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While Rachel DeWoskin currently resides in Chicago, where she is a faculty member in the Creative Writing Department at the University of Chicago, she returns to China every year and considers Beijing a second home.
Asian Jewish Life sat down with Rachel DeWoskin to learn more about her ongoing relationship with China, her forthcoming novels and screenplay, and her interest in exploring Judaism -- including in Asia -- through her writing.
Asian Jewish Life (AJL): Your memoir Foreign Babes in Beijing introduced you to American audiences as Jiexi, the young American who moves to Beijing in the mid-1990s. When you were writing that memoir, what did it feel like to relive your days as a Chinese television star?
Rachel DeWoskin (RD): Hilarious! The only excruciating thing about writing Foreign Babes in Beijing was revisiting the death of one of my close friends in Beijing in a drunk driving accident. I was of course sick with guilt and misery when he died, and remembering how young and oblivious we were was more painful than I'd anticipated it would be. In a way, "youth" provides an excuse for our most egregious mistakes, but being an adult also gives me a lens through which to calibrate the horrific tragedy and loss of his life. It's difficult and fraught to re-evaluate the ways you've behaved in both your own life and in someone else's culture. But it's also important, and I felt like if I was going to tell my friends' stories in Foreign Babes in Beijing, it was important to ask difficult questions about my own story as well.
The tale of Foreign Babes in Beijing itself I had more or less come to terms with. And frankly the ludicrousness of both the show and the experience made that part easier to write. I had to re-watch the show in order to write the book, since I had only watched it when it was on Beijing TV. In those days, I thought it was possible that I would never recover from the embarrassment. But watching it again almost ten years later, I enjoyed it wildly and found it incredibly funny. Thank you, distance.
AJL: Do people in China still recognize you from the TV series Foreign Babes in Beijing?
RD: Sometimes. But only old people in Beijing and when they do, they're very funny about it. I'll have an interaction at the Ghost Market, and at the end of it someone will say, "Thanks Jiexi." No one is in a frenzy about it, and most young people have never heard of it.
AJL: Could you talk about what you've been working on recently?
RD: While I was [in residency in Shanghai 2011], I was staying in the Embankment Building, an iconic, fabulous mix of urban and old-school Shanghai, next to Suzhou Creek, across from Pudong and lined with tiny automotive shops.
My neighbors were a terrific mix of Shanghai-ers, from retired government officials in their late 80s, to yuppies, business owners, teachers, and children.
I was inspired to write a novel set there, called Beautiful Girls Club Shanghai, about three generations of Chinese women who live in the building, as well as an American women married to a Chinese reporter. It's about family, identity, corruption and love. And like all my books, it's about people trying to figure out who they are across big distances – linguistic, cultural, and in some cases generational and geographical as well.
I also have a new novel forthcoming this year from Viking Penguin, called Blind. It's about a young woman who loses her eyesight and has to reconfigure how to make meaning in the world, how she'll see, really.
Blind is not China related, but, It's still concerned with my favorite central questions: of sameness and difference. I leaned Braille in order to write the book, and that was the most imagination bending experience I've had since learning Chinese.
I'm also at work on a second novel set in Shanghai, which I'm calling Second Circus. It's about a father and daughter who escape to Shanghai from Poland in 1941, and wait out the war in Japanese occupied Shanghai. I was in Shanghai this summer, and Patrick Cranley, a fabulous and generous historian, took me on a tour of the former Jewish ghetto of Hongkou, which remains in some ways staggeringly unchanged.
AJL: How often do you get back to China?
RD: At least every summer, sometimes more. Now that we have kids, it tends to be once a year, so we have enough time to recover from jet lag, take bullet trains and bamboo boats, and make a long stay of it.
AJL: So you're exposing your kids to Chinese culture and the language. Are they taking classes in China?
RD: They take Chinese in the summers. Dalin's first Chinese sentence was "Bao bukeyi chi ren," "Cougars can't eat people." She loves animals. And they learned to sing "Liang Zhi Laohu" before they learned "Are You Sleeping." I'm proud of that.
My kids have a funny way of thinking about culture and ethnicity. When I met Dalin's assistant kindergarten teacher, she was surprised, and she said, "Oh! It's nice to meet you. But Dalin told me you were Chinese." So I asked Dalin that night whether she'd told the teacher I was Chinese, and she glanced up at me shrugging and said, "yeah," and I realized she thinks I'm Chinese.
And I didn't contradict that idea, because I thought about it and decided that her way of dividing the world up is based on variables not entirely external.
They're about how you identify in the world and where you like to spend your time and what kind of food is your default dinner plan. Ours is Chinese. Little kids are smart about important things.
Human beings have a compulsion to organize material. We organize, we like to categorize. When it comes to people, we defy categorization, so it's a dangerous business. One of the things I decided when I was writing Foreign Babes in Beijing was that you can't really be a writer and try to answer questions, because you become a propagandist. If you're looking for simple categorizations — or what I think of as, "sum-it-up-dom" — when you try to take some issue and make some unambiguous moral end to it, you become an ideologue and your work isn't art, it's propaganda. So the writer's project is more about unpacking or complicating, asking questions from all sorts of different angles. And for me those questions tend to be more about culture, Judaism (as I get older and older), gender, language, and difference -- as in how are you the same as everybody else and how are you different.
When I was a kid, being Jewish set me apart from everyone in my, very Christian, very Republican primary school. We lived in a neighborhood in which my parents were freaks. My dad is a Sinologist who fixes cars in the driveway and built our television set from a heath kit. He's an Ozarkian Jew from Missouri and a classical Chinese scholar and my mom is a dancer and an English teacher and an absolute firecracker of a person. We never boasted any kind of shiny normalcy, even though like most kids I wanted more than anything to be "normal". There were no other Jews for a million miles around. And at my primary school, my parents famously —and this is in Blind, I put this straight in my new novel — my parents complained that we were singing "Christ in a manger is born" at the holiday sing-along, and they complained about the Christmas tree. They felt church and state should be divided and it was inappropriate and they suggested that it alienated some of the kids (meaning me). The school, in its well-meaning way, added "Dreidel, Dreidel" to the holiday roster, entirely missing (or ignoring) my parents' point. So when the holiday sing-along came along, everyone was singing. And then they started "Dreidel, Dreidel" and I burst into song before realizing no one else knew it or was singing. I sang the whole thing alone.
AJL: Do you actively seek to explore Jewish identity in your books?
RD: Most of my characters turn out to be Jewish in the same way that I am. Emma Sasha Silver, the protagonist of Blind — who my sweet daughters think of as a real person — is Jewish. Her family has Friday night dinners and her parents think about the world in a way similar to the way in which my parents think about the world. And of course Liese, the protagonist of Second Circus, is a Jewish young woman escaping from Poland.
AJL: Do you think there is an increased awareness of Judaism in China?
RD: I think there's generally an increased awareness of all things foreign in China. I'd say there's more familiarity and camaraderie between Chinese and expatriates.
In the 1990's, there was deep curiosity on both sides. Foreign Babes in Beijing, the TV show, was an apt expression of that curiosity. It's a little muddled and gawking, and I'd say that now it's got more nuance and subtlety. There's no need for a show like Foreign Babes anymore.
I've always found Chinese people to be unbelievably welcoming of foreigners and Jews in particular. I've never said to a person "I'm a Jew" without applause or a warm response along the lines of, "Chinese and Jews are so similar, we care about family and education, and we're great at making money." Not always accurate descriptions of entire groups of people, but the feeling behind these responses is always one of connection and warmth and the connection between us has real depth. Researching that for Second Circus has been not only inspiring, but also reassuring.
Writer and founder of the award winning blog Speaking of China, Jocelyn Eikenburg is one of the most prominent voices on the web for Chinese men and Western women in love. She draws on her own marriage to a Hangzhou native to explore love, family and relationships in China through her writing. Her writing credits include Matador, the Global Times and the Idaho State Journal.
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Reiko and Mary are characters from Chun-Li ni makase China. They are normal women without fighting skills and friends of Chun-Li.
Reiko (レイコ?) is a bike racer with a bright red racing suit and an unyielding personality. A few years before Chun-Li ni makase China, by chance she had the opportunity to cooperate with Chun-Li to solve the kidnapping incident involving Mary, solving the case. Since then, they became good friends and keep in touch.
Mary (メアリー Mearī?) is a woman that was once rescued by Chun-Li when she was kidnapped in Hong Kong. She has a very gentle demeanor and likes to read mystery novels while on a bench in the park. She has great memory and insight, and in the future she wants to serve an intelligence agency.
- Reiko's outfit bares a striking resemblance to that of fellow Capcom character Desirée DeLite, from the third Ace Attorney game. It's unknown if this is truly a reference or pure coincidence.


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The sun's final glare lit the sky with a scorching orange streak, then started to fade, changing to a dull pink before disappearing altogether. The only sound was the lapping of waves, and the cry of a small gull as it took flight and vanished beyond the dunes.
The bitter wind blew small tornadoes of sand down the beach and around the girl. A single tear rolled down her face as she watched the stars dance around each other. She wrapped her jacket around more tightly and rubbed her bare legs, then jumped up and started to run down the empty beach. The mass of sand enveloped her and it all became too much, blurring, spinning into one big picture of white light. In the sudden brightness, the girl saw the truck, coming towards her, not able to slow down, not able to stop. It's loud horn pierced the night, masking her own terrified scream, and then there was nothing.
Caitlin has lost more than just Tahlia. She's lost support, encouragement and love.
She's lost her best friend. And she's lost herself.
A heartwarming story of friendship and the daily trials of teenage life.
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5×8 in, 13×20 cm
156 Pages
- Publish Date Oct 26, 2009
- Tags car accident, high school, New Zealand, Young Adults, teenagers, friendships, relationships, boyfriend, girlfriend, teacher, Youth
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Hours after making five signings, General Manager David Poile and head coach Barry Trotz held a press conference at Bridgestone Arena to discuss the latest moves. Said Poile: "We have never been this active on the first day of free agency, signing five players."
Poile on his offseason goals: In my game plan, I set the following objectives. First was to re-sign Patric Hornqvist and Roman Josi—and we have them signed to long term deals. Second, was to get a top six forward to replace Martin Erat—and I believe we did that with the additions of Matt Cullen and Viktor Stalberg, as well as Filip Forsberg. We wanted to add a top 4 defenseman—and we did that by selecting a possible elite young defenseman, Seth Jones, in the amateur draft last week. We needed a backup goaltender—and we believe Carter Hutton is the young man to do that. And more important, we wanted regain our identity of Predators hockey. When I mean that, I mean signing some character players who are tough to play against—and we did that adding Matt Hendricks and Eric Nystrom."
Poile on Matt Cullen: "As a player, I know him very well from a lot of years from some of the teams I've put together for USA Hockey. He's played over 1000 NHL games and has won a Stanley Cup. [He is a] great character player, who is really good in the shootouts. In terms of our center ice with Cullen, Fisher, Leggy and Goose, that may be as good as a center ice as we've ever had."
Poile on Viktor Stalberg: "The Chicago Blackhawks possibly have the best forwards in the NHL. He had a hard time cracking the top two lines in Chicago, but in Nashville, he'll be given the chance to realize his potential. He's got size, speed and we believe he has unrealized offensive potential."
Poile on Matt Hendricks and Eric Nystrom: "We got very experienced players, leadership guys, guys that play hard all the time, know how to win and support their teams. They know what it is all about. They were very necessary components moving forward if we wanted to be successful, especially with some of the younger players we're putting on our team."
Poile on Carter Hutton: "We've gotten to see him many, many times in the AHL. It was like Milwaukee and Rockford played each other every other game. He just kept on beating us, beating us and beating us. We've gone through a lot of work with Mitch Korn and [Hutton] was obviously the guy we wanted to sign.
Trotz on the moves: "I really liked what we did today. We really addressed our needs. We were very specific in terms of the types of players we wanted. We very specific in the guys we wanted and we went out and got them. One thing we want to do is we want to win. Last year was a difficult year for us, it wasn't our year. There were a number of factors and we just didn't get it done. And when turnaround few months later and look at our roster, we really addressed our needs.
Trotz on grit: "I wasn't too happy last year at times, especially when certain people went down. There wasn't an entertainment tax at Bridgestone Arena and I think we addressed those needs. There is going to be an entertainment tax. If you're the visiting team, it will be a little harder to come in here and that's what we want. It's not only for the fans, our team, but also our organization, culture and also for the development of the young guys," … "We've gotten bigger, faster and we have a little bit of our swagger back."
Poile on the new interview period: "It allowed us to talk to a lot of different players. We brought in Carter Hutton and Matt Hendricks into town yesterday and I think the value of having a player see your city and meet the organization and interview one-on-one versus a formal conversation helps getting it over the hump, in terms of getting a player to sign here whether it is a fit for him or a fit for you. It's been a hard process for the number of hours we put in, but it accomplished exactly what we were trying to accomplish."
When asked why people should be confident the goals are going to come, Poile said: "I think Matt Cullen, right away, is going to help our center ice. With all due respect, I think our scoring came from the hands of Leggy and Fisher for the last couple years in terms of generated offense from the first couple lines. I think Barry has the opportunity now with at least three lines to generate more offense. And I think we'll get some really good offensive play out of Matt Cullen.
"On Stalberg, that's a hockey decision. He's shown flashes of it with Chicago. He has everything you want—size, skating, he has the hands, he can score goals. But we have a tough time getting ahead of Toews, Hossa, Kane and Sharp. With all due respect, our forwards aren't as dynamic as that. Stalberg is going to be given every chance to do that."
Trotz on Cullen (and Sergei Kostitsyn): "I think he took 200, or some-odd, shots last season. That's a lot more than Sergei Kostitsyn and [he] is a good player, but we recognized the value of the center ice position."
Trotz on if adding so many veterans would slow down path to the NHL for the young guys: "I think you've enhanced it. I think you create competition. Some of the young guys are going to push some of the old guys to being on the team. When [the young guys] are ready, we'll be able to put them on the team.
- Hal Gill's contract has been bought out and is a UFA.
- Sergei Kostitsyn cleared waivers and has signed with Avangard Omsk in the KHL. His contract has been terminated and is a UFA.
- Want to listen to the players' conference calls? 102.5 The Game has the Matt Cullen, Matt Hendricks and Eric Nystrom conference calls posted here.
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Some exciting new acquisitions for TRC collection
In complete contrast, Pepin van Roojen of Pepin Press (Amsterdam) has donated a collection of textiles and garments that include Islamic fashion, Chinese clothes, as well as, yes, cowgirl outfits and garments from the USA. The latter are especially welcome as they will help to build up our North American collection. We are going to create various digital exhibitions about these items.
As part of the Pepin donation there was also a large number of old postcards that are going to be scanned and put online for all to enjoy. These include Dutch costumes as well as many from the Middle East. In addition, there are a number of swatch books (from the USA, France and The Netherlands) as well as hundreds (literally) of textile samples dating to the 20th century, which were the property of an art expert in Paris, who worked with various Parisian fashion houses. Many of these samples are printed and represent typical and atypical textiles from the 20th century European/Western fashion market.
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Home to pretty treasures, Macheng is China's best kept secret. After your splendid visit to Macheng, you can proceed to an important near-by city of Wuhan. Wuhan, is a worth visiting city owing to its prime attractions like Yellow Crane Tower, East Lake In Wuhan, Hubei Provincial Museum. A vacation to Macheng can typically be of 1-2 days. Immerse in the spirit of the city and you'll not miss your home.
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The TV Column: Lisa de Moraes on Levi Johnston and Sarah Palin
Levi's re-loading!
Levi Johnston, Sarah Palin's grandbaby-daddy and the bane of her existence, is pitching his own docu-series in which he will introduce viewers to Alaska.
The news comes just days after Discovery Networks announced that its TLC network would air "Sarah Palin's Alaska" in which she will introduce us to Alaska.
Yes, TV is about to erupt in warring Palin-clan docu-series. Life could not get better.
"If I could wave my magic wand, I would want it to premiere at the exact same hour, minute and second as Sarah Palin's does," Stuart Krasnow, the executive producer of Levi's series, told The TV Column.
Levi's show, tentatively titled "Levi Johnston's Final Frontier," is " 'Jersey Shore' on ice," Krasnow said.
Bring on the tanning beds and Snooki-pouffs!
Levi and his pals "put jet fuel in their snowmobiles -- they trick them out," the producer said. "They drive Ford pickups. They don't go on the Internet often. That's what we're interested in about him."
Levi, who was foisted upon an unsuspecting public during the 2008 presidential campaign as the fiance of then-pregnant Bristol Palin, was seen around Los Angeles on Monday in an RV that had been gussied up to have "a party-bus kind of feel to it," Krasnow says.
The aspiring reality TV star and his party-mobile were making stops at various cable networks' offices to pitch a series that Krasnow hopes will be around eight episodes -- just like Palin's.
Monday afternoon, the Johnston party wagon was parked outside MTV Networks' offices in Santa Monica.
Krasnow, whose credits include "The Weakest Link," would not confirm what other, non-MTV, networks were being pitched, other than to say they were all networks that target "younger-skewing networks" -- networks that attract "the type [of viewer] that would not watch TLC or Discovery."


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So many women have asked the question: What do the letters on foundations mean? The labels "N", "C" and "W" can help you accurately choose your best shade based on the color that sits under your skin. You know, your undertone. Here's all you need to know.
What do these letters stand for?
These letters are here to help you choose the best foundation that matches your undertone. "N" stands for a Neutral undertone. "W" stands for a warm undertone. "C" stands for a cool undertone.
What is my undertone?
To find your undertone, you can study your veins, pay attention to which colors look best on you or have a professional help you out.
-If your veins are more of a green color, you have a warm undertone. If they're more of a blue color, you have a cool undertone. If it looks like you have both green and blue veins, then you have a neutral undertone.
-If you look better in colors like blue, white, or red, you more than likely have a cool undertone.
-If you look better in greens, oranges or browns, you probably have a warm undertone.
-Think about the jewelry you like as well. If silver pops on your complexion, you more than likely have a cool undertone. If you prefer gold, then you may have a warm undertone.
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Jolly Green Giant Cheat: Take a pill and transform into a monstrous creature, the size of a skyscraper. You could stomp across the city pounding buildings while earning an instant six-star rating! You could grab helicopters from mid air, stomp on humans and police cars, and destroy buildings, setting fires, causing mass destruction!
Flying Missions: We would love to see more airplane missions.
Multiplayer Offline: Players could split into teams, cops and robbers, and vie against one another in a two- or four-player split-screen mode. You could also go into missions playing cooperatively.
Online Games: There are dozens of good ideas for this, but just for starters, wouldn't it be cool to take on the role of a gang leader and lead a gang fight online? Other online games could include racecar events, full-on deathmatches, capture the flag, and more. You could use military vehicles to fight in online, such as head to head tank battles!
Customize Online Game: Taking hints from Goldeneye, Unreal and Halo, players could customize each online game with different kinds of weapons, vehicles, clothes, time settings, etc.
Casino and video mini-games: You saw the Degenatron in GTA: Vice City, but wouldn't it be cool if you could play that game and others in the game itself? And, like we said before, you could go to a casino and bet money, play slot machines, and or play other games.
More Random Stuff: We would love to be able to go into museums, flea markets, theaters, fire houses, and the like and use items and weapons from them in missions. Like, for instance, wouldn't it be awesome if you could steal an ancient artifact like a massive axe or sword from and museum and use it? Or sneak into a military compound and steal a secret test weapon?
Better Visual Representation of your Earnings: We would love to see all of the earned goods presented in a more visual fashion. For instance, all the cars your have stolen could be shown in an interactive book that shows all of the models you've collected. You could interact with a vault where your money is, and see the money from the compound you're in. Or you could see the houses and apartments you've bought, missions you've played, or whatever in a menu system that represented them with thumbnail pictures.
Save Anywhere: After any mission you could save anywhere using a cell phone; this would enable you to go nuts after any mission without worrying about visiting another HQ and getting killed before you reach it.
Entirely Differing Cities It would be great if there were more variety between cities. GTA3 delivered more variation in the cities, and the variation was excellent. There were more slopes, hills and different kinds of terrain. Bringing that idea even further, you could fly a plane to different cities, like the Swiss Alps, Columbia, or Mexico, and each possibility could open up the opportunity for different cars, terrain, people, structures, and missions. What's more is that since you could then go to an airport and take a plane, Rockstar would have the perfect chance to add on mission packs to anywhere in the world!
More Wanted Levels: We would love to see more wanted levels. Three to be exact. That way, after 100 hours and your skill very having reached a new high level, you would have this nearly impossible goal to reach. But you know that somebody would reach it! Also, that way, during some of those really long chases you could create an even more tense set of military scenarios.
That's our wish list for now, folks, and yes, it or more than 25 ideas. Please contribute your own ideas to the IGN boards whenever you feel like it.


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Nageswara Rao, R.C.N. and Nigam, S.N. (2003) Genetic Options for Drought Management in Groundnut. In: Management of Agricultural Drought - Agronomic and Genetic Options. Science Publishers, Inc, pp. 123-141.
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Groundnut is one of the principal oilseeds in the world. It is cultivated on 24.8 million ha with a total production of 32.8 million t and an average productivity of 1.32 t ha-'. Developing countries account for 96.9% of the world groundnut area and 93.8% of total production. Production is concentrated in Asia (56.8% area and 66.5% production of the world) and Africa (38.0% area and 24.7% production). The groundnut productivity in Africa is only 0.86 t ha-' compared with 1.55 t hx1 of Asia. The world groundnut economy-facts, trends and outlook are desaibed in detail by Freeman et al., 1999.
Briefly, in medium-term (i.e. up to 2010), 'groundnut production and consumption is likely to shift increasingly to developing countries; production will grow in all regions but most rapidly in Asia, slowly in sub-Saharan Africa and decline in Latin America; and utilizationwill continue to shift away from groundnut oil toward groundnut meal, specially confectionery products'.
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By Seth Livingstone, USA TODAY
So, the Pirates got blasted by the Yankees in Pittsburgh last night 10-0.
The Pirates looked like geniuses in Omaha, where left-hander Justin Wilson was dealing for eight innings and Steve Detwiler was going on a one-man offensive rampage to lead the Fresno State underdogs to the College World Series title with a 6-1 victory against Georgia.
Wilson, Pittsburgh's fifth-round draft choice, struck out nine and allowed five hits, pitching on three days' rest. One reason the Pirates came away with Wilson in the draft is that they were busy scouting his teammate, right-hander Tanner Scheppers, whom they selected in the second round despite a shoulder fracture.
Detwiler, who homered twice, went 4-for-4 and drove in all six runs, was a 40th-round pick of the Astros coming out of high school in Forest Knoll, Calif,. in 2006.
Not a pretty scene
The Astros indefinitely suspended pitcher Shawn Chacon for insubordination after he allegedly grabbed general manager Ed Wade by the neck and threw him to the ground.
Chacon, who had been demoted to the bullpen last weekend, and had asked to be traded, told the Houston Chronicle that the incident escalated after an altercation in the team dining area. Wade reportedly wanted to meet with Chacon in manager Cecil Cooper's office. Chacon said the meeting could take place on the spot.
After a yelling match ensued, Chacon told the Chronicle: I lost my cool and I grabbed him by the neck and threw him to the ground. I jumped on top of him. Words were exchanged."
Astros owner Drayton McLane told the Chronicle that Chacon is done in Houston. Chacon, who set a big league record with no-decisions in nine straight starts to open this season, is 2-3 with a 5.04 ERA in 15 games.
Mighty have fallen
Last October, the Cleveland Indians gave the Red Sox all they could handle in the ALCS and the Colorado Rockies were unstoppable on their way to the World Series.
Now, both teams are in last place.
Cleveland's 4-1 loss to San Francisco coupled with Kansas City's 4-1 victory against the Rockies relegated the Indians to the AL Central cellar at 35-43. It's the latest in the season the Indians have been in last place since June 25, 1993, when they were seventh in the AL East.
Last night, Cleveland was stifled by Barry Zito, who improved to 3-11 with a 5.91 ERA this season. "That's the Zito we know," said Giants manager Bruce Bochy after his left-hander permitted four hits and one run in 6 2/3 innings.
Meanwhile, Colorado native Luke Hochevar went eight innings for the first time, giving up seven hits and two runs against the free-falling Rockies. Joakim Soria notched his 21st save as Kansas City, 12-3 in interleague play, beat Aaron Cook (10-5) to complete the three-game sweep and drop Colorado 15 games under .500. In the NL, only the Nationals (31) have won fewer games than Colorado (32).
Battle for the aged
Orioles color man Fred Manfra suggested that although last night's game between the Red Sox and Diamondbacks was played at Fenway Park, it was better-suited for Jurassic Park.
Tim Wakefield, 41, pitched seven innings of two-hit ball to beat Randy Johnson, 44, in Boston's 5-0 victory.
According to the Elias Sports Bureau, not since Satchel Paige made a one-game comeback at age 59 and opposed 29-year-old Bill Monboquette at Fenway in 1965 had two pitchers with a combined older age opposed each other in a Red Sox game. It was the first matchup of over-40 starters since Curt Schilling, 40, opposed Roger Clemens, 45, last September at Fenway.
Boston took two of three in the battle of division leaders, but when it came to the sibling rivalry, it's not the way either team "Drew" it up. Arizona shortstop Stephen Drew (0-for-13, five strikeouts) and Boston outfielder J.D. Drew (0-for-7) combined to go 0-for-20 in the series. J.D. sat out last night's game.
Updated recognition
Forty-six years after his induction and 36 years after his death at age 53, Jackie Robinson received a new plaque at the Baseball Hall of Fame, recognizing his cultural impact on the game and country as the first black player in the majors.
"A very important part of Jack's life has been acknowledged today in a more total way," said his wife, Rachel Robinson, 86,
The new plaque adds "Jackie" under Robinson's name (Jack Roosevelt Robinson) and begins with: "A player of extraordinary ability renowned for his electrifying style of play. Over 10 seasons hit .311, scored more than 100 runs six times, named to six All-Star teams and led Brooklyn to six pennants and its only World Series title, in 1955. The 1947 Rookie of the Year, and the 1949 N.L. MVP when he hit a league-best .342 with 37 steals. Led second basemen in double plays four times and stole home 19 times."
The final sentence reads: "Displayed tremendous courage and poise in 1947 when he integrated the modern major leagues in the face of intense adversity."
Stadium on hold
Last November, the Tampa Bay Rays showed off plans for a 34,000-seat waterfront stadium in downtown St. Petersburg to replace Tropicana Field.
Yesterday, they announced the formation of a coalition of political and business leaders, hoping to find ways to broaden support for the project. In doing so yesterday, the team also withdrew a proposal to have a public vote on the plan to build the $450 million stadium.
"There has not been sufficient support for the timeline that we put forth that would have resulted in a November referendum," team president Matt Silverman said. "One important thing that this dialogue has confirmed to us is that projects of this magnitude can not be built alone. It takes an entire region to support a major league baseball team, and it takes community vision and leadership to build a ballpark. It must be a process that brings people together."
Off the field
David Ortiz said he is weeks away from playing after testing his injured left wrist by taking 25 soft swings off a batting tee. … The Mets claimed former Yankees infielder Andy Phillips on waivers from Cincinnati. … The Tigers put Brandon Inge on the 15-day DL (pulled side muscle), called up catcher Dane Sardinha and traded right-hander Denny Bautista (0-1, 3.32 in 16 games) to the Pirates for minor league pitcher Kyle Pearson. … The Dodgers put reliever Scott Proctor on the DL (elbow).
Two-homer stars
After getting Tuesday night off, David Wright came back with two homers in the Mets 8-2 victory against Seattle. …Carl Crawford homered twice in Tampa Bay's 15-3 thrashing of Florida. … Baltimore's Jay Payton homered twice but it wasn't enough as the Cubs, with a homer from Jim Edmonds, won 7-4 for their 15th win in the last 16 games at Wrigley. …Rick Ankiel homered twice for St. Louis, but Gary Sheffield drove in the deciding run in the ninth inning of Detroit's 8-7 victory.
More hitting standouts
Aaron Boone became the fourth member of his family to collect 1,000 hits, joining grandfather Ray (1,260), father Bob (1,838) and brother Bret (1,775) as Washington slowed the streaking Angels 5-4. Jesus Flores was 0-for-4 with three strikeouts before singling home the winning run in the bottom of the ninth. … Catcher Max Ramirez picked up his first two big-league hits for Texas and the second was a game-winning two-run homer in a 3-2 victory against Houston. …Ken Griffey Jr. hit his 602nd home run but it was Jay Bruce's 10th-inning sacrifice fly that lifted the Reds to a 6-5 victory against the Blue Jays. …Brendan Harris and Craig Monroe homered as Minnesota beat San Diego 9-3 and extended Greg Maddux' winless streak to nine starts. …Kelly Johnson had three RBI in Atlanta's 4-2 victory against Milwaukee.
Shutout hurlers
Joba Chamberlain gave up six hits and struck out seven over 6 2/3 innings in the Yankees' 10-0 whitewash of Pittsburgh. …Kyle Kendrick went eight innings for the first time in his career as the Phillies blanked Oakland 4-0 to end a six-game losing streak. Kendrick was backed by Chase Utley who went 4-for-5 in Charlie Manuel's revised batting order that had him hitting second in front of Jimmy Rollins. … Lefty Eric Stults pitched a four-hit shutout — the first complete game of his career and just the second for the Dodgers this season — as L.A. defeated the White Sox 5-0.
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Dear Jeffrey Loria: Quit Acting Like a D-Bag and Leave Fredi Alone
Somewhere in a New York penthouse right now, Jeffrey Loria is angrily straightening a Picasso on his wall, swigging a vintage Chianti, and cursing loudly.
Why wouldn't you fire the best manager in baseball?
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His Marlins have missed the playoffs yet again. And Loria has decided it must be his manager's fault.
Loria's front office leaked his fury all over the Miami Herald this morning, making it very clear Fredi Gonzalez's job is in danger. "We set out each year to make the playoffs and we didn't make it this year, which is something we wanted to do," Marlins president David Samson tells the Herald.
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But you got all pissy and canned him. If you haven't noticed, he's not doing too bad for himself running some franchise up North.
Guess what? Now you have Fredi Gonzalez -- the best manager in Major League Baseball. Yeah, we said it. And we've got the mathematics to prove it.
In a sport with such a huge gap between the haves and have-nots (the left side of Girardi's infield makes more than the Marlins' whole roster, for instance), there's one simple way to grade out how much owners are getting for their money.
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If you don't think Fredi is an outstanding manager, just check out out the numbers below. Loria spent -- by far -- the fewest dollars per win of any owner in Major League Baseball. Fredi Gonzalez, in other words, eked out the most wins with the least resources in the game.
But hey, it must be Fredi's fault!
Before we get to the numbers, Riptide needs to take a moment of self-congratulations. In February, we wrote a season preview for the Marlins.
We made a bold prediction: Despite top guides such as Baseball Prospectus putting the Fish in the cellar, we guessed they'd be decent, and picked their final record at 87-74. (We guessed there'd be at least one rainout that didn't get made up.)
Their final record? 87-75. Ahem. (Wiping dirt off our shoulder...)
OK, the numbers. Remember, this is the dollars in team salary spent per win this year:
1. Yankees, $1.955 million
2. Mets, $1.939 million
3. Cubs, $1.62 million
4. Astros, $1.391 million
5. Tigers, $1.33 million
6. Red Sox, $1.291 million
7. Indians, $1.265 million
8. White Sox, $1.216 million
9. Phillies, $1.215 million
10. Angels, $1.172 million
11. Braves, $1.124 million
12. Mariners, $1.116 million
13. Royals, $1.090 million
14. Blue Jays, $1.079 million
15. Dodgers, $1.057 million
16. D-Backs, $1.051 million
17. Orioles, $1.048 million
18. Nationals, $1.005 million
19. Cardinals, $972,835
20. Giants, $933,364
21. Brewers, $923,212
22. Reds, $909,846
23. Oakland, $830,800
24. Rockies, $817,402
25. Rangers, $789,034
26. Pirates, $786,177
27. Twins, $759,290
28. Rays, $753,726
29. Padres, $570,613
30. Marlins, $423,149
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Bridgetown: With the number of doubtful umpiring decisions on the ascent, just past the half-way stage of the five-Test series, both India and West Indies have expressed their disappointment over the repeated blunders by the men in long white coats.
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This colorful molded torte serves a crowd, looks quite elegant on the hors d'oeuvres table, and is easier to make than it looks. Make a day ahead to let set, unmold about an hour before serving with crackers.
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Calories 90 calories; Protein 2 grams; Fat 9 grams; Sodium 160 milligrams; Cholesterol 25 milligrams; Saturated Fat 6 grams; Carbohydrates 1 grams
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He approached each assignment, and each client, with an open mind and commitment to a high level of performance. He learned to get it done the right way, in the right time, to the exact specifications required for success. And he brought solutions to the table, answers to problems and the occasional splash of innovation rare for his level of experience.
I not only recommend Andrew, I'd hire him back! And also wish him the best of luck in his current goal to diversify his skill portfolio and advance his career.
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Andrew is a true SEO professional that I would recommend for any industry. He's approachable, pleasant to work with and has the ability to take massive amounts of data and turn it all into meaningful, actionable next steps.
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Smart, Creative, Marketing Savvy, Funny, Team Player…are just a few of what comes to mind when I think about my time working with Andrew. As the person responsible for our client SEO campaigns, strategies, tactics- Andrew was second to nobody!
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Andrew is a fantastic SEO. He knows content and technical SEO and one of his strongest skills lies in data. Andrew will dig and sift through big data to find missed opportunities. SEO is not just about rankings, but also about conversions to drive up revenue or to decrease costs. Some of Andrew's data analysis has brought to light major advantages for our clients.
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Andrew is one of the most personable directors I have ever worked under. He's charismatic and a joy to have around to bounce sophisticated strategy ideas off of or just make the more monotonous of SEO tasks more enjoyable. His ability to get down into the details of a project always made me feel confident that nothing would ever get missed or fall through the cracks.
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While I was working at Catalyst, he played an integral role in the development of some of Catalyst's most innovative products from not only a strategic level but also a hands on technical level. I would jump at the chance to work with him again.
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Andrew was a great person to have in the organization. He's reliable, incredibly efficient, and always thinking a few steps ahead on projects. I appreciate the high standard of quality that he upholds with his work, and it certainly transfers over to his other team members. I'd be excited to get the chance to work with Andrew again in any capacity!
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An absorbing study of power finds its emotional center in the unbreakable bond between father and daughter, as a visionary leader is forced to deal with treachery and rebellion. Verdi's grandly scaled score, filled with deeply felt arias and roof-rattling choruses, brings his characters to vivid life in a series of striking encounters that spans two generations.
The peerless Placido Domingo fulfilled a lifelong dream when he first took on the challenge of singing the baritone title role in Simon Boccanegra. Now he brings his celebrated interpretation of one of opera's most complex characters to his home company, joined by conductor James Conlon and a stellar cast. Soprano Ana Maria Martinez, whose previous LA Opera triumphs include Mimi in La Boheme and Violetta in La Traviata, returns as Simon's long lost daughter Amelia. Italian tenor Stefano Secco makes his Company debut as Gabriele Adorno. In his second LA Opera appearance of the season, bass Vitalij Kowaljow returns as Fiesco, one of Verdi's greatest bass roles.
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With no big-name candidates for statewide office, Louisiana Democratic Party leaders Saturday turned their sights on legislative races and rebuilding in the face of Republican gains.
"This is not the time for Democrats to weep, wail, tear their shirts off or paint their faces with sorrow," state party Chairman Claude "Buddy" Leach told a subdued audience of party officials.
Party members listening to Leach's remarks had gathered for the first time since Democrats failed to field well-known, well-funded candidates to stand election Oct. 22 in any of the statewide races and many of the contests for the 144 legislative seats.
Three of the four lesser-known candidates, who signed up as Democrats earlier this month to challenge the re-election of Republican Gov. Bobby Jindal, addressed the party's governing board in the Louisiana House Chamber.
State Central Committee leaders made no endorsements. Leach cited party rules that he said prevent choosing a standard-bearer when the race has multiple Democratic candidates.
Appearing were Tara Hollis, a special-education teacher from Haynesville; Androniki "Niki Bird" Papazoglakis, of Baton Rouge and policy director of a nonprofit that addresses domestic violence; and teacher-minister Ivo "Trey" Roberts, of Gretna, who calls himself a conservative "tea party Democrat."
Hollis criticized Jindal for poor treatment of state employees, schoolteachers and college students. "We will not survive another four years of this administration," she said.
Papazoglakis complained about Jindal's political "rhetoric" and his failure to compromise.
"It's time for leadership in Louisiana (instead of) using Louisiana for the next gig, the next job," said Roberts.
Another gubernatorial candidate, Cary Deaton, a lawyer from Metairie, did not attend.
"Democrats need to be heard in this election cycle," Leach said. "This is the time we must stand up and articulate plainly our values."
Leach and others said they were not going to let Jindal's re-election bid go by without his record being challenged.
Leach said the party would finance televised advertising that would spotlight Jindal actions that have hurt the poor and middle class, including college tuition increases.
Leach and others encouraged members of the party's governing body to get active and help Democratic candidates.
The Democratic Party, which had dominated Louisiana politics for more than a century, recently lost control of both chambers of the state Legislature. All seven Louisiana government officials elected statewide are now Republican, as are six of the seven U.S. representatives and one of the two U.S. senators.
Leach said grassroots support and fundraising help are key to combating the large sums of money that Jindal and U.S. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., are helping raise to elect favored GOP candidates.
State Sen. Karen Peterson, D-New Orleans, said successes may not come at the statewide level in fall elections.
"But we have candidates who are Democrats and expressing opportunity, equity, fairness and justice," Peterson told delegates. "You are not going to hear the other party talking about those things because it's not in their heart."
Peterson urged the party faithful to help candidates in legislative races. Some incumbent Democrats such as state Sen. Eric LaFleur, of Ville Platte, and state Sen. Ben Nevers, of Bogalusa, are facing stiff re-election challenges, she said.
Adam Eitmann, with the Senate Democratic Caucus, said the Democratic Party finds its future leaders and future candidates for higher office from the ranks of the state Legislature. "If you want a strong Democratic Party, this is where you start it," Eitmann said.
"We all look like we have lost our last friend," said David Young, a committee member from Gonzales. "We are down but we are not out. We will come back."


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Fatima Castle is built on the highest of the two lonely mountains in the Ignas Desert. It is the centerpiece of Aveh's capital city Bledavik. Resembling a modernized Arabic castle Fatima Castle has stood for over 500 years after the nation of Aveh was founded by King Roni Fatima I.
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Enhanced Beamforming Over Multiple Iterations for Downlink Broadcast Channels
In this paper, the authors investigate efficient beam-forming schemes for downlink broadcast channels of MIMO systems. Optimal solution to this problem is known to be infeasible due to the prohibitive complexity and recent research focuses on suboptimal approaches with reduced complexity. They first present a progressive beam-forming method that maximizes the net gain in sum throughput for newly added users and achieves high sum throughput in MU-MIMO channels. Nevertheless, there is severe asymmetry in the performance between data streams: data streams scheduled at an earlier stage are better protected compared to their counterparts configured in later stages.
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30 May, 2010
People struggle for civil rights, and have done so since the beginning of time. We all wish to be treated with the same rights as everyone else, and alas it is not always the case that freedom is bestowed upon us all. Equality is a rare flower that grows in an unreachable place, always out of reach for many… guarded by the few. Only when we are all equal in one another's eyes, and hate is erased… will we find peace with one another. It does not matter what we look like, who we love, or what we believe, differences need to be celebrated!
I took this photo in support of the NOH8 Campaign and the lovely work they have been doing!
Posted by Grant Blakeney at 9:32 PM 7 comments:
Labels: Jerry Grant Wixson Blakeney, Self Portrait
21 May, 2010
Clouds have been rolling in across Mississippi, scattered showers are expected… with the sun peeking out occasionally. Life is like that in many ways, we just have to keep a look out for the sun peeking… and take the clouds as they come, after all clouds can be quite beautiful… if you really want them to be.
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Labels: Clouds, Sky, skywatch friday, Weather
The Gift
I was always interested in art, as this rare surviving drawing from my childhood proves. It was done in 1998 when I was 13 years old; I had seen a documentary on Picasso and was inspired to do my own cubist interpretation. At the time it was just an experiment, crayon on paper and my imagination gone wild. I had not had any training or for that matter much of an education in the arts yet. It and one other drawing from my childhood survive through the foresight of pure luck, most things were lost in 2000 when our home was foreclosed upon and we were only able to take what we could get. The fact that it and one other survive my childhood is in it self a gift, also the name of the piece.
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Labels: art, original art
20 May, 2010
Many states and countries can tout of beauty fair,
with their large cities where people hurry past,
or snowcapped mountains rising far on high.
Most people who visit are unaware,
and many consider us last,
they can not see the greatness in front of their eyes.
From the Gulf of Mexico to the fertile delta land,
To tall homes of Natchez and the somber battlefields of Vicksburg,
the swamps and rivers sing as the hills in the north bloom.
Our people greet you with an open hand,
warm friendship under the song of the mockingbird,
sharing sweet tea near the fresh picked magnolia in our living room.
I look around under the warm sun,
At the beauty that can be found.
I know that no justice can be done,
For this sacred fertile ground.
The one named for a river wide and strong,
Mississippi where I belong.
Photo: The Mississippi State Capital, in Jackson.
Posted by Grant Blakeney at 1:58 AM 7 comments:
Labels: Capital, jackson, Mississippi, original poem
19 May, 2010
1,000 Words
Posted by Grant Blakeney at 10:42 PM 8 comments:
Labels: Mississippi, railroad, train, Vicksburg, Wordless Wednesday
Location: Vicksburg, MS, USA
The 'O'
America is full of many different restaurant chains, and I always had my preferences. I always loved O'Charley's, the food is pure Americana, and the people always seem to be genuinely friendly. I always wondered why people I have known seemed to love to work for the company. It was not until February 2009 when I found employment with the restaurant that I discovered just how special my O'Charley's is, we are a family. I always hope that others find a place that is as fun and supportive a place to work, I am lucky to have two wonderful jobs.
My O'Charley's is at
430 Riverwind Drive
Pearl, MS 39208-5900
(601) 932-6575
Come eat with us sometime!
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Location: 435 Riverwind Dr, Pearl, MS 39208, USA
17 May, 2010
Being Human
Sometimes we have to separate ourselves from the world around us. We need to shed all that holds us down, and step out into our own. We are not defined by the status quo; we are the rebels, the revolutionaries, the ones that make a difference. We rise above the others, and do our own thing… that is the essence of being human.
Posted by Grant Blakeney at 11:05 PM 6 comments:
Labels: colour, leaves, Mississippi
Location: Madison, Mississippi, USA
04 May, 2010
Ok, It is fine now…. It should not take 45 minutes to go two miles, but things are not always perfect.
This is a lesson we should all take….
Count to 10, and breathe.
It will be ok.
Posted by Grant Blakeney at 11:24 PM 6 comments:
Labels: Car, I-20, Mississippi, Pearl, Street
Location: Pearl, MS, USA
03 May, 2010
Tree of Ages
People call it a family tree… and its branches stretch out far around the one at the bottom, you the combination of all the people above. They all move through your veins, a piece of them forever a part of you, something to give to your children, a part of you that will not become part of the ages. They may not know the details of your life, your mundane activities, and if they search, you may simply lead to questions… but you will be there, the twinkle in their eye… their dimples, you will exist.
I learned this as I have recently been tracing my family history, and like this tree, my roots are deeper in Mississippi than I ever imagined… in fact I have to go back generations to leave the state on either side of my family. Granted my roots are not in Pascagoula at the mouth of the river, but this tree and I still have much in common. And as the oil from the worst industrial disaster to ever face our area looms, I hope that this and many other coastal areas make it through un-harmed. I hope they get this under control, this world is all we have, and we need to take care of it.
Posted by Grant Blakeney at 9:19 PM 6 comments:
Labels: Mississippi, Pascagoula, River, tree
Location: Gautier, MS, USA
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