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Gabourey Sidibe strayed far from her "Precious" roots this weekend, hosting a raucous episode of "Saturday Night Live" that saw the dramatic actress tap into her comedic side in her first real acting gig since her professional debut in the Oscar-nominated film.
Sidibe, who famously auditioned for "Precious" on a whim without any acting background, joined hipster rock band MGMT for Saturday's episode of the sketch show.
The Oscar nominee's inexperience showed during several bits during the night, as Sidibe flubbed her lines, got flustered and fumbled onstage -- but the genial star recovered gracefully to keep going throughout the show.
Her first "SNL" bit was the host's monologue, where Sidibe riffed on the depressing role she played in "Precious" and how audiences believe she's similar in real life to the downer character she plays in the flick. The monologue also saw Sidibe break into song about her newfound fame, rocking out to a tune called "I'm Gabourey."
Sidibe struggled to get through the second sketch of the night, which featured the actor as a Jamaican self-help book writer who gives tips on "The Suze Orman Show" on how to save cash. The accent seemed to trip up Sidibe, who flubbed her lines in the beginning of the bit but kept going to finish the segment.
The next sketch starred Sidibe as a contestant on "Who Wants to Be a Millionaire," hosted by Kenan Thompson's version of Steve Harvey, who mispronounces answer options, much to Sidibe's contestant's chagrin. The sketch's comedic gem: the plus-sized Sidibe attacking Thompson across the podium.
The fumbles continued in the next portion of the show, as Sidibe played a crazy neighbor who spouts random knowledge to the people who live next door. Again, the lines seemed to trip up the actor, who again managed to finish the sketch despite her mistakes.
Sidibe's turn as a cherry-spitting competitor in Andy Samberg's digital short showed a more comfortable side of the actor, as she and Samberg squared off spitting the fruit back and forth to one another in "Cherry Battle." This sketch's funniest bit: The "Harry Potter"-esque robes Sidibe and Samberg wear in the epic cherry showdown.
"SNL" regular Bill Hader pulled a Sidibe during "Weekend Update," which featured Hader as a gay club promoter telling anchor Seth Meyers about his new plan for the gay scene. Hader cracked up throughout the sketch at his own impersonation of Stefon, giggling as he made jokes in character.
Sidibe rounded out the show with co-starring roles alongside Kenan Thompson in a bit about the fake 2010 Public Employee of the Year Awards and Will Forte in a sketch that saw Forte attempt to win back his purported lover Sidibe with a bundle of semi-racist gags presented at a faux "Precious" presser.
MGMT performed twice on the show, choosing not to play old favorites like "Kids" or "Time to Pretend" but instead rocking out to two songs from their new album "Congratulations," "Delirium" and "Brian Eno."


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Game instructions in F1.
Most of the time you just need the arrow keys.
You can't save or load the game.
There is a growth system, but its slow.
Death Worm licence is owned by PlayCreek (.com)
(iOS, PSP, Symbian, WinMo)
Genre/Category: Fast-Paced Minigame
Download Size: 3.5 MB
Game File-Type: Stand-Alone Executable
Resolution: Changes to 800 x 600 (use F4 to switch window/fullscreen)
Written In: GM6.1 Registered
In this game you are an oversized worm that jumps above the ground and eatshumans, birds, dromedars and other animals.
When you have eaten enough of them, the humans will start to guard the area.
Here's a review about the game: http://gmc.yoyogames...howtopic=296204
Small update: 1.04:
-Screenshake by Jonah Schreiber.
-More cheats.
-Slowdown by digging holes eliminated.
GM ArcadeDownload (http://22.214.171.124/)
YoYo Games Download
(If you're on Vista, use the utility I've linked to in my signature.)
Gameplay video from an earlier version. (YouTube)
Click Here if you'd like to take a look at the source.
There's a couple of things that I didn't make myself, so check the info file for credits.
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By David Hunter, Nalin Sahni and George McKibbon
Economist Don Drummond recently released a sweeping report (the "Drummond Report") on rethinking Provincial governance and Ontario's economy. Miners should take note: the Drummond Report calls for increased mining taxes and user fees and "a new paradigm for environmental and natural resource programs," licensing, and services that could both hinder and simplify mining development and operations.
Transformation is an important theme in our continuing series on streamlining the current mine development system. In our last article, we discussed the Draft Class Environmental Assessment for Mining and how the licensing system could be improved (See February 9th posting). Today, we discuss the changes that miners should expect from the Drummond Report, if implemented.
Increased Mining Taxes and User Fees
The Drummond Report recommends that Ontario: scrap the resource tax credit, review the mining tax system to ensure Ontario is appropriately compensated, and charge mines for any water used. Business taxes in Ontario have been significantly reduced and tax credits and reduced mining taxes are no longer necessary to encourage investment. Charging for water withdrawals could raise significant revenue and would encourage water conservation. However, the increased costs from these taxes and fees on the mining industry could be substantial. The Drummond Report also recommends that Ontario consider additional mining taxes dedicated for Aboriginal development if mining companies do not fund Aboriginal peoples' economic participation in the "Ring of Fire".
Government Should Recover the Full Cost of Resource Licensing
The Drummond Report recommends that the Ministry of the Environment (the "MOE") and the Ministry of Natural Resources (the "MNR") raise fees to fully recover the review and administration costs of environmental, land use, and resource licensing. While this is not likely to be problem for the MOE, it isn't clear if this can be accomplished for approvals under MNR's Public Lands Act (the "PLA") for mine related infrastructure approvals such as roads and transmission lines.
Risk-Based Environmental and Natural Resource Approvals
While the MOE is already moving to a risk-based approvals system, MNR's approvals continue to be based on policies developed under the PLA. Unlike environmental permitting or municipal land use decision-making, there isn't a wide body of experience for establishing risk-based policies or approvals under the PLA. Acting on this recommendation will be challenging for MNR.
One Project, One Environmental Assessment
The Drummond Report recommends that there should be only one environmental assessment per project with no duplication between the Federal and Provincial governments. As with current renewable energy approvals, environmental assessments should facilitate development by addressing the other approvals mines require such as roads and transmission lines. A consolidated environmental assessment process could create a win-win for miners and environmentalists by trading minimum environmental standards for mines (good for enviros) for an expedited process that lets mining companies get all the permits they need fast (good for miners). Though not mentioned in the Drummond Report, the Municipal Class Environmental Assessment used for municipal infrastructure could also serve as a useful model that provides for the integration of Planning Act and Environmental Assessment Act approvals provided consistent notice and analytical processes are followed.
In our February 9th posting, we discussed how a "one-stop-shop" approach for mining projects could significantly speed project development while increasing environmental protection but would require significant coordination between government ministries. The challenge for the MNR will be to establish objective, science based principles for issuing approvals.
Increased Used Polluter-Pay Principle for Contaminated Sites
The Drummond Report recommends that Ontario expand the financial assurance system to ensure the funds provided in advance are sufficient to pay for any cleanup required. This could lead to proponents of advanced exploration and mining projects being forced to provide larger sums up front in the form of a bond or letter of credit.
While the polluter-pay principle is enshrined in Ontario law, in practice the Parties that contaminate land or fail to property close mines often go out of business or become insolvent and the government is left to pay for the clean up. The MOE and the Ministry of Northern Development and Mines often require companies to provide financial assurance though the amount required is often insufficient to pay for the full cleanup cost. While the financial assurance system can be improved, it is unlikely to cover all cleanup costs since it is impossible to determine how much a cleanup will cost in advance. The Drummond Report also recommends that Ontario follow the approach of the U.S. Superfund and tax mining and other industries to create a pool of money to cover any unfunded clean up costs.
If fully implemented the Drummond Report could create several new taxes and user fees for mining companies. While creating a "one-stop-shop" for approvals and environmental assessments will require significant coordination between Ontario Ministries, it could greatly speed the mine development process. While we hope this occurs, it should not be expected. We will keep you apprised of the implementation of the Drummond Report's recommendations in future articles.
Note: The Drummond Report fails mention that oil and chemical tax that paid for the U.S. Superfund has been removed by the U.S. Congress. The Superfund is now paid out of general revenues and is no longer an example of a government recovering cleanup costs from industry as stated by the Drummond Report.
David Hunter is counsel with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP's Toronto office. With more than 25 years of extensive regulatory experience, David provides strategic counsel on complicated aboriginal and environmental legal issues.
Nalin Sahni is an associate with Fraser Milner Casgrain LLP's Toronto office. Nalin's practice focuses on litigation and commercial transactions with complex aboriginal, environmental, energy and mining issues.
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I quite like macro photography.
- It can be done in many places, often where you'd least expect.
- It involves finding interesting subjects in places that don't obviously have much to photograph or even look at.
- It can often reveal interesting and unexpected things in the otherwise familiar.
These are all things I like in 'normal' photography, but macro photography kind of specialises in these areas.
Dedicated macro lenses, though, are expensive. I don't have one. I use the [[Nikon 35mm f1.8 DX lens]] for all my DSLR photography, but it can't focus very close, so it's very little use for macro photography. I often use my iPhone too, most often with Hipstamatic, but again, it can't focus very close.
With the addition of one small and reasonably priced accessory, though, I can take photos like this, using my iPhone:
I don't even fix it in place, just hold it against the lens with one hand, using the other hand for the shutter. It takes a little practice, but isn't at all difficult. It makes the focussing very close, so you really have to get right up to the subject – almost touching. The depth of field is tiny, too – only a couple of millimetres or so are in focus. Results are a bit hit and miss, but the hits can be really good.
Both of the examples were taken with Hipstamatic – the square crop fits well into the circular loupe, making it a bit easier to hold in the right place.
I picked my loupe up on eBay some time ago, at a good price. There should be an ad for them on Amazon UK further up the page, but the price seemed a little high when I posted this. If you're in the US, you can get them from Richard's Pens at a reasonable price. In the UK, shipping from Richard's Pens may make them a bit too expensive, so you're probably stuck with checking what's available currently on eBay and Amazon.


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As of Jan. 1, FDIC insurance available to IOLTA accounts will be $250,000 per owner of the funds (client), per financial institution, assuming that the account is properly designated as a trust account and proper accounting of each client's funds is maintained. Non-interest-bearing trust accounts will have this same level of coverage.
For the past two years, IOLTA and non-interest-bearing accounts enjoyed unlimited FDIC insurance coverage pursuant to Section 343 of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act. That provision was to be effective for two years with a sunset date of Dec. 31, 2012.
Although there have been attempts in Congress to extend that coverage for an additional two years, and the American Bar Association and others have lobbied for that extension, those efforts have not been successful due largely to legislative maneuvering that was unrelated to the merits of the issue.
Lawyers may want to put something in their fee agreements which lets their clients know in which financial institution the lawyer has his or her trust account. As an example, suppose a lawyer is holding $10,000 for Client A in the lawyer's trust account at Wells Fargo Bank. Client A may also have other funds at Wells Fargo. If so, the $10,000 being held by the lawyer will count toward the $250,000 per individual per financial institution. A lawyer holding a large amount of money for a client should exercise good judgment in choosing a bank that is more likely to remain solvent.
Further information on FDIC insurance coverage for IOLTA and other accounts as of Jan. 1, is available here.


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Ostensibly the optimal leasing outcome for an office building would be to sign a whole-building tenant on a long lease. This, however, is not necessarily the case. The definition of 'optimal' is dependent on one's required return and its composition, namely income and capital growth. Our modelling indicates there exists a trade-off between the two and that lease term is a contributing factor.
Market pricing (i.e. yield) of office buildings indicates that investors are willing to pay a premium for income, typically found in buildings with fewer tenants and a long WALE (weighted average lease expiry). But these buildings aren't without risk in that large portions will fall vacant and / or there are large exposures to less predictable longer term market conditions. Our analysis suggests that realisation of those long-term risks can lead to a worse total return but, as evidenced by lower yields for long WALE assets, investors appear to value income certainty and their ability to manage leasing exposure and mitigate these risks.


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DreamWorks Animation has given the greenlight for a sequel to its caveman hit "The Croods" which has pulled in over $386 million so far at the global box-office.
Writer Kirk De Micco and director Chris Sanders will return in their respective capacities for the follow-up, while negotiations are underway with key voice stars to return as well.
Meanwhile, Sony Pictures has confirmed that a sequel to last year's action comedy "21 Jump Street" is in development with plans for a 2014 release.
Sony confirmed the news today at the studio's CinemaCon presentation, but no specific date is yet set. It was previously reported that Sony plans to begin filming in September.
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How Bob Dylan Completed His First Classic Album, 'The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan'
Bob Dylan was already the darling of the modern folk movement when he released his second album on May 27, 1963. The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan is the LP that delivered on Dylan's early promise and provided his springboard to legendary status.
Word was already spreading fast about Dylan when the 20-year-old folksinger released his self-titled debut album in 1962. There was a folk music boom in the late '50s and early '60s on college campuses and in cultural centers like New York City gathering around aging, fading or just plain dead singers from earlier generations. The movement needed a new voice, and Dylan became its hero (reluctantly, if you believe him). But for all of the fortified folk on Bob Dylan, it's not a very original work. Dylan wrote only two of its songs by himself.
But when he returned the following year with The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan, he sounded like the new legend his growing fan base claimed he was. His voice was more steady, his style more distinctive, and except for a couple of songs he adapted, he wrote everything himself. And it makes every difference in the world. Not only is The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan the record that set Dylan on the path to greatness, it's the greatest modern folk album ever made.
The 13 songs range from plaintive love ballads ("Girl From the North Country") to breakup tunes ("Don't Think Twice, It's All Right") to traditional cuts ("Corrina, Corrina") to angry antiwar numbers ("Masters of War"). Plus, the album includes "Blowin' in the Wind," which turned into one of the signature songs for civil rights protesters across the nation, even though Dylan has dismissed its standing. Either way, it's a monumental work – near poetic at times – that chronicles man's struggles through the ages.
While Bob Dylan didn't even chart, The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan reached No. 22 and sold more than a million copies. It's become a cornerstone of Dylan's career – especially the early acoustic years – and songs like "A Hard Rain's a-Gonna Fall" still resonate today. The album wasn't without its controversial side effects: Early pressings of the record included a handful of other songs, most of them political, that were pulled and replaced. But in the end, it didn't matter much. The voice of a generation had made himself heard, loud and clear.


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Drip, Drop, the Water Don't Stop
This is the Green School's map of the New York City water system. The students used HabitatMap's "Go With the Flow" toolkit to master maps based research methods and apply them to uncover the workings of New York City's water storage, filtration, delivery, and disposal infrastructures. They learned that the water system in place today has been shaped as much by social forces - people's habits, needs, and demands - as it has been by people's labor and the physics of water itself.
Creek Speak: Voices from Newtown Creek
Creek Speak is an oral history project that uses HabitatMaps to present the stories of people and places near Newtown Creek. To listen to peoples stories or read about some of the places they mention simply click on a marker. The Creek Speak Project is not intended to prove causality between the environmental burdens in Newtown Creek neighborhoods and public health concerns. Rather, its purpose is to highlight and document the experiential knowledge of individuals who are inside narrators of day-to-day life in these communities.
Where Does My Toilet Flush To?
Every day, nine million New Yorkers discharge 1.5 billion gallons of liquid waste into their sewer system. Underground and out of sight their urine, feces, and food scraps combine with litter and pollution from the street. This nasty brew then navigates 6,000 miles of pipe towards two possible futures: decontamination at one of 14 treatment plants or discharge into New York Harbor via one of 494 sewer overflow outfalls. A sewage overflow can be triggered by as little as a tenth of an inch of rain, which essentially means that almost every time it rains, your toilet flushes directly into New York Harbor.


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Wither is the first book in a young adult series called The Chemical Garden Trilogy. If the blurb for the opening book in the series is any indication it is sure to be an edge of your seat read. Wither just hit stores March 22nd.
You can read an excerpt of Chapter One here and find out more about Lauren at her website or read the RomanticTimes interview.
What YA have you been reading lately?
BOOK SUMMARY: By age sixteen, Rhine Ellery has four years left to live. She can thank modern science for this genetic time bomb. A botched effort to create a perfect race has left all males with a lifespan of 25 years, and females with a lifespan of 20 years. Geneticists are seeking a miracle antidote to restore the human race, desperate orphans crowd the population, crime and poverty have skyrocketed, and young girls are being kidnapped and sold as polygamous brides to bear more children.
When Rhine is kidnapped and sold as a bride, she vows to do all she can to escape. Her husband, Linden, is hopelessly in love with her, and Rhine can't bring herself to hate him as much as she'd like to. He opens her to a magical world of wealth and illusion she never thought existed, and it almost makes it possible to ignore the clock ticking away her short life. But Rhine quickly learns that not everything in her new husband's strange world is what it seems. Her father-in-law, an eccentric doctor bent on finding the antidote, is hoarding corpses in the basement. Her fellow sister wives are to be trusted one day and feared the next, and Rhine is desperate to communicate to her twin brother that she is safe and alive. Will Rhine be able to escape--before her time runs out?


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The Greenpeace ship, Arctic Sunrise, is currently at the Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland as part of a 3-month expedition. The crew, which includes many respected scientists, is examining the effects of climate change on the Arctic. Specifically, they're bearing witness to the imminent loss of a 100 sq. km. ice island that is part of Petermann glacier. This video serves as an introduction to the ship tour and what they've found so far.
The Greenpeace ship the Arctic Sunrise is investigating climate change's impact on the Petermann Glacier in northwest Greenland. Watch this video to learn more about the ship tour and what they've found so far.
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Any cruise can make you feel like a pampered celebrity; you really don't have to lift a finger the whole time you're on board. You can simply relax and enjoy the wonderful activities planned for you, the delicious cuisine prepared for you and the comfortable stateroom prepared just for you.
But, by working with your Cruise Holidays personal cruise expert, you can enhance the essential luxuries of a cruise vacation and make it a true VIP experience. Of course, you could choose a high-end, luxury cruise line; or, let your cruise expert guide you to the luxurious ship-within-a-ship experiences and VIP amenities that are available on family-oriented cruise lines, too.
For example, Celebrity Cruises infuses its AquaClass staterooms with a serene, spa-like atmosphere. There are plush robes and slippers from Frette and five-head shower panels, plus unlimited use of the spa relaxation room (on Solstice Class ships) and the Persian Garden. AquaClass guests can also dine at Blu, a chic, health-conscious restaurant reserved for AquaClass guests.
Some Norwegian Cruise Line ships offer The Haven: an exclusive set of suites gathered around a courtyard with a private pool, sundeck, and hot tub. All of The Haven's staterooms are beautifully furnished, but only the three-bedroom Garden Villa is equipped with a baby grand piano. The Haven offers 24-hour butler and concierge services, too.
Most Princess Cruises ships have a quiet place where adults can retreat and be refreshed: The Sanctuary, where stewards are ready to offer chilled face towels, Evian water atomizers, and noise-canceling headphones. Have a massage, relax on the deluxe chaise lounges, and enjoy healthy beverages and snacks.
All of Royal Caribbean's suite guests receive some special perks, beginning with priority check-in; continuing with priority seating in theaters, dining venues, on tenders and around the pools; and ending with priority departure. Some of the cruise line's most spectacular suites are the two-deck-high sky lofts (on the Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas), which have their own spacious sundecks.
Your Cruise Holidays personal cruise expert can tell you more about any VIP accommodations and perks available on your next cruise, and can check for any special offers or shipboard credits that may be available to enhance your cruise experience. Also, let your cruise expert know if your cruise will mark a special occasion, such as a birthday, graduation or anniversary – that alone may qualify you for some special perks!


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Throughout his life Michael Jackson made hits on wax -- a year after his death, he's a hit in wax.
Madame Tussauds in Times Square is marking the anniversary of the King of Pop's untimely demise by retouching the make-up on his wax figure, steaming its outfit, styling its hair, and putting it on full display in the museum's lobby.
The entire Jackson exhibit will feature songs from throughout his career. And the celebration is only part of nine Tussauds exhibits worldwide that will be paying tribute. According to a Tussauds spokesman, each exhibit is unique to each venue.
The New York tribute will be free to the public and will run for two weeks beginning Friday. The tribute exhibit will also include a variety of classic MJ photos and fans will be able to take pictures with the statue as they are treated to a medley of Jackson's biggest hits. The 42nd Street location will even displaying an original plaster cast of his hand.
Madame Tussauds opens everyday at 10 a.m. and the last ticket sold is at 10 p.m.


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Zaun activated
TORONTO — The Blue Jays activated catcher Gregg Zaun from the 15-day disabled list on Sunday and sent Curtis Thigpen back to Triple-A Syracuse. Someone asked manager John Gibbons if Thigpen was going to talk to "Voodoo" Joe Inglett about how to stay in the big leagues.
"We'll get him on his flight as soon as possible before Joe can get ahold of somebody," Gibbons said with a laugh.
Zaun was in the lineup as the DH, but Gibbons said having him catch is "a non-issue." Zaun's arm is feeling fine. Gibby was non-committal when asked about how he plans to divy out the playing time between Zaun and catcher Rod Barajas, saying, "We'll just put the guy out there that we think can help us win that day."
Vernon Wells was back in the lineup one day after leaving early with a sore left wrist — the same one he broke in May. Lyle Overbay was given the day off and Brad Wilkerson took over at first base. Gibbons liked Wilk vs. lefties and former Jays southpaw Ted Lilly is on the bump for the Cubbies.
Today's lineups:
CHICAGO (44-25) at TORONTO (35-35)
at 1:07 p.m. ET at the Rogers Centre
Reed Johnson, LF
Kosuke Fukudome, RF
Derrek Lee, DH
Aramis Ramirez, 3B
Jim Edmonds, CF
Geovany Soto, C
Mark DeRosa, 2B
Micah Hoffpauir, 1B
Ryan Theriot, SS
PITCHING: LHP Ted Lilly (6-5, 5.13)
Alex Rios, RF
Marco Scutaro, 2B
Scott Rolen, 3B
Vernon Wells, CF
Kevin Mench, LF
Rod Barajas, C
Brad Wilkerson, 1B
Gregg Zaun, DH
John McDonald, SS
PITCHING: RHP Jesse Litsch (7-2, 3.42)
…really? Playing "Father of Mine" by Everclear during pregame? Don't they realize that's not exactly a heartwarming song to be playing on Father's Day? Of course, as I type that, it's promptly cut off. Nice.


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Beyonce's Mom Speaks Out on Beyonce + Jay Z Divorce Rumors [VIDEO]by Michelle McGahan | PopCrush
Tina Knowles is one fierce mother.
Beyonce's mom was caught by TMZ while leaving lunch with Kelly Rowland, and of course, the videographer had to ask about the status of Beyonce and Jay Z's marriage — framing the question as an "opportunity" for the Knowles matriarch to set the record straight on the persistent divorce rumors.
But Mama Knowles wasn't taking it.
"You wanted to give me an opportunity?! How kind of you to do that!" she replied sarcastically.
Still, the paparazzo managed to convince her to take a stab at the "haters."
"Haters gon' be haters, and there's nothing we can do about that," she said.
"So, everything's okay?" he reiterated.
"Everything's perfect," she responded, making the 'A-OK' sign with her fingers.
And as for the difficulty of dealing with such rumors, Knowles says she doesn't even acknowledge it.
"I just don't even read the bull, you know?" responding one more time with a clipped "Yep!" when asked again if everything was all good.
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"Lovey," her husband said gently, which was his way. "It's for you." The velvet blackness of 2 A.M., of nearly death-deep sleep: the ringing telephone had been a fire alarm in her dream; reluctantly, she'd exited an unfamiliar building but not awakened, hovering in some liminal space. The building was filled with naked bodies, and she wished to return to them and their naughty party. "Lovey," her husband said again, and she was livid with him, with his dull insistence, forcing her to attend to him when what she wanted to do was run back inside the burning building. "Lovey," he said a third time, and then the light snapped on.
On the phone was Bernadette, her former stepdaughter. Her ex-husband's youngest and most difficult girl, who was busy apologizing, as usual.
"I'm so sorry, but he's been drinking," Bernadette was saying of her delinquent husband. "I need to find him before something happens. I mean, he can't afford to get arrested again."
"I can be there in twenty minutes."
"Actually? I'm sorry, but could I bring the kids to you? If he comes home, I don't want them to see him. You know, it's just so hard to have a conversation with kids around. Or a fight, for that matter, which is probably what's going to happen. God, I'm really so fucking sorry, Lovey. . . ."
"Bring them, please, it's fine—you should never worry about that." Sleep and dreams had fallen away, along with, she suddenly realized, her first husband, whose hand she'd been holding in the burning building. Had he been nude, too? That wouldn't have been like him, naked in public.
"I'm already in the car with them," Bernadette said. "I was thinking I could start on Central and just see if he's parked on some barstool or other. Please don't tell Dad, O.K.? I mean, he already thinks I'm a total fuckup and he hates Aaron enough. Plus, he'll tell my sisters." And then she was crying. Poor Bernadette. Had the girl ever not been miserable? Even as a child, she had cultivated hurtful friendships, had forever been suffering slights or neglect or flat-out cruelty, this girl like a loyal beaten dog.
"Honey, I would never tell your dad. We're not exactly on speaking terms. Bring the kids. I'm up. Don't worry."
"Actually?" Bernadette said. "I'm in your driveway. God, Lovey, I'm really, really sorry!"
The seven-year-old carried the diaper bag and a backpack, tilted sideways under the load, while his mother brought in the two car seats holding his sleeping sisters. "God, it smells like snow out there! How often does that happen at this time of year? I pumped," Bernadette explained in a whisper. "Give Lovey the breast milk," she told Caleb. The boy produced a pair of tepid yellowish Baggies. There was always something a little unsavory about dealing with breast milk. Maybe if Lovey had had her own babies she wouldn't have felt this way.
The girls were left in their car seats on the living-room rug, which seemed wrong, somehow, people lashed into chairs, especially the three-year-old, whose big head looked unnaturally perpendicular in a way that would lead to a terrible neck ache. On the other hand, the girls were sure to scream if wakened.
Bernadette was squinting at her cell phone, lips moving as she read something there. "Shit, he's with Lance—that can't end well. So I think she'll be good till maybe, like, four?" She pressed her hand into each breast, checking. "You could just nuke a bottle for her then. And Caleb—I don't think he'll sleep, but he could watch Looney Tunes, maybe? With no sound? Will you watch Looney Tunes on mute so Lovey can go back to bed, honey?"
"Don't worry about us," Lovey said. "We'll play Monotony." Lovey was the only person who would indulge Caleb's fondness for Monopoly. The boy had been her first grandchild, born the year she divorced his grandfather, when she was a mere thirty-seven—far too young to be called Grandma! In public she was often mistaken for his mother, and it was for Caleb that she'd come up with an acceptable nickname, Lovey, to take the place of Evelyn. He was a serious boy, a boy who hadn't spoken until he could do so in complete sentences, who'd said, quite frankly, after the birth of each of his sisters, that he did not like them. "How's your new sister?" somebody would ask. "Terrible," he'd reply. His feelings were so readily hurt. He was like his mother that way, a child too tender, who bruised. Nor did he laugh easily.
"Please don't think I'm a fuckup," Bernadette pleaded as she whirled her way toward the door. "And tell William I'm sorry I woke him. Be good, Caleb. I love you."
Caleb was already laying out the game board, counting money, and stacking up the Chance cards. He looked like his grandfather, Lovey's first husband—the same thick copper-colored hair, the large brown eyes and plush lips. Her first husband had been forty-five, at the tail end of his fruitful handsomeness, when she married him but still moving through the world with the confidence of a man who'd bedded a lot of women, all but the first few—when he was a beginner, on the receiving end of a romantic education—younger than him; he was a serial seducer. Lovey had been his third wife; perhaps she could have predicted that she would not succeed where two others had failed, but that was the nature of love, and of youth, and the combination, youthful love—they made you arrogant, or stubborn, impervious to the lessons of others.
If you paid attention to all the lessons of others, you might never do anything.
Caleb handed Lovey the dog. He was always the hat. "I want to be the banker," he said.
"Fine," she said, though this would make it more difficult for her to guarantee that he won. But that was the challenge in raising children, wasn't it? Insuring that your ability to deceive kept pace with their ability to see through you. At what point were you able to come completely clean? Could you ever, for example, reveal to children that parents did not, actually, love their offspring equally? Her ex-husband had preferred his eldest, the prettiest, the strongest. And Lovey? She'd always been partial to needy Bernadette. Bernadette's sisters had found their stepmother lacking. She was so young. For a while, it had been fun to play the hip young mother, the one who shared clothing with them, who liked their music, the four of them ganging up on her husband, their father, who was old, so old! So old-fashioned! So out of date! So shockable! But he wasn't, not really, and at some point his indulgence began to falter, his paternal tolerance turned tense, at least as it regarded Lovey, because eventually she was no longer his pretty young wife; she was, instead, too familiar, too known and knowing, too something he could not even put his finger on, but he no longer wished to have sex with her, no longer found her desirable enough to be able to have sex with her. This wasn't willed, he assured her; it wasn't his fault. If she insisted, he could medicate himself into readiness, but did she really want that? Did she, he asked earnestly, want him to fake what he could not naturally feel? Was that the kind of love she wanted?
Yes, she confessed, though only to herself. Yes, that was what she would take, if it was all he could offer.
"You told me to be honest," he said. "This is me being honest."
The first stage of the game was always the best—all that acquisition and possibility, the tidy array of money, the fairness. Caleb knelt in his chair, poised over the colorful board like a gargoyle, rolling for Lovey when she went to check on his sisters, moving her Scottie dog forward, providing her with two hundred dollars whenever Go came around. In order not to land on Boardwalk first, Lovey allowed one of the dice to fall to the floor, claiming a number that put her on Luxury Tax, whatever that was, instead. At last, Caleb acquired his beloved cobalt-blue plot. Later, once it was expensively developed, Lovey would land there an inordinate number of times so that he could fleece her.
Why was it so satisfying to see him win?
It was nice, this strange intimacy in the kitchen at three in the morning, no other light in the house. They were outside of time, Lovey thought, waiting for the rules to kick in again. If it did snow, school might be closed. Albuquerque was not accustomed to weather; Lovey had grown up in the Midwest, where snow days required an actual blizzard, instead of mere flurries or patches of ice. Her first husband had brought her to the desert; she could thank him, she supposed, for that gift. When they parted, he hadn't wanted much of what they'd collected together, in their twelve years. Was that generosity? Guilt? Or simple indifference?
Caleb heard the baby first, his head tipped toward the living room as his hand halted above the board in mid-count. "Forty-five seconds," he told Lovey, meaning the breast milk and the microwave. "I can do it." Lovey took the opportunity while the boy was at the refrigerator to slip a five-hundred-dollar bill from her stack of cash back into the bank.
She could not figure out the car seat's elaborate buckle, so the child's crying became hysterical. Caleb silently undid the clasp, then found the three-year-old's pacifier and stoppered her with it before she fully woke as well. "You're a good boy," Lovey told him repeatedly. In the kitchen, the warm bottle waited. Lovey had only to sit down and assume the position, the girl's face beside her own breast. While she fed the baby, Caleb played both sides of the game, counting aloud, asking if Lovey wanted to buy the electric company or not. "Not," she said. Her pickiness about property he never questioned. He seemed to accept the idea that he alone knew that buying everything was the secret to success.
Caleb's sisters were utterly unlike their brother. They demanded what they wanted. They entered a room and immediately began competing to be its center of attention, the baby now knocking her head into Lovey's sternum, making fists with her hands and banging at her bottle; if her nails weren't clipped, she'd rake her own face until it bled. They required a lot of attention. They made a great deal of noise. The three-year-old could not be reasoned with; it was useless to try. She did not understand taking turns or sharing, and resorted to crude short-cutting substitutions like grabbing and screaming. "If they were dogs," Caleb had told Lovey of his sisters, "you could put them in a cage."
"If they were dogs," Lovey said, "you could take them to the pound."
When the baby began gagging, Caleb informed Lovey that the bottle was to blame, that the milk came out faster than it did from his mother's breast, that the baby was used to sucking harder, so she choked herself. "Greedy girl," Lovey murmured. "I wonder where your daddy is."
"I don't know," Caleb said. "But he rode his bike and he forgot his helmet."
"Dangerous." Although safer, by far, than driving. Aaron's sobriety was tenuous, court-ordered, the elephant in the room at any family get-together. He would sit meekly at the table studying his sparkling water while others pretended not to be aware of his every sip. Months would pass—a new child would be born, a better job would come along, things would be looking up—and then the phone call in the middle of the night. Bernadette had always loved boys like this, bad boys, attractive and uncontrollable. Her first boyfriend had drowned in a lake after driving a car into it. Some other night, and Bernadette could have been in that car with him. Aaron had probably been friends with that boy—it would make sense. Bernadette hadn't really had a chance to get much past high school. She'd got pregnant with Caleb in her first semester at the U. The child had been responsible for her cleaning up her act and completing that year, her only college experience. In fact, Caleb's arrival had given everyone some distraction. His grandfather had gone—left not only Lovey but his daughters, moved a thousand miles north, and started anew—but in his place was this beautiful, easy child.
Without Aaron, there would be no Caleb. Lovey had to remind herself of this sad fact. Her ex-stepson-in-law caused a lot of trouble, but, because of him, here before her was a boy for her to love, who loved her. Caleb would grow up and perhaps grow away from her—there was no shared blood, and someday he would understand that. Someday he might untie the knots of those prefixes that labelled Lovey, ex- and step-. He would turn into a teen-ager and disappear, like his father, into the night. Lovey had lived through those adolescent years with her first husband's three daughters, each girl more outrageous than the one before, culminating with the spectacular misbehavior of Bernadette, who'd had, it seemed, no kernel of self-control or restraint at her center, who'd run away, totalled vehicles, got arrested, inhaled or smoked or drunk whatever substance anyone handed her, landed in jail, who had perhaps been unable to find a way to make herself want to continue living.
Until Caleb. The boy had saved her as well.
The baby was still fussy after her bottle, agitated and thrashing. She didn't want a pacifier. She didn't want to be left kicking on the floor under the spell of a musical mobile. She didn't need a new diaper, couldn't be made contented. It was as if she wished to break out of her own skin. Lovey sat her on her lap and the child grabbed up the game tokens, stuffing one into her mouth before either Caleb or Lovey could stop her.
"If she swallows it, we have to wait for it to come out in her poop," Caleb said. "Which is gross."
"Jesus Christ!" Lovey hooked her index finger into the child's mouth, removing the little metal dog. "Maybe she's still hungry," she said over the girl's renewed outrage.
The noise woke the three-year-old, who began wailing from the living room, "Ma-ma-ma-ma-ma-ma!" Her brother went to fetch her, having first pushed the game to the center of the table, out of reach. Lovey put several of her peach and blue hundred- and fifty-dollar bills back in the bank. She also removed a few houses from the long crowded row of red and yellow properties, where she'd become an inadvertent real-estate mogul.
In came sad Celia, not as lovely as her older brother or her little sister, the child who'd lost in the looks lottery, big-featured and big-boned. She also seemed developmentally behind—still wearing diapers, still chewing on a pacifier, still sobbing inarticulately. It felt bad to dislike her, and Lovey would never have admitted to it, but the child irritated her. She sat now on the kitchen floor and continued to wail for her mother. Over and over, the plea, a pitiful mass of green mucus beneath her nose and chin. Lovey had closed the kitchen door to keep William from waking. He had hospital rounds in the morning, in a mere four hours; he needed his sleep. These children did not compel his specific interest, coming into his life, as they had, two or three times removed, these ex-step-in-laws-by-marriage. He had his own children to fret over; their hardships were another whole scenario, ongoing across town, in his former house, with his ex-wife and her new husband.
Lovey got out the candy, the surefire solution, a small pile of M&M's for Celia to take solace in. "Is there enough for me?" Caleb asked.
"Not really," Lovey said. "Just the one snack bag. I have raisins."
"No, thanks." He sighed. Raisins: that was his lot in life.
Even after her second bottle, the baby was not satisfied. Bernadette had predicted 4 A.M., and here it was. Lovey texted her and got no reply.
"There's formula in the bag," Caleb told her, and then proceeded to fix a bottle of it, studying the lines on the bottle, levelling the powder with a knife on the scoop. It made Lovey sad to see him shake up the concoction before microwaving it, and sadder still to watch him test its temperature on his wrist.
A text arrived from Bernadette: "Found him, heading home!"
"Everybody fine here," Lovey wrote back. The beauty of texting: no telltale soundtrack. For the kitchen was loud, both girls miserable, the chocolate gone, the formula apparently not to the baby's taste. She wanted the real thing, from the real source.
"Hey there," William said, announcing himself, hair mashed flat against his temple, shirtless and in gym shorts. Seeing him like this always reminded Lovey that her first husband would never have walked around without a shirt, without his hair combed; he was vain about his body, his age, his aging body. Again, she tried to recall: had he been nude in her dream? He had often taken an apple to bed with him at night, so that he could freshen his breath with a bite first thing in the morning. William gave Lovey a perfunctory stale-smelling peck on the cheek. "What's all the hubbub, bub?" he asked the three-year-old as he stepped over her to get to the coffeemaker.
The child swung her arm out to hit his shin.
"I'm sorry," Lovey said.
"Mercy," William said. "That kid packs a wallop. And you appear to be getting your ass kicked," he said, regarding the game. "I've arrived here not a moment too soon." Lovey's first husband had been known to storm out of dinner parties, to take offense at nothing, to cut off friendships—"Dead to me!" he would declare. He'd behaved like a child always on the verge of a tantrum. With him, Lovey had had to be careful, to tread lightly, to pay her full attention. All of her friends preferred William. They approved of his jocularity, his slow-moving, steady ways. He'd been an E.R. doc; it had given him perspective. In this dawn kitchen, there was, to his practiced eyes, no real trouble.
"Give me that," William said, taking the baby from Lovey. "Let's try some shock therapy, shall we?" He opened the back door and stepped out into the cold air, which silenced the baby instantaneously. When he brought her back inside and she began to wail again, he did the same thing.
Caleb said, "Maybe you should leave her out there?"
"It'd be tempting if there weren't snow. And then there's that one," William said, "sitting in her own filth." This made Caleb laugh, a bright burst of surprised happiness. He would repeat this expression for days, amusing himself with its perfectly droll un-profaneness.
William took over the Monopoly game while Lovey attended to diapers. "What is that pile of cash doing there?" he asked, of the Free Parking money. It wasn't in the rules, but it was tradition. William's children were teen-age boys who played high-school football. That was the sort of father he'd been, one who enjoyed a team and rules. If Caleb had been his son, he'd have had a bristly haircut and would never have been allowed to stay up all night playing Monopoly. If he'd had to play a board game, it would have been something dignified, like chess.
By the time Lovey got back with the freshly clothed girls, Caleb's lip was trembling, something William wouldn't necessarily notice, since he was playing along just to be a good sport, a place-holder. The Free Parking money was gone, she noted.
Lovey let Celia knock the whole enterprise to the floor, a glorious clattering spill of cards and tokens and fluttering cash.
"An act of God," William declared. He stretched and scratched, finished his coffee, gave Lovey a knowing lift of his brow and Caleb a ruffling of his hair, then disappeared into the shower. By the time he returned, the game was under way again and Lovey was nearly destitute.
"You're hopeless, honey," William said, settling at his computer for the news. "Hey, look," he said, swinging the screen around for Lovey to see. For a few seconds, Lovey studied the Facebook photograph: Bernadette in a short dress, holding a cigarette and a beer bottle, Aaron to her right, another man to her left, the two of them equally in possession of her in a flagrantly drugged and drunken state. "Freak blizzard in Duke City!" the caption read, the time imprint only thirty minutes earlier. As a teen-ager, Bernadette had come to Lovey on many an occasion, wasted and weeping, repentant and apologetic, afraid of her mercurial father, claiming again and again that only Lovey understood her. That same girl was in the photograph, her loose sedated face, flanked by the same idle boys, whose reckless seduction she could not resist. And then suddenly the photograph was gone. As if it had been a product of Lovey's imagination, something she had dreamed. "She took it down," William said. "Of course. She realized you'd see it—of course she took it down."
"What?" Caleb asked, monitoring what was happening.
"Let's check with your mom about school," Lovey said. "Maybe you can take the day off."
"I don't want to miss school."
"Maybe it'll be a snow day."
When Bernadette answered, Lovey understood immediately that she was still drunk. "Lovey," she said. "I'm sorry. The good news is I found him, he's fine, but the bad news is we have to talk—it's time to come to Jesus, again."
Lovey's first husband had stolen her best years, keeping her captive during the time that she might, in some other circumstance, have delivered children of her own. He'd fooled her, she thought. He'd held her hostage and then released her when it was too late. That was the story she told herself and mostly believed. And Bernadette alone of the three girls subscribed to it as well. The others had split their loyalty equally, judging nobody, visiting their father, accepting their second stepmother, who was the same age as they. Only impulsive Bernadette had severed ties. Only loyal Bernadette had stood by Lovey.
"Let her sober up before you take the kids home," William advised. "Let them both sober up. How about you guys go watch TV?" he asked the children. "How's about I set up some 'Tom and Jerry'?"
Lovey had met William through friends, a match everyone approved of. "Age-appropriate," her friends and family had agreed, pleased to have Lovey squarely tucked away again, married. Her parents had never been happy about her first marriage, had never visited without awkwardness and sad sighs over the terrible absence of true grandchildren, the presence of these three half-time stepdaughters who did not particularly respond to them. In everyone else's view, Lovey was lucky to have got out before her older husband became like a third aging parent, before the inevitable illness and decline. Those eventualities were still ahead, she supposed. He was sixty-four now, his new wife in her thirties, an undeniably beautiful woman. Young. Fresh.
And William? Lovey loved him well enough, in the way of adulthood, she thought, not in the feverish former manner of witless drowning immersion, that love she'd fallen into heedlessly, as if into a body of water, with no idea of what such a thing could cost her. It had nearly killed her, when all was said and done. Meaning she'd felt like dying. She would never be that kind of lover again, never endanger herself that way again. And she understood that William, too, had been disposed of, that his ex-wife had had a similar nuclear potency for him, and that he loved Lovey now with the conscious intensity of somebody who was aware that he was exacting a kind of revenge—or, perhaps, simply acting in the belief that his ex was paying attention, that he had a need to prove that he'd survive and thrive, the victor. A victor, anyway.
"I feel like an idiot," she told William, once the children were out of earshot. "How could I let her do this to me?"
"What has she done, really?" he said. "I mean, she could have got you to babysit, if she'd wanted. She could have asked you to stay over at her house with them, and you would have. Or she could have told you they were going on a date night or something. Either way, you would have hung out with the kids overnight, so it's really not so different. When you think about it."
"I guess I thought she trusted me."
"She left her children with you. She called you when she felt like getting trashed. How much more trust do you want?"
"I still feel like a fool."
"Don't beat yourself up. Everything's fine. See you tonight." He provided another peck on the cheek, this time of the minty variety. And, once again, Lovey thought of her first husband—his apple-flavored mouth, his kisses that could paralyze her with brutal desire, still, still, even in absentia.
Caleb came back from the television to put in a request from Celia. "She wants Cheerios. I told her no milk in the living room, then she threw the remote at me." He touched his forehead. He was too thin, and now he had dark circles under his eyes. Lovey should have made him go to bed. From the living room came the ruckus of cartoon violence. The three-year-old liked to turn up the volume; maybe she was loud because she was a little deaf—Lovey would have to mention that possibility to Bernadette. When she next saw Bernadette.
Meanwhile, Caleb was checking the game board. "Lovey," he said, "what happened to all your money?"
"What do you mean?"
His face was suddenly furious, his rage as rare as his laughter, and this time aimed at her. "Don't let me win," he demanded. "Don't you dare let me win!" ♦


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"This Must Be the Place" centers on another uncompromising character invention by Sean Penn, as an aging rock star who comes across like an arthritic bag lady and reveals without the slightest effort that he has a good heart and a quiet sense of humor. Few actors have played a wider variety of characters, and even fewer have done it without making it seem like a stunt.
Cheyenne (Penn) was a big star in the 1980s, but has done little to stay in the spotlight. He now lives in a mansion in Ireland with his wife, Jane (Frances McDormand), who works as a firefighter because that's in her nature. Unlike some foolish ancient rock stars who trifle with groupies, Cheyenne seems to have been long and contentedly married; although he has sort of a groupie named Mary (Eve Hewson), he's more of a kindly uncle to her.
What he's never done is change his look. The film opens with him touching up his bright red lipstick and reinforcing his eyeliner, which are displayed on a clown white face framed by stringy jet black hair. Some rock stars have better taste — such as David Byrne, who attended design school and has been inspired in his own redesign. He appears in the film, does the music for it, and is an instructive contrast to Cheyenne.
Cheyenne seems depleted. He walks slowly through a supermarket with a shopping cart and seems like he could use a Boy Scout on each arm. When he speaks, his voice is thin and reedy and doesn't seem to have any breath behind it. In Dublin, they know who he is and are accustomed to sightings. When he visits America, a lot of people don't stare because they instantly read him as an old lady clinging to the makeup of her youth.
He flies to the United States to visit the bedside of his dying father. They haven't been on speaking terms, and now he learns the old man has died. His father has spent a lifetime in search of the Nazi guard who persecuted him at Auschwitz, and Cheyenne decides to take up the search himself. This leads him into the sort of road trip that's a perfect excuse for forlorn roadside diners and long shots of a car moving through a vast landscape.
The film has been directed and co-written by Paolo Sorrentino, a 42-year-old Italian filmmaker working for the first time in English. It's remarkable how comfortable he is with the American and Irish vernaculars and the way a land shapes its people.
One of the most convincing aspects of "This Must Be the Place" is how content Cheyenne is having kept the outer appearance of his famous days while having utterly lost interest in his career. When a young boy asks him to sing something, he replies, "I don't do that anymore." Yet he's holding a guitar at the moment and plays a skillful riff that suggests he still rehearses.
It's a thing he doesn't do anymore, but it's a thing he still can do. Nor can he do the onstage acrobatics of a phenomenon like Mick Jagger, but it doesn't bother him. When a young fan tells Cheyenne, "You used to sing with Mick Jagger!" he replies politely but firmly: "Mick Jagger used to sing with me."
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Rhys Llewellyn is a man of his word.
Case-in-point: When Ed Hanley, the former proprietor of longtime island institution Neptune's Treasures and a good friend, asked Llewellyn for his assistance when going through the process of closing the business, he said that he would.
"Ed asked my wife and I to help him close the shop," recalled Llewellyn. "We did that over 11 months, since there was so much to go through."
Formerly located in the Tree Tops Center, Neptune's Treasures was often referred to as Sanibel's "other museum," where Hanley displayed and sold a wide variety of collectibles and goods, including sea shells, corals, fossils, Indian, Civil War and WWII artifacts, shark's teeth, antique coins and other treasures.
Hanley acquired many of the items sold at his shop himself, going on fishing and diving expeditions and traveling around the globe, returning home with various treasures — along with the exciting (and sometimes harrowing) tales about his underwater adventures.
According to Llewellyn, after Ed's wife, Jackie, passed away in late 2009, Hanley — still on the mend from a stroke years earlier — became depressed.
"He told me that he wished he had taken the time to write down some of his adventures," said Llewellyn. "I was trying to cheer him up, so I told him that I'd do it for him."
A man of his word, Llewellyn began visiting Hanley at the Fort Myers assisted living facility regularly, brining with him a tape recorder used to capture the stories that made the former Sanibel businessman and raconteur one of the island's most popular and beloved characters.
"I'd bring the tapes back and write the stories down on my computer," said Llewellyn, who by this time had put working on his own book — a humorous fiction novel — on the back burner. "But then, my computer crashed."
Last summer, it took 10 weeks to recover the files that Hanley and Llewellyn had been working on together. But last week, the year and a half long "labor of love," as Llewellyn calls it, was finally gathered in an inch-thick collection, the first proof draft of a book entitled "Tales of Neptune's Treasures — Sanibel's 'Other' Museum."
"It's finally come to fruition!" said Llewelly, smiling as he held the initial volume, which is not only filled with some of Hanley's favorite stories, but also includes information about his upbringing along with his personal encounters with sharks, tornados and a moving train.
Currently being printed in Naples, the book also includes Hanley's advice, information pertaining to shells found in the waters of Southwest Florida, a collection of stories originally published in the Sanibel-Captiva Shopper's Guide about Neptune's Treasures as well as approximately 80 photographs and illustrations.
"Ed was a pretty industrious fellow who led a remarkable life," Llewellyn explained. "Even reading it again, it's hard for me to realize what incredible adventures he went on."
Although a deal to distribute the book on the islands hasn't been finalized, readers who wish to purchase a copy of "Tales of Neptune's Treasures — Sanibel's 'Other' Museum" may send an e-mail to firstname.lastname@example.com or write to Snowbird Press, 27876 Cragmont Drive, Evergreen, CO 80439 to express their interest.
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Rhys Llewellyn holds a draft copy of the book 'Tales of Neptune's Treasures — Sanibel's 'Other' Museum,' Ed Hanley's long-awaited autobiography.


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RICHMOND, Va. – There aren't many things that are guarantees in life anymore. However, the VCU tennis programs in the mix for a CAA title is as close to a guarantee as you can get and the Rams will begin their annual quest for a conference championship this weekend when they host the 4x1 Invitational at the Thalhimer Tennis Center.
The annual 4x1 Invitational provides Rams fans five different chances to see both the men's and women's team in action from Friday to Sunday in the heart of VCU's Monroe Park Campus.
Full season previews as well as a tournament central page will be available later in the week here at VCUathletics.com, but for now check out the full schedules for this weekend's tournament and come on out and support the Rams!
Friday, Jan. 20
8 a.m. – Campbell vs. Drexel (Women)
10 a.m. – Campbell vs. Drexel (Men)
12 p.m. – VCU vs. Drexel (Women)
2 p.m. – VCU vs. Campbell (Men)
4 p.m. – VCU vs. Campbell (Women)
6 p.m. – VCU vs. Drexel (Men)
Saturday, Jan. 21
9 a.m. – UNCW vs. Drexel (Women)
11 a.m. – Drexel vs. Richmond (Women)
1 p.m. – Georgetown vs. Norfolk State (Men)
3 p.m. – VCU vs. UNCW (Women)
5 p.m. – VCU vs. Georgetown (Men)
Sunday, Jan. 22
8 a.m. – Penn vs. VCU (Women)
10 a.m. – Georgetown vs. Longwood (Men)
12 p.m. – Penn vs. Georgetown (Women)
2 p.m. – VCU vs. Longwood (Men)
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ORANGE — It's 5 o'clock. Time to feed and water the cows. But from the furrow where I've landed, they feel impossibly far away. My hamstrings, lower back, and the arches of my feet are furious with me. A day's worth of persistent black flies have rendered my sweaty skin a map of itchy welts. Rocks jab my ribs and dirt is finding its way up my shirtsleeves. But I don't have to move for the next two minutes so this lumpy patch of earth is pure heaven. I gaze at the sky, finger the blisters on my palms and let the satisfaction of a hard day's work soak in. And then I remember we're doing it all again tomorrow.
In that moment, my previously abstract understanding of large-scale vegetable cultivation became entirely concrete.
The planting season is officially upon us at The Farm School and until now, my only experience with making things grow came from tinkering on .003 acres of city loam at our home in Medford. Even with my full-time job as a photojournalist, there was always time to fawn over each plant, marvel at earthworms, and clean a manageable amount of dirt from my nails each evening.
But now, no nailbrush is a match for what we're calling permadirt at the farm — the caked-on result of "gardening" for our 150-family community-suppported agriculture group — and I definitely no longer have time to pat each seedling on the head for good luck. These days, my left hand pinches soil over one transplant with one swift motion while my right hand simultaneously stabs a 6-inch shovel into the soil to form a hole for the next. Stab-plant-pinch. Stab-plant-pinch. What the process lacks in ease it makes up in rhythm. And when I manage to tune out my protesting back and knees and instead focus on matching movement with breath, something like meditation emerges.
I wasn't alone in my patch of dirty heaven; more than half of our entire class of 15 student farmers were sprawled across the field like castoffs from a retreating storm. Tyson Neukirch, our head grower, congratulated us: We had planted a mile of onions. And this was just the beginning.
Elsewhere on the farm, life of the furry kind is popping up all over the place, too. Late last month we emerged from lambing season, during which we monitored our 10 ewes for signs of labor every two hours, day and night. Most of the lambs were born without incident or need for intervention. But sometimes, it was more complicated.
"Come on . . . push, girl . . . PUUUSH!" pleaded Josh Pincus, our livestock manager, early one morning as he pulled hard on a slippery lamb that dangled limply from the mom's backside.
We'd discovered the ewe minutes before, laboring heavily, pawing at the ground, lip curling upward with each contraction. And as soon her baby began to emerge, we saw the reason for her outsized strain: instead of a snout framed by two black hooves, the ideal birthing position for a lamb, all we could see was a snout. Both of the lamb's front legs were tucked back creating a logjam at the shoulders, which prevented her from slipping through the ewe's birth canal.
"Lamb? Are you still alive?" Pincus asked, having successfully coaxed one leg forward but anxious at the slow progress.
None of us were sure. We held our breath until a lifeless-looking lamb finally slid onto the hay — a female.
Sides still heaving with contractions the ewe turned and began licking, starting near the lamb's tail and moving quickly up to her wrinkly neck, clearing away the translucent and glistening birth sack from her eyes and mouth. Minutes passed like hours, but eventually the lamb's back legs began to flutter. Then, tiny bleats emerged from the straw and the knot in my stomach finally eased. Within an hour, the lamb stood and made her first awkward jabs at mom's udder. I looked on with quiet awe, grateful and nervous and wondering how this would soon play out in my life — my very pregnant wife (Globe photographer Dina Rudick) and our baby very much on my mind.
The pastures are coming up lush and green, and our cows know they'll be snacking on them again soon. Tufts of sunny dandelions signal that it's nearly time to put the potatoes in the ground. The garlic we planted last fall is pushing its robust green shoots from the earth, and we'll harvest it in late July. By then, we'll be weeding long rows of tomatoes late into the evening, I will be a dad, and Dina and I will perhaps be one step closer to living the exhaustion and exhilaration of farming all on our own.
Erik Jacobs will send occasional reports and photographs from his apprenticeship at The Farm School through the fall. To read the previous entries, to www.bostonglobe.com/food. To see his weekly photo updates, go to www.ploughandstarsproject.com.
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On the one-year anniversary of Superstorm Sandy, New Jersey towns and residents across the state still face $28.3 billion in unmet recovery needs, according to a new report from School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers-Newark.The report finds that the storm cost New Jersey more than $37.1 billion statewide, including $13.6 billion in direct physical and economic damage, plus $23.5 billion in remediation costs. Recovery assistance has met only a fraction of these costs, according to Stephanie Hoopes Halpin report's author and assistant professor.. Through this report, Halpin reveals that damage was far more widespread than has been understood to date, stretching beyond the coastal communities and disproportionately affecting low- and moderate-income families.
"We believe this is the most comprehensive cost analysis of the storm so far," said Marc Holzer, founding dean of the School of Public Affairs and Administration at Rutgers-Newark. "It was our goal to give the state objective data that can be used to learn from Sandy and improve the state's disaster response in the future."
Measures were developed by Halpin that examine Sandy's impact through a wide range of factors, bringing to light gaps in emergency response and assistance. The report is based on data from a variety of sources, including state and federal government, NJ 2-1-1, utility companies and a new joint Rutgers and New Jersey League of Municipalities survey of local government officials and community leaders. The report was sponsored by The Fund for New Jersey and United Way of Northern New Jersey.
The new measures show that in addition to Monmouth and Ocean counties, economic and physical damage was also felt deep into the middle and northern parts of the state, such as in Somerset, Middlesex and Union counties.
The hardest hit towns were Mantoloking in Ocean County and Moonachie in Bergen County, according to the report. The 35 towns with the most significant impact are spread out across 11 of the state's counties.
"This analysis helps us understand the full range of damage in New Jersey and shows whether the resources available adequately meet the needs," said Kiki Jamieson, president of The Fund for New Jersey. "This report opens the door for wide-ranging conversations about how to improve our state's readiness for and response to future events. From what is reported here, particular attention should to be paid to the needs of ALICE residents."
In addition to the impact on many towns, the report finds that more than half of the 1.1 million low-income and ALICE (Asset Limited, Income Constrained, Employed) households across the state were dealt a severe blow in residential damage as well as lost wages and added expenses from the power outages and gas shortage. The $1.7 billion in recovery assistance received by these households so far is woefully short of the $4.1 billion in overall costs.
"Low-income and ALICE families were disproportionately impacted by Sandy," Halpin said, "incurring more than half of all residential damage, but receiving less than 30 percent of the recovery assistance." The majority of these families – already struggling to afford basic necessities such as housing and food – did not have homeowners or flood insurance, according to the report.
Low-income and ALICE families faced the greatest hardship in Hudson County, followed closely by Bergen, Monmouth, Middlesex, Ocean and Essex counties.
"This report reminds us that the well-being of our state's economy is directly tied to this very vulnerable ALICE population," said United Way of Northern New Jersey CEO John Franklin. "I hope this research brings to light the urgency of helping ALICE recover, as that will ultimately help all our residents."
For a full copy of the report, visit http://njdatabank.newark.rutgers.edu/special-sandy. Municipal level data is also available on http://njdatabank.newark.rutgers.edu/profilecomparison.
About Rutgers-Newark School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA)
The School of Public Affairs and Administration (SPAA) at Rutgers-Newark educates and motivates students to choose careers in public service and administration through its innovative and comprehensive undergraduate (BA), Master of Public Administration (MPA), Executive Master of Public Administration (EMPA), PhD, and professional and graduate certificate programs. The school's faculty generates knowledge and best practices in public service and administration, and collaborates with public and nonprofit sector organizations and professionals throughout the U.S. and the world. Guided by the principles of knowledge, competence, diversity, and service – with an emphasis on public service values and competencies for effective performance – SPAA promotes accountability, transparency, and performance in the public and nonprofit sectors. Visit: http://spaa.newark.rutgers.edu.
U.S. News & World Report ranks Rutgers SPAA in Newark:
- 4th nationally in Information and Technology Management
- 7th nationally in Public Management/Administration
- 10th nationally in Public Finance and Budgeting
- 11th nationally in City Management and Urban Policy
- 18th nationally in Nonprofit Management
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State Revenues Fell Short of Expectations in March
ST. PAUL, Minn. (AP) — Minnesota's tax collectors took in slightly less than they were counting on in February and March, but finance officials aren't sounding alarms.
The state drew $67 million, or 2.5 percent, less than forecasters were predicting. A budget update released Thursday by the Department of Minnesota Management and Budget says the shortage had to do with timing issues in payments they expect to come in later.
Income taxes for individuals outpaced expectations by 2.2 percent.
The report looks only at revenue and not at spending. Still, finance officials are adjusting economic growth estimates down a tad, which was partly attributed to the bad winter around the country causing disruptions and caution in the economy.
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BERLIN (Reuters) - The U.S. central bank must end its bond-buying program quickly and an end to the program was "in sight", a senior Federal Reserve official said in a German magazine on Saturday.
Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke jolted markets in late May with plans to ease back on stimulus efforts once the economy improves. The Fed is likely to reduce its monthly bond purchases later this year and stop them altogether by mid-2014, as long as the economic recovery unfolds as expected, Bernanke has said.
"We must make our exit from the bond-buying program quick," Richmond Fed President Jeffrey Lacker, one of the Fed's most fiscally conservative officials and a persistent critic of the latest round of bond buying, said in WirtschaftsWoche.
"An end to these bond purchases came into sight at the latest Fed meeting," said Lacker, who is not among the Fed policymakers who will vote on monetary policy this year.
Lacker pointed to relatively low inflation and said a faster-than-expected fall in the U.S. jobless rate was sufficient to start winding down the program.
"First of all we should end the monthly purchases of mortgage bonds as quickly as possible," Lacker said in the interview. It was not the central bank's role to give any sector preferential support, he said.
Lacker said the United States had made hardly any progress in cutting its debt and had instead only come up with temporary solutions for several months at a time.
He said he hoped the Fed's planned scaling back of bond purchases this year and rising interest rates would force the U.S. Congress to agree more quickly on reducing debt. "We need a sustainable solution and the sooner the better," he said.
Whoever takes the helm at the Fed when Bernanke's term as chairman ends in January 2014 must find a way to exit the bond-buying program without shocking the markets, Lacker said.
He said the quantitative easing program had done little to boost the economy, and the U.S. economy would grow by 2 percent this year and by no more than 2.25 percent next year - lower than the 2.8 percent in 2013 and 3 percent in 2014 forecast by other Fed policymakers - as consumers remain cautious.
Lacker said more needed to be done on drawing up rules to avoid future government bank rescues and said stress tests done in the United States were a step in the right direction.
Reporting by Michelle Martin; Editing by Louise Ireland


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Description for 1421 NE 23rd Ter Cape Coral, FL 33909
Nice Freshwater Lot in a Great Location Close Schools, Shopping, Del Prado and The Pine Island Corridoor.
Cape Coral
Nice Freshwater Lot in a Great Location Close Schools, Shopping, Del Prado and The Pine Island Corridoor.
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Sales to list price98.1%
Properties sold234
Median sq ft price$124
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Despite dominating play, a late goal from Kansas City's Jose Burciaga handed the Dynamo their first loss. Brian Ching netted his fifth goal in two games, but Dwayne De Rosario was ejected in the second half and Houston went down to defeat.
Kansas City Wizards (2-0-0) vs. Houston Dynamo (1-1-0)
April 08, 2006 -- Robertson Stadium, Houston, TX
Scoring Summary:
HOU -- Brian Ching 5 (Kevin Goldthwaite 1) 64
KC -- Sasha Victorine 1 (Jose Burciaga Jr. 1) 66
KC -- Jose Burciaga Jr. 1 (Sasha Victorine 1) 90
Kansas City Wizards -- Bo Oshoniyi, Jose Burciaga Jr., Nick Garcia, Matt Groenwald (Alex Zotinca 82), Shavar Thomas, Jack Jewsbury (Tyson Wahl 94+), Sasha Victorine, Josh Wolff, Kerry Zavagnin, Davy Arnaud, Eddie Johnson.
Substitutes Not Used: Will Hesmer, Jermaine Hue, Ryan Pore, Scott Sealy, Lance Watson.
Houston Dynamo -- Pat Onstad, Ryan Cochrane, Kevin Goldthwaite, Kelly Gray, Adrian Serioux, Wade Barrett (Brad Davis 95+), Ricardo Clark (Ronald Cerritos 87), Dwayne De Rosario, Brian Mullan, Brian Ching, Alejandro Moreno (Eddie Robinson 79).
Substitutes Not Used: Patrick Ianni, Marcus Storey, Craig Waibel, Zach Wells.
Misconduct Summary:
HOU -- Kevin Goldthwaite (caution; Obstruction) 16
KC -- Jose Burciaga Jr. (caution; Obstruction) 54
KC -- Davy Arnaud (caution; Tackle from Behind) 71
HOU -- Brian Mullan (caution; Obstruction) 73
HOU -- Dwayne De Rosario (ejection; Serious Foul Play) 32
KC -- Shavar Thomas (caution; Tackle from Behind) 84
KC -- Jose Burciaga Jr. (ejection; Second Caution) 91+
Referee: Erich Simmons
Referee's Assistants: Bill Dittmar, Anthony Vasoli
4th official: Shane Moody
Attendance: 20,342
Weather: Sunny, 72 degrees
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Filling a Shape with a Graphic in Office 2011 for Mac
In Office 2011 for Mac applications, shapes can be filled with a picture from a file or filled with one of several textures from a menu by way of the Picture or Texture tab of the Format Shape dialog. Patterns are geometric designs that use two colors, and they're accessed from the Pattern tab in the Fill panel of the Format Shape dialog.
Choose Picture: Click the Choose Picture button to display the Choose a Picture dialog. Browse or use Search to find a picture file and then click Insert, and your selection fills the shape.
From Texture: Click the From Texture pop-up menu to look through some texture options. Unlike pictures, textures tile (most of the time, seamlessly) in the shape area.
Transparency: Drag the slider or use the spinner control.
Rotate with shape: When selected, the picture or texture rotates when the shape itself is rotated.
Tile: When selected, the texture or picture is tiled within the shape. By using this option, you can make any picture behave like a texture.
Some occasions when you might use the pattern option to fill your shape include:
When filling shapes (especially in charts and graphs) that will be used for publication, especially when you are limited to two color prints as in black and white.
When you want to make it easier for color-blind people to distinguish colored areas by adding visual cues.
When you plan to print your output in black and white, or grayscale.
Whenever you desire a high-contrast fill.
Using a pattern is a matter of clicking a pattern to choose it. The default is black and white, but you can adjust foreground and/or background color as you please by clicking the Foreground Color and Background Color swatches.


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