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BALTIMORE -- The Orioles have about a month before they will unveil their gift to Yankees captain Derek Jeter, who will make the final trip of his career to Camden Yards for a series starting Sept. 12. But manager Buck Showalter already has an idea, and it involves Jeffrey Maier.
"We are all excited here he's retiring, OK? For a lot of reasons," Showalter said playfully of Jeter prior to Monday's series opener against New York. "We were talking about what you get him as a gift. I would give him a big picture of the home run [Maier caught]. Well, it wasn't a home run, we know that. That's what I would give him a big picture of and have the whole Baltimore Orioles team sign it.
"It's a good idea. It's cheap, too, right? Make it in bronze. Not that we remember that."
As a 12-year-old boy, Maier, a Yankees fan, pulled Jeter's ball into the right-field stands at Yankee Stadium for a game-tying home run in Game 1 of the 1996 American League Championship Series. Then Orioles right fielder Tony Tarasco and manager Davey Johnson argued -- rightfully so -- that Maier interfered with a ball in play, but the home run call stood. The Yankees went on to win the game in extra innings, and eventually the ALCS en route to a World Series win.
Brittany Ghiroli is a reporter for MLB.com. Read her blog, Britt's Bird Watch, and follow her on Facebook and Twitter @britt_ghiroli. David Wilson is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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AlaskanDhamma wrote:Well I was walking in the local Sears today and came across two novice monks from the local Lao temple, I believe. While I simply said Sabai dee and wai'd I didn't know if there was any other way to greet a novice monk. Can you call them Ajahn? Or are they "not quite there yet"? Just wondering if someone could clear that up for me. Thanks.
gavesako wrote:The Lao people usually call only a monk with more than 10 Rains (vassa) an "Ajahn". You can greet a novice more informally, they are treated like boys wearing (temporarily) robes.
AlaskanDhamma wrote:Thank you Bhante, and everyone else for the replies.
JC, as for the novices there we're two, the abbots nephew I recognized, and a new one. They were both wearing the bright oragne robes and seemed about the same age. They had a layman with them to handle money and such.
Thanks for the clarification from everyone though!
gavesako wrote:It is not a title, just a conventional designation of a monk or nun over 10 Rains.
Real titles are given by the King of Thailand, such "Chao Khun" etc. But these have nothing to do with the Vinaya.
jcsuperstar wrote:when i taught at mahachula they listed me as ajahn.... they said it just meant teacher???
Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:Ajahn Chah even calls mosquitoes as "Ajahn Mosquito."
Bhikkhu Pesala wrote:Ajahn Chah even calls mosquitoes as "Ajahn Mosquito."
AlaskanDhamma wrote:What?
retrofuturist wrote:Greetings AlaskanDhamma,AlaskanDhamma wrote:What?
As Ajahn Chah would say "everything is teaching us"... therefore I assume it was intended in the context of the mosquito as a teacher. Or rather, that there is a lot to be learned from observing our reactions to irritation.
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Hello, there! You've somehow managed to navigate your way through the blogosphere and into the 21st edition of Log Buffer.
It's fitting that this is the 21st edition, because that just so happens to be the legal drinking age here in the United States. And the folks over at Oracle sure need a drink or three this week. Computerworld's Jaikumar Vijayan reported on a study showing that Oracle has more security flaws than SQL Server. And over at IT Toolbox, Chris Eaton was nice enough to link us to the actual study, and in his post also mentioned that a security firm called Argeniss had promised to release one Oracle security flaw every day this week.
The Oracle Security Blog's update on the topic, posted a few days after Chris's post, reveals that the week of disclosure is not happening -- at least, not quite yet (Argeniss apparently temporarily "suspended" the project). But don't worry! If you just can't live without that sticky-sweet feeling of bliss that accompanies finding a particularly nasty hole in someone else's software, head on over to Eddie Awad's blog, where you can learn how to snarf a dangling cursor. And now I will sit back and watch as my inclusion of that phrase gets this post banned by all of my readers' corporate indecency filters. Snarf on!
For those serve up your customers' data to hackers on a silver platter live-on-the-edge types in the audience who have time to worry about anything non-security-related amidst all of the concerns being raised, there were a few interesting tidbits posted this week. Edgar Hoover dished up some tips on using functional indexes in 9i. And Lucas Jellema showed us a way to avoid long strings of UNION ALL'd queries when trying to create "dummy" data. But if you're running on Linux, good luck using these tips at all! Brian Aker clued us into the fact that most installations are incredibly instable and that there just aren't enough experts around to fix the problems. "Free" operating system. Expensive consultant needed to fix it. What doesn't add up here?
For better or for worse, life in the MySQL camp was not nearly so exciting this week. Ronald wrote an interesting post about Pluggable Storage Engines, but to me it sounds like it's just metadata management given a snazzy new name. And over at the So What Co-operative blog, Jeff Hunter got some flack because he implied in a post that MySQL isn't ready for prime time (i.e., no mission critical apps). For shame, Jeff! Rounding things out was a good post by Kevin Burton all about Ethernet latency and how it can affect database performance.
It's life as usual for the PostgreSQL and DB2 crowds. Josh the PostgreSQL lead posted not one, but two articles containing performance tips. And Willie Favero pointed out the availability of a couple of new IBM Red Books: One covers the oh-so-popular topic of SOA, and the other is all about LOB data.
Which brings us nicely around to the world of SQL Server. You didn't think I'd forgotten, did you? A good post came from Denis the SQL Menace, who brought to light a not very well publicized feature of SQL Server 2005: the ability to tell the engine to update statistics asynchronously. But this week's highlight came from Mladen Prajdic, who discussed an interesting way to get high-precision performance metrics in SQL Server, via a few SQLCLR routines. The only problem with Mladen's technique is that it appears to only work on a single thread at a time. Still, it's definitely an interesting technique to consider, and a great SQLCLR sample to keep around.
In the SQL Server tools department, we were informed by Bart Reed of Red Gate that SQL Prompt 3 might actually be coming some day! I was in the beta for this product, and I have to say that it's looking pretty interesting -- I definitely hope that some day is sooner rather than later, so get back to work and stop blogging, Bart! Luckily, we don't have to wait for Red Gate to get some enhancements to SQL Server Management Studio. Paul A. Mestemaker II provided detailed information on how to add a custom report to Management Studio in SQL Server 2005 SP2. And low and behold, Jasper Smith has already published a very useful report, a recreation of the much-missed Taskpad View from Enterprise Manager.
Since not everything in our industry is product-dependent (well, it's not supposed to be), let's not forget that database design is a more or less transferable skill -- at least, if you have any clue about what you're doing. The first consideration is usually data types, but as Tom Kyte pointed out, some people just don't get the difference between strings and all of those other newfangled types (as an aside: it was an Oracle person… should we be surprised?) Apparently it was character types vs. the world week in DB2 land as well, because Craig Mullins also weighed in with a post on the topic.
To close, I'd like to point out that despite Eddie Awad's concerns about laziness, I believe that all of the best computer professionals are lazy at heart. That's why we use macros, create shortcuts, and script/automate everything. We don't like working any more than we have to! And that is why I'll leave it to not-so-lazy people -- like Joe Celko -- to come up with information on techniques such as an additive congruenital method of generating values in pseudo-random order. Uh, yeah.
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ELEVEN matches, twenty-two points. Scott Bartlett as caretaker manager kick started the season into life and Ady Pennock has maintained a very healthy rate of progress.
Two points per- match which is what our team is achieving is bettered only by Luton and Cambridge. We are displaying play- off form.
Is it too late? We are seven points behind fourth placed Gateshead and have three games in hand. You can do the sums and I shall leave you to make your own assessment. Too many of my forecasts have been wrong.
What I am right about is the form of the team. They are playing exciting, exuberant football and most importantly look as if they are enjoying themselves. Al Bangura is playing like a man free from a ball and chain and plays an important part in moving the ball forward – very quickly.
Playing in an established Pennock pattern all the team know exactly what their role is, and everyone is playing with increased confidence. The defence was slow to settle on Saturday, allowing Chester some early chances, but with Hodgkiss settling in and Turley dominating, this shaky spell was not long lasting. Russell's handling was impeccable and a clean sheet was kept.
The game was thoroughly entertaining with an energetic Chester side contributing much to an open, lively contest.
The referee deserved at least a score of nine in the NLP ratings, and the match merited four stars. The game was allowed to flow and the pace was maintained during a mini hurricane. All the players performed splendidly in atrocious conditions.
Full credit to everyone as well as groundsman Stewart Ward. It was not just the footballers who dealt with the conditions, the pitch did as well.
Lee Hughes was a joy to watch. A smile is never far from his face and he brings maturity and confidence to the team. His goals were beautifully taken and can anyone remember a player getting a standing ovation when substituted as Lee was late in the game?
His goals gave Rovers' fans the opportunity to see his renowned celebratory dance. This can be described as a slim, trim Uncle Fester celebrating a lottery win.
The previous manager used to lament his young team could not 'manage the moments'. This team can, and create them as well.
The week has seen two departures and a correctly circumspect manager indicated more to follow but wisely did not name names.
Good luck to both OJ Koroma and Reece. Some fans said OJ was never given a proper chance. Of course he did – every week in training in practice games and in behind closed door games against other sides. Make no mistake – you will be selected if you are good enough.
Reece goes with everyone's good wishes. He never let us or himself down. This open ended move is a good one for all concerned and was made with proper co-operation between player and club. Reece praised the manager as a top man. You are too Reece.
One individual used the electronic media to say Reece's move was pure player power, adding he should be made to stay and play out his contract. I suggest that gentleman knows little about football and less about life.
There was much to see at The New Lawn on Saturday. Jared or Hodgey as the manager calls him sported a new hairstyle, a name for which could be the Stroud/ Birmingham slick-back and there was some evidence that James Norwood's barber had used the Brogan basin when giving him a short back and sides. Nors never fails to thrill and I am undecided as to what was the most spectacular – his goal or his new car.
Kids for free and the visit of the RSPB brought an extra dimension to the Carol Embrey suite which was buzzing from early on. Full marks to 'Man of Kent' and 'Sledge' known only to me by their forum names.
Collecting for Grimsby coach expenses was a fine idea. Saturday was a rewarding day but there was so much more to savour than just the match. On such days it is a privilege to be a Rovers fan.


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Since his teen-idol days in the 1950s, Paul Anka has been setting—and defying—the musical trends.
"It's one of those things that's in your blood," he says, sitting in the dark-paneled study of his hilltop Beverly Hills home, firing up a Cohiba--"my fat little babies" he calls them--reflecting on a remarkable four-decade musical odyssey in which he has transformed himself from a puffy-cheeked teen idol to a respected songwriter and, ultimately, into one of the most bankable night-club performers in the world able to sell out showrooms from Manila to Mexico City, Las Vegas to Berlin. There is hardly a place on the planet where he is not a household name, where the songs he has written--everything from "Puppy Love" to "My Way" to Johnny Carson's "Tonight Show" theme--are not instantly recognized.
"I always had the desire," he says, leaning back in his easy chair, surrounded by the trappings of success--the Swiss humidor filled with Cuban cigars, the world-class wine and art collections, the giant-screen television built into the wall with three smaller screens above it (so he can watch movies, news and sporting events simultaneously). And on the sofa, an embroidered throw pillow that says: Be Reasonable. Do It My Way.
"I was like a junkie," he continues. "From a very young age, this--to be a singer and songwriter--is all I want-ed. And everyone thought I was crazy."
Who could have blamed them? Who could have imagined that a kid from Ottawa, Ontario, a Lebanese restaurant owner's son, would end up like this, with more than 800 songs to his credit, still going strong at 55, on the road more than 30 weeks a year and about to release his 112th album, due out this summer, a collection of Spanish-English duets with old friends ranging from Julio Iglesias, Tom Jones, Celine Dion and The Bee Gees to a host of Latin American artists. If you want proof of Anka's undiminished box-office appeal, consider this: He recently signed an unprecedented $6 million deal to do a total of 18 shows a year for the next four years at Bally's Grand Casino in Atlantic City and the Foxwoods Resort Casino in Connecticut.
"Jimmy Durante always used to say to me, 'I don't need the money, I need the work,'" Anka says, a smile creasing his perfectly tanned face as he tries to explain why he is still so driven, why he can't let himself relax. "It's so true. I've seen so many guys in my profession who quit and then don't know what to do with themselves. I'd be scared to death if that happened to me.
"I perform because I still need it. Because, in the beginning, people didn't come to see me because I was a performer, they came to see me because I had a hit song. Everybody was jumping in their cars to get a look at me, because it was the thing to do. But now when they come, it's not because I have a song on the charts. It's because they know I'll give them a performance like no one else."
Even before he was old enough to shave, Anka was consumed with proving himself to the world. He used to borrow his mother's car--without her permission and years before he had a license--to drive from Ontario to Quebec, where there were no liquor laws and the nightclubs had amateur nights. Twenty bucks went to each night's winner--Anka almost always won.
"I was pretty precocious, pretty aggressive," he says, recalling the unbelievable chutzpah it took for a 14-year-old kid to steal his mother's car just so he could perform. "I think my parents knew they had an unusual child."
They did what they could to slow him down. When the car, an Austin Healy, broke down on one of his midnight runs ("I kept going in first gear and I put the piston rod through the hood. The engine was all over the Champlain Bridge."), Anka soon found himself in the custody of the Royal Canadian Mounted Police, charged with grand theft auto. "I later found out my father had rigged it with the judge," he says, laughing. "They wanted to put a scare in me. So I kind of straightened up a little bit after that."
But not too much. Anka put together a vocal group called The Bobbysoxers and booked them into topless nightclubs. "I was too young to actually be in the club," he says, "so they made me stay in the dressing room when I wasn't singing. I'd punch holes in the walls so I could get a look at the girls."
Whenever a rock and roll show came through Ottawa, he was there, trying to get backstage to meet his idols. Once he finagled his way into Fats Domino's
dressing room and talked the rotund piano player into autographing a white-sleeved jacket for him. Domino's manager, Irving Feld, tossed the brash kid out before he could get the autograph, but not before he could shout to Feld, "Remember my name. I'll be working for you one day." Two years later, Anka's prediction came true.
Anka was obsessed with becoming a pop star and would do anything to make it happen. When he heard that a soup company was giving away a trip to New York to the person who could collect the most soup can labels, he took a job in a local grocery store so he'd have access to the cans. He won. But he couldn't persuade any record companies to sign him. That same year, 1956, his parents allowed him to travel to Los Angeles where he actually scored a record deal, recording a single called "Blau Wilde De Veest Fontain" (the name of an African city he'd read about). He returned to Ottawa, confident that stardom was imminent. It wasn't.
"I think the song got played a little in Buffalo and then...nothing," he says. "I was a failure at 14."
But he kept writing songs and, at his parents' insistence, considered more practical careers. He took journalism courses and worked for a while at The Ottawa Citizen. He studied shorthand. But the musical dreams simply wouldn't disappear and at 16 he returned to New York City. ("I'm letting you go," his father said, "but this is your last shot.") He carried with him a song he'd written soon after his trip to Los Angeles. It was a painful, pleading love song meant for a girl--four years older and oblivious to his existence--on which he had a terrible crush. Her name was "Diana."
It was the song that made his teenage dreams come true. Released in 1957, it would hold the record for years as the second best-selling single of all time (behind "White Christmas"). "Diana" instantly made Anka an international sensation. The girls who'd ignored him all those years were lining up to see him, to touch him, to scream out his name. He rode in limousines and stayed in the finest hotels, pampered and catered to in ways beyond any 16-year-old's imagination. Even the real Diana suddenly wanted to spend time with him. But she'd missed her chance.
Anka found himself running in pretty fast company on endless "Caravan of Stars" bus tours, crossing the country with Buddy Holly, Chuck Berry, Bobby Darin, Fabian and the girl who would soon fall in love with him, Annette Funicello. Those were the days when they'd pile everyone with a Top-40 hit onto a single tour. Everyone would come out, sing their one or two hit songs and leave. There was plenty of time for ego trips and trouble, plenty of time for young minds to be led astray. But Anka, in spite of his meteoric success, never gave in to temptation. He was too obsessed with the music. He still had too much to prove.
"My commitment, my dedication was a lot different," he says. "There were guys shooting heroin, being so whacked out we could barely get them onstage. But I had my life together. Part of that was my upbringing, that I had great parents, and there were a lot of people looking out for me.
"But the other part was that I wasn't in that pretty-boy category. I wasn't a product. I wasn't selling looks. My whole thing was that I was the writer and the producer. I was constantly developing my craft, and that to me was always the selling point. I was so dedicated to this that I didn't fall into any of the traps. I really had a sense of the business, of where to go and what to do."
If he'd been the best-looking kid in school, the tallest or the most popular, Anka acknowledges that he might not have been as driven to succeed, that he might not have been capable of writing the lost-soul love songs like "Lonely Boy" and "Diana" that touched so many teenage hearts, songs that spoke to all those other kids who would never look good in tight pants, who would never get the girl of their dreams.
"Listen, when you don't have all those other things, you have no choice but to be sure of yourself. I mean, I wasn't selling glamour,'' Anka says. " So I took the weaknesses and made them work for me. Some people take their shortcomings and they make them their strengths. And when it all happened for me at 16, it just gave me more confidence. It let me know that I was right, that I'd been right all along. So everything else didn't matter.
"I believe in luck and I believe in timing. When a kid gets up there and sings, 'I'm Just A Lonely Boy,' do you know how many lonely boys are out there, sitting in their bedrooms at night, thinking about the girl who would not go to the prom with them? So I was the guy they identified with. And the honesty of those records just breaks through."
He had five Top-20 hits before he turned 18. One of them--"Puppy Love"--was written for Funicello. They were, for a while, America's perfect teen couple. He also wrote a song for her called "It's Really Love" that, years later and stripped of its lyrics, became the "Tonight Show" theme. Funicello, always a reluctant pop icon, wanted nothing more than to marry Anka and start a family. But he was not ready to give up the road. There were, as he says, "too many mountains to climb."
But in the early '60s, the pop culture tidal wave caused by The Beatles changed the face of pop music forever. Suddenly, everyone wanted British accents, long hair, groups. The pompadoured crooners of the '50s were no longer fashionable. Some of them panicked and tried to jump on a bandwagon they didn't understand. Most them disappeared. But not Anka.
"You always have to have the hunger," he says, explaining why he survived when so many others did not. "When the Beatles invasion came, I went on to something else. I wrote the theme for The Longest Day [the 1962 war epic, for which he received an Academy Award nomination]. And I started working the nightclub circuit, because that was all there was. I had faith in myself, and if you stay true to yourself, you'll always do all right. But if you panic, you've lost it."
He was one of the first pop singers to play Las Vegas showrooms--years before Elvis. He focused on songwriting and spent more time in Europe and Asia, places where his appeal never waned. "So what if I wasn't in the Top 10 anymore?" he says. "I was working Las Vegas for three weeks at a time, hanging out with Frank Sinatra, earning more money than when I had hit records. My voice was getting better, I was headlining in all these countries and I realized, if I keep focused, this is just going to get better. I'm a better singer and I know I can write better songs."
He lived in Italy for a few years and spent extensive time in France and England, a citizen of the world. In 1963, he married Parisian model Anne de Zogheb in a lavish ceremony at Paris' Orly Airport. They have five daughters--Amelia, Anthea, Alicia, Amanda and Alexandra, ranging in age from 19 to 29--and a relationship that has lasted almost as long as Anka's career, something he does not take for granted.
"You know, my grandmother used to say, 'While I'm down here planning, God's up there laughing,' " Anka says, unsure if he can explain why his career and marriage have enjoyed such longevity. "I guess the thing with most things that are worthwhile is that you can't give up easily. You've got to hang in."
It was during his time in Europe that Anka developed an appreciation for wine, cigars and long, luxurious meals. Bruno Coquatrix, who owned the Olympia theatre in Paris, introduced him to all three. "I was 18, 19 years old and Bruno was one of those great Damon Runyon-like figures of France. He knew the best of everything and he always had a cigar in his mouth.
"Bruno really introduced me to that joie de vivre. He took me under his wing and I remember every fine restaurant he would take me to, every vineyard, every wine bottle that he sent back because he didn't like the taste. He was the one who introduced me to cigars, a Montecristo after every meal. He was my idol, this cat. He just loved life. And we all loved him."
Because he was so focused on his career, afraid to do anything that might damage his throat, Anka neither smoked nor drank before he met Coquatrix. "But he taught me that cigars are pure, not like cigarettes at all. Once you realize the process of what goes into a cigar, you realize it's not going to hurt you. And with the best wine, you'll never get a headache."
Consequently, Anka will not compromise when it comes to wines or cigars. "I'll do a Jamaican or a Dominican now and then," he says, "but I've been into the Cuban thing for years and I pretty much stay with that. I'm used to the taste and there's no reason to jump all over the place, unless you're experimenting.
"After lunch, with coffee, I may smoke a Partagas. And at night a Cohiba. I used to smoke Montecristos a lot, and I still like them. But I jumped over to Cohibas. I love smoking when I'm in the studio," he says. "When I'm in the studio this week [working on the Spanish-language duet album], I'll pass cigars out to everybody. Most of these guys have never had a Cuban cigar in their life and there's a calmness that comes over everything when everyone lights up. The cigar really becomes like a friend, especially when I'm creating.
"It's definitely a bond, especially with people who are not used to smoking them. You're giving them a special kind of treat and it's a confirmation that, in a sense, we're all on the same level. I don't do it all the time, but when I do it's a special moment.
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|A Phase I Study of Aventis Pasteur Live Recombinant ALVAC-HIV (vCP205, HIV-1 Env/Gag/Pol) in Seronegative Adults Administered (1) Subcutaneously Via Ex Vivo Transfected, Autologous Dendritic Cells, (2) Intradermally, or (3) Intramuscularly
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Healthy adult volunteers are assigned randomly to either a vaccine or placebo group. Injections are received either intramuscularly, intradermally, or by delivery under the skin of the volunteer's own white blood cells which have had dendritic cell reinfusion. Volunteers are vaccinated at 0, 1, 3, and 6 month time points. Volunteers are closely monitored for 1 hour after vaccination and keep a diary of symptoms for 1 week post-immunization. Volunteers undergo leukopheresis at the start of the study and after the last vaccination at Walter Reed Army Medical Center. Volunteers receive compensation benefits.
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Eller MA, Slike BM, Cox JH, Lesho E, Wang Z, Currier JR, Darden JM, Polonis VR, Vahey MT, Peel S, Robb ML, Michael NL, Marovich MA. A double-blind randomized phase I clinical trial targeting ALVAC-HIV vaccine to human dendritic cells. PLoS One. 2011;6(9):e24254. doi: 10.1371/journal.pone.0024254. Epub 2011 Sep 16.
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HIV Preventive Vaccine
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Injections, Subcutaneous
AIDS Vaccines
Dendritic Cells
Genes, env
Genes, pol
Genes, gag
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HIV Infections
Lentivirus Infections
Retroviridae Infections
RNA Virus Infections
Virus Diseases
Sexually Transmitted Diseases, Viral
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Immunologic Deficiency Syndromes
Immune System Diseases
Immunologic Factors
Physiological Effects of Drugs
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This summer Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen presents an exhibition of photographic works, films, installations, billboards, slide projections and paintings by Roy Villevoye (1960, Maastricht). The museum devoted a solo exhibition to the artist twenty years ago. Detours is a survey of the work that Villevoye has made since the late 1980s, when he turned away from painting. This exhibition provides the first comprehensive view of his recent artistic practice.
Following a successful career as a painter, at the end of the 1980s Villevoye went in search of a new artistic direction. He found inspiration in his travels beyond Europe, especially in Papua, a former Dutch colony. His encounters with the Asmat people led to new works in which the symbolic meaning of colour is an important theme. He initially processed these new experiences into paintings, but gradually Villevoye sought other media to give form to his research into cultural codification and identity. Colour is also an important element in the large panoramic photographic work Kó (Showing Primary Colours in Kombai) from 1995, in which industrial colours loom up in a tropical rainforest.
Together with Jan Dietvorst, Villevoye has made several films in Papua, which engage the viewer in a direct manner with the artists' encounters with the Asmat people. The films expose the mutual interests that underlie these interactions and look beyond the standard stereotypes. In the film The New Forest impressions of life in the tropical rainforest are interspersed with portraits of the Asmat people. They deal with the magical relationship between man and his environment, but also with links with the Western world. For example, one of the Asmat people interviewed talks about his trip to the Netherlands and the clogs he bought there. Villevoye's film Beginnings shows two naked Asmat people walking through the rainforest as Adam and Eve. A subsequent scene shows a white Adam and Eve in the Dutch Kennemer Dunes National Park. The actors' personal stories help to undermine the stereotypical view of paradise.
Villevoye's work appears to touch upon anthropology and its post-colonial fascination with non-Western 'authentic' peoples who are believed to live like our ancient forefathers. However, Roy Villevoye shows us that the Asmat live in a present as confusing, complex, hilarious and inimitable as our own.
Alongside films, photographic works and slide presentations, the exhibition Detours includes several billboards, produced by advertising painters in Mumbai based upon photographs taken by Villevoye in India and Papua. The encounter between two cultures and the manner in which various cultures appropriate each other's artefacts is dealt with in a razor-sharp way in the installation Red Calico. This shows T-shirts adapted by the Asmat people, which Villevoye has found, collected and combined with photographic portraits of their owners. Villevoye has made several new films and installation specially for the exhibition, that place his work within a new focus.
Simultaneously with the exhibition, an English-language monograph is published with the support of the Mondriaan Foundation and the Netherlands Foundation for Visual Arts, Design and Architecture (Fonds BKVB) and with contributions by the anthropologist Amanda Ravetz, Sven Lütticken, the evolutionary biologist Tijs Goldschmidt and Lex ter Braak.
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SAN JOSE -- When push came to shove this season, a Cal basketball team without much innate aggression learned to give as much as it takes.
Rediscovering their physical side after back-to-back defeats will be critical when the Golden Bears open NCAA Tournament play this afternoon against UNLV at HP Pavilion.
"We have to be the aggressor from the beginning," sophomore forward David Kravish said. "That's how we went on the run that got us to this point. Whether they were bigger, faster or could shoot better than us, we kept them moving backward while we kept moving forward."
The lesson of aggression was not easily absorbed by the Bears (20-11), who lost 76-75 at home to the Runnin' Rebels (25-9) on Dec. 9 in Berkeley when Quintrell Thomas converted an airball into the game-winning putback.
Strong and fast, UNLV will test Cal with defensive pressure and aggressive offensive rebounding. The Rebels boast 250 steals and 197 blocked shots and will work hard to impose their will.
"I don't think we have physical kids by nature," Cal coach Mike Montgomery said. "It's hard for them to change the way they are naturally."
That translated at times to playing soft, especially on defense.
Recalling early losses to Wisconsin and Colorado in which they allowed 81 points each, Kravish said, "It was obvious we needed a mentality change. The body language was bad, we were getting beat everywhere on defense."
But for an impressive seven-game stretch through most of February, the Bears played with a defensive toughness that shot them from near irrelevance in the Pac-12 to the brink of a conference title.
Starting with a 77-69 win at then-No. 7 Arizona, Cal ran off seven straight victories, also knocking off UCLA and Oregon. The Bears held their foes to 56.7 points per game and 33.5-percent shooting during the run.
The Feb. 17 home game against USC got national headlines when Montgomery shoved star player Allen Crabbe during a timeout, hoping to create a comeback spark. The Bears, down by as many as 15 points in the second half, rallied behind Crabbe for a 76-68 win.
But Kravish said the turnaround actually began two weekends before, with the Bears trailing by 12 points early in the second half against Oregon State and at risk of dropping to 3-5 in Pac-12 play.
Cal held the Beavers to 33-percent shooting in the second half to win, then put a serious defensive squeeze on Oregon in a 56-54 home win.
"That really clued us in to what we had to do," Kravish said.
It's not just the Rebels' big front line, featuring 6-foot-8, 240-pound freshman Anthony Bennett, that will challenge Cal. The style of officiating in the postseason will require the Bears to muscle up.
"Historically in the NCAA tournament there has been more contact and you've got to play through it," Montgomery said. "It's just an adjustment you need to make."
The Bears lost their way defensively a bit the past two games, losing 83-70 at home to Stanford in a regular-season finale that could have given them a piece of the conference title. Then they fell 79-69 in overtime to Utah in the Pac-12 tournament.
But point guard Justin Cobbs said everyone on the team recalls the sudden end after an NCAA First Four loss to South Florida last year.
"It's a feeling that's still fresh in my mind," he said. "It's 40 minutes and I think we're very conscious of what's at stake and the opportunity in front of us."


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Yes! Yes! Yes! The Raw Review (#YYYTRR)
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I started this blog off the back of my own trip to London's O2 Arena three weeks after WrestleMania XXVIII, and the idea was to offer my thoughts on Raw, but mainly the experience I had watching it live and on TV. With that in mind, I just want to say that tonight's crowd was insane – exactly what a WWE crowd should be. I'll even go as far as saying that it was better than last year's post-WrestleMania Miami crowd – the very same crowd that helped to inspire the title of this blog.
With that being said, there were a few things which were only slightly outdone by the crowd tonight, and my thoughts on such events are presumably why you read my entries. Let's get this started, shall we?
"I'm here to show the world!"
There was no way I could leave out the biggest moment on a WrestleMania-eclipsing Raw, let alone one that the IWC (coincidentally the majority of my readership) have been waiting a long 267 days (around 8 ½ months) for.
I, like many others, had dubbed tonight Dolph Ziggler's final chance at cashing in his Money in the Bank briefcase before it became an afterthought. And as annoyed as I was to not see it happen at WrestleMania, tonight was seemingly perfect. I have to give the crowd a huge amount of the credit, because tonight was the perfect time for change and it was amplified by a crowd which seemed to echo the thoughts of an often overlooked older generation of fans.
I am a part of that section of the WWE Universe who thinks Ziggler has been ready to main event for a long time, and the two opponents he is likely to come up against at Extreme Rules are both superstars who can bring the best out of the "Show Off" in terms of athleticism and his famous selling abilities. Not only that, but he has the choice to go up against a firm crowd favourite in Alberto Del Rio or Jack Swagger. I personally would love to see Swagger try his luck against the newly-crowned World Heavyweight Champion purely because the history is already there. Former tag team partners who split on bad terms, and the challenger came back with a whole new attitude.
I can't help but feel that Del Rio will be a part of Extreme Rules as part of a Triple Threat title defence so he can fill the role of the face, but I hope WWE goes down my desired road in the near future.
Until then, I await the latest Ziggler t-shirt, "Shine it up & Show it off!"
The Shield; looking to make history
Somehow The Shield ended up being one of the more forgettable things about tonight's Raw, which can only mean that the show was stacked with relevance.
It might have even been the fact that this segment was immediately preceded by Ziggler and his cash-in, but nonetheless something unthinkable happened to me tonight – I actually jumped at Kane's pyro for the first time in years due to how much I wanted The Shield to attack Undertaker. I even half-expected the familiar sounds of "Cult of Personality" to distract the Deadman. No matter where WWE goes with this, I'll be happy.
Not only does it look like Undertaker is planning on sticking around for Extreme Rules, but The Shield are being trusted to look strong against him. It helps, too, that Undertaker, Kane & Daniel Bryan looked like an awesome team when stood in unison.
My hopes for this match, should it happen, are that Ambrose, Rollins & Reigns keep their undefeated streak going and look incredibly strong against WWE's most notable icon.
Has Ryback REALLY turned heel?
The only drawback of the post-WrestleMania crowds every year is that they tend to cheer what WWE doesn't want them to, and jeer what WWE in fact wants them to cheer.
That was the only thing which has left me wondering if Ryback's attack on WWE Champion John Cena was in fact a heel turn. That, and the fact that Cena seems to have added a slight bit of arrogance to his persona – a move I actually like. Ryback attacking Cena can resemble a lot of things in this respect, and it was a strong way to lead into next week's Raw.
WWE can take this angle anywhere due, once again, to the crowd in attendance tonight. Cena's Countout victory combined with the popularity of Ryback could give us the mythical Cena heel turn (at this point I just wanted to note that I did like the pun Cena made at the top of the show about such a thing) that has been a hot topic for a month or so now. On the other hand, it could propel Ryback into the monster heel territory that Tensai failed to succeed in.
Depending on how this develops – in other words, so long as Cena isn't made to look like a huge underdog week after week – WWE may achieve the impossible and make me care about a John Cena match again. I encourage WWE to listen to the crowds over the next few weeks and develop the storyline based on that.
After sifting through the tremendous crowd and their huge number of chants tonight (the fact that Fandango's theme was hummed for much of the last hour was amazingly funny), I did manage to find the change that comes with this particular episode of Raw every year.
We got two title changes, The Shield look to be stepping up a level, and there is every chance that a John Cena title reign could be worthwhile and entertaining. There is literally nothing I can honestly say I disliked about tonight's Raw, and my faith in the WWE product after six weeks of poor build and a slightly under-par WrestleMania has been restored.
I want to leave you with this question; since he wasn't a part of Raw this week, where do you see CM Punk going from here and why?
It really is amazing what the fans can do for WWE…
Follow me on Twitter (@SpringerAJ) and use the hashtag #YYYTRR to send me your views.


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BOSTON --- Fenway Park was still full late into another sluggish performance by the Red Sox on Wednesday. Maybe it was the nice weather or youthful injection into the lineup.
Whatever the reason, few fans left the park, and it paid off. The Red Sox scored three runs in the eighth and then two in the ninth to beat the White Sox, 5-4, and snap a four-game skid. Entering the day 12 games below .500, the club designated A.J. Pierzynski for assignment and started five rookies for the first time since July 6, 1952.
"When you get into some roster changes, there's an unspoken message that is sent," manager John Farrell said. "Not in a threatening way, but it indicates that the way we've been going isn't acceptable. That doesn't change the competitive nature of every guy in uniform, and I think that played out tonight, clearly."
In the ninth, Javy Guerra hit Mookie Betts with two strikes and one out. Then Daniel Nava, pinch-hitting for catcher Christian Vazquez, hit an opposite-field double off the Green Monster to tie the game. Brock Holt ripped a line-drive single to right just past Chicago second baseman Gordon Beckham to score Nava and give Boston its seventh walk-off win of the year.
"My job was the easy one, I guess. I think Nava had the tough one," Holt said. "I got a fastball to hit and put a good swing on it, and fortunate to get it in the outfield there."
Betts had two doubles for the Red Sox, including an infield two-bagger in the eighth when he realized the White Sox had no one covering second after he grounded a ball to the left side of the infield and beat the throw to first. With Boston trailing, 4-0, it started the rally.
"It was a big gamble, but Farrell says be aggressive the same way I've been my whole career," Betts said. "I saw the second baseman going to back up and I know the shortstop had to come in on it."
Dustin Pedroia knocked in Betts with a two-out single off Jake Petricka, who took over for a dominant Chris Sale. David Ortiz then doubled off the Monster to bring Pedroia home.
Mike Napoli followed with a walk and then Jonny Gomes ripped a double down the left-field line to bring home Ortiz and cut the deficit to just one. But Guerra came on and got Mike Carp, pinch-hitting for Xander Bogaerts, to ground out to first to end the inning, despite some carnage that put Boston in a position to walk-off in the ninth.
"I think you're always disappointed when you come out of the game whether it's good or bad. You always want to get through that inning," said Sale, who exited after 107 pitches. "You're going to look at that and highlight that, but you always want to stay out there and finish what you start."
Junichi Tazawa and Koji Uehara worked scoreless eighth and ninth innings, respectively, for Boston to help set up a comeback. Uehara struck out the side and needed just 13 pitches to do it on the heels of the Red Sox's three-run eighth. That inning took about four minutes and 30 seconds and had Fenway rocking heading into the bottom of the ninth.
"Probably as clean of an inning as he's thrown in quite a while," Farrell said of Uehara.
Sale allowed four hits and one run while fanning six and walking none over 7 2/3 innings. It took his departure for Boston to finally break through.
"We were down to Chris Sale late in the game. Not feeling very good," Holt said. "Got him out, put some runs on the board and kind of gave us some life there. And we're able to finish it off. That's something that we haven't been able to do recently, so that's a good feeling."
Rubby De La Rosa allowed three runs on six hits over five innings for the Red Sox. He struck out three and threw just 84 pitches because he pitched for Triple-A Pawtucket on Sunday.
Jose Abreu smacked a changeup to dead center in the first inning to give the White Sox a 1-0 lead. In the second, Conor Gillaspie took a fastball deep to almost the exact same spot.
"When you miss a location," De La Rosa said with a laugh, "you pay the price."
In the fourth, Dayan Viciedo hit a sharp ground ball that went right through Napoli's legs to score Gillaspie, who had doubled. In the seventh, with Edward Mujica on the mound, Adam Eaton doubled home Tyler Flowers, who hit a double of his own the prior at-bat.
De La Rosa got some defensive help in the second from Jackie Bradley Jr., who laid out at full extension to snag a tailing line drive off the bat of Flowers with Alejandro De Aza on second.
"We may not even be in that situation if not for Jackie's catch," Nava said. "That's one of the best catches of the year."
Steven Petrella is an associate reporter for MLB.com. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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Reproducing images of popular culture and everyday domesticity, Johannes Albers' work seems to simultaneously praise and poke fun at modern-day interests and values. Starting out with the intention to 'do the opposite of what was really hip', Albers' work has encompassed a range of printed motifs, from bathmats to band tapes, ping-pong tables to Stanley knives.
His incessant reproduction of these images reflects – and criticises – the disposability of much of today's media culture and marketing imagery. His intention is to 'one day see the uncorrupted mirror-images of this world. A twin world with extensions or channels into the real world'.
Founder of the now-defunct Club Vernissage – a two-man group with dogmas ranging from 'Marketing is Bullshit' to 'Celebrities are Monkeys' – Albers went on to pursue his own vision; a vision which, at its core, retains the desire to be always 'different'. Whether idolising analogue compilation cassettes – scrawled with 'CLASH' and 'Joy Division' – or flattening a fuzzy bathmat across a sharp monochrome plane, Albers' work remains positioned firmly outside the status quo.
Johannes Albers was born in Lingen, Germany, in 1966, and graduated from Goldsmiths' College in 1990. He has exhibited in various exhibitions, including 'Some went mad, some ran away' (1994) at the Serpentine Gallery, London, 'Free as a bird' (1996) and 'The good the bad and the ugly' (1997) both at the Sophiensale, Berlin, as well as numerous Club Vernissage (2000-2) projects: 'Marketing is Bullshit', 'Celebrities are monkeys', and 'Pop is Disgusting'. More recent exhibitions have included 'Gute, Alte Arbeiten' (2004) at the Galerie Khadr, Berlin, as well as 'Neue Arbeiten' (2005) and 'Lazy artists in times of record sales covered by the yellow press' (2006) at Raum 58, Munich. A freelance journalist since 1997, Albers currently lives in Berlin.


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As some of you may remember a little while back, I had made a deposit into my bank account that was misread and ultimately led to a $1600+ error in my favor. I eventually went in and had the error corrected. Now, there is another error in my favor, but this one is a bit more complicated, so I'm not really sure how to handle it.
Just a few days ago, I made a payment to someone via PayPal for $11.00. At the time, I had $31.50 in my PP account, and about $20.00 in my checking account (where $$$ is drawn from if I have no PP funds). When I sent payment, the receipt came back as $1100.00. I quickly contacted the guy and explained what happened, and made a money request for $1089.00 back so that I could quickly return the fund to my bank account to try to avoid any overdraft fees. The guy returned the $$$ quickly, within about 20 minutes or so, and I transferred it back to my account (which typically takes 3-4 business days). I went to the bank the next day and spoke to someone about what happened, and he said he would keep an eye on the account and make sure it wouldn't apply any overdraft fee. Of course, it did anyway, but I'll get to that in a minute...
Anyway, the next day, the $1068.50 was back in my account. Two days later, however, ANOTHER $1068.50 showed up in my account. I recevied an e-mail telling me that my bank had rejected my attempted withdrawl of $1068.50 via the PP error, but since I had requested $$$ from the guy and transferred it back to my account, it apparently didn't recognize the rejected withdrawal attempt.
I went in and taked to the guy about what happened, but I don't think he understood what I was talking about. I asked him if, because the bank rejected the initial withdrawal attempt, the $$$ would be taken back from the other guy's account, and he said it shouldn't. So, basically, I'm sitting on this extra $$$ that seems to have come from out of nowhere. I'm waiting to see if the guy has the $$$ taken out of his account, but if that doesn't happen, where did the $$$ come from, and who should I contact about it? The deposit was not made due to bank error this time, and I already talked to them about it and they rejected the notion that there was any error. So, basically, what do I do from this point?


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Ever think about the energy that gets wasted every day by just walking about? Apparently others have, and you can now buy a pair of Wellies that will charge your phone using the heat generated as you walk.
(by Richard Austin. We think probably this Richard Austin.)
Once upon a time there were gladiators in York.
When I see things like this, it makes me wish that I just collected cameras and camera paraphernalia. Here is something that will never be part of my camera bag due to compatibility issues, but looks absolutely beautiful.


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#1: Good hair day
So I'm having a good hair day today. Today was the first time I washed with Castille soap and acv. That was pretty interesting I lost a lot a lot of hair and detangling was harder than usual. But I did notice my curls more defined. The only thing is that I washed my hair at ten this morning and it is almost ten at night and my hair is still moist? Does that have to deal with low porosity? also how do you know whether your hair is really moisturized? What does that feel or look like... Thanks in advance


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Jones has adrenaline flowing during live BP
GLENDALE, Ariz. -- Nate Jones threw a live batting-practice session Friday to test his strained left glute, and the only problem reported by the White Sox right-hander was getting too amped up on his fastballs.
"I need a little bit of work on the location," said a smiling Jones. "But the changeup and slider were there. I just need to not get so jacked on heaters, but I stepped it up a level.
"It's probably a different adrenaline rush with opposing hitters. But I still got it going pretty good with our hitters."
Jones guessed at a mid- or late-week appearance in Cactus League action, but it was only a guess. He feels as if there's plenty of time to get the necessary work done to prepare for the regular season.
"Absolutely. There's going to be plenty of opportunities," Jones said. "So we still have plenty of games left to get out there and do all that. I'm sure it will be fine."
Scott Merkin is a reporter for MLB.com. Read his blog, Merk's Works, and follow him on Twitter @scottmerkin. This story was not subject to the approval of Major League Baseball or its clubs.


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From where I sat it seemed to me that the refs are looking to blow the whistle on Hibbert. Hope that changes.
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From where I sat it seemed to me that the refs are looking to blow the whistle on Hibbert. Hope that changes.
Defense was not there for the starting unit. Terrible Defense, Orlando is full of shooters. Didn't they read the scouting report? Huge let down tonight, no excuse for this team to lose against the Magic. Especially when the starting unit rested the entire 4th qtr last night.
You can't get champagne from a garden hose.
That bar is set pretty low, it doesn't mean to me that we should go after McBob. I'd love to dump Green and somehow have a do over in free agency this summer with Bird here to call the shots this time.
I didn't see the game, but if he's cheaper and makes less, then surely we'd call that a bargain.
This space for rent.
Few key things.....
**Though Green is doing well defensively and on the boards, he and the rest of the bench are really killing us offensively. Some days the opposition is going to get it going like they did tonight, and when we can't count on our bench to give us some type of offense, it puts a lot of pressure on our starters.
**The magic ALWAYS give us a tough time. They just spread us out and run PnP with cutters from the weak side. Vogel really needs to figure out a way to combat this style of play. I know most teams don't have the personnel to run this type of offense, but seeing it happen shows that it's just another wrinkle we need to add to our defense if we truly want to be elite.
**I feel we're slowly beginning to miss Danny's offense out there
I've been thinking we've looked tired as of late. West in particular. Green looks really bad right now. Hoping Danny comes back and his return helps improve bench scoring. At worst, Lances creativity and ability to play aggressively on the offensive end of the floor (though he has deferred with the starters) will open things up for Tyler and mahinmi. And will get the ball out of Greens hands.
Obvious to you of course.
2-17, 12% from 3pt land... that's not going to get it done. Especially when the other team shoots 12-21! uhhhg....
I'm ready for Gerald Green to move on.
Can Green just shoot his way out of his slump in practice? I mean, if he can't get it going in real games, he better find other ways to score.
The two major weaknesses that we have on offense that this game really highlighted were our inability to get to the line (coupled with an unwillingness to shoot close shots) and poor shot creation and passing. (That might actually be more than two.) I think Danny can help with getting to the line and finding smarter shots. How the hell do we fix the passing before playoff time though?
Green has been shooting like **** for most of the season, especially from three. He's only playing because of our terrible bench depth. (You could say the same about everyone else not named Ian.) But he was like the eleventh worst thing that was wrong with the Pacers tonight. He hasn't been a positive difference maker at all, but he doesn't lose us games. The Pacers excel on defense as a team, suck **** on offense as a team, and win or lose as a team.
I didn't realize it was the Pacers 4th game in 5 nights and 6 games in 9 nights. Dare I say schedule loss.
Plus the Magic played very well in the game after the Wizards blew them out.
I have heard it said many times. A player's job is to play and take the open shots within the offense. if a player is doing that and still missing, then it is the coaches job to sit that player and play someone else.
The sai thing is Green is open. His shot selection isn't bad.
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McRoberts actually makes more. $3,135,000 vs $3,055,000
Nothing is obvious there at all.
I would still rather have Tyler
Still too early to call Vogel vs. JOB?
You seem to forget, I suggested that O'Brien not be brought back after his third season, so I was certainly in favor of and thought it was time for a change during Jim's 4th season.
Back to the topic at hand. If you would rather have Josh instead of Tyler that is fine and a very arguable point. But to suggest that Josh is obviously better than Tyler is IMO just not correct. I guess I have a problem with the word obvious.
Is there an arguable point for why you'd rather have Tyler? I'd like to hear it.
feels like we've been through this before. Not sure there is any new ground here
No. You know that people are going to kill you for saying this
Tonight, all flags must burn, in place of steeples.
Autonomy must return into the hands of the people.
You've got that right!
Te Pacers threw more interceptions than Peyton Manning in a playoff game.
He may or may not be better, but in spite of their differences in strengths and weaknesses; they're too similar in production to be able to say one is an "obvious" better choice over the other.
In other words: if we had Josh instead of Tyler we probably wouldn't improve much, if at all. If we're going to replace Tyler, it needs to be with a clear upgrade, not a marginal one.


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The modern battle against bullying is hard to miss: From anti-cyberbulling PSAs to state laws that target bullies, parents and administrators are more involved than ever in helping kids fight back. But in 1989 when Margaret Atwood published Cat's Eye, books that dived so deeply into the world of girl-on-girl bullying were few and far between. Narrator Kimberly Farr turns the story into a haunting tale of the lifelong consequences that can follow you from childhood – made all the more chilling from a modern point of view.
The story is told from the perspective of Elaine Risley, a Canadian painter who returns to her hometown for a show of her work. The activities surrounding the show frame her slowly returning memories of her childhood, and the three girls she used to pal around with. Now, we'd call these girls frenemies. Led by a girl named Cordelia, the trio teases, taunts, and hazes young Elaine even as she tries to stay on their good side. By high school, Elaine has broken away from the group, but the emotional affects of the friendships follow her through art school, adulthood, and into her romantic relationships.
Farr takes the character of Elaine from elementary school-age outcast to resigned adult, weaving in distinct voices for other characters – Elaine's adult friends, her lovers, her family – as Elaine tries to move past the memories of Cordelia. As a girl making a faux pas at another family's Sunday Dinner, as a teen who jokes with her brother while they're drying the dishes, as an art student sleeping with the teacher, and as a middle-aged painter reflecting on her life, Farr gives the story personality, charm, and the right mix of nostalgia and fuzzy memories. Elaine's straightforward, accepting description of the way her friends treated her will draw up your own memories of facing down the mean girls at your school – and remind you how far you've come. Blythe Copeland
Cat's Eye is the story of Elaine Risley, a controversial painter who returns to Toronto, the city of her youth, for a retrospective of her art. Engulfed by vivid images of the past, she reminisces about a trio of girls who initiated her into the fierce politics of childhood and its secret world of friendship, longing, and betrayal. Elaine must come to terms with her own identity as a daughter, a lover, an artist, and a woman--but above all she must seek release from her haunting memories. Disturbing, hilarious, and compassionate, Cat's Eye is a breathtaking novel of a woman grappling with the tangled knot of her life.
©1989 Margaret Atwood (P)2011 Random House
"A brilliant, three-dimensional mosaic...the story of "Elaine's childhood is so real and heartbreaking you want to stand up in your seat and cheer." (Boston Sunday Globe)
"Stunning...Atwood conceives Elaine with a poet's transforming fire; and delivers her to us that way, a flame inside an icicle." (Los Angeles Times)
"Nightmarish, evocative, heartbreaking." (The New York Times Book Review)
I really feel the need to leave this review because the only other Audible reviewer colorfully describes how the narrator ruined the book, and I almost didn't get it because of that.
I'm so glad I decided to give it a chance anyway. I've listened to at least 100 audiobooks and I really found no problem with this narrator. I thought her voice and reading were perfectly appropriate for the character. I hadn't read the book before so I did not have a preconceived notion of what she was supposed to sound like, but either way, I did not find the narrator at all robotic or over-acting.
As for the story - yes, it is wonderful. All in all, this audiobook was a very enjoyable experience.
I'm a horror, sci-fi fan. My favourites are Lovecraft, Poe, Bierce, Jackson, Levin, and King.
"Girls Are Mean- At All Ages"
I thought about my own childhood bullies, and where we are all in our lives now. Karma may not always be swift, but she is indeed a just lady.
Elaine's mother- she was adaptable and aware.
Elaine- she was flighty, scattered, and awkward....very much the way I perceive myself.
It rang true to me from many life experiences. There are so many people who will be unkind to us, judge us, belittle us, be cruel to us...and we must find our ways to cope and to survive.
I loved the descriptions of Elaine's art, though I wish she'd also depicted Grace, her true bully.
"Another great one!"
I have never been disappointed by Margaret Atwood! Cat's Eye is no exception. This story is the narrator's retelling (reminiscing) about her life interspersed with present time. I loved the journey she shared, parts poignant, parts funny, parts tug at the heart.
"Narrator ruined this audiobook"
I have read this book at least four times, and have loved it more each time. The book is funny, beautiful, intelligent, and heartbreaking.
Whoever chose this narrator needs to have their head examined. Kimberly Farr is perhaps the WORST narrator I've ever had the misfortune to encounter. I was immediately annoyed by her over-enunciating robotic voice, and her over-acting. I am horribly disappointed that Ms. Farr has ruined all the joy I was anticipating in listening to this marvelous book. Simply ghastly!
Do yourself a favor. Read the book instead.
"Thinking Back"
Vintage Margaret Atwood. I'm nearing this juncture in my own life, so the "thinkback" motif hit very close to home. Performance a little tight.
"Heart opening"
This book is a must read for any woman who ever grew up in the western world, especially in a suburban setting. It's a true and very touching catharsis about the cruelty of women towards each other and the heartbreak behind such cruelty. I will definitely be reading this again.
Interested in everything. Listening for something AMAZING...
"Great book, but...."
One of my favorite all time fictional works. I read this first in a college lit class and I've read it once a year ever since. The story is hauntingly beautiful and has resonated with me at every age (I am now 44). Elaine's journey of self-exploration and her ability to finally understand and shed her childhood is both heartfelt and compelling. When I found it in audio, I was irrationally excited! Unfortunately, my favorite audio rendition has been discontinued. Kim Farr's version does not do the book justice. The best audio version is by Barbara Caruso and can only be found on Learn-Out-Loud. I'd pay Audible any price to own the Barbara Caruso version. Do yourself a favorite and read it the first time and then explore the audio options.
"Beautiful Insight on a Girl's Growing Up"
A story about an artist (or 'painter', as the character prefers), told in the immersive prose Atwood is so very good at. Having been through so many of the things the main character describes in her reflections on growing up, I found Atwood's story poignant and wonderfully relatable. A new favorite, for sure.
"Must Read"
Awkward, Interesting, Personal
I dont quite remember it like I did when I was in 9th grade, but I recall always trying to find this book because I knew I liked it. And once I read it again, then I'll know why all these years, I've been trying to find it to read it again. Lol.
Elaine Risley
Elaine Risley and because she is an artist as I am too and I feel we would get along great talking about each others works of art, her's painting, mine being the music I produce and the pornographic arts I've always wanted to be a part of.
She should have shortened the book to only include her childhood, instead of 70+ chapters of boring middle aged life where nothing happens of major interest.
Not sure
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"After reading Krugman's repugnant piece on 9/11, I cancelled my subscription to the New York Times this AM."
That's the reaction on Twitter today from former Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld to "The Years of Shame" blog post published Sunday by New York Times columnist and Nobel Prize winning economist Paul Krugman.
In his post, Krugman argues that:
-- After the Sept. 11 attacks, "heroes like Bernie Kerik, Rudy Giuliani, and, yes, George W. Bush raced to cash in on the horror. And then the attack was used to justify an unrelated war."
-- "Professional pundits ... took the easy way out, turning a blind eye to the corruption and lending their support to the hijacking of the atrocity."
-- "The memory of 9/11 has been irrevocably poisoned; it has become an occasion for shame. And in its heart, the nation knows it."
Krugman ended his post by saying "I'm not going to allow comments ... for obvious reasons."


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Tesla's goal is to accelerate the world's transition to electric mobility with a full range of increasingly affordable electric cars. California-based Tesla designs and manufactures EVs, as well as EV powertrain components for partners such as Toyota and Daimler. Tesla has delivered over 15,000 electric vehicles to customers in 31 countries. Model S is the world's first premium sedan to be engineered from the ground up as an electric vehicle. Model S was named Motor Trend's prestigious 2013 Car of the Year, achieved the best safety score of any car ever tested by the NHTSA, and Consumer Reports is calling it the best car it has ever tested.
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We offer a competitive salary, meaningful stock ownership, benefits, a fun work environment and the opportunity to change the paradigm of human transportation.
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Over the last few years, there has been a major shift in recruitment towards something that's more of a fusion between recruitment and marketing, with an increasing number of companies turning to video in a bid to shorten the recruitment process and attract the best candidates possible. Continue reading


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I'll admit to a production secret: sometimes I use MIDI files containing drum patterns. I cut my teeth in the early 90s making beats on countless records using various drum machines and sequencers. However, like an old boxer I always seem to throw the same punches. The only way for me to get some totally new grooves is to rely on Herbie Hancock or others who sold their patterns. Well ok often I use randomizers but that's the not the point of this blog post. Today Groove Monkee released a new set of prefab drum beat MIDI files. This one's called Twisted Beats and you get 800 for $29.95. If you order today (Wednesday Feb 10, 2010) you can get $10 off with the code: twitter10
"Twisted Beats is a unique collection of over 800 four measure MIDI loops for contemporary music with Rock, RnB World and Fusion influences. A wide range of old and new school influences are represented here: Dave Matthews, Herbie Hancock, The Mars Volta, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Meters, Paul Simon, Prince, etc. The grooves were played by a professional studio drummer or expertly programmed in order to get exactly the right feel. We've selected only beats with an infectious "feel" or "groove"; this is NOT just a random collection of unusable beats." – groovemonkee.com
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World wheat trade for the international July-June 2012/13 trade year is projected up 1.6 million tons to 141.8 million this month, driven by stronger demand for imported wheat in Iran and a number of other countries throughout the world.
The Iranian Government is continuing to build up its reserve wheat stocks in the midst of an intricate political situation. The wheat import projection for Iran is raised this month by 1.0 million tons to 4.0 million, reflecting the strong pace of deliveries from the EU-27 –Lithuania– and Australia.
The dynamics of relative prices for wheat and corn accelerated wheat (while cutting corn) imports in Korea, up 0.5 million tons to 5.5 million. Algeria and Yemen have been recently purchasing wheat at a faster pace than expected earlier, especially from the EU-27 (France), and their 2012/13 imports are projected up 0.3 million tons this month each, to 5.5 and 2.9 million, respectively.
Japanese, Chinese, and Chilean wheat imports are up 0.2 million tons each due to the pace of pur chases, and are expected to reach 6.1, 3.2, and 1.0 million tons, respectively. Jap an has recently made unusual purchases of SRW wheat from the U.S. that is likely to be used for feeding.
There are small increases this month in projected imports by Canada, Ecuador, Tanzania, and Togo. Import prospects for 2012/13 are reduced this month for Egypt and Kenya.
The projection for Egyptian imports is reduced by 1.0 million tons this month to 8.5 million. For a number of reasons the country has trouble in securing sufficient wheat import supplies.
Political instability led to depreciation of the country's currency and a sharp reduction in currency reser ves. This in turn puts strain on the state budget and affects the ability of the country's state grain buyer—the General Authority for Supply Commodities (GASC)—to regularly import sufficient quantities of wheat using the customary wh eat tenders.
In order to maintain an adequate food consumption level to avoid possible unrest, Egypt is increasing the procurement price for local wheat and is subsidizing its flour production. The Government's hope is to get additional wheat from farmers. This, however, would drive down stocks, and thereby be at odds with the traditional policy of maintaining high wheat reserves.
Kenyan wheat imports are also reduced 0.2 million tons to 1.0 million, mainly because of the dwindling wheat supplies from Russia and Ukraine. Based on the recent pace of exports and continued price competitiveness enhanced by weak exchange rates, exports are in creased this month for the EU-27. Based on the volume of export licenses, EU-27 exports are projected up 1.0 million tons to 19.5 million, almost 20 percent higher than a year ago when EU-27 wheat output was 5.0 million tons larger.
This year, lack of competition from Russia and Ukraine allowed European (and especially eastern European) wheat exporters to expand their deliveries to the traditional Russian and Ukrainian importers of North Africa and the Middle East. This wheat export e xpansion by the EU-27 is being matched by high corn imports, the largest in 10 years. Brazilian wheat exports are projected up 0. 5 million tons this month to 1.7 million tons. Since eliminating tariff rate quotas for wheat exports through July 2013, Brazil has been exporting feed-quality wheat at a higher-than-expected pace.
Ukraine's export prospects are up 0.3 million tons this month to 6.5 million. Based on the pace of shipments in recent months, exports are projected higher this month also for Croatia, Iran (a particular sale of wheat to Syria), Morocco, and Serbia. Faced with increased competition from EU- 27 and India, and a relatively strong currency, U.S. wheat exports are reduced 0.5 million tons to 28.5 million for the international July-June trade year, which is still 0.4 million tons higher than last year's exports.
Despite improved shipments, outstanding wheat sales are currently on par with last year.
As we enter the last quarter of the marketing year, and approach the last quarter of the trade year, it becomes in creasingly difficult to sustain the pace of shipments necessary to meet last month's U.S. export projection. From July 2012 through January 2013, the U.S. Census Bureau reported that exports of wheat reached 13.6 million tons, down from 15.2 a year earlier.
However, grain inspections for February 2013 were 2.5 million tons, up 33 percent compared with a year ago. Outstanding export sales as of February 28, 2013 are at 5.4 million tons, almost the same as last year at this time. For the June-May 2012/13 local marketing year, U.S. wheat exports are projected down 25 million bushels to 1,025 million.
Source: Wheat Outlook