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Immigration Law
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Fax: (866) 641-2090
By John Messing
This page illustrates a non-immigrant visa that consulates affix into foreign passports, and an I-94 authorization for non-immigrant status while in the US that the Customs
and Border Protection issues at a port of entry to the U.S. on the basis of the non-immigrant visa.
There are many different non-immigrant visa categories. Examples include:
For an extended list click here.
One characteristic of a non-immigrant visa is that the the user must intend the stay to be temporary at the time of entry and the user promises to leave the U.S. at the end of the
authorized status, except that dual intent visas such as H-1B and L-1 permit the user either to leave at the end of the stay or seek immigrant status (permanent residency).
Investors in the E-2 category can apply directly at the consulate for a non-immigrant investment visa. Canadians seeking an inter-company transfer can also apply directly at the border or DHS
preclearance facility in Canada for L-1 status without a visa.
Visitors also can apply directly for a visa at the consulate, and must do so, unless the country of origin participates in
the Visa Waiver Program, in which case a visa from the consulate is unnecessary and an online form is available through U.S. Customs and Border Protection which allows a
visitor entry for up to 90 days and requires in exchange that the visitor waive rights to contest removal before an immigration judge.
There is no direct path to citizenship from a non-immigrant visa.
Only a work visa provides work authorization. For some other types of non-immigrant visas, but not all, separate employment authorization may be available after entry.
Many types of non-immigrant stays may be extended or changed after entry by application to USCIS from within the US.
Each application for a non-immigrant visa requires a legal basis. In many instances, a pre-approval from USCIS in
the U.S. must also be obtained before a visa can be requested at the consulate.
H-1B work visas.
Other non-immigrant work and business visas.
Tips about visitor visas .
A visa is an authorization for an alien to enter and stay in the United
States which is affixed to the foreign passport of the alien. It is
issued under the authority of the Department of State, usually at a consulate
or embassy located in a foreign country, which is typically the country of
residency or citizenship of the alien. If the
purpose of the entry is to establish permanent residency, then the visa
is an immigrant visa. If the purpose is a temporary stay in the United States,
then the visa is a non-immigrant visa. In the latter case, the visa must be
valid at the time of entry but can expire during the stay
without affecting the immigration status of the visa holder, so long as an
accompanying document, the I-94 is still valid and unexpired.
The images on this page represent several types of non-immigrant visas that may be
encountered. In checking for employment authorization, it is always important to check
the I-94, which is an equally critical document.
The non-immigrant visa is directed more to border and customs officials at a port of entry,
who issue the I-94 and staple it into the visitor's foreign passport.
The employer should check both the non-immigrant visa and the I-94 documents,
but if the non-immigrant visa was valid at the time of entry, has expired in the meantime, and
the I-94 is still valid, then the stay in the U.S. is nonetheless authorized.
Whether employment is also authorized for the combination of the non-immigrant visa and
the I-94 which is presented by the new hire is a more complex question.
A number of non-immigrant visa categories exist, only a handful of which qualify for
employment authorization. If there is doubt, legal counsel should be consulted within the three
days alloted for employment eligibility checks after the date of hire. Requiring other
proof of employment authorization could violate anti-discrimination laws, and careless
acceptance of an invalid or non-qualifying non-immigrant visa can lead to employer
sanctions. For more information, Click here.
A much earlier non-computerized type of visa that could theoretically be encountered
in practice appears as a stamp in the passport. A sample
image appears below.
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Sergio Proved Size Isn't Everything
Feb. 11, 2011
Calling Dr. Turtle to Hall of Fame
RALEIGH, N.C. - His entire life, Tom Sergio heard he was too small to reach baseball's greatest heights.
He spent his entire career trying to prove his doubters wrong, earning All-America, Team USA and All-ACC honors along the way and advancing all the way to the Triple-A level in professional baseball. He may never have gotten over that final step to the major leagues, but his tenacious career is a testament that there will always be a place in baseball for a little guy with a big heart.
"Size was always something to me that put people off," Sergio says. "I was never looked on as a player, because I wasn't a 6-2 second baseman with 6.3 speed. I was always the smallest guy on the team at NC State.
"For me, I wanted to prove people wrong. I had to somehow prove that I was just as good as that bigger guy. There was always that kid coming out of school that was bigger and could hit just as well and run as fast. I felt like I had to always produce."
Throughout his Wolfpack career, Sergio produced unlike any other leadoff hitter in school history. Friday night, he will join Turtle Zaun and Brian Bark as the newest members of the NC State Baseball Hall of Fame.
Sergio considers it the pinnacle of his baseball career.
"I always viewed my time at NC State as the most memorable and most fun I had in baseball throughout my career," Sergio says. "I can't put into words what this means to my family and me. You focus your whole career and you don't think about your stats. This opportunity has given me the chance to sit back and take in what I did accomplish. Now that I'm a 35-year-old man with bad knees and a sore shoulder, it feels pretty good to look back and view some of the successes.
"And to be inducted with guys like Turtle and Brian, who were always held up as the benchmarks of success, is a great honor for me."
Sergio's career is a collection of little-guy stories, rolled into big successes. His small stature - liberally listed at 5-9, 165 pounds - at Bishop Kendrick High in Philadelphia didn't exactly have college recruiters beating down his door, even though he was the city's Catholic League Most Valuable Player.
Had it not been for the Carpenter Cup Games, a high school all-star baseball tournament that at the time was played at Veteran's Stadium, Sergio might not have been noticed by then-NC State assistant coach Jim Toman. He probably would have stayed at home to play for one of the local colleges and never made his way south. And that would have deprived the Wolfpack of its all-time hits leader.
"The thing I remember about Sergio - and I wasn't there for his senior season when he started hitting home runs - is just what a tremendous catalyst he was at the top of the lineup," Tanner says. "He had a really good freshman season, but his second year, that's one of the best years I can ever remember from a leadoff hitter. He was on base every time you looked up.
"From a perspective of hitting, getting on base, moving runners, running and stealing bases, he was about as good an all-around player as you'll find, especially for a leadoff hitter. He just made the offense go. Serge was certainly the best leadoff hitter we had in all the years I was there, and I can't imagine they've had any better than that."
There was an opening at second base when Sergio arrived and he stepped immediately into the vacant spot. Hitting mostly leadoff, Sergio batted.366 and was second on the team with a .441 on-base percentage. He became the first player in NC State history to with the ACC Freshman of the Year Award.
He later became a two-time first-team All-ACC selection and a two-time All-American. He set the ACC record with 290 runs scored in his career and finished his career with the second most hits in league history with 362.
Sergio spent the summer of 1995 traveling the country with the Team USA, and was one of five college players invited to the Olympic Trials in 1996 in Millington, Tenn. It was there that Sergio first heard that Tanner, an assistant to Skip Bertman for Team USA, might be leaving NC State for South Carolina.
Sergio was devastated when Tanner accepted an offer he couldn't refuse to leave NC State and even more disappointed when he was not taken in the 1996 baseball draft.
Like always, the professional scouts were concerned about his size.
He returned to NC State as a doubly motivated senior, eager to prove that he could be one of the best players in the country.
"It was a little bit of bitterness because I didn't get drafted," Sergio says. "I kind of had a sour taste in my mouth because of that. I added 15 pounds and some of those balls that were caught on the warning track my first two years, turned into home runs.
"It ended up being a blessing for me, because I had a chance to break some records."
Perhaps more importantly, he filled the shoes of veteran leader that new head coach Elliott Avent needed to help make the transition from the popular Tanner.
"I remember when I took the job, it was very late in the year and we were scrambling," Avent says. "I got a call from Dave Snow at Long Beach State, who had been with the Olympic team and saw Tom play. He told me that Tom had definitely been one of the leaders of our team and he didn't even play that much.
"People just sort of gravitated to him. He was a competitor. Dave told me to make sure I had him on my side and everything would go smoothly. And that's what he did."
Sergio was spectacular in his final season, hitting .412 for the year, with 14 doubles, 16 homers, 68 RBIs and 18 stolen bases. He earned first-team All-America honors from Baseball America and the National College Baseball Writers Association.
He not only finished his career with a school-record 362 hits, he had the second-most hits in ACC history. When the league selected its top 50 players during its 50th anniversary in 2002, Sergio was one of seven Wolfpack players on the list.
"Tom was probably the best game player I've ever had in my life," Avent says. "He played the game harder, more competitive, more to win than anyone I've ever coached. He could beat you in so many ways."
Sergio's final season earned him a shot with the Texas Rangers, who picked him in the 11th round of the 1997 draft of amateur players. He spent six seasons in the minors, twice reaching the AAA level for the Rangers (2000) and the Red Sox (2002). He retired from professional baseball in 2002 and returned home to Philadelphia.
"In professional baseball, I was always trying to be better than all those guys who were bigger than me," Sergio says. "I had to keep putting up numbers to keep moving up. And I did that, because there were always bigger guys pushing me."
Then he got hurt in 2000, and things were never completely the same. He was cut by the Rangers, spent 2001 playing in an independent league and re-signed in 2002 with the Red Sox. He split time between Boston's Double-A and Triple-A teams that season, but retired when it was over.
He wouldn't trade those times for anything, because he enjoyed the long bus rides, the interminable card games and the locker-room loafing between games.
And those are the things he remembers most about his Wolfpack career, much more so than the multiple-hit games, the big wins and the school records.
"I was never a stat guy and I don't remember a lot of the games," Sergio says. "My fondest memories of college were the down times, the cheap hotels and bad food at 1 in the morning. I remember Toman going into the stands after a fan at Clemson. I remember the little room in the basement of Reynolds Coliseum, where we would watch television and hide so we didn't have to go to class.
"When I'm talking with my friends, we're not talking about what we did against Carolina. It's more along the lines of `Remember the time the bus got pulled over?' Those are the stories you take with you."
After Sergio moved back to the Philadelphia area following his professional career, his former American Legion baseball coach asked him to start helping with his team, and Sergio discovered how much he enjoyed working with kids. He also found he made a strong connection with them because of his professional baseball experience.
When the head coaching job at his former school, Kennedy-Kenrick High, came open, he applied for it. He's about to begin his fourth year of coaching baseball at his alma mater.
Two years ago, he coached the best high school player in the state of Pennsylvania, corner infielder Christian Walker, who was signed by Tanner to play at South Carolina. Last year, he earned first-team Freshman All-America honors while helping the Gamecocks win the 2010 College World Series.
"There are two phone calls I make when I see someone I think would be good," Sergio said. "I call Elliott and I call Ray. I'm sure that will make one mad at the other for that, but I think it's fair."
But he's happy to steer his kids whereever they have the best opportunity. Especially if it's a place that's willing to give a little guy a shot to play.
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do i need to turn on Windows Sharing in order to be able to trade files with PCs on my network? how do i select which folders i want to allow sharing with on my mac? also is Personal Web Sharing cool for testing web sites? if i turn that on people can see whats in my Sites folder? is that the only folder they have access to with that option turned on?
Yes, turn sharing on. To select a folder to share just right click it and select sharing. Unfortunately I can't say for your other questions. Perhaps the next person that comes across the thread. ;)
you can set options for each shared folder, like who can see it or edit it on mac. its the magic of permissions.
But you'll need to use sharepoints if you want to specify certain folders outside of your home folder. If you log in as you from the windows computer (which I don't suggest you do) then you have read/write access to everything you normally would. So it's probably a good idea to set up a new user with limited permissions.
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The uses for vinegar just keep growing. A study out of Japan has found that rats given vinegar, whether made from rice, grapes, barley, or even bananas, were less prone to accumulate body fat. The jury's still out on whether or not scientists will see similar effects in humans. In the meantime, pour some vinegar-based dressing on your salads and check out some other uses for vinegar that can make your live easier! Aside from the standard uses in household cleaning—a mix of 1 part vinegar and 9 parts water will kill germs and clean just about any surface—here are eight other ways to use that bottle you've got stashed in your cabinet:
1. Deodorant replacement.
Dabbing apple cider vinegar under your arms after you shower may inhibit odor-causing bacteria on your skin, according to the book Natural Healing with Cider Vinegar (Sterling Publishing, 1998).
2. Cure for jellyfish stings.
Several studies have found that the acetic acid in vinegar counteracts the stinging and pain caused by jellyfish venom, and a study published in The Medical Journal of Australia found that vinegar applied to tentacles left in your skin will not only cut the pain, but also prevent the release of more venom. Toss a bottle in your beach bag before you hit the ocean this summer.
3. Car deodorizer.
Going on a long car trip? Store a bottle of white distilled vinegar and a bowl in the trunk of your car. Leaving a bowl of the pungent stuff in a car overnight will remove any odors left behind by a carsick passenger, according to vinegartips.com, a pro-vinegar website created by liquid-condiment makers Mikan Americas Inc.
4. Swimmer's hair antidote.
If you get in a lot of pool time this summer and notice that the chlorine is giving your hair a greenish tint, you can fix the problem by rinsing your hair in a mixture of ¼ cup cider vinegar and 1 pint water.
5. Fighter of foot odor and athlete's foot.
Both conditions can be improved by soaking your feet in undiluted apple cider vinegar. For foot odor, give them a 10-minute vinegar bath once a day, and for athlete's foot, dab at the affected area with a cotton ball soaked in vinegar a few times per day. At the end of the day, soak your socks in vinegar for a half hour, as well, to kill the fungus.
6. Hand stain remover.
Sure, white vinegar is a tried-and-true stain remover for clothing. But the next time your hands are stained by berries, try rubbing them with white vinegar, too.
7. Antioxidant adder.
Speaking of berries, soak your summer strawberries in a little red wine vinegar, which has just as many healthy antioxidants as red wine and grape juice.
8. Repellant of cats, rabbits, weeds, and slugs.
Plagued by rabbits devouring your garden, or a cat that makes a litter box out of your sandbox or flowerbeds? Keep rabbits away by soaking cotton balls in vinegar and sprinkling them around flower beds in locations where rabbits are likely to enter (some remedies even recommend soaking corn cobs and burying them near Thumper's entry points). For cats, spray undiluted vinegar along the perimeter of flowerbeds or sandboxes to keep them out. In both cases, remember to reapply the vinegar solution every few weeks or after it rains.
You can also spray undiluted white vinegar on dandelions to kill them without adding unhealthy chemicals to your lawn. And if you have slugs or snails munching on your foliage, patrol the garden at night with a spray bottle full of a 50:50 mix of white vinegar and water. Zap any slimers you see.
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Culinary Usage
The piquín is a pod type of the annuum species. The word "piquín," also spelled "pequin," is probably derived from the Spanish word "pequeño," meaning small, an obvious allusion to the size of the fruits. Variations on this form place the words "chile" or "chili" before or in combination with both "pequin" and "tepin" forms. The wild form of the piquín type is variously called chiltepin or chilipiquín and it is possible that the word "chilipequin" is derived from the Náhuatl (Aztec) word "chiltecpin" rather than from "pequeño."
The piquíns are also known by common names such as "bird pepper" and "chile mosquito." Most are unnamed varieties, both wild and domesticated, varying in pod size and shape from BBs to de Arbol-like fruits. Generally speaking, the wild varieties (spherical "tepins") are called chiltepins and the domesticated varieties (oblong "piquíns") are called piquíns or pequins, but in Texas the wild varieties are called chilipiquíns.
piquíns vary greatly, usually having an intermediate number of stems and an erect habit. In the wild, piquíns can grow 6 feet high or more, and in the greenhouse they have grown 15 feet high in one season. However, some varieties have a prostrate habit, spreading across the ground like a ground cover. The leaves are medium green and are lanceolate or ovate, measuring about 3 ½ inches long by 1 ½ inches wide. The flower corollas are white with no spots. The pods are borne erect, are round or oblong, and measure between ¼ and ½ inch long and wide. Domesticated varieties usually have elongate, pointed pods, usually borne erect but occasionally pendant, sometimes measuring up to 2 inches long. piquíns are extremely hot, measuring between 50,000 and 100,000 Scoville Units. In Mexico, the heat of the Chiltepin is called arrebatado ("rapid" or "violent"), which implies that although the heat is great, it diminishes quickly.
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Piquíns were part of the prehistoric migration of Capsicum annuum from a nuclear area in southern Brazil or Boliva north to Central America and Mexico. Ethnobotanists believe that birds were responsible for the spread of most wild chiles--and indeed, the chiltepin is called the "bird pepper." Attempts at domestication of the wild plants have led to the development of the commercial chile piquín, which grows under cultivation in Mexico and Texas (some wild forms have escaped). A cultivated form of the chiltepin has been grown successfully in Sonora and in the Mesilla Valley of New Mexico, where they are planted as annuals. In all cases of domestication, the cultivated forms tend to develop fruits larger than the wild varieties; botanists are not certain whether this trait is the result of better cultural techniques or the natural tendency for humans to pick the largest fruits, which contain next years' seed.
In Mexico, a number of different varieties of piquíns grow wild in the mountains along both coasts: from Sonora to Chiapas on the Pacific and Tamaulipas to Yucatán on the Gulf. They are collected and sold as fresh green, dried red, and in salsas, but the amount of total production is unknown. Some Mexican food companies bottled the chiltepins en escabeche and sell them in supermarkets. In the United States, retail prices for wild chiltepins reached $48 per pound in 1988.
In the U.S., about a thousand acres of "small chili" are cultivated, mostly in Texas and New Mexico. Many of these chiles are packaged and labeled as piquín regardless of the shape of their pods--from those resembling red peppercorns to those which look like small New Mexican varieties--and there is no way to tell which are cultivated and which are collected in the wild.
piquíns do well in the home garden and are particularly suited to being grown in containers as perennials. Garden writer Paul Bessey of the Arizona Daily Star reports that rosy-headed house finches regularly decimate his ripening chiltepins, so some netting protection from birds may be necessary when growing this variety. The growing period is at least 90 days, and the plant can produce between 50 and 100 pods, depending on its size and growing period.
The Tarahumara Indians of the Sonoran Desert in Mexico believe that chiltepíns were the greatest protection against the evils of sorcery. One of their proverbs holds that "The man who does not eat chile is immediately suspected of being a sorcerer." The Papago Indians of Arizona maintain that the chiltepin "has been here since the creation of the earth."
Medical applications of chiltepins are numerous. In Mexico they are habitually used for the relief of acid indigestion; they are crushed, mixed with garlic, oregano, and warm water. Other maladies reputedly treated by chiltepins include sore throats, dysentery, rheumatism, and tumors.
Popular folklore holds that Texans love chile piquíns so much they eat them right off the bush. In fact, their infatuation is so great that piquín-heads rarely travel far from home without an emergency ration of the tiny pods, either whole or crushed, in a silver snuffbox or pillbox. Texans also reputedly use the chile piquín in place of soap to punish children for using "cuss words."
In 1794, Padre Ignatz Pfefferkorn, an early observer of Sonoran culinary customs, described how chiltepíns were primarily used, and of course piquíns can substituted: "It is placed unpulverized on the table in a salt cellar, and each fancier takes as much of it as he believes he can eat. He pulverizes it with his fingers and mixes it with his food. The chiltepín is still the best spice for soup, boiled peas, lentils, beans, and the like...." Today the red dried chiltepín is used precisely the same way--crushed into soups, stews, and bean dishes. The green fruit is chopped and used in salsas and bottled en escabeche.
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Welcome to two new alpacas - the male "Noah" born at the end of June, the female a week ago. Noah is grey with a white face and the female - yet to be named - is all black.
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We ar happy to hear your new arival is a girl as you where hoping for. We are looking forward to to vissiting you again in 2 or three weeks when we will be able to say hello to her. please let us know her name when you decide on it. and if you could send us a couple of photos of her we will send the money for them by return post. you have are address in your sponcer book. we gratly enjoy our trips around your park their is always somthing new to see and you make us feel so welcome. give our love to NOAH and all the rest of the animals. all the best Keith and Jean
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Son't know if you remember the long haired Geordie and his family who are addicted to otters and owls? Haven't been over for years coz of circumstance but aim to makeit as soon as possible. Love to all the beasts, Andy, Lynn and Glen. (Oh and Merlin the Magic Dog says hello aswell!)
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www.zoomtv.in Aishwarya Rai, Hrithik Roshan, Ashutosh Gowarikar, Got it on screen, historic love story, Earlier actresses, Gayatri Joshi and Gracy Singh, in spite of not being established, Ashutosh, "the importance Jodha and AKbar had a lot of importance by themselves. Historic characters, real life, being written about, we thought we required stars. And the first people to come in mind were Hirthik and Ash" Watch the latest Bollywood news, gossip, celebrities, events and more on http
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Ashutosh Gowariker's love epic and blockbuster of 2008 'Jodhaa Akhar' will be screened at the Marrakech International Film Festival on Dec 5. The filmmaker is highly overjoyed for this honor. "I am extremely happy and would really like to thank the Marrakech International Film Festival fo
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Renowned Peking opera troupe to showcase in early October
The China Peking Opera Theatre, a "national level" performing company, will perform Peking operas in early October.
The show, presented by the Leisure and Cultural Services Department, will be held at 7.30pm from October 7 to 10 (Thursday to Sunday) at the Grand Theatre of the Hong Kong Cultural Centre.
On October 7, the troupe will perform "The Bamboo Grove Trap" and "Pillars of the Dynasty, Visiting the Mausoleum and The Two Faithful Courtiers". Excerpts from "Inscribing on the Fan from The Case of Mistaken Identities at the Flower Show", "The Fisherman and The Levy from The Fisherman's Revenge", "Stealing the Imperial Horse" and "The Stepmother Giving Up Her Own Son" will be played on October 8. "Visiting the Prison from The Injustice Done to Dou E" and "The Gold Bullion" will be staged on October 9. The last performance features the story "The Wild Boar Forest".
Experienced National Class One performers such as Yu Kuizhi, Li Shengsu, Yang Chi (guest actor) and Yang Yanyi (guest actor) will play leading roles in the performances. Famous to many Peking opera lovers, Yu Kuizhi, company director of the China Peking Opera Theatre, has won many important performance awards such as the 7th Plum Blossom Award for Chinese Theatre.
Li Shengsu has a handsome persona and a sweet voice, and is capable of performing the civil and military repertoires. She won many awards in Peking opera that gained her the acclaim as "an outstanding exponent of the Mei School of art of our time".
Yang Chi specialises in various subcategories of the hualian (painted face) roles, including tongchui, jiazi and wu hualian. In 1990, Yang participated in the Bicentennial Celebrations of the Arrival of the First Anhui Operatic Troupes in Beijing with "At the Mouth of Jiujiang River", which won him the acclaim as a "first-rate, all-round performer of hualian roles".
Trained by different leading actors at various times, Yang Yanji was the winner of the First Prize in the "Zhenxing Cup" Television Competition for Young to Middle-aged Peking Opera Performers, a Performing Award at the 5th All-militia Theatrical Showcase and other awards.
Famous maestro Mei Lanfang founded the China Peking Opera Theatre in 1955. Restructured in 1997, the troupe became an outstanding performing group with a cast of young to middle-age artists capable of performing comprehensive roles. Apart from touring throughout China, the company has visited Europe, Taiwan, Macau and Hong Kong and received great acclaim.
Tickets priced at $320, $240, $180 and $100 are available at URBTIX outlets. Half-price tickets are available for senior citizens, people with disabilities, full-time students and Comprehensive Social Security Assistance (CSSA) recipients (limited tickets for students and CSSA recipients available on a first-come, first-served basis). For purchases of full-price tickets, the following discounts apply: 4-9 tickets, 10%; 10-19 tickets, 15%; 20 tickets or more, 20%. A 10% discount is offered to Friends of LCSD performing venues.
In addition, a pre-performance talk (in putonghua) given by Yu Kuizhi, Li Shengsu, Yang Chi and Yang Yanyi will be held at 7.30pm on October 6 (Wednesday) at Room AC1, 4th Floor of the Administration Building, Hong Kong Cultural Centre. It is free for admission on a first-come, first-served basis.
For programme enquiries, call 2268 7323, and for ticketing enquiries and reservations, call 2734 9009. For Internet bookings, go to
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"Here, have some Sex."
I looked up from my desk at the sound of Valerie Johnson's voice. Thirty years old, she was my sister -- well, foster sister. Anyone looking at us would know we didn't share a drop of common blood. Valerie was the only child of my benefactor and a partner at the firm founded by her great- great- great -- repeat that many, many times -- grandfather. I'd just made junior partner the year before, the youngest such in the firm's illustrious five-plus centuries of history. We took care of all types of supernatural matters: hunting trespassing demons, casting made-to-order wardings, detoxing demon poisons, brewing specialty potions, performing exorcisms and divinations.
Valerie tossed a vial at me and leaned against the doorframe. With her hip cocked, she looked like a model who'd just stepped off a glossy page in a fashion mag. There were artful red streaks in her auburn hair, and a ruby halo formed around her head under the fluorescent lights.
I caught the small bottle and wrinkled my nose. "Fresh?"
"The very best."
Damn. The higher the quality, the worse it tasted.
"Don't be a baby, Ashera. You know you need it after a hunt." She quirked an eyebrow. "Unless you're planning on getting it from the source?"
That was a joke. Everyone knows that the ultimate source of Sex is the Federation of Mageship, and Valerie was well aware that I was on their shit list. I sighed, opened the vial and sniffed. Strong musk and lemon, a combination I didn't care for. But there was something else. "What the -- is this flavored?"
"Cinnamon. I thought you might like it better."
I could feel my face scrunching. I swallowed the murky goo and clenched my teeth to keep it down. There was way too much spice, and it burned my throat.
"Quality stuff, huh?" Valerie said, a smile in her voice.
"Ugh! Next time stick to the regular unflavored kind."
"Can't. Supplier wants to sell those. We get seventy-five percent off retail."
"Still twenty-five percent too expensive."
She shrugged. "Everyone else liked it."
Translation: everyone else who didn't have to take this swill regularly. Valerie never had to drink it since she didn't hunt. I should've moved to some seedy place with lots of strip joints and streetwalkers. And learned how to collect and store Sex -- assuming the Magical Enhancement Agency would take me. I was more likely to get hit by a falling plane than be accepted into their ranks.
"Now that that's taken care of, we need to talk." Valerie's large green eyes were blank and pleasant.
"I was getting ready to leave, but come on in," I said, keeping my voice as blank and pleasant as her eyes. Much as I loved her, she had a nasty habit of springing bad news on me at the last minute, and I didn't want to give her any advantage.
She entered my office and closed the door behind her, completing the sphere of wardings cast around the space. Every single darkmotif was Valerie's original design; wardings are her specialty. They protected us from uninvited demons -- oops, supernaturals -- didn't want to offend anyone. Some people could be ridiculously politically correct about stuff like that.
Her eyes scanned my office, from the medium-sized desk with its heap of documents to the wall covered with certificates and awards, the closet where I kept the tools of my trade, and the two plush black chairs for those who deigned to visit my humble little space. I gestured for her to sit down, but she didn't. Maybe that was how she kept her black Armani suit wrinkle free this late in the day. Or maybe she really was one-eighth fairy like everyone whispered. There's nothing like fairy glow to enhance mortal beauty without really turning it otherworldly, and I'd never seen her less than impeccable in all the years I'd known her.
"Can you stop off somewhere on your way home?" she asked finally.
I leaned back in my chair. "For what?" I really don't like it when people ask me to do something right as I'm about to leave. In this case it was especially irritating. I'd been working like a maniac to wrap up a mountain of paperwork. Hunts were great, but all the follow-up reports and forms? Ugh. I always put them off until the very last minute, and Jack had told me if I didn't catch up on them this time I wasn't taking tomorrow off, even if it was my birthday. I was considering hiring a freelance writer to make stuff up. I mean really, how many different ways can you say, "I came, I saw, I killed"?
"A new client," Valerie said. "It's urgent."
"He can wait."
I lifted a shoulder. "Whichever."
"She was referred to us by one of our former clients."
"She can still wait."
"Come on."
"Come on yourself. You know my rule -- I don't extend my day for new clients. A current one, maybe. A new one, hell no." Before she could argue, I continued. "The past few months have been crazy, what with all the incubus attacks. Last week alone I billed over a hundred hours. This was supposed to be my 'easy week,' and I've bagged thirty-one demons already. Besides, the 'easy week' was your idea."
Valerie held up a perfectly manicured hand. "I didn't want you burning out."
"And Jack okayed it." That should shut her up. The firm had two kinds of people: Jack, and everyone else. As the firm's managing director and the only high-level diviner on the North American continent, he was the biggest cheese around. I'd seen politicians and top executives beg for Jack's services without success. Also, he was Valerie's father and my foster father.
"If you go tonight, she's willing to double our rate."
Ah. The real crux of the matter. Out of all the partners, Valerie was the shrewdest -- or should I say the greediest? -- when it came to finance.
"She's been leached of all her Sex, it seems. Some creature of nightmare really got to her."
Damn. I hated incubi even more than I hated working late. I twisted the silver ring on my index finger. It was inlaid filigree with a large M in the middle, a reminder of a vow I'd made to hunt down the one responsible for destroying the best chance at happiness I'd ever had. For a long time I'd gone after every incubus and succubus I could, but not anymore. I still wore the ring, but I also began to realize that the probability of my finding the one who killed Miguel was about the same as finding a needle in the middle of Nebraska.
Still, sooner or later, fate would deliver the bastard to me.
"Come on, Val. I need my beauty sleep. I'm officially not as young as I used to be, starting tomorrow," I said.
She waved her exquisitely painted nails about. "You're going to be twenty-seven, not sixty."
"Send a team of junior hunters."
"Can't. She wants the best."
Clever Valerie, appealing to my ego. I don't want to sound immodest, but I am the best hunter in the country, if not the entire hemisphere. Countless framed awards and certificates on the walls, tiny jars of specimen samples -- ones I had bagged myself, of course, since I wasn't going to pad my collection with store-bought items like some other hunters I could name -- and shiny trophies on my desk. There's a reason I'm the youngest partner at the firm.
My specialties: dragons and creatures of nightmare. Dragons are rare, but creatures of nightmare are everywhere, just waiting for a chance to pounce on some unsuspecting mortal.
"If I sent someone else," Valerie continued, "I'd have to tell her that you're not the best in the firm." The corners of her mouth bent downward into an expression of perplexed regret. Clearly, this would be a terrible turn of events.
I forced my body to remain loose and relaxed. Being the best hunter was my thing. A woman's gotta have something to fall back on, especially if she doesn't have the looks to smooth things out for her. Though Valerie would have tsked at the idea, the best I could aspire to -- with hours of professional help, mind you -- was maybe a five out of ten. On my own, I was a solid three.
My eyes were great -- an electric blue -- but the rest of me was lacking. An uneven complexion full of freckles, slightly asymmetrical facial features that created an unfortunate Picasso effect, a functional but overly lanky body and easily damaged frizzy brown hair did nothing for my sex life. But my hunting ability sure helped my career and consequently my bank account. And I'd be damned if some fresh-faced staffer got to be the "best" hunter. I'd held the record for the most creatures of nightmare captured for the past three years.
Home versus work. Me versus Valerie. Watching the latest foreign soap -- thank god for the Internet -- and eating extra spicy General Tso's chicken versus beating the hell out of an incubus. Hmm...dilemma, dilemma.
"All right," I said finally. "But you owe me."
Valerie smiled. "Of course. The client sheet is ready for you."
Valerie left, and I stared at the closed door. She had totally outmaneuvered me. But then it was my fault for hating the creatures as much as I did and having such a huge ego.
With a long sigh, I got up and unlocked the closet in my office. I wasn't going on a hunt in a suit, even if I had probably paid less than a third of what Valerie had paid for hers. I changed into Under Armour, all black, all formfitting, and grabbed a hunter pack. Although I always carry my primary weapon with me, I kept two packs, one at home and one in the office. You never knew when you'd need something. I'd thought about carrying one in my trunk too, but I didn't like the idea of leaving hunting gear there. Some idiot might steal my car, do something stupid with the weapons and end up disemboweling himself.
Then sue me for damages.
I walked out of the office and saw Sandy. She was our receptionist/administrative assistant, beautifully tanned, green-eyed, and just the kind of snotty bitch who made the unpopular girls' lives hell in high school. In a word, a bully. But she was good at her job.
She handed me the client info sheet. "She goes to sleep early so you shouldn't have any problem. Oh, and nice outfit, Ashera. It really complements your complexion."
I glanced up from the paper. "Thanks," I said blandly. Black doesn't complement anything, and Sandy's smile wasn't reaching her eyes. I sniffed and wrinkled my nose delicately. "You should get some sleep tonight and burn off that tequila you had yesterday. Partying two nights in a row... Not a good idea during the workweek."
Sandy's jaw dropped and it was all I could do to leave without bursting out laughing as she surreptitiously checked her breath. I'd happened to overhear some gossip that afternoon about a rather rowdy bar scene. Didn't feel too guilty about using it.
The client info sheet was succinct and to the point: Selena Morales, twenty-five years old, SWF, her address and the directions to her place in Fairfax, just a mile off the junction of Route 50 and I-66. She was expecting me at eight, and I had just enough time to get there.
So no dinner. But I never eat anything right before a hunt anyway. You never know what will happen in the dream world, and I didn't want to risk eating something and then heaving it. Clients really hate it when you puke all over their dream.
Of course, there was the small possibility that this woman could be a faker -- an exhibitionist who liked to have someone watch her have sex in her dream. If so, I might ask Valerie to triple our normal rate.
Valerie was in the parking lot, waiting for someone on her phone. "Kick some ass," she said.
"Screw you," I muttered and heard her laugh. Lame, I know, but it was late and I had low blood sugar.
The drive to Morales's Fairfax townhouse didn't take much time. Fortunately, I was going to the suburbs instead of downtown. I didn't want to be in the city just then. With the rumors of the Triumvirate of Madainsair's impending visit, Washington, DC, had turned into the world's biggest cluster-fuck.
Selena's neighborhood was immaculately groomed and impeccably maintained. Not a tree branch stuck out the wrong way, not a sparrow dared to sing off-key. Boring but reliable Toyotas and Hondas dotted the driveways. A few family vans and SUVs provided diversity to the otherwise all-sedan collection.
I parked and grabbed my hunting gear from the trunk of my brand-new silver Audi. The address on the client sheet pointed me to an end-unit townhouse. The streetlights lit dark red bricks and ostentatious white bay windows. Yellow lilies burst open like miniature fireworks in front of a row of dwarf bushes. Very nice, very upper middle class.
The door had a small talisman, the kind you can buy from a cheap fortune teller's stall at a county fair. It was made of silver, tarnished now from a long period of neglect. The circular shape with a few nonsensical inscriptions might have fooled a layperson, but to anyone with even minimal training it looked about as real as a Las Vegas Elvis.
I rang the doorbell and waited. As the seconds stretched, I thought maybe Selena wasn't there, which meant I would get to go home and the firm could still bill her. The idea perked me up.
I had started to think seriously about leaving when the door finally swung open. A pale blonde stared at me. Her runway-model height made her look excessively thin, to the point of gauntness. If I hadn't known better, I might have labeled her a cocaine addict. Her murky brown eyes slowly focused on me, never blinking. They reflected the lifelessness of a spider's food post-feeding, an empty dry shell, and suddenly I found myself infuriated. We gave supernaturals equal rights under the law -- okay, property rights only, but they count for something -- and this was how they repaid us?
"What?" Her voice was rusty, as if she hadn't used her vocal cords in a while. Or maybe she'd just been screaming in ecstasy too much.
"Ashera del Cid." I extended my hand. She didn't take it, and after a moment I dropped it. Friendly. "You wanted to talk to a creatures of nightmare specialist?"
Frowning, she pursed her lips. "I wanted a hunter."
"That'd be me."
"The best hunter."
"Still me."
She sized me up and finally stepped aside. "Come in." She shut the door after me. "You look so young."
It never failed to amuse me that people assumed I must be older. I flashed her a quick professional smile. "If you want, I can leave and send someone who's older but not as good."
She shot me a sharp look. Once I'd taken care of her demon, maybe we could start our own mutual admiration society.
Her townhouse was full of wardings, the cheap variety like the one on her door. Why did she even bother spending money on that stuff? No consistent motif, no geometric precision... Just a bunch of pretty but pointless swirly silver medallions that wouldn't have scared a fairy. She could've gotten the real deal from the firm. But then we were expensive. Really expensive.
You get what you pay for.
I held on to my bag of gear and scanned the living room. It was sparsely furnished -- surprisingly so given that it was a woman's place -- with an ivory loveseat and a small oak coffee table the only furniture. I walked across the scuffed and scratched wooden floor. Selena did have excellent taste in electronics. A flat-screen TV hung from the white wall, complete with a surround-sound audio system. Maybe she'd let a gadget-crazed brother decorate.
She noticed my look and said, "The stuff is my ex-boyfriend's. He hasn't come back for it yet."
Interesting. Why would a guy leave his prized possessions behind? Unlike everything else in the house, they were spotless.
The kitchen was the same -- a bare minimum of appliances. She hadn't cooked in ages from the looks of things. The barrenness of the place left a sour tang of unease in my mouth. Something as intimate as a home reflects the owner's personality, and incubi rarely go after sterile people. There's nothing like a bit of eccentricity and spunk to heighten the pleasures the creatures of nightmare derive from their victims.
She gestured around with a bony hand. "I'm thinking about moving."
I nodded and sniffed the air. It smelled stale and saccharine sweet and tasted of power. Someone had spilled Sex and left it for days.
Another strange note. Sex is the most easily obtained magic booster on the market, enabling its users to perform spells beyond their natural ability. The Magical Enhancement Agency within the Federation of Mageship keeps the method of extracting and bottling Sex secret, but every practitioner knows it comes from copulation, and that time tends to lessen its potency. You can tell how stale it is by the way it smells -- all sweet and cloying. Sex as old as the stuff in Selena's home wasn't good for anything except ruining your palate.
Whoever stole Selena's Sex hadn't stored it or used it. That made me suspect the attacks were personal. Or maybe the incubus didn't need a magical boost. It was just having fun.
"How long have you been under the influence of the creature?" I said.
She crossed her arms. "I already told your company."
"I know you did, but I want to hear it from you." I kept my voice low and soothing. "It's important."
I didn't blame her for her defensiveness. After all, she had been getting raped in her dreams. Whether or not she enjoyed it didn't matter. Giving away her vital energy hadn't been part of the bargain as far as she was concerned.
A long sigh escaped her, and her eyes slid sideways to look out her kitchen window. "It's been about five weeks, I think. I bought wardings to keep him out, but he was too strong. He would come to me... I knew what he was, but I just couldn't stop it," she whispered. "The pleasure... It was unbelievable."
"I see."
Classic. Intense sexual high to make the victim unable to resist the dream invasion. Even when the woman wants to find recourse, it's difficult to hire someone and admit she's found pleasure in the unnatural coupling. Just like a rape victim who's reluctant to cooperate with the police because she feels ashamed. And, of course, if the creature disappears, there won't be any more highs.
Hell of a dilemma for some.
"Does it visit you in every dream?"
"Yes." She paused. "Is that important?"
"More interesting than important."
"Most creatures don't suck their victims dry like this. Maybe you pissed someone off." She could've been exaggerating, but it didn't sound like it. "Badly enough to destroy your astral self."
"My soul, you mean."
"No. You can live without your soul. Plenty of people have sold theirs and gone on happily for the next several decades. You can't do that without your astral self. It's your ego, your psyche, your essential life energy."
Selena frowned. I guess it was too much for her to process.
I tried again. "A Level One astral mage can kill you without spilling a single drop of blood by destroying your astral self, but he won't be able to touch your soul. That's between you and your god."
The mention of God made her even more tense, if that was possible. "I never invite the thing willingly," she said defensively. "I sometimes fantasize, but that's not a summons, right?"
"Your fantasies don't happen to include an incubus, do they?"
Her blush was answer enough.
"Sexual fantasies are beautiful things. But when they include an incubus as a prominent character, those bastards regard it as an invitation. Then you're truly fu -- uh...out of luck."
She turned even redder, which made her complexion look like salsa spread over cardboard, but I wasn't going to apologize for what I'd said, even if it meant that she might bitch about my "unprofessionalism" to Jack himself afterward. If I could stop even one woman from getting victimized by those predators, it would be worth one of his you-have-to-be-nicer-to-the-clients talks. Demons are as bad as serial rapists or killers. Worse, actually -- they leave no trail or forensic evidence. You have to catch them in the act, and there are only so many hunters in the world.
"Why don't you show me your bedroom?"
It was on the third level of the townhouse. The master bedroom suite had a white ceiling fan, two large windows and enough mirrors to keep an international convention of narcissists happy. She must've liked to stare at herself. Either that or her ex was kinky.
A king-size bed dominated the room, the emphasis almost vulgarly obvious. Crimson sheets, silky and opulent, lay tangled on the bed. At least the carpet was a neutral beige.
I unzipped my bag and draped dark sheets embroidered with wardings over all the portal points -- mirrors, windows and doors, including those in the master bathroom. A supernatural could enter easily enough. Leaving would be another matter.
Selena watched me with an apprehensive interest. "What are you doing?"
"Getting ready. You want the creature caught, right?"
She swallowed, then nodded. Still a hint of hesitation even though the thing was killing her.
I suppressed a sigh. Dealing with reluctant clients was my least favorite part of the job. Selena was an adult. Unless she was considered incompetent to make her own decisions by a court, she had to call us, sign the never-ending release forms and complete the contract herself. "Who asked you to hire a hunter?"
"No one."
Uh-huh. Her answer had come a little too fast. But whatever. At least she would be getting the help she needed. Maybe the incubus would resist capture and I could kill it legally. I could only hope. Creatures of nightmare deserved to die, even if their deaths did create a purgatory of paperwork.
"Look," I began, "two more nights and I can guarantee you won't have anything left. Then the creature will move on. You'll pine for the high and wither away like a plant starved for water."
She turned pale and nodded again.
My watch told me it was 8:55 p.m. Early for sleep, but there were potions for that. Selena had already signed the release forms, which explained the procedure as required by law.
"Get ready for bed," I said. "I'll do the rest."
"Okay." She disappeared into the bathroom.
I stopped and breathed deeply. This room also smelled of stale Sex. It was faint, but everywhere, like the smell of fruit in a tropical country. Whoever was dream raping her must've spilled at least a quarter of what he'd extracted from her here.
I drew a circle with ashes of thyme on the carpet at the foot of the bed. This was where I would be -- physically anyway -- while Selena dreamed. The circle was big enough to accommodate my movements. It would be catastrophic if any part of my body went over the line. High dream magic does peculiar things to unprotected mortals.
Selena reappeared in a slinky silk nightgown that looked even worse on her than it would have on me. She glanced at me nervously, and I gave her my Number One Winning Smile.
"Don't worry. It's going to be fine." I pulled out my katana -- the real thing, not a fake like some hunters carry -- from my bag. The work I'd done to earn my blade was a secret I'd carry to the grave, but it was sensitive enough that the zaibatsu family had rewarded me with a daisho set and five tantos. "Can I get a little bit of your hair?"
"I need it to establish a link between us."
She shrank back a bit but nodded. I cut about two inches and placed it inside the circle.
She gestured at the ashes on the floor. "Shouldn't I get a circle around my bed too?"
"If I put one around your bed, the thing won't be able to enter your dream."
"So why don't we just do that? Then you can leave, right? I mean, we don't have to fight."
"It would probably decide to come after you in this plane, physically. Might take a while, but it would find you. Incubi tend to take things like that personally."
She slid under the covers and pulled them all the way up to her neck, as if she were a Victorian maiden. But the porn-star sheets and nightgown ruined the effect.
"So I just go to sleep, right?" she said.
"No. When it shows up, you're going to ask me for help. I cannot use violence in your mind without your explicit permission. It's illegal." I hate lawyers, unless they work for me.
Selena nodded. "That's it then. I sleep and ask for help in my dream."
"Yep. Then stay out of the way. I don't want you getting hurt, or worse, used as a hostage."
"And you're gonna catch him."
"Or kill it." I didn't want her to give her tormentor any human qualities. "Whichever makes the most sense." The courts allow hunters to kill if necessary. After all, incubi are deadly creatures.
"What if you can't?" Selena said.
"I can." The only way I wouldn't get it was if it didn't show, or if she screwed up. I somehow doubted the former.
With the sword still in my hand, I stepped inside the circle, then let a bit of magic flow from me to the ashes and sealed it off. Eldritch power coursed along the line, and I took a deep breath.
Burrowing deeper into the mattress, Selena stared at my weapon. "You know what you're doing...right?"
Too late to ask for references, baby.
"Yes." I gave her my best professional, I-know-what-I'm-doing smile. Most clients need a lot of smiles and assurance. "Now go to sleep."
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"Every time I see you, you're bleeding."
The entire story was initially envisioned from antagonist Nathanael's point of view because the first quote was something that he might have said to the love of his life. However, when I sat down to write the story, I decided to tell it from Ashera's point of view, since Nathanael could never have a happy ending. (Think of him as a tragic hero figure.)
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Sag Harbor PBA knocked off Herrick's Hardware of Southampton, 5-3, on Saturday to win the Southampton Majors Little League Championship. Max Mensch and Dylan Ameres' combined pitching performances led the team to victory. Darius Dorph-Lowrie's two-run home run in the third inning sealed the victory for Sag Harbor.
E.J. Burke threw out a base stealer and caught a difficult pop-fly to keep the bases empty. Burke also hit two singles to add to the offense while Ameres and Seamus Scanlon added RBI triples and scored runs. Thomas Lawton singled and scored a run.
The game marked the seventh Little League finals appearance for head coach John Chisolm.
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The Sag Harbor Whalers went 2-3 over the last week to drop in the standings of the Hamptons Collegiate Baseball League (HCBL). The team is now 8-9 with the bulk of the summer schedule still ahead.
The Whalers dropped games to Center Moriches and the North Fork on June 18 and 19, before bouncing back with a 4-3 win over the North Fork on Friday, June 21 and an 11-5 win over Riverhead on Saturday, June 22. The team dropped a tough one on Sunday, losing 3-2 to the Westhampton Aviators.
East Hampton High School graduate Deilyn Guzman (Molloy College) registered a scoreless 10th inning to help the Whalers hold on in the win over the North Fork, with Scott Hagan (Mercy College) having scored three times.
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Mr. Popper's Penguins (PG)3 1/2 out of 4 stars Hey, all you parents out there. Yeah, you. You say you're tired of having to sit through all of those animated features and overlong pirate movies and wish someone somewhere would make something that the whole family could enjoy. Do you really mean it? Hollywood doesn't make many movies like "Mr. Popper's Penguins" because it's smart, warm and teaches lessons without bludgeoning the audience over the head. It's cute but not cloying, funny without being high or low brow and features a family (make that a divorced family of four) that is not supremely affected or built on a foundation of ignorant cliches. The movie's sole fault — and it's a significant one — is its steady stream of sight and sound gags involving animal incontinence and flatulence, but as you already know, kids love that stuff even if you don't. If you have any knowledge of the 1930s book of the same name on which "Mr. Popper's Penguins" is based and hope to see a faithful adaptation of it, either stay away or significantly change your expectations. The only thing the two have in common is penguins — those impossible to resist, tuxedoed, Antarctic-based birds that can't fly. It's a good bet your tykes have already seen "Happy Feet" and (maybe) "March of the Penguins." Imagine a more restrained, non-musical version of the first cross-pollinated with a less dour version of the latter and you'll get "Mr. Popper's Penguins." Speaking of more restrained — the movie stars Jim Carrey as the title character in a performance that could have come across like fingernails on a chalkboard but never does. Containing much of the same personality traits of his character from "Liar, Liar," Carrey's Popper starts out with a similar kind of slick, money-grubbing glibness yet slowly morphs into the kind of man any of us would like to have as a dad. Don't think it's just a coincidence that the movie is being released on Father's Day weekend. Matching, if not surpassing, the half-dozen penguins on the adorability scale are Popper's ex-wife Amanda (Carla Gugino), preteen daughter Janie (Madeline Carroll) and young son Billy (Maxwell Perry Cotton). Almost too good looking, they keep an even keel yet are still able to provide enough dramatic tension to make them interesting. The movie's got a great villain (crack utility actor Clark Gregg as a loathsome zookeeper), an eccentric wealthy senior citizen (national treasure Angela Lansbury) and more veteran character actors than you can count. Director Mark Waters ("The Spiderwick Chronicles, "Mean Girls," "The House of Yes") and his committee of screenwriters walk a really fine line with the material. Again apart from all of the bodily function stuff, they keep the movie solidly grounded in family friendly territory while also delivering a story with depth, lots of twists, distinct flavor and dramatic lift that never goes maudlin or limp. The crowning achievement of the film belongs to Water's technical crew. It has been reported that shooting took place on a refrigerated set using actual live Gentoo penguins. While this might be possible, it is probably unlikely but it's still hard to tell for sure when watching the movie. Only a penguin expert or a zoologist could distinguish between what might be real and what is CGI or mechanical. Whatever the case, your children won't know, neither will they care and they will be tickled beyond repair. And so will you. (Fox)
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