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Emoticon Rollercoaster A pithy look back on the yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ups and downs 8/<C/@G The year begins badly, with a Jan. 1 murder-suicide. Victim Nichole â&#x20AC;&#x153;Nikkiâ&#x20AC;? Schrock of Seaside is found next to Illya Cavlan of San Jose at the 7-Eleven at Ocean Street and Broadway before dawn.

In spite of the new ban on smoking on Pacific Avenue and Main Beach, the American Lung Association gives Santa Cruz a â&#x20AC;&#x153;Dâ&#x20AC;? in its annual Tobacco Report Cardâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the same crummy grade that prompted councilmembers to pass the ban in the first place. Says a steamed Mayor Mike Rotkin of the ALA, â&#x20AC;&#x153;I donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t ever want to talk to these people again.â&#x20AC;?

The Vets Hall on Front Street is closed indefinitely and a full architectural assessment ordered after county inspectors find that the rebar in the 1932 building is too rusty to survive an earthquake.

On Jan. 23, Santa Cruz records its second and third homicides with the deaths of Alejandro Nava-Gonzales and Oscar Ventura in a Lower Ocean neighborhood apartment.

Santa Cruz County names its first poet laureate, Gary Young.

After eight years in court, the Wo/Menâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alliance for Medical Marijuana finally exhales when the federal government stands down from its defense of a 2002 raid on WAMM property. The change comes from an Obama administration directive urging feds not to bother pursuing medical marijuana cases in states where itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s legal.

430@C/@G A wayward pink flamingo, likely escaped from some zoo, shows up in Elkhorn Slough. Dubbed â&#x20AC;&#x153;Pinky,â&#x20AC;? the critter seems on friendly terms with local pelicans and egrets.

Santa Cruz is ranked as the 14th happiest place in the United States, according to the Gallup-Healthways Well-Being Index.

A scientific review committee for the Department of Pesticide Regulation releases its report on methyl iodide, a new strawberry fumigant proposed as a replacement for phased-out methyl bromide. The panel calls it a â&#x20AC;&#x153;highly toxic chemicalâ&#x20AC;? the use of which would have â&#x20AC;&#x153;a significant adverse impact on the public health.â&#x20AC;?

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Santa Cruz County ranks among the healthiest places to live in California, coming in at No. 8, according to a Robert Wood Johnson Foundation survey.

Free parking in downtown Santa Cruz all but comes to an end when the parking garage at Cedar and Church and the lot at Cedar and Cathcart start charging 50 cents per hour to park. The move is supposed to raise $355,000 a year for the cashstrapped city.

;/@16 Lowell Darling, brother of Darling House owner and Democratic Party operative Darrell Darling, files to run for governor against Jerry Brown, just as he did in 1978 in a satirical bit of political theater. Darling says this time heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s really campaigning against Californiaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s two-thirds majority requirement to pass a budget.

Santa Cruz City Council votes to limit the number of pot clubs in town to two. Ever concerned about the less fortunate, councilmembers also cite the need for wheelchair access in the clubsâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; cultivation areas.

The Coastal Commission puts the kibosh on the Arana Gulch bike path, capping 15 years of fighting over the fate of the 68-acre greenbelt. In nixing it, the commissioners override their own staff recommendations and a U.S. Fish & Wildlife Service endorsement.

The national health care reform bill passes on March 21.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture announces that it will abandon attempts to eradicate the light brown apple moth and instead just try to control its spreadâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;meaning, among other things, no more aerial spraying.

/>@7: The Santa Cruz County Regional Transportation Commission votes unanimously to purchase the 32-mile Union Pacific rail line for $14.2 million UCSC suspends the Community Studies program.

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3;=B71=< @=::3@1=/AB3@ Nick Meriwether, an oral historian at the South Caroliniana Library, is named to the position of Grateful Dead archivist at UCSC. Santa Cruz County supes approve the concept of a ban on one-use shopping bags, which pollute waterways and harm marine life.

An EIR begins to assessâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;wait for itâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;the environmental impacts of a ban.

The Deepwater Horizon drilling rig explodes in the Gulf of Mexico on April 20. Santa Cruz-based Ocean Conservancy VicePresident Dennis Takahashi Kelso, who helped oversee the Exxon Valdez cleanup in 1989, starts work in the Gulf.

Carl Reimer, 19, is shot by alleged gang members in Grandview Park on Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Westside.

; /G A May Day street party and demonstration on Pacific Avenue devolves into mayhem as vandals begin breaking windows and spray-painting graffiti on business and city property. The damage to 18 affected businesses, said to total some $100,000, is widely blamed on local anarchists affiliated with the SubRosa CafĂŠ, though investigators never prove a link. One man, transient Jimi Haynes of Modesto, is arrested and later sentenced to two years in prison for felony vandalism.

On May 4, councilmembers respond to freaked-out citizens by agreeing to fill eight vacant police positions at an estimated $1 millionâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;despite a $4 million deficit.

United States rider David Zabriskie wins Stage 3 of the Amgen Tour of California, which finishes on Beach Street at the Boardwalk.

A Felton woman complains to Santa Cruz County Animal Services that her horse has been sexually assaulted in a pasture near Graham Hill and Mount Hermon roads.

When she went to see her horse, she found it tied to a tree with a stranger standing beside it, pulling up his pants.

SCPD puts 82 offending Santa Cruz homes on a list of â&#x20AC;&#x153;loud and unrulyâ&#x20AC;? party houses.

Landing on the list means that if the cops show up during another rager, you get a $1,000 ticket and bill for the time of every cop and employee who handled your stupid party house case.

8C<3 Residents of Davenport face huge utility fee increasesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a 74 percent hike for sewer rates and a 10 percent rise in water feesâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;following the January closure of Cemex, which subsidized the county-run utilities.

Compassion Over Killing posts video on YouTube showing chicks at Cal-Cruz Hatchery being mistreated after the District Attorneyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office refuses to take up the case. Santa Cruz County Animal Services investigates the charges and in the process confiscates 88 chicks and ducklings, 40 of which have to be euthanized.

With two weeks till retirement, outgoing Santa Cruz City Manager Dick Wilson says current pension plans for public employees, especially cops and firefighters, are â&#x20AC;&#x153;completely unsustainable.â&#x20AC;? A Santa Cruz Weekly investigation shows that Santa Cruz pays about 40 percent more than surrounding cities on pensions for its finest and bravest.

Kombucha is pulled from shelves in local stores owing to high alcohol content in some bottles. (It is, after all, fermented.)

In the run-up to the election for District 4 Supervisor, the candidacy of Watsonville councilmember Emilio Martinez suffers a blow when media report on a prank played years ago on a former co-worker in which he dropped 15 f-bombs and prompted a police investigation.

8 C :G Homeless activists and their supporters start camping outside the Santa Cruz County Courthouse to protest the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sleeping ban. In August, â&#x20AC;&#x153;Peace Camp 2010â&#x20AC;? relocates to City Hall, and in early October it disbands. ¨ "

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The new $15 million Marine Sanctuary Center across from the wharf breaks ground.

CNN and Money Magazine list Santa Cruz as one of the best places in the nation to find a rich and single partner, as almost half the population (45 percent) is single and average family income is over $90,000.

Santa Cruz City Council approves a $78 million city budget with a $2.2 million deficit.

A 41-year-old woman is killed in what police think may be a domestic violence incident, marking the cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sixth homicide of the year, two more than in all of 2009.

/C5CAB The sea otter population declines for a second year in a row.

The CaliforniaFIRST solar financing program, which was set to go in 14 California counties, stalls out when mortgage giants Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac object, saying they fear the assessment liens could win out over mortgages in the event of foreclosure.

Santa Cruz says thanks, but no thanks to next yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Amgen stop.

Santa Cruz Democrat and former 27th District Assemblyman John Laird loses a runoff election for the Senate District 15 seat to Republican Sam Blakeslee of San Luis Obispo. Blakesleeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s victory in the heavily gerrymandered district preserves the status quo.

A CHP officer stops Santa Cruz Councilmember Tony Madrigal on Highway 1 for reckless driving (he was texting and typing).

Madrigal fails to show up for his court date and a bench warrant is issued; he gets community service.

A3>B3;03@ Jake Gandolfo of Felton advances to the fifth round of reality cooking show MasterChef, but with three episodes to go heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s voted off the kitchen island.

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3;=B71=< @=::3@1=/AB3@ The city of Santa Cruz hires three security guards with First Alarm to patrol downtown at a cost of $5,000 a month. In October the deal is extended through the end of the year.

Jonathan Kolodinski, proprietor of the Crème de Canna dispensary, gets his 15 seconds of national fame for his production of medical marijuana-laced ice cream in flavors like Banannabis Foster.

The Santa Cruz County Board of Supervisors puts a moratorium on smart meter installation in unincorporated parts of the county through the end of the year.

The California Dental Association Foundation provides Watsonville with a $1.6 million grant to build and operate a fluoridation system, and the Watsonville City Council votes to accept it.

Steven Vogt, UCSC professor of astronomy, leads a team that locates the first planet thought to be capable of sustaining life: Gliese 581g, in the constellation Libra.

=1B=03@ For-profit health-care giant Community Health Systems stonewalls Watsonville Community Hospital nurses in negotiations. Nurses strike, saying theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re unable to properly care for patients under current conditions.

The Regional Transportation Commission meets a critical deadline to get $10.2 million in state funding for the 32-mile Union Pacific rail line. Sierra Northern Railway is set to run tourist trains on the line; pilot runs could begin as soon as May 2011.

With CaliforniaFIRST dead, Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x201C;based Ecology Action gets a contract to run a $33 million solar and alternative energy financing program with money from the feds.

Some 20,000 revelers descend on downtown Santa Cruz for Halloween, and not a single one is stabbed or shot.

<=D3;03@ The Giants, the team of gayhugginâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;, liberal left-coast San Francisco, beats George W. Bushâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Texas Rangers in the World Series.

The torture is over!

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s official: Santa Cruz has grown up, cut its hair and bought some Dockers.

Voters brushed off progressives and put moderate, biz-friendly city council candidates Hilary Bryant, Dave Terrazas and incumbent Lynn Robinson into office, signaling the advent of a new era in Santa Cruz politics.

University of California raises tuition another 8 percent, bringing the total increase since 2008 to 40 percent.

On a trip to Dominican Hospital for an MRI, Santa Cruz County jail inmate Maurice Ainsworth overpowers a sheriff â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s deputy, seizes her weapon and takes off toward a Prospect Heights neighborhood, where he is captured five hours later. He is later charged with attempted murder for having fired shots at a bystander who attempted to help the deputy.

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2313;03@ On Dec. 4, Debra Collins, 58, of Felton is discovered in the Fall Creek unit of Henry Cowell Redwoods State Park after six nights in the woods.

At the Dec. 14 swearing-in of new city council members, Santa Cruz bids farewell to socialist-feminist Mike Rotkin, who served a total of 26 years on the council.

Farewell, fellow traveler.

Eight and a half years after being ejected from a council meeting for giving a Nazi salute, Robert Norse wins a victory over the city of Santa Cruz when the 9th Circuit Court of Appeals orders a new trial, saying Norse was a victim of â&#x20AC;&#x153;viewpoint discrimination.â&#x20AC;? The case can now be heard in U.S. District court.

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E==AB3@ 1:C0 Funk-rock faves Wooster ring in the New Year at Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley.

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body and energy work andâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;courtesy of DJs Kaminanda, Karim So, Kai, Bird of Prey and Outersectâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;womping beats that will make attendees feel like theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re right back on the Playa.

Downtown, DJs will be spinning at Bdi^kĂ&#x2030;h BV\^X BVhfjZgVYZ (9pm; $15 adv/$20 door general, $70 adv/$85 door VIP; 831.429.8070), where revelers will mix with roaming magicians performing tricks. 8dXdVcji <gdkZ will be cornering the market on diversions for a slightly older demographic with a classy prime-rib dinner, dessert spread, the musical stylings of the six-piece California Beach Party and a balloon drop at midnight (7pm; $39â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$89; 400 Beach St., Santa Cruz; 831.423.2053).

Those who are swearing off partying Jan. 1 can begin their resolutions right on time, welcoming the New Year with an

:kZc^c\ d[ BZY^iVi^dc! GZ[aZXi^dc! Bjh^X VcY BdgZ at Vipassana Santa Cruz (8:30pmâ&#x20AC;&#x201C; 12:30am; free, but bring a vegetarian or nonalcoholic refreshment to share and a bell to ring at midnight; 1010 Fair Ave., Santa Cruz; VipassanaSC.org). The event is a venue for people to explore their deep, true intentions and offer blessings and aspirations for themselves and others. At midnight, participants will ring in the New Year together by striking bells 108 times.

For all our differences, there are

few among us who canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t appreciate the sweet sounds of real live musicâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s kind of the best part of living here.

Appropriately, there is a slew of concerts lined up around town. Homegrown funk-rock outfit LddhiZg will be at Moeâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Alley with special guests IVm^ Egd_ZXi (8pm; $12 adv/$15 door; 1535 Commercial Way, Santa Cruz; 831.479.1854). Local blues-rockers Hdjg\gVhh will appear at the Crepe Place with 7^gY]VcY (9pm; $15; 1134 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz; 831.429.6994).

Perennial favorites HVbWVY{ will lay down some Afro-Brazilian beats at the Catalyst with help from ;adg YZ 8VÂ&#x160;V (9pm; $15 adv/$19 door; 1011 Pacific Ave., Santa Cruz; 831.423.1338). Classic Americana act 6cihn BX8aV^c VcY i]Z IgV^aZg EVg` IgdjWVYdjgh will play the Rio Theatre in a show doubling as a one-night-only reunion between Antsy and original Troubadour Stephen Fleming (9pm; $27.50â&#x20AC;&#x201C;$37.50; 1205 Soquel Ave., Santa Cruz; 831.423.8209). Lynyrd Skyn-heads can catch the <Vidg 6aaZn 7VcY covering â&#x20AC;&#x153;Free Birdâ&#x20AC;? at the Brookdale Lodge (8pm; $15; 11570 Hwy. 9, Brookdale; 831.338.1300), and up in Felton, L]dĂ&#x2030;h =daY^c will take the stage with HjHeZm for Don Quixoteâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s â&#x20AC;&#x153;Rockinâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; the Valleyâ&#x20AC;? extravaganza (9pm; $15; 6275 Hwy. 9, Felton; 831.603.2294).

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ROM anarchist to Zen master, New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve celebrations in Santa Cruz are a cross section of our fair cityâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s rich diversity.

Whether a person wants to march through the streets or meditate, rub up against a sexy stranger, mine a buffet for all itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s worth or just catch some great live music, thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a party for every persuasion. Not afraid to be of service, weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ve compiled a guide to the best parties of (the last night of ) the year.

AVhi C^\]i (5pm, meet at Saturn CafĂŠ parking lot; free; LastNightDIY.org) was originally formed in opposition to the corporate and city-sponsored First Night Santa Cruz (cancelled in 2005, cue victory gloat). The authorities donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t much like the fact that itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unpermitted; organizer Wes Modes was fined $250 for the 2010 event. While thereâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s no telling what folks will do when collected for the paradeâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;billed as a decentralized, D.I.Y. spontaneous gatheringâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;past years have seen appearances by puppeteers, square dancers, fire dancers and mariachi musicians, among many others.

Those homesick for Burning Man can join like-minded individuals under a 36-foot geodesic dome draped in silk, filled with cushions and erected behind the 418 Project for I^bWVkVi^ (8pm; $25; 418 Front St., Santa Cruz; Timbavati.info). Organizers Laura Bishop (an energy healer) and Jonah Kai (a sound healer) call it a â&#x20AC;&#x153;conscious gathering,â&#x20AC;? complete with live music,

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Downtown Santa Cruz on Abbott Square off Cooper Street (Near Annie Glass).

831-426-VINO (8466) www.vinocruz.com

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Entering the expansive Solari Gallery feels like arriving at an already-buzzing party where lots of familiar faces turn in welcome.

Brightly lit, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s an ocean of pedestal islands with a horizon of ingenious wall displays that support irrefutable evidence that California is the heartland of American ceramics. Families who may have come to MAH to see â&#x20AC;&#x153;Toy Trainsâ&#x20AC;? now gather around these pedestals, perhaps surprised that art can be so instantly engaging. Kids head for the colorful grinning ceramic lion head and paws emerging from a far wall, reaching for a tableful of vegetables: D7197 5C<B63@â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Carrot Stew Shared with Lions. Beside him, ;/BB73 :332Aâ&#x20AC;&#x2122; futuristic Space Guardians brandish lustrous implements and a girl child by 8C:73 43:2 carries a world of stories in her expressive face and on the painted landscape of her costume. Whole families, enchanted, excitedly discuss art.

The sensuous water-smooth surface of ACH/<<3 ; :=<5â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Waiting for Dots challenges the viewer to touch the pale cheeks of a hairless knickerbockered figure in a state of bug-eyed anxiety, so realistic, so interpretive. Nearby, two Bardo angels of 1=3:33< 97303@B convey a sense of otherworldliness, contrasting the dynamic corporeality of their unglazed clay bodies and the metallic luster of their accoutrements. Flight of the Phoenix poses two anthropomorphized lizard creatures in a deep rowboat, intent on the future in an astonishing, meticulously rendered stoneware sculpture by :/C@73 63<<75. Walking Angel, ;7163::3 5@35=@â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s large evocative impressionistic figure with the grandeur of the Belle Epoque, drips stripes of crude primary colors. 4@32 G=93:â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s sculpture tells engrossing stories, while 0=0 97<H73â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Strada seems wrenched from its job in industry to be glorified for geometry, pattern, surface. 16/@:3<3 @37<6/@Bâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Legerdemain offers an eloquent treatise on figurative geometry. Vessels of virtuosity by /:713 1=@<7<5, 53=@53 2G;3A716, A/<2G 97<H73, >/C:/ >@39=E7BH and ;/@9 5=C2G invite inspection while B=; E=:D3@â&#x20AC;&#x2122;s poignantly sinister pit-fired figure emotes the desolation of a lost soul.

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Brookdale Lodge; $20; 8pm. (Paul M. Davis)

The musical universe of Antsy McClain is one in which cowboy jazz, Tex-Mex, rock and country collide to paint an upbeat and vivid picture of life among the trailers. A self-proclaimed humorist bearing tales of tragicomic heroes and outspoken silver-haired ladies, McClain has recently been revealing his serious side with an expanded repertoire that includes heartfelt ballads, songs of lost love and ruminations on the painful side of life. McClain will be accompanied by his beloved band the Trailer Park Troubadours, a â&#x20AC;&#x153;revolving cadre of top-notch pickers,â&#x20AC;? with a special treat: a one-night-only appearance by original Troubadour Stephen Fleming. Rio Theatre; $27.50 general/$37.50 gold circle; 9pm. (Cat Johnson)

One of Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most dependable live acts, SambadĂĄ celebrates New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve with a night of high-octane samba, salsa, reggae and hip-hop. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a formula that has worked for the band over the past decade, garnering it a fanatical following on the road. The brainchild of local Brazilian expatriates Papiba Godinho and Dandha da Hora, SambadĂĄâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s percussive stew drives a brand of polyglot funk and Brazilian soul that has become the groupâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s unmistakable trademark. The bandâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s intense and irresistibly joyous celebrations of dance and life are the perfect accompaniment to celebrating Santa Cruzâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s most-loved holiday.

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A=C@5@/AA Homespun four-piece Sourgrass is set to get New Yearâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Eve rocking with its mashup of roots & roll, dirty funk, â&#x20AC;&#x153;slow-as-molasses bluesâ&#x20AC;? and a live show guaranteed to leave you â&#x20AC;&#x153;drenched in sweat and tears and begging for more,â&#x20AC;? or so weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re told.

The band will be ringing in the new year with the release of their longawaited single â&#x20AC;&#x153;Flashing Lights,â&#x20AC;? and introducing a â&#x20AC;&#x153;grip of new materialâ&#x20AC;? to the ever-growing Sourgrass faithful.

Word is that the ticket cost gets you a free CD. Crepe Place; $15; 9pm. (CJ)

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Donaghueâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bone-crunching riffs.

Drummer Nate Frederick and bassist Bobby Hanson funk it up for everybody,

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CCORDING to box-officefilms.com, as of Dec. 15, of the Top 100 films of 2010, 18 were sequels and 13 were remakes, spinoffs or adaptations of other media. These figures are presented for educational purposes only. They suggest, though, that if you went to see one of the Top 100 films, you had approximately a one-third chance of seeing something youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d seen before.

Heavy in 2010 was the theme of uncertainty and descent into dream wonderlands; Alice herself made a notable appearance. Often what was offered wasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just escapism but absolute solipsismâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;that is, the denial that there really was such a thing as an outside world. â&#x20AC;&#x153;Weâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be living on the Internet,â&#x20AC;? enthuses Sean Parker in The Social Network, as if that werenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t just possible but desirable.

Leonardo DiCaprio, yesterdayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s beloved romantic lead, this year became todayâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s confused dream-weaver, with two roles as a widower whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d left reality.

First he was a castaway in Shutter Island.

Next he was the suave dream date in Inception, a film that suggested the ultimate human connectionsâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;between wife and husband, father and sonâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;were all just fantasies waiting to be gamed by engineers.

Even the grittier indie cinema kept us on shaky ground. True Grit took pleasure in aliases. It was one surprise to discover that there was more of the sound and sense of Shakespeare in The Kingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Speech then there was in Julie Taymorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Tempest.

It was another to find more of the heft of Shakespeare in this Western than there

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was in Taymorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s own island of fantasy, disguise and impersonation. The elaborate vocabulary of the searchers is one of True Gritâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s main pleasures.

The Coens arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t the first directors to think of the West as a place of confidence men and noms de plains, well aware of the legends theyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll leave behind. However, True Grit is just one 2010 film raising the question of how one can disappear into a new life. Catfish and Exit Through the Gift Shop demonstrate how a false front can be slapped up fast. The pose of the artist is the easiest to adopt and the hardest to expose: this would seem to be some of the text in the roundly overpraised Tiny Furniture. There we note the elevated social status of out-and-out charlatans: the YouTube sensation who sits on his rocking horse and mangles Nietzsche; the sous chef who gets a name as an intellectual, not through the intelligent way in which he conducts himself but because of what heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been rumored to be reading.

So consider â&#x20AC;&#x153;Mr Brain Wash,â&#x20AC;? the popular if egregious artist in Exit Through

the Gift Shop. He may (itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s suspected) be a sock puppet of the courageous Banksy. But does â&#x20AC;&#x153;MBWâ&#x20AC;? have to be Banksy? Who do you have to be to make bad art? Such is the lesson in the story of the documentary Catfish, when we learn the true identity behind a Facebook avatar, a pretty girl.

Supposedly, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a wizard of the lively and the plastic arts. (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Is there nothing you canâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t do?,â&#x20AC;? exclaims her victim.)

Pat Tillmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s afterlife, seen in the documentary The Tillman Story, shows how the State Department played identity games with a casualty of Afghanistan.

Tillmanâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s bravery and intelligence could have made this country better. Instead, craven opportunists smelted him into a war monument.

Some thought of Toy Story 3 as simply understood, funny adventure. But children watch it and face their terrors of abandonment. Adults watch it and face their terrors of obsolescence, of being sent to The Home when they age.

On one hand, Toy Story 3 was a rousing adventure about slave labor and escape;

on the other, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a metaphorical tale of caring parents who must be cared for themselves someday.

And then the year brought us the sumptuous I Am Love, with Tilda Swinton torn between the role of an unmarried lover or the respectable mother of a well-off family. And in the British film Fish Tank, a too-young girl of the projects convinces herself that sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s old enough to be a lover.

There were also fantasies of insane brutality; sometimes delightfully grisly, as in the uproarious Machete, or the indefensible yet lovable Jackass 3D. The fantasies were sometimes infantile in a different way. Sometimes they were love stories taking places in scuffproofed, friction-free Manhattans and Los Angeleses that could only have been manufactured by CGI, as in the New York in the arguably worst of 2010, The Back Up Plan, where every billb-the real world: films sold to a crowd wondering whether they woke or slept.

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In this classic Billy Wilder movie, an ambitious young businessman, C.C. Baxter ( Jack Lemmon), devises an unconventional scheme he hopes will help him climb the corporate ladder: allowing executives from the insurance company he works for to use his apartment for their extramarital trysts.

Complications arise when Miss Kubelik (Shirley MacLaine), also a company employee and the mistress of one of Baxterâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s managers, attempts suicide in the apartment and Baxter must nurse her back to health.

(Plays Thu-Fri at Aptos.)

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min.) Apparently from the annals of the Gotham City Ballet: facing the dual role in a production

woman going nuts so very seriously that he probably should have done without the borrowings from Cronenberg and De Palma.

Terrific color, anyway. (RvB)

of Swan Lake, a virginal ballerina (Natalie Portman) cracks. On one side sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s muscled by her heartless, sexually harassing director (a convincing Vincent Cassel); on the other, sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s smothered by her mother (Barbara Hershey). And then a new dancer (Mila Kunis) arrives from San Francisco to inspire sexual panic and precipitate disaster. In the rehearsal scenes, the camera spins around with the dancers, and we hear the scuffing of their feet and their harsh panting, or we watch in close-up as a slipper is stabbed, sliced and stitched into shape.

Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s ballet as murderous ordeal. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s only when the music starts up that Black Swan starts to feel like a great movie, simply because the Tchaikovsky would make us believe anything.

Director Darren Aronofsky (The Wrestler) takes this 1940ish plot about a frigid

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(PG; 115 min.) The elder Pevensies, Peter and Susan, are in America. Left behind are two younger children, Lucy (Georgie Henley) and Edmund (Skandar Keynes),

Movie reviews by Traci Hukill, Kate Jacobson, Tessa Stuart and Richard von Busack

who are billeted with their hateful cousin Eustace (Will Poulter). Inundated by an enchanted painting, Lucy, Edmund and Eustace end up bobbing in the sea right next to the Narnian navy vessel containing Prince Caspian (Ben Barnes).

Eventually, seven golden swords have to be rescued and placed on the altar of Aslan. There are times when the Narnia movies are as good as CGI gets.

The animators challenge themselves to pose their legions of creatures under high-noon lighting, instead of disguising the f laws with half-shadows or twilight.

(Read a full-length review at www.metroactive.com.) (RvB) B63 4756B3@ (R; 114 min.)

David O. Russellâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s account of pugilists Micky Ward (Mark Wahlberg) and Dicky Eklund (Christian Bale) is juicy, touchingly acted and rich with atmosphere.

Ward, whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s been training all his life with his half-

brother Dicky, is in a career lull as a â&#x20AC;&#x153;stepping-stoneâ&#x20AC;? fighter, used as a boxer for other boxers to leapfrog over. Heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s divorced, with a kid; one night he meets a weary bartender, Charlene (Amy Adams), whoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s tough enough to fight off Wardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s overprotective family, a gaggle of seven high-haired, sharp-nailed sisters and scary chainsmoking mom Alice (Melissa Leo). All put pressure on Micky to keep Dicky as his trainer. One little problem with the elder half-siblingâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s work: heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s a hopeless crack addict. (RvB) 5C::7D3@¸A B@/D3:A

(PG; 85 min.) Whether one is a fan of his or not, most would agree that Jack Black is about as big as he ought to get. The computer effects to make Black vast in the desperately edited Gulliverâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Travels seem like wretched excess. Shipwrecked on the island of Lilliput, Blackâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Gulliver meets a race of bite-sized foreigners who

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imprison him. Subplots include a bromance between Black and a Lilliputian ( Jason Segel) with a crush of his own on the kingdomâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s princess (Emily Blunt), as well as conf lict with a jealous (and unfunny) general, played by Chris Oâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;Dowd). Parts of the script are reasonably faithful to the book; nearly straight from Swift is a passage on the here-unnamed island of Brobdingnag. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the filmâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s comedic highlight maybe because Black is temporarily cut down to size. By the time the directors haul out a giant robot, itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s clear that the most interesting part of this tale went missing.

Swiftâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s satire on the stupidity of wars of religion is here just a vague anti-war message. The heavy product placement is shoved in by people blind to the implications of what happens when a cargobearing colossus arrives on a small island.

(RvB)

Our beautiful Snape (Alan Rickman) towers over his evil cohort.

Helena Bonham Carter is almost as nasty as Margaret Hamilton.

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(R; 118 min.) Colin Firth gives a deeply affecting portrayal of a shame-wracked man born and bred to be a spokesman, yet who is handicapped with a crippling stammer. In the 1930s, Firth is the Duke of York, a family man with two daughters and a wife named Elizabeth (Helena Bonham Carter). The stammering Duke, known to his family as â&#x20AC;&#x153;Bertie,â&#x20AC;? is the official spare to the heir, next in line to the Prince of Wales. A superlatively cast Guy Pearce embodies this Edwardâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s upper-class shadiness and monstrous entitlement. The Prince is the love slave of a twice-married American named Simpson; his affair and his indifference to world troubles (â&#x20AC;&#x153;Hitler will sort them outâ&#x20AC;?) are pushing events to a constitutional crisis.

The man tapped to solve it is Lionel Logue (Geoffrey Rush), an Australian speech

146 min.) A second Battle of Britain has broken out between the mortals and the wizards; the Hogwarts alumni (Rupert Grint, Emma Watson and Daniel Radcliffe) f lee through a blitzed-out land. Unfortunately, the single most f labbergasting part comes early on: an armada on broomsticks breaking through the cloud ceiling, straight into a dogfight of deatheaters. In the middle, the trio hides in the countryside amid blasted heaths and burned-out trailers, and things start to resemble Twilight before the film gets on its feet again. The startling Balinese-style puppet animation of the titleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s fable is a highlight of the series.

Grint, the clumsy/ suave best pal Ron Weasley, seems to be growing into another Malcolm McDowell.

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min.) The son of an embattled corporate giant (Paul Rudd) and a professional baseball player (Owen Wilson) both vie for the affection of a professional softball player (Reese Witherspoon) recently cut from the national team and struggling to find new purpose for her life in this f luffy romcom.

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min.) Jim Carey and Ewan MacGregor are star-crossed lovers in this romantic comedy based on the life of Steven Jay Russell, a convicted con artist who fell in love with fellow inmate Phillip Morris. After Morris was released, Russell escaped from incarceration four times to be reunited with his soul mate.

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Pseudo-sophisticated romance by Edward Zwick, loosely adapted from Hard Sell: The Evolution of a Viagra Salesman by Jamie Reidy. In the 1990s, a breezy Pittsburghbased pharma-salesman

( Jake Gyllenhaal) and a free-spirited lady (Anne Hathaway) meet in a doctorâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s office. A hot yet hostile relationship breaks out. But Jamie quickly diagnoses whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s eating Maggie: she has stage one Parkinsonâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s and is determined to have a reckless good time while her body holds out. Hathaway could have carried this as light comedy, but she comes on furious and knocks this unsteady movie f lat. And sheâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a sweeping force meeting an equal, opposite reaction in Gyllenhaal, who is about as deep as Jason Biggs from the American Pie movies.

Under the direction of the nice guy who created Thirtysomething, it carries the kind of happy ending youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d need a happiness drug to accept. (RvB) % 6=C@A (R; 94 min.) 127 Hours is director Danny Boyleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s version of the truelife story of climber Aron Ralston. In spring 2003, Ralston was pinned under a half-ton boulder in a remote Utah canyon; what he did to survive

became worldwide news. 127 Hours records an ordeal so singular, Poe couldnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t improve on it. Unfortunately, Boyle (Slumdog Millionaire) tries to blow up the storyâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s elemental horror through pyrotechnics.

He starts with a burst of relentless motion, as in his Trainspotting.

Unfortunately, this ADD style has been thoroughly appropriated for sports-drink commercials. James Francoâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s visceral acting in the service of this horror story probably should be praised, even if itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s not a pleasure to watch. One would have to be fairly simpleminded to think of this ghastly story as some kind of triumph of the human spirit. (RvB) B/<5:32 (PG; 153 min.) Directors Nathan Greno and Byron Howard stress the most resonant interpretation of the tale: Rapunzel as a myth for all parts of the world where girls arenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t allowed to run free. The imprisoning witch Gothel is a curvy villainess feeding on the youth and hopes of the girl whom she

imprisons. Remodeled as a Disney princess (voiced by Mandy Moore), this Rapunzel is freed by a rakish young thief. Third-act developments take the plot into a different resolution than the Brothers Grimm charted, adding to the surprise of the cartoon.

You can see the inf luences and salute them as they pass: the antique charm of 3D Viewmaster fairytale slides, Romanian villages, Utahâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Canyonlands, the f loating lanterns of the Japanese Obon festival; the block-headed yobs at the Snuggly Ducky tavern look as if they modeled for Britainâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s Spitting Image. As for actual hero Maximus the horse, there hasnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t been such a hilarious steed since Chuck Jones died. (RvB) B63 B=C@7AB (PG-13; 114 min.) Johnny Depp stars as Frank, a hapless American tourist unlucky enough to have been targeted

by Elise, a woman with a dangerous past, played by Angelina Jolie. Frank attempts to kindle a romance while Elise attempts to

evade her pursuersâ&#x20AC;&#x201D;a criminal ex-boyfriend, the gangster he stole from and the agent (Paul Bettany) hot on their trail.

B@=< :35/1G (PG; 127 min.) In this highly anticipated remake of the 1982 cult sci-fi f lick, wonder programmerturned-hacker Kevin Flynn ( Jeff Bridges) must beat a series of computer games from the inside. Featuring a soundtrack composed by legendary electronic duo Daft Punk.

B@C3 5@7B (PG-13; 128 min.) Mattie Ross (Hailee Steinfeld), a self-assured 14-year-old, arrives in Fort Smith, Ark., in the early 1880s to track down Tom Cheney ( Josh Brolin), the hired hand who murdered her father. The sheriff lists some U.S. marshals who could track him.

Mattie chooses Reuben â&#x20AC;&#x153;Roosterâ&#x20AC;? Cogburn ( Jeff Bridges): ruthless and dead to fear, if often dead to the world. Mattie offers the marshal a $50 reward to cross into the Choctaw lands to retrieve Cheney.

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American and specialty dishes from the British and Emerald Isles.

Full bar. Children welcome. Happy hour Mon-Fri 2-6pm.

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Italian. Ambience reminiscent of a small trattoria in the streets of Italy, serving handmade lasagna, pasta dishes, gnocchi and fresh fish. Wed-Sun, lunch 11am-2pm, dinner 5-9pm.

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Italian-American. Mouthwatering, generous portions, friendly service and the best patio in town. Full bar. Lunch.

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Indian. World-famous curries, vegetarian and nonvegetarian dishes. Authentic Indian food at affordable prices. $8.95 lunch buffet Mon-Thu 11:30am -2:30pm, Fri-Sun 11am-3pm.

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Pizza. Pizza, fresh salads, sandwiches, wings, desserts, beers on tap. Patio dining, sports on HDTV and free WiFi. Large groups and catering. Open and delivering Fri-Sat 11am-2am, Mon-Thu 11am-1am, Sun 11am-midnight.

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everything is different doesnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t mean anything has changed,â&#x20AC;? said writer Irene Peter. That should be cautionary advice for you in 2011, Aries. From what I can tell, it will be relatively easy for you to rearrange the way things look, but trickier to transform them from the inside out. You will have to be vigilant to keep from getting swept up in the giddiness of big talk at the expense of practical action. Youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll have to push hard to make sure that seductive ideas are translated into concrete details. Can you do it? I think you can.

B/C@CA (April 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;May 20): In 1967, John McCain was a U.S. Navy pilot fighting in Vietnam.

Shot down during a bombing mission, he was captured and jailed in the notorious Hanoi Hilton prison camp, where he was tortured. After being freed in 1973, he returned to the U.S. and eventually launched a political career. When he ran for president in 2008, his candidacy got an endorsement from an unlikely source: Tran Trong Duyet, the Vietnamese prison commander who had supervised his torture.

In the coming months, Taurus, I expect you to experience a turnaround that will have comparable poetic justice. Iâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;m not sure how it will unfold. Maybe an adversary will praise you, a person who wounded you will make amends, or a force of nature that once opposed you will come over to your side. Twentyeleven will be a Year of Vindicating Reversals.

53;7<7 (May 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;June 20): Can you finally escape the pain you got imprinted with during adolescence?

Is it a realistic possibility that you could triumph over the conditioning you absorbed before you knew how to talk? Do you have the power to do what few of us have done, which is to get out from under the weight of the past, shed the inertia of your memories, and live brave and free in the raw truth of NOW? If there will ever in your life be a time when you can accomplish at least some of this noble quest, Gemini, it will be in 2011.

1/<13@ (June 21â&#x20AC;&#x201C;July 22): Decades ago, the U.S. built a network of sleek expressways to make it fast and easy for cars to travel between cities. But like many of Americaâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s impressive engineering feats, this one took little account of what the human soul might enjoy. Ugly buildings or empty spaces surround many of those roads. Visually, the difference between I-95 in Georgia and I-74 in Illinois is negligible. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The Interstate highway system has made it possible,â&#x20AC;? said Charles Kuralt, â&#x20AC;&#x153;to go from sea to shining sea without seeing anything.â&#x20AC;? You cannot afford to let this be your operative metaphor in 2011, Cancerian.

Your potential for rapid, extensive progress is sizable, but it would be a mistake to barrel along with your eyes fixed on the prize in the distance as you neglect whatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s happening along the way. Be both global and local; romance the details as you revel in the big picture. :3= (July 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Aug. 22): Fixing peopleâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s teeth is one of Dr. Peter Kerteszâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s specialties. The British dentist has a thriving business in London. Now and then heâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s also called on to practice an exotic variation: animal dentistry. Recently, he corrected the tooth problems of two tigers in a zoo. Other species he has helped include elephants, whales and pandas. In 2011, Leo, I suggest you consider branching out like Dr. Kertesz.

What would be the equivalent, in your domain, of expanding the ways you use your primary skills?

D7@5= (Aug. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Sept. 22): â&#x20AC;&#x153;What can I do with this eternal longing?â&#x20AC;? Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s the first line of â&#x20AC;&#x153;Assouf,â&#x20AC;? a song by the African band Tinariwen. During the rest of the tune, the singer never offers a definitive answer to that plea, but as he tumbles and rumbles over the possibilities, the band plays a lot of righteous music. I suggest that you make Tinariwenâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s cry your question of the year in 2011. It will be an excellent use of your time to meditate on how to call forth, nurture, and direct your ineffable, insatiable yearning. (Hear the song: http://tinyurl.com/Assouf.) :70@/ (Sept. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Oct. 22): In 2011, I believe you will have the chance to weave your fortunes together with an abundance of allies who are good for you.

They will be your equals, they will share at least some of your most important values, and they will respect you for who you are. Thatâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s excellent news, right?

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A1=@>7= (Oct. 23â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Nov. 21): Michelangelo didnâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t think of himself as primarily a painter. Sculpture was his first love. Yet in 1508 he was coaxed into painting prodigious frescoes on the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel. As he worked for four years, covering 12,000 square feet with sublime images, he sometimes complained and felt resentful. The project took him away from two large sculptures he would have preferred to be working on. He feared his enemies had convinced the Pope to give him this task in order to demonstrate how mediocre his painting was. But today his work at the Sistine Chapel is regarded as a masterpiece. I suspect that in 2011 you may face a version of Michelangeloâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s dilemma, Scorpio: being offered a job you donâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;t consider your forte. Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s quite possible, however, that accepting this â&#x20AC;&#x153;diversionâ&#x20AC;? will yield interesting results.

A/57BB/@7CA (Nov. 22â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Dec. 21): â&#x20AC;&#x153;When I became a man I put away childish things,â&#x20AC;? said Sagittarian author C.S. Lewis, â&#x20AC;&#x153;including the fear of childishness and the desire to be very grown up.â&#x20AC;? I suggest you take up that attitude yourself in 2011, Sagittarius. One of your top assignments in the coming months will be to play with greater intensity and more frequency and a heightened imagination. If you want to achieve your adult goals, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;ll be wise to recreate your childhood wisdom on a higher octave.

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Itâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;s crucial for you to be in close touch with both the lessons provided by the grand sweep of human civilization and by your own personal history.

/?C/@7CA (Jan. 20â&#x20AC;&#x201C;Feb. 18): â&#x20AC;&#x153;The third-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the majority,â&#x20AC;? said author A.A. Milne. â&#x20AC;&#x153;The second-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking with the minority. The first-rate mind is only happy when it is thinking.â&#x20AC;? You will have an excellent chance to cultivate that definition of a first-rate mind in 2011, Aquarius. According to my reading of the astrological omens, life will be conspiring to strengthen your brain. You will have everything going for you if you make it your intention to sharpen your wits, use language more precisely, and see the world with greater clarity and objectivity. To get the fun started, make a list of what you could do to push your intelligence beyond its current limits. >7A13A (Feb. 19â&#x20AC;&#x201C;March 20): â&#x20AC;&#x153;Anything youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re good at contributes to happiness,â&#x20AC;? said philosopher Bertrand Russell. If I had my way, Pisces, youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;d write that on a note and tape it to your bathroom mirror for the duration of 2011. I think it would raise your appreciation for the power your personal gifts have to bestow blessings on both yourself and others. And I hope it would inspire you to spend a lot of quality time finding out all you can about what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re good at and deepening your capacity to do what youâ&#x20AC;&#x2122;re good at.

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