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The "Problem" singer said that she feels they "owe it" to fans to complete the song in the future.
Earlier this year, the pair confirmed to fans that they had united in the studio to work on material, when Bieber congratulated Grande on her U.S. chart success.
Grande told AP, "We were working on it. We were in the studio together ... we were going to do it, but then we both got busy. I had to focus on my stuff and he was focusing on his, and it just sort of didn't really get done."
"We feel like we owe it to our fans to do something one day. We will finish it and put it out one day, but it just wasn't the right time," she added.
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This article was published 10/4/2013 (2383 days ago), so information in it may no longer be current.
Cultural exchange between China and the West is complex, reflecting geography, language, economics, global politics, ideology, and, depending how you define "cultural exchange" and "the West," some 2,000 years of history and two billion living people. Too often, this complexity elicits incomplete, unbalanced, or simply inaccurate characterizations of that exchange, but (Da bao)(Takeout), which opened at Plug In ICA last weekend, avoids these pitfalls by adopting a broad focus and a light touch.
The show's 17 artists include second- and third-generation Chinese-Canadians, Chinese artists who've worked abroad and Canadian artists who've worked in China, and curators Shannon Anderson and Doug Lewis are careful not to yoke the diverse works to overly restrictive themes or narratives.
The resulting exhibition, if perhaps a bit scattered, commendably avoids generalization and preserves the artists' unique perspectives. What patterns do emerge do so organically and, not surprisingly, distance, disconnect and the misunderstandings that result are recurring motifs (Lewis suggests that the exhibition's Chinese title itself might be better read as "leftovers").
In 2006, Beijing-born Han Xu and native Torontonian Sara Angelucci found themselves in one another's respective country of origin on opposite sides of the globe. Capitalizing on their swapped perspectives and the 12-hour time difference, the artists began taking simultaneous photographs twice daily at 9 a.m. and 9 p.m. (and vice versa), which they collect in the series Your Morning Is My Night.
The charming illustrations in South Korean artist Minjeong Oh's series of paintings and video animation, On the Resonance Port, document sights and scenarios she found unfamiliar and distinctly "Chinese" while visiting Beijing — a potentially useful reminder of Asian cultural diversity for some. Elsewhere, Gang Chen's sensitive paintings of airport X-ray scans and Laurens Tan's sculptures of Beijing's unlicensed three-wheeled taxis each refer to the constant movement that characterizes rapidly globalizing societies.
Several artists tackle divisive issues particular to China. Shen Yi Elsie's portraits of the country's often-exploited migrant labourers are both dignified and fanciful, but others take a more confrontational approach. In Nan Hao's photograph Song Type Study One, the artist and his brother stand in front of a Starbucks in Beijing's historic Forbidden City holding a banner reading "F your mother" in local slang. A juvenile stunt to North American eyes, maybe, but the characters and style of script create added ambiguities for Chinese readers, and it's important to remember that, in China, unsanctioned protest of any kind chances serious reprisal. (In some ways, the piece was as dangerous to execute as Chi #3, a nerve-wracking video of the artist performing tai chi in the middle of a busy street).
Other works are less easily categorized (take the mushroom farm heated by an upside-down laptop — you're on your own with that one). Vancouver artist Laiwan's 10-second video loop, Movement for Two Grannies, which shows the women standing on the surface of a shimmering body of water as they hold one another for support, is unexpectedly disarming. The decision to project video of Winnipeg dancer and artist Ming Hon's aggressively sensual (also, scary) Cleaver into a highly polished wok was ingenious — intense flashes of reflected light sharply punctuate the already-gripping performance.
Taken collectively, the works in (Da bao)(Takeout) provide a engaging and nuanced look at the results, too often overlooked, of continuous, reciprocal and highly varied exchanges between cultures. The exhibition runs through June 2.
Steven Leyden Cochrane is a Winnipeg-based artist, writer and educator.
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Ted Cruz for president?
What you just heard was the sound of a thousand eyeballs rolling in Washington and Austin, where the freshman senator's transparent ambition and self-regard have earned him more than a few detractors during his first few months in office.
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But Cruz, the target of elite finger-wagging after his threat to filibuster gun control legislation and his ostentatiously rough questioning of Defense Secretary Chuck Hagel earlier this year, is plainly undeterred by the disapproval of the political class. Whether he's currently mulling a 2016 run in May of 2013 may not be nearly as interesting as another question: With barely four months in the Senate under his belt, what the heck is Ted Cruz up to anyway?
( Also on POLITICO: Ted Cruz draws presidential buzz, but is he eligible?)
Some signs of 2016 intrigue are there, if not overwhelmingly compelling ones. He'll travel Friday to the early presidential primary state of South Carolina to keynote the local GOP's annual Silver Elephant Dinner, an occasion headlined last year by Florida Sen. Marco Rubio. The conservative magazine National Review declared Wednesday that Cruz is mulling a White House bid in 2016, just in case his actions didn't speak for themselves.
But sources close to Cruz say that actually building a national campaign is far from the top of his mind at the moment. He's not placing regular phone calls into Iowa and New Hampshire, unlike his Senate colleague Rand Paul of Kentucky, or — according to sources — former Pennsylvania senator and 2012 primary runner-up Rick Santorum. Unlike Rubio, who is pouring political capital into the immigration reform debate, Cruz isn't gambling his career on some landmark legislative push.
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Instead, if Cruz, 42, is not taking out filing papers just yet, he's doing whatever he can to prolong and intensify his moment as the golden boy of the right. The Princeton and Harvard Law graduate is keenly aware of his place within the national politico-media complex. As much as any up-and-coming Republican, he has proven adept at exploiting the forces that propel GOP politicians to success in the Obama era. And he knows it.
As Ted Cruz dips his ankle further into the water of national politics, he seems preternaturally confident about the path ahead. Does he know things that his most vocal critics don't? Yes — and here are four examples:
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It's his moment and he damn well knows it
It was only a few years ago — early in the 2010 cycle — that Cruz was assembling a campaign for attorney general of Texas. That race ended quickly, when Gov. Rick Perry chose to run for reelection and pre-empted a game of musical chairs among statewide officeholders.
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The Scottish botnet spammer found guilty last month for orchestrating a malicious Trojan campaign in 2006 has been sentenced to 18 months in prison.
The sentence imposed on 33-year old Matthew Anderson by the Southwark Crown Court judge could be counted as tough or lenient, depending on how the facts around the case are framed.
He was a key member of a gang that distributed software capable of data theft, of hijacking infected PCs for use in botnets, and in performing remote a range of surveillance on victims. Normally, that would considered a serious offence.
With few e-crime precedents to draw on for guidance, two things probably stopped Anderson from receiving a tougher sentence – the fact that the crimes happened some years ago and, at times, their sheer oddity.
He was prosecuted under the Computer Misuse Act 1990 for crimes said to have occurred between September 2005 and his arrest in June 2006. Under the harsher Police and Justice Act, which came into force in November 2006, he would almost certainly have had his sentence increased significantly.
Anderson is also believed to have been motivated by psychological urges different from the modus operandi of modern e-crime, which is maximum profit.
He carried out the crimes from a PC in his mother's living room, using a computer software company as a front, which made him look like more of a mis-adventurous hacker than a criminal mastermind. He is also said to have been fascinated by the ability to hijack webcams, allowing him to take pictures of his victims or steal files from them, neither of which was obviously profitable.
In other words, the impression here was of a man excited by the power of hacking. The modest amounts of money he made out of the operation were a sideline.
Anderson will be up for parole after half his sentence has been served and faces punishment other than a £5,000 ($8,000) fine. By comparison, the US youth who hacked the email account of Sarah Palin in 2008 recently received a year in an open prison for much less serious hacking of a small amount of private data from one person.
"As this case shows, criminals can't hide online and are being held to account for their actions. A complex investigation like this demonstrates what international cooperation can achieve," said Detective Constable Bob Burls of the UK Police Central e-Crime Unit (PCeU), neatly ignoring the fact that few online criminals are ever caught and it has taken over four years to sentence Anderson.


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Just a short drive on a long straight road north of Deniliquin I arrived at Conargo Public School.
Day 7 Thursday 10 June 2010 - Conargo Public School is a small rural school about 30 minutes north of Deniliquin. I arrive at this school in the morning ready to get the spare box I had out of the car, but it wasn't needed as both the Living on the Land and the Freshwater box had arrived yesterday.
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Masahiro Sakurai, of Smash Bros fame, is currently hard at work on a 3D version of Kid Icarus. His version of Kid Icarus' protagonist Pitt, he says, "feels like a new character". Here's why.
"One thing I can talk about is that Pit uses a lot of weapons and this is a very important aspect of the game," he tells the Official Nintendo Magazine. "There's a wide variety of very different types of weapons. Each one is very unique and presents a wide range of gameplay possibilities and a multitude of ways to approach different enemies with different weapons."
Players can shoot for long range attacks and strike for short range ones. "For the shooting attacks, you can also choose between charge shots and consecutive shots," he explains. "All of this weapon variation makes you feel like you're playing the game with a brand new character because the feel is so varied when you use different weapons."
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The addition of standard cabin air filtration and two new exterior colors are the only changes for the 2011 Aveo. The new colors are Silver Ice Metallic and Summit White. "New GM" promises the '12 Aveo launching in early 2011, will transform the Chevy into a world-class subcompact. Until then, expect heavy discounts and incentives to clear the lots of this model.
The sleek styling of this car's replacement promises good things to come. Until then, the Aveo is stuck with gawky and cheap-looking exterior styling. Think Daewoo with a bowtie grille and 14- or 15-inch wheels.
The 1LT adds, six-speaker AM/FM stereo/CD/MP3 player and floor mats. The 2LT adds heated power sideview mirrors, power windows, locks, remote keyless entry and alarm, cruise control, deluxe cloth seats, wheel-mounted audio controls and XM radio.
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There are many wonderful things about living in the United States. It's far from perfect, but as far as countries go, it's a pretty sweet place to live. Then you read about a guy like Jerry Wojcik and it makes you want to scrap the whole thing and start over. Jerry Wojcik is suing the Buffalo Bills for sending him 2-3 more texts a week than he voluntarily and proactively agreed to receive. I'm not going to throw around words like "frivolous lawsuits," because those kind of words have very specific meanings that can be debated. Instead, I'm just going to tell Jerry Wojcik that he is an incredible dickhead for filing this colossal waste of time.
In their legal papers, his attorneys claim that after he signed up for a Bills program that pledged to send him no more than five text alerts per week, he instead received six messages one week and seven a few weeks later.
This is remarkable. On so many levels, too. Jerry Wojcik not only signed up for a text messaging service—who even does that?—but then felt it was too excessive and got mad about it. Then, desiring restitution, he presumably researched law firms to take his grievance to court. He then left his house, climbing over the piles of newspapers, clothes, coffee grounds and at least one dead cat in his living room to meet with attorneys. At least one firm invited Jerry to sit down in its conference room, listened to Jerry discuss excessive text messages from the Buffalo Bills for which he signed up, conferred with each other and decided "yes, we will represent this man."
That law firm then assigned this case to its worst attorney. This attorney then drafted a complaint and had the secretary print it out so that (s)he could review and sign it. It being an old-fashioned firm, a courier was called. This person took this complaint to the federal court in Middle District Florida and filed the papers. The courier was not hit by a truck on his or her way to the courthouse. The papers were accepted and assigned to a judge. The originally-assigned judged tragically died shortly after receiving the case. Autopsy reports indicate the cause of death as "exploded head." A new judge was assigned.
Someone leaked the filing to a reporter. That reporter tragically died shortly after receiving the phone call—but not before jotting down some notes—autopsy reports also indicate an exploded head. A copycat is suspected. The reporter's grieving spouse came across the jotted-down notes and informed former colleagues. Eventually Gene Warner of The Buffalo News writes a story under the following headline:
3 excess text messages prompt fan to sue Bills.
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The ferocity of the coaches' fights for their favorite singers only intensified as the numbers of spots on their teams dwindled, as blind auditions entered their last week Monday on "The Voice."
Adam and Blake used their muscle as former "Voice" champs to woo an impressive array of singers, while Shakira campaigned relentlessly, showing off her drive to win, and Usher stealthily persuaded would-be team members, too.
Their fervor couldn't wrest the first artist of the night, Kat Perkins, from Adam's clutches. Maybe it was their shared love of tattoos; maybe their shared rocker backgrounds. But the 33-year-old nanny and band vet from small-town North Dakota, who impressed all three with her growling performance of Fleetwood Mac's "Gold Dust Woman," picked defending champion Adam as her coach.
The next contestant to turn the coaches' chairs — Paula DeAnda, a Latin pop singer from Texas who'd had a couple of pop hits as a teen before her record label dropped her — seemed a sure bet for Team Shakira. She even hinted as much as she headed onto the "Voice" stage to sing Ariana Grande's "The Way," remarking that she loved that Shakira was on the show. After her performance, which earned chair-turns from Shakira and Blake, she gushed over the Latin pop star some more, remarking, "You're so beautiful!"
But ultimately, despite Adam's efforts to nudge Paula toward Team Shakira, she picked Blake as her coach. "I've never really explored my country roots, even though I'm from Texas. I just felt in my heart that I should go with Blake," Paula said.
Shakira lost out again with the next performer, Jake Barker, an R&B singer whose stint on the "Voice" stage was his first performance in front of an audience. Ever. Anywhere. Unless you count YouTube, where the erstwhile New York City bartender regularly posts videos of his music. Barker's falsetto croon on the Bruno Mars hit "When I Was Your Man" earned chair-turns from all the coaches but Blake, but the 28-year-old wanted to get his coaching from Usher, who knows a thing or two about falsetto and YouTube stardom.
Shakira's pleas weren't answered with 19-year-old dancer-turned-singer Ria Eaton, either, who covered "Cups (When I'm Gone)" with a distinct, raspy sound and won chair turns from Blake and Shakira toward the very end of her performance, just as she seemed resigned to going home disappointed. But Shakira lost out once again to Blake, who remarked that Ria "just doesn't sound like anybody else."
Redemption for Shakira finally came from Cierra Mickens, or rather, from her own stage drama effort to win the powerhouse for her team. Explaining that her life was at a crossroads, the wry Alaska-raised singer took to the "Voice" stage with a big decision at stake: Keep pursuing a music career, or head to law school. She performed the Gnarls Barkley hit "Crazy" with a clear, strong belt and a playful growl that would have won over CeeLo Green himself, were he in a red chair this time around. Instead, she won first Shakira, then Blake and finally, in a super-last-second button-push Blake slammed as a "technical foul," Usher too.
The men's pitches were nothing next to Shakira's, though: Shakira, fed up with being snubbed all night, walked onto the stage to plead with Cierra personally. "This is one of the most important decisions you're going to make in your entire career. I just want to tell you how much I believe in you. You are a superstar," she told her — which seemed to seal Cierra's decision. She picked Shakira as her coach, giving Team Shakira its first member of the night.
But Blake got another team member next, with the night's only duo, Alaska and Madi. The teens were destined for Team Blake from the moment they were introduced: The Oklahoman girls had met when they were 12 and together had won a singing competition called American Kids — a contest Blake himself once won, back when he wore an impressive mullet. The pair were prepared to head their separate ways to college if their career as a duo didn't work out — but for now, anyway, it seemed it was going to.
Their twangy, spirited take on the Civil Wars' "Barton Hollow" won over Adam and then Blake. "I know I'm screwed," Adam conceded, before making his pitch anyway. But even without the American Kids and the Oklahoma connection, his pitch was no match for Blake's comparison of the girls' sound to that of his wife Miranda Lambert's band the Pistol Annies', and they picked him as their coach.
Shakira scored her next and final diva of the night with Ddendyl, a small-town, airy-voiced lounge singer and one-time opera singer whose haunting, lush cover of Ben E. King's "Stand by Me" strangely didn't turn any chairs but Shakira's — and she turned almost instantly, comparing her voice to Norah Jones'. She was delighted not to have to fight for her on her team, though Ddendyl's obvious talents could wind up much sought-after in the battle rounds. "I'm so happy you're part of my team now; I feel like we're going to do great things," Shakira told her.
The last big get of the night, though, was 38-year-old husband, father and philosophy tutor Josh Kaufman, who took on George Michael's "One More Try" — a song choice fraught with meaning, given his sense that he had just one more try for a music career. His soulful, nuanced take on the song riveted all four of the coaches, starting with Adam, who pressed but button in the first few moments of the performance. "That was goosebumps, man, that was unbelievable," Adam told him."I think you're the real deal. I'd be devastated if you didn't pick me as your coach, because you are the artist I've been waiting for." His remarks touched off rounds of praise from the other coaches, too — but Josh picked Adam as his coach.
That finished out the penultimate night of blind auditions on "The Voice," on which Adam also picked up singers Josh Murley and Austin Ellis, Usher picked up Tess Boyer and Blake picked up Cali Tucker. That meant that Tuesday, as blind auditions were set to wrap up, the coaches would finish fleshing out their teams, waiting for the perfect performer to fill their final spots.
"The Voice" airs Mondays and Tuesdays at 8/7c.


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Was it really almost 13 years ago that Bill Clinton came clean about all that randy behavior in the White House with Monica? Time flies in a land of dropped flies. I don't remember what I was doing at the moment—as people are wont to do in times of cataclysm—but I'll never forget the lesson: Politicians have libidos. I could have learned it a hundred different times (Gary Hart tried to inform me), but it's the type of thing that doesn't easily register. I remember thinking that it's not all powdered wigs and sturgeon roe; there were stiffies going on under big official desks. Even still, it doesn't seem all that possible.
Anyway, this obviously got me to thinking about Winter's Bone. The movie, not the Daniel Woodrell book. Pardon the Freudian pun, but the film is set in the Ozark Mountain range, which extends right through the heart of Arkansas, with the slick gray dourness of Clinton's hair. The austerity of the setting and small budget no-nonsense comes off like an Oscar caught in the headlights (one assumes purposefully). The casting—aside from maybe Jennifer Lawrence, who is the unmade-up, unsmiling teen heroine of sorts—is realistic to the point of distraction. Many of the cast members just have that look of a dog's chewed-up ear. Many of them aren't actors at all, but real people in their real way of going about life in shotgun dwellings. There's plenty of good fancy hatred in their eyes, too, the kind that comes from smalltown distrustfulness and aggravating proximity.


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Lab workers at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs medical center will be urged to get vaccinations for the diseases they study as a precaution as investigators continue looking into a researcher's death after he handled a rare strain of bacteria, officials said Thursday.
Richard Din, the meningitis research associate who died Saturday in a possible lab exposure, wasn't vaccinated for the illness despite Centers for Disease Control and Prevention recommendations to the contrary. Nonetheless, the VA's Harry Lampiris said a vaccine may not have protected Din, 25, because he was helping to develop a vaccine for a meningitis strain resistant to vaccine.
Lampiris also said about 70 people who came into contact with Din recently - including family members, co-workers and medical personnel who treated him - received antibiotic treatments that are "100 percent effective" in combatting infection.
Din, who lived on San Francisco's Treasure Island, fell ill with a headache and other flu-like symptoms about two hours after leaving work Friday evening, Lampiris said.
He awoke Saturday feeling worse and with a rash all over his body, and he was rushed to the VA hospital by friends.
Lampiris said Din lost consciousness in the car and died in the hospital of a heart attack at about 2 p.m. The vaccine-resistant strain of bacteria was found in his bloodstream.
Lampiris said it is unclear how Din was exposed to the bacteria because he had a reputation as a safe, by-the-book research associate at the VA hospital's Northern California Institute for Research and Education. Lampiris said lab workers are expected to wear gloves and gowns, and they do their work behind a protective "safety cabinet," or hood, while isolating the bacteria.
"He was an excellent lab worker and very fastidious," said Lampiris, chief of infectious disease at the San Francisco VA research institute. Lampiris said there were no signs of spills or mechanical failure in the lab where Din worked, which was decontaminated and temporarily closed pending investigations.
Officials with the California Division of Occupational Safety and Health and the federal Occupational Safety and Health Administration have opened a joint investigation into Din's death. The CDC is researching whether the bacterial strain found in Din's bloodstream is the same strain he worked with in the lab.
Cal-OSHA spokeswoman Erika Monterroza said her office has six months to conclude its investigation and can levy fines if workplace regulations were violated.
"We're very early in the process," she said.
So-called laboratory-acquired infections are "rare occurrences," according to CDC spokesman Tom Skinner. But they do happen.
According to a 2005 paper published in the Journal of Clinical Microbiology - the most recent study of its kind - 16 cases of probable laboratory-acquired meningitis occurred worldwide between 1985 and 2001, and eight of them were fatal.
Other infections also occur, including a Chicago researcher who died in 2009 after exposure to bacteria that causes the plague, and a University of Illinois student who came down with a mild case of cow pox the next year after a laboratory exposure. The CDC reported last year that 73 people in 35 states were infected with salmonella in lab-associated incidents between August 2010 and March 2011.
The CDC also reported to Congress that seven researchers were infected with a so-called "select agent" between 2003 and 2009. Select agents include dangerous pathogens such as small pox and anthrax but not meningitis.
"Laboratory-acquired infection represents an occupational hazard unique to laboratory workers, especially those in the microbiology laboratory," Kamaljit Singh of Chicago's Rush University Medical Center concluded in a 2009 scientific paper published in the journal Clinical Infectious Diseases. Singh estimated that 500,000 lab workers handle dangerous germs in the United States.
Lab workers at the San Francisco Veterans Affairs medical center will be urged to get vaccinations for the diseases they study as a precaution as investigators continue looking into a researcher's death after he handled a rare strain of bacteria, officials said Thursday.


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IN civil life he had always said his prayers. They had done him good, too, in a way. They had been a sort of squaring of his accounts morally. He had tried to see where he had failed, made resolutions to amend, and acknowledged to himself at any rate, that he had failed. He had remembered his relations and friends before God, and it had helped him to do his duty by them. At the same time, he was not in the least degree a mystic. Even in his prayers he had never felt the reality of God. "God" to him was rather the name for the principle of goodness than a Being of infinite power and intimate importance. His greatest religious "experience" had been a spasmodic loyalty to the Christ-man, stimulating him at rare intervals to sudden acts of quixotism.
When he first enlisted he continued the habit of saying his prayers, more because it was inconvenient than for any other reason, perhaps. The other fellows in the barrack-room did not say their prayers, and he was too English not to feel the more resolved to say his. He was not going to be afraid. So he said them, deliberately and very self-consciously, half expecting to be laughed at. It was very difficult. He could not concentrate his mind. He whispered the words mechanically, his head full of other thoughts. The other fellows paused in their talk the first night, and then went on as if nothing had happened. After that no notice was taken at all. No one followed his example. No one commented, or interfered with him. A little persecution would have hardened his resolve. Being ignored weakened it. He could not bring his mind to bear on his words, and there seemed to be no point in going on. He tried saying them in bed, in the privacy of his blanket. Then one day he forgot; and after that he just omitted to say them ever.
After all it made very little difference. And yet at times he felt that there was a difference. It was a little like a man sitting in a room with a frosted window that only opened at the top. He understood that it gave on to a garden, but he had never seen the garden. He used to sit with the top of the window pulled open, and then somehow one day he forgot to open it, and after that he never bothered. It made so little difference. At times he did notice that the air was a little less fresh, but he was too lazy, or too busy about other matters to bother.
This Englishman's religion had always been a bit like that, like a window opening on to the unknown and unexplored. He liked to think that his window gave on to a garden, and to think that he sometimes caught the scent of the flowers. But he had never had the energy or the faith to test his belief. Suppose he were to find that after all his garden was only a paved yard! Anyhow he had left the window shut now. At times he regretted it; but a kind of inertia possessed him, and he did not do anything about it.
When he first got to the front he prayed, half ashamed. He was not quite sure of himself, and he prayed that he might not be found wanting. But when it came to the point everything was very prosaic. It was boring, and uncomfortable, and at times terrifying. Yet he felt no inclination to shirk. He just drifted on, doing his bit like the others, and with not too good a grace. He was asked to take the stripe, and refused. It meant more trouble and responsibility. His conscience told him that he was shirking. He grew angry with it. "Well," he demanded of it, "why have I responsibilities more than anyone else? Haven't I failed?" He put the question defiantly, ostensibly to his conscience, but with an eye to the "Christ-man" in Whom he had almost ceased to believe. To his astonishment he got an answer. It was a contingency with which he had not reckoned. Like a flash this sentence wrote itself across his mind---" Strengthen My brethren." It staggered him. He felt that he knew what it meant. "Don't whine about failure. If you are willing to serve, here is your job, and the sign of your forgiveness---Strengthen My brethren." He took the stripe after all, and fathered the boys of his section.
The final stage came later. There had been a charge, a hopeless affair from the start, undertaken in broad daylight. He had fallen between the lines, and had seen the battered remnant of his company retire past him to their own trench before a hail of bullets. He lay in the long grass between the lines, unable to move, and with an unceasing throbbing pain in his left leg and arm. A whizz-bang had caught him in both places. All the afternoon he lay still, his mind obsessed by one thought---Would anyone find him when it was dark, or would he be left to die? He kept on wondering the same thing, with the same maddening persistence. At last he must have lost consciousness, for he woke to find that the sun had set, and all was still but for an occasional flare or a random shot. He had lost a lot of blood; but the throbbing had ceased, and if he kept still he felt no pain. He just lay there, feeling strangely peaceful. Above him he could see the stars, and the moon, though low in the heavens, gave a clear light.
He found himself vaguely wondering about the meaning of everything. The stars seemed to make it all seem so small and petty. All this bloodshed---what was the good of it? It was all so ephemeral, so trivial, so meaningless in the presence of eternity and infinity. It was just a strife of pygmies. He suddenly felt terribly small and lonely, and he was so very, very weak. He was cut off from his fellow men as surely as if he had been on a desert island, and he felt somehow as if he had got out of his element, and was launched, a tiny pygmy soul, on the sea of immensity, where he could find no bearings. Eternity and infinity were so pitiless and uncomprehending. The stars gazed at him imperturbably. There was no sympathy there but only cold, unseeing tolerance. Yet after all., he had the advantage of them. For all his pygmy ineffectiveness he was of finer stuff than they. At least he could feel---suffer. He had only to try to move to verify that. At least he was aware of his own existence, and could even gaugehis own insignificance. There was that in him which was not in them, unless---unless it was in everything. "God!" he whispered softly. "God everywhere!" Then into his tired brain came a new phrase---"Underneath are the everlasting arms." He sighed contentedly, as a tired child, and the phrase went on repeating itself in his brain in a kind of chant---" Underneath are the everlasting arms."
The moon went down behind the horizon, and it was dark. They fetched him in at last. He will never again be sound of limb; but there is in his memory and in his heart that which may make him a staunch fighter in other fields. He has learnt a new way of prayer, and the courage that is born of faith well-founded.


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Locust Avenue, 1200 block, between 8:30 a.m. March 29, and 10 a.m. March 30. Weapons and safe stolen from residence. Window broken.
Viaduct Avenue, 5000 block, 11 p.m., March 29. Woman raped in secluded location.
Alma Road, 2400 block, 12:34 a.m., March 28. Man attacked by roommate with a knife and taken to University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center. Injuries non-life threatening.
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ESPN's Jeff MacGregor has some thoughts today about the thorny Peyton Manning situation:
Like Schrödinger's Cat, any prediction of Manning's future depends entirely upon the observer—of whom there were many millions last week. And lost in their chorus of "Where does Peyton Manning go from here?" is the more important question, "Why does Peyton Manning go from here?"
MacGregor has hit on a decent Manning simile there. Alas, it's an accident. MacGregor doesn't have any idea what Schrödinger's Cat is about—it's just a way to make it sound like he groks the cosmos, that he's seriously pondering stuff, the way people say "Heisenberg Uncertainty Principle" when they mean "We are uncertain about this." If anything, MacGregor seems to be conflating Schrödinger's Cat with the idiots' version of the Theory of Relativity, which is that science says everything is relative depending how you look at it, man.
But the point of Schrödinger's Cat is not that every observer has an opinion. It is that the cat has not been observed. The cat is inside a closed box, in which a quantum event has or has not triggered a device that would automatically kill it. This leaves physicists to argue about whether the cat would be alive and dead simultaneously, or indeterminately, or what.
So: Peyton Manning's neck. Manning either has or has not suffered a career-ruining injury. The only way to find out is to see him play football. The only way to see him play football is for somebody to write him a check with eight digits on it.
Till that happens, there are not "many millions" of "observers." There's a bunch of football teams that could use a better quarterback than they have now. And there are dozens of windbags trying to sound knowing about a situation that's unknowable.
Jeff MacGregor, for his part, figures he might as well go ahead and hold a Requiem Mass for the dead cat:
[W]e did the same with Montana and Layne and Stabler, too. Namath among the worst of them. Gone but not forgotten, forgotten but not gone, out there somewhere on a cold Sunday taking a stranger's beating in the wrong uniform.
And it isn't just football. Our absurd hopes sent Maravich to the Celtics and Boggs to Tampa Bay. Put Schumacher in a Mercedes.
Deep inside this human brain of ours, we hope to postpone the worst of things. If only one of these guys would lead us to the Fountain of Youth!
His colleagues in the League of Ponderous Sports Writers are going to fine him 20 bucks for inexplicably leaving out Willie Mays Staggering Under Fly Balls With the Mets. But more to the point, let's note in this litany of tragic twilight figures that Joe Montana, at age 37, took the Kansas City Chiefs to the AFC Championship Game. And before our absurd hopes sent Wade Boggs to Tampa Bay (to collect his 3,000th hit), they first sent him—at age 35, coming off a .259 batting average—to the Yankees, where he batted .313 and won a World Series ring.
Why, oh why, is Peyton Manning determined to press on with his football career? Maybe because the last season he played, he passed for 4,700 yards and 33 touchdowns, and led his team to the playoffs for the ninth consecutive year. You don't have to be a particle physicist to figure this one out.


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When he's on a film set, Ken Gold sees himself as the sole advocate for the health and welfare of one part of the cast that can't speak for itself: the animals.
Gold, who is based in Chicago, has worked for the past 11 years as an American Humane Association-certified animal safety representative on film sets around the world to make sure that no animals are harmed. Gold is one of only 37 humane association representatives worldwide to monitor more than 2,000 film sets each year.
"I look after the welfare of animals, as animals can't walk off the set, while everyone else can," said Gold, who works with all kinds of animals, from monkeys and bats to dogs and goldfish.
To protect the animals, Gold has made sure electrical cords are not left uncovered in the presence of horses, because they may perceive them to be snakes and get spooked. He also has ordered precautionary water-quality tests before animals are immersed in lakes or rivers; brought in backup generators for fish tanks to counteract power outages; and looked out for signs of animal fatigue.
"Giving the animal downtime, when the trainer covers up their cage and places it in a dark, quiet space, is essential to the animal's staying fresh and capable of going on with the rest of the shoot," he said.
Gold's portfolio of work has blossomed to encompass hundreds of productions, including "Marley & Me," a 2008 movie about a lovable and rambunctious dog; director Steven Soderbergh's 2011 film "Contagion," about an outbreak of a deadly disease; and the forthcoming "Superman Man of Steel," about Superman's childhood. He also has worked on TV productions such as the recent reboot of the "Hawaii Five-O" series, where the animals remained quarantined because of Hawaii's strict sanitation requirements, and the locally shot "Chicago Fire," about life in a Chicago firehouse.
The issue of animal welfare while on film sets made national news in spring 2012 when the HBO series "Luck," starring Dustin Hoffman as a mobster looking to control Santa Anita Park in the Los Angeles area, saw a number of animal deaths during production, with two horses euthanized during the first season and a third during the second season, which finally spurred the show's cancellation. Gold was not involved in the production.
Gold became a certified animal safety representative after years studying and working with animals.
"I always loved animals. … Initially, I was interested in exotics and how captivity affected them," said Gold, a primatologist whose early career focused primarily on monkeys and apes.
He got a master's degree in systematic and behavioral biology at San Francisco State University, where he studied under Dr. Hal Markowitz, one of the modern founders of a movement to improve the environment for zoo animals. In the 1990s, Gold worked as an animal behaviorist and assistant curator for the Lincoln Park Zoo, before moving abroad to become the general curator for Apenheul Primate Park in the Netherlands and the general curator at the Singapore Zoo.
Gold, who also holds a doctorate in psychology from the Georgia Institute of Technology, had to go through several weeks of intensive training at the American Humane Association in Los Angeles before he was certified to work on film sets. He also shadowed another certified animal safety representative before he embarked on the job.
"There would be no program (of animal monitoring on film sets) if not for the certified animal safety representatives," said Jone Bauman, a spokeswoman for the American Humane Association's Film & TV unit. "They are very hard to replace (and) require a very difficult skill set to fill: extensive animal background, broad across all species; diplomacy-set etiquette; able to work at a moment's notice; and be comfortable in any environment."
Gold said he has learned mostly while on the job.
"Nothing can prepare you for the job, which calls for interpreting the (animal-handling) guidelines" based on particular situations, he said. "Some (production shoots) are easier, while some more challenging. It is important for me to be aware of what's going on."
Gold, who says he is on the road about 200 days per year, often is asked to work with little advance warning. Upon acceptance of an assignment he is sent a package with a shooting schedule, breakdown of locations and select pages from the script pertaining to shots involving the usage of animals.
A production's portrayal of animals typically can be classified in one of three categories:
•Mild, with animals acting in a normal, controlled manner, such as dogs on a leash.
•Moderate, such as dogs off a leash.
•Intense, such as dogs running across street.
Before filming starts, Gold reviews the production plans and tried to address "problems before they become problems," he said. "I can't stop myself. I am an analytical thinker; I enjoy solving puzzles."
Gold and the other certified animal safety representatives are paid by the American Humane Association, which enables them to retain their independence while working on a film set.
And because, as Gold stated, filmmakers genuinely want to act conscientiously, the reps are able to provide a very vital and appreciated service.
Formally established in 1940, the guidelines put forth by the American Humane Association's Film & TV Unit adhere to the credo that all animals should be treated humanely, and people should celebrate the special role they play in human society.
"Animals live in the real world. They are bound to be part of (filmmakers') stories, as they bring more emotion to any theme. They serve as ambassadors for their species," Bauman said.
Gold said his job is fulfilling.
"I get a lot of satisfaction knowing no animals were harmed," he said.


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Sorry. I'm not in holiday mood or mode yet - wasn't it just summer? Perhaps some eggnog will help. Eggnog made with Jack Daniels. Don't knock it until you've tried it.
Regarding the title of this post, Be the Void is the name of Dr. Dog's new record, and you will be able to pre-order it this coming Tuesday, November 29, 2011 right here.
I don't have to Be the Void, I am the void, but that's nothing new and I'm proud of it. All kidding aside, this music rocks and I'll have a lot more to say about it later on in this post.
So in case you haven't noticed, I've been taking an indefinite break from social
Yeah, that appears to be what's going on. Also, I have to admit it - I'm obsessed with my new novel but it's a series written under a pen name so I can't really talk about it which both does and does not suck. :)
But to my new readers courtesy of Dr. Dog and Julie's huge base of fans internationally, if you've read Eric's latest interview, he does touch on a subject close to my heart:
"So I was reading about your mom and all of her accomplishments as an editor and author, what was it like growing up with that creative influence?
It was awesome. That was actually a relatively new thing. My dad is also a musician. So my dad was inspiring me in the music world and then my mom was also writing, but the Internet really cultivated that for her. Once we got the Internet in the house she was able to join online writer's groups, very early versions of online writer's groups. It reignited her love for writing. So because of the Internet my mom started publishing books, which was awesome. Just watching her do that, devoting hours and hours of time to do that was very inspiring. Some of them are erotic novels, which cracks me up.
Is that weird for you?
No, it just became a funny thing to talk about at parties with my friends. [They'd be like] "Eric's mom writes erotic novels." I'd be like "No she doesn't! Stop it!" They'd go to my bookshelf and read them. I'd be like "No that's not them! Come on!" [Laughter.] It still happens to this day. You can definitely print that, because my mom would get a huge kick out of that.
So overall a pretty artistic household growing up.
Oh yeah. You should see my house where I grew up. It was crazy. It was like a Willy Wonka house. I'm not even joking.
Could you lick the walls?
You couldn't lick the walls, although Frank often jokes that I ate paint chips as a kid, but that didn't happen. The house was all leopard print and exposed brick. We have this big hand chair in the living room that's made out of recycled gallons of milk. My parents have a very unique taste in furniture that's borderline kitchy. We also grew up with like 3,000 vinyl [records] in our living room. My drum set was in the living room. All of my dad's guitars were in the living room. So we really packed a whole lot into a Philadelphia row home. But people always wanted to come over. It was a funky house. It still is a funky house. I was over there the other day."
So now that you know I write erotic novels, please also rest assured that they are erotic COMEDIES and while, yeah, the sex is graphic, they are filled with laugh out loud (I have been told) scenes throughout. That would be the Three Days in New York City trilogy, with Three Days being the first in the series, Another Bite of the Apple being part II, and Bitten to the Core is Part III. If you would simply like to read my very, very creative non-fiction memoir which does not contain any graphic sex and talks about what it was like to tour with my kiddies, then you would want Daddy Left Me Alone with God. Here's a link to buy my stuff but as usual, I am begging that you make your purchases through your local, independent book stores. While admittedly they might not have all of my books in stock, they will gladly order them for you. If not, they're on Kindle and they're cheap as hell. So like, help a sister out.
Anyway, back to my current dislike of the internet...that being so, I still feel like I should touch base once in a while so I've resurrected the blog today to let you know I'm still alive (and so is the dog, by some miracle) and to play a little catch up.
First of all, Thanksgiving was amazing. It was just the immediate family plus Eric's girlfriend, Nicky, who is in fact the immediate family now so yeah, it was just us, which was wonderful and relaxing...you know, the way holidays should be? Let's start with the menu, which was concocted by both Julie and Eric. First, the appetizers:
Assorted cheeses with Devine family (Nicky's parents) preserved pears and warm walnut honey, pickled vegetables - turnips, brussels sprouts, parsnips, sweet potatoes, and carrots. With the exception of the cheese and pears, all were made by Julie. Amazing. I cannot even describe how good the warm walnut honey was - it had a squeeze of Meyer lemon in it and some rosemary, too, I think. That, and the sweetness of those California pears, was such a nice foil for the cheeses and Julie's tart, pickled vegetables. Iron Chef Jose Garces has nothing on Julie in that department. I say that because Julie and I had pickled vegetables for the first time at one of Jose's restaurants around three years ago and now of course they are the rage everywhere. Just watch an episode of Chopped. Trust me, Julie has managed to trump them all.
The turkey for carnivores Eric, Gary, and Nicky, was organic, free range and courtesy of Julie, cider brined the night before:
While that turkey was stuffed, Julie and I got our own tray without the poultry drippings - it was the same ingredients except totally vegetarian stuffing which was a combination of Challah bread, potato, celery, carrots, herbs, shallots, etc. We had a gravy for it made with fresh vegetable broth, freshly squeezed orange, and rosemary. To die for:
We needed a green so Julie came up with this crazy crispy baked Tuscan kale. I may have finally found a solution to my French fry addiction. That, and the accompanying frizzled leeks.
We also had fresh baked (we stole the recipe from) Devon Grill biscuits, yukon gold mashed potatoes with frizzled leeks and crispy shallots, fresh orange and cranberry sauce.
Here's how it all looked together jammed and crammed on the table...
We somehow made room and I'm so glad we did..for Nicky's home-made apple pie which we warmed and topped with vanilla ice cream...apple pie being Eric's all-time favorite dessert.
Afterward, a walk was in order and Nicky snapped this photo of Julie and Eric hanging at the old playground where they grew up - except it's all changed now from cool wood and interesting shapes to one of those new plastic modular things. Blech. But I adore the pic and it captures them the same way photos did back when they were 10 and 11 - always joyous.
All in all, a lovely holiday, after which the family, except me (and Julie, who bugged out and went home), went to John and Peter's in New Hope, PA to jam with Chris Harford and the guys from Ween.
So of course there is even more music news. Friday was record store day, and Dr. Dog released a seven inch vinyl with Sides A and B - "Control Yourself" and "Warrior Man". The record comes in all kinds of crazy colors like hot pink and orange, purple, lime green - it's fantastic. Here's a You Tube of "Control Yourself". Eric sounds like Keith Moon...
Dr. Dog has attracted the attention of Tom Waits, who made this awesome comment and drawing on his Facebook page:
"Attention! Meet others! Hands On! Interact! Discuss! Survive! Congregate - at your local record shop."
See? He's got Dr. Dog written in there. Too freaking cool.
Also, the above video is from Dr. Dog's aforesaid Ninja gig at Kung Fu. Eric's dad was there - and he saw the Beatles in 1966. Gary is a skeptic - it's no secret that he wasn't sure Eric made the right career move when he left the Adrian Belew Power Trio to join Dr. Dog, but he came home from the show absolutely blown away. These are his exact words:
"It was like every film clip I've seen of the Beatles playing at the Cavern in 1962. Crowd screaming, jam packed, and the band on fucking fire."
(That's for you kiddies who can't even name all four Beatles but you should all watch it because it's so damn cool)
By the way, Gary actually saw the Beatles live in 1966 at JFK Stadium in Philadelphia - his mother took him - and he still has the ticket stubs ($4.00@). So he knows what he's talking about even without the Cavern video.
Also, there were two awesome reviews of that show, courtesy of the Swollen Fox and Phrequency. Links right here for Swollen Fox (where they say "...Eric Slick on drums. That kid is a beast" and here for Phrequency (where they say "To sum it all up, Dr. Dog's show last night was by far one of the raddest shows of the year.")
And then the next night, Gary went to see Julie play with her new band, Drgn Kng, and the first words out of his mouth when he got home were:
"Holy crap, it was like the Beatles at the Cavern all over again, Rob. They are really good. Really, really good."
So I'm thinking that Julie and Dom and the whole band should head out to LA when Julie hops on a plane in January (more on that later when I have more info myself) because one of Drgn Kng's members, Ritz Reynolds, is already on his way there with the number one hit on Billboard with Mac Miller. I kid you not.
Do me a huge favor, oh cyber people. Please visit Drgn Kng's Facebook page, and like them. The way the world works now, the more "likes" they have, the better chance they can book a tour.
Here's the direct link to hear some more of their music. They are very, very good. Have a listen and pick up a free download here.
And let us not forget about Julie's brilliant record with drummer Carl Bahner. You can have a listen and order it right here. Also, an insanely good You Tube from their record release party two weeks ago:
Also, in case you missed it, Julie did a show in Brooklyn, NY on November 11 - it was a Spinal Tap Tribute which featured a lot of NY heavy hitter musicians. In case you've ever wondered what Julie would look like with facial hair, well, here's your chance.
Ha ha, that was pretty epic. Loved it.
By the way, even though they didn't tell me this, because even though I have given up the internet I still stalk them on Facebook because otherwise, I'd never get any information, but Julie, Eric, and Tim Motzer have a gig next Sunday night at The Tritone at 15th and South in Philadelphia. It's not on their calendar yet, but trust me, they are playing. I'm sure Julie or Tim will tweet and Facebook the event with more details in case I don't bring my sorry ass back here in time.
So anyway, I started this post talking about Dr. Dog's new record, and I think I may end it that way since I just found a pretty nice review. I heard that some advance copies have been sent to a few fine folks and this will be the first of many popping up, I am sure:
No Mistake in Mix Tape
In their most rockin' album to date, Dr. Dog comes down from the clouds to unfurl their breezy pop from the ground. Infusing bluesy notes on "Lonesome," and a high-pitched guitar riff on "How Long Must I Wait" that wouldn't sound out of place on the last Black Keys album, the Philadelphia quintet finds a more distinct groove. The biting phrase "You destroy all that's good here/at your will/there's a part of me though that/loves you still," comes out like venom on "Vampire," a mid-tempo number where the narrator can't help but be seduced by the evil monster in question. Much of the album has the same bite, thanks to its percussive jab that feels indebted to Elvis Costello.
Of course, as is always a highlight of Dr. Dog's music, beautiful harmonies float like feathers atop frontman Scott McMicken's punctuated vocals. "Do, do, do, trick, tr' trick," echoes through "Do the Trick" like doo wop making sweet love to The Beach Boys.
While 2010's Shame, Shame took Dr. Dog on a more reflective, gloomier journey, Be the Void is the band's reemergence into its escapist tendencies. The common ground lies in the glossy production, a far cry from early lo-fi recordings. It suits them, especially on "Heavy Light," a foray into the islandy afro-pop popular with bands like Givers and Friendly Fires.
Seventies psychedelia chimes through the trippy "Warrior Man" and album closer "Turning the Century" (is that a sitar?). "Big Girl" is an epic barnburner that starts with a jagged guitar groove and culminates in the sort of keyboard-heavy climax that makes dreams come true. If these songs translate live, tour dates supporting Be the Void could be the most raucous we've seen Dr. Dog yet. It's gonna be a fun ride.
And in Honest Tune:
Beloved Philadelphia band Dr. Dog are poised to release a staggering burst of vital rock 'n' roll with their new record Be The Void. The album hits stores this February 7th via Anti-Records and is the raucous follow up to the group's critically lauded Shame, Shame.
While the band's previous records boasted meticulously crafted symphonic pop, this time around the band turns up the guitars and delivers a truly great cathartic rock 'n' roll album played with near reckless abandon and passion.
With the addition of new drummer Eric Slick and electronics-percussionist-guitarist Dmitri Manos, the band entered the studio (Meth Beach) with a renewed sense of enthusiasm and confidence, tracking the songs live to perfectly capture the rough and tumble energy of their renowned live show.
"We would just get in the pocket and go with it because it sounded great," bassist-vocalist Toby Leaman explains. "There wasn't this endless deliberating. We just went with our gut feelings on things."
"It was reminiscent of when we were starting out and were these fearless weirdos in a basement, so confident and reckless and bold," guitarist-vocalist Scott McMicken adds. "It was really liberating."
The songs on Be The Void flawlessly combine Dr. Dog's adventuresome and expansive arrangements with a far leaner and meaner primal sound. The beats are harder, the guitars louder and edged with a warm distortion. "Guitars stopped being problematic and started becoming very exciting to us," McMicken explains.
From the rollicking re-imagined blues of the disc's title track to the searing guitars of "Vampire," the frenetic punk urgency of "Over Here Over There" and the beautifully fuzzed out rock of "Warrior Man," Dr. Dog's Be The Void is a truly great rock 'n' roll record and the unmistakable sound of a band whose moment has arrived.
Be The Void Track Listing:
That Old Black Hole
These Days
How Long Must I Wait
Get Away
Do The Trick
Heavy Light
Big Girl
Over Here, Over There
Warrior Man
Turning The Century
Okay, I am officially wiped out. How I used to do this every day I have no idea but then again, I was blogging instead of novel writing and it really was time to get my priorities back in order. So look for not one but two new books from me soon. Like, really soon. Only you won't know the second book is me. Unless I blab and tell you.
Blab? Who me? Never.
Ooh, ooh, but here's a hint in a recent interview I did for a newspaper in Rhode Island with many thanks to writer/broadcaster/and all around book lover Robin Kall.
Okay, now I'm outta here for real. Books to read, novels to write, dogs to feed, and the final day of a four day weekend to enjoy.


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The west end of this trail was recently extended to reach Highway 63. Visitors can park in the Riverway Sports Park and walk to the trail head.
Great trail. Good lighting ,safe and clean. Good amenities such as Bike repair areas and tire pumps, bathrooms at the parks, well marked with safety crossings on small streets and the biggest bonus Emergency call boxes on the trail.
Lovely trail. Nice tree and water along the trail. Very peaceful for my ride .
I've been riding this trail periodically for several years. The downside of this trail is the trees. They do provide nice shade, however, their roots cause rough spots on the asphalt. The best improvement is at the north trailhead. There's a parking lot for vehicles and nice covered parking for bicycles.
I run on this trail before sunrise several days a week. The trails are always clean and well-maintained. The lighting is great and I always feel safe.
We ride this trail pretty much every evening we have a spare hour. It's an easy, pleasant ride. If we want a longer ride, we start in Old Town Clovis on the Old Town Trail, connect to the Dry Creek Trail, and then continue on the Enterprise Trail. The three trails connect nicely for a pleasant hour and a half ride.
I had a great job and walk here. Very safe and clean.
There is a Park and Ride lot just before W Manning Avenue crosses the railroad tracks. The west end of the trail is about a quarter mile west of here. There is a gazebo where you can look down onto the Kings River. The trail is paved with asphalt. The west half of the trail has benches along the way and has small street lights. There are several places where the trail crosses local streets. Many of these have lights in the pavement to warn the car traffic that someone is in the crosswalk. Most of these trail intersections also have roundabouts to slow trail-users and expedite movement at these crossings.
The west half of the trail (from the college to the east edge of town) has benches and lights. The east half does not have benches or lights. Also, some tree roots are pushing up the pavement. There are distance markers (every tenth of a mile) painted on the trail measured from west to east. There is a restroom located near the midpoint of the trail. There is nice landscaping along the trail. This a great trail for a short ride.
nice level paved trail good for jogging or biking mountain or road bike. easy and lots of store and shops along the way, parks, water restroom. There's a parking lot on the north end of the trail from Riverpark shopping center. I started at target parking lot at sierra vista mall in clovis. plenty of parking and safe..it also branches into others trails like the dry creek trail.. slight flooding spots if used in winter time but still easy. Cameras and lights on trails throughout. highly recommend break from the city life...
Nice walk
The westerly segment of the trail near the industrial area is not maintained. It is covered with twigs and dirt that has been washed over the trail by rain storms. The areas of the trail near residential areas are maintained probably as a golf cart path. One golfer came toward me in his electric golf cart and took the entire width of the trail. He would not yield to me.
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We are going out on a bit of a limb here, but are predicting Ryder Hesjedal will be Canada's selection for the Men's Olympic Road and Time Trial. This is based on the fact that the formal announcement will take place on Thursday DURING the men's time Trial at Road Nationals in Lac Megantic. Normally they would have athletes available to speak to the media, which will be difficult if Svein Tuft is racing the Time Trial. We will have to wait until Thursday to know for sure, but that is the way it looks here at CC.
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This disc set is called "Trouble on the Bright Moon". It was the second release from the viewmaster line of 3-D Disc and uses "Filmation-Like" animation. The "Bright Moon" refered to in the title is one of Eternia's moons not Queen Angela's Kingdom from Filmation's "She-Ra" Cartoon.
Story: The Sorceress beams a telepathic message, "There is Trouble on the Bright Moon", to Prince Adam. The Heroic Warriors immediatly wing their way to Professor Orion's space station on the Bright Moon. "Help me, Prince Adam," cried Orion. "Mer-Man has kidnapped my daughter, Diana." "I'm sure Skeletor is at the bottom of any trouble in the universe," said Prince Adam as their shuttle neared Snake Mountain. And Adam was right, as He and his friends are greeted at Snake Mountain by Skeletor. But Skeletor's henchmen are no equal to Adam's secret identity as He-Man, The Most Powerful Man in the Universe! When Whiplash begins a landslide with his tail, He-Man raises one of the rocks with Whiplash and Evil-Lyn standing on it. Ram-Man then knocks them into another dimension. Then He-Man zaps Skeletor with a forcefield. "Now to find Mer-Man and Diana," said He-amn. And just in time he dicovers Mer-Man about to push Diana to a watery death. Wham! Mer-Man himself ends up in the drink. "Look, He-Man," screams Diana, "Beast-Man is Escaping." "That coward!" says He-Man, "I'll turn myself into a human whirlwind and swallow his spaceship!" The Evil Warriors taken care of, our friends head back to the Bright Moon with Diana. "Thank you for returning my daughter. What would the world be without The Masters of the Universe!" says Professor Orion.
Cast(Good): Prince Adam, He-Man, Teela, Man-At-Arms, Ram-Man, Orko, The Sorceress, Professor Orion, and Diana
Cast(Evil): Skeletor, Evil-Lyn, Beast-Man, Mer-Man, Whiplash, Snake Mountain(Vintage Playset), and The Ram-Ship(a vehicle used frequently by Skeletor in the Filmation Cartoon)


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Betsy Herold, MD
Member, Public Health Practice and Policy Core
Professor, Department of Pediatrics, Albert Einstein College of Medicine
Professor, Department of Microbiology & Immunology
Professor, Department of Obstetrics & Gynecology and Women's Health
Harold and Muriel Block Chair in Pediatrics
Vice Chair for Research, Department of Pediatrics
Chief, Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics
Director, Translational Prevention Research Center
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
Betsy Herold, MD, directs a basic and translational research program, which focuses on the prevention of HIV and HSV and other sexually transmitted infections. Basic research in the lab focuses on defining the cellular signaling pathways that HSV-2 usurps to promote infection. Current work from our laboratory demonstrates that HSV activates calcium (Ca2+), integrin, and phosphorylation signaling pathways and that these pathways play critical roles in the establishment of infection and in cell-to-cell spread of virus. .More recently, the lab has identified a novel cellular protein that plays a key role in the initiation of viral protein expression and could serve as a novel target for prevention strategies. Identification of the viral and cellular factors required for infection has led to development of candidate drugs, which have been formulated for vaginal delivery to prevent both HSV and HIV infection.
Studies with vaginal microbicides have resulted in the expnasion of studies to focus on soluble mucosal immunity in the genital tract. We found that .female genital tract secretions collected from healthy women provide variable, but significant protection against both HSV and HIV. Mechanistic studies suggest that this endogenous activity is mediated by defensins and other antimicrobial peptides. This endogenous activity may serve as a biomarker of a "healthy mucosal immune environment" and thus provide a surrogate marker to evaluate the safety of vaginal microbicides. In addition, identification of the mediators that contribute to this endogenous activity could lead to development of new strategies to boost this host defense and help protect against infection. These studies are being conducted in collaboration with the proteomics core facility at AECOM. Additionally, we are testing the hypothesis that HSV triggers changes in the mucosal environment, which allow it to escape cervical secretion defenses, enhance its own infectivity and facilitate HIV co-infection. Our preliminary observations support the paradigm that HSV disrupts the epithelial barrier by targeting tight junction and adherens junction proteins, and interferes with host defenses by triggering an inflammatory response and a loss in protective proteins such as SLPI. These changes could facilitate both its own infectivity and enhance HIV co-infection.
Results obtained from this bench research are critical to the laboratory's translational studies. The focus of the Translational Microbicide Research Program is to identify optimal combinations of topical microbicides that are safe and target different steps in HIV life cycle, thus reducing the risks of drug resistance and providing greater protection than could be achieved with a single agent, and also target HSV infection. Candidate combinations are evaluated using a multi-tiered approach for anti-viral activity and safety using human cervical cultures, as well as primary T cells and macrophages, in the presence of cervicovaginal secretions and seminal plasma. Leading combinations are then evaluated in human explant cultures (cervical, vaginal) and in murine genital models and a new cotton rat model for anti-viral activity and for the impact on mucosal immunity. If results of these pre-clinical studies suggest that candidate microbicides are safe and effective, the drugs are advanced for regulatory testing, and undergo evaluation in Phase I clinical studies.
Clinical research interests also include prevention of infectious disease complications in transplantation. Members of the research group are involved in studies to optimize pre-emptive prophylaxis for CMV and EBV, vaccine responses in transplantation recipients, and other related infectious complications.


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*www.forestgovernanceforum.com* [1]
*How can forest resources be managed in the interests of all stakeholders?
How can Forest Governance be strengthened to deliver results that make
economic, social and ecological sense?*
*Comprising of West African events (Ghana & Liberia) and Central African
events (DRC & Cameroon), */Forest Governance Forum/* is designed to create
an in-country space for discussion and exchange of ideas, experience and
*Blending regional and global speakers and participants from Government,
Civil Society, Trade & Industry, the NGO Community and the Academic World,
the objective is to bring debates surrounding Forest Governance to four key
African countries in order to widen participation, to facilitate more
national voices in the conversation, and to situate issues within a local and
international context.*
*Inspired by Biannual Illegal Logging Stakeholder Conferences at Chatham
House [2]in London, The Forest Governance Forum contributes to the broader
objective of an EC-funded project, 'Strengthening African Forest
Governance' [3], which also includes academic and training components.*
[1] http://www.forestgovernanceforum.com
[2] http://www.illegal-logging.info/
[3] http://www.wlv.ac.uk/cidt