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A few years ago we received a call from a friend who had just seen one of our movies. "Congratulations!" he said. "I didn't want to yank out my eyes and stuff them in my ears."
That may sound like an odd sort of praise, but we specialize in writing family movies—"Kung Fu Panda," "Monsters vs. Aliens," "Alvin and the Chipmunks: The Squeakquel." These big-budget films are what studios call "four quadrant" pictures, because they're equally popular among male and female, young and old (and by old, Hollywood means "anyone over 30"). When done well, these movies can make a half billion dollars. When done poorly, they can make parents contemplate self-mutilation.
We've often had the experience of sitting in a theater with our own kids, watching the latest family film and being bored to tears, or even worse—being so annoyed we can't even take a good nap. But these sleepless moments have not gone to waste. They've allowed us to think long and hard about what it takes to make a successful four-quadrant film.
Make it funny. This may seem obvious (of course a comedy should be funny!), but what kids and adults find funny is often quite different. The successful family movie has to strike a balance between physical comedy for the kids (Po the panda gets hit in his "tenders") and verbal humor for the adults (narrator: "Legend tells of a legendary warrior whose kung fu skills were the stuff of legend.")
We always try to make the jokes as specific to the characters as possible, rather than a collection of one-liners that could be said by anyone in the film. When we're writing for these characters, we often find ourselves asking, "Would Tigress really say that?" It may seem strange, but if you don't imagine that these animated creatures are truly flesh and blood, the audience will sense that they are just joke-telling machines rather than characters worth caring about.
Make it serious. Just because a movie stars a fighting panda voiced by Jack Black doesn't mean that it can't have more on its mind than laughs. The plot of "Kung Fu Panda 2" has Po battling a villainous peacock who is bent on destroying kung fu. Along the way, the film deals with some big questions: Do our emotions make us stronger or weaker? Is it okay to hide the truth from someone to protect him? These themes give the adult audience a story with emotional resonance, which hopefully gives them less of a reason to doze off.
Make it big. Audiences come to family films hoping to see epic stories that transport them from their everyday lives: aliens invading Earth, superheroes duking it out with arch-villains, an evil peacock and his wolf army marching across China. Thanks to the technology now available to filmmakers, if we can imagine a plot, they can put it on screen. But being epic isn't enough.
Make it small. Underneath the spectacle, we still try to find a way to make the story personal. After all, very few members of the movie-going public are fat pandas chosen by a mysterious tortoise to be a legendary kung fu warrior. All of us, though, can relate to struggling with self-doubt or wondering if who we are is good enough. In a world of IMAX screens, 3-D projection and THX sound, we know we can reach our audience's eyes and ears. It's equally important to reach their hearts.
—Mr. Aibel and Mr. Berger are screenwriters whose latest movie, "Kung Fu Panda 2," opens Thursday.


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The incomparable and mysterious Sandy Koufax is revealed . This is an absorbing book, beautifully written. Wall Street Journal
Leavy has hit it out of the park A lot more than a biography. It's a consideration of how we create our heroes, and how this hero's self perception distinguishes him from nearly every other great athlete in living memory a remarkably rich portrait. Time
The instant New York Times bestseller about the baseball legend and famously reclusive Dodgers pitcher Sandy Koufax, from award-winning former Washington Post sportswriter Jane Leavy. Sandy Koufax reveals, for the first time, what drove the three-time Cy Young award winner to the pinnacle of baseball and then just as quickly into self-imposed exile.
Jane Leavy is an award-winning former sportswriter and feature writer for the Washington Post. She is the author of Sandy Koufax and the comic novel Squeeze Play, called the best novel ever written about baseball by Entertainment Weekly. She lives in Washington, D.C.
"An exhaustively researched study that paints an intriguing portrait of the famously reclusive Dodger pitcher."
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Last week, a wrecking team demolished a single-family home in the Washington Heights neighborhood in South Memphis. The effort, organized by United Housing Inc. and backed by the U.S. Department of Treasury, was the first of its kind to take place.
The receiver for the Warren and Tulane Apartments is in place with the notice filed in Memphis federal court last week that Foresite Realty Management LLC had accepted the job and that its bonding is in place.
The Tulane and Warren apartments are under the control of a court-appointed receiver.
U.S. District Judge Jon P. McCalla appointed Foresite Realty Management LLC of Rosemont, Ill., as the receiver of the two properties Tuesday, May 17, by a consent order.
It was a dark and stormy night. Well, dark but not really stormy – a little rain which is more than enough to activate all kinds of television mayhem and warnings that make your iPhone rattle and hum.
The Tulane and Warren Apartments are under the control of a court-appointed receiver.
U.S. District Judge Jon P. McCalla appointed Foresite Realty Management LLC of Rosemont, Illinois as the receiver of the two properties Tuesday, May 17, by a consent order.
The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co. wants a federal judge to appoint a receiver for the Warren and Tulane Apartments owned by Global Ministries Foundation, citing "an appearance of fraud" by GMF in a memorandum filed with the call for a receiver.
The Bank of New York Mellon Trust Co. wants a federal judge to appoint a receiver for the Warren and Tulane Apartments owned by Global Ministries Foundation citing "an appearance of fraud" by GMF in a memorandum filed with the call for a receiver.
Memphis City Council members approved an ordinance Tuesday, May 3, on the first of three readings to set boundaries in Overton Park including the use of the park Greensward.
But some council members who supported a March 1 resolution that gave the Memphis Zoo control of the greensward were much more hesitant about the ordinance two months later.
The Memphis Health, Education and Housing Facility Board is back in business. In a letter sent Wednesday, April 20, Tennessee Housing and Development Agency executive director Ralph Perrey told the Health & Ed board that it may immediately resume issuing bonds.
The Memphis Health, Education and Housing Facility Board is back in business.
In a letter sent Wednesday, April 20, Tennessee Housing and Development Agency executive director Ralph Perrey told the Health & Ed board that it may immediately resume issuing bonds.
Just when it appears the Tennessee Senate is made up of sensible people – as evidenced by the killing of de-annexation legislation – the body is changing course with a Bible-thumping measure.
It's time for the city's battle against blight to move beyond the byzantine path of legal barriers, grant programs and other hurdles that have defined a slow-moving process so far.
The process is slow-moving even by the standards of local government, where time is often the last consideration.
Every neighborhood in Memphis and Shelby County has the right to be free from the negative effects of vacant, abandoned and blighted properties. That's the battle cry of the Memphis Blight Elimination Charter, a 23-page pledge that will steer policy and programs dedicated to blight eradication.
WASHINGTON (AP) – Federal officials are encouraging generic drugmakers to develop painkillers that are harder to abuse, the latest in a string of steps designed to combat abuse of highly-addictive pain drugs like codeine and oxycodone.
Blighted properties, overgrown lots and abandoned buildings are not unique to Memphis. But Memphis is the only city with a blight elimination charter that affirms cross-sector commitment to uproot the causes of blight and prevent further decline.
The local effort to fight blight has been in recent years a machete-like action to cut through bureaucratic red tape and get possession of the most blighted properties.
So there have been a lot of press conferences where bulldozers are featured prominently to demolish the targeted property.
I grew up in Memphis, but like so many young people, moved away for college and lived in a few other cities before returning in 2012. I always missed my hometown and when I had the opportunity to choose where I wanted to build my career, Memphis was the only choice in my heart.
First it was a rumor – there would be a move by the Memphis City Council aimed at putting a quick end to the long-simmering Overton Park Greensward controversy.
It would come quickly and just before the start of the third spring of protests against the Memphis Zoo's use of the northern part of the Greensward for overflow parking.
Can You Feel It? Tuesday is election day in Memphis and across the state in this presidential election year. And all indications are the turnout locally should be above the 24 percent mark we've been at in the last two presidential election years.
There is a move at City Hall to call for a delay in the relocation of tenants out of Warren and Tulane apartments, the two apartment complexes owned by Global Ministries Foundation, that have failed two federal inspections.
The end of federal rent subsidies at two Memphis apartment complexes with a recent history of code violations will create some larger issues for the surrounding communities.
Those larger changes begin to unfold next week as federal officials meet with residents at each of the apartment complexes to talk about their move out of the aging complexes.
"This is historic," attorney Steve Barlow said at the inaugural meeting of the Blight Authority of Memphis, held Thursday, Jan. 21, at the Downtown Memphis Commission's office.
Janet Boscarino's career in business development had her traveling frequently. And while she always enjoyed coming home, one thing stood out that she hated: the amount of litter she saw across Memphis, especially compared to some of the cities she visited for business.
The Center City Revenue Finance Corp. approved up to $1.7 million in revenue bonds Tuesday, Jan. 12, for Memphis Cook Convention Center improvements.
Several Memphis apartment complexes with long records of neglect and crime issues are the targets of a renewed political and bureaucratic push to improve conditions.
The efforts are a new front in the recent city movement to tackle Memphis' blight problem. And it's a front that invites skepticism.
A week and a half after the October Memphis elections, a group of 16 employees in the city Public Works division filed a formal complaint of discrimination against their supervisor with the city's office of Equal Employment Opportunity Office.
How was your (hopefully long) weekend, Memphis? This week, more than most, is a time of change – of renewal, of turning the page, starting over. And of course, a time to ask the annual question: What are we going to do on New Year's Eve?
Memphis' development eye is turning inward and upward as mixed-use projects are becoming more common than ever before.
Usually a mode of survival for densely packed cities, residential, office, retail and even manufacturing are cohabitating in single mixed-use buildings or lots as a way to recoup Memphis' sprawl. Downtown and Midtown are being combed for infill and adaptive reuse possibilities as millennials are moving to the urban core in droves.
Cartwright Farms in the Collierville Commerce Center is a 165-acre lot well positioned for new industrial activity.
It has the infrastructure and utilities capability. It is served by U.S. 72, which just underwent a $20 million five-lane expansion. It's shovel-ready. It's one of the largest pieces of Collierville's 500 acres zoned industrial. All it needs is a little statewide attention.
SOUTHAVEN, Miss. (AP) — Southaven is wrestling with how to address blighted property, and answers aren't coming easily.
After more than 30 minutes of debate, aldermen last week tabled consideration of a proposed maintenance code offered by Mayor Darren Musselwhite and city staff. They agreed to further discussion on dealing with deteriorating residential properties, although two aldermen — Kristian Kelly and Raymond Flores — wanted a vote on the plan suggested by Musselwhite during a special meeting Sept. 4.
Memphis City Council members unanimously approved Tuesday, July 21, an indoor storage center planned development at 900 Reddoch Street along Poplar Avenue in East Memphis.
A discussion among Memphis City Council members about redistricting Tuesday, July 21, turned into the idea of changing the structure of the council to single-member districts and discarding the multi-member super districts the council has had since 1995.
NEW YORK (AP) – Is Donald Trump's business empire as Teflon-coated as his hair appears to be?
Trump has found himself on the receiving end of the catchphrase he made famous on his reality show "The Apprentice" – "You're fired!" – after NBC dumped the real estate mogul Monday over comments he made about immigrants during his recent presidential campaign kickoff speech.
Somer Smith and three colleagues were busy Thursday, June 11, cruising around the South End portion of Downtown on the lookout for neglected properties.
Smith, an associate at Brewer & Barlow PLC and a second-year student in the City and Regional Planning graduate program at the University of Memphis, was canvassing the area around Crump Boulevard and West Virginia Street as part of a volunteer force organized by the Downtown Memphis Commission to conduct a sweeping survey of property conditions.
Jeff Sanford has spent much of the past five years consulting on redevelopment projects in other cities.
But Sanford – who stepped down from his post as president of the Center City Commission, now the Downtown Memphis Commission, in 2010 – hasn't found another entertainment district comparable to Memphis' most famous street.
Claudia Rawn is used to talking about science, so when asked to speak about women in the STEM disciplines, she was a bit out of her comfort zone.
The speaking invitation came from organizers with the University of Tennessee's inaugural Women in STEM Research Symposium, held in April.
Based on several metrics related to the local economy in the first quarter, there would appear to be plenty of data to back up the optimism real estate professionals like Tommie Criswell, broker-manager for Crye-Leike's East Memphis office, say they feel at the moment.
When a group of elected leaders gathered a week ago at Goodwill Village apartments in North Memphis, they came to convey some sense of urgency about deteriorating conditions at the 47-year-old federally subsidized apartment complex.
For years, Judge Larry E. Potter has had to juggle a challenging court docket that included thousands of traffic citations and animal abuse cases along with the blight and neglect cases typically associated with the court.
Waking at 4 a.m. for an early morning flight to Phoenix isn't how I'd typically want to start a day that sees me hiking a difficult trail up Camelback Mountain at lunchtime.
But with just three days to explore Scottsdale, Ariz., I was all about taking full advantage of my time. And that included hitting the trail soon after my mid-morning arrival, in part to avoid the heat of the day. Yes, it was March but the heat comes on quickly in Scottsdale's Sonoran Desert.
The windows on the old Executive Inn on Airways Boulevard where Brooks Road dead ends had been busted out for several years, leaving the curtains in its long-empty rooms fluttering in the wind.
But in January, demolition crews began ripping away at the blighted property at 3222 Airways, providing relief to residents and business owners whose own property values suffered because of the neglected property in that corner of Whitehaven.
INDIANAPOLIS (AP) – Simon Property Group has launched a $16 billion hostile bid for Macerich Co. after saying its rival refused to discuss a combination of two of the largest U.S. mall operators.
In recent weeks, the mayor's race has taken a new focus: Affordable housing.
Some in the community feel this is unwarranted and take issue with organizations such as NOAH (Nashville Organized for Action and Hope), which are forcing the candidates to spend more time on social issues, which I support.
After finally latching on to the broader national economic recovery in 2013, the Memphis-area commercial real estate market shook of the last vestiges of the Great Recession and roared back to life in 2014 with the office, retail, industrial and apartment sectors all producing solid gains.
When Loeb Properties Inc. acquired the warehouse at 2542 Broad Ave. in 1995, Aaron Petree, the company's current vice president of brokerage, was just starting high school.
Memphis City Council members put to rest Tuesday, Dec. 16, at least the City Hall portion of the debate about city employee benefits and the liability of those benefits by approving changes to the city's pension plan.
Developer Charles S. Ryan is looking to expand his Midtown real estate holdings. For several years Ryan has held discussions with property owners around the intersection of Cooper Street and Central Avenue.
Foreclosures have been on a consistent downward slope in Shelby County, with newly available figures underscoring the comprehensive nature of the decline.
During third quarter 2014, the county saw 667 residential foreclosures, a 22 percent decline from the 853 filed during the same period in 2013, according to real estate information company Chandler Reports, chandlerreports.com.
While the national economy is still rebounding from the 2008 housing crisis, foreclosures, vacant homes and blighted properties are a lingering issue many markets throughout the country have to address.
The next front in City Hall's discussion of youth violence won't be another crime summit.
The last one happened just days before and within a mile of the Poplar Plaza shopping center where a mob of teenagers attacked, beat and injured three people Saturday, Sept 6.
Just when you thought it was safe to believe in the wisdom of the system, they pull this.
Back in 2008, when the Great Recession made its way into Middle Tennessee and the area began to feel the pain that other regions had endured for several years, the financial world collapsed.
Labor Day, the traditional end to summer. Public swimming pools are closing and college football is getting underway.
It's also time for one last getaway before fall settles in, especially if you have school-age children.
Over the last several years, investors ranging from mom-and-pop shops to large hedge funds have been acquiring single-family homes in Memphis at a historic pace.
But determining the long-term impact that investor purchases have made on neighborhoods remains elusive.
The Memphis City Council on Tuesday, Feb. 4, approved an anti-blight grant program for "tax dead" properties – properties with more in back taxes and associated fees than the property is appraised for or could ever be sold for.
Memphis City Council member got deeper Tuesday, Feb. 4, into the specifics of Memphis Police and Fire Department budget decisions.
But they didn't get a clearer picture of what the direction forward will be as they and Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. prepare to make some hard decisions about public safety in dealing with the city's unfunded pension liability.
Memphis City Council members get a closer look Tuesday, Jan. 21, at some ways the city can reallocate $80 million over the next five fiscal years to begin paying $100 million annually toward an unfunded pension liability the city estimates is at $709 million.
Shelby County Commissioner Steve Mulroy scrambled Monday, Jan. 13, to overcome some of the nagging questions about an anti-blight initiative aimed at "tax dead" properties and overcame most of them for now.
Former Germantown alderman Mark Billingsley is the newest Shelby County Commissioner.
On the second ballot Monday, Jan. 13, commissioners appointed Billingsley to fill the vacancy created by the resignation this month of Wyatt Bunker, who became mayor of Lakeland last year.
Memphis City Council members are scheduled to pick up Tuesday, Jan. 7, where they left off last month in considering a proposal in which the city of Memphis would buy AutoZone Park and contribute toward improvements to the ballpark.
In six hours, Shelby County Commissioners voted down the first of three readings on a proposed $20,000 pay raise for Shelby County Schools board members and kept the pay of the county Mayor, Sheriff, Trustee, Register, County Clerk and Assessor at the same level they are now.
The brick church at 299 Chelsea Ave. in North Memphis shows up in records at the Shelby County Assessor's office as "vacant land."
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (AP) — A white whiskey named for a famed Appalachian moonshiner started out being sold in Mason jars, to honor its roguish roots, but switched to square-shaped bottling.
Memphis City Council members held up Tuesday, Oct. 15, on approving the portion of the minutes from their Oct. 1 meeting that would set in motion $1.5 million in city funding for a renovation of Southbrook Mall in Whitehaven.
Memphis City Council members sent a plan Tuesday, Oct. 15, to settle the last barrier to direct day to day city control of the Beale Street entertainment district to a federal bankruptcy judge.
The council approved a resolution that would use $400,000 from a dormant city fund related to the abandoned Midtown interstate corridor and $100,000 in revenues it has collected from the Beale Street district to pay off a loan Beale Street developer John Elkington took out for improvements he made to Handy Park.
The still-tentative deal to prevent the demolition of the Nineteenth Century Club building in Midtown has a crucial deadline on Oct. 15 and lots of loose ends before then that involve money and timing.
Bank of America allegedly discriminated against minority neighborhoods and property owners in Memphis in the way it handled bank-owned properties, according to an amended complaint filed with the federal government.
Memphis City Council members approved a four-month moratorium Tuesday, Sept. 3, on any new demolition permits for city properties listed on the National Register of Historic Places.
But the resolution was amended to not apply to any demolition permits already issued, including the one for the Nineteenth Century Club building in Midtown. The planned demolition of the property by its new owners to make way for a restaurant is on hold, pending a Chancery Court decision on whether the club's sale of the property was legal.
The history at the Four-Way Restaurant is as rich and soulful as the food.
The walls of the South Memphis institution are decorated with photographs of politicians, athletes, entertainers, business leaders and civil rights icons – including the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. – who made the famous restaurant at Mississippi Boulevard and Walker Avenue a "home away from home."
The Memphis City Council's long-running debate over the use of Smart Meters by Memphis Light, Gas and Water Division with time-of-use rates is expected to reach a critical phase at the council's Tuesday, Aug. 20, session.
Managers of apartment complexes and other rental properties in Shelby County used to have a good grapevine or network when it came to trouble tenants, especially drug dealers, who had been evicted.
It's past time to rethink the old 60/40 notion of investing, say a wide range of Memphis financial professionals, as the ground continues to shift beneath the feet of investors in this low-yield world of investing dominated by unprecedented action from the Federal Reserve.
Memphis Mayor A C Wharton Jr. won a partial victory in his emphasis on fighting blight with final Memphis City Council approval Tuesday, April 2, of a property registration ordinance.
But the council amended out a provision in the ordinance that would have required the registration of all property. What is left is a registry of vacant and abandoned property where property taxes are delinquent and code enforcement finds violations.
Joey Hagan, principal of Architecture Inc., has been named the 2013-2014 board president for Memphis Heritage Inc. after being nominated and elected by the previous board. Hagan's primary responsibilities as one of two principals at Architecture Inc. include running the organization, marketing, design and project management. As MHI president, he will strive to continue to make preservation of important properties a priority for Memphians.
Tennessee Secretary of State Tre Hargett is warning home buyers and sellers about a scam involving real estate titles.
According to the office's business services division, letters have been sent to at least eight real estate companies suggesting that there are claims against titles of more than two dozen residential properties.
As Shelby County suburban leaders were meeting in Nashville Tuesday, Feb. 5, with Tennessee legislators about possible moves toward some version of suburban school districts, the Memphis City Council was reacting to a pending bill in the state Legislature.
The relevance of Overton Square is that it's one of many initiatives the city has in place to make Memphis a better place and a city of choice for the millennial generation.
Seventy-seven percent of those born from the early 1980s to the early 2000s want to live in the urban core and to drive less.
The Dyersburg Mall has fetched $4.35 million after hitting the online auction block in November.
Yazoo, Miss.-based Action Properties LLC purchased the 191,038-square-foot regional shopping mall at 2700 Lake Road in Dyersburg, Tenn., under the entity Action Dyersburg LLC. The seller, Jackson, Miss.-based Mattiace Properties Inc., disposed of the asset under the entity Dyersburg Mall Co. LLC.
The Metropolitan Memphis Hotel & Lodging Association recently elected its slate of officers to serve in 2013, and the group now ramps up for a busy year, including the 14th annual MMHLA Lodging Industry Update on Feb. 22 at the Hilton Memphis.
The kickoff date to the Downtown Memphis Commission's anti-blight initiative on April 1, 2011, is embedded in president Paul Morris' memory.
The University of Memphis professor leading the resistance to a still-forming plan to demolish the city's last large public housing project says the city's approach to transforming public housing since the late 1990s hasn't worked.
The role of investor-driven neighborhoods in Memphis is growing, and the impact on different kinds of neighborhoods is largely unstudied and unknown.
For instance, what does it mean that going into 2012, 54 percent of residential property sales were accounted for by investor purchases from the Real Estate Owned (REO) inventory of foreclosing lenders?
The impact of the foreclosure crisis on Shelby County home values is intricate and far-reaching.
Recent estimates by real estate information company Chandler Reports suggest that nearly a quarter of Memphis' total housing stock are non-owner occupied.
Approaching the second anniversary of "New Face for an Old Broad" and the Historic Broad Avenue Business Association's painting of its own bike lanes, the Binghampton district has seen activity increase exponentially on several fronts.
Home sales in August were up 21 percent year over year, representing the eighth consecutive monthly increase from 2011.
Shelby County saw 1,487 home sales last month compared to the 1,228 homes sold in August 2011, according to real estate information company Chandler Reports, www.chandlerreports.com.
Shelby County District Attorney General Amy Weirich and U.S. Attorney Ed Stanton are working together on cases that cross the state-federal boundary for prosecution.
The countywide school board's ad hoc committee to review the schools consolidation plan is about to disband without acting on the plan sent to the board by the schools consolidation planning commission.
The Memphis City Council has approved the resolution key to the construction of an Overton Square parking garage and a new Hattiloo Theater on what is now an open parking lot for the Midtown entertainment district.
Memphis City Council members have approved a financial hardship waiver that allows Memphis motorists who flunk the emissions part of their auto inspection to claim the repairs will cost them too much and get a one-year one-time-only waiver on the inspection.
In an election year with a lot of transitions, the race on the Aug. 2 ballot for Shelby County Assessor of Property crosses paths with those transitions more than any other race on the busy ballot.
EdR – a Memphis-based developer, owner and manager of collegiate housing – recently received four Innovator Awards at the 2012 Interface Conference sponsored by Student Housing Business magazine.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – Homes in some stage of the foreclosure process saw their share of overall U.S. home sales grow in the first quarter even as sales of bank-owned homes fell.
The increase was driven by a spike in short sales, or homes that sell for less than what the owner owed on their mortgage, foreclosure listing firm RealtyTrac Inc. said Thursday.
LOS ANGELES (AP) – National foreclosure trends took a positive turn in April, as the number of homes seized by banks declined and fewer properties entered into the foreclosure process.
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Swiss racer Zöel Amberg delivered a great run by scoring 5th place in Race 2.
Team AVF was able to celebrate another extremely positive top-5 position today at the Motorland Aragón circuit in Alcaniz. In a clear and sunny Sunday at the Spanish venue, Swiss racer Zöel Amberg delivered a great run by scoring 5th place in Race 2.
The 21-year-old from Stans was off to a difficult start when the car he had in front stalled on the grid, but thanks to a great drive and a smart strategy featuring a late pit-stop, he got the chance to run in clean air, logging several quick laps.
When he finally went into the pits, the AVF crew performed flawlessly, allowing him to rejoin in 5th. Amberg then faced the experienced rival Roberto Mehri but was able to pull away, catching up with the pack fighting for the podium.
After a sensational performance in Qualifying 2, when she cruised to 14th place edging some much more experienced drivers, Dutch female racer Beitske Visser also suffered from the backup at the start, losing several positions. Despite the bad break, she stayed focused and lapped on a constant pace, increasing the confidence with her Renault-powered Dallara.
The World Series Renault 3.5 will now be back running on May 25th at Monte Carlo, supporting the popular Formula 1 Grand Prix in what is expected to be an exciting single race.
Zoel Amberg (Q2 P10; R2 P5): "Overall it's been a good race. I had troubles with the fuel pump in qualifying so I had to settle for the 5th row on the grid. Then at the start the car I had in front stalled so I had to take evasive action. In the process, the anti-stall also came on making things even more difficult. But from that point on I started to recover. I gained some positions on-track and the strategy paid off so I got even closer to the front. In the end I caught up very quickly with the cars I had in front, and with two more laps the top-5 could have been a podium finish. In the end I'm satisfied and I look forward to Monte Carlo".
Beitske Visser (Q2 P14; R2 P16): "Qualifying went very good, but we knew the pace was there since the start and only a technical problem prevented me from performing at the same level in Qualifying 1. At the start it was very difficult as I had to brake and avoid a stalled car in front. I lost a lot of positions and before the pit-stop I couldn't be as fast as I wanted. After the change things improved, I passed Sirotkin and I kept a consistent pace through the end".


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Benefits of early intervention
Benefits of early intervention
In the medical community, intervention refers to an action done in order to try' something from moving into action or continue development. When the intervention' is done early, much could be gained whether one is a patient with debilitating' disease or a child with a developmental disorder. In every case, early intervention' brings more benefits to the person or patient involved. The following are some' benefits of early intervention:
1. Prevent deterioration
The earlier a procedure or treatment plan is implemented, the better the chance for' a patient to respond to treatment. This also means that a particular patient will also' have the chance to be healed or at least prolong his/her life by means of delaying' the deterioration of his/her body. In this example, the intervention part could be a' form of early treatment to best manage a debilitating disease.
2. Promote development
In the case of children with behavioral problems or impaired brain function, early' intervention could be in the form of a treatment plan started as soon as the child' gets diagnosed with a particular disorder. In this way, this child will also have the' chance to enhance whatever knowledge or skills he/she has with proper guidance' and treatment. Otherwise, this child won't be able to maximize whatever he/she can' do and understand if there is no early intervention.
3. Give hope
Early intervention for any case also gives hope not only to the patient but also' to all family members involved in the treatment or rehabilitation process. Since' all possible options are taken early, family members of sick patients for example' will also become more hopeful in terms of possible healing or improvement in the' condition of their loved one.
Early intervention basically benefits all parties involved in a particular case. The' patients will have a better chance of getting the best treatment while doctors will' also have more options. Family members will also be less stressed out and even' have more hope if early intervention is applied to their sick loved one.Benefits of early intervention


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Belle image ,pleine de couleurs et de chaleur en ces temps où la météo nous annonce pluie et neige. Félicitations et merci Abdallah. Amitiés de France. Yves
A what kind of coloured world he is! Very much likes! LAci
Merci, Yves and thank you Laci for your nice comments. Those were the natural colours two weeks ago. That was in Ouarzazate. Not far from the High Atlas (where it snows) and the desert. The air is pure, no polution, no mist, so the colours are pure as well.
The air is pure, but the photographer's eye is rapid and sensitive.
Beautiful colors. Thank you Abdallah.
Lumiere et couleurs magnifique, une tres belle compo , bravo .
super foto ,gold star...greetings from poland marek
momento ed esposizione perfetti. Bravo!
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Published: Wednesday, September 17, 2003 at 4:30 a.m.
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ASHEVILLE -- The North Carolina Humanities Council announces that Wilma Dykeman and Hugh Morton will receive the 2003 John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities.
The awards will be presented Saturday at the Renaissance Hotel in Asheville. The event will include a reception, dinner and program.
David Holt, Grammy Award-winning musician and storyteller, will provide the evening's entertainment.
Special guests Bill Friday and Fred Chappell will pay tribute to Morton and Dykeman.
Dykeman will be celebrated for a lifetime of activism on behalf of the environment and civil rights, as well as for her publications on Appalachian history and culture. The author of 16 books, her most popular work is The Tall Woman.
Morton, the owner of Grandfather Mountain, is known nationally for his photography of North Carolina people and landscapes as well as his advocacy efforts in conservation.
The John Tyler Caldwell Award for the Humanities, NCHC's highest honor, has been presented annually since its inauguration in 1990. The award is named for its first recipient, the late Dr. John Tyler Caldwell, chancellor of North Carolina State University from 1959-1975 and a founding member of NCHC. The award pays tribute to individuals whose life and work illuminate one or more of the multiple dimensions of human life where "the humanities" come into play: civic, personal, intellectual, moral.
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I grew up in New England as well and I also worked in an ice cream parlor when I was a teenager and, yes, a cabinet contains ice cream – it is just the old time New England word for a milkshake. Though I do wonder about the origins of the name- does anyone know?
The "Dictionary of American Regional English" (Harvard Press) would have definitions and explanations for cabinet, milkshake and frappe; it would also tell you in what part of the country each term is used. Your local library should have a set (there are several volumes, A-Z) in their reference section. It's actually fun to read, esp. to compare faucet/spigot, frying pan/skillet, and all those other regionalisms.
In Yankee-land this is a frappe. Are Yankee Magazine's editors from away??
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MONROE, Mich., Jan. 4, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- As part of its continuing network investment and ongoing 4G LTE rollout, AT&T* has upgraded one mobile Internet cell site in Lambertville to expand AT&T 4G LTE coverage for area residents and businesses.
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"AT&T's innovation and investment in Monroe County means bringing the next generation of technology to local families and job providers," said State Rep. Dale Zorn (R-Ida). "Partners like AT&T and this next-generation technology are helping keep southeast Michigan competitive in the global economy."
AT&T 4G LTE is the latest generation of wireless network technology and provides several benefits for local residents, including faster mobile Internet speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G -- improved performance and innovative new 4G LTE-compatible devices.
AT&T launched its ultra-fast 4G LTE network in Monroe County in November 2012. The new cell site is one part of AT&T's ongoing efforts to expand 4G LTE coverage and to drive investment and innovation to deliver the nation's best, most advanced mobile Internet experience for customers.
"Our goal is for our customers to have an extraordinary experience, and they'll be able to download, upload, stream and game faster than ever before on our 4G LTE network," said Jim Murray, president of AT&T Michigan. "As part of the Monroe County community, we're always looking for new opportunities to provide enhanced coverage, and our investment in the local wireless network is another way we're accomplishing that."
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AT&T's innovation and investment has resulted in the nation's largest 4G network, covering more than 285 million people with ultra-fast speeds and a more consistent user experience. That's coverage in 3,000 more 4G cities and towns than Verizon.** Our 4G LTE network delivered faster average download speeds than any of our competitors in PCWorld's most recent 13-market speed tests.
AT&T's 4G LTE network delivers speeds up to 10 times faster than 3G***, as well as multiple innovations that optimize the network for performance. Our network's radio components are placed close to the antenna at most cell sites, instead of inside the base station, which helps minimize power loss between the base station and antenna and, in turn, improves the performance of our 4G LTE network. The network also is designed with its core elements distributed across the country, which helps reduce latency, or the delay when using the Internet, because your request isn't traveling as far.
AT&T has deployed two compatible 4G technologies to deliver more speed to more smartphone customers, which means AT&T customers can get 4G speeds outside of 4G LTE areas on 4G HSPA+, unlike competitors, where smartphone customers fall back to slower 3G technologies when outside of LTE coverage.
AT&T's focus to deliver the best possible mobile Internet experience goes beyond 4G to embrace additional connection technologies. AT&T operates the nation's largest Wi-Fi network**** including more than 31,000 AT&T Wi-Fi Hot Spots at popular restaurants, hotels, bookstores and retailers across the country. Most AT&T smartphone customers get access to our entire national Wi-Fi network at no additional cost, and Wi-Fi usage doesn't count against customers' monthly wireless data plans.
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Catalyst Health Sued Over SXC Health's $4.4 Billion Bid
Catalyst Health Solutions Inc. was sued by a pension fund that claims the pharmacy benefit manager failed to get the best price in a $4.4 billion takeover by SXC Health Solutions Corp.
Officials of the Massachusetts-based Haverhill Retirement System contend in a Delaware Chancery Court lawsuit that SXC's offer of $28 in cash and 0.6606 shares of SXC stock for each Catalyst share is too low and "does not reflect the true financial position" of Rockville, Maryland-based Catalyst.
Catalyst directors violated their legal duties to shareholders by "approving an unfair deal" and by "not shopping the company or allowing it to be shopped," lawyers for the pension fund said in the suit, filed yesterday in Wilmington. Lisle, Illinois-based SXC also helps companies manage drug-benefit plans.
Some pharmacy benefits managers are combining after Express Scripts Inc., the largest one in the U.S., agreed last year to pay $29.1 billion for Medco Health Solutions Inc. That deal would create the largest U.S. manager of companies' drug plans. A federal judge last month denied a bid by retail drugstores to halt the acquisition, which has received regulatory approval.
Christopher Burns, a Catalyst spokesman, didn't immediately return a call today seeking comment on the pension fund lawsuit.
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SXC, one of the biggest providers of technology for processing prescription claims, was the target of takeover speculation earlier this year. The acquisition offer for Catalyst puts SXC in position to be one of the nation's largest pharmacy benefit companies, Brian Tanquilut, an analyst with Jefferies & Co. in Nashville, Tennessee, said after the offer was announced April 18.
SXC made at least seven acquisitions since November 2004, according to data compiled by Bloomberg. In January, the company bought Healthtrans LLC for $250 million.
The pension fund's lawyers contend that Catalyst directors didn't get enough for Catalyst, which has been recognized as the "fastest growing PBM in the U.S.," according to the suit.
The pension fund also accused Catalyst directors of wrongfully allowing SXC officials to structure the buyout in a way to bar or discourage other offers.
The case is Haverhill Retirement System v. Catalyst Health Solutions Inc., CA No. 7506, Delaware Chancery Court (Wilmington).


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You might have missed it, but two major sports events occurred in the first week of June. You might have overlooked these developments because they happened in the Women's National Basketball Association.
You might have heard about the first event, but only if you read sports business news or snarky blogs. On June 1, the Phoenix Mercury signed a deal with LifeLock to put the security company's name on their jerseys.
To some, this was sports' End Times, another shocking harbinger of the all-around corporatization of athletics. Soon, North American sports will be just like European leagues or, gasp, Major League Soccer.
To Chicago Sky forward Candice Dupree, the news was a sign -- a sign that the WNBA isn't done yet.
"Especially with this country being in a recession," she said. "To see there's a company out there that wants to support the WNBA and give money to it is great."
A day later, the Sky played a group of guys from the Los Angeles-based Entertainment League in an exhibition game billed as a "Battle of the Sexes."
Dupree has been with the Sky since their inaugural season in 2006. She's a double-digit scorer, a strong rebounder and a heady player. She is intelligent and funny and happens to be a dead ringer for actress Sanaa Lathan, whom you may remember from the movie "Love and Basketball." All of this makes her a natural spokesperson for women's basketball in Chicago. So why don't you know her?
Well, you probably haven't been to a game yet.
The Sky have averaged fewer than 4,000 fans a game during their first three seasons at the University of Illinois-Chicago Pavilion on the near West Side. Last season, the Sky averaged 3,700 fans a game. The high crowd of 6,304 was on June 3 of last year, when Candace Parker and the Los Angeles Sparks came to town. (Parker famously has missed part of this season after giving birth a few weeks ago.) The low was two days before, when just 2,276 came for a game against Connecticut.
I went to the so-called Battle of the Sexes on June 2 and was surprised by the turnout. A few hundred people were still waiting outside to get in when I showed up around tipoff. Inside, the crowd of about 3,000, which was mostly African-American, was animated and really into the game. Maybe because it was so excited to see James Lafferty from "One Tree Hill" and MTV legend Bill Bellamy in person. (I know I was.)
"We know a lot of people were out here to see the celebrities," Dupree said. "But they also got the opportunity to see us play, and maybe they'll come out to more games in the summer. That's the main reason for us having this game, to get more people to come out."
The final score was 102-55, and if you have half a brain, you should know which team came out on top.
This was a real game, not Rock 'n' Jock Basketball, despite the presence of Bellamy and faux-hawked Frankie Muniz (DNP: ACL and foot injuries). Aside from some inside shots, the men couldn't do much right against the Sky.
With six new players and an 11-man roster, down from 13 leaguewide, you would think this game would have been important. Sky coach Steven Key tried to draw up plays, but to little success.
"Some of the stuff didn't work because they weren't playing that hard of defense," Dupree said. "So it kind of took away from what we wanted to do."
If you're a guy and you've made it this far in the story without throwing your hands up or commenting at the bottom about what an idiot I am, thank you. I know of your disregard for the WNBA, and in a lot of ways, I understand it. One of the main gripes that sports fans have about the league isn't its existence but the marketing saturation of its early years, the "We Got Next" era. To me, this seemed clumsy and reeked of insecurity. But what other choice did the league have? The product is good and getting better. But when one of your most successful teams, the Houston Comets, folds during the break, it makes everyone wonder when the other high-top drops and the WNBA, tethered to the NBA or not, goes the way of the ABL, the ABA and, possibly, the AFL.
For that reason, this season is important for a league that allows our top women's players to compete at the highest level and live a normal life for part of the year before returning to Europe to make big bucks in the winter. This is the ITE (In This Economy) season.
In a New Yorker story earlier this spring, writer Nick Paumgarten noted that people have started using the acronym ITE in text messages and e-mails. It's a quick way to focus your story before it begins. A good example would be, "ITE, I can't believe the WNBA is still going on!" or "ITE, how did this Greenberg guy get a job?"
Right now, there are three top-level women's sports teams in Chicagoland that are all wondering how they will succeed ITE. Along with the Sky, there are the Chicago Red Stars of the Women's Professional Soccer league and the Chicago Bandits of the National Pro Fastpitch softball league. (The best women's collegiate team is now Northwestern's lacrosse.)
The Bandits, last year's NPF champions, will have a game Friday night at the same time as the Sky's home opener.
"We don't see it as competition," Sky president and CEO Margaret Stender said. "We see it as about growth for women's sports. We want fans to know there are great women athletes in Chicago, and they'd enjoy watching them."
Nowhere is that statement more true, on a wholly different level, than with the Chicago Bliss, the Lingerie Football League team that is supposed to start play on Sept. 4. I'd say there's a solid 10 percent chance of that happening, but that hasn't stopped people from posting pictures or hyping it.
The LFL is an outreach of the Lingerie Bowl, the made-for-TV event that perennially gets canceled during Super Bowl week. Mitch Mortaza owns the league and assures everyone it will take place, but because he told CNBC that the players will earn a percentage of the gate and no salary, I doubt it.
The Bliss are "coached" by ex-Bear Dennis McKinnon and have two games scheduled at the Sears Centre in Hoffman Estates: one on Opening Day, Sept. 4, and the other in December. Now that's a schedule!
A friend who tried out told me the Bliss' tryouts featured just the right mix of athletes and strippers, and that the top players were invited back for a July minicamp.
But if you can't wait to watch strippers and would-be models master a zone blitz, you can check out the other women's futbol team in town, the Red Stars. The team plays at Toyota Park in the new Women's Professional Soccer league -- which has games on Fox Soccer Channel -- a very cool jersey based on the city's flag and the name recognition around town of a really good beat poet.
Red Star Carli Lloyd is one of the post-1999 World Cup national team members, so she's used to operating in near anonymity. Lloyd, 26, said the team has had good crowds in the few home games it has played, but most of all, she thinks this recast of the failed Women's United Soccer Association is great for the sport.
"I think it's going well," Lloyd said in a phone interview. "It's hard putting together teams with a month to prepare. And some of us were gone a couple weeks with national teams. I'd love to say next year will be better. This year the L.A. team is at the top, they're really consistent and doing well. But it's still anybody's game on any given day. Over a period of time, it will be interesting to see how the league is."
Although name recognition drives ticket sales, Sky second-year forward Sylvia Fowles, the second pick in the 2008 WNBA draft behind Naperville's own Parker, thinks that if the Sky can build a winning tradition, they can start getting attention. The Sky have had three very forgettable losing seasons and a record of 31-71.
"We're still on the verge of growing," Fowles said of the Sky and perhaps the WNBA as well. "It's my second year and the fourth year of the team. It takes a while to build. First you have to win, and when you win, you get a fan base. We don't get much attention as we want to, but once we start winning, you get a fan base. Sometimes it really doesn't matter, because this is our job, and you just have to perform to the best of your ability."
As the clock ticked away on the Sky's pounding of the E-League, Stender praised her team and the WNBA product. I had never been to a WNBA game before. (I also never thought I would hear a PA announcer utter the phrase, "Bill Bellamy is at the line shooting two." So it was a night of firsts.)
"You have to come back and see us again," she said.
I can't say I made any promises, but I surely will try.
Jon Greenberg is a columnist for ESPNChicago.com.


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Gay-marriage bans also passed in Arizona and Florida Tuesday, elating religious conservatives who had little else to cheer about in Tuesday's elections.
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Jolene had been dead for six months.
Six long months.
Nia Hollister lay on her bed, staring up at the ceiling as she tried to will herself to sleep, but sleep wasn't coming. It wasn't getting any easier. Nothing was easier. Sleeping. Living. Moving on with her life.
But how was she supposed to get on with her life, when her cousin, her best friend, her only family was gone? Murdered . . . dead and buried, brutalized by some monster for reasons that Nia couldn't even fathom.
Even after six long months, she still felt like she had a hole in her chest the size of the entire state of Virginia.
The fact that the man who'd killed Joely was dead made no difference, not to her. It changed nothing. It helped nothing, eased none of her pain. Not even watching as they'd lowered his worthless corpse into the ground had helped.
That should have helped, right?
He was dead—the man who had killed her cousin was dead. That should give her closure, right?
Did people really think having closure helped?
It sure as hell wasn't helping her. Knowing who did it . . . how did that help?
Exhausted, sick at heart, and still as miserable now as she had been the day she'd found out the truth, Nia sat up in her bed and rummaged around on her bedside table until she found a mangled pack of cigarettes.
She'd stopped smoking three years ago. She'd started again five and a half months ago. She kept telling herself she'd stop, and she knew she needed to, but she just couldn't work up the energy to care.
Right now, she couldn't quite give a fuck if she was polluting her lungs—what did it matter? Right now, she was having a hard time finding anything that mattered.
Sighing, she lit a cigarette and climbed out of bed, moved to stare out the window. It was dark and quiet. She was far enough outside the city that the lights from town were muted and she could see the stars.
There had been a time when she had loved nights like this.
Now she hated them, hated the quiet, hated the peace. It seemed like that was when she heard it the loudest. Heard her. It was just her imagination, but it seemed so real.
Joely's screaming . . . God, how she must have screamed. Had she begged? Had she pleaded?
Heedless of the smoking cigarette in her hands, she pressed the heels of her hands against her eyes, as though that might keep her from hearing the screams, might keep her from thinking about her cousin.
Her best friend.
The woman who'd been murdered by some sick-ass bastard who was now rotting away under six feet of dirt. She should take comfort in that, Nia reckoned.
But she couldn't. Didn't. It just felt too . . . unfinished.
Blowing out a breath, she lowered her hands and eyed the cigarette. "Going to catch my damn hair on fire," she muttered. Putting it between her lips, she inhaled. As the smoke filled her lungs, she tipped her head back and stared up at the darkened ceiling.
Yeah, it felt damned unfinished.
But Joe Carson had been found with Joely's watch on him, and her clothing and other evidence had been found at the cabin where he'd been squatting.
What were they supposed to do?
In some sick, convoluted way, it even made sense, once somebody had explained things to her.
Hope Carson had left her abusive ex-husband and spent two years on the move, because she feared he might come after her. Finally, she'd decided she was going to settle in with her friend Law Reilly. The ex must have been watching her pretty damn close. Timing-wise . . . no. Nia didn't quite buy the timing bit, because her cousin had been grabbed before Hope had arrived in Ash, Kentucky, but the cops had shrugged it off.
There wasn't any secret that she was friends with Reilly. Reilly had confirmed she had been making plans to come stay with him. They'd speculated that Carson had just made a lucky guess, or suggested maybe he'd had some inside knowledge—their suggestions hadn't meant shit to her.
So, Hope arrives in Ash and her ex-husband waits until she sort of settles in, and then he kills Nia's cousin. Leaves her body right where Hope can all but trip over it. Trying to scare Hope into running . . . just trying to scare her? Warn her? This will be you if you don't toe the line?
"It's all so fucked up," she whispered. "Damn it, Joely, what am I supposed to do? Why can't I let go?"
But there wasn't any answer.
Leaning her brow against the chilled glass, Nia smoked her cigarette and suffered the miserable silence alone.
Her name had been Mara Burns.
She'd been his first—a man didn't forget his first. His first fuck. His first love. His first wife.
His first kill.
He'd had different firsts . . . Mara had been his first kill, and she'd been . . . sweet.
It hadn't been planned.
At all. It had been back in college and she had been a hot, sweet little bitch, but the first few times he'd tried to ask her out, she hadn't given him the time of day.
That changed his senior year—and she'd been the one to ask him out. As a ploy to make a boyfriend jealous, mostly, and he had known. They'd gone out, fucked in his car. Then she whispered for him to hit her. To choke her.
He hadn't. But he'd imagined it.
When he took her home, she'd mocked him, but he'd been so caught up in those images, he had barely noticed. That night, he'd dreamed about it. Choking her. Hitting her.
Thoughts of it consumed him.
Weeks passed, turned into months, they rarely spoke, but he saw her, and each time, it made those fantasies burn hotter. Brighter.
One night she'd been walking home from her job. He'd seen her . . . because he'd been watching. Watching. Dreaming. He had offered her a ride. Because it was starting to rain, or maybe because she wanted to taunt him some more, she'd accepted. But then he hadn't taken her home and she had put her bitch-face on. He'd backhanded her.
Instead of getting pissed, or scared . . . she'd been turned on.
They went back to the quiet, secluded little area outside of Lexington where they'd fucked that first night, and they went at each other like animals. They started out in the back of the car, moved to the trunk, and eventually ended up on the ground.
He'd hit her, and she would come. He'd squeeze her neck until she almost blacked out, and she'd come harder. For hours.
But then, toward the end of the night, as he was driving into her, chasing another climax, his fingers digging into her silken neck, he'd squeezed, and squeezed, and squeezed . . . he'd let go, watched as she sucked in a ragged breath of air right as he climaxed so hard it had almost hurt, and he'd thought about how he hadn't wanted to let go.
Then, when she was smiling at him, he'd closed his hands around her neck.
For reasons he couldn't understand then, he'd started choking her again. And that time, he hadn't stopped. Not when her heels beat on the ground, not when she had torn at his hands with her nails, real fear beginning to flicker in her eyes. Not even when her bowels and bladder had released.
His mind had remained cool, detached throughout all of it, even as his heart had raced at the thrill.
His first kill.
Yes . . . Mara had been one of the most beautiful firsts of his life. A man didn't forget his first. He'd worried for years somebody would discover her, discover what happened to Mara, and somehow link her back to him.
But in the end, she wasn't the one who was coming to haunt him.
Hers wasn't the face he dreamed of at night now.
And she wasn't the reason he had been forced to put a stop to his games for a while.
Because he couldn't indulge in those games, he was all but burning, all but dying to feel that thrill again, the pleasure he found only when he took a life. She wasn't the reason he felt like a ticking time bomb, one that burned hotter, brighter, every damn day.
No, that honor belonged to one Jolene Hollister and one Lena Riddle. Jolene had almost gotten away from him, had screamed bloody murder . . . and Lena had heard her screaming, had called the cops, had stirred up too much attention.
Six months. It had been six months.
He knew how to wait.
Sometimes he felt like a lump of coal under extreme pressure, like he'd emerge a diamond—after a bit of polishing and cutting down.
Other times, he just felt like he was going to explode and right now was one of those times. Six fucking months.
It was worse being in here in this crush of people.
A wedding was a big deal in a small town like Ash, though, and Lena and Ezra hadn't spared any expense. The Inn was full to bursting. The reception had been going strong for more than an hour and he had no doubt it would keep going for another hour at least.
He couldn't even make a quiet escape, though. It would be too easily noticed.
So he waited, chatted, and danced.
He danced with the bride, he danced with the bridesmaids, he danced with the flower girl, he danced with the married women whose husbands wouldn't dance, and he danced with the tittering, blushing girls who were still learning how to flirt.
He danced with so many women . . . so many.
Tall, short, lean, lush.
Short hair that barely brushed their jawline, long hair that fell to their hips. Hair upswept to leave their shoulders bare. Jewelry sparkled and glowed against toned and tanned flesh.
Over by the bar, he spotted Roslyn Jennings talking with the bride, her curves poured into a dark green dress that clung so lovingly. Gold glinted at her neck, ears, and wrists.
On the dance floor, he saw Hope Carson, dancing with her beau Remy Jennings, wearing a dress just like Roslyn's, the same deep, deep green. But where Roslyn looked like a witch, Hope looked like some fey woodland nymph. Sweet and innocent and lovely. She wore little jewelry, but there were flowers in her short, shiny hair.
Then there was the bride, her deep red locks glowing against the white of her dress, pearls at her neck, gold on her fingers.
All the women . . .
Hunger pulsed inside him, driving him mad, making him greedy and desperate.
Desperate—but not too desperate.
Not so desperate he'd get foolish again. Not here. Not now.
At present, he had a girl—just barely out of college—wrapped around him, and it pissed him off. Perhaps it turned him on a little as she pressed her breasts against his arm, smiling up at him and trying to act like she was so much older than she really was. But she was just a child. Besides, he also had a lady nearby who would notice before much longer and although she would understand, he didn't want her upset.
Especially not by an obnoxious little bitch like this.
As she swayed a little too close, he dipped his head and murmured, "Estella . . ."
"Star. I'm going by Star now. Estella is so old," she said, giving her lower lip what she probably thought was a seductive stroke of tongue.
"Estella Price," he repeated. "I don't know why you keep rubbing against me like that. I've known you since you were in diapers. I'm pretty sure I probably even changed one or two."
He hadn't. But it had the desired effect. She turned almost as red as the lipstick she'd slicked on her mouth and jerked away from him. Suppressing a chuckle, he lost himself in the crowd and headed toward the cash bar. He needed a drink, and he wanted to see if he couldn't work his way out of here yet.
If he didn't escape soon—
This wasn't where he wanted to be . . . wasn't where he needed to be. Except the whole damn town was here.