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ARLINGTON -- Gordon Beckham has four hits in 26 at-bats during his eight-game Minor League rehab assignment for Double-A Birmingham, including a go-ahead, two-run double Saturday night. Those results clearly don't matter as much as the second baseman having almost no complaints concerning the strained left oblique that left him on the disabled list to start the 2014 campaign.
"He said he's feeling fine," said White Sox manager Robin Ventura of Beckham. "It's getting better and defensively he's feeling pretty good. Offensively, whether the swing is there or not, just physically he feels pretty good. I wouldn't say it's 100 percent."
Ventura guessed at next weekend's home series against the Rays as a return date for Beckham.
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Gabriel Aubrey gossip, latest news, photos, and video.
Charlize Theron & Gabriel Aubry?
OK! Magazine reported yesterday (via the Daily Mail) that Charlize Theron and Gabriel Aubry Full Story
Pretty gets super ugly super fast
Woah. This sh-t between Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry is escalating quickly, like even by celebrity standards. She threw down the first public salvo in a statement to People.com on Monday implying that he's an unfit parent and that baby Nahla isn't safe around him for long stretches. His supporters then leaked to Radar Online that she's a controlling bitch who's been spying on him and is jealous about all the new hot ass he's been getting. Full Story
Is Halle Berry getting Oksanaed?
Two very pretty people are getting very, very ugly. Not so civilised after all, is it? There are many interesting facets to this increasingly public and bitter war between Halle Berry and her baby daddy Gabriel Aubry. Needless to say, the sh-t they're throwing at each other is straight up first class smut. Full Story
Photo Assumption: Halle & Gabriel
Keeping it together for their daughter, Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry were in London this morning – me too! – hanging out with Nahla, furniture shopping, hitting up the London Eye, looking for the Queen at Buckingham Palace. Some reports suggest that Halle and Gabriel are trying to reconcile, that they're giving their relationship another chance. Full Story
What are you selling?
This is Gabriel Aubry, Canadian model and Halle Berry's baby father, modelling for something called Charisma. I'm not smart enough to figure out what exactly it is that he's selling. Maybe a fragrance? Besides, it's not like anything else jumps out at you beyond his body and his face and his gorgessity. Full Story
Perfect gets Ugly fast
Once one of the most beautiful couples, maybe THE most beautiful couple ever and now they're done and this sh-t is getting dramatic. News broke Friday that Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry broke up some time ago and have stayed civil for their daughter Nahla's sake even though the outlet that first reported the split – Radar Online Full Story
Halle is single?
According to Radar Online Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry are over. For months. They're blaming it on him. Something about age difference. Supposedly Gabriel can't handle it anymore. Full Story
Perfect family travel
What else is there to look at? Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry arrived back in LA yesterday from New York with baby Nahla, all 3 colour coordinated, all 3 styled perfectly, all 3 ridiculously beautiful, reminding us what ordinary really means. Ordinary is anything that is not them. This is absurd. Please stop coming out in public. Full Story
Halle > Madonna
As you know, Madonna has been trying to turn her pseudo boyfriend Jesus Luz into some kind of celebrity/model/actor. According to Page Six she wanted Jesus to be the new face of Louis Vuitton, trying to leverage her endorsement of the brand into a job for him as well. Full Story
Angels in New York
I have a photo shoot today. As mentioned before, I suck sh-t at photo shoots. It's because I can be extremely UNphotogenic. To the point where our etalk publicists have created a "DO NOT EVER OPEN OR USE OR EVEN LOOK AT" folder full of my old pictures that they hit up sometimes when they need a good laugh. Full Story
Hand clasp or finger link?
Halle Berry and Gabriel Aubry went out last night. So perfect. Ugh. Anyway, note the way they're holding hands. We talked about this backstage at a live show recently, Dylan and I. A live show is a lot of standing around. At eTalk they get us all dressed up and made up hours before so we can shoot next day links and then we end up waiting for hours until we go to air. Full Story


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Enterprise Risk Management - What is it and how do you implement it?
Enterprise risk management is an emerging model at institutions of higher education where the management of risks is integrated and coordinated across the university as a whole. Enterprise risk management moves the traditional risk management process from a fragmented and ad hoc approach to an integrated, continuous, and broadly focused approach. Assessing risk data from across various departments and units provides managers the information needed to address risks on a broader university-wide scale. Enterprise risk management increases the awareness and connectivity of personnel at all levels. Assessing risks from a university-wide perspective provides personnel the opportunity to review their responsibilities and to review how, what they do or don't do, affects the achievement of the overall mission and goals of the institution. Managing risks requires identifying the risks and exercising prudent judgment to eliminate, limit, shift, or accept the risks.
What is an enterprise risk management (ERM) program?
First we need to define what the term "Enterprise" is describing. "Enterprise is defined as 1. a project or undertaking that is especially difficult, complicated, or risky 2. readiness to engage in daring or difficult action. 3a.a unit of economic organization or activity; especially : a business organization 3b. a systematic purposeful activity". Secondly, the term "risk" is defined as : possibility of loss or injury 2. someone or something that creates or suggests a hazard 3a. the chance of loss or the perils to the subject matter of an insurance contract; also : the degree of probability of such loss b. a person or thing that is a specified hazard to an insurer c. an insurance hazard from a specified cause or source <war risk> 4. the chance that an investment (as a stock or commodity) will lose value. One manager simply stated that risk was "What keeps you up at night." Risk can also be defined as any issue or event that adversely impacts the institution's ability to meet its objectives. The complex and rapid changes in today's world continually affect universities and the universities' ability to identify and manage risks. Risks can affect the entire university and include financial, operational, technological, environmental, regulatory compliance, competitive, strategic, litigation, reputational, political, etc. In university environments, risks have traditionally been addressed in a decentralized manner where risks are managed independently in separate divisions, colleges, or departments and not necessarily coordinated between units or major functional areas.
Why implement a university-wide risk management program? Those institutions that have implemented an ERM program benefit from having a consistent and systematic approach to managing risks. The institutions have the ability to critically review their activities, assess new ideas, and seize opportunities. The institutions can align their risk appetite with risk management strategies. An ERM program increases communications, facilitates cross-institutional working, and improves awareness and buy-in of initiatives and new activities.
One executive asked, "Isn't enterprise risk management just good planning?" Enterprise risk management is just that. It is good planning for activities and initiatives but also good assessment, management, and monitoring of those activities. For example, at many universities there may be a number of risk management activities performed within departments or colleges but those activities also occur in other departments and colleges throughout the university (i.e., student travel, data security, development activities, etc). In a decentralized environment, responsibility and accountability is typically located at the unit level. Each unit retains ownership for managing their specific risks. However, assessing the risks from a university-wide perspective heightens the awareness of the most significant risks, improves the communication and cross-institutional working for those risks, and allows for the effective management and coordination of the mitigating activities used to manage those risks.
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In order to have an effective enterprise risk management program, there must be support from the top. The executive management must be a sponsor of the program. Their direct and visible involvement drives its success.
Other major components of enterprise risk management include performing risk assessments, identifying mitigating activities, and developing a monitoring plan, including a focus on continuous monitoring, follow-up, independent review, and reporting to executive management the status of risk management activities.
Risk assessments begin with establishing a common risk language. Using a common definition of risk and categorizing the various types of risks assists university personnel in brainstorming and identifying risks significant to their institution. Risks can be categorized in many ways such as strategic (affecting the achievement of goals, competitive and market risks, etc.); financial (loss of resources or other assets); operational (management processes, administrative procedures, controls, etc.); compliance (laws and regulations, safety and environmental issues, litigation, conflicts of interest, etc.); reputational (varied constituencies, political issues, media relations, etc.); and technology (computing infrastructure, applications, security, etc.)
Once identified, risks are prioritized or ranked while considering both the impact or consequence of the risk and the likelihood or probability that the risk could occur. Institutions can use a numerical ranking system and/or a 3-tiered high, medium, and low ranking method.
The next step involves identifying strategies (mitigating activities) for managing risks and assessing those strategies to identify any potential gaps. Potential gaps include faulty underlying processes, deficiencies in areas of accountability (i.e., not clear as to who is responsible for the activity or where multiple persons are responsible for the activity), and ineffective or missing procedures.
The final step involves developing and implementing a monitoring plan and reporting process for the on-going risk management activities. Reviewing key performance indicators for the mitigating activities assists management in assessing whether the activities continue to be effective.
Each one of these steps, depending on the culture of the institution, can be done in a facilitated workshop setting, group presentation and discussion, one-on-one meeting, or by e-mail and telephone. The main objective is to raise awareness of the risks that can affect the university's mission and to coordinate the strategies used to address those risks in the day-to-day operations.
* Source: Current Issues in Higher Education, NCURA Newsletter – December 2005/January 2006, Vol. XXXVII, No. 5. Written by Peggy Zapalac, Director of University Risk Management, Texas A&M University.


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It wouldn't be a Jerry Brown news conference without a reference to Latin.
Brown, a former seminarian, used a Latin phrase Tuesday at the Capitol that translates to, "No man gives what he does not have," to explain his thinking behind a new round of budget cuts.
Those cuts, totaling roughly a billion dollars, were "triggered" by a lack of tax revenues. They affect a wide range of programs, including in-home health care and public universities. But California's public schools were spared widely-anticipate deep cuts. Districts will lose $80 million in funding, along with $248 million for school bus services.
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Districts had been bracing for cuts of over a billion dollars.
Brown said the cuts aren't pleasant, but are meant to impose fiscal discipline.
"We're not Greece. We're not in a hole that we can't climb out of," Brown said.
Those cuts also set the stage for the governor's high-stakes effort to convince voters to raise taxes on next year's ballot. It's a job made even more difficult by the likelihood of other competing tax measures that could also face voters..
Brown told reporters he's talking with proponents of those measures in an effort to clear the field, but "isn't there yet."
The cuts announced Tuesday are meant to keep the state's budget in balance between now and next November, when voters will be asked to decide the tax question.
"People can make a choice," Brown said. "I think it's a difficult choice. Having the trigger cuts at least shows what the alternatives are. And today we're showing what the first installment looks like."
Anti-tax groups and Republican lawmakers are spoiling for a fight over the issue. Brown said he understands people don't want education cuts or more taxes, but said his job is about "managing discontent."
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All of us know that the holidays can be a perilous time for those who wish to lose weight, with all the parties, family gatherings and food around us. It is part of our culture to overeat from Thanksgiving through Valentine's Day, and others around us are likely to do so. Moreover, the food consumed often is high in sugar and fat, and alcohol does not relieve hunger very well, and can cause us to be less in control and more inattentive.
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- Remind yourself that our culture at large does not have to be your personal culture.
- Make sure that your thinking and attitude are healthy. Think of moderate eating during the holidays as a step toward better health and function, and not as "deprivation." Avoid berating yourself for any lapses; however, do not gloss over them, and use them as a cue to set goals for the next time you are in a similar situation.
- Plan an overall strategy in advance of the holiday season. Consider what problems you have had in the past and think of ways to address these problems successfully.
- Go to a social event with a plan for eating. Compensate for any planned increase in eating with reduced eating and/or increased exercise before the event. If possible, avoid going to the event when overly hungry or tired. While there, eat slowly to help control the quantity of food consumed.
- Avoid having leftovers or high-calorie food sitting around in your environment without a plan for them.
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Penguin Group Australia, the publishing firm that published a cookbook called the Pasta Bible, is paying 12,000 pounds to correct an embarrassing typo that appeared in the aforementioned book. A recipe for spelt tagliatelle with sardines and prosciutto was supposed to call for freshly ground black pepper but instead called for "freshly ground black people." An obvious spell check mistake quickly grew into an unwanted issue so the firm has already destroyed seven thousand copies of the book. Copies of the cookbook already in stores have not and will not be recalled because of the difficulty involved, though the company has offered to replace any purchased books with the typo if the owners so wish.
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For this week's installment of AEO Up Next, we present Aussie indie folkster, Vance Joy. He's been super busy on tour and handling the new-found stardom that comes with a chart-topping hit. That hit is called "Riptide" and it's just about the most simultaneously lighthearted and painful love song out right now. Check it out below and read on to get to know the man behind Vance Joy in the Q & A after the jump.
AEO: People usually want to know what any artist's influences are. But we're going to make you narrow that down to the one album that truly affected your path in music.
Vance Joy: Elliott Smith: Either/Or
AEO: Where was your first show and what was it like?
VJ: It was at the Queenscliff Music Festival when I was 10. I was with my family. My little sister and I sat near the edge of the stage as Jimmy Little played his set. We had had his album "Messenger" in the family car for a while before the show, so we knew the tunes. I have a few strong memories of that night.
AEO: Anyone who's seen any movies about rock bands knows that the tour bus can be like an extension of a wild backstage party or a place for band antics. Tell us the craziest or funniest tour bus story to date.
VJ: Our tour bus isn't crazy at all it is pretty calm. On the long road trips you need to just zone out and read or watch some t.v show. We have had some late night music dancing sessions which have been memorable. I get so pumped up listening to "Turn Down For What." And also Sheryl Crow "If It Makes You Happy", but mainly "Turn Down For What". We were driving around Maine with turn down for what pumping and getting so fired up.
AEO: What was the last song you played on your phone?
AEO: What's your favorite thing to do when you have a creative block that you need to work through?
VJ: Go run errands and make them the focus. Make coffee dates and run around like a headless chook.
AEO: Top 5 albums that anyone who's reading this should go out and buy right now:
VJ: Cat Stevens – Tea for the Tillerman, Coldplay – Rush of Blood to the Head, Elliott Smith – Figure 8, Father John Misty – Fear fun, Killers – Day and Age
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Once funky and cute, the Honda CR-V has grown up to look more like a high-dollar crossover. This latest-generation CR-V, completely redesigned and re-engineered for the 2007 model year, is more powerful and more comfortable than the previous-generation models. Its new suspension geometry delivers an improved ride and better, more responsive handling. The four-cylinder engine employs variable intake valve timing to optimize horsepower and torque for acceleration and cruising speeds and it's paired with a five-speed automatic transmission.
Compared with the previous-generation CR-V, there's slightly more room in the front seat and (in most dimensions) slightly less room in the rear. There's marginally more cargo room. Everything by way of instruments, controls and storage is, respectively, logically arrayed, properly placed, and reasonably plentiful. Buyers choose from three models: the basic LX, mid-range EX, or leather-upholstered EX-L, which can be fitted with an optional navigation system that incorporates a rearview video camera for safe and easy backing. All have four doors and seat five.
Changes for 2008 are minimal. The EX-L now comes with dual-zone automatic climate control, an eight-way power driver's seat, and the same premium audio system that last year came only with the navigation system.
Real Time all-wheel drive is offered on all three models. The 2008 fuel economy figures from the U.S. government's EPA rate the front-wheel-drive CR-V at 20/27 miles per gallon City/Highway, and the all-wheel-drive version at 20/26 mpg.
All Honda CR-V models come with a 166-hp four-cylinder engine and a a five-speed automatic transmission. Front-wheel drive is standard, four-wheel drive is available for all models ($1200).
The CR-V LX ($20,700) comes with fabric upholstery, air conditioning, cruise control, powered outside mirrors that fold, power windows, power central locking, driver's-seat height adjustment, 60/40-split rear seatbacks that recline and fold, tilt-and-telescope steering wheel, four-speaker AM/FM/CD/MP3/WMA stereo, trip computer/information center, a collapsible tray between the front seats, and 17-inch steel wheels with P225/65R17 tires.
The EX ($22,950) adds a tilt-and-slide power moonroof; intermittent rear window wiper/washer; steering wheel-mounted audio controls for a six-speaker stereo with an in-dash, six-CD changer; dual-deck cargo shelf; lights-and-horn security system; rear privacy glass; and an outside ambient temperature gauge.
The EX-L ($25,500) features leather-trimmed seats, armrests, shifter, and steering wheel; heated front seats; XM satellite radio with a 90-day trial subscription; and a front center console with storage for 24 CDs (replacing the collapsible tray). New for 2008 are dual-zone automatic climate control; eight-way power-adjustable driver's seat with power lumbar support; and the same 270-watt, seven-speaker (including subwoofer) premium stereo that used to come only with the navigation system.
The EX-L can also be equipped with voice-recognition GPS-based navigation, and a rearview camera. It is then priced as a separate model ($27,200). And the CD changer moves into what was the CD storage space in the console.
No other options are offered, although Honda-approved accessories available from dealers include wheel locks; attachments/racks for bicycles, kayak, skis, and surfboard; a roof box; auto-dim inside mirror with compass; amplified bass speaker system; and backup sensors.
Safety features that come standard include the required three-point seatbelts at all five seating positions; child safety seat anchors (LATCH); front airbags; front seat-mounted side airbags (to minimize upper body injuries in side impacts); roof-mounted, front and rear seat side air curtains (to minimize head injuries in side impacts and rollovers); and front-seat active head restraints (to minimize neck injuries in rear impacts).
For crash avoidance there are antilock brakes (which let the driver steer during panic stops); electronic brake-force distribution (which optimizes braking power front-to-rear during emergency stops); brake assist (which senses impending emergency brake application and boosts pedal pressure); Vehicle Stability Assist (Honda's electronic stability control system that attempts to minimize skidding in turns); and tire pressure monitors (which warn of dangerous drops in tire pressure).
Head on, the Honda CR-V's low, jutting jaw-like front bumper suggests a rugged skid plate while pulling the vehicle's visual mass downwards, reducing its perceived height. Large, sharply angled headlight housings crowd the upper grille and bleed down into the lower air intake. Stout fender flares stretch out to wrap tightly around the tires, giving the new CR-V a sturdy, planted stance.
The side aspect shows most clearly the latest CR-V's departure from the boxy, mini-SUV look. Starting from the gently rounded hood, the relatively fast windshield flows into a roofline that drops ever so slightly as it passes over the sharply tapered glasshouse, ending at the tailgate's top edge, which itself is pulled forward to a point almost directly above the rear wheel well. A strong character line runs from the top of the front wheel well back beneath the full-round door handles to bifurcate the side marker lens of the rear taillight. To us, it looks a little like the Mercedes-Benz R-Class in the overall outline.
The rear view presents more of the classic SUV look, with a trapezoidal backlight bookended by the trademark CR-V high taillights and atop a fairly tall and relatively broad, high-relief tailgate panel. The oversize license plate recess will accommodate almost any country's registration telltale. A repeat of the front end's skid plate look masks the rear bumper's mass and draws the eye to tires pushed out to the edges of the CR-V's side panels.
The interior of the Honda CR-V focuses on function with a bit of style tossed in to make things interesting. Everything is in its place for the most part, and everything feels the way it should. Quality of materials and fit and finish overall live up to Honda's standards; some trim pieces, however, showed traces of flash, those little flat bits of plastic left over from the seams of the original molds.
The grippy, waffle-textured, fabric upholstery feels durable. The EX-L's optional leather upholstery is, obviously, richer looking and likely more durable, but no more comfortable. The front seats of the latest model have slightly taller and marginally wider backs than their '06 counterparts, but are still short on thigh support. But to the limited extent the CR-V lends itself to sporty driving, the seatbacks' side bolsters do an adequate job of keeping occupants' upper bodies in place. Not so the seat bottom's bolsters, those being clearly shaped more for ease of entry and exit than for restraining occupants' posteriors. There is, however, a most welcome dead pedal against which drivers may brace a left leg as necessary and appropriate. And the driver's seat ratchets six-tenths of an inch higher in the '07-08 over the '06.
The rear seat is more moderately contoured, the better to allow it to fold and pivot forward against the backs of the front seats. The seat bottom breaks down 60/40, with the shorter piece on the left side; the seat backs, however, divide 40/20/40, into three sections, meaning you can fold the right or left side, the center section or any combination of the three. Nice touch. The top-hinged liftgate is an improvement over right-hinged tailgates, which open the wrong way for curbside unloading at U.S. airports.
Dashboard and instrument cluster are classic Honda, as in, friendly to eye and hand, with the only mildly discordant note the placement of the shift lever, sprouting from a pod suspended from the center of the dash. While neither as ergonomic as a floor-mounted lever nor as natural, in an archaic sort of way, as one mounted on the steering column, it is consistent with the emphasis on flexibility in the front seat area. In the LX and EX, the space between the front seats that might otherwise host a console and floor-mounted shift lever is dedicated to a unique, multi-use tray that when not needed folds down against the side of the passenger seat, opening a walk-through access to the rear seat. The EX-L gets a more traditional, fixed center console, with cup holders and storage space for up to 24 CD's; although some of this storage space is lost on EX-L's with navigation, where the console must house the CD changer as well. As if in compensation, a digital audio-card reader is still exclusive to the navigation model.
Most drivers will find the six-way adjustable seat and two-way adjustable steering give them the best of all worlds: a comfortable posture without compromising outward visibility. A low cowl keeps the edges of the hood in view. Rearward vision, however, sets no new standard and actually suffers some from the awkwardly shaped C-pillars. The rearview video cam that comes with the optional nav system helps and is an added safety feature because it can help the driver spot children behind the vehicle, though it lacks the guiding grid lines some others offer to help when backing into parking spaces and garages.
Audio and climate controls on the LX and EX border on retro in their simplicity and arrangement. Large, rotary knobs control the functions that vary by degrees. Buttons are used for on/off or simple selections. However, when in Park, the shift lever obstructs buttons for air conditioning functions and mirror heaters. And by operational necessity, the optional nav system layers audio and map display controls.
Comparing cargo space, the new CR-V ranks in the top half, regardless of the competitor's seating capacity. It also features one of the nicest cargo compartments, flat and without the holes that can be hazardous to big dogs.
However, the CR-V does not offer a third-row seat, as does the Toyota RAV4 and other competitors, which expand seating to seven or even eight people. Even this latest CR-V stays with seating for five.
Incidental storage is routine. All four doors have fixed map pockets with molded-in beverage can separators. Both the foldable tray and fixed center console boast two cup holders. The centerpiece below the shift pod holds a couple of bins. And (something that's becoming increasingly popular) a bi-level glove box fills the middle and lower sections of the passenger-side dash.
The Honda CR-V's four-cylinder engine delivers competitive power. While hitting the gas in the CR-V won't snap any necks like some in the class aspire to, it delivers what most drivers need, if not want. And it does so reasonably smoothly, too, with less ruckus than the RAV4, although for reasons of mechanical design as much as anything, not as demurely as the V6-powered alternatives. There is more power available from the turbocharged Mazda CX-7 and the V6 engines available in other compact SUVs; the Toyota RAV4's optional V6, for instance, pumps out 269 hp.
The V6s pay a price in fuel economy, but not as much as you might think: Against the 3430-pound, 2WD CR-V EX-L's EPA-estimated 20/27 mpg, a 3549-pound, V6-powered 2WD RAV4 manages 20/25. Four-wheel-drive versions of the CR-V and RAV4 V6 promise exactly the same 26 mpg Highway.
The CR-V's five-speed automatic transmission is a good match for the engine. It's not best in class but well above average in smoothness of shifts, in controlling hunting for the right gear when climbing grades, and in holding a lower gear when helpful on downgrades.
Honda's Real Time 4WD is actually a car-style all-wheel-drive system, not a true off-highway-truck four-wheel drive, as it incorporates no lockable transfer case or ultra-low, off-road gearing. As such, however, it works seamlessly, invisibly allocating power to the tires slipping the least, although always favoring the front wheels by default.
The Vehicle Stability Assist includes traction control. Coupled with four-wheel disc brakes (vented in front and solid in the rear), ABS, brake assist and electronic brake-force distribution, VSA helps drivers maintain control in emergency maneuvers or in bad weather.
The CR-V handles well, with relatively little body lean in cornering. There's also relatively low head toss over rough and uneven pavement, helping to keep your passengers comfortable. Traversing aged railroad crossings at mildly elevated speeds produced no threatening sounds or gyrations. Steering assist could be backed off a notch or two, closer to that of the RAV4, which might improve directional stability and lessen the need for minor corrections in corners and long sweepers.
Noise levels were minimal. Tire noise correlated with pavement type and conditions. The EX-L version did the best job of insulating occupants from outside irritants. Sounds from under the hood, although low key, left no doubt the engine is a big four-cylinder and that it strained at times. Moderate wind whistle leaked into the cabin from the outside mirrors and around the A-pillars.
The Honda CR-V is probably the best vehicle in this class. Its interior is packaged the best, with seats that fold down to provide a completely flat cargo area.
NewCarTestDrive.com correspondent Tom Lankard filed this report from Vancouver, British Columbia, after his test drive of the CR-V.


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I am new to AN. In my faither days I was told to watch out for the Gay recruiters, the Atheist recruiters, the Satan recruiters. I have never had anyone try to recruit me except.... Yep you guessed it christians not even a muslim. College campuses are ripe places for people who just haven't figured out what they want to do in life or who they are yet. Faithers pounce on that and drive the fear of god into them. Fear is a very powerful motivator. Get them while they are looking for something and insecure. I remember searching for the meaning of life. It took a while because I was the son of a preacher so I was on my way to being a good little faither. Then I realized how the congregation was full of zombies. I was able to remove the god glasses and see the zombies all around me really weird feeling. At the time my dad was a preacher in training. When I woke up to what was going on it got ugly. Needless to say I survived. Faither leaders are terrified at the thought of loosing control of their flock. Who else would they fleece? Education will set them free. It takes time.
I had to quit Facebook for the same reasons that you mentioned and your comments take on a life of their own sometimes they go on for ever. I like Google + in some ways. I kind of think you need to separate your social networks. Seldom do you invite work friends over at the same time as you invite your swingers club over? People at work just don't need to know. Separation is a good thing. Its just more work and Face bookkind of eliminated that work but caused more problems in the process.
Ok I think that was more than I expected. Enjoy your life here I think I will hang around here for a long time. This is a side of me that I enjoy.
Hi Diana,
I've also wondered why, especially a college of all places, would religiosity be so abundant? It's probably not because of the student body, but instead because of a tradition of trying to convert people; these religious organizations always strongly target schools.
I guess I've made up my mind that religious people don't rely at all on facts, or even paltry everyday observations (because like you said, it's impossible to understand them in any other way). Instead they seek a feeling, clasp it, close up their mind, and finally go about their day. I think the feud between religion and non-theism is not really based on worldviews, it's based on lifestyles. After all, if all of these religious people hate science so much to dispute the evidence for evolution, why then are they on facebook, also created and maintained by science? Or driving their cars? Using cell phones?
The lifestyle of religion, especially it seems in America, relies heavily upon hypocrisy. These people live in a world of constant denial, which breeds hostile emotions. They vent these emotions by persecution, and lately by acting clinically insane (I'm thinking of Santorum here...).
On my side (obviously an atheist) I'm also very hostile. I look at these people and I see a strange and yet somehow powerful blockade to progress. It's easy to envision a world that's a practical, realistic utopia. Where, everyone acting rational, humanity solves the great problems, like climate change and equal rights. I see these people focusing on such outrageous issues, and I blame them for forcing me to live in a world where such (relatively) easy problems go yet unsolved.
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Santa Paula's downtown is reminiscent of any Small Town, USA, with its century-old inn, mural-lined walls and neighborhoods with Victorian homes. The tranquil lifestyle might make it seem as if it's in an isolated part of the state, but the truth is that the town, population 28,000, is 20 minutes east of Ventura.
The bed
The 1911 Tudor-Craftsman Glen Tavern Inn (134 N. Mill St.; [805] 933-5550, from $79) includes the on-site Enzo's Italian Restaurant, a lobby featuring a fireplace and a plethora of inviting couches, and hallways lined with classic movie posters. Add an accommodating staff, a picturesque front lawn and rumors that the hotel is haunted and you might not make it to one of the 36 rooms.
The meal
The Cajun- and Creole-inspired Rabalais' bistro (861 E. Main St.; [805] 525-2109; no item more than $23.95) serves breakfast, lunch and dinner, which means you can start your day with New Orleans-style beignets, biscuits and gravy, shrimp and grits or Creole potatoes while enjoying the view on the outdoor patio. For lunch or dinner, you can enjoy Southern staples such as crawfish étouffée, red beans and rice with andouille sausage, gumbo and jambalaya that might make you forget that you're in a California agricultural town.
The find
The lowrider bicycles in the window give Exotic City Records & Tapes (971 E. Main St.; [805] 525-6730) the flashiest storefront on Main Street. Inside, owner Hector Alamillo and his wife, Hope, sell an array of oldies and hip-hop CDs, but it's the customized lowriders that make Exotic City worth a visit. There are one-of-a-kind bicycles everywhere, each with a unique story, thanks to Hector's penchant for customizing two-wheelers. The best part? Hector is not only knowledgeable regarding his creations, but he's also friendly and more than willing to let you look around.
The lesson learned
Santa Paula promotes itself as "the citrus capital of the world," but city officials might want to change that campaign, thanks to four museums (three within walking distance of one another). Antique gas pumps at the California Oil Museum (1001 E. Main St.; [805] 933-0076) are a smile-inducing blast from the past, but the working 1890s drilling rig steals the show. A few steps away is the Santa Paula Art Museum (117 N. 10th St.; [805] 525-5554), where local art is on display in a 1920s building. A quarter-mile north is the Agriculture Museum (926 Railroad Ave., [805] 525-3100), home to eight vintage tractors and a beehive more engaging than any TV program. The final stop is at the Aviation Museum of Santa Paula ([805] 525-1109; Open 10 a.m.-3 p.m. first Sunday of the month; free) which features nine hangars dedicated to historical airplanes, experimental aircraft, motorcycles, model planes and race cars.
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A Jacuzzi tub room at the Glen Tavern Inn runs $109 a night on the weekend. Lunch or dinner at Rabalais can be had for about $30. Add a quarter-tank of gas, and a trip to Santa Paula can be less than $200.


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These cards correlate with the lessons in Chapter 5 of Control Girl. Here are two FREE companion resources for you:
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In the first full year of joint operations, dorma+kaba increased its consolidated sales on a pro forma basis and currency-adjusted by 2.6% to CHF 2,302.6 million.
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On 1 September 2015 the new dorma+kaba Group was created through the merger of two strong companies. The Group achieved its first successes in its new organization as a combined company during the first months of the 2015/2016 financial year, finishing the period under review with good results. On a pro forma basis and at constant exchange rates consolidated sales increased during the period by 2.6% to reach CHF 1,135.5 million (CHF 947.6 million reported). Organic sales growth was 1.8% while acquisition effects contributed 0.8% to sales growth.
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dorma+kaba is holding its first Group CTO dialogue in Zurich today. As well as an update on current innovation activities, dorma+kaba's Chief Technology Officer (CTO) Andreas Häberli is presenting a web-based access solution called "exivo", which makes its debut appearance at the "Sicherheit" trade fair in Zurich.
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Let $X$ be a finite-dimensional Banach space whose isometry group acts transitively on the set of lines (or, equivalently, on the unit sphere: for every two unit-norm vectors $x,y\in X$ there exist a linear isometry from $X$ to itself that sends $x$ to $y$). Then $X$ is a Euclidean space (i.e., the norm comes from a scalar product).
I can prove this along the following lines: the linear isometry group is compact, hence it admits an invariant probability measure, hence (by an averaging argument) there exists a Euclidean structure preserved by this group, and then the transitivity implies that the Banach norm is proportional to that Euclidean norm.
But this looks too complicated for such a natural and seemingly simple fact. Is there a more elementary proof? I mean something reasonably short and accessible to undegraduates (so that I could use it in a course that I am teaching).
Added. As Greg Kuperberg pointed out, there are many other ways to associate a canonical Euclidean structure to a norm, e.g. using the John ellipsoid or the inertia ellipsoid. This is much better, but is there something more "direct", avoiding any auxiliary ellipsoid/scalar product construction?
For example, here is a proof that I consider "more elementary", under the stronger assumption that the isometry group is transitive on two-dimensional flags (that is, pairs of the form (line,plane containing this line)): prove this in dimension 2 by any means, this implies that the norm is Euclidean on every 2-dimensional subspace, then it satisfies the parallelogram identity, hence it is Euclidean.
Looking at this, I realize that perhaps my internal criterion for being "elementary" is independence of the dimension. So, let me try to transform the question into a real mathematical one:
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I'm going to get this down on electron because I've been thinking about it for a while, but I'm not yet 100% serious about all this.
I think the main undiagnosed heresy of the West is Nestorianism. In fact, I suspect most of us are crypto-Nestorians. I'm taking the essence of Nestorianism to be exemplified by the idea that in Jesus Christ there was not a unity of two natures in one person but rather that the two persons (the Son of God and the man Jesus) with the two different natures were in perfect "sync". (I'm completely bracketing the question of how Nestorian was Nestorius, mostly because I don't care. His heresy is a pretty good example, I think, for a way of thinking that is, I suspect, rife among otherwise orthodox Christians.)
Among Catholics, I think the most obvious manifestation comes when we think about the power of the sacraments. I suspect that many self-described orthodox Catholics, when they think of the power of the sacraments, do not think of the sacraments as actually, in themselves, accomplishing anything, but rather they believe in a kind of parallelism between the natural effects of the sacrament and the power of God, such that while the priest is, say, pouring the water, God is, at the very same time - and in perfect sync with the priest - cleansing the soul, but that the spiritual movement by which God cleanses the soul and the physical movement by which the priest pours the water are totally different and that there is no real relationship between them other than coincidence and exemplification. I suspect most Catholics think of the real power of the sacraments as lying "underneath" the visible, material thing but not being "in" it. Or else being "in" it like an egg is in a box, not "in" it like the meaning of a word is "in" an arrangement of letters.
I'm pretty sure all Protestants think this way, and I suspect this shared understanding lies behind almost all arguments on the sacraments. Everybody is thinking of the sacraments like this. The Protestants denying this, while Catholics affirm it. The funny thing is that I think the Protestants are right to deny it, and the Catholics are wrong to affirm it. But the Protestants have not escaped heresy. They're still wrong, because they just deny any relationship at all between the working of God and the sacraments.
- Were the feet of Mother Teresa, as wrinkled, gnarled, and rough as they were, really beautiful? Can the twisting of nature communicate a form of beauty that goes absolutely beyond nature itself?
- Our inability to believe in the goodness of nature, in the ability of nature to communicate anything supernatural, is behind this.
- A clue to all this is understanding the power of the sacraments as being genuinely instrumental. The sacraments are instrumental causes of grace. But I suspect we don't believe that their naturalness, their natural powers, have anything to do with this.


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Summer is a great time for pets and their owners, but vets are warning about the hidden risks to pets during the warmest season of the year.
Heatstroke, pesky parasites and open water can all pose dangers to pets.
To help pet owners, vets have compiled a summer pet guide, full of information and top tips on how to enjoy the summer with a healthy and happy pet.
Dr Huw Stacey, director of clinical services at Vets4Pets, said: "There is a lot that pet owners need to take into consideration throughout the summer months, which is why we've produced this summer guide.
"High temperatures can be very dangerous for many pets, as hot weather can make roads and pavements too hot to walk on, particularly for pets' sensitive paws and pads. So walking dogs at cooler times of the day can help avoid burnt feet.
"Owners must also remember to never leave their pet in a car, conservatory or caravan on a warm day. Even if it feels mild outside, the temperature inside can reach up to 40 degrees in just 30 minutes.
"To help keep smaller pets cool, including rabbits, hamsters and guinea pigs, it is always best to move indoor cages out of direct sunlight and outdoor hutches into a shaded part of the garden or even inside the house.
"All pets should also always have a supply of fresh water, whether that is in the garden, on holiday, or in the car. This will decrease their chances of becoming dehydrated or suffering from heatstroke."
Between January and June last year 55,733 pet passports were issued to pet owners who wanted to take their pets away with them on holiday abroad.
"Before you travel anywhere, abroad or in the UK, you need to pack your pet's essential documentation, have the local vet's details for wherever you are staying, check your pet is microchipped and their vaccinations and treatments are up-to-date," said Dr Stacey.
"If you are travelling in a car with your pet, putting them in a crate is usually the safest option, but owners need to make regular stops so their pet can stretch or go to the toilet.
"When travelling abroad with your pet, talk to your local vet about pet passports.
"If you are leaving your pet with family, friends or at a kennels or cattery, make sure they have all the correct food, equipment and medicines.
"It is always best to drop in on a kennel or cattery to check it over first and ask the appropriate questions, before you book your pet in.
"All reputable kennels are licensed by the local authority and insist on seeing proof of vaccinations against diseases like Kennel Cough."
Kennel Cough affected approximately 65,000 dogs last year and is passed between dogs that come in to close proximity with each other. As such it is commonly picked up when dogs are staying in kennels.
"The vaccination lasts for around a year and should be administered at least two weeks before their stay at the kennels," said Dr Stacey.
The warmer weather throughout the summer acts as a breeding ground for pesky parasites like fleas, ticks and maggots.
"Owners need to check their pets whenever they have been outdoors, particularly dogs and cats that have been wandering outside in longer grass," added Dr Stacey.
"Flystrike is an unpleasant condition for rabbits, so hutches should always be kept clean and their bedding must be fresh and dry, so flies aren't attracted into their hutch.
"Contracting ticks, fleas and flystrike can be easily prevented if owners keep their pet's treatments up-to-date and their pet and its living area as clean as possible.
"Summer is a great time to enjoy holidays and fun outdoor activities with pets. Our simple guide is designed to help pets and their owners enjoy the best summer possible with a happy and healthy pet."


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FICTION WINNER- Waltzing Cowboys
At the edge of the freshly ditched ground, Rhue stared. He thought maybe he'd died too, the colors all washed out in the bright noon light, and the silence so long and heavy it dragged his feet into a dirge of dust and dread. How close he felt to death himself. The longer he stared, the more comfortable it looked, that level dry earth with indentations for his hunched shoulders and his weary hips.
He was old, older than he'd ever expected to be. He had dark stains on the backs of his hands and a crooked place in his spine. His hair had turned, bleach blond to mousy gray. And then, like the victims of trauma, before he even realized it, it turned white as the new lambs he remembered from summers a hundred years ago.
It seemed a hundred years ago that he'd lifted the loose board in Vince's fence and whistled for his best friend. And now they'd buried Vince. A parade of old men, barely able to lift the coffin, had walked with Vince that one last time.
He and Vince and Marian, they'd covered some trails between them. When they met, forty years earlier, she'd been wild and so had he, even at thirty-six. During all their years of reining in canyon pintos and sleeping by campfires, Marian had more than kept up, not to compete with the two guys as much as that she didn't suffer fools.
With Vince gone, and Marian rocking away at the nursing home in a world of her own, suddenly Rhue felt his age. It was as if he awoke one morning to a revelation that screamed, "You're done here. Get gone." Marian her hands twisted in the cord of her bathrobe, the muscles gone slack with idleness didn't recognize him.
He wasn't sure which was worse, except that the gravesite had been comforting somehow, but Marian, sitting in the dark, humming odd phrases and mimicking voices in the hall, made him fume, white hot angry but helpless, the way a steer gets when his foreleg folds and he knows he's down. Rhue didn't go often to see her. The Marian he knew was flying bareback across the range.
The horses, though, were the same. It still fascinated him how clear their eyes were and the way their nostrils flared in anticipation. Most days before the sun came up he went to watch them in the field. He sat on the open tailgate until the ranch hands ambled up to the barn. He stayed until after sunset, until after the men went in to eat at the long warped table where he used to sit. From the corral he could smell the beans. He could taste them.
The screen door swung wide and new boots struck the wooden porch. Joey Clark's son stopped. He looked so young that the corral dust seemed to sit like powder on his five o'clock shadow. Hard to believe he was old enough to shave. The kid's name was Edward or Charles, something too formal for the hustler he looked, with his tight jeans and his t-shirt sleeve rolled over cigarettes to advertise the impunity of youth.
"D'you need a ride, Rhue?" The boy tapped one boot sideways against the post. "I'm headed to town."
Town. It was like a mantra for those boys with its neon lights and parking lots squeezed so full of metal and hormones and hope that the energy shot out like headlights into the night. Rhue had been there. He had no desire ever to go to town again. Even the memory of golden whiskey bleeding down his throat didn't tempt him.
"I could drop you somewhere," the boy repeated. He wasn't much more than a boy.
"I got my truck." Rhue wasn't bragging. There was nothing in town for him anymore.
"Fine. See you." The kid didn't say tomorrow. Was it disrespect or caution that kept him from that kind of promise?
Because Rhue felt the boy's eyes on his back suspicious, distrustful of an old man's reserve he waited at the fence until the truck rolled onto the state road. The horses waited too, but when Rhue's scent on the evening breeze reached them, one of them whinnied, the palomino mare.
"Just you and me, babe," Rhue said as he squeezed between the rails. The other horses pranced and prodded each other, showing off for him. Just beyond stroking distance, the mare, though, darted away. He patted the few who let him, the older ones who connected him with carrots and apples, the ones who'd already accepted the bridle and their own talent to carry human weight. The new foals, too wild for that, bucked and nipped each other's flanks. Where the fence widened, the gate stood open to the prairie. So, it was Saturday night. The ranch hands anticipated a late night and were letting the horses have their freedom too.
As Rhue walked past the open gate, the palomino sprinted past him. She spun around on a hillock of grass and lifted her feet daintily, setting them down in the exact same spaces, as if she were standing on tiptoe with excitement. When he realized he was holding his breath, he let it out in a long slow whistle. This was real, no graveside fantasy. The mare's nostrils blew warm air that misted in the cool evening. It floated back to him, a caress, as he picked his way through the tufted grass. When she saw him struggle at the incline, she slowed.
Once he made the crest, she took off running into the wind. He wished he were astride her, the smooth sureness carrying him forth. It was an old ache, buried deep inside. As his boots hit the hard shale of the rise, with the angle and the unforgiving ground, a sharp, piercing pain tweaked his hip joint. Forty years ago he never would've noticed it.
As he walked in the well of grass, the route to water worn by the herd, he remembered other evenings when he'd nestled into a mane and let hooves ring clear up to the sky, a prairie carillon of joy. Against the sinking sun, the mare's silhouette held fast. She wasn't ready to give up the unknown night or the secrets that hovered at the far side of the meadow, the possibilities of surprise that existed nowhere else in the daily routine of horse and cowboy. Rhue laughed. Neither was he.
Where a natural swale separated the bigger field from a second ridge, the pasture fell away to the river. It was a lazy river, not wide enough or deep enough to make any kind of mark on the world, but steady enough to be noticed and named.
When he lost sight of the mare, he panicked. He didn't want it to be over. He called out to her, naming her as he spoke. "Delilah," he called, hoping she'd recognize her new name and wait. He trod carefully on the uneven ground. Just beyond the ridge he could hear stamping hooves and marveled that they'd reached the water so effortlessly. Horses had an uncanny sense of rightness in their movements. If the sky darkened or the wind brought a strange smell, they hesitated, taking those signals seriously before they moved on.
Humans, fools all, had no such warning system. They bounded ever onward toward an unknown goal or fantasized glory, dragging their silly paraphernalia with them, getting slower and slower until they died, surrounded by things that had no lasting value and by people they didn't love. That's why he'd never gone back east, to the slow, dull pain of living with neighbors who knew your past. He liked to imagine his wife, Adriana, throwing the things he'd left behind in the landfill. More likely, knowing her, she'd kept them, hoping he'd return for them so she could berate him for their paucity. Surely she'd have worked hard to dispel any romantic hopes their son, Ford, might have harbored of being restored to his father someday.
Rhue had regrets, and his boy was one of them. But staying would've soured them all. In this world he was a traveler, not meant for staking out a place and guarding it. Who knew what he'd be in the next world?
Although Ford was a man now, the name conjured the boy Rhue would have taken on his shoulders and wheeled about, not to show off, but to share the exhilaration of wide spaces and endless motion. He didn't know much about his son, hadn't asked out of fairness. He'd been the one to leave, after all. But he would've liked a photograph, a small reminder of a reality that existed some distance from the world he'd come to know.
It had been a year, maybe more, since he'd walked this far from the ranch. Arthritic joints and the odd collection of rodeo fractures discouraged hikes. Mostly the wind blew from the west here, flowing down from the mountains and gathering speed to the Mississippi. A man could get lost in the weather.
Behind the setting sun, the sky flamed with sulfuric borders of blue, a sure sign that a storm was on its way. He figured they had an hour or two before the rain hit. His arthritis confirmed it.
When the mare caught his scent, she whinnied. Her head bobbed and tucked like a coquette with a new suitor. She knew he'd come for her.
"Hey," he said, patting his thighs lightly to let her know he was real.
She'd been ridden before, but you wouldn't know it from the way she hung back. Too proud to go easily, she'd thrown a few cowboys before they realized she only wanted to be treated like the lady she was. If they showed her the halter, let her take her time, she didn't complain. But she withheld something. In the way she refused to come for sugar, and in the slight hesitation before she let herself gallop, he guessed she didn't really like these humans who'd forced her to bend.
"If I were younger," he said, "I'd take you south, babe, past Texas there's a flat, greedy country without class to Mexico. River valleys that make you thirsty just thinking about them." He kept up a stream of sweet talk as he sidled down the rock face, his boots turned into the hillside for purchase. He willed her to be patient, to let this work. He wasn't sure he'd ever wanted anything more.
Besides Marian, there'd been women he'd talked to this way, low and dreamy, afraid to frighten them with his calloused hands and his appetite for change. Tiny women with rosy nipples and soft flesh, women who didn't know what they wanted. And tanned women with leather vests straining at the buttons and muscular thighs made for love. Women, whose memories of men colored them angry, but their bodies were still wanting and needy. Women he'd loved but never told them, and women whom no one could love for long.
A horse was different. They never forgot you. And once you'd seen a horse, you couldn't stop dreaming of her. That's the way it was for him with Delilah.
Close to the bottom, where the shale unraveled into loose gravel, his boot caught and he skidded, a foot or so, landing on his tailbone. At the abrupt motion, he watched her stiffen. His hip felt out of whack. Something had wedged itself in his chest. Back and forth he twisted his arm and leg to loosen the tightness. Slowly, as he kept talking and righted himself, she relaxed. Motionless, she alternately watched him and the other horses as if preserving her choice.
On the other embankment, the sun tanked behind the trees, streaking its last heat into the clearing in greedy golden fingers. With his handkerchief freed from his back pocket, he wiped his hands where they'd picked up gravel slivers from the fall. Suddenly he was uncomfortably hot.
"Are we friends yet?" he moved closer. "You're right, you're too young for me, but . . ." How to tell her there was value in experience, in being old enough to discard the tricks and deceptions of youth. How to let her know that he wanted what she wanted, one glorious last flight across the plain before the storm sent them home.
He inched forward, close enough that he could see her eyelashes. An arm's length between them. "The water in Mexico," he continued, "is like mountain water, cool and clear, bubbly. You wouldn't mind that. The sound and the rushing of it, exciting, eh?" He raised his hand slowly to waist height and held it out to her.
To keep his voice low and steady, he had to regulate his breathing. His chest ached from the forced control. Past Delilah, the other horses, growing anxious with the deepening dusk, churned about in the stream. These next few seconds were crucial. If she were bored, she'd step back and abandon him. If she leaned in to smell, he'd know she was serious too.
His extended hand grew heavier and heavier in the chilly air. On the far side the leaves rustled. He closed his eyes and sent her brainwaves of desire.
Just there on his palm, he felt the air first. Not nuzzling exactly, but exploring, wondering. This was an introduction, a kiss on the cheek at meeting. It meant nothing, committed no one, but it offered something more. He imagined her neck stretched out to his fingers, the dark lines of sweat on her coat from her run here, the stiff ears pricked to catch any change, any danger. Even the idea of opening his eyes risked the most miniscule sound, a shift that might send her frothing into the river. The sound of air, steamy in the dry dusk, flowed in and about the two of them, locked in concentration as fierce as any embrace.
His hand wavered where he held it open. When her lips bumped his palm, he steadied it quickly before she could flinch. Her warm breath poured into his hand, a gift, a bond.
"Delilah," he whispered, and she stepped forward.
Rhue woke up in the county hospital. A slender dark-skinned man in a white lab coat, with gold spectacles, stood by his bed. Rhue tried to move his legs but they were pinned under the taut cold sheet. Tubes ran from his chest and arm to machines by the wall.
"What happened?" he asked. The words tripped over themselves, barely making an echo above the air-conditioner. "What happened?" he tried again, pushing the sounds past his vocal cords with an effort that sent sharp spurts of pain along his ribs.
"You had a stroke. Not unexpected for someone in your condition."
"What does that mean?"
"It means you're too old to be riding wild horses."
He didn't remember riding the mare, but he hesitated to admit it. Memory loss might be something that kept him here longer.
"When can I leave?"
"We're not holding you. But," the doctor said, shaking his head in discouragement, "observation after a stroke is usually ten days." The words, as clipped and precise as a glockenspiel, were discordant high notes in the darkened room. "And the tests are due back tomorrow."
Rhue imagined a long hallway of rooms with bodies, motionless and barely breathing, lying in shallow hospital beds like corpses in a cemetery. With trembling hands he fumbled with the sheets to loosen his legs. He sat up, with less effort than he'd expected for all the equipment. The skin on his face was tender in several places. Somehow he'd scratched himself. His legs, numb and invisible under the pale green coverlet, remained dead weights.
"What's the matter with my legs?"
"Nothing with the right one except bruises. On the left, one fracture, near as we can tell, close to your ankle."
"If I don't wait, if I go now, what's the risk?"
"Ah, if I knew that, I'd be a fortune-teller, not a doctor."
After the cryptic little doctor left, Rhue dozed. He traveled again, the long dry highway leading away from Adriana and New York City. Eager to distance himself from his own sense of failure, for the first thousand miles the urge to disappear was so strong he'd been unable to eat or sleep. The cities he'd traveled through had been glistening and glittery, mad with colors and people, whirls of activity. He'd fled, further and further west, looking for a place with a single color and no voices.
Lying stiffly, he dreamed of canyons roiling with wild ponies like the Canadian coast where the tide turned in front of your eyes, churning the water into salt and spray. And he rode the train again across new countryside, forests as green as the underside of moss, the soil black with fertility and age like coal. Each farmhouse and ranch expectant, windows lit, flags raised stretched out across the country like parade watchers, cheering him onward to whatever was waiting for him, whatever it was that had made him leave everything he knew for nothing he could name, for the unknown, for the vacancy of open land and no neighbors. He had not understood why the urge to go had been so overwhelming. He'd been afraid to think about it.
From the narrow hospital closet he put on his blue jeans and his shirt. They smelled of the open prairie and Delilah. When he raked his fingers through the white hair, he felt the plates in his skull. It was possible that the reverse of birth was happening without his knowing, that in the process of aging, the plates shrunk like everything else and your brain was exposed to injury again. The locker held no hat. He must have lost it on the prairie.
The stump on the bottom of the cast made a hollow pounding sound on the linoleum like a hammer on a neighbor's roof. The elevator, the whoosh of the prairie breeze before the storm. Before the door shut he looked to see if they were following him. The hallway was deserted.
With the whirring of the taxi's wheels against the wet pavement fading, he looked around the apartment. Newspapers strewn on the tables, pots of caked dirt with brown stalks poking into the dry air, paper coffee cups on the counter, all set down with the abandon of a chess game gone hopeless. It was not unlike other places he'd lived. Except that he'd had better views.
On the phone with the train station clerk, he rummaged through the pile of mail. Without opening it, he chucked most of it into the trash. His leg was throbbing. Once he had the train schedule, he hobbled to the bathroom and took four aspirin without water.
Three large trash bags later, the room looked close to its pre-occupancy state. His duffle lay by the door. Taking the last beer from the refrigerator back to the bedroom, he lay down on the bare mattress, swung his bum leg up, and fell asleep.
Arriving early at the train station, with nothing else to do, he dozed on the bench, half in and half out of sleep. In his waking dreams, Delilah held steady. She let him lift himself to her back, took him streaming across the prairie night, racing against the sun. The vision of himself atop the palomino filled his mind and he breathed slowly to keep the image strong. By now the young stallion, he thought, would have chosen. The shy chestnut mare, perhaps impregnated with his foal already, would stay close, matching her step to his, following the grassy steppe to the river a half beat behind him. And from the ridge he and Delilah would watch them and remember their own courting days.
Getting old, what a grand deception life was. Experience counts, they tell you all your life. So you gather it all in, a thousand experiences, building and building, stronger and smarter, each event, each relationship making you a better worker, a better friend, a better lover. But without the power of youth, he could only ride the palomino in his dreams. And yet, here he was headed east to find the son he'd left behind, to make amends before he died.
Two days on the train to figure out what he'd say, two days to sort through the last forty and find something to convince them his last dream was worthwhile. All he had was the power of words. He'd had it all along, right from the beginning. He just hadn't known how important it was.
He should take a walk, find some lunch, but the idea of going back down that sidewalk felt wrong to him. He'd already left this place.


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'Alfred' (from Tante Leny).
Jacques Verbeek was a Dutch filmmaker, born in Steenbergen. He studied at the Academy of Industrial Design in Eindhoven from 1966 and later attended the Free Academy in The Hague, where he made his first animated films as a pupil of Frans Zwartjes. He was active as a comic artist in the early 1970s. He published 'De Zippers' in Joost Swarte's Modern Papier and then 'Alfred' in Evert Geradts' Tante Leny Presenteert in 1972.
He worked as a filmmaker with Karin Wiertz during the 1970s and 1980s, and the duo slowly evolved from live action to animation. Their films include 'Keep on Turning' (1972), 'Reversals' (1972), 'Slippery Slope' (1972), 'Time Takes a Cigarette' (1973), 'Between the Lights' (1975), 'T.H.-film' (1976), 'Easy Action Animated' (1978), 'The Case of the Spiral Staircase' (1981) and 'There is a Garden in my Head' (1987). He was a teacher with the Academy of Fine Arts in Maastricht. He passed away in early 1993.