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Wherein faculty share a favorite book with the rest of us….
Chitra Raghavan, professor in the Psychology Department & Director of the BA/MA Program, recommends Beyond Black and Giving Up the Ghost by Hilary Mantel. (Holt, 2005 & 2003). On order at the John Jay Library.
I've been reading Hilary Mantel's non-historical books recently, and I am enjoying how dark, disturbed, and psychologically perverse she is. Right before school started, I finished Beyond Black, which is literary fiction that doesn't fit into any subgenre easily. Allison, a professional psychic who is tormented by malicious spirits hires Colette, an angry failed event planner, to manage her career. (It's worth noting that Mantel writes about her struggle with mental illness and ghosts in Giving Up the Ghost, a memoir). Over time, shown in great slow detail (sometimes too slow), their co-dependency becomes poisonous. Alison—self-absorbed yet fragile—seems never to notice that Colette might exist outside of her needs. Colette, watching her youth and sexual possibilities evaporate as they hustle from sleazy psychic fair to psychic fair, becomes angrier and more abusive of her employer. This is not a novel of action—much of the story takes place in repeating details— it's a novel about damaged internal landscapes and the struggle for survival. Although sometimes disagreeable to read, the subtle details make the book a quiet masterpiece. The scenes of Allison overeating unhealthily make the reader want to scream and intervene in some way other than Colette's increasing disgust and mockery. When Allison yearns again to know who fathered her, you feel like jumping into the pages of the book to tell her to just move away, forget the whole thing, and accept her anonymity so she can move on. And as you start encountering the almost incidental flashbacks of her childhood (her mother is obliquely referred to as a not-very-successful prostitute with numerous abusive clients, at least one of whom rapes the pre-adolescent Allison), each tiny episode halts the present for a moment followed by a painful moment of reader understanding. Although ultimately, Mantel never tells us if the whole psychic enterprise is imagined by Allison, whose distorted memories of abuse and associated ghosts intermingle with more "legitimate" spirits, this is not a book about childhood abuse or surviving abuse. It's an unforgiving diary about two lonely alienated women and their failure to find intimacy.
Victoria Bond, professor in the English Department, recommends NOS4A2 by Joe Hill (Morrow, 2013) and The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates (Ecco, 2013). On order at the John Jay Library.
The fiction I read is often a direct reflection of the fiction I am trying to write. Since I have spent the past few years working on a gothic/ghost story mash-up, I've read a ton of horror novels of every shape and size. Probably the longest and a favorite was the vampire saga The Accursed by Joyce Carol Oates, set in Princeton, New Jersey at the turn of the 20th century. However, the last novel that deeply touched me in addition to being instructive as to genre and craft was Joe Hill's horror thriller NOS4A2. The title refers to the license plate of the novel's villain, a vampire-like kidnapper named Charlie Manx who literally rides the roads of the unconscious mind in his vintage Rolls Royce. The title is also a play on the classic vampire film Nosferatu. Seductive and enigmatic though the villain may be, it was the portrayal of the motorcycle-riding mother and children's book author Vic McQueen who is the heroine of the novel that got under my skin and emotionally needled me in a productive and painful way. I have not read another book that made me consider so fully what exactly it means to be an artist and a mother and a hurt soul. In fact, I'm eight months pregnant now, and I'm not sure I would be if Hill, son of the author Stephen King, hadn't given me a window into these issues that at once riveted me as a reader at the same time it encouraged me to take long, hard looks in the mirror as a woman.
Comments solicited by Janice Dunham
Posted Monday, December 15, 2014 - 1:56pm
Catalog records grow longer
From the Fall 2014 newsletter
Have you noticed that some CUNY+ catalog records are long and filled with contents and summary notes about the work, and some records are terse, with the minimal amount of information available? When a user searches CUNY+ looking for a book, the user will eventually click on a title from a list of search results, thus bringing them to the full view of the record of that book.
As a cataloger, I am seeing long records more than I used to as a user. Traditionally, an old printed card catalog that followed the rules of Anglo-American Cataloguing Rules (AACR2) usually included the following information: author, title, imprint, physical description, and sometimes a brief note and the Library of Congress subject headings—and the most important element, the call number! All of this information would fit on to an index-sized card and be filed into the drawer.
In the 21st century, hard drives and server spaces are becoming very inexpensive. Libraries no longer worry about a long MARC record taking up too much storage space. Catalogers can supply as much information as possible into a single catalog record, making the information more complete for the user. Now we can add an extended version of the table of contents, and summary notes, such as one from the publisher and one from the book jacket.
The benefit of a long catalog record is the keyword search. When performing a keyword search, the subject, and almost all other fields in the record are searched for the keyword.
My only concern for a long catalog record is, considering the notorious short attention span of the younger generation, how much time would they be willing to spend looking at the long table of contents and summary notes to find what they need?
Jing Si Feng
Posted Monday, December 15, 2014 - 1:52pm
Researching a mental illness in the library
From the Fall 2014 newsletter
Munchausen syndrome by proxy (MSBP) is an unusual mental illness where a caretaker falsifies a child's illness. Sometimes the caretaker might go to the extreme of actually making the child sick. MedlinePlus also identifies MSBP as a form of child abuse. What is stranger still is that the caretakers who have MSBP often work in health care and do a good job describing and faking the symptoms.
Unfortunately, the cause of MSBP is unknown, and it is very hard to detect this form of child abuse when it happens. A child who has a long medical history with symptoms that do not match normal diseases might be a signal of something wrong.
The Library has several books specifically about MSBP (see right). The Library of Congress subject heading is "Munchausen syndrome by proxy." Tip: when performing a subject search at the CUNY+ catalog, a user can type in the Library of Congress subject heading in the search box and see a list of results under this subject heading.
Another way to look up books about MSBP is to perform a search using the call number in the CUNY+ catalog, or by simply browsing the Library stacks. The Library of Congress classed MSBP under Medicine-Neurosciences-Psychiatry-Psychiatric aspects of personality and behavior conditions-Other personality disorders, behavior problems, situations, etc. (call number RC569.5 .M83).
Tip: select the "call number" search type in the CUNY+ catalog and type in the call number, here RC569.5 .M83, in the search box. The search results will show a list of books classed under this subject heading.
Here's what how the Library of Congress classifies the subject.
Library of Congress Subject Headings
- Munchausen syndrome by proxy.
- Narrower Topics:
- Munchausen syndrome by proxy -- Case studies.
- Munchausen syndrome by proxy -- Diagnosis.
- Munchausen syndrome by proxy -- United States
- Munchausen syndrome by proxy -- United States -- Case studies
- Child abuse – Investigation
- See From Tracing terms (see from reference from a topical term not used in an established L.C. Subject Heading):
- MBPS (Syndrome)
- Meadow syndrome
- MSBP (Syndrome)
- MSP (Syndrome)
- Munchausen abuse
- Munchausen by proxy syndrome
- Munchausen proxy syndrome
- Polle syndrome
- See From Tracing terms (see also from reference from an established topical term to a related established L.C. Subject Heading):
- Child abuse
- Munchausen syndrome
Selected resources from our collection
Lasher, Louisa J. Munchausen by proxy: identification, intervention, and case management. New York: Haworth Maltreatment and Trauma Press, 2004. RC569.5 .M83 L37 2004
Munchausen's syndrome by proxy [electronic resource]: current issues in assessment, treatment and research. Ed. Gwen Adshead & Deborah Brooke. London : Imperial College Press, 2001. CUNY Online Resource.
Rister, Esther S. Child abuse in the medical guise: Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Thesis (Ph.D.)--City University of New York, 1996. John Jay College Special Collections, LD 3835 .A5 R57 1996
Artingstall, Kathryn. Practical aspects of Munchausen by proxy and Munchausen syndrome investigation. Boca Raton, FL : CRC Press, 1999. RC 569.5 .M83 A78 1999
Child neglect and Munchausen syndrome by proxy. Ed. United States Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention. Washington, D.C. : U.S. Dept. of Justice, Office of Justice Programs, Office of Juvenile Justice and Delinquency Prevention, 1996. RC 569.5 .M83 C45 1996
"Munchausen syndrome by proxy." MedlinePlus. U.S. National Library of Medicine. 09 Oct. 2014. Web. 26 Oct. 2014.
"Library of Congress Classification PDF Files". The Library of Congress. 01 Oct. 2014. Web. 26 Oct. 2014.
Jing Si Feng
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Posted Monday, December 15, 2014 - 1:51pm
From the Fall 2014 Newsletter
The Media Department of the Library continues to grow its collection of DVDs. They are still in heavy demand by John Jay College faculty, on par with popular streaming video collections.
How do you find out which DVDs are available in the library? Use the trusty library catalog, CUNY+. We put records there for all our acquisitions—print, electronic, visual, etc. If you know the title of the DVD you are looking for, perform a "Title begins with..." search in CUNY+.
To find DVDs on a topic, use a keyword search: identify your topic keywords and combine it with the keywords and dvd or video or media or film. This is a very broad search that can pick up monographic titles dealing with the media or film industry as well, but it is quick and convenient.
Another way to pinpoint DVD materials in CUNY+ catalog search is to go to the Advanced Search tab—there is such an option, who knew?! Limit your search to media as Record Type and visual materials as Format Type. (See top of page.) Tip: using an asterisk * as a wildcard expands search (e.g., PRISON* should catch prison, prisons, prisoner, prisoners, etc.).
CUNY+ should have records for both physical (DVD and VHS) and streaming video formats. We strive to maintain catalog records as accurately as possible, but due to technicalities that go beyond control of John Jay College librarians, it is recommended to search each streaming video collection individually, rather than relying solely on the records in CUNY+. The vendors constantly add new titles and pull out others. Updating CUNY+ records takes time and human intervention. Please send an email to firstname.lastname@example.com with any questions about DVD or streaming video availability.
It is always recommended to request DVDs for your classes in advance. Some titles are extremely popular and might not be available for viewing on the spot. We also share our DVD collection with other CUNY schools through interlibrary loan (on a limited basis). Students may view DVDs in the library but cannot take them home.
To request a video, use the Video Request Form.
Maria Kiriakova (email) is the Interim Media Librarian at Lloyd Sealy Library.
Highlights of our recent DVD acquisitions
The Heroin Wars (Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, 1996). Covers the heroin wars in Burma. DVD-1324
The Waiting Room (Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c2012). Documentary about an American public hospital struggling to care for a community of largely uninsured patients. DVD-1325
Untouchable? (Oley, PA : Bullfrog Films, c2000). Examines the lives of Dalits in a small village in southern India. DVD-1326
I Am A Man (Northampton, MA : Media Education Foundation, 2006). An exploration of "what it means to be a black man in America." DVD-1327
The Red Button: The Man Who Saved The World (MG Production and LogTV Ltd, 2011). "At four minutes past midnight on September 26, 1983 the world stood on the brink of nuclear war. The fate of our globe was in the hands of one man, Lieutenant Colonel Stanislav Petrov." DVD-1329
John Cassavetes: Five Films (Irvington, NY : Criterion Collection, 2004). Films by a pioneer of independent film. Includes A Woman Under the Influence (1974). DVD-1332
Living for 32 (Cuomo Cole Productions, [c2010]). The inspirational story of Colin Goddard, a survivor of the Virginia Tech massacre that took place on April 16, 2007. DVD-1336
Rhyme and Punishment (Chatsworth, CA : Image Entertainment, 2011). Look inside the nation's toughest prisons to capture the real-life stories of some of the most influential hip-hop artists who have ever been incarcerated. DVD-1344
Contagion (Burbank, CA : Warner Home Video, 2011). A woman returns to the U.S. from a business trip to Hong Kong, bringing a deadly virus with her... DVD-1345
Ebola: The Plague Fighters (WGBH Educational Foundation : WGBH Boston Video, 2007). When an outbreak of the Ebola virus swept through Zaire in May 1995, Nova was the only film crew permitted to cover the outbreak. DVD-1346
Epidemic: Ebola, AIDS, Bird Flu & Typhoid (WGBH Educational Foundation : WGBH Boston Video, 2007). Four programs from NOVA covering deadly outbreaks. DVD-1347
Maria Kiriakova
Posted Monday, December 15, 2014 - 1:47pm
A selection of published reserach
From the Fall 2014 newsletter
The most popular collection in our Special Collections remains the Criminal Trial Transcripts of New York 1883–1927. These 3,326 transcripts record court proceedings in NY County (Manhattan and The Bronx). Most of the trials (numbering 2,700) were heard in the Court of General Sessions 1887-1927, which was a lower criminal court. We received this collection from the New York County Clerk's office back in 1972. In 1983-84, we received an NEH grant to index and microfilm the collection, which made the transcripts available by interlibrary loan on 425 microfilm reels.
In 2006, as part of our Crime in New York 1850-1950 grant from the Metropolitan New York Library Council, we made the index available online and began digitizing selected transcripts in 2006. In 2012, we obtained a digital microfilm reader/scanner which allows patrons to create their own PDFs of a trial from the microfilm. We have recently digitized transcripts relating to abortion and "White Slavery" to support the research of Library faculty members. We plan to continue to digitize transcripts with the support of small grants. Sometime soon the digitized transcripts will move over from our old Crime in New York 1850-1950 site to our new Digital Collections.
The great aspect of this collection is the growing list of publications generated from research in this collection, whose contents are often requested by interlibrary loan. There are a lot more research topics in these 3,326 transcripts and students at John Jay and elsewhere are often assigned to read a transcript and research the case in classes related to New York City crime history.
Browse the transcripts that are currently digitized »
For more on our trial transcripts, other transcript collections at other repositories and all our Special Collections see our Special Collections Guide, or contact Dr. Ellen Belcher. Listed here are a few books and articles generated from research in this collection.
Arons, Ron. (2008). The Jews of Sing Sing: Gotham Gangsters and Gonuvim. Fort Lee: Barricade Books. Stacks - HV6194 .J4 A76 2008
Used many trial transcripts in the John Jay Transcript Collection as resources for this book.
Brooks, Tim and Richard Keith Spottswood. (2004). Lost Sounds: Blacks and the Birth of the Recording Industry, 1890-1919. University of Illinois Press. Available as an e-book (CUNY use only)
Chapter three uses The People vs. George V. Johnson (our trial number 183) as a resource.
Bunk, Tobin. (2014). Poisoning the Pecks of Grand Rapids: The Scandalous 1916 Murder Plot. History Press (expected soon at John Jay Library).
Used People vs. Arthur Warren Waite (our trial number 3241 as a resource for this book.
Nancy C. Carnevale. (2010). A New Language, a New World: Italian Immigrants in the United States, 1890-1945. Chicago: University of Illinois Press. Avail. As an e-book (CUNY use only)
Used People v Calandra Biaggio (our transcript number 601, which is digitally available) and People vs. Dominick DeMasso (our transcript number 322)
Chauncey, G. (1994). Gay New York: Gender, Urban Culture, and the Making of the Gay Male World, 1890-1940. New York: Basic Books. Stacks - HQ 76.2 .U52 N53 1994.
Used sodomy cases in the Court of General Sessions Transcripts at John Jay as a resource for this book.
Cole, Simon A. (2001). Suspect Identities: A History of Criminal Investigation and Fingerprinting. Cambridge: Harvard University Press. Reserve Room - 3 hour loan - HV 6074 .C557 2001 Also available as an e-book (CUNY use only).
Used transcript of People v. Crispi (our trial number 176) as a resource in this book.
Critchley, David. (2009). The Origin of Organized Crime in America: The New York City Mafia 1891-1931. New York: Routledge. Stacks - HV6452 .N7 C75 2009
Used transcript of People vs. John Russomanno (our trial number 1856) as a resource for this book.
Donovan, B. (2005). "Gender Inequality and Criminal Seduction: Prosecuting Sexual Coercion in the Early-20th Century." Law and Social Inquiry, 30 pp. 61–88.
Analyzes narratives of sexual consent and coercion in 15 criminal seduction cases as recorded in transcripts in the John Jay Collection.
Livingston, David. (2010). Arsenic and Clam Chowder: Murder in Gilded Age New York. Albany: Excelsior Editions, State University of New York Press. Stacks - HV6534 .N5 L58 2010
Detailed account of a murder for inheritance in a famous NYC family, and the trial (our trial number 70).
Mcillwain, Jeffrey Scott. (1997). "From Tong War to Organized Crime: Revising the Historical Perception of Violence in Chinatown." Justice Quarterly 14, 1 pp. 25-52.
Used the Court of General Sessions, New York County transcripts amongst other primary and secondary documents in this study.
Murphy, Cait. (2010). Scoundrels in Law: The Trials of Howe & Hummel, Lawyers to the Gangsters, Cops, Starlets, and Rakes Who Made the Gilded Age. New York, N.Y.: Smithsonian Books Stacks-KF355 .N4 M87 2010
This law firm regularly and famously represented defendants in the Court of General Sessions and many other NYC Courts. Many of our transcripts were used as reference for this book.
Robertson, S. (2002). "Making Right a Girl's Ruin: Working-Class Legal Cultures and Forced Marriage in New York City, 1890–1950." Journal of American Studies 36: pp. 199-230
Used several transcripts on sex crimes and marriage in the John Jay Collection as material for these and forthcoming studies.
Robertson, S. (2002). "Age of Consent Law and the Making of Modern Childhood in New York City, 1886—1921." Journal of Social History 35.4 pp. 781-798.
Used several transcripts on sex crimes and marriage in the John Jay Collection as material for these and forthcoming studies.
Schoepfiln, Rennie B. (2002). Christian Science on Trial: Religious Healing in America (Medicine, Science and Religion in Historical Context) Johns Hopkins University Press. Available as an e-book (CUNY use only)
Used transcript of People vs. Willis V. Cole our trial number 1767 (case on appeal was 148 N.Y.S. 708) as a resource in this book.
Ellen Belcher
Posted Monday, December 15, 2014 - 1:42pm
From the Fall 2014 newsletter
Find these recommended books in the CUNY+ catalog.
Derickson, Alan. Dangerously sleepy: overworked Americans and the cult of manly wakefulness. Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2014. HD5124 .D36 2014
Warren, Elizabeth. A fighting chance. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014. E901.1.W37 A3 2014.
Wu, Ellen D. The color of success: Asian Americans and the origins of the model minority. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2014. E184.A75 W8 2014
Wu, a historian at Indiana University Bloomington, traces how Chinese and Japanese Americans, once considered as the 'yellow peril,' have become the 'model minority.' As the book's chapters alternate between describing the experiences of Chinese and Japanese Americans, Wu touches on major events in Asian American history: the 1882 Chinese Exclusion Act, WWII and internment camps for Japanese Americans, the civil rights movement, and others.
Epley, Nicholas. Mindwise: how we understand what others think, believe, feel, and want. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. BF575.E55 E75 2014
Taylor, Paul. The next America: boomers, millennials, and the looming generational showdown. New York: PublicAffairs, 2014. HN59 .T39 2014
French, Howard W. China's second continent: how a million migrants are building a new empire in Africa. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 2014. DT16 .C48 F74 2014
At present, China is Africa's largest trading partner, and over one million Chinese now live and work in Africa. The author describes this recent phenomenon as he travels across the continent and meets Chinese laborers, businessmen, and developers.
Cook, Kevin. Kitty Genovese: the murder, the bystanders, the crime that changed America. New York: W.W. Norton, 2014. HV6534.N5 C67 2014
Becker, Jo. Forcing the spring: inside the fight for marriage equality. New York: Penguin Press, 2014. KF228.H645 B43 2014
Kiehl, Kent. The psychopath whisperer: the science of those without conscience. New York: Crown Publishers, 2014. RC555.K54 2014
Hoffman, Morris B. The punisher's brain: the evolution of judge and jury. New York: Cambridge University Press, 2014. GT6710 .H64 2014
McLeod, Kembrew. Pranksters: making mischief in the modern world. New York: New York University Press, 2014. PN6231. P67 M35 2014
Senior, Jennifer. All joy and no fun: the paradox of modern parenthood. New York: Ecco, 2014. HQ755.8 .S453 2014
Sexting and youth: A multidisciplinary examination of research, theory, and law. Ed. Hiestand, Todd C., and Jesse W. Weins. Durham, North Carolina : Carolina Academic Press, 2014. HQ799.2.I5 S494 2014
Reducing gun violence in America: informing policy with evidence and analysis. Ed. Webster, Daniel W., and Vernick, Jon S. Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2013. HV7436 .R4152 2013 (also available in ebook)
Vogelstein, Fred. Dogfight: how Apple and Google went to war and started a revolution. New York: Sarah Crichton Books/Farrar, Straus And Giroux, 2013. HD9696.2.A2 V64 2013
Arbour, Brian. Candidate-centered campaigns: political messages, winning personalities, and personal appeals. New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 2014. JK2281 .A73 2014
Takriti, Abdel Razzaq. Monsoon revolution: republicans, sultans, and empires in Oman 1965-1976. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2013. DS247.O68 T35 2013
Biggar, Nigel. In defence of war. Oxford, United Kingdom: Oxford University Press, 2013. BT736.2 .B48 2013
Orenstein, Ronald I. Ivory, horn and blood: behind the elephant and rhinoceros poaching crisis. Richmond Hill, Ontario: Firefly Books, 2013. HD9429 .I862 O74 2013
Afro-Nordic landscapes: equality and race in Northern Europe. Ed. Michael McEachrane. New York :Routledge, 2014. DL42 .A45 A45 2014
Bullard, Katharine S. Civilizing the child: discourses of race, nation, and child welfare in America. Lanham, Md.: Lexington Books, 2014. HV741 .B85 2014
Bauer, Bryce T. Gentlemen bootleggers: the true story of Templeton Rye, Prohibition, and a small town in cahoots. Chicago, Illinois: Chicago Review Press, 2014. HV5090 .I8 B38 2014
Should I go to grad school?: 41 answers to an impossible question. Ed. Jessica Loudis, et al. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014. LB2371 .S586 2014
Bringing together personal stories of those pursued graduate education or decided against it, the book doesn't, ultimately, offer a definitive answer to its title question. Instead, it invites its readers—those who seek and those who are asked for advice—to consider the multiple and far-reaching consequences of either choice.
Macrakis, Kristie. Prisoners, lovers, & spies: the story of invisible ink from Herodotus to al-Qaeda. New Haven, Connecticut: Yale University Press, 2014. Z104.5 .M33 2014
Marlene Kandel & Jing Si Feng
Posted Monday, December 15, 2014 - 1:29pm
From the Fall 2014 newsletter
The Library provides access to a large collection of resources useful for researching controversial issues: research reports, reference materials, ebooks, periodical articles, editorials, speeches, public opinion polls, and multimedia files. The following is a list of selected databases that cover current events and controversial issues.
CQ Researcher Plus Archive is composed of over 3,600 research reports, which provide in-depth analysis of timely issues in the areas of health, social trends, criminal justice, education, the environment, science and technology, international affairs, and the economy. Written by experienced journalists, each report features an article overview, extensive discussion and background information, a chronology, pro/con debates, an outlook for the future, and a bibliography. Dating back to 1923, reports can be studied historically as the database tracks issues published in reports from earlier years.
Opposing Viewpoints in Context is another full-text database covering a wide range of issues. Topics are arranged under broad subject headings such as "business and economics," "health and medicine," "society and culture," or "law and politics." Many types of content are available in this multifaceted, multi-disciplinary database, including pro/con viewpoint essays, topic and court case overviews, agency profiles, national and global news sources, academic journal and magazine articles, primary sources, images, videos, podcasts, multimedia files, interactive maps, statistical information, and links to websites.
Gale Virtual Reference Library (GVRL) consists of hundreds of online reference books, spanning sources in art, literature, humanities, sciences, and social sciences, as well as medicine and law. Articles on contemporary issues can be found in numerous subject encyclopedias, with titles including encyclopedias of American social issues, American immigration, bioethics, cybercrime, climate change, environment, homelessness, law enforcement, media violence, and social problems. This database also features reference handbooks and other full-length online reference (or e-reference) books, which are often published as books in a series (Contemporary World Issues Series, Information Plus Reference Series). Online reference titles include books on abortion, capital punishment, gun control, marijuana, and women and crime.
In contrast to GVRL, Academic Search Complete primarily contains academic journal and other periodical articles, including full-text access to more than 7,850 peer-reviewed journals in over 20 academic fields. Research studies in scholarly journals in the sciences, social sciences, and humanities impart excellent background information on a wide range of issues. Other sources available in this database include Congressional Digest, an independent, impartial publication that summarizes key arguments for and against current issues before Congress, and Vital Speeches of the Day, which reproduces major speeches given by modern leaders. Among its collection of magazines, e.g. Time, Newsweek, U.S. News and World Report, Atlantic, Mother Jones, Harper's, The Nation, Commentary, National Review, some titles aim to be objective regarding current affairs, while others are openly opinionated, representing well-delineated liberal or conservative viewpoints.
LexisNexis Academic is a premier database well known for its extensive collection of legal, news, business, and reference sources. Supreme Court decisions and law review articles can be applied to pro and con research, as court cases often begin as controversial issues in the news. The Gallup Poll News Service analyzes findings from public opinion polls. A wide range of news sources is available in the database. Containing over 3,000 local, regional, national, and international newspapers, the full text newspaper collection is especially notable.
Using editorials and opinion pieces published in multiple newspapers, researchers can identify and examine different points-of-view. Along with LexisNexis Academic, two library databases recommended for these types of comparisons are the Wall Street Journal Database (Proquest), containing one very influential newspaper, and Ethnic NewsWatch, containing more than 200 ethnic, minority and native newspapers, magazines and journals. Topics, such as affirmative action, the Dream Act, police use of force, racial profiling, and raising the minimum wage, may highlight differences between mainstream newspapers and the minority press, between publications originating in different geographical regions, or between titles promoting opposing political philosophies.
Lory Gallo
Posted Monday, December 15, 2014 - 1:24pm
A brief history of federated & web-scale search in the library
From the Fall 2014 Newsletter
The Lloyd Sealy Library, with considerable help from CUNY, currently provides access to over 200 databases, multiple ebook collections, six streaming video collections, and over 80,000 online journals; not to mention the millions of books listed in the CUNY online library catalog (CUNY+). Students (and faculty, too) are understandably bewildered by this surfeit of riches. Give me a single search box, they cry, let me put some words in it, and out should come the books and articles that I need to write my paper.
Twenty years ago that was a ridiculous idea, but since the rise of the Google search engine, the general public has learned that they can, in fact, just put a term into a search box and pretty much all the time get the information they want. Why can't this happen in the world of scholarly writing?
Actually, to a certain extent, it can. Library publishers and database vendors have been experimenting with this idea since the middle of the last decade. "Federated search" engines were developed, which let users enter search terms that were then turned into queries sent to multiple distinct databases at the same time. The Lloyd Sealy Library subscribed to such a federated search service beginning in 2009; we called it "Hound Hunt." Federated search was slow and clunky; results were incomplete; there were duplicated results; and extra clicks were needed to finally get to the full text of the article. Hound Hunt lasted until summer 2013, but it never really took off in popularity at John Jay:
The Library community knew that a more "Google-like" experience was needed, and a number of library vendors developed "web-scale discovery services." Instead of a search bot performing separate searches on multiple different databases, publishers and databases vendors agreed to contribute their metadata to huge merged indexes which could be searched quickly and painlessly via a "discovery" layer that then displays results in a user-friendly and intuitive manner, leading seamlessly to the full text of articles, books and even media. Anticipating that the CUNY libraries would be moving to a discovery service offered by the vendor of our online catalog, but knowing that this service was at least a year away, the Lloyd Sealy Library, with the help of Student Technology Fee funds, subscribed to the EBSCO Discovery Service (EDS) beginning in August 2013. Our users immediately found this search to be faster, easier and more rewarding, as the following usage figures reveal:
The EDS service did not search the books listed in CUNY+, unfortunately, performing searches only on the combined indexes of multiple article databases. But the CUNY Office of Library Services has now begun implementing the Primo Discovery Service, which can search multiple databases plus CUNY+ all at once. The CUNY implementation of Primo, named CUNY OneSearch, is now available in beta form on the Library website. Try experimenting with OneSearch (also available as a tab on the Library's home page).
More information about OneSearch will be forthcoming on the Library website and in the Spring 2015 issue of Classified Information.
Bonnie Nelson
Posted Monday, December 15, 2014 - 1:20pm
A selection of videos from Films on Demand
From the Fall 2014 newsletter
The demand for digital content anytime from anywhere continues to increase. The Library is doing its part to keep up with this demand. It provides 24/7 access to over 225 databases through its website, including access to a growing collection of streaming videos. Currently, you can watch over 25,000 streaming videos in subject areas across John Jay's curriculum.
These streaming videos, which allow for unlimited 24/7 access, include embed codes and links, making it easy to include them in course syllabi and other course management tools like Blackboard. Each collection has a user-friendly interface that allows you to browse or search by title, discipline, historical event, therapeutic approach, cultural group or other criteria depending on the nature of the content.
Listed below are the databases containing these streaming videos and the top five titles accessed by the John Jay community in the past year.
American History in Video
- The Great Depression
- Columbia Revolt
- Hippies
- Minik: The Lost Eskimo
- Thurgood Marshall: And Justice for All
Counseling & Therapy in Video
- The Abused Woman: A Survivor Therapy Approach
- Time Limited Dynamic Psychotherapy
- Cognitive-Behavioral Feminist Therapy
- Motivational Interviewing
- Interpersonal Process Recall
Criminal Justice and Public Safety in Video
- Children Who Kill
- Predicting Criminality
- Cincinnati White Castle Incident
- Crime and Death Scene Response
- Kids Behind Bars
Ethnographic Video Online
- First Contact
- The Nuer
- The Ax Fight
- Dead Birds
- Eunuchs: India's Third Gender
Films on Demand
- Anita Hill vs. Clarence Thomas
- The Mind of a Killer: Case Study of a Murderer
- Effective Internet Search: Basic Tools and Advanced Strategies
- Eyewitness: What Actually Happened?
- Come Together: Ancient Worlds
The PBS Video Collection
- Empire of the Air: The Men Who Made Radio
- The Gift
- The Universe of Battle
- Destination America: The People and Cultures That Created a Nation
- Huey Long
Psychological Experiments Online
- Quiet Rage: The Stanford Prison Experiment
- Bandura's Social Cognitive Theory: An Introduction
- How Happy Can You Be?
- Obedience
- People to People
To find a streaming video that meets your needs, follow the links above or go to the Library's home page and select one of these collections from the list of databases by title. A large proportion of the library's streaming videos can only by found by searching the individual collections, that is, individual titles/names are not represented anywhere else. Once in the collection, use the unique tools on each interface to browse or search for content.
Make sure that links are proxied. If you wish to link to any of these videos in course materials, please keep in mind that access to database content licensed by the Library is possible from outside the college only through the Library's proxy server. The proxy server ensures access for all John Jay students, faculty and staff by requiring them to sign in using their John Jay email user ID and password. If you copy a link when you are off campus, the proxy server address (ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu) should appear somewhere in the link.
For links that do not contain the proxy server address (which is often but not always the case if a link is copied while on campus), the library proxy server prefix address: http://ez.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/login?url= should be added before the permanent URL. Be sure to test any links before sharing them! Please email Prof. Maureen Richards if you encounter any problems linking to content.
For more information about the library's video collection, freely available streaming videos or how to reserve any of the Library's videos on DVD or VHS, visit the Videos subject guide.
Maureen Richards
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Update July 2016: Due to restricted budgets, the library has had to make difficult decisions about our database offerings and will no longer subscribe to Rosetta Stone. We regret any inconvenience this causes.
Archived article from the Fall 2014 Newsletter
Whether you are currently enrolled in a foreign language class, always wanted to learn another language, or would like to engage with confidence in multilingual settings at home or abroad, now you have one more tool to help achieve your goals. Anyone with a current John Jay email address can use the Rosetta Stone Library Solution through the Lloyd Sealy Library website to study the following languages:
- Arabic
- Dari
- Dutch
- English (UK & US)
- Farsi
- French
- German
- Greek
- Hebrew
- Hindi
- Indonesian
- Irish
- Italian
- Japanese
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- Latin
- Mandarin
- Pashto
- Polish
- Portuguese
- Russian
- Spanish (Latin America & Spain)
- Swahili
- Swedish
- Tagalog
- Turkish
- Urdu
- Vietnamese
Key features include:
- 50 hours of foundational instruction
- Core lessons to build reading, writing, speaking and listening skills
- Focused activities to refine grammar, vocabulary, pronunciation
When you are ready to get started, access Rosetta Stone from any device by going to the library website and selecting Rosetta Stone from the dropdown menu of popular databases, or find it on the list of database titles. If you are new to Rosetta Stone, click on the "First Time Users" link to make sure your device has the necessary resources to run Rosetta Stone. Next, click on "Launch Rosetta Stone" to start learning.
Once you have set up your account, you can continue building your language skills anytime and anywhere you have internet access by returning to the library website's link to Rosetta Stone and entering the email and password you used to create your account.
Please keep in mind that although you can access your account from all types of devices through a web browser—including smartphones and tablets—you must always sign in through the link on the library website. You cannot access this product through apps.
Enjoy, and please contact Prof. Maureen Richards if you have questions or need assistance.
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An editorial illustration for Medium's 'Backchannel' section about augmented reality in the operating room.
An ongoing personal project revisiting client work and reimagining them in a looser, colour rich style. The overarching narrative focusing on witchcraft, astronomy, nature, science, love, hopelessness and loss.
A selection of illustrations in response to Gucci's F/W16 collection.
Editorial illustration about St. Vincent's custom made guitar.
A 'season's greetings' card illustration for Scottish cloth merchants Holland & Sherry. The scene depicts their fabric mill and headquarters in Peebles, Scotland.
Social media and print campaign for Scottish whiskey brand The Macallan. The project celebrated the golden age of travel with a whiskey distilled in 1937, displayed in a custom made decanter by French glassmaker Lalique.
Six lookbook illustrations for Savile Row based cloth merchants Holland & Sherry. For their first ever cloth collection specifically for film and theatre.
Advertising illustration for Holland & Sherry's latest trench cloth collection.
Editorial illustration for BuzzFeed US for a long read piece about US based company Stitch Fix, an online stylist service for women.
Editorial illustration for auction house Christie's, to coincide with the ending of Mad Men and a number of Draper-esque pieces they were selling.
Three editorial illustrations for Aalto Leaders' Insight Magazine, the internal magazine for Finnish based Aalto University Executive Education Ltd.
Rejected proposal illustration for Hed Kandi's rebrand.
Two illustrations for the digital only Esquire Weekly, one before and one after, for a special winter grooming issue.
Five illustrations for luxury Italian clothing brand Hogan for their latest S/S15 lookbook.
Three advertisement illustrations for Holland & Sherry's A/W15 collection 'Sherry Alpaca'.
An illustration of the Superstar shoe for Adidas UK's social media and PR channels, with an emphasis on the unique herringbone sole.
A cover illustration for Stylist France of re-imagined modern-day Uma Thurman on the cover of Pulp Fiction.
An editorial piece for Mr Porter's Journal in partnership with Macallan whisky who worked alongside the Roca Brothers on a number of unique dishes, each employing a different Macallan whisky.
Four editorial illustrations for b.spirit magazine - the in-flight magazine for Brussels Airlines about romantic films set in New York.
Six illustrations for Savile Row based cloth merchants Holland & Sherry's 'Fusion' A/W15 lookbook.
Two editorial illustrations for D2 magazine, the supplement that comes with Norwegian newspaper Dagens Næringsliv. The article was about airlines employing star chefs to provide a better dining experience when flying at altitudes that can compromise the quality of food and drink.
Editorial illustration for the Ethos Journal about the future of healthcare in Britain.
Advertising illustrations for Finnish cruise liner company Eckerö Line's summer campaign.
Three advertising illustrations for The Eminence Carlton, a luxury high-rise block of bedroom apartments in the centre of Melbourne.
Editorial illustrations for Stylist France about denim and the best ways to wear it.
Cover and inside illustrations for a special Cannes themed issue of French Stylist magazine, focusing on how French TV and films are funded by French football teams.
Editorial illustration for ZEIT Wissen, the magazine supplement that comes with the German weekly newspaper Die Zeit. The article was about stress and its various manifestations and ways of relieving it.
Illustration for Transport for London's latest "...without leaving London" campaign.
Editorial illustration for Mr Porter's Journal - featuring nine swimwear illustrations.
Editorial illustration for The New York Observer about the disparity between affordable and luxury apartments in New York.
Three illustrations for Savile Row based cloth merchants Holland & Sherry's A/W14 lookbook.
Four illustrations to accompany River Island's press for their A/W14 menswear lookbook.
Cover illustration for a special Italian men's fashion focused issue of SHOP magazine - Global Blue's shopping guide.
Cover illustration for Esquire Weekly's issue 'What Would Don Draper Do?'.
Editorial illustration for L'Officiel Hommes Italia about the few key items every man should own - one being a Gucci holdall.
Seven illustrations for Savile Row based cloth merchants Holland & Sherry's S/S15 lookbook 'Cashique'.
I was 1 of 100 chosen artists to contribute to SB Studio's charity beer bottle project '100/100'.
A selection of illustrations used throughout Rude Health's packaging as part of their re-branding.
Cover illustration for the Lebanon issue of SHOP magazine - Global Blue's shopping guide.
Cover illustration for the Berlin Design Festival issue of SHOP magazine - Global Blue's shopping guide.
T-shirt illustrations for a collaboration with Australian clothing brand SABA on style icons of a bygone era.

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Humanities 484 Laptop Lab
Building and operation of this laboratory was paid for through CLA Student Technology Fees. This computer lab was designed especially for media classes, with 20 wireless Macbooks and Five iMac desktops. The computers have Microsoft Office, Dreamweaver, Photoshop, Indesign, audio editing and other programs. The lab is equipped with both wireless access and hardwired Ethernet connections for maximum flexibility.
The H484 lab is used for the instruction of computer-based Journalism classes, and exclusively by CLA students who have paid the technology fee. This lab provides full-time CLA students access to software and course curriculum that is otherwise unavailable through ITSS lab facilities.
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Yea i was worried when i started it, but curiosity got the best of me. I see your arguments for the big jacking monster wedgy type surf. I guess i just dislike that kind of wave either way. I like watching guys get killed in that stuff but its not for me. Give me a reallllllly long right hander that has a barrel section and im in heaven. My favorite wave ever surfed has to be Rincon Ca. Super long mellow right that you can just rip apart.
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Rosendahl launched its first designer product, the winestopper, in 1993. Erik Rosendahl's philosophy is to create collections and not products, so the family soon grew. Today, the Rosendahl collection ranges from wine accessories to watches, glasses and porcelain. Rosendahl has become a large family.
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Shortly after 9/11, Adam Gopnik published an essay in the New Yorker titled "The City and the Pillars." In it, he strolls the streets of New York in the days immediately after the attacks, noting the reactions of the man on the street, as well as his own sensory impressions. Of the smell wafting from the fallen towers, he writes:The smell, which fills the empty streets of SoHo from Houston to Canal, blew uptown on Wednesday night, and is not entirely horrible from a reasonable distance -- … [Read more...]
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Tax Facts Index
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to Rule 15 of the Sales and Use Tax Rules and Regulations, separately
stated transportation charges for the delivery of purchased goods to the buyer's
designated location are not taxable. For example, a store that sells goods from
its floor stock and adds a $20 freight charge to the sales invoice for delivery
to the customer's location should not collect sales tax on the $20 freight
An exception would be the sale of a product contingent on the satisfactory
condition of the product upon delivery. Concrete vendors, for example, must
deliver their product to the job site in specialized vehicles that turn the
ready-mixed concrete while in transit to ensure that the product reaches the job
site in acceptable condition, and the conditions of the sale are not met until
delivery is completed. The transportation charge under these circumstances is
Transportation charges by a manufacturer or wholesaler for delivering
property to the retail dealer's location are subject to tax when the product
is sold and these costs are passed on to the customer.
Cleaning Services
"Sales of Services" as defined by
the Sales and Use Tax Ordinance, Section 1 p. (5) includes:
The furnishing of laundry, cleaning, pressing and dyeing
services, including by way of illustration and not of limitation, the
cleaning and renovation or clothing, furs, furniture, carpets and rugs.
Dealers performing cleaning services on such items must collect and remit
sales tax on these transactions.
The cleaning of pipe, tanks, barges or automobiles is not subject to sales
tax. Dealers performing cleaning or washing services on such property should not
collect sales tax on these transactions.
Cleaning services performed as a part of a repair of tangible personal
property will be taxable as a repair of tangible personal property.
Occupational License Renewals
are reminded that their 2002 license renewals will be mailed by early December.
Licenses renewed after February 28, 2002, will be deemed delinquent and subject
to penalty and interest. Penalty at the rate of 5% per month, or fractional part
thereof, not to exceed 25% and interest at the rate of 1.25% per month, or
fractional part thereof, will be computed from the first day of March and will
increase on the first day of each succeeding month.
Filing Zero Returns
When completing the new Sales and
Use Tax Report, please write only numbers in the appropriate boxes. If you have
no sales for a given month or quarter, write a single "0" (zero) on
line 1 in the appropriate column(s) and on line 26. Do not write -0-, or the
word "No Sales" or "Zero." As our scanner attempts to read
your return, it is looking for specific, identifiable numbers, not words or
common derivations used to write zero.
New Sales and Use Tax Forms
As published in the July 2001 and
October 2001 issues of the "Tax Facts," the Revenue Division has
implemented its digital imaging system. As a result, we will no longer be able
to accept photo copies, fax copies, spreadsheets, and tax service prepared
forms. In addition, when preparing your return, you must round all
amounts to the nearest dollar and record all deductions on page 2 of the
sales and use tax return. We are enclosing a worksheet which should be used in
preparing your return.
Finance Department
Sponsors Tax Seminar
Finance Department sponsored its 5th Annual Sales and Use Tax Seminar
on Friday, November 16, 2001, at the Pennington Biomedical Research Center.
Approximately 67 people attended the seminar which included in-depth discussions
on recent tax legislation, resale exemption certificates, the new tax return,
the exemption for property purchased for lease or rental, Baker tax increase,
contractors' tax liability, state exemption certificates, streamlined sales
tax project, use tax transactions, and moveable vs. immovable property.
Representatives from the City-Parish, the Louisiana Department of Revenue, and
the parishes of Ascension and West Baton Rouge made presentations at the
seminar. Local tax administrators from the parishes of Livingston, Assumption,
and Lafourche were also in attendance.
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There are two places I go whenever I want to spend a holiday with my father – Panel 9 East Line 71 of the Vietnam Memorial Wall in Washington, D. C, or the headstone near the shade tree under the flagpole at Andrew Johnson's National Cemetery in Greeneville, Tennessee. The marble headstone was replaced with [Read More…]
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Jaspers Notch Ninth Straight Victory
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RIVERDALE, N.Y. - Seven different players had at least one hit and eight scored at least one run, as the Manhattan College baseball team (13-17) posted an 11-5 victory over Sacred Heart (10-20) at Van Cortlandt Park on Tuesday. It was the Jaspers' ninth straight win.
Leading the way for Manhattan was Brendan Slattery (Danbury, Conn.), who went 4-for-4 with two RBIs in his season debut. Yoandry Galan (Miami, Fla.) was 2-for-2 with two RBIs and a run scored, while Anthony Vega (Patchogue, N.Y.) had three RBIs and Chris Kalousdian (Kings Park, N.Y.) drove in a pair of runs. Joe McClennan (Highland Mills, N.Y.) scored three runs to go along with a pair of hits, and Vin Teixeira (Hamden, Conn.) crossed the plate twice. As a team, the Jaspers pounded out 12 hits in the contest.
Manhattan began the scoring with three runs in the bottom of the third. Slattery got the inning started with a double down the left field line. Galan then dropped down a sacrifice bunt, but the throw to first was wide, putting runners on first and third with nobody out. Vega followed with a triple to left center that gave the Jaspers a 2-0 lead. Nick Camastro (Lagrangeville, N.Y.) was up next, and he executed a perfect squeeze bunt, allowing Vega to score. The Jaspers added a run in the fourth on an RBI single by Slattery.
Joe Mortillaro (Queens, N.Y.), who was making just his second career start on the mound, tossed four shutout innings before running into trouble in the fifth. After Zach Gandee struck out, the Pioneers loaded the bases on a hit batsman, a walk and a single. Mortillaro then struck out Dave Boisture, but Dan Perez followed with a double to center field that cut Manhattan's lead to 4-3. However, it would remain 4-3, as reliever Nick Girardi (Syosset, N.Y.) struck out Conor McEvoy to end the inning.
The Pioneers tied it with a run in the top of the sixth, but Manhattan responded with a two-spot (without the benefit of a hit) in the bottom half of the inning. After Teixeira and McClennan were hit by pitches, the runners moved to second and third on Aidan O'Leary's (Portsmouth, N.H.) sacrifice bunt. Slattery then drew a walk to load the bases before Galan was hit by a pitch, forcing in a run. The Jaspers added another run when Vega lifted a sacrifice fly to left field.
After Sacred Heart got one run back on McEvoy's RBI double in the top of the seventh, the Jaspers tacked on three more in their half of the inning. Teixiera started the rally with a one-out double, then McClennan drew a walk. Kalousdian followed with a pinch-hit two-run single to right that made it 8-5. He later scored on Galan's RBI single. In the bottom of the eighth, Manhattan put two more runs on the board. McClennan ripped an RBI single, and Slattery capped his perfect afternoon with an RBI double that was just fair down the left field line.
Mortillaro went the first 4.2 innings on the mound. He allowed three runs on five hits, struck out six and walked three. Girardi (2-0) earned the win after giving up an unearned run and two hits in 1.1 innings of relief. He also tallied three strikeouts. Michael Scarinci (Nanuet, N.Y.) pitched the seventh, while Michael Martin (Massapequa, N.Y.) finished up with two scoreless innings.
Chris Dionisio started and lasted three innings for the Pioneers. He surrendered three runs (two earned) on three hits, struck out one and walked one. James Ineson (0-1) took the loss after yielding three runs (two earned) and two hits while striking out one and walking one in 2.2 innings. McEvoy went 2-for-5 with an RBI, while Billy McDonough was 2-for-4 with a run scored. Perez drove in three runs and scored another for the Pioneers.
The Jaspers are back in action on Wednesday, when they host local rival Fordham (14-19) at 3:30 p.m. in the annual "Battle of the Bronx." Fordham Head Coach Kevin Leighton was the Jaspers' mentor for six seasons, leading Manhattan to a pair of NCAA Tournament appearances, including last year.
To follow Manhattan Athletics on Twitter, go to twitter.com/GoJaspers or visit Manhattan's Facebook fan page.


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The aesthetic is built from the tension between repetition and flux. Here in the form of a convergence of fixed and open variables, it is an aesthetic which is also expressed more subtly and elegantly in nature.
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Chris Brown covers his $90K Porsche in graffiti
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(Yahoo!) - Practice makes perfect, that's what Chris Brown always says. OK, we don't know if he really says that or not, but he does seem to be pushing his artistic boundaries.
Just over a month after upset neighbors successfully forced the singer to remove graffiti monsters from the side of his Hollywood Hills home, he created a few more — this time, on his $90,000 Porsche.
While it seems Chris was fairly pleased with his artwork, his currently on-again girlfriend, Karrueche Tran, looked more shocked than impressed when she first discovered Brown's latest canvas.
She posted a photo on Instagram of herself perched on the hood of the luxury, cartoon-covered sports car with the caption, "this is what the f*** I come home to lmao this n**** man." In the snapshot, though, she's pouting more than laughing.
Still, a few monster cartoons on the side of a car — which was also photographed by X17online — that costs more than most people make in a year wasn't enough to deter the model from joining her beau on a romantic getaway, which it seems the singer sorely needed.
Just a few weeks ago, Brown suffered a seizure at the Record Plant recording studio in Hollywood, which his team blamed on severe stress and fatigue caused by the "constant onslaught of legal matters." No word as to whether those legal matters included The Los Angeles Department of Building and Safety forcing him to paint over the "artwork" he had added to the side of his house, however.


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Posted 14 January 2013 - 11:27 PM
I used the ternary chart Hermes provided but I'm thinking that it was for cone 10 glazes. My flux/alumina/silica numbers came up in the best melt zone. Also, I'm leach testing them overnight. Both mugs are on the same body, and the glazes use the same coloring oxides. The base glazes are quite a bit different though.
Posted 15 January 2013 - 06:32 AM
That could help the melt.
I like what looks like the breaking effect on the one on the right. By that I mean it looks like it could change colors over ridges if the melt were a little stronger. Good job!
If they are the same colorants what are they and what is the difference in your base glazes. No need to share the recipe, just curious what you are playing with.
Posted 15 January 2013 - 09:37 AM
~ Namaste ~
Home studio potter
Shanel Pottery
"To me the greatest thing is to live beauty in our daily life and to crowd every moment with things of beauty. It is then, and then only that the art of the people as a whole is endowed with it's richest significance. For it's products are those made by great a many craftsmen for the mass of the people, and the moment this art declines the life of the nation is removed far away from beauty. So long as beauty abides in only in a few articles created by a few geniuses, the kingdom of beauty is nowhere near realization." - Bernard Leach
Posted 15 January 2013 - 10:00 AM
Thanks for the kind words
Posted 15 January 2013 - 10:59 AM
"But it does move," said Galileo under his breath.
Posted 16 January 2013 - 12:45 AM
I did a leach test overnight and both glazes passed. I was concerned the one on the right wouldn't. And, I have yet to make a glass proper. Hermes' ternary graph points to why I think, but I need to make some limits for cone 6 gloss glazes (and figure out how to do so).
Posted 16 January 2013 - 07:11 AM
I did a leach test overnight and both glazes passed.
Remember that the home kind of leaching tests are only a "rule in" kind of test, not a "rule out". They are not accurate enough to give you data that says "it passes". If you can visually see changes after the home kind of test, then you KNOW it will show leaching of various components on a real standardized lab test. If it "passes" the "home test", that only tells you that is it not totally terrible. It does not mean that ot would not show leaching of some components on a real laborotory testing regime.
John Baymore
Adjunct Professor of Ceramics; New Hampshire Insitute of Art
Former Guest Professor, Wuxi Institute of Arts and Science, Yixing, China
Former President and Past President; Potters Council
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Black Diamond Vari-width Dogbone
When it comes to building custom sport climbing quickdraws, you can definitely rely on the Black Diamond Vari-width Dogbone. Climbers use quickdraws to let the climbing rope run freely while leading. The Black Diamond Vari-width Dogbone is built from extremely durable nylon webbing that makes it perfect for building and customizing your quickdraws. In addition, the strong nylon webbing provides excellent rigidity. This vari-width dogbone also features a taper that is easy to grab, as well as a straitjacket insert that keeps the bottom carabiner properly oriented. Armed with a strength of 22 kN, this reliable dogbone definitely gets the job done for extreme climbers. It is a great choice for traditional and sport climbers who assemble their own quickdraws that are adaptable to their needs. Offering both strength and flexibility, the Black Diamond Vari-width Dogbone is definitely a great buy for building strong custom climbing quickdraws. Get it now!
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You cannot trust them either..they didn't make oil change and they charge me 30£ for that job, what didn't do, some unreliable..i'm sitting customer room and i cannot see, what they do..watch out this garage..i cannot recommended them ! They try to charge brake discs too, discs not always need to change same time, when pads..
Job could have been done a little bit quicker but very good service overall!
This is an excellent local garage that I wish was more local to me - but worth the journey. Joe, who runs the office side of the business, is brilliant and reassuring (my car is extremely old). There were clear explanations at every stage and all the work was fast and efficient. I highly recommend this garage
Efficient service, repair as requested, competitive price, car left clean etc. Recommended
Efficient service, repair as requested, competitive price, car left clean etc. Recommended
job was not done by this garage .not saying garage is not good just did not use them
very good service, kept informed of all works that car needed with costs agreed.very professional to deal with and will use again.
Great service and price. BMW 5 Series, full service & MOT reasonable price. I strongly recommended. Thanks again
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Nobody contacted me the garage did not even call me and this is two attempts to use a service from this site with no one getting back to arrange an appointment had to use Kwikfit to get my car done
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women's original vinyl smock
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Utah coach Kyle Whittingham continues to maintain that Utah's third-down problems are more of a product of inefficiency on first and second down than issues with converting third downs themselves.
But that didn't stop him from harping on the issue in practice this week, with the Utes spending three times the usual time on third downs.
"We'll see if it translates," he said. "We're definitely paying attention to it and are trying to get it solved."
The Utes, who were 2 of 13 on third downs against UCLA and are 9 of 40 combined in their last three games, are working to find ways to make the offense more efficient, Whittingham said.
"It's one of our primary issues right now," he said. "We've had too many third and longs and we have to be better on first and second down and get them more manageable. That is a huge part of our focus the last three days and we are trying to remedy that."'
Murphy update
Utah tight end Jake Murphy's wrist surgery went well, according to Whittingham. The tight end will be out about 12 weeks, a timeline that effectively ends his season unless the Utes qualify for a bowl and he is able to play.
"If he's able to get back for the tail end, that would be a bonus," Whittingham said.
Going for No. 5
Receiver Dres Anderson could match David Reed's 2009 achievement of five 100-yard games in a row if he hits that bench mark against the Cardinal.
While it would be an achievement, Anderson said he isn't counting his stats.
"Every game I just want to come out and make as many plays as possible and whatever the outcome is, it is," he said. "Everybody gets yards being out there. I just want to make plays."
Anderson is tied for the national lead in receptions of 50 yards or more with four.
Former Ute passes away
The Utes received some sad news with the passing of former Ute Steve McKane, who suffered an apparent heart attack Tuesday at the age of 38.
McKane, who was serving as the coach Florence H.S. in Arizona, was an offensive lineman for the Utes from 1997-2000.
His career was cut short with knee injuries, but he was known for his leadership and hustle. As a senior, he played in just two games before suffering a season-ending knee injury, but coaches still voted him to honorable mention all-conference team.
Before joining the Utes, McKane excelled at Mesa H.S. in Arizona, earning Blue Chip All-American honors and was a member of the National Honor Society.
A memorial fund has been established through Wells Fargo Bank to help his family called the Stephen R. McKane Memorial fund, with account number 234790454.


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The country of Nepal is facing an environmental crisis with wide-spread deforestation, excessive pollution, inadequate mobilization of natural resources, lack of safe drinking water, inadequate sanitation, and a heavy dependence on foreign sources of fossil fuels.
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Sounds cool but I wonder what it does to battery life.
FYI, the developer got the idea from a new Twitter acct called @TweakIdea. If @TweakIdea likes your suggestion, they'll put it out there and see if a developer wants to pick it up!
Which icon did you like the best? I like the most recent one he posted.
Which (I just noticed) is the one in your screenshot! My bad!
...lastly, the icon is themeable
So what feature was it in Backgrounder that you're missing now as a "must have?"
LiveClock does the same thing, looks like that might be a safer bet.


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UnityCar 2.2 Pro Web Demo (Monza Track).
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Enter the raffle for a chance to take this life-sized tiger plush home—and help build a new home for tigers at the same time! Each $5 raffle ticket sold will go directly to bringing tigers back to Woodland Park Zoo in a brand new, state-of-the-art exhibit that gets you closer than ever to these endangered predators. Learn more about the exhibit plans and how you can help save tigers in the wild.
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Avoid lines and buy your general admission tickets in advance, or become a member for unlimited admission all year long!
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Spring Break at Woodland Park Zoo is in full swing April 12 - 14 and 19-21
Enjoy keeper talks, Zoomazium programs and an opportunity to feed the elephants, penguins and Australian birds (additional cost for feedings). Our animal experts will be on hand to answer your questions and provide insight into the zoo's excellent animal care program.
Plus, take your own spring conservation action by picking up a free evergreen tree seedling to plant, with a purchase of $30 or more at either ZooStore, while supplies last (limit one per household).
… And while you are there, enter for a chance to win a cuddly lion plush. One lucky winner will be selected each day during Spring Fling.
And, get a free eco-friendly reusable lunch bag and special treat with the purchase of a Spring Fling Kid's Meal at the Rain Forest Food Pavilion, while supplies last (limit one per person). Spring Fling Kid's Meals include a peanut butter and jelly sandwich OR a turkey roll, carrots OR Mandarin oranges, and a kid's apple juice.
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Doing more with less seems to be the new universal mantra. But to Dallas architect Dan Shipley, FAIA, it's nothing out of the ordinary. The residential architect's 2010 Top Firm Leadership Award winner has always liked the challenge of designing on a budget. His award-winning, meticulously detailed projects often contain unexpected (and cost-effective) industrial materials, and they tend to be energy-efficient to boot. Shipley frequently comes up with creative ideas to visually enlarge smaller spaces, such as cutting a hole in a ceiling corner to let a set of open stair treads peek through.
These skills come in handy on projects both residential and otherwise. He and his staff have designed private schools and other institutional buildings, as well as public works jobs for the city of Dallas. His residential work varies widely in scope, from vacation homes in Texas and Colorado to tiny additions and remodels. Shipley sometimes builds his own projects, especially now that the market for architectural services has slowed. His building experience helps him figure out how to construct unusual details, plus it's something he enjoys. "We'd have more interesting buildings in the world if more architects would take it upon themselves to become the producer and take a bigger role in getting things built," he says. "You're kind of in the fray, but you get to make things."
What is the most gratifying aspect of residential practice?
When a project takes on a life of its own and becomes a beautiful and mysterious thing.
What is the most frustrating aspect?
When it takes on a life of its own and becomes a monster.
What is your mission statement or firm goal?
Understand the problem ... so you'll know a good solution when you stumble on it.
What is the most indispensable tool in your office?
Pencil (with eraser).
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Who is your ideal client?
One who is opinionated and curious.
What is your favorite building?
Hall of State at Fair Park, Dallas.
If you didn't have the time to design your own house, who would you hire?
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Remember a few months ago when Rick Scott's administration in Florida sent a list of 180,000 names to county clerks that they thought were non-citizens who had illegally voted? It was full of so many names of legitimate voters that the clerks refused to use it and Scott blamed it on not having access to a federal database. So they got that access and — surprise, surprise — the list got much smaller.
The state flagged 198 voters of questionable U.S. citizenship by comparing a state database of drivers with a federal citizenship database at the U.S. Department of Homeland Security. The state released a list showing 38 of them have voted in elections, at least two of them in the Aug. 14 primary. (Earlier, the state said 39 people on the list had voted.)
From 180,000 to 38 who may have voted illegally, out of more than 8 million voters. You do the math. And even with that dramatically smaller list, a lot of the names had already been removed. Most of those who are on the list likely got there by mistake, not by deliberate fraud. They are likely people with permanent resident alien status who filled out the paperwork while applying for or renewing a driver's license, without knowing they weren't eligible. Once again we find that, despite these absurd numbers thrown around by self-serving Republican politicians, actual in-person voter fraud is vanishingly rare.


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Bruce Springsteen and the E Street Band might not be finished with their road work after all. While the band announced the "final" dates for their "Wrecking Ball" tour last week, it's possible more shows could be on the horizon.
A post on Australia's Triple M website -- which has since been removed -- listed six Australian dates scheduled for February with tickets said to be going on sale later this month. The details are also posted on the Bruce Springsteen Perth Facebook page.
There's been no official word from the band regarding any new shows, and RollingStone.com says its request for a comment hasn't been answered.
Springsteen's "Wrecking Ball" tour is officially coming to an end next month in South America. The group will play shows in Chile, Argentina, and Brazil, and bring their two-year-trek to a close with an appearance at Rock in Rio on September 21st.
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Husband and wife, David and Cheryl Clarke both have deep family roots in the Barossa. Cheryl Clarke's family, the Thorn's, have been grape growers in the Barossa since the 1870's.
David Clarke's family were pioneers in the Barossa as well but most famously in the mining of gold from the Barossa Goldfields. One of his ancestors was James Goddard who was the responsible for opening the Lady Alice gold mine in the Barossa goldfields and which was the largest gold mine in South Australia at the time. It has been David's love of the wine industry that saw the planting of the Kabininge vineyard outside of Tanunda in 1987. The planting of the Kabininge vineyard represented the start of a deeper involvement by the family in the Barossa wine industry. View all Thorn-Clarke Wines
About Barossa ValleyView a map of Barossa Valley wineries
The Barossa zone consists of two sections - the Barossa Valley and the Eden Valley. Wines from the Eden Valley can be labelled Barossa or Barossa Valley.
Situated just a bit east of the large city of Adelaide, Barossa is Australia's wine headquarters. Mega producers are based here, boutique wineries call it home and a majority of the habitants claim their income on the wine industry. The valley is strewn with a series of hamlets, small towns spotted throughout the region.


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Welcome to this week's edition of "Trending Topic Tuesday," where we share our take on what's going on in the world and what promotional products would appropriately (or inappropriately) market the subject matter.
By now everyone across the world should have heard the news of the death of Osama bin Laden, founder and leader of the militant group Al Qaeda and man who claimed responsibility for the series of September 11 attacks on the United States. Osama's death comes as an American victory in the War on Terror – and it also comes as an opportunity for marketers to profit from this occurrence through the production of so-called patriotic promotional items.
Within hours of President Obama's address announcing the confirmed death of bin Laden on the evening of May 1, "a wide swath of marketers already had latched onto the leader's sudden demise at the hands of U.S. special forces," reported USA Today in an article published online yesterday specifying thousands of promotional items that had popped up on popular merchandise sites Zazzle.com and CafePress.com.


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