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One of the most difficult things I encounter both as an artist myself and also as a Director and Producer is the "No, not this time" message.
It is hard to hear. It is even more difficult to say.
AND - as someone who stopped performing for thirty years, it takes courage...
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I don't think much has been written about this in the United States, but it's something that is being talked about among researchers.
In March, human trials started on TGN1412, a drug designed to treat chronic inflammatory conditions and leukemia, by the German firm TeGenero in England. Eight...
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The following question was sent in by a reader. Maybe the blogosphere has the answer?
Are there any programs or companies in Bakersfield that will haul away a non
running vehicle for free or even possibly pay you some kind of fee for the
vehicle if they feel they can part it out???
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Mike Polyniak, who lives near Thompson Junior High School and is tired of neighborhood cats fouling up his yard, wants the City of Bakersfield to clamp down on the felines.
I'm with you, Mike. That's a great idea. But I'm afraid you're in for a war.
For example, one of your neighbors, Anne...
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So I rarely watch TV after work. But yesterday I turned on my TV and caught one of the most disgraceful attempts at journalism I have ever seen. CNN has lost its marbles. Apparently they've decided that this lady named Nancy Grace is a draw for viewers???
Her show disgusted me. But I was so...
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Having been raised to the company of both farm animals and those of the forest, I often have recourse to stories about them just to take a needed departure from so much bad news and dealing with somber issues of the day. And I will say that in many instances I have found critters better company...
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Anyone know of a good club/organization for ladies to join? Married or single, middle aged? You know I find there is so much out there for senior citizens, but I am not finding much for middle aged females to hook up , or females and males , unless you hang out at a bar or bowl. I don't...
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I am aware of your inability to stand near me now
Either outcome requires something from you.
My blood splattering you or my angel feather tickling you.
To anchor you further in your ill world view or
challenge you to face the inconceivable
I desire knowledge...
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The obituaries always end alike with those left referring to the day when they will greet their loved one again ..I want so to take heart and believe. But the chill of what if , even then, somehow in Its unknown ways, Yours was found lacking? Wanting of essential goodness? Worthy of...
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O.K., I have this dog. I'm not going to start going on about how he's the greatest thing ever, because he's still young and while he's definitely destined for greatness, right now he hasn't exactly fulfilled that destiny. Not yet, anyway. But we (meaning me and the dude I...
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This weekend I went and saw The Decent. Looking forward to something scary and the usual bloodfest that horror movies of this genre display. I looked forward to be disgusted by what movie makers can come up and creative ways to kill people. What I was completely disgusted about...
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Some people really need a dog to help them get around in public.
They may have "invisible disabilities" or other problems which prevent them from going to a store, a restaurant or a doctor's office without their dog.
America has a program for that, called service dogs. The dogs...
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I’ve never lived in a brand new apartment complex, so I wasn’t really sure what to expect when I pulled up to Rio Paseo — a 416-unit complex partially completed along Coffee Road near Meany Avenue in northwest Bakersfield.
With two full-time managers leasing the place up,...
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Aug. 7 (Bloomberg) -- Crude oil surged above $76 a barrel, recording its biggest gain in two weeks, after BP Plc said it will shut Alaska's Prudhoe Bay field, where 8 percent of U.S. oil is produced.
Some 400,000 barrels a day of production is being shut, BP's spokesman Ronnie Chappell said. A...
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On Friday, I had lunch with some people at Option Care, a specialty pharmacy near Meadows Field. The topic of conversation was hepatitis C, a disease of the liver caused by the hepatitis C virus. Option Care does a lot of hep C education for patients and their families, the group said. Along with...
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Clean Money Means Fair Elections
Special interests, lobbyists, pay to play... If you’re sick of politics as usual, then Proposition 89, the Clean Money and Fair Elections Act is for you. Prop 89 gives candidates a choice in financing their campaigns: Either do what they do now,...
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Heat stabilized air quality
By Sarah Ruby
When mercury rises, air pollution doesn't necessarily follow.
Consider the recent heat wave. Temperatures soared to a high of 116 degrees in parts of Kern County, yet the air did not get appreciably worse. In some cases, the air was better than it...
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Q: Why does no one care for the 13 to 15 locust trees on the corner of Airport and Skyway drives? It is the old entrance to the airport. Someone used to water them, but the last year or more, no one has. They are so attractive on that corner; it is a shame to see them all die.
— Mona Carver...
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Q: The old PG&E power plant on the corner of Rosedale and Gosford remains inactive. Can an investigation provide an update of that property?
Any information will be appreciated.
— Craig L. Pelz
PG&E is in talks with an unnamed buyer to sell the Kern Power Plant, which has been inactive...
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Why I had the guitar with me to begin with is a long story, and I don't want to bore you with unnecessary details. It was a hellishly hot August morning at California State Prison, Solano. Not wanting to destroy my guitar in my car-turned-sauna, I sheepishly smuggled it past the prison sally...
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PUBLISHED 8-8-2006
The Assembly should move quickly to approve Sen. Dean Florez’s bill that would standardize regulation of genetically engineered nursery stock and seed. The bill passed the Senate on June 1 with a 31-8 vote.
Without SB 1056, stock distributors, seed outlets,...
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PUBLISHED 8-8-2006
Oh, yuck. Something else to worry about.
A television station took its investigative noses out to Lindbergh Field Airport in San Diego recently to check out the germs in the...
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My bride and I went to visit her friends in Coarsegold who took us up the road to Yosemite on Saturday.
It was a spectacularly beautiful day and, of course, the place was spectacularly beautiful.
Glaciers carved out El Capitan, Half Dome and the rest of the stunning beauty that rises up...
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A story by John Schwartz of the New York Times suggested that experts believe drunks may say stupid things, but it is generally things they believe.
The topic came up following the anti-Semitic rantings of Mel Gibson and his crude reference about the anatomy of a female officer.
Dr. Kevin...
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Did anyone watch the video provided with this story?
Grandma seems a little strung out huh?
Why was this 4 year old playing in the alley?
Weird.
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I come to the garden alone/ while the dew is still on the roses/ and the voice I hear, falling on my ear/The Son of God discloses/and he walks with me, and he talks with me/ and He tells me I am His own/ and the voice we share/ as we tarry there/ none other has ever known/It's deeply precious,...
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A harvest that hurts: Clandestine pot gardens cause ecological damage
By Jennifer Squires
Sentinel Staff Writer
SUMMIT — Sheriff's patrol Sgt. Mark Yanez surveys the mess the pot farmers left behind: trash, empty propane tanks and gardening supplies. A blue jug of Power Force...
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Experts
Experts
OK...Who are the "experts"? When I read a paper or hear a newscast or other story and hear about something the "experts" have commented on, I generally don't think about it because it's not usually a subject on wheic I am an expert. Once in awhile...
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Having experienced a flood in and around my place here in Bodfish Canyon, I can sympathize to some limited extent with the Katrina victims. But the recent disaster calls to mind a similar problem with housing following WWII.
Living accommodations were difficult right after the war and returning...
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Many years have passed since Merle Haggard released his 60s classics Okie From Muskogee and The Fightin' Side of Me, songs that seemed to place him squarely and unequivocally in the category of “conservative” at best. In fact, some folks would probably label him as a “redneck’s...
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One more second chance. That's all Richard Core wants.
He's only 17 but knows he's already used up his share of second chances.
It's a story we parents have heard before. Richard started hanging out with the wrong crowd his freshman year at North High School. He stopped...
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I'm looking for families that lived in Minter Field after WW11 when it and Kern Homes ( the officer quarters located south of Lerdo Highway) were converted from military to civilian housing.
During Truman's administration the housing shortage in America...
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Ladies and Gentlemen, I present to you the WORLD'S FIRST podcast done ENTIRELY IN BLACK AND WHITE!!!
Just kidding. But Sam Sleuth is. It's a damn fun show and you can dive right into it today in the newest installment of Bakersfield Theatre Radio: The TheatreAddict.com Podcast....
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While reading the paper this morning the excellent article about how we oldsters handled the heat in the past really caught my attention. Those of us who recall living with outhouses and ice boxes, and without electricity in many cases, didn’t think of ourselves as poor or underprivileged...
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How did I end up appearing on an MTV-award-nominated hit music video? I've always been a little reticent when it comes to sharing this, because I hate to be perceived as a shameless, self-promoting idiot bragging about my 15 minutes of fame. Then I realized that I was not shameless, so the...
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Is it just me or does anyone else feel like this week of 90 degree weather we've had has felt more like a week of 70 degrees? It's been a little TOO refreshing.
After that heat wave I don't know if I'm going to be able to complain about the heat until it goes at least a couple degrees past...
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I make it a point to ask every coach I visit with who they think the teams to watch this season will be. A response I've heard on more than one occasion is that the Golden Valley Bulldogs should be a force to reckon with in 2006.
At practice this evening, coach Tim Hartnett told me his team...
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ARE YOU KIDDING ME!
There needs to be some parents who get together and beat the living daylights out of this scumball!
If it were my kids I'd be in jail right now! I'd totally break every bone in his fat body!
Sick piece of snail crap needs to be taught a lesson!
Man this story really ticks...
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PUBLISHED 8-6-2006
Enough is enough. Don’t just read those words, shout them. Better yet, scream them. That’s what many of The Californian’s readers are doing.
After reading last weekend’s story about the destruction taking place in North of the River parks,...
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PUBLISHED 8-6-2006
Today is the first day that this city will no longer put up with the jerks who think it is fun to destroy it.
Send The Californian your stories and suggestions. Send us your photographs.
What is happening in your neighborhoods and parks? Are criminals tearing them...
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More coming soon!
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We made a few small changes today that I hope you all will enjoy. Here are a couple of them.
First, if you use Internet Explorer, what you see in your blog entries and comments as you're writing them will more accurately reflect what you get after you post it. If you hit the Enter key once...
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What we're talking about here are pigs — the ones with the curly tails and four legs.
Jerry Perkins of the Des Moines Register has reported that a company is using ultrasounds to detect pigs with more fat so they can be bred to produce fatty pigs. (Fat as we all know provides the flavor...
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Ok all, I have to go there, seems not many people want to brooch this subject, so here goes...
What is up with the city of Bakersfield? We have really crappy traffic, horrendous roads,and more development than we need (at least in my humble opinion).
As I drive to work, down Columbus playing...
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In the beginning after years of work with children in the worst possible circumstances imaginable I finally came to realize nothing short of a constitutional amendment would serve in making children a priority in America rather than the present system in which a molester receives probation in one...
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Well, as I have been listening to my new iPod I am finding a disturbing number of songs that have glitches or cut off midway through the track.
Anyone else seen these kind of probs?
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In a story by David Colman of the New York Times, skulls showing up in fashion for both young and old are "the Happy Face of the 2000s."
Go to the mall and you will find them on T-shirts, ties, umbrellas, sneakers, swimsuits, packing tape, party lights and even a toilet brush....
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About a week ago, Babytalk, a magazine usually found in OB/GYN and pediatrician offices, found itself in controversy over its cover of a baby breastfeeding.
Rather than potentially offending people by showing the cover in this blog, here's a link to the pic with a story by CBS News about the...
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Isnt the weather wonderful this morning. I have a 4 day week end started yesterday, and was inspired by this nice cool breeze to finally clean and organize my garage
What a delightful space it is now , O I could park my car in there before, but now when I get out, or more importantly, when a...
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PUBLISHED 8-7-2006
By “real lake” standards, Lake Ming is a pond. But the county park facility is a body of water near Bakersfield’s population center that accommodates motor boats and water sports.
For that reason, special interest groups — water skiers, motor...
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