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Guys reveal what they want in a girl.Freezing temps can leave even the biggest commitment-phobes craving someone to snuggle with. So we got guys to open up about just what they want in a Little Spoon they'd love to curl up with long after the seasons have shifted.
By Lauren Otis
1. A Woman Who Will Let Me Impress Her
"I kind of want the opposite of most guys I know: I'd secretly love a girl that's bad at cooking-all the easier for me to wow her with some of my home-cooked specialties." -Christian B.
2. A Woman Who Can Hold Her Own
"I want to be with a girl who, if she's on a different page from me on something, can hold her own in a debate about it. Disagreements can keep things fun." -Andrew H.
3. A Woman Who Goes With The Flow
"I want a woman who doesn't act like a child when things don't go her way. You've got to be able to lose occasionally and show grace and poise in those moments (And I do too)." -Brady C.
Related: How to Be More Adventurous With Your Man
4. A Woman Who Motives Me
"I want to get serious with a girl who pushes me to have a successful career. It motivates me when I talk to my girlfriend about work and she calls me out on being complacent or not doing everything I can to be the best at what I do. It really helps me to stay focused, especially since the whole reason I'm working is to be able to one day provide for a family." -Ryan G.
5. A Woman Who Wants to Try New Things
"I want a girl with a sense of adventure-it keeps things interesting. No matter how fun a routine might be, it can get boring eventually. Whether it's taking a cooking class or going skydiving, it's great to be with someone who's open to new things. Dates with my girlfriend can range from trips to the zoo to checking out musicians at a weird, random warehouse party." -Alex R.
6. A Woman Who Let's Me Have Guy Time
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Related: How to Support Your Man
7. A Woman Who Trusts Me
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8. A Strong Woman
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9. A Woman My Friends Like
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Related: Why Your Guy Won't Commit
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12. A Woman Who Supports Me
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I am a firm believer that God puts you where He wants you to be at the time He wants you to be there. With that said, I could never have been a Pioneer Woman.
Nope, couldnt have done it.
I get tired just getting the clothes out of the washer and putting them in the dryer. The idea of having to carry the clothes to the river or stream and then beat them with a rock, I cant even get the hamper downstairs without wheezing and having to get something to eat or drink on the way back. Then it requires sitting in the recliner and watching TV just to rest up for the next load. And its just the two of us!!
I wouldnt have made it on a farm either. I love the animals too much. I would have named all the chickens and cows and whatever else there was and couldnt imagine and dont want to now, the way we would get food on the table.
So thats out. Just to get a Peanut Butter and Cracker with a Coke or Pepsi would have been out the question too. No stores, not much food and there wasnt a whole lot of gas or fuel around so walking would have to be the answer.
Well thats out , and there was no Walmart or Winn Dixie. So couldnt just run to the store and get whatever.
Feeding the animals is a chore now and I just have the 3 dogs and 3 cats. Well and a husband but he isnt an animal. Not always anyway, but if there is just one piece of chocolate left in the house, you better get out of the way. Reminds me of those old Mutual of Omaha shows where Jim was in the woods with the moma bear protecting her young and how she reacted, well, imagine a 50 year old man hunting a Snickers or Reese Cup in the middle of the night......not a pretty sight. Especially if there isnt one.
I thought I had it rough just trying to get the outfit ready for him to go to work and a lunch packed and gas in the car for him to go to and from work. Man, I just wouldnt have made it in the earlier days.
I saw OLD photos this weekend at a local festival we had in Weaver. There was one that struck me and it was a store back in the early 1900s and it was stocked full of fruits and vegetables. The photo was of course in black and white and even then it shows so much detail. I dont know if its my habit of just loving food or what the attraction was but that was my favorite photo of all the ones I displayed on Saturday.
In those days they didnt worry about feeding the dogs a certain brand of food or having one for overweight dogs or ones that had skin allergies and so on. There was no such thing as cat food back then, or at least it wasnt advertised in the photo, the cats lived outside and ate rats and whatever.
So I took a poll and the votes here in this house from the cats, dogs and myself are that we are where we are supposed to be. And we are doing what we are supposed to do, keeping the man of the house full, pretty well happy with life and gas in the car.
No, I would not have made a good Pioneer Woman. So when I complain now because the dryer door wont shut; the hot water heater is leaking; there is a hole in the siding; the lightbulbs are burnt out and I cant reach them, I just take a breath, sit back down in that recliner and think to myself,
Now where is that last piece of Reese Cups hidden?


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Kane officials cheer LPGA tourney for Rich Harvest Farms
By Matt Brennan For The Beacon-News February 26, 2013 6:40PM
Team U.S.A. captain Beth Daniel hoists the Solheim Cup into the air following her team's victory over Europe at Rich Harvest Farm in Sugar Grove in 2009. File photo | Sun-Times Media
Updated: April 1, 2013 7:19AM
Rich Harvest Farms in Sugar Grove will play host to a 2016 LPGA event — and Kane County officials see it as a win for the whole county.
County Board Committee of the Whole members on Tuesday watched a short video on the International Crown tournament, which will feature 32 players from eight different countries over four days.
The event will put the local area in the spotlight, officials said.
"There's a great potential for bringing attention to our county," board Chairman Chris Lauzen said.
Rich Harvest Farms, which was designed and built by Jerry Rich, played host to the 2009 Solheim Cup. That event drew more than 100,000 people over a three-day period.
The course also is the home to the Northern Illinois University golf team.
The first LPGA International Crown will be held in Baltimore Maryland in 2014.


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O'Neill tells local paper he'll be a Raider again
By Jerry McDonald - NFL Writer
Friday, August 28th, 2009 at 3:47 pm in Oakland Raiders.
Chris O'Neill, the tight end who was asked by Al Davis to move inside to linebacker only to waived before camp began, could be in uniform Saturday against New Orleans.
At least that is what O'Neill, a Boise State product, told his local paper.
No word on who will be cut to make room for O'Neill on the 80-man roster.
O'Neill had a tryout with the Minnesota Vikings on Aug. 16. He concedes his future is likely on the practice squad rather than the 53-man roster.
The Raiders are without Kirk Morrison (elbow), Isaiah Ekejiuba (shoulder) and possibly rookie Slade Norris (calf) against New Orleans. O'Neill was learning to play middle linebacker, which is where both Morrison and Ekejiuba play. Ricky Brown's backup in the middle of late has been Sam Williams.
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Trends come and go, but one of the most enduring is the trend of celebrities animal adoption - and boy, did they adopt in 2012. Sure, Kim Kardashian's kitty Mercy might have died young, but these other adopted celeb pets are (thankfully) thriving.
Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield
Things are getting serious between "The Amazing Spider-Man" co-stars Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield: They just adopted a dog together, according to reports.
The pair adopted the 2-year-old golden retriever named Ren from an L.A.-based animal rescue right before Christmas.
"They left and they couldn't stop thinking about her, so they came back for her. And it's true love," a source said of the pooch.
We'll admit it: We're jealous of the pup that gets to hang with Andrew and Emma.
David Arquette
Actor David Arquette needs a high-energy playmate to keep up with him, so he adopted a dog from a Detroit-area shelter in November. The basset hound - now named Dallas - was about to be euthanized at Last Day Dog Rescue when Arquette and girlfriend Christina McLarty swooped in to save him.
"The couple considered several options, but in the end decided that rescuing a dog in need was the best option for them," the rescue said in a press release.
Lauren Conrad
Lauren Conrad took some time out of her busy fashion, crafting and makeup tutorial schedule to adopt a pooch, Fitz, earlier this fall.
"Never go to the animal shelter 'just to look,'" she wrote in October, along with a photo of the adorable puppy. "It never ends that way."
Fitz joins Conrad's other adopted dog, Chloe - and things seem to be going well between the two.
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart
Robert Pattinson and Kristen Stewart already had one adopted dog - Bear - when she decided to adopt another this fall.
"She was very emotionally manipulative. She really milked it," Stewart told Kelly Ripa on "Live! With Kelly and Michael" in November of adopting the new pup, named Bernie. "Then I got her home, and she was like, 'I have arrived.'"
The reason for getting the new dog? Stewart's "obsessed" with rescuing dogs. She has the means to support a bunch of rescue animals, so we say go for it!
Are you planning on adopting a new pet in 2013?
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Sara Cherry, Ph.D.
Associate Professor of Microbiology
Department: Microbiology
Graduate Group Affiliations
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University of Pennsylvania
Department of Microbiology
304K Lynch Laboratories
433 South University Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Department of Microbiology
304K Lynch Laboratories
433 South University Avenue
Philadelphia, PA 19104
Office: 215-746-2384
Fax: 215-746-6697
Fax: 215-746-6697
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B.S. (Chemistry)
U.C. Berkeley, 1994.
Ph.D. (Biology)
B.S. (Chemistry)
U.C. Berkeley, 1994.
Ph.D. (Biology)
Description of Research ExpertiseResearch Interests
Genetic and mechanistic studies of viral-host interactions.
Key words: virus, genomics, RNAi, genetics, Drosophila, innate, immunity.
Description of Research
Research in the Cherry lab is aimed at identifying cellular factors that regulate viral pathogenesis, including both those factors hijacked by viruses for replication and those innate anti-viral mechanisms used by the host to combat the invader. To identify these factors we are taking a genetic approach by screening for factors that impact viral replication. To this end, we are using the model genetic organism Drosophila. This allows us to use a wide-variety of techniques to identify these genes including both high-throughput RNA interference screens in cell culture, and forward genetic screens in animals. Moreover, we are also screening for host factors in human cells using high-throughput RNA interference screening technologies. We are using these approaches to study a number of arthropod-borne RNA viruses, including the flavivirus West Nile virus, the alphavirus Sindbis and the bunyavirus Rift Valley Fever virus. These are the three major families of viruses that are important human pathogens transmitted by mosquitoes to humans. By screening in both hosts- insect and human- we hope to gain a more comprehensive understanding of the host factor requirements of these pathogens. We are currently characterizing the roles of candidate genes already uncovered by using molecular biological and cell biological techniques and have discovered factors involved in viral replication and innate immunity. By combining these methodologies, and using a variety of viruses, we hope to gain a comprehensive understanding of the interplay between the host and pathogen in a complex and dynamic setting. Taking advantage of forward genetics and functional genomics in will allow us to use these unbiased and global methodologies to identify many important and novel host factors that modulate virus-host interactions. Moreover, the more viral-host pairs that we study, the better our understanding of pathways and processes essential to pathogens, and the more equipped we will be to develop anti-viral treatments.
Rotation Projects:
Depending on the interests of the student, there are many possible projects in the areas of viral-host interactions and innate immunity. Students are encouraged to contact Dr. Cherry directly.
Lab personnel:
Terri Moser- CAMB Ph. D. Student
Leah Sabin- CAMB Ph. D. Student
Kaycie Hopkins - IGG Ph. D. Student
Jie Xu- CAMB M.D./Ph. D. Student
Patrick Rose- Postdoctoral Fellow
Sheri Hanna- Postdoctoral Fellow
Tariq Maqbool- Postdoctoral Fellow
Shelly Bambina- Research Technician
Maggie Nakamoto- Research Technician
Tracy Nguyen- Undergraduate Researcher
Luke Swaszek- Undergraduate Researcher
Kendrick Chow- Undergraduate Researcher
Stephanie Kim- Undergraduate Researcher
Veronica Schad- Undergraduate Researcher
Selected PublicationsNakamoto, M., Moy, R., Xu, J., Bambina, S., Yasunaga, A., Shelly, S., Gold, B., and Cherry S.: Virus recognition by Toll-7 activates antiviral autophagy in Drosophila. Immunity(In Press), 2012.
Coyne Carolyn B, Bozym Rebecca, Morosky Stefanie A, Hanna Sheri L, Mukherjee Amitava, Tudor Matthew, Kim Kwang Sik, Cherry Sara: Comparative RNAi screening reveals host factors involved in enterovirus infection of polarized endothelial monolayers. Cell host & microbe 9(1): 70-82, Jan 2011.
Bagashev Asen, Fitzgerald Michael C, Larosa David F, Rose Patrick P, Cherry Sara, Johnson Alfred C, Sullivan Kathleen E: Leucine-rich repeat (in Flightless I) interacting protein-1 regulates a rapid type I interferon response. Journal of interferon & cytokine research : the official journal of the International Society for Interferon and Cytokine Research 30(11): 843-52, Nov 2010.
Moser TS, Jones RG, Thompson CB, Coyne CB, Cherry S.: A kinome RNAi screen identified AMPK as promoting poxvirus entry through the control of actin dynamics. PLoS Pathog. 6(6): e1000954, July 2010.
Bagashev A, Fitzgerald MC, LaRosa DF, Rose PP, Cherry S, Johnson AC and Sullivan KE: Leucin-Rich Repeat (in Flightless I) Interacting Protein-1 Regulates a Rapid type I Interferon Response. J. Interferon and Cytokine Research June 2010.
Bozym Rebecca A, Morosky Stefanie A, Kim Kwang S, Cherry Sara, Coyne Carolyn B: Release of intracellular calcium stores facilitates coxsackievirus entry into polarized endothelial cells. PLoS pathogens 6(10), 2010.
Filone Claire Marie, Hanna Sheri L, Caino M Cecilia, Bambina Shelly, Doms Robert W, Cherry Sara: Rift valley fever virus infection of human cells and insect hosts is promoted by protein kinase C epsilon. PloS one 5(11): e15483, 2010.
Sabin Leah R, Zhou Rui, Gruber Joshua J, Lukinova Nina, Bambina Shelly, Berman Allison, Lau Chi-Kong, Thompson Craig B, Cherry Sara: Ars2 regulates both miRNA- and siRNA- dependent silencing and suppresses RNA virus infection in Drosophila. Cell 138(2): 340-51, Jul 2009.
Gruber Joshua J, Zatechka D Steven, Sabin Leah R, Yong Jeongsik, Lum Julian J, Kong Mei, Zong Wei-Xing, Zhang Zhenxi, Lau Chi-Kong, Rawlings Jason, Cherry Sara, Ihle James N, Dreyfuss Gideon, Thompson Craig B: Ars2 links the nuclear cap-binding complex to RNA interference and cell proliferation. Cell 138(2): 328-39, Jul 2009.
Shelly Spencer, Lukinova Nina, Bambina Shelly, Berman Allison, Cherry Sara: Autophagy is an essential component of Drosophila immunity against vesicular stomatitis virus. Immunity 30(4): 588-98, Apr 2009.
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Instead, Reed pieced together a little bit of its bullpen and earned a series split with an 8-7 come-from-behind home victory.
Reed relievers Kevin Koszuth and Thomas Sertic held the Lancers to one hit while blanking them over the final 3 2-3 innings, allowing the offense to mount a comeback in its final at-bat.
Trailing 7-5, heading into the bottom of the sixth, Reed got one run on a wild pitch in the dirt. With two outs and the bases loaded, McQueen relieved starter Sam Gamboa. Nowaczewski made sure he wasn't saddled with the pitching loss by welcoming reliever Randy Hutton into the game with a go-ahead two-run single to left field.
Sertic took the mound in the seventh and slammed the door with two strikeouts in a 1-2-3 inning for the save.
"I feel comfortable with it (the bullpen). We got a chance to close it with Sertic. It's big because Mark didn't have it," Reed baseball coach John Phenix said. "Those guys stepped up. Kevin kept us right there."
Reed's chances of earning its second league series split didn't look promising early on.
Nowaczewski never got settled. He walked the first batter of the game and that started the first of back-to-back three-run rallies for the Lancers.
Jared Brandstatler followed with a bloop single to shallow center field.
A flyout to center field went for the first out, but the next fly ball would not be contained by the outfield fences.
Nate Gadbsy launched a towering shot down the left-field line that cleared the fence for a three-run homer. McQueen had to settle for the 3-0 lead after stranding two runners following the home run.
The Raiders rallied for a trio of runs to tie it up after the first frame.
Brett Chaney worked his way on with a leadoff walk. Jonathan Pinto laced a single to right field.
After Gamboa recorded two straight strikeouts, a second wild pitch in the inning allowed Chaney to come home.
Back-to-back walks loaded the bases for Brandon Koszuth, who ripped a line drive to first base. Gadsby dove to his right and got a glove on the ball, but he couldn't squeeze it and two runs came around to score when the ball rolled away from him.
The Lancers answered right back with three more runs. Two runs scored on Kody Reynolds' hard one-hopper past shortstop. Reynolds ended up on second after the throw went home.
Gadsby singled through the hole between shortstop and third, putting runners on the corners. Sam Higley doubled down the right-field line, driving in Reynolds for a 6-3 advantage.
Gadsby and Higley both had two hits in their first two at-bats, but went hitless the rest of the contest.
Reed got one back in the bottom half of the second inning without the help of a hit, and got another run in the third off a line drive single up the middle by Tyler Starley with two outs, cutting the deficit to 6-5.
The northwest Reno school extended its lead back up to two, 7-5, on a wild pitch in the top of the fourth. Nowaczewski didn't make it through the inning, working 3 1-3 innings. He gave up seven runs on seven hits. He struck out five, walked four and hit a batter.
Gamboa picked up the hard-luck loss. He allowed eight runs on six hits, but seven walks and two hit batsmen made it a long night. Gamboa finished with seven strikeouts but threw 110 pitches.
Both Nowaczewski and Brandon Koszuth went 2-for-3 at the plate to lead the Raiders.
Reed (6-3, 2-2) opens a D-I North league series at 3:45 p.m. Thursday at Manogue.
"I'll tell you one thing, if we have the opportunity to score, we've got to put the ball in play," Phenix said of the series with the Miners. "We've left some opportunities on the bases, and we can't do that against any team. We were fortunate in a couple situations. We've got to pitch good, get ahead in the count and play good defense. The game is going to be different here compared to out there because of the size of the park. We're going to have to play good defense because they will put the ball in play."


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Four Londoners who played a role in the creation of the Olympic Park have been named in the Queen's Birthday Honours list.
Lorraine Baldry, chairman of the Olympic Delivery Authority's (ODA) planning committee, was made an OBE for services to planning and regeneration.
Jerome Frost, head of design and regeneration for the ODA, was made an OBE for services to regeneration.
Lawrence Waterman, head of health and safety at the ODA, was made an OBE for services to occupational health and safety.
Loraine Martins, formerly head of equality, inclusion, employment and skill at the ODA, was made an MBE.
The ODA is the public body responsible for developing and building the new venues and infrastructure for the Games and their use after 2012.
Sir John Armitt, chairman of the ODA, said: "This is a reflection of the terrific work done by so many people to turn the London 2012 dream into reality – an Olympic Park that will host the world's best athletes this summer, then be transformed into a new district for London, in one of the UK's most deprived areas.
"The stunning sports venues are at the heart of a regeneration project that will leave a legacy for generations to come – all achieved with an impressive health and safety record and involving all sections of the community."
The Sochi 2014 Winter Olympics were declared officially open by Russian president Vladimir Putin at a lavish ceremony in which International Olympic Committee president Thomas Bach called for "goodwill, tolerance, excellence and peace".
A look back at our coverage of the spectacular curtain-raiser to the Games.
A look back at the final seven days of the Torch Relay.
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July 22 - Redbridge to Bexley
July 23 - Lewisham to Wandsworth
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July 25 - Harrow to Haringey
July 26 - Camden to Westminster
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June 09, 2013
Hello Everyone,
I'm going to experiment with a simple blog to record some of my experiences while I'm here in China this month. I've never tried this before, so I'm not sure how well it will work or how often I'll manage to post entries. But it seems, in principle, a good way to keep friends and family informed about what I'm up to here.
There should be a place for readers to add comments below every post. Needless to say, I'd welcome yours!
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I've been in China over a week now, so the stay is beginning to take shape as an "experience." My main reason for being here in Shanghai this month is to teach an intensive graduate course, so I'll begin by saying a few words about that.
The course is organized by a faculty colleague at Michigan in History and Women's Studies. Having grown up in the revolutionary period, during which social divisions based on class and gender were relatively muted, she has been deeply distressed to observe the backsliding of Chinese society in these respects over the past couple of decades.
Newspapers in the US, of course, are full of stories about the widening class divides in China. Urban elites are awash in luxury, while the rural poor seem to left further and further behind. The nominally "communist" allegiances of the ruling party notwithstanding, there is no longer any talk of "class" as a social category: a concept that was so critically important in establishing the Party's early claims to legitimacy now appears threatening. Instead, the ubiquitous propaganda announcements focus on promoting "civilized" behavior and "social harmony."
A similar kind of reversal has occurred with respect to gender. The revolutionary period was characterized, at many points, by a blurring of gender distinctions in dress, employment, and political engagement, among other areas, along with an intensely moralizing puritanism. As if to compensate for the excesses of this regime of enforced androgyny and chastity, there has been a turn in recent years to a much more insistent delineation of gender roles and use of sexuality as a form of power and control. Think Mad Men on steroids.
So in any case, my colleague has been able to get support from a couple of major foundations to promote women's studies in China as a way of fostering, at least within the academy, a degree of critical consciousness about the gendered dimensions of current changes in Chinese society. She uses part of her grant funding to bring over UM colleagues every summer to Fudan University to co-teach an intensive graduate-level seminar on recent scholarship on gender from a variety of disciplinary perspectives.
The participants in the seminar, who come from universities all over China, include MA and PhD students as well as young faculty members. We meet three afternoons each week for three hours at a time, and schedule additional consultations with each student to discuss their individual research projects.
My co-teacher, a quantitative psychologist, has been lecturing on research methods in the psychology of gender: how might one design a study, for example, to determine the degree to which a particular gender stereotype has any basis in reality? My charge is to introduce both canonical and recent cutting edge work in humanistic gender studies, with an emphasis on comparative women's history, masculinity studies, and cultural theory. Some of this, needless to say, is a bit of a stretch for me, which leads me to think I was invited to join the seminar less for my expertise in the field than for my usefulness in demonstrating 1) that the study of gender isn't just for or about women and 2) that it can and should be incorporated as an analytical framework in many different kinds of work.
I amused the students on the first day of class by telling them the story of how my mother, on hearing that I'd studied only male writers in my first semester of college, threatened to withhold my tuition payment if I didn't sign up for a women's studies course the following term. As it happened, books written by both my mother and Biddy Martin, the teacher of the feminist theory course I dutifully took at Cornell that spring, were cited as exemplary contributions to the field in the very first article I assigned for the class!
The course is one of the more challenging I've taught in China owing to the range in background, preparation, and English language ability among the participants. Some of the young faculty, not surprisingly, are fluent in English and super-sharp, leaving me acutely self-conscious of the utter preposterousness of my presuming to lecture on Chinese women's history, as I did last week, to a gathering of Chinese women intellectuals. The MA students face a bit more of a struggle in wrestling with all the long and difficult readings and post-modern theorizing. I can just hope that everyone taking part will find something in the readings and conversations that will help them advance their understanding by a step or two from wherever they happen to be. That's certainly been the case for me so far!
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I realized, before I came, that I'd have a pretty busy schedule here, with nine hours of seminar each week, a commensurate amount of reading and class prep, and then three additional lectures I was invited to give at various venues in Shanghai. So I made a point of carving out two three-day weekends for the kinds of travel adventures that are often my favorite part of being over here. I've just returned safe and sound from the first of these.
On Thursday evening, after class, I set off to the Shanghai train station with a small backpack and a ticket for an overnight train to southern Anhui province. Overnight trains are my favorite form of travel in China. If you can get a "soft sleeper" berth, you can spend eight hours of the trip sleeping to the soft rhythmic clatter and roll of the train, which I always find wonderfully soothing. The sleeper cabins seat four, and their intimacy inevitably leads to friendly conversation among the travelers. It can sometimes be difficult here to establish a foothold in a conversation with a stranger, or at any rate a conversation that goes beyond satisfying curiosity at the spectacle of a big-nosed foreigner speaking with a pronounced Beijing accent. But the usual reserve breaks down in a sleeper compartment. The civil non-engagement that is the norm between seatmates on a plane or bus or subway would seem churlish in such a space, facing each other on bunk beds at the outset of a thirteen-hour journey.
Before boarding the train, I figured I ought to find a bite to eat. The Shanghai station is gigantic, and there must be several dozen restaurants lining the corridors of the main concourse. Finding a simple vegetarian meal turned out to be quite the challenge. Even at the most carnivero-centric fast food joints in the States these days, a hungry Buddhist might expect to find at least a baked potato, salad, or bowl of apple sauce. Here, no. The options were deep fried meat pieces, broiled or barbecued meat pieces, or meat pieces fried in gooey sauce with a token piece of plant. Finally I found a single fast food joint with a single menu item that didn't include meat. The preparation involved topping a scoop of white rice with a scoop of boiled cabbage and the contents of a plastic pouch of stewed mushrooms, which, whatever its shortcomings, at least kept the stomach's growlings at bay. Happily, even the most modern train stations in China still reserve a bay or two in their food halls for sellers of fresh fruit and vegetables, so I was able to stock up on bananas and lychees for a considerably more palatable dessert. Next time I'll remember to eat before I reach the station!
My companions on board the train were a gregarious single guy of about 30, a cheerful, attractive and visibly pregnant woman of about 35, and her 23 year-old son. It didn't take long for the single guy to ask the obvious question about their relationship that had us both scratching our heads: the kid looked too young to be her husband but too old to be her child; we both wondered if he was perhaps a nephew or kid brother. It turns out he was her son; only later in the evening when he stepped out did she explain that she'd adopted him. He used to come by her office to play as a young boy. His family was a mess, and she eventually just took him in. The relationship between them was obviously a deeply loving one on both sides. She was obviously deeply proud of him and he attended to her needs with every consideration.
It turns out she's from a family of porcelain artisans from the famous manufacturing town of Jingdezhen, two hours south of our destination. The family's specialty was the painting of porcelain dishes, a trade that had apparently been kept up during the revolutionary years. Most of the porcelain wares that found their way to England in the 17th and 18th centuries came from that town, and I found myself wondering if her ancestors had had a role in crafting some of them. She invited me to come by to check out the family's operation if I found my way to her city. The next morning, the three of them offered me lots of good advice regarding my travel itinerary and gave me their phone numbers with an invitation to call them if I found myself in a jam. I couldn't have hoped for a kinder send-off as I headed off on to the next leg of my adventure.
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June 12, 2013
It was pouring when the train pulled in to the terminal station, and my new friends advised, not surprisingly, that it might not be the best day to climb a very large mountain. So I found a bus to take me to the Huizhou village of Xidi, a tiny settlement of maybe 150 buildings near the confluence of two rivers. Because the village was home to a large number of very successful salt merchants 500 years ago, the architecture is unusually solid, attractive, and well preserved for a rural area, and the many original homes represent rare surviving examples of Ming dynasty living spaces. The village is still very much alive and well, surrounded by lush fields and occupied by people of all ages going about their business. It has gotten a considerable additional boost from tourism after having been designated a Unesco World Heritage Site ten years ago for its beauty and historical significance.
When I arrived it was still pouring. As is invariably the case, there was a row of souvenir stands attended by local peasant women who were, on that morning, doing a brisk business in "name brand" collapsible umbrellas at what was no doubt a healthy mark-up. A number of visitors were purchasing disposable galoshes as well, and when I entered the village I saw why: the main street was a torrent of rushing water, watched over by residents gamely sweeping gathering puddles away from their front steps with sturdy straw brooms. As there wasn't much to see on my side of the brook, I followed the example of a local who removed his shoes and stepped carefully across the street on the edge of a step that produced a miniature waterfall into the plaza below.
The richly supplied antique shops that lined both sides of the alley on the other side provided welcome refuge from the rain that was still coming down in bucketloads. My favorite shop specialized in what I took to be excavated old pieces of tree root, polished to the smoothness of driftwood and then varnished to a fine sheen, so that they resembled the twisted and contorted rock formations so beloved of the Ming-Qing elite. Some of the neighboring buildings, designated as "protected civilian residences," preserved the original furnishings of the inhabitants from a century or two ago, inevitably including a narrow mantelpiece-like table at the back of the entrance hall bearing an old pendulum clock, a mirror, and a porcelain vase, a list of objects which, owing to the richness of homonyms in Chinese speech, sounds exactly the same as the phrase "life-long peace and security." I later glimpsed these same three talismanic objects through the doorways of very modest homes occupied by very unassuming older couples, suggesting that their arrangement there continues to perform the same function as it did many generations ago. (Mechanical clocks were widely imported from Europe beginning in the eighteenth century; I couldn't find anyone who could tell me whether any comparably resonant and suitably named object had been displaced by its arrival.)
The other feature of these houses that I found fascinating was the painted or inscribed couplets that invariably adorned the paired structural pillars framing the ceremonial entrance hall. The doorways of ordinary houses all over China are (and for a long time have been) adorned with inexpensive red paper scrolls hung vertically on each side of the entrance and offering, in rhythmically parallel and often rhyming lines, an elegant expression of good wishes for the residents and their visitors. The couplets in these merchant homes were unique in that they had been composed by the owners to reflect some distinctive aspect of the family or its outlook and artfully carved or painted directly onto the structure itself. A number of the museum-homes offered books for sale that contained photographs of hundreds of these paired lines, along with transcriptions into modern simplified characters and explanations of their often cryptically compressed or allusive meanings in modern colloquial Chinese.
As someone who spends a good bit of time musing over poetic uses of language, I found myself thoroughly intrigued by this convention of quite literally and very conspicuously framing domestic space between perfectly matched segments of patterned language. Though I'll have to research the practice further, it would suggest that status display and personal individuation within this group operated less through sheer opulence than poetic prowess. There's also the intriguing sense in which certain activities performed within this space would have been understood as somehow contained within the structured poetic (and perhaps ideological) space bracketed by the matching lines of verse. I couldn't help but wonder how these 12- or 14-character couplets, most of which I found difficult to read, compared in both the sentiments they conveyed and the structural sense of balance and closure their form assured to the exquisitely turned couplets of iambic pentameter that characterize the work of Alexander Pope. Pope produced his major works in the early eighteenth century, a time when England's merchant class was enjoying a period of new prosperity that was perhaps comparable in some of its broader social and even cultural effects to the mercantile age that left such remarkable traces in this little village in southern Anhui.
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June 17, 2013
A Women's Bookstore in Shanghai
I had a remarkable conversation today with a woman who has just opened up the first feminist bookstore in Shanghai, and one of the first in all of China. A native Chinese, she got a PhD in Art History from the University of Georgia, then went on to do an MBA at Emory, hoping, as she put it, to find some way of putting her commitment to the humanities into play in a society she recognized as being pretty relentlessly business-oriented.
Her first business foray on her return was in tea retail, but she found that the kinds of personal compromises she was expected to make to get a leg up in this male-dominated (and deeply sexist) business world were more than she was willing to accommodate. So she teamed up with an old classmate recently returned from working on a doctoral program in gender studies in Finland to create a women's bookstore.
The project has been motivated by their very deep frustration with the backsliding they perceive in Chinese society with respect to gender politics. She recounted how when in the US she was asked by her peers whether she worried about that dimension of returning to China to do business, she was blithe in her optimism and, looking back, quite naive. It seems to be a general consensus that with the increasingly feverish repudiation of all remaining relics of "socialist" ideology from the Mao era, there's been a powerful resurrection of "traditional" gender norms, taking the form of rampant sexual harassment, increasing pressure on women to marry, abandon careers, and return to the home, and increasing stigmatization of women who are too smart, successful, or resistant to marriage.
It turns out bookstores can't survive by selling books, as everyone buys them now online. So her bookstore ends up serving as a combination lending library (for paid members), tea house, literary salon, and entrepot for goods produced by women's collectives. She's actively engaged in building up communities of like-minded people on-line and in the local area. The store is not yet profitable, but it's close enough to breaking even that she's been able to hire a helper to free up some of her own time for pursuing outreach, activist, and marketing activities.
She described with considerable frustration the emotional energy she expends on discussing her store and its goals with the many people she encounters, male and female, for whom the very idea of a feminist bookstore seems both alien and threatening. So far she hasn't encountered any explicit "official" resistance to her political activities, but she has seen feminist-oriented twitter posts that she's forwarded deleted within moments by unseen hands.
Much of her start-up funding was crowd-sourced. I told her I thought that were she to extend her crowd-sourcing investment invitations to the US, she would likely find a great deal of support. For anyone interested in learning more or sending along an electronic high-five, the store's website is womentreebook.com; their email address is email@example.com.
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June 21, 2013
I'm in Xiamen for the weekend to have a look around this coastal region of Fujian Province, which was the center of China's maritime trade in the Ming dynasty. Historically, the province has also been the source of much migration both to Taiwan and to the US. I was interested in visiting both because of the region's history and because the city (and university) are supposed to be among China's most attractive.
First stop this morning was a famous mountainside Buddhist temple near the edge of town. The Buddhas here were receving a lot of prayers and seemingly boundless supplies of juicy looking tropical fruits--no wonder they're so fat. A maze of pathways winds up the mountain behind the temple, which of course I had to climb, sweating buckets in the semi-tropical heat and offering bountiful thanks to Buddha that I was not, in this incarnation, a fashionable young Chinese woman, which would have required that I make the climb in absurdly precarious stiletto heels.
At the top there was a pavillion with a welcome breeze and, as is usually the case with Chinese mountains, a snack stand offering boiled eggs, beer, and cold bottles of green tea, the proprietor of which offered some visiting teenage boys who were trying to move one of the benches a stern lecture about the importance of respecting others' property while travelling. The view of the city and harbor below suggested a cross between Hong Kong and San Francisco, though perhaps on a somewhat smaller scale than either one. Lots of butterflies on the mountain, and girls with flowery dresses and wide-brimmed hats.
On the way down, I sat on a rock and watched a young craftsman with wavy black hair and a wispy beard fashion long strips of palm frond into a remarkable array of flowers, snakes and butterflies, using an intricate technique of cutting and folding that reminded me in its impossible topological cleverness of origami and in its delicacy of Chinese paper cutting. He was totally absorbed in his work, and while he responded gruffly to questions posed to passersby, had an air of poised serenity rare in a fellow of his age--perhaps 25 or so. Something of the primal magic of art and artistry revealed itself, I thought, in the dexterity of his fingers and the absorbed attention of his spectators.
Lunch followed in a blissfully air-conditioned vegetarian restaurant in the temple below, where, not making a lot of headway with the printed menu, I pointed to an appealing looking dish among the several illustrations, and wound up with an unusual and quite delicious concoction of mushrooms, beans, mini corn cobs, and pine nuts.
Next stop was the university, which, perhaps tellingly, has a main gate right down the street from the temple. Founded by an overseas Chinese rubber merchant in the early 20c, it is among China's top universities (closely correlated with degree of central gov't support) and without question one of its most beautiful, with stately rows of palms, a broad lake, and a stunning bouquet of varied architectural styles, from brick colonial to Southern Fujian (with characteristically up-turned rooflines) to fancifully post-modern. I had a devil of a time finding the Humanities Building; most people I asked turned out to be tourists, and most of the staff members I found in other buildings seemed never to have heard of it. Finally I asked a student in graduation garb who must have taken an inspiring literature class along the way, as he pointed me on my way with a broad smile.
The Humanities Building commands a fabulous view out over the harbor, and boasts what has got to be one of the classiest tea houses, in an unpretentious sort of way, in town. There are only five or six tables; the large oak table in the center seats eight, who, when the mood is right, can spread out their rice paper along side their teacups and compose poetry with the calligraphy ink and brush set provided in the center of the table.
I had an appointment here with a few humanities faculty who had been introduced by a Xiamen student in the course I'm teaching in Shanghai. Two of them work on Chinese women's literature, and the third on American literature and eco-criticism, which is apparently making a big splash on the Chinese academic scene, coordinated as it is with efforts from philosophy, psychology, and the sciences to try to generate a meaningful societal response to the deepening environmental crisis on the mainland. Most striking to hear from this fellow was the degree to which the Chinese classical tradition (especially Zhuangzi) was being leveraged in support of a modern environmentalist agenda.
I asked the two gender studies scholars whether there was any hope for finding similar leverage within classical culture for a feminist agenda, and they responded, not surprisingly, that they thought not. The reason, however, was not what I expected. Usually people point first to the seeming misogyny of certain Confucian teachings (where women are grouped with children and "low people" as needing instruction from the enlightened (male) junzi class); the chief issue they mentioned, however, was the intractability of the yin-yang hierarchy and its association with gender roles.
Interesting also was their reaction to the feminist activism efforts of the lead teacher of the course I'm doing at Fudan. To some younger feminists, she apparently represents a kind of Maoist old-guard, excessively nostalgic for the revolutionary period and prone to blaming women's woes in modern China on the abandonment of the socialist agenda and encroaching neo-liberalism. From their point of view, neo-liberalism is not an issue. The state, in their view, remains an essentially authoritarian one, and the greatest barrier to women's advancement is its steadfast refusal to permit any kind of political mobilization (such as a real women's movement would represent) outside its immediate control.
Staying tonight on the small island of Gukangyu, reachable only by ferry and blissfully free of internal combustion engines. Labyrinthine alleys and tired old colonial architecture evoke the faded glories of one of China's first treaty ports. The hotel where I'm staying, a sprawling and now slightly decrepid three-storye mansion of eleven bedrooms, used to belong to a single family. The streets narrow streets nearby are full of seafood restaurants whose menus take the form of plastic tubs and aquariums teeming with creatures arranged around the front steps. A few small bars and cafes evoke the sort of expat chic ambience one finds in trendy districts of Beijing, Shanghai, and Taibei, but neither expats nor the young cosmopolitan Chinese crowd that normally patronize such places seemed to be in evidence. In fact I'm the only "old outsider" I've seen on the island today, and I've been a pretty pitiful specimen so far, having wanderered in obviously clueless loops for half an hour trying to find my hotel (which turns out to have neither a sign nor an address marker visible from the street) in the maze of twisting lanes.
And so to bed!
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The Game Killer
Using his custom-made computer programs, James Grosjean goes way beyond card counting in beating casino games generally considered impenetrable
Michael Kaplan
From the Print Edition:
Fred Thompson, March/April 2009
A small-town Holiday Inn is not where you expect to find one of the world's most astute and notorious casino gamblers. But James Grosjean doesn't hustle high-roller suites and comped meals at the steak house. With the money he extracts from casinos, Grosjean can buy his own porterhouse and fries. Right now he sits on the edge of a twin bed, in the small room that he shares with his partner on this trip, a part-time folk singer who's nicknamed Pepper and is known as the world's fastest card counter.
Grosjean is slender, unshaven, dressed in jeans and a hoodie. He looks vaguely Asian, but could also pass for Spanish or Native American. His eyes lock on the screen of a laptop computer running numbers that will help him to strategize against a new game, currently in an introductory phase at a riverboat casino near the Holiday Inn. Common wisdom among casino executives holds that the game is safe from advantage players. Grosjean flew here from his home in Las Vegas, armed with more than $100,000, which is stashed in a crevice above the hotel room's TV, and he intends to prove the casino execs wrong.
The game's rules are simple: Prior to a card being exposed, players bet on the suit it will be. If they guess correctly, the money that can be won increases. It goes that way for four additional steps, until you reach the top tier and can win 25 times your original bet or lose it. Grosjean has devised a counting system for the game, which will let him and his partner raise their bets as the shoe of cards becomes weighted toward a particular suit.
This strategy alone allows them to play at an advantage. But, as is his wont, Grosjean has carved out a few other edges: if he can maneuver himself in a way that permits a peak at burn cards, the game's expected value increases. The deeper the dealer cuts the shoe's eight decks, the more of an advantage Grosjean and Pepper can develop. And there may be an additional side count that will add value to the undertaking.
The game's table is situated in a barely trafficked spot on the lower casino floor. With no other players there at the moment, Grosjean and Pepper mosey over, sit down as if they don't know each other, and buy in. Over the next five hours something happens that the casino could not have expected: two players win a total of $2,600. "The max bet in this game was only $100 and some things went wrong," admits Grosjean. "For example, we can maximize the number of cards we see"—which makes for a more accurate count—"by my betting hearts and Pepper betting diamonds when red is strong overall. We didn't do that. But we will." Refinements fall into place for the second session. Grosjean and Pepper employ several dozen physical signals and verbal cues, confirming counts and sharing information, that go undetected by security. They work their way through a terrible downswing when a shoe that is rich in black-suited cards consumes $9,000 worth of wagers. Trying to be helpful, the dealer advises Pepper to change tack. She tells him, "It's a red shoe"—which is based on the fact that one red card after another has been coming out. Unbeknownst to her, of course, the preponderances of reds makes bets on black cards all the more valuable. After hearing the dealer's suggestion, Grosjean stews and thinks to himself, Lady, you have no idea. The two people at your table know more about this game than anyone else on the planet.
But there are nice surprises as well. Some of the burn cards prove to be identifiable, and a new dealer cuts much deeper than she is supposed to. After the smoke clears, Grosjean and his partner have spent a total of 16 hours winning $17,100 from a game that is designed to be a sucker bet. As Grosjean explains with a shrug, "It's a carnival game, so the casino doesn't take it seriously. But, like a lot of carnival games, this one can be exploited."
A Phi Beta Kappa graduate from Harvard University, with a degree in applied mathematics, 40ish James Grosjean has made it his life's work to win money from casinos. He's outlined some of his strategies in a dense treatise called Beyond Counting, which was published in 2000 and sold out of its first printing by 2003. This year he self-published an updated edition, Exhibit CAA, which sells for around a whopping $250. The title refers to what Beyond Counting was called when used as an exhibit in a court trial that arose from imbroglios between Grosjean, Caesars Palace, Imperial Palace and Griffin Detective Agency. Jurors agreed that the casinos' security guards roughed up Grosjean without justification. The result: a six-figure jury reward against Imperial Palace (currently being appealed to the Nevada Supreme Court), an undisclosed settlement with Caesars and Chapter 11 bankruptcy for Griffin, which remains in business and still specializes in catching cheaters and advantage players for the casinos.
Grosjean's skills are so effective that casino personnel were convinced he was cheating. In reality, he makes it a point to avoid cheating at all costs; Grosjean was merely winning by capitalizing on casino shortcomings. It's something that he has a knack for doing. Though he's reaped his largest cash rewards from blackjack (a game at which some casinos have limits as high as $10,000 per hand), his true passion is uncovering games that casinos view as impenetrable and police poorly. Running the math, and using his custom-made computer programs, he finds cracks that can be profitable (often in spite of low betting limits) and difficult to pick off.
It's a modus operandi that has helped Grosjean and his crew to reap millions of dollars by playing stone-cold sucker games that include baccarat, three-card poker, pai gow poker and single-deck blackjack, which is generally viewed as unprofitable for card counters due to low payouts and limits. In these situations, his biggest concern usually centers around whether he wants to win so much, so quickly, that the casino gets suspicious and ultimately corrects exploitable mistakes. One alternative, of course, is to slowly milk a game, taking smaller amounts per session, but keeping the game alive longer.
When Baccalette was introduced at Sam's Town, a Vegas casino favored by locals, Grosjean and a couple of partners took the former approach. "The game was basically roulette, played with cards dealt out of a shoe," recalls Grosjean. "Baccalette was so obviously beatable that if we didn't kill it, somebody else would have. I remember seeing a guy, standing around the table, watching us destroying the game. I'm pretty sure it was the inventor. He looked sicker by the minute." Grosjean considers this for a beat and emits a burst of mad laughter. Then he adds, "I almost felt sorry for him. Almost."
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David Subpeo — March 2, 2013 10:23pm ET
Very nice article. I was first drawn to Grosjean through reading about his victories in Vegas. I bought Beyond Counting and found it to be a very interesting read. Check out the review:
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