, yes, Sandoval and Ramirez do, in fact, have something to prove. It would be nice if they at least acknowledged it.

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By virtue and in execution of the Power of Sale contained in a certain Mortgage given by Kimberly M. Reid to Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for RBS Citizens, N.A., its successors and assigns, dated July 30, 2008 and recorded with the Suffolk County Registry of Deeds at Book 43866, Page 202, subsequently assigned to Wells Fargo Bank, NA by Mortgage Electronic Registration Systems, Inc. as nominee for RBS Citizens, N.A., its successors and assigns by assignment recorded in said Registry of Deeds at Book 51924, Page 49; of which Mortgage the undersigned is the present holder for breach of the conditions of said Mortgage and for the purpose of foreclosing same will be sold at Public Auction at 1:00 PM on March 4, 2016 at 10 Summit Circle, Boston (Hyde Park), MA, all and singular the premises described in said Mortgage, to wit: THE LAND AND BUILDINGS THEREON SITUATED ON Summit Circle in the Hyde Park District of Boston, Suffolk County, Commonwealth of Massachusetts, being shown as Lot C on a plan entitled “Subdivision Plan of Land, Boston, MA, Hyde Park District” dated July 8, 1967 and recorded with Suffolk Deeds at the end of Book 8139, bounded and described as follows: WESTERLY by Summit Circle as shown on said plan by a curved line, seventy [70] feet; NORTHERLY by lot B, twenty-two and 86/100 [22.86] feet; NORTHEASTERLY by lot B, twenty-two and 70/100 [22.70] feet; NORTHERLY by lot B, sixty-nine and 10/100 [69.10] feet; NORTHEASTERLY by land of owners unknown, sixteen [16] feet; SOUTHEASTERLY by land by owners unknown, sixty-two and 20/100 [62.20] feet; NORTHEASTERLY by land of owners unknown, Sixty-three and 30/100 [63.30] feet SOUTHEASTERLY by land of owners unknown, sixty-two and 20/100 [62.20] feet, SOUTHWESTERLY by land of owners unknown, eighty and 23/100 [80.23] feet. Containing 7,748 square feet of land according to said plan. Together with the right to use Summit Circle in common with others entitled thereto. For title reference see deed recorded herewith The premises are to be sold subject to and with the benefit of all easements, restrictions, building and zoning laws, liens, attorney’s fees and costs pursuant to M.G.L.Ch.183A, unpaid taxes, tax titles, water bills, municipal liens and assessments, rights of tenants and parties in possession. A deposit of FIVE THOUSAND DOLLARS AND 00 CENTS ($5,000.00) in the form of a certified check, bank treasurer’s check or money order will be required to be delivered at or before the time the bid is offered. The successful bidder will be required to execute a Foreclosure Sale Agreement immediately after the close of the bidding. The balance of the purchase price shall be paid within thirty (30) days from the sale date in the form of a certified check, bank treasurer’s check or other check satisfactory to Mortgagee’s attorney. The Mortgagee reserves the right to bid at the sale, to reject any and all bids, to continue the sale and to amend the terms of the sale by written or oral announcement made before or during the foreclosure sale. If the sale is set aside for any reason, the Purchaser at the sale shall be entitled only to a return of the deposit paid. The purchaser shall have no further recourse against the Mortgagor, the Mortgagee or the Mortgagee’s attorney. The description of the premises contained in said mortgage shall control in the event of an error in this publication. TIME WILL BE OF THE ESSENCE.

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Aries Participating in events that mean something to you will give you the strength to make personal changes. Put your plans in motion and don’t look back.

Libra Emotions will surface if you let someone push you around. If you make plans to do something with someone who’s supportive, greater self-awareness and confidence will unfold.

Taurus Initiate what you want to see happen.

Scorpio Explore new interests or give a unique

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spin to a project or pastime. A chance to reconnect with someone you enjoyed working with in the past will also contribute to your success.

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you do, make your presence felt and your input meaningful. Walk away from negativity, bad influences and unfair situations.

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Cancer Put in extra hours working toward

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something that will help you stand out or beat any challenge or competition you face. Don’t give in to emotional blackmail.

ideas will capture others’ attention. An unexpected emotional response will lead to a better plan. Don’t feel the need to act in haste.

Leo Make changes to your living quarters. Voice your thoughts, discuss your intentions and make a plea to a loved one to help make your dreams come true.

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Virgo You can enjoy life without spending

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