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Project Support
Here you will find answers to some common questions about Earth Island's Project Support Programs.
What is a fiscal sponsor?
Fiscal sponsors are tax-exempt, charitable ventures that, according to a June 2012 IRS report*, "have the ability to receive charitable contributions for specific projects, the infrastructure to ensure compliance with applicable federal and state laws and adequate internal controls to ensure that the funds will be used for the intended charitable purposes." More information about fiscal sponsorship can be found on the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors web site: www.fiscalsponsors.org
Though fiscal sponsorship is sometimes described as a purely administrative relationship, at Earth Island it is a tool for providing support, building capacity, and creating community for grassroots environmental projects and activists.
* From the IRS Advisory Committee on Tax Exempt and Government Entities; Report of Recommendations June 6, 2012
Where can I get more information about Fiscal Sponsorship?
Earth Island Institute was a founding member of the National Network of Fiscal Sponsors, a professional organization for fiscal sponsors. They have some very good information on their web site, including a number of useful articles available for download from their Resources for Learning.
In addition, Gregory L. Colvin's book Fiscal Sponsorship: 6 Ways To Do It Right does a great job of describing different models of fiscal sponsorship and how they might apply to different types of projects. The book can be ordered through the San Francisco Study Center.
Does Earth Island provide projects with financial support?
Earth Island is not a grant-making organization. As described above, fiscal sponsorship describes the relationship of a sponsored project to the sponsoring organization. That said, the services provided by Earth Island have financial value and our projects receive those services even in advance of securing funding. In that way, we make an investment in the projects we support even though it is not through the direct transfer of funds.
How long does it take to become a project of Earth Island Institute?
In general, it takes between three and four months for a project to submit a project application, go through the review process, get adopted by the Board of Directors, and complete orientation. That said, ours is quite a selective process and not all projects that apply are adopted.
We consider new projects four times a year, and there are application deadlines June 1, September 1, December 1, and March 1. For more information about the project application process, please go to the Start a Project section of this site.
I'm not an environmental project, can you recommend another fiscal sponsor?
A good place to start is the Fiscal Sponsor Directory which can be found at: http://www.fiscalsponsordirectory.org/
Do I need funding to qualify for sponsorship?
No. Earth Island Institute does not require confirmed funding to qualify for sponsorship. However, it will be the responsibility of the sponsored project to raise the funds needed to implement their programs and reach their goals.
What if I'm already a 501(c)(3) organization, can I still get Earth Island sponsorship?
Yes, we will consider applications from existing 501(c)(3) organizations. However, Earth Island projects are required to do all of their business through Earth Island so once sponsored your existing 501(c)(3) will have to be closed or made dormant.
What if I'm working with another fiscal sponsor, can I transfer to Earth Island?
Yes, we will consider applications from projects wishing to transfer from another fiscal sponsor. Please make sure you indicate your current status in your application to Earth Island and we can discuss the specific steps in making this type of transition. Please note, the process requires the cooperation and support of your current fiscal sponsor so you are encouraged to discuss your plans with them as early as possible.
What if I need a sponsor immediately – before the next review cycle?
Under certain circumstances we will consider a project application outside of our normal review cycle; however, this is quite a labor intensive process so it is the exception rather than the rule. If you think that your project should be considered for expedited review, please submit a letter with your proposal describing the reason for your request. You will be contacted for more information and/or a decision regarding your request.
What if I only need sponsorship for a short period of time? (e.g. your waiting for your 501(c)(3) status to be approved.)
Earth Island cannot provide short-term fiscal sponsorship. Project applicants are asked to commit to a sponsorship period of one year or longer.


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Rome, Italy, Jan 24, 2013 / 02:55 pm (CNA/EWTN News).- The new head of the Vatican Television Center says he was surprised when he was asked to lead one the Church's important outlets for communicating the Pope's teachings.
"It was an unexpected appointment because they were looking for me a week ago but I was visiting Brazil for a formation course for a favella's children project in the Catholic University of Rio de Janeiro," said Monsignor Dario Edoardo Viganò, who will be replacing Father Federico Lombardi as director of the center.
Msgr. Viganò recounted for CNA on Jan. 23 how he received the call from the Vatican's Secretary of States, Cardinal Tarcisio Bertone, as he was going to meet a religious sister who works with children whose parents are in jail.
"I then began dialoguing with Fr. Lombardi about this complicated world because the Vatican TV isn't a television channel, it's a center for documentation," he recalled.
"I'm just taking the first steps, and I'm really grateful to Fr. Lombardi, who is accompanying me with affection and benevolence, and the whole team at the Vatican TV," he said.
But Fr. Lombardi, 70, will continue fulfilling his other duties as director of the Vatican's press office and head of Vatican Radio.
Vatican TV records all of the Pope's images, not just those that go public, but also private meetings with ambassadors and heads of state.
"It's a job that entails documenting all images on the one hand, but also choosing those that will be the fountain for studying the history of the Church," Msgr. Viganò said, adding that his new post will be a full-time job.
He gave the example of how videos taken during Vatican Council II allow people to have a better understanding of it.
"I think the Pope's images are a way of sharing the words of his teachings, proclaiming the Gospel, and (sharing his teaching with) local churches,""We want to find all ways through digital media so that these images can best reach those who need them the most," he added.
According to the Brazilian priest, it is very important to spread these messages in a pastoral way.
He also believes that the Vatican's radio, TV and newspaper outlets should integrate and improve the way they share information.
"We all work with passion for the Church and to spread the Gospel, but converging is better than competing," said Msgr. Viganò, who is also a member of the Pontifical Theological Academy.
He said that young people today cannot imagine life without internet and that ''territory'' today takes on a whole new meaning.
"There's no difference now between being online and offline, or even a contrast," he said after highlighting the importance of theology in communication.
"There must be competence with modern technology and the fact that Pope has started using Twitter is important," said Msgr. Viganò.
He noted that we're called to use technology, but in a Christian way.
"This can only be born, not out of will, not out of thinking, but out of the new life in the Spirit," he said.
"Only like this will one be a communication professional as a Christian that knows how to testify to the Gospel," Msgr. Viganò remarked.
"The Church's relevance will be born when we learn again the language of giving testimony," he added.

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President Barack Obama praises former New York Mayor Ed Koch as an "extraordinary mayor, irrepressible character, and quintessential New Yorker." Koch died Friday of congestive heart failure at the age of 88.
Obama said Koch took office when New York was in a fiscal crisis and helped the city's economic revival. He applauded Koch's energy and force of personality. He took note of Koch commitment to causes, including Israel's security.
The topic of Israel created a rift between the president and Koch during Obama's first term, a rift that Koch said was patched after the president came out in a U.N. speech against the Palestinians' bid for statehood.
Obama said he and first lady Michelle Obama send prayers to Koch's loved ones "and to the city that survives him."
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Part of the work of Kulanu is to collect the traditions of people who are outside the mainstream of Jewish thought, and thereby expand and enrich the meaning of he Diaspora. To the many other traditions that Rabbi Avichail and Kulanu have collected -- the Ethiopian Jews, the Shinlung Menashe, the Afghan tribes -- I now add the traditions of the Sons of Joseph.
Rabbi Avichail's book, The Tribes of Israel, refers to the Sons of Joseph on page 43, and includes a source stating that the Yusuf-Sai (Sons of Josef) are among the bravest of the Afriti families in Afghanistan (page 94). But I believe this is the first report of the history of the Sons of Joseph in Ireland, England and America, and of Kulanu's efforts to establish contacts between the Yusuf-Sai in Afghanistan and the Sons of Joseph in America.
As with all traditions of the Diaspora, whether collected by Rabbi Avichail or by others, there is always the question of how much credence to give them. I make no claim that the traditions of the Sons of Joseph are true. What meaning to give these traditions is a matter for conjecture. I claim only that these traditions were passed down by generations of my ancestors, and that I in turn have passed them on to my children. Unfortunately, historical records to validate these claims go back only a few hundred years.
My ancestors claimed to be descendants of the biblical Joseph who was sold into Egypt. They say Jacob took only two of Joseph's sons for the House of Israel, and gave the birthright of Abram to Joseph's other sons, to live separate and apart from the House of Israel, as Joseph had predicted in his dreams.
My ancestors believed that before the Diaspora the Sons of Joseph visited with the Children of Israel. However, there was continual bickering and enmity between the Children of Israel and the Sons of Joseph. The Sons of Joseph made predictions and the Children of Israel rejected them even as they were made.
Eventually the Sons of Joseph predicted that the Northern Kingdom would be sent into exile. Some of the Sons of Joseph went with the Northern Kingdom so that one day these people could be reclaimed. Eventually the Southern Kingdom was also sent into exile.
My ancestors say that the Sons of Joseph operated trade routes with bases in Egypt, along the coast of Africa, across the Mediterranean, around Spain, and up to the British Isles and Ireland. During the Diaspora they claim the Sons of Joseph settled Jews along these coastal trade routes.
As traders from Egypt, the Sons of Joseph were the natural enemies of Rome. The Laney coat of arms honors their fight against Emperor Maximinus in 311 C.E.. in Northern Wales. During this fight Catherine of Alexandria accused the pagan Emperor Maximinus of persecuting the Sons of Joseph because of their religion. The Emperor ordered Catherine broken on torture wheels. The wheels broke, and Catherine was beheaded instead. The Sons of Joseph carried Catherine's body to Mt. Sinai. Later Emperor Justinian I built a tomb for Catherine on Mt. Sinai. When Rome spread the doctrine of Christianity by military force, the Sons of Joseph retreated to their bases in Eire, England and elsewhere, retaliated against Roman shipping, and predicted the eventual fall and rebirth of Rome. It also appears they became Freemasons in their fight for religious freedom.
According to my ancestors, for many generations a branch of the Sons of Joseph transported the King of Spain and his troops to Ire (Ireland). Eventually the King of Spain was defeated and an Irish chieftain married his daughter into the Sons of Joseph to keep the peace beyond the Slaney River in Southern Eire. In Gaelic the Sons of Joseph were called Dubslaines, "the dark-haired ones of Slaney." Their English surname was Laney.
My ancestors say that the Sons of Joseph frequently acted as spiritual advisers. In the Middle Ages they hoped the Protestant Reformation in England would allow monotheism to be openly practiced again. Benjamin Laney (1591-1675), the personal adviser to Kings Charles I and Charles II, was appointed successively as the Bishop of Petersborough, Lincoln, and Ely, and argued strenuously for religious freedom in the Councils. However, the doctrine of the Trinity once again prevailed and religious freedom was again restricted.
As religious dissenters the Sons of Joseph were some of the first to seek freedom in America. Bassingcourne Laney married Katherine Poling, the daughter of Edmund Poling, and provided for her in his will when they sailed for America with the James town Colony in 1607. Other relatives followed. In 1619 Captain Christopher Laney (Lenne) was elected to the House of Burgesses. Despite their best efforts, religious freedom was once again restricted. In 1670 the Laneys helped found Charles Town Colony to reassert their freedom. They also supported Quaker meeting houses as another way to promote freedom. Many Laneys served during the Revolutionary War. Titus Laney received a retroactive pension of $120 in 1836 at the age of 102. He claimed he was too ill to work regularly. (Archives, Columbia, S.C.)
In 1784 the state legislature of North Carolina, in general assembly at Newbern, the state capitol, held a hearing on a criminal matter and called Solomon Laney as a witness. Some members of the legislature objected that Laney was a Jew, that he was constantly transporting other Jews to the state, and that he did business with Jews. While Laney admitted bringing Jews to the Carolinas, he insisted that he was a Son of Joseph and not strictly a Jew himself. He demanded the right to testify. A divided general assembly voted to accept Solomon Laney's testimony, but as evidence of their continuing division the official record states that "Mr. Laney, a Jew, was sworn...." The Laneys always accept this distinction with pride.


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Meet the Manning Finalists – Tony Pike park
Tony Pike (Cincinnati, Senior) led the Big East in total offense this season, averaging 263.1 yards per game. Despite missing nearly four full games due to injury, he still completed 184-of-293 passes for 2,350 yards with 26 touchdowns and just six interceptions. His pass efficiency rating of 155.4 is first in the conference and ninth nationally. He also leads the Big East with an average 261.1 passing yards per game. He threw for two or more touchdowns in every game in which he played this year, including three touchdowns and the game-winner with 33 seconds to go as the Bearcats topped Pitt to capture the Big East title in the season finale. Pike will lead Cincinnati to its first Sugar Bowl appearance, Jan. 1 on FOX at 7:30 p.m. CT. Despite being their first time in the Sugar Bowl, Pike and the Bearcats are no strangers to New Orleans or the Superdome having played at Tulane six times and in the 2002 New Orleans Bowl in the 'Dome.
The Manning Award was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl in honor of the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the only quarterback award that takes into consideration the candidates' bowl performances.
The first five winners of the Manning Award reads like a Who's Who list at the quarterback position. USC's Matt Leinart was the inaugural winner of the award in 2005, followed by Texas' Vince Young in 2006. Both went on to be top 10 NFL draft picks. In 2007, LSU's JaMarcus Russell earned the award and was the NFL's No. 1 draft pick. Boston College's Matt Ryan claimed the award in 2008 and was drafted No. 3, quickly becoming the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. Last season's winner was Florida's Tim Tebow, who is making his bid to become the first two-time winner of the honor this year.


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Supporters of a measure that would have expanded background checks for firearm purchases decried the bill's death in the Senate last month. But was the defeat really such a bad thing?
Had it passed, the new law would have been hailed as a historic breakthrough by "anti-gun" forces and a historic mistake by "pro-gun" forces. But on the ground, where American citizens are being shot and killed every day, nothing much would have changed.
That's the way things have gone for decades in the grinding American culture war over guns. Nearly 20 years ago, gun control advocates fought a bitter war to pass the Brady bill, the beginning of background checks for firearms. They predicted massive crime reductions, which did not come. An assault weapons ban followed, with the same predictions and same insignificant results. When the law expired, there were doomsday expectations of soaring body counts, which we didn't see. As the concealed-carry movement has swept the country, opponents have warned of public shootouts, while those in favor anticipated armed citizens stopping predators in the streets. Neither really happened.
SLIDE SHOW: The 10 trigger-happiest states in America
The fact is that most of the recent debate entirely missed the point about the nature of most gun violence in America. The largest share — up to three-quarters of all homicides in many cities — is driven by gangs and drug crews. Most of the remainder is also concentrated among active criminals; ordinary citizens who own guns do not commit street robberies or shoot their neighbors and wives. Measures aimed at high-capacity magazines and military-style semiautomatic rifles, which could conceivably have helped address Newtown-style shootings, had been stripped from the bill that died in the Senate.


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The Common Council will consider a lower first-time permit fee for food trucks when it meets at 2 p.m. Tuesday in Council Chambers.
North Council Member Joseph Golombek is sponsoring legislation to lower the first-time fee from $1,000 to $800.
The Council passed legislation governing the trucks in March, which created a new, lower cost of $500 for trucks that have already paid for a license.
The $1,000 fee for trucks applying for the first time, established in 2012, was good for 15 months. This new $800 fee will cover 12 months, and therefore is comparable, as both equal $200 per three-month quarter, Golombek said.
The Council will also review appointments to three city boards, though it does not have a vote on them.
Mayor Byron W. Brown has appointed city engineer Michael J. Finn to the Water Board for one year; Don Gilbert, former vice president of the Allentown Association, to the Preservation Board; and Franz H. Ross, a certified general real estate appraiser, to the Appraisal Review Board.
Also this week:
• The Council will hold its pre-meeting caucus at 2 p.m. Monday in Room 1417 of City Hall.
• The Preservation Board will meet at 3 p.m. Thursday in Room 901 of City Hall.
• Pinnacle Charter School Board of Trustees is holding a meeting at 6 p.m. Monday, 115 Ash St.


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The Cobras offense was led by Megan Haupt, Margaret Madison and Lauren Larsen. Haupt had 14 kills, 16 digs and four aces in the match, while
Coker now prepares to face-off against the Bobcats of Lees-McRae College on Saturday at 2:00 p.m. at Coker's Timberlake-Lawton Gymnasium. The match will be a battle between the second place, Lees-McRae, and third place, Coker, teams in the CVAC.


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AMERICAN GANGSTER See film feature.
BEE MOVIE After making a mint off a series about nothing, Jerry Seinfeld apparently decided his first feature film ought to be about something in the case of Bee Movie , the enslavement and torture of bees for the pleasure and profit of humans, which is, like, hilarious. Alas, theres only so much you can do with talking bugs that hasnt already been covered in A Bugs Life , Antz and The Ant Bully . For all the muscle and money behind Bee Movie , it still feels unfocused and unfinished. The funniest moments in Bee Movie are the Seinfeld -esque throwaway lines the bit about women and toe rings (Its like putting a hat on your knee), the gag about TiVo (You mean you can just freeze live TV? Thats insane .). And then theres Chris Rock as a mosquito. Rock has but two scenes in the film, but he needs a hundred more. Give the man his own movie, please, if only because itd bee far better than this one. (Citywide) (Robert Wilonsky)
BEFORE THE DEVIL KNOWS YOURE DEAD See film feature.
DARFUR NOW Can-do pep is the resonant key in Ted Brauns profile of six individuals, spread across three continents, working to provide relief in western Sudan. Featured are a sheik displaced by internecine warfare, International Criminal Court prosecutor Luis Moreno-Ocampo, a young L.A.-based activist and . . . Don Cheadle. The film tarries briefly on outright atrocity, moving through an abridged history of Darfur, then lets its subjects explain what regenerating the region means to them, and why it should matter to humanity as a whole. But where the right images could be profound, incontrovertible and traumatic, testimony is only worth so much (and the film will severely test the average viewers threshold of forbearance for self-righteous Californians). If you evaluate Darfur Now against the goals it sets for itself as a stirring call to action it must be considered lacking. The filmmaking is undistinguished, and the images taken from the conflict, though tragic dust-blanched refugee camps, an AK-47 in every other pair of hands will be difficult for the theoretical average, uncommitted viewer to distinguish from the familiar picture of endangered sub-Saharan Africa. The argument can be made that the subjects urgency excuses the need for artfulness; the opposite, of course, is true. (Sunset 5) (Nick Pinkerton)
GO FAT GIRLS Not many fat girls appear in Fat Girls , but thats not a problem: In this movie, nearly anyone can be a fat girl its a mental state, one that Rodney (writer-director-star Ash Christian) tends to assign to the stranger members of his entourage, and that we may recognize in the entire oddball cast. Rodney is a gay high-school senior and a spiritual fat girl; his best friend, Sabrina (Ashley Fink), is a literal one. They mope in and out of classrooms wearing expressions of gaping, undisguised horror that alone justify the existence of this film. Rodneys characteristic awkwardness is so severe as to inhibit most normal conversation, and it sometimes escalates from amusing to tragic, as when he rejects comfort after his fathers death. He engages more successfully with the imaginary worlds of porn and plays, and dreams of starring on Broadway. Dont worry: He isnt talented. This film goes to some lengths not to be another high-school movie, which means prom stinks and no one can sing. Given Fat Girls honesty, and its delicately drawn examples of social hopelessness, the sudden, sugary, puzzling finale feels out of character. Its as though the film forgot how to talk to us. (Regent Showcase) (Abigail Deutsch)
THE GENIUS CLUB Tom Sizemore is no Tobin Bell, but hes certainly believably psychotic as a mad genius who wants to play a deadly game with the president of the United States (Jack Scalia as a kind of conservative idealization of Dubya) and a group of the worlds smartest people. Communicating via some kind of untraceable video uplink, he asks them questions about how to solve all the worlds problems famine, war, racism, cancer, even the lack of electric cars. If they fail to get the correct answers, hell set off a nuclear bomb. And since Stephen Baldwin is apparently the worlds smartest man, well, were probably all doomed. Though its hard to tell how much stock The Genius Club writer-director Tim Chey expects us to put in Sizemores rants, most of the movie is surprisingly effective at feeding the audience a liberal critique of capitalism, cleverly disguised as a thriller. Which makes the geniuses final conclusion all the more incongruous we dont have to tell you what it is if youre familiar with Stephen Baldwins recent extracurricular activities or know that Chey previously directed a documentary called Impact: The Passion of the Christ , which posited that a lack of faith in Jesus was the cause of the Columbine massacre. Still, Cheys got chops, and if he can widen his taste in music beyond the pap that passes for contemporary Christian, he might even have a future in secular Hollywood. (Grande 4-Plex) (Luke Y. Thompson)
THE GOOD NIGHT Director Jake Paltrows feature debut has all the hallmarks of an earnest young mans feature debut, and while that is not necessarily a bad thing, I can only imagine that it fit Sundance like a fingerless glove when it premiered there earlier this year. Paltrow, a veteran TV and film scriptwriter, has chosen the quirky relationship drama as his milieu and cast older sister Gwyneth as deathly drab Dora, the female half of the films rapidly staling couple. Martin Freeman, working the last five minutes out of that butter-knife pixie cut and its attendant charms, plays Gary, a failed musician and emotionally absent boyfriend slumming in the jingle racket to make ends meet. When a kohl-eyed, white-tuxedoed beauty played by Penelope Cruz begins visiting Gary in his dreams, bearing soothing tidings of well-being and the occasional morning hard-on, Gary retreats from the truly awful Dora into his good night. Its unclear why either half of this interminable couple ever liked the other, and though Paltrow works up a vivid, sensual zetz for the dream sequences, the murky palette of Garys waking life gets oppressive in its intentional contrast. Not even the nice twist of a fantasy made unexpectedly, then expectation-crushingly, real can uncork the hermetically sealed if largely inoffensive fate of this boy-meets-compromise tale. (Beverly Center) (Michelle Orange)
GO JOE STRUMMER: THE FUTURE IS UNWRITTEN Julien Temples engrossing portrait of the late Clash front man uses snippets of everything from Raging Bull to an animated Animal Farm along with archival scraps, performance clips and a mosaic of witness testimony to show how Joe Strummer kept punks precepts alive. From Los Angeles to New York to Ireland, friends, family and fans assemble around campfires to remember Joe as the glow fades into dawn. Its Strummers own voice a radio-show track filled with warmth and optimism that threads together the separate locales, along with snatches of favorite songs. Temples punk-bred refusal to identify (and thus privilege) any of his interview subjects onscreen can be maddening. (Scorsese, Bono and John Cusack I recognize; those two dozen middle-aged British guys, not so much.) But in the final shots of these makeshift gatherings silhouetted against the lightening sky, the individuals combine into a joyous, vibrant community larger than any one component. As a definition of punk, that probably would have worked for Joe Strummer. (Nuart) (Jim Ridley)
MARTIAN CHILD Martian Child certainly isnt much fun, unless you were desperately awaiting K-PAX with a kid instead of Kevin Spacey. Not that theres ever any question whether Dennis (Bobby Coleman) is actually a Martian, but the conceits more or less the same: The kid sports sunglasses, lest the sunlight melt his eyeballs; builds elaborate contraptions meant to connect him with his home planet; and spends his time conducting field research (which is to say, taking Polaroids) before the aliens return to spirit him back to Mars. And, like K-PAX , Martian Child equates mental instability and emotional detachment with the awwww-some cuteness of extraterrestrial life. This kids not troubled naw, he just wants to be E.T. All he needs is a home to phone. And thats provided by a man who knows nothing about being a father, John Cusacks David Gordon, a sci-fi writer who adopts Dennis and believes his own experiences as a boyhood outsider will allow him to heal the wounded child. But Cusack and Coleman feel like theyre in two separate movies Cusack in the one about the single dad trying to get his shit together, Coleman in the one about the strange boy who steals things and hangs upside down. Theirs is less a connection than a forced living arrangement brokered by agents and studio bosses. (Citywide) (Robert Wilonsky)
MEETING RESISTANCE Billed as an intimate portrait of Iraqs insurgency, Meeting Resistance the debut documentary from photojournalists-turned-filmmakers Steve Connors and Molly Bingham does a remarkable job of being the opposite. Instead of individualizing the jihadists, the film shows a series of characters who are blurred, faceless, nameless and generalized nonpersonas, with monikers like The Teacher, The Warrior and The Imam. So much for know thine enemy. With the identities of their subjects obscured, the filmmakers rely on indiscriminate shots of Iraqi daily life to illustrate the resistance: Men talking in a café are implicated as conspirators planning an attack; its like using customers in an Italian restaurant to represent Mafia hit men. Still, the film manages to capture the palpable frustration on the ground we hear one story of an Iraqi man who was so pissed off at being roughed up by a U.S. soldier that he bought an RPG and everyone condemns the American occupiers. Ultimately, Meeting Resistance is just one more doc about the monumental screwup that is the U.S. campaign in Iraq. For every additional day the Americans stay, the film suggests, they are only breeding more hatred and digging themselves into a deeper hellhole. (Fairfax) (Anthony Kaufman)
GO PARK The place is a desolate patch of tumbleweed and picnic tables overlooking L.A.s Baldwin Hills (oil derricks, routes to the airport). The time is lunch hour. A desperate depressive (Dagney Kerr) has come here to kill herself, though shes so mechanically challenged (wrong bullets for the gun, no hose for the muffler) that she has to borrow things from the equally brokenhearted driver (David Fenner) of a pet-shampoo truck parked a short distance away. The woman he adores, his pretty Polish co-worker (Izabella Miko), has donned a maids costume and is using her lunch hour to fuck the lights out of a wealthy suitor (William Baldwin) in the ritzy SUV bouncing on its shocks a few paces down the incline. That two characters who think theyre in love actually hate each other, and vice versa, is the sort of classical reversal writer-director Kurt Voelker serves up with fresh energy in this masterfully conceived and executed modern farce, whose performers earn belly laughs by grace of their honesty. Ricki Lake and Cheri Oteri, as aggrieved pals seeking to avenge themselves on both Baldwin and his SUV, ground their slapstick in such sharply etched feelings for each other that their over-the-top actions serve as a gateway to real poignancy. That is a consistent virtue of Park making the most of thrifty means to highly entertaining effect. (Music Hall) (F.X. Feeney)
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GO PRIMO LEVIS JOURNEY Sixty years after the Italian writer and Holocaust chronicler Primo Levi left Auschwitz and hitched a long, digressive ride home with a Russian convoy, filmmaker Davide Ferrario follows in his footsteps with a camera, a vivid imagination and intellectual ambition to burn. Tracking the journey that Levi described in his book The Truce (retitled The Awakening for American publication), this remarkable documentary takes us from the Polish concentration camp through Eastern and Central Europe, to Germany, and on back to Levis beautiful home town of Turin, where Ferrario also lives. What emerges is one visual essay on the rise and fall of communism after World War II (with guidance from Polish filmmaker Andrei Wajda and heroic Soviet propaganda footage), and another on the decline of the West that includes creeping corporate outsourcing and the resurgence of extreme nationalism. Part of the movies charm is Ferrarios openness to happenstance: His arrest by overzealous KGB apparatchiki in Belarus, and their subsequent help, makes its way into the movie, as does the day the filmmakers wandered into a meeting of neo-Nazis in Germany, where a woman who has had it up to here with apologizing for the Holocaust all but spits into the camera. Ferrarios richly idiosyncratic portrait of 21st-century Europe drains attention away from Levis subjective experience (narrated from the book by actor Chris Cooper) and draws what may be an overly straight line from Auschwitz to 9/11. But thats a tiny price to pay for this fascinating film, which does Levi (who appears in footage of his own return to Auschwiz) the supreme honor of refusing to guess at the reasons for his suicide in 1987. (Music Hall) (Ella Taylor)
GO QUANTUM HOOPS: THE CALTECH STORY The documentary Quantum Hoops is firmly rooted in a premise that Americans love and hold dear as a reflection of our collective mythological character: the story of the feisty underdog battling seemingly insurmountable odds. The underdogs in this film, however, are some of the most intellectually gifted people in the country, and the battle theyre waging is less a matter of life and death than one of simple pride. Director Rick Greenwald follows the 2006 Caltech basketball team as they try to break the schools 21-year losing streak thats over 240 consecutive conference losses. The Caltech Beavers are a surprisingly charming group of overachievers who prove to have as much heart on the court as they do brains in the classroom (almost all team members had perfect math scores on the SAT), which helps in the moments when the films energy flags. That happens mostly toward the beginning, as Greenwald spends what feels like too much time on the history of the school, its many noble prizewinners and the decline of its once-glorious athletic past. All that context pays off beautifully, though, in a final game thats filled with so many nail-biting twists and turns that, were this a Hollywood film, the audience would scoff at being so cynically manipulated. (One Colorado) (Ernest Hardy)
SAW IV In keeping with the series preference for the literal over the mythic, Saw IV offers no miraculous, Michael Myersstyle resurrection for torture artiste John Jigsaw Kramer (Tobin Bell), who went out with a bang at the end of Saw III and makes his first appearance here as the toe-tagged specimen in an autopsy scene so gruesomely detailed it could be used as a med-school primer. But if Jigsaw is gone, hes hardly forgotten: Soon, someone is up to Kramers old tricks, which this time means subjecting SWAT team commander Rigg (Lyriq Bent, a series regular since Saw II , which may make him the longest-surviving black character in horror-movie history) to the obligatory gauntlet of damned-if-you-do/dont puzzle boxes and Old Testament moralizing. But like the movies mysterious Jigsaw doppelgänger, Saw IV is itself a poor substitute for the original (or even the first two sequels), from the ho-hum deathtraps that seem designed by Rube Goldbergs less prodigal younger brother to the twist ending surprising only in its Agatha Christie obviousness. Much more gripping are the handful of flashback scenes that bring Kramer (and, in turn, the excellent Bell) back from the grave and offer new insight into the making of the movies most insidiously appealing quasi madman since Hannibal Lecter. May I propose a full-tilt prequel: Jigsaw Rising ? (Citywide) (Scott Foundas)
SHARKWATER As cinema progresses past some of the awareness-raising limitations of conventional journalism, were watching more docs on genocide, abortion, global warming, that whole pig-fuck of a war and just when you thought it was safe to take whats in the water for granted, illegal finning operations are wiping out the shark population. Toronto-based wildlife photographer and first-time filmmaker Rob Stewart spent five years on this ode to his lifelong aquatic obsession, which became a platform after Stewart fell in with Greenpeace co-founder Paul Watson and his merry crew of boat-ramming eco-pirates. Rather than paint a disembodied, March of the Penguins style nature portrait, or what might have been fantastic in an unbiased directors hands a film about Watsons fanatical crusade Stewart is his own star, a would-be Speedo model and whoa-dude narrator whose droning reflections get in the way of his stunning cinematography. No matter how much Jaws -hugging zeal he brings to the deck, Stewart has made a vain polemic that never addresses the finning industrys deep-seated cultural significance in Asia (where, rightly or wrongly, shark soup is a symbol of economic prestige), or elaborates on how the disrupted ecosystem affects us humans. (Beverly Center; Nu Wilshire) (Aaron Hillis)


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Only hours after a new trailer for "Lone Ranger" debuted online last week, the blogosphere flew into a tizzy questioning whether Johnny Depp's portrayal of Tonto is racist.
In the upcoming western, Depp's Tonto -- the sidekick to a masked Texas ranger played by Armie Hammer -- sports face paint and a headdress with a dead raven atop it. Some critics have taken issue with both Depp's costume and the fact that the role was not portrayed by a Native American actor. (For the record, Depp told Entertainment Weekly that in 2011, "I guess I have some Native American somewhere down the line.... My great grandmother was quite a bit of Native American, she grew up Cherokee or maybe Creek Indian.")
But Depp's co-star, 26-year-old Hammer, is puzzled by the claims of cultural insensitivity. The actor turned up in Las Vegas with Depp last Wednesday to unveil 20 minutes of new footage from the film to movie theater owners at CinemaCon. Before being honored as the Male Star of Tomorrow at the conference a day later, Hammer defended his film's depiction of Tonto, saying that the cast worked with many Native Americans on the project.
"They were nothing but excited about it. They loved it -- they're thrilled," the actor said in an interview. "It's so funny, because every Native American we talked to was like, 'This is awesome! I'm so excited.' And every white person we talked to was like, 'How dare you cast a non-Native American?' It's like, the white people are the one who have the problem, but the Indians -- the Native Americans -- are like, 'This is great. We love it.'"
"Lone Ranger," which hits theaters over the July 4 weekend, has already faced a number of hurdles. In 2011, Walt Disney Studios was forced to halt production on the film and slash the movie's growing budget. The studio says the film ended up costing about $225 million to produce.
In a summer filled with big-budget spectacle, Hammer believes "Lone Ranger" will stand out because at its core its "very grounded."
"There are so many movies coming out this summer -- "World War Z" and several big fictional films -- but this movie seemed more non-fictional," he said. "It's very grounded. It's very real. It's about two guys and the stresses and pressure of having to work together and deal with each other and not liking each other but then realizing you need each other. It's people. It's not boom-boom and explosions."


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Nick Fagen is over baseball – at least, as it pertains to high school sports.
Fagen, the rare teenager who cruises around town listening to Cubs games on radio, has worshiped baseball since he was a small boy, and consequently was crushed his freshman year at St. Charles East when he was cut from the baseball team.
"My heart just sank," Fagen said. "I was so upset, and I went out by the Norris Center and, this is kind of embarrassing, and I cried. I was so upset."
Looking for a new spring pasttime, Fagen gave boys volleyball a try freshman year. He liked it, but was lobbied extensively by one of his friends, Ian Salveson, to come out for water polo.
As a sophomore, he took the plunge, with no experience and scant knowledge of the sport.
Not surprisingly, in his own words, he was "absolutely horrible" at the beginning.
"I'd come home every day complaining to my mom," Fagen said. "I'd keep trying but I was bad."
So Fagen made a bold move, approached the Saints' coach at the time, Sean Markovic, and asked if he could shift to the goalkeeper position.
"He said 'You know what, go ahead, Nick,' " Fagen recalled. "After school that day I jumped in [at goalie] and I just heard all the kids say 'He's so good.' Everybody was just so supportive of me from then on, and I just rose up to the top."
Two-plus years later, Fagen has jumped on an offer to play water polo in college, and he can hardly believe it.
In late April, Fagen accepted a partial athletic scholarship offer to play men's water polo at Gannon University (Pa.), a Division II program. Gannon's recruitment unfolded quickly.
"I was just really stressed out because I thought I'd have more time to decide," Fagen said. "I have to go away from home and be farther away from my friends and my girlfriend. I just didn't know if I wanted to go there because I'd only visited once and I kind of liked other colleges but then I began to think what will happen if I don't go. … Although I did think I would get other [scholarship offers], there was no guarantee of that."
Fagen, one of the team's captains, and the Saints are nearing the end of a tumultuous season. First-year coach Jaclyn Weber resigned midseason, citing disrespectful behavior on the part of some team members, and the Saints' season was halted for a week as school officials scrambled to put a new coach in place.
The Saints concluded the regular season this week and are scheduled to compete against Metea Valley on Tuesday in a Neuqua Valley Sectional matchup. Fagen said the season's odd trajectory has made him "more emotionally connected" to the team.
"This team means the world to me," Fagen said. "I'm really going to miss it."
These days, the former pitcher and first baseman can't say the same about playing baseball. Time – and an unforeseen new path – has healed those wounds.
"I've seen one game," Fagen said of the Saints' baseball team. "I went and saw one game last year but I have emotionally detached because I found a team that I like more now, and when I think about it now, I thought I was good at baseball, but I think water polo got me way further than baseball ever could."
• Jay Schwab is sports editor of the Kane County Chronicle. He can be reached at 630-845-5382 or email@example.com.


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by Punchy » Fri Oct 18, 2013 9:49 am'Lights Out' continues to be a very enjoyable ride, as crazy shit continues to happen.
Justin Jordan picks up right after the destruction of Oa, as Kyle, Hal and the rest try to work out what to do next. Hal wants to go right back after Relic, but he is dissuaded from doing so by Paalko, the lead new Guardian. Hal then decides that the best plan of action would be to head over to Ysmault and get the Red Lanterns on side, which makes sense I guess, they haven't been weakened by Relic, and apparently their powers don't only spring from the Rings, but magic too. Plus Guy Gardner is undercover there. I don't read Red Lanterns, so don't ask me what's going on there.
But before that can happen, the Rainbow Pokemon that are the Entities (well, all of them except Red and Yellow) arrive, and zap themselves into Kyle for some reason. Kyle gets a snazzy new look (which I'm sure will be a new action figure in 5, 4, 3, 2…) and starts to fly off to parts unknown. Hal tries to attack Entity-Kyle with the Corps, but they just zap everyone to Ysmault, which is both convenient and inconvenient at the same time. Luckily for Kyle, the Guardians weren't zapped, and they are able to help free him, and we discover that my Pokemon analogy for the Entities is not just me being a snarky dick, as each Entity is able to defeat another one, like Rock/Paper/Scissors, or like Pokemon, and whilst there's normally balance, because Red and Yellow aren't there (I loved the ominous mention of Sinestro in this issue, it's going to be so great when he returns), Kyle can make them defeat one another and escape. But when he escapes, he knows what they knew, and it's a shocker… Relic is right, and they don't need to stop him, they need to help him! That's a great moment right there, and whilst I'm sure we will eventually find out that Relic isn't actually right, it's still great to have that seed of doubt.
In the other subplot, John Stewart's team make their way to the Indigo Tribe, and whilst that scene was mainly just moving stuff into place, I did like the 'Nok Nok' joke, very fun, in a story that is very dark. Brad Walker's artwork was once again very impressive, he's very underrated, and here he manages to make things that are ridiculous, actually look good, as well as make everything look suitably space-operatic.
This is a good book, and a strong crossover, but I do still feel that we haven't been given a chance to see what Justin Jordan can really do with Kyle Rayner, ever since his run started, we've had nothing but set-up for Lights Out, and now the actual story. I can't wait to see what this team can do when telling their own, separate story.
by IvCNuB4 » Fri Oct 18, 2013 10:02 amBrad Walker delivered some really nice art this issue.
by syxxpakk » Sun Oct 20, 2013 3:50 pmDon't forget the all-important statement by the Entities: Relic isn't the one weakening them. THE PLOT THICKENS~! As far as the Red Lanterns coming from magic as well, that's pretty well-known if you read Red Lanterns.
by IvCNuB4 » Sun Oct 20, 2013 3:58 pm
A few issues ago in "Green Lantern" Hal sent Guy undercover to infiltrate the Reds to gather intel. The plan was that once Guy got what Hal needed they would use St Walker to extract Guy and purge the Red ring and it's effects from him. But before that could happen Relic wiped out all the Blues (except St Walker) and their Power Battery so now Guy is stuck there and has been overcome by the power of Red.
by Draco x » Sun Oct 20, 2013 9:38 pmThe Pokemon analogy is funny.
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It was just a kiss... Besides azziz you misunderstood that post. yrneh12 was not stating he was just saying how it looks from an illustration as Tabitha is in her nighclothes there. But thats it, he cannot read japanese so he just guessed from an image and both of his guesses were incorrect.
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awesome thanks for the translations, I decided to skip volume 6 cause of agnes and finished all of volume 7 in 2 hours, i have to say the novel did the scene for the last chapter so much better then the anime.
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Volume 8 Question, If there anyone who kindly give me the summary...
About the Volume 8 Chapter 2, Is Saito dreaming or what?
and, I really want to know how Louise going to deal the situation without Saito's presence and how she going to find him and etc..
A Short Summary please?
Last edited by Sixth; 2008-10-16 at 20:00.
|2008-10-16, 07:35
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Can't you wait? I am translating it you know and at pretty solid pace too... Is it so necessarily to spoil yourself?
EDIT: See? 80% of the 2 chapter is already up...
Last edited by Darknemo2000; 2008-10-16 at 07:47.
|2008-10-16, 12:38
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Louise Fanatic
Join Date: May 2008
Well ihave some shitty news everybody... Looks like Seven Seas wint be releasing ZnT or any novels for that matter they say the economy isnt good enough so they are on a official Hiatus... Man that sucks the biggest balls...i guess its time for me to learn Japanese...and advice translators before i start lol
|2008-10-16, 13:08
|Link #1312
Senior Member
It's not really shitty news for me.
Well guess we must be happy we didnt stop translating after initial licensing, if we would have stopped back then then THIS would have been shitty news, but for now it goes to - 'so what' list.
|2008-10-16, 14:47
|Link #1315
Louise Fanatic
Join Date: May 2008
yea i want to collect them all and snce there is no chance of them releasing in english i would rather learn jap and then i wouldnt have to rely on crappy companies who take fans for granted... i also just listed like 20 figurines and i never knew there were so many...there was about 6 i never seen and im praying if i do start this new hobby of collecting figurines i will be able to find them all... and thanx for Vol7 i need to read that tomorrow
|2008-10-16, 16:44
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Join Date: Jun 2008
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Half way reading vol 7, I can't remember Julio from the anime, but in the novel I find him pretty annoying. And Louise in this vol reminds me of the bitchy Louise from the anime . I can't wait to reach the final battle episode
|2008-10-17, 09:31
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Louise Fanatic
Join Date: May 2008
i think she had every right to be Bitchy!!! Saito was being a baby IMO...He was only thinking of himself for the 10 days he was getting wasted lol...
As for her being deredere she hasnt started that yet....im only on chapter 5 and hopefully ill finish today... (slow reader )
EDIT what chapter does Louise and Saito have there almost deflowering moment?
Last edited by crystalalien87; 2008-10-17 at 09:42.
|2008-10-20, 10:37
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Louise Fanatic
Join Date: May 2008
oh man chap 7 of vol 7 was intense.... this might have been the only time i ever wanted Siesta to win saito over....and saito punked out...but for a good reason...
just finished Vol8 Chap 1 and damn the princess lol... i would read the next two but i have work
EDIT - all done and all i have to say is you where completely right about the disappearance of the runes on saitos hand... it made a ton of sense in the novel while the anime it made no sense... WOW what a difference... now im a little pissed... and saito was a little perverted with that dream he had...lol
Cant wait for more chapter to be translated thanks again Darknemo
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Charles Robert Darwin (1809-1882)
Darwin was a naturalist whose theory of evolution through natural selection transformed the way the natural world was understood. His ideas also influenced social and political movements of the late 1800s.
Darwin was born into a well-connected family in Shrewsbury, whose members included prominent writers, entrepreneurs and intellectuals. Having begun studies in medicine, in 1831 Darwin took a position on a scientific expedition. Over five years he travelled the world on the ship HMS Beagle. During this time, Darwin was exposed to a huge variety of geological features and plant and animal life.
On his return to London in 1836, Darwin began systematically exploring the mechanisms through which this variety was created. He was influenced by the ideas of Thomas Malthus, and suggested that those organisms best suited to a particular environment were more likely to reproduce. This has become known in popular culture as the 'survival of the fittest'. Over time, this would lead to change and variation between species.
Darwin developed his theories of evolution over two decades. He did not publish them until 1858, when he discovered that another naturalist, Alfred Russel Wallace, had developed similar ideas. In 1859 Darwin published On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection. The book immediately became controversial. Its implications for the traditional Christian view of creation were immense. It suggested that life had evolved over a far greater timespan than biblical accounts. It also suggested that humans were another form of animal life, rather than a divine creation. Darwin suffered from chronic illness all his life. There is still speculation about whether his symptoms were the type of nervous condition, relating to his concerns over the implications of his theories.
Darwin continued to publish books about human and animal revolution. His theories became immensely influential within biological sciences. His theories were also applied to social questions. Others used his ideas in developing theories such as eugenics and sciences of racial difference. There is continued debate about the connections that can be drawn between Darwin's own ideas and the uses to they were put by others.
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P J Bowler, Charles Darwin : the man and his influence (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996)
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J Browne, Charles Darwin: Power of Place v. 2: The Power of Place (London: Jonathan Cape, 2002)
A Desmond and J Moore, Darwin's Sacred Cause: Race, Slavery and the Quest for Human Origins (London: Allen Lane 2009)
A Desmond and J Moore, Darwin (London: Penguin Books, 1992)
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Tiverton is a town in Newport County, eastern Rhode Island, that borders Massachusetts.
Originally founded in 1694, Tiverton has since grown from what was originally mostly a farming community into a picturesque summer resort and residential area. Much of the town is located along a granite ridge which runs in a north-south direction, rising approximately 170 feet in elevation from the bay. A large section of exposed granite can be observed at the highway cut for Route 24, near the Main Road interchange. Tiverton was originally incorporated in 1694, as part of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. In 1746, in the final settlement of a long colonial boundary dispute between Rhode Island and Massachusetts, Tiverton was annexed to Rhode Island by Royal Decree (together with its fellow towns along the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay, Barrington, Bristol and Little Compton, and the town of Cumberland, to the north of Providence). Tiverton was then incorporated as a town of Rhode Island, in 1747. Until that same year, Tiverton controlled the area of East Freetown, Massachusetts, as an outpost. The boundary settlement of 1746 had put East Freetown in Massachusetts, and in 1747 it was purchased by Freetown, Massachusetts.
Men from the Tiverton outpost took part in the Battle of Freetown, on May 25, 1778, during the Revolutionary War. For about three years of that war, December 1776 – late 1779, Rhode Island proper (also known as Aquidneck Island, historically) was occupied by the British. During this time, Tiverton was a refuge for Americans fleeing this occupation, and a mustering place for Colonial forces, gathering to drive away the British. (The occupying forces eventually were withdrawn strategically, as General Clinton marshalled his forces for the 1780 British invasion of South Carolina.)
In its early days, Tiverton was chiefly a farming community with some fishing and boat construction. Until 1900 the manufacture of menhaden oil, a fish derivative, was one of the primary industrial pursuits. Cotton and woolen mills were established as early as 1811, when Colonel Joseph Durfee established a spinning mill at Cook Pond, in what it now the city of Fall River, Massachusetts.
In 1856, the northern part of the town was set apart from Tiverton, and re-named Fall River, Rhode Island, by the Rhode Island General Assembly. Then, on March 1, 1862, in a decision made by the United States Supreme Court, both Fall Rivers were made part of Massachusetts and the state boundary was placed in its current location near State Avenue.
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Tiverton is located on the eastern shore of Narragansett Bay, across the Sakonnet River from Aquidneck Island (also known as the Island of Rhode Island). Together with the adjacent town of Little Compton, the area is disconnected from the rest of the state of Rhode Island. The northern portion of the town is located on Mount Hope Bay. The northern portion of greater Tiverton is North Tiverton, Rhode Island. You can also reach Tiverton by traveling west of the town of Westport and south of the city of Fall River located in Massachusetts.
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While in Tiverton, one can visit Fogland Beach, which provides an excellent windsurfing area. You can also enjoy a wonderful view of the Portsmouth shoreline and Sakonnet River from the beach. Grinnell's Beach is also worth visiting. The Seapowet Marsh and Point Fishing Area has various coastal habitats and is popular for shellfishing. Shopping can be enjoyed at the Grand Central Shopping Center.
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