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Ellen Belcher presented "Breaking the String: Losing Beads in Tight Places" at the North American Theoretical Archaeology Group Annual Conference at New York University in May. This paper featured an ongoing contemporary archaeology research project she has undertaken called "Lost Ornaments of New York," which can be viewed on the web at lostornaments.tumblr.com.
Marta Bladek's article, "Mapping Grief and Memory in Joan Didion's The Year of Magical Thinking," was published in Biography (37.4). She also reviewed Elena Gorokhova's Russian Tattoo and Christina Nichol's Waiting for Electricity ("Staying Home or Leaving It," Women's Review of Books, 32.4) and Seth Bruggeman's Born in the U.S.A. in South Atlantic Review (78.3/4). In addition to her scholarly productivity, Prof. Bladek has contributed a new person to the world: Baby Conrad was born on September 27.
Kathleen Collins published "Food TV" in The Sage Encyclopedia of Food Issues (2015), a review of Su Holmes' The BBC and Popular Television Culture in the 1950s in Journalism & Mass Communication Quarterly (92.2) and presented "Lending Our Ears: The Evolution of Vicarious Therapy from Radio to Podcasting" at the Northeast Popular Culture Association Conference at Colby-Sawyer College in October.
Robin Davis published two columns in Behavioral & Social Sciences Librarian ("Teaching the Network: A Brief Demonstration of the Internet's Structure for Information Literacy Instruction," 34.2 and "Git and GitHub for Librarians," 34.3) and co-presented "The Library Outpost: Modules, Templates, and Outreach in Blackboard" at the Northeast Connect Conference with Helen Keier.
Jeffrey Kroessler presented on the panel, "A People's History of Resiliency," at the Future of Affordable Homeownership in NYC, a conference sponsored by the Center for NYC Neighborhoods. He was also on the panel, "Preserving our Architectural History: The Business Case for Landmarks Preservation," sponsored by the Landmarks50 Alliance.
Finally, we are happy to welcome Daisy Dominguez, Stefka Tzanova, and Zuwang Shen as adjunct librarians this semester.
Posted Thursday, December 3, 2015 - 12:41pm
The Library homepage has been slightly updated for the Fall semester. You'll notice that we've made OneSearch easier to access from the Articles, Books, and Media tabs. Moreover, Books and Media are now separate tabs — much more intuitive!
Except for media search, the normal functionality in each tab should remain the same. OneSearch is an added option.
(Still want to search for media in CUNY+? You can do this by selecting "Classic CUNY+ Catalog" in the Media tab box, but be aware that not all videos available in OneSearch are included in CUNY+.)
What's OneSearch? OneSearch helps you find print books, ebooks, articles, videos, reference works, and more resources available through the John Jay Library or CUNY. It all starts with one search!
OneSearch is a great place to turn to when you need the fastest, simplest way to get library resources on a topic. (However, OneSearch is not comprehensive. You'll find many, but not all, of the articles you have access to through John Jay's library databases.) OneSearch is especially useful for finding an item by title.
More information:
- When should I use OneSearch?
- How do I use OneSearch? (video tutorial)
- Brief technical details & history
September 3, 2015
Posted Thursday, September 3, 2015 - 12:07pm
… wherein faculty share a favorite book with the rest of us.
Bonus material from the Spring 2015 Newsletter
Hannah Howell is the author of fifteen Highland.... romance novels about the Murray clan, published 1988-2015 by various publishers.
An eminent full professor at John Jay, who prefers anonymity, relaxes from the rigors of scholarly work with Hannah Howell's novels, reading and re-reading them. Our professor recommends them to you, especially Howell's fifteen titles about the Murrays in 15th century Scotland. The latest is Highland Guard (2015) which falls into the usual format: noble warrior who's a wonderful, thoughtful lover, an independent, intelligent, beautiful princess, hot explicit sex, loyal servants, a demesne managed with kind care for all inhabitants, a dire threat to the good guys, and the threat overcome.
Howell is wonderful at creating likable characters and odious villains with a few deft descriptions, and then working it all out in action. These knights can cut off a head with a flick of the wrist. In Highland Warrior, there's comic relief in personality traits, in children, and in unlikely animal behavior. Religion and the local priest are present only when there's going to be a marriage, usually when the hot knight gets the hot lady and they fall in love. One obstacle to their love, in addition to armies at the gate, is always the question Does he really love me or is it just great sex? Sound familiar? Though Howell's Highland settings are medieval, the characters and their concerns are contemporary. Our informant advises men to read these novels for their how-to content.
Comments solicited by Janice Dunham
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 1:28pm
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
Faculty and content creators often have questions about using copyrighted text in their work. The use of visual images in teaching or writing about art raises a particular set of fair use and copyright issues that need to be considered. The College Art Association recently addressed these issues with the February 2015 release of the Code of Best Practices in Fair Use for the Visual Arts. The code includes questions and guidelines about invoking fair use in analytic writing, teaching about art, making art and providing access to archival collections. This up-to-date code, authored by lead investigators Peter Jaszi and Patricia Aufderheide, professors of Law and Communication Studies respectively at American University, in consultation with practitioners in the field, joins a growing list of best practices in various fields including documentary film, poetry, dance, online video, journalism and academic and research libraries. The codes help guide users of copyrighted material to make their own well-informed decisions about how and what they can use based on the Fair Use section of U.S. copyright law. They also help inform judges – in the case of a legal action – about common practice within a given discipline. The visual arts code as well many others can be found online at the Center for Media and Social Impact (cmsimpact.org).
Kathleen Collins
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 1:24pm
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
Applying for tenure or promotion? Consult the Library resource guide
Kathleen Collins
Faculty members preparing their personnel action applications for tenure and promotion are reminded that the library offers a resource and information guide, "Faculty Scholarship Resources," found in the Subject Guides link from the library home page. The guide includes information on citation analysis, journal ranking, qualitative assessments and altmetrics (alternative ways of measuring the impact of scholarly work). While the process of collecting this information for inclusion in the college's application forms and self-evaluation narratives is not a simple, one-stop process, the guide can offer tips on finding such information as well as a helpful way to put the emphasis on qualitative and quantitative assessments in context.
Find this guide on the Library's website or at guides.lib.jjay.cuny.edu/citation.
Stop and frisk: the back story
Jeffrey A. Kroessler
The recent controversy over stop and frisk and the NYPD's aggressive response to relatively minor offenses has engendered criticism of the "Broken Windows" approach to policing (first articulated by George Kelling and James Q. Wilson in The Atlantic in March 1982). How did the NYPD come to adopt this practice? Two interviews in "Justice in New York: An Oral History" provide some insight. John Timoney was appointed Chief of Department by Commissioner Bill Bratton in 1994, and when he became First Deputy Commissioner, Louis Anemone became Chief of Department.
To read the transcripts of their interviews, read through Justice in New York: an Oral History on our Digital Collections. And if you are interested in police corruption, look at the interviews with Joseph Armao, counsel to the Mollen Commission, Judge Harold Baer, member of the Mollen Commission, and Michael Armstrong, counsel to the Knapp Commission.
#Stacksplorations: social media in the stacks
Robin Davis
#Stacksplorations! This is a gem for the last week of Poetry Month — "ABC de Puerto Rico" (1968) by Rubén del Rosario, Isabel Freire de Matos and prominent Puerto Rican artist Antonio Martorell. This beautiful illustrated poem names things to love about Puerto Rico, from A to Z (including LL!). This book is notable enough to be in the MoMA collection and was one of AIGA's 50 Books of the Year in 1969, chosen for its gorgeous design. Find it in the Stacks (PQ7434 .R65). The STACKS are the bookshelves containing library books you can check out! Get lost in the stacks at the #johnjaylibrary. #librarylove #johnjaycollege #myjohnjay #puertorico #AntonioMartorell #poetry #poetrymonth
We 'gram. We post. We tweet. We're regrammed, reposted, retweeted. We share and we are shared.
The Library loves social media! This semester, we're showing off gems from the stacks to encourage students to take a walk through our shelves and find a book that calls out to them. Follow our #stacksplorations on Instagram and Twitter at @johnjaylibrary and on our Facebook page.
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 1:20pm
A new report from Project Information Literacy
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
Initiated in 2008, the large-scale national study Project Information Literacy (PIL) has been looking at the research practices of "early adults," or college students and recent graduates. PIL is affiliated with the University of Washington's iSchool, and in an attempt to cast light on how early adults search and use information in their daily lives, including coursework, PIL researchers have surveyed over 13,000 students and graduates from more than 60 American public, private, and community colleges.
In February, PIL released yet another of its many reports (as all previous summaries, it is available through their portal at projectinfolit.org/publications). Lifelong Learning Study, phase two, offers a glimpse into recent graduates' lifelong learning habits and strategies. Surveying 2007–2012 graduates from 10 colleges and universities, PIL researchers looked to find out which information use habits and critical thinking skills acquired in college continue to play a crucial role in graduates' private, civic, and professional lives. Other questions encouraged survey respondents to reflect on their best practices for finding information and meeting the needs for lifelong learning.
Recent graduates do rely on the critical skills learned in college. Almost half of the respondents trusted their ability to find and extract the information they needed. Similarly, evaluating information and presenting it effectively did not present a challenge for 49% of recent graduates. They were also confident in their ability to learn, their understanding deepened by the questions they knew to ask about newly encountered information.
As for best practices, PIL researchers confirmed the habits we are all familiar with: recent graduates heavily rely on search engines, in all aspects of their post-college lives. Not surprisingly, they also partake in a variety of social media and network sites. In the professional context, the reliance on established sources (professional conferences, open access databases, workplace information centers) was comparably high.
Contrary to popular misconception, recent graduates did not exclusively rely on social media, networking sites, and established sources. Almost all of them reported deferring to people in their immediate surroundings—supervisors, co-workers, and friends—to seek help with obtaining needed, often contextual, information. PIL researchers observed a similar preference for direct interaction in recent grads' favoring of on-the job training (68%) and face-to-face instruction (57%) over individualized online teaching sessions (31%).
PIL researchers are quick to note that this recent study was not extensive enough to be generalizable. The findings are merely informative and offer a quick—albeit incomplete—glimpse at some of the prevalent information practices that recent graduates engage in. PIL is currently conducting further research on this topic, and the more complete findings will become available in the Fall of 2015. For now, this report encourages educators, including classroom instructors and librarians, to consider ways in which course assignments and research activities may be developed to foster students' lifelong need to navigate the increasingly complex information landscape.
To learn more about PIL, including the full text of the report summarized above, please visit projectinfolit.org.
Marta Bladek
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 1:15pm
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
The Library's instructional services include the possibility for classroom faculty to bring their students to the Library for a session with a librarian. What that session entails is up to the librarian in consultation with the course instructor with regard to the current assignment. There is no standard script or protocol; each librarian has his or her own technique for library instruction.
For my first six years at John Jay, I generally taught these classes this way: I provided a brief overview of using the Library catalog; then I spent the majority of the time explaining and demonstrating search examples using databases and key terms related to the course assignment or theme; then I left about 15 minutes at the end of the session for students to put what I had shown them into practice on the classroom computers. As far as I could tell, students seemed to be paying attention and hopefully absorbing the information.
Recently, I decided to shake things up to see if I could get a better indication of where students really need help with their searching. I know some of my other colleagues conduct more free-form, active sessions, and while I long thought I should experiment with that approach, it didn't fit comfortably with my strong desire to control a classroom, dispensing what I believed to be essential information. I couldn't imagine being able to share all that I wanted to if students were merely casting about with disparate searches all around the room. Having grown bored and frustrated with my earnest but staid attempts thus far, at the start of the Spring semester, I took the leap. After the very first session, I viscerally recognized the value of an almost completely student-driven instruction, and I have no desire to revert to my previous methods.
Now I start the class with a very quick "contest," to see if students know how to find a book using the catalog. Many classroom faculty assume that students are familiar with this basic skill, but it is far from the actual case, even in 300- or 400-level classes. Then I show a brief video tutorial on "Talking to Databases" (thanks to my colleague, Professor Julie Turley, who introduced me to SchoolTube.com and who is a champion of the interactive class method) which gets across the fundamental principles of database searching much less discursively than I normally do. Then, the students are set free to work on their research questions using databases that I have suggested. For the remaining hour, I move around the room and work with them on their particular problems and answer questions (I also encourage them to ask each other for advice). I can see where the trouble spots are and help them tackle them in the moment. Occasionally, I interrupt the group with a tip when I see common pitfalls. In my previous sessions, students would sometimes have the tendency to wait out the 15 minute working period and not bother trying to engage in the activity. Now they see it as valuable time to get some of their work done.
Another related element that I have emphasized this semester is collaboration with the classroom faculty. While I always encourage the instructor to participate, now I frame the session as one based on co-teaching. So far, this has been highly effective. When the students see their professor taking part in the library instruction – they, too, move around the room with me answering questions and providing suggestions – they recognize the session's importance to their assignment and in their learning in general.
The faculty I have worked with this Spring have been ideal collaborators. English professor Tara Pauliny says, "I have brought classes to the library for research instruction before, and I found those sessions extremely useful to students. But I think the collaborative workshop strategy worked even better," she said. "My students all left the session with at least one useable source and they were able to continue the research process on their own." After reviewing the first draft of her students' annotated bibliographies, Pauliny says, "The sources they used were appropriate, scholarly, and directly related to their paper topics. Not only was the session a success for my students, but as a bonus, it was fun for me as well!" Likewise, Law and Society professor Michael Yarbrough found the session structure valuable. "Working in teams, students helped each other think of different ways to say what they were searching for until they hit on the right term," he says. "Searching for secondary sources is a trial-and-error process, so there's no better way to learn than by doing."
While I wish I had taken the step to approach sessions in this "lab" format years ago, I am glad I finally broke free of my old habits. Far from feeling a loss of control, I find this method far more engaging and useful for me and the students.
Kathleen Collins
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 1:12pm
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
Open Access and the new institutional repository
This spring, CUNY announced the opening of an open-access institutional repository to serve the self-archiving needs of University faculty. This new project provides a web platform where faculty can post, and the public can read, free of charge, works and dissertations authored by CUNY faculty and graduate students. The CUNY Office of Library Services has hired Scholarly Communications Librarian Megan Wacha to steer the repository development. John Jay College faculty interested in making use of the repository are encouraged to contact Megan directly or Ellen Sexton. Appropriate content would include conference proceedings, published journal articles (copyright permitting; see below), reports, etc. As the project develops, we will be drawing up formal guidelines; for now, we encourage interested faculty to visit the site, send us an email, and/or submit material directly through the author corner of CUNY Academic Works.
The Graduate Center opened its own institutional repository a year ago. It hosts a series of technical reports from their computer science program, faculty authored articles and conference proceedings, and CUNY doctoral dissertations from 1965 to the present. The older doctoral dissertations were digitized by Proquest, with the resulting files loaded into Academic Works and enriched with metadata. Access to the older dissertations is currently restricted to users at the Graduate Center. When/if the authors grant permission, access to the full text will be made available to the broader public. The Graduate Center repository is moving its content over, to be the first CUNY college to populate the new Academic Works. It will continue as one instance of the new CUNY wide project, to be joined by John Jay and other CUNY colleges.
The software for our institutional repository is called Digital Commons, from the Bepress company. This platform is currently used by over 150 institutions, including many law schools, to house institutional repositories and open access journals. Search engine optimization is actively pursued by Bepress, ensuring content is discoverable. Another nice feature is that users can search across all 150 repositories. Most file types may be posted on Academic Works, including conventional data file formats. (See an example of a submission.)
Many grants now come with a requirement that resulting peer-reviewed published articles be made freely available to the public; CUNY Academic Works will help CUNY authors do so easily. If the author-publisher contractual agreement permits, we may be able to post the publisher's final PDF immediately, or the publisher may stipulate an embargo period of some months or years. Some publishers permit the final post-refereeing draft to be posted; others permit only a pre-refereeing print. Details of each journal's self-archiving policies may be found on the SHERPA-RoMEO site maintained by the University of Nottingham.
The majority of peer-reviewed published articles are currently locked behind pay walls. Open Access advocates seek to remove financial and technical restrictions on research dissemination. The library alliance SPARC defines open access as "the free, immediate, online availability of research articles, coupled with the rights to use these articles fully in the digital environment." Public and private grant funding organizations are increasingly embracing open access policies. Before the World Wide Web, research reports from Federal agencies were made available to the public in free government depository libraries, such as the one at City College. The challenge since has been to extend that openness to the online environment. The National Institutes of Health requires its funded researchers to deposit final, peer-reviewed manuscripts in the PubMed Central repository. The National Science Foundation and Department of Energy mandate depositing in the online DOE PAGES repository. In February 2013 a White House memo directed the heads of each federal agency to come up with a plan to provide online public access to federally funded research; this may lead to the development of other agency-specific repositories (this March the HHS released a report detailing its plans). The NIJ have been posting sponsored research reports on its website for years. Private organizations are also influencing open-access: the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation requires authors to deposit funded works in any appropriate open access repository.
Open-access policies at journals vary tremendously. Some journals have gone fully open-access for readers; author fees are common. For example, Elsevier has many open access titles, mostly biomedical, funded by author fees. Journal publishing is evolving, with some very interesting innovations being explored. In January Elsevier announced a new open-access publishing project: a non-discipline restricted open access peer reviewed journal funded by author fees, to be called Heliyon, closely integrated with its SCOPUS discovery tool and the Mendeley bibliographic management and networking platform. Another wide-scope online journal, Nature Communications announced it would become completely open access by 2016, with its access-by-subscription model replaced by funding from author fees.
Clearly authors have options for fulfilling open access mandates from funders, and satisfying their own personal goals of maximizing the reach and impact of their research. We suggest the CUNY Academic Repository is an excellent choice in this regard. We hope the CUNY Academic Works becomes a stable, long-lasting show-case for CUNY faculty and graduate student achievements, and a reliable tool for disseminating current research directly to the public.
Ellen Sexton
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 1:05pm
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
The Library supports online teaching and learning! Incorporate Library resources into your online course and provide your students with engaging, high-quality information.
Our brand-new Faculty Toolbox includes:
- Blackboard goodies
- Librarian chat widget
- Article & book search modules Reserves module
- Embedding videos how-to
- Proxied link generator
- Library links and blurbs ready to copy/paste
Meet your Distance Services Librarian
I'm the online learning librarian (Robin Davis, Emerging Technologies & Distance Services Librarian). You can reach me at (212) 237-8261 or firstname.lastname@example.com. I can answer questions about using Library resources in online courses, providing students with access, teaching Library skills in online contexts, and more. And if you teach an online-only course, I could be your "embedded librarian" for a week! Collaborating with you, I'll provide your students with curated resource lists, custom tutorials, and even a "librarian office hours" chat room. Interested? Please email me at least two weeks before the desired start time.
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 12:57pm
From the Spring 2015 Newsletter
As part of our ongoing assessment process, in early December 2014, Library faculty reviewed measures of Sealy Library use that we had been collecting for many years. One figure that jumped out at us was the decrease in the number of reference questions (as measured by questions asked in a typical week) over the years, even as the student body has grown and the use of the physical library (measured by gate count) has varied but not significantly dropped. After considerable discussion and research, we concluded:
- This trend was not unique to John Jay but had been widely observed across academic libraries
- Students were not more library knowledgeable than in the past and needed our help just as much
- We needed to do more to encourage students to ask questions of the reference librarians in person, and
- Since students were using the library's electronic resources more heavily than print, and since 60-70% of the use of our electronic resources tends to be from offcampus, we should try to encourage the use of our new "chat" reference service (see Classified Information, Fall 2014). We needed to go where the students are.
To try to increase chat reference—where students (or faculty!) exchange typed questions and answers in a chat box—we took two steps for the spring 2015 semester: we increased the number of hours we are offering chat by adding an extra hour to 6 pm, and we placed a Library chat widget on as many external library database sites as we could where we thought students might need help.
The results were impressive. Even though library activity of all kinds—including reference questions asked—tends to decrease from fall to spring*, the number of chat reference questions went up—from 120 in the first 9 weeks of the service in the fall (9/8/14-11/7/14) to 141 in the first 9 weeks of the spring semester. Even more interesting, 41% of the chat traffic was now coming from two of the sites where we had newly placed our chat widget (compare charts below).
* (Reasons for the drop in library activity include the general drop in enroll- ment from fall to spring and the reduction in the number of English 101 classes, in all of which students have research assignments.)
EBSCOhost, which figures so prominently in the graph on the lower right and which provides the Academic Search Complete database, was the only database vendor that enabled the placement of our chat widget directly on their search results page. The other vendors merely provided links from their pages to our "Ask-us" page; we have not been able to track whether this resulted in more traffic to our Ask-us page. Our EZproxy login page also became a major source of chats. We thought that our instructions on how to log in to eresources were clear but, clearly, our students still needed help.
Also of great interest is that the places where students are chatting from has shifted (see charts below). In the fall, 22% of the students were actually initiating chat sessions from within the Library. In the spring, this had dropped to 10%. In the Fall, only 29% of the users of chat were contacting us from off-campus. In the spring over 62% were. This is exactly the group we were hoping to reach.
Even more important to us, though, is that even a cursory review of the chat transcripts reveals that we are helping students succeed: "How can I find information on the NYPD gun buyback program?" "Where can I find laws from the former British colonies?" "How can I find articles that aren't against stop and frisk?" "I don't understand what the name of the periodical is" [spelling and punctuation normalized, of course!].
So, yes, students do need our help and yes, if we build an online reference platform they will come. Although they might ask, as one student did "You're a human?"!
Bonnie Nelson
More from the Spring 2015 Newsletter »
Ed. note: the title of this article was misspelled in the print version of the article. We regret the error.
Posted Thursday, May 14, 2015 - 12:51pm


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APTA said the results marked the fifth consecutive quarter of U.S. public transit ridership increase, as 125.7 million more trips were taken than the first quarter of 2011.
All public transit modes saw increases, APTA said. Light rail tansit (LRT) use increased by 6.7%, with 25 of 27 LRT systems reporting increases. "Heavy rail" (rapid rail) use increased by 5.5%, with 14 of 15 systems reporting increases. "Commuter" or regional rail use rose 3.9%, with 22 of 27 systems reporting increases.
Large bus systems reported an increase of 4.6% nationally, APTA said.
"High gas prices were part of the reason for this large first quarter ridership increase," said APTA President and CEO Michael Melaniphy. "More and more people are choosing to save money by taking public transportation when gas prices are high.
"As Congress is negotiating a federal surface transportation bill that is now more than 2 1/2 years overdue, our federal representatives need to act before the June 30 deadline to ensure that public transportation systems will be able to meet the growing demand," said Melaniphy. "It's obvious from the surge in public transit ridership in the first quarter that Americans need and want public transportation."

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"Tionna Smalls Is Not An Advocate For Violence But You Should Have Whipped Her Ass First And Asked Questions Later."
Got ish? Our advice columnist, the author and blogger Tionna Tee Smalls, is here to help you handle your problems in a mature and reasonable fashion. Ask her anything! In this week's installment: How to approach a woman who has dated the same man as you in the spirit of sisterly solidarity, and how to beat her up when that doesn't work out.
Dear Tionna,
I am dealing with some ish that I really need your advice on. A couple weeks ago, I met this incredibly perfect guy: hot, funny, sweet, etc. He turned out to be a big pothead and loser and I thought he was even kind of with this other chick, so we broke up. As it turns out, he WAS with this other girl (but I knew he had broken up with her, too). So one night at our college bar I went up to her, thinking we could bond, and was like "Hey, we dated the same guy! Let's totally be friends!" I did it because I thought "We're both
girls and should stick together against all the assholes of the world."
I was so wrong. This girl started flipping out. She had no idea we both dated this guy at the same time. I feel badly that I made her upset, but since then she's been harassing me on campus and even hit me and threw a drink down my white dress at a party. This entire time I have always ignored her and never retaliated, but that night was so bad I decided to press charges against her through my school. The people at the university I've talked to suggested I get a restraining order against her, too. While this is being dragged through my university's judicial system, I'm having a really hard time moving on. I think about what this girl did to me all the time, and since our school is very small, I see her pretty often and am so afraid she's going to try to hurt me again. Tionna, how do I get over this?
It's a Good Thing That White Dress Was Cheap
Dear it's a Good Thing That the White Dress Was Cheap,
This is a definite hell-to-the-naw moment.
Most of the letters we receive here at Gawker are matters of the heart or the catbag, but this one is different. I am going to totally help you out with this one because this letter has too much ish going on. It's kind of funny to me that almost every guy we talk about on here turns out to be a pothead. Damn, what's up with that? Are you ladies turning these guys to drugs with your insecurities and emotions? (Um, I wonder).
First of all, you should have never came up to that chick. Your intentions were good but your approach was all wrong. Who wants to hear, "Hey we dated the same guy." She was probably thinking like bitch, I don't know you and you're coming to my face with this bullcrap. This was wrong also because for all you know, she could have thought that you were the girl he was cheating on her with, you understand? You didn't even watch how she moved, you just went in thinking she was all down with pink power (sisterhood). Oh please, girlfriend, that wasn't smart at all.
Another thing is, you don't know the circumstances of their relationship. He could have hurt her feelings badly and here you go out of nowhere, throwing salt on an open wound. So she may have took her pain out on you (though I am not defending what she did to you).
So now that is established, let's get down what my real problem is with: You. This chick gets mad because you approached her and she goes and starts harassing you, hitting you and throwing a drink down your dress. Oh hells no... First of all, Tionna Smalls is not an advocate for violence but you should have whipped her ass first and asked questions later. There is no way in hell you let someone put their damn hands on you and you don't defend yourself. That bitch ain't that crazy, she's human, she bleeds just like your ass. Ooh, I don't like this skank. What you should have done was made a report against her when she first started harassing you so that you would have been protected against any charges once you would have beat the life out of this trick. She has no right at all to be violent towards you.
Damn girl, you sound like you are way too nice. I think it's definitely time for you to become a member of the smack-a ho tribe. Foreal.
I know you may not be an aggressive person but hey, we all have a little fighter in us and I know you may be scared but f-that. Think of what Rocky said in "Rocky 4" when he had to go fight Ivan Drago in Russia right after Drago killed Apollo. Adrian said, "You Can't Win."
And do you remember Rocky's reply? Well I do, here it goes: "Maybe I can't win, maybe the only thing I could do is just take everything he's got. But to beat me, he's going to have to kill me. And to do that, he has to be willing to die himself. I don't think he is ready to do that." Wowzers. That quote is just motivation to my soul. Seriously, take that Rocky quote and make it your own and your fear would go away regarding this chick. Believe me!
You can't go backwards, so beating her ass now may not be an option, but remember that a bully doesn't go away until you pluck them. Right now this female is probably scared to bother you because of the pending charges. But if she ever act crazy again, take all your strength, all your might, and knock her ass out. It's sad but sometimes you have to take justice in your own hands. I think after that, she will get the picture but ignore as much as possible.
BTW, I don't care how cheap the dress was. Her behavior was unacceptable and it better not happen again or we will have to make a trip down there, lol.
Love ya,
Tionna Smalls.
And for all of you lovers, check out www.blogtalkradio.com/talkdatish for our radio show at 6 p.m. Tonight is dedicated to my Gawker readers. The topic: Dating in 2007: Are We All Doomed? Listen live and call in. Our number is (347) 215-7763. We will be discussing the real deal on dating, the trials and the tribulations. Don't miss it!


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Political science professionals tend to discount the importance of the daily news cycle in influencing presidential elections and assert that political and economic fundamentals, based on objective measures, largely determine outcomes. This approach can provide a welcome change from the mindless speculations of the talking head pundit class that assigns deep significance to each ephemeral political event.
There are many such models out there and readers may recall my previous posts on Douglas Hibbs's 'Bread and Peace' model for explaining and predicting US presidential elections. (See here, here, and here)
This model states that the percentage of the two-party vote received by the candidate of the incumbent party is determined by just two factors, each of which can be measured objectively:
1. Weighted-average growth of per capita real disposable personal income over the term (the 'bread' part); and
2. Cumulative US military fatalities due to unprovoked, hostile deployments of American armed forces in foreign wars (the 'peace' part).
Why this particular choice for the 'bread' component over all the other economic indicators out there? Because Hibbs says, "Growth of per capita real disposable personal income is the broadest single aggregate measure of changes in the electorate's economic wellbeing in as much as it includes income from all market sources and transfer payments to persons, is adjusted for inflation, population growth and taxes, and is correlated with changes in central real-economy variables like unemployment and per capita real GDP." [My italics-MS]
As for the peace part, Hibbs says that "Presidents inheriting unprovoked foreign wars from the opposition party are given a one-term grace period before US fatalities begin to depress the incumbent vote share", so Barack Obama is off the hook for any Iraq casualties but not for the Afghanistan ones, since he chose to expand and extend that war. So although George W. Bush started that war too, it is Obama who now 'owns' the Afghan war as far as this model is concerned.
Based on the recent release of the 2012 second-quarter economic data, Hibbs has now updated his earlier analysis done on February 29, 2012. The new analysis of July 31 titled Obama's Re-election Prospects Under 'Bread and Peace' Voting in the 2012 US Presidential Election makes for fascinating reading that I highly recommend.
Here is the latest prediction.
According to the model, as things stand Obama can expect to get just 47.5% of the two-party vote share in November, up from the 45.5% prediction from February 29, but still not enough to win. He should lose to Mitt Romney quite handily.
Is there any hope for Obama to overcome these fundamentals and win? Obama supporters can look to three things.
One is to hope that the economy suddenly takes off. According to Hibbs, "growth rates of per capita real disposable personal income over the remainder of the term will be the decisive as yet unrealized fundamental factor in the 2012 presidential election." If the economy suddenly surges to an average growth rate of 6% for the rest of the year, that could pull Obama up to a point where he could eke out a win. But that is unlikely to happen, since recoveries after the bursting of speculative financial bubbles (like what we just had) tend to be more sluggish than those after 'normal' recessions. Hibbs thinks that growth rates for the rest of the year will lie in the 1-2% range, not enough to give Obama the boost he needs.
Obama supporters could pin their hopes on intangibles. They could look at the elections of 1996 in which Bill Clinton over-performed the model by 4%, and the 2000 election where Al Gore under-performed by 4.5%, suggesting that idiosyncratic factors can overcome the fundamentals on occasion. The catch is that such things seem to occur rarely and we do not really know what those factors are.
The third hope is that statistical uncertainties swing the results their way. The standard error of the model is 2.2%, so a shift of one standard deviation would bring Obama close to the break-even point, and a two standard deviation shift would give him almost 52%. Again, these are low-probability outcomes but not totally in fantasyland.
How robust is this model? Do the fundamentals really dominate over what we have been led to believe by the media as being important, such as the personal qualities of the candidates, their policies and ideology, and the vagaries and vicissitudes of campaigns? To address this question, Hibbs says it is worth looking at the 1964 election in which Lyndon Johnson buried Barry Goldwater in a landslide and the 1980 one in which Ronald Reagan trounced Jimmy Carter. These elections are considered by the commentariat to be watershed elections, which hinged on stark ideological choices that trumped all other factors. Hence you might expect large deviations from the model predictions and yet the model predicted those outcomes exactly, suggesting that there was nothing particularly unusual about those elections and that what may seem on the surface like powerful political factors swaying voters may not in reality be trumping fundamentals after all.
Some have suggested that models such as these are not reliable since they are based on just 15 elections (from 1952-2008) and thus the data set is too small. In a private communication (reprinted with his permission), Hibbs explains why this criticism does not apply, the main point being that "[A] small sample with data on regressors widely dispersed around their respective means and linearly independent of other X's can yield greater precision of coefficient estimates than one obtains in big samples with observations on Xs clustered closely around their means and highly correlated with other X's", where the X's refer to the random variable regressors.
The third quarter economic data will be released just before the election but it is hard to see it swaying the prediction by much, unless there is a sudden outbreak of major violence in Afghanistan or a precipitous change in the economy.


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Timothy James "Tim" Pawlenty (pronounced /pəˈlɛnti/; born November 27, 1960) is an American politician who served as the 39th Governor of Minnesota (2003–2011). He is a Republican candidate for President of the United States in the 2012 election. He previously served in the Minnesota House of Representatives (1993–2003) where he served two terms as majority leader.
Pawlenty was born in Saint Paul, Minnesota and raised in nearby South St. Paul. He graduated from University of Minnesota with a B.A. in political science and earned a J.D. from the University of Minnesota Law School. His early career included working as a labor law attorney and the vice president of a software company. After settling in the city of Eagan with his wife, Pawlenty was appointed to the city's Planning Commission and was elected to the Eagan City Council at the age of 28. He won a seat as a state representative in 1992, representing District 38B in suburban Dakota County. He was re-elected four times, and voted majority leader by House Republicans in 1998.
He won a narrow Republican primary in 2002 followed by a three-way election for Governor of Minnesota. His platform focused on balancing the budget without raising taxes. He was re-elected in 2006 by a margin of one percent. Pawlenty eliminated his state's budget deficit using spending cuts and borrowing heavily from earmarked funds. His administration advocated for numerous public works projects, including work on the Northstar Commuter Rail Line, and the construction of Target Field, a Major League Baseball stadium in Minneapolis. He signed a bill mandating 20% ethanol in gasoline by 2013. He cut health care spending to help balance the budget, and signed an executive order rejecting federal funds related to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. He led worldwide trips for business leaders and trade delegations to explore trade opportunities. In the 2007–2008 term he served as chairman of the National Governors Association.


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Al-CIAda sock puppet Ayman al-Zawahiri was quoted in an audiotape released today accusing Iran of behind behind 9/11 conspiracy theories, in another crude public relations stunt designed to generate hostile opinion towards the 9/11 Truth Movement.
The tape had been promised three weeks ago by monitoring group IntelCenter, who have been caught in the past putting out fake and misleading "Al-Qaeda" material via the alleged media arm of the terrorist organization As-Sahab, and was finally released today.
The set-up revolved around Al-Zawahiri responding to questions submitted by the public via the Internet.
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As anyone with even a superficial knowledge of the 9/11 truth movement can attest to, the sock puppet Zawahiri's claim that Iran were the first to question the official 9/11 story is completely ludicrous.
Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad's recent bumbling comments about 9/11, the date of which he cannot even accurately remember, were music to the ears of Neo-Cons who seized upon the statements as fodder to debunk the 9/11 Truth Movement.
In addition, by making the issue about Israel's alleged involvement in 9/11, the media can frame the debate and margnalize skeptics of the official story as anti-Semites.
Zawahiri's single sentence retort, and the fact that it has been used to generate headlines that link alternative theories about 9/11 with 'those evil Iranians' in a clear smear effort, is highly suspicious considering the history of these "Al-Qaeda tapes" and Zawahiri's own background.
Is this Neo-Con friendly Al-Zawahiri a different person to the real Al-Zawahiri who was reported to have been captured in Tehran in February 2002?
Is this a different Al-Zawahiri to the one reportedly captured near the Pakistan-Afghanistan border in September 2004?
Or is this the same Al-Zawahiri who, as the head of the Egyptian Islamic Jihad, fought for the CIA in Bosnia?
Is this the same Al-Zawahiri who, according to January 2000 U.S. Congressional testimony, was granted U.S. residence by the Immigration and Naturalization Service - something almost impossible for many legitimate immigrants to obtain?
Is this the same Al-Zawahiri whose brother Zaiman is running terrorist camps under NATO protection in the U.S. zone in Kosovo?
Previous tapes which featured Ayman al-Zawahiri were found to be cobbled together from old footage but that doesn't bother a lapdog media well versed in manufacturing consent and never offering retractions when said tapes turn out to be questionable frauds.
A 2006 Ayman al-Zawahiri tape was studied by a computer expert, who discovered that the As-Sahab logo (the alleged media arm of Al-Qaeda) and the IntelCenter logo (a U.S. based private intelligence organization that "monitors terrorist activity") were both added to the video at the same time - meaning the Pentagon-affiliated group releasing the tapes were slapping on the Al-Qaeda brand right before they released them to the media. The expert suspiciously reversed his stance a day later despite producing detailed technical analysis to justify his claim.
Any credibility that these so-called "Al-Qaeda tapes" had was devastated after our investigation revealed that the people putting them out had connections into the highest ranks of the military-industrial complex.
In our exposé, we unveiled the ties between IntelCenter, a group that regularly 'obtains' Al-Qaeda tapes and the Pentagon. IntelCenter is an offshoot of IDEFENSE, which was staffed by a senior military psy-op intelligence officer, Jim Melnick, who has worked directly for Donald Rumsfeld.
IntelCenter were behind the October 2006 release of the "laughing hijackers" tape that showed Mohammad Atta and Ziad Jarrah allegedly attending a 2000 Al-Qaeda meeting and reading their last will and testament.
Segments of the video that were interspersed with footage of the "laughing hijackers," Jarrah and Atta, showing Bin Laden giving a speech to an audience in Afghanistan on January 8 2000, were culled from what terror experts described as surveillance footage taken by a "security agency."
News reports at the time contained the admission that the U.S. government had been in possession of the footage since 2002, while others said it was found when the United States invaded Afghanistan in 2001, and yet it was still bizarrely reported that the tape, bearing all the hallmarks of having been filmed and edited by undercover US intelligence and having admittedly been in US possession for five years, was released over the weekend of September 31/October 1 by "Al-Qaeda".
The video also contained segments that were first broadcast in a British documentary called The Road to Guantanamo, which was originally aired in March 2006. The context of the corresponding scene in the dramatized documentary featured U.S. interrogators attempting to coerce Gitmo detainees into confessing Al-Qaeda membership by showing them fake videos where their likeness had been computer generated to appear as if they were in attendance during Bin Laden's January 8 2000 speech.
IntelCenter are also responsible for the occasional video appearances of Adam Pearlman, the Jewish Mossad agent who once wrote stinging essays condemning Muslims as "bloodthirsty terrorists", but now magically pops up when Neo-Cons are embroiled in scandals.
IntelCenter were also behind the release of the July 2007 "new" Bin Laden tape, which in actual fact was old footage filmed in 2001 and had been released, including by IntelCenter itself, on no less than two previous occasions spanning back five years.
Al-Zawahiri has a history of popping up at the most politically expedient times, most notably when he appeared right before State of the Union speeches two years running, to attack Bush's policy in Iraq and allow him to use Al-Zawahiri's words as a rallying call to prolong the occupation, following in the footsteps of Dick Cheney and former Press Secretary Tony Snow, who had compared troop surge skeptics to Al-Qaeda sympathizers.
His latest comments linking the questioning of the official 9/11 story with America's supposed enemy, Iran, are transparently part of a crude ploy to allow the media to embark on a fresh round of demonizing legitimate 9/11 truth activists.
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Crosby, Stills and Nash are planning to jazz things up – literally – at an upcoming event. The trio will collaborate with Wynton Marsalis and the Jazz at Lincoln Center Orchestra for "The Crosby Stills & Nash Songbook."
"Individually and collectively, David Crosby, Stephen Stills and Graham Nash are influential and important figures in American music," Marsalis said in a press statement. "Their music is rooted in American folk, pop and blues traditions and their experiments with form, harmony and orchestration will make for a natural collaboration."
Crosby, a noted jazz fan said, "Wynton Marsalis, who has become America's musical hero and ambassador to the world in the tradition of the great Louis Armstrong, has offered us the chance to make music with the Jazz at the Lincoln Center Orchestra. These are musicians who have spent their whole lives becoming the very best in the world at what they do. We are are excited and fascinated with this merging of musical streams and looking forward to a night to remember."
The show will premiere as part of a gala event on May 1, and is only for high-rollers: tickets start at $1,500 and tables start at $25,000. That event honors Mica Ertegun, a well-known interior designer in New York… but probably more well-known to music fans as the wife of the late Atlantic Records founder Ahmet Ertegun, who signed CSN to their first record deal with Atlantic.
A public concert will follow on May 3. More ticket information available on Jazz At Lincoln Center's website.
— Brian Ives, CBS Local


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Dara Torres' bid for a sixth Olympics failed Monday night with a fourth-place finish on the final night of Olympic trials.
Torres, 45, needed to come in at least second in the 50-meter freestyle to earn a spot on the American team that will compete in London this summer.
She went up against seven women who were all at least 19 years younger than her. She was slow off her starting block and could not make up the difference. Jessica Hardy won, finishing in 24.50 seconds, followed by Kara Lynn Joyce, who made her third Olympic team.
Torres finished in 24.82. She emerged from the water smiling and waved to her 6-year-old daughter, Tessa, in the stands. Torres had said she would not try to make the Olympics after this year.
That race, along with Andrew Gemmell's win in the men's 1500-meter freestyle that followed, were the final events of the Olympic trial season. The roster for Team USA is now set, and for the next several weeks, attention will focus on a select group of athletes on whom America is pinning its medal hopes.
Here are a few of them.
Jordyn Wieber
Wieber, 16, was beaten by Gabby Douglas at the Olympic trials last week but is still the world's top female gymnast and the favorite to win gold in London. She has a nearly perfect résumé, including top finishes at the American Cup, Pacific Rim Championships and the U.S. championships this year and the 2011 all-around world title. She is the undisputed leader of the women's Olympic team, which is also expected to win gold. In fact, the high expectations could be the only thing to trip Wieber up; the next few weeks will test her ability to stay focused.
John Orozco
The expectations aren't quite as high for Orozco, the all-around American men's champion, who, like Wieber, was edged out by a teammate at the Olympic trials – in this case, Danell Leyva. Orozco, 19, heads to London as the the team's best shot at gold, but the competition from other countries – mainly Japan's Kohei Uchimura – is a lot more daunting.
Allyson Felix
Felix, one of the world's top sprinters, is known primarily for her prowess in the 200-meter, where she is expected to have another showdown with Jamaican Veronica Campbell Brown. That pairing is considered one of the Games' biggest rivalries. But lately Felix is better known for her dead-heat finish with Jeneba Tarmoh in the 100-meter at the Olympic trials. After agreeing to a Monday night runoff, Tarmoh backed out at the last minute, allowing Felix to compete in a second individual event in London.
Michael Phelps
Much – very much – has been made of Phelps' rivalry with his younger teammate Ryan Lochte. But four years after winning a record eight gold medals in Beijing, Phelps remains the king of swimming. He and Lochte went head to head in four events at the trials, and Phelps took three of them. Phelps will compete in a total of seven events at the 2012 Games, giving him a very good chance at setting the Olympics all-time medal count mark. He needs three medals of any kind to beat Soviet gymnast Larisa Latynina's record of 14 medals.
Missy Franklin
Franklin, 17, is widely considered one of the world's top young swimmers. She aims to prove it in London, where she will compete in seven events, the most ever by an American female swimmer. At the trials she won the 100-meter and 200-meter backstroke and came in second in the 100-meter and 200-meter freestyle. She will also race in three Olympic relays.
Lolo Jones
Some rivals consider her overrated, but Jones will no doubt be one of the most closely watched athletes in London. The Olympics drip with stories of redemption, and Jones stands out because of her tragic performance in the 100-meter hurdles in Beijing. Cruising toward what appeared to be a sure gold medal, she stumbled over the second-to-last hurdle, finished seventh and crumpled to the track in tears. She has since endured several injuries and an excruciating procedure to repair a "tethered spine" and has become a media darling. She barely qualified for the 2012 Games, with a third-place finish in the Olympic trials.
Misty May-Treanor and Kerri Walsh Jennings
The two-headed monster of beach volleyball. May-Treanor and partner Walsh Jennings are gunning for their third straight Olympic gold medals. The pair hasn't lost a match in Olympic play, going 14-0 in Athens and Beijing. After the 2008 Games, Walsh Jennings took time out to become a mother, and May-Treanor recuperated from an Achilles tendon injury, so they didn't start playing together again until last year.


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An Oklahoma man awaiting trial for running his next-door neighbor over with a car now stands accused of gunning down her son — and the family says it all stems from a hatred of Muslims, even though they're Lebanese Christians.
The heartbroken family of 37-year-old shooting victim Khalid Jabara said the twin tragedies were part of a multi-year campaign of harassment by neighbor Vernon Stanley Majors.
"This suspect had a history of bigotry against our family," the Jabara family said in a statement. Majors was arrested last September for allegedly mowing down Jabara's mother Haifa Jabara with a car — two years after she and her husband took out an order of protection against him, according to the Tulsa Police.


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Donnangelo shot scenes for a music video at Subiaco, Dover and Crow Mountain before wrapping up in Little Rock on Tuesday.
He is shooting a video for Adam Faucett and the Tall Grass, a folk band from Little Rock. Donnangelo anticipated the video to be edited and available to view on the band's website by mid- to late September.
Donnangelo graduated from Russellville High School in 2003 and moved to Georgia to pursue his dream of working in film. He graduated from The Savannah College of Art and Design in 2007 with a degree in film and television.
He said his exposure to video producing while enrolled in the EAST Lab at RHS influenced in his choice of college and career path.
"EAST Lab opened a door to something I might not have otherwise had access to," Donnangelo said. "The more videos I made, the more I realized that's what I wanted to do."
Donnangelo said he currently freelances, which means he spends a lot of time pitching ideas for video work to corporations for advertisements and has also had the opportunity to pitch with Hollywood producers.
"I pitched to do the title sequence for 'True Blood' and got to set down with producers and the show's creator," Donnangelo said. "I didn't get the account, but it was great opportunity for me."
Donnangelo said he loves all aspects of film, from shooting videos and online work, to short and feature films. He said he hopes to one day win an award for best director.
"I don't care what it is for, just best director of something some day," Donnangelo said.


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Quiet bats, sloppy defense sink A's vs. Jays
OAKLAND -- Defensive miscues by both sides in Wednesday afternoon's series finale between the A's and Blue Jays resulted in unearned runs that changed the course of the game.
Two passed balls allowed by A's catcher Stephen Vogt -- one in the fourth and one in the 10th -- proved detrimental in Oakland's 5-2 extra-innings loss, though the A's were also the beneficiaries of several key defensive lapses by the Blue Jays in the matinee at the Coliseum.Full Game Coverage
OAKLAND -- Defensive miscues by both sides in Wednesday afternoon's series finale between the A's and Blue Jays resulted in unearned runs that changed the course of the game.
Two passed balls allowed by A's catcher Stephen Vogt -- one in the fourth and one in the 10th -- proved detrimental in Oakland's 5-2 extra-innings loss, though the A's were also the beneficiaries of several key defensive lapses by the Blue Jays in the matinee at the Coliseum.Full Game Coverage
After Jose Reyes reached on a leadoff single in the 10th, he advanced to second on a passed ball by Vogt and scored the go-ahead run on an RBI double by Jose Bautista.
"The ball had some late movement and I didn't do my job," Vogt said. "I didn't catch the ball and I just lost focus there for a second I suppose."
Sure, maybe the A's (63-45) squeak by with the 2-1 win and don't drop their lead over the Rangers in the American League West to 4 1/2 games if Vogt handles Bartolo Colon's late-moving fastball to Maicer Izturis with two outs in the fourth instead of letting it go by so Colby Rasmus can score from third, but neither of the two runs scored during R.A. Dickey's six innings of work for Toronto were earned, either.
The Blue Jays committed four errors on the day and failed to corral multiple popups and fly balls because of the sun's glare during their get-away day game.
"It wasn't pretty out there, but I will say this is a brutal sun field when you're not used to it," Blue Jays manager John Gibbons said. "We got lucky there. But I thought we played a good game other than that, good at-bats, our pitching was very good again and a lot of times that equals a win."
"There were points in the game where they were almost trying to give us the game, and we weren't able to take advantage of it," A's third baseman Josh Donaldson said. "You just go out there the next time you step out there on the field and if there's guys in scoring position, we got to get them across."
Eric Sogard, batting in the No. 2 slot in the A's lineup for the second time in three games, scored twice on fielding errors. He singled with two outs in the third inning and scored on a single in the following at-bat by Jed Lowrie when right fielder Bautista launched the ball into the stands in an attempt to nab Sogard at third base.
Leading off the fifth inning, Sogard reached base again -- this time on a fielding error by Dickey, who stumbled backward off the mound after tripping over the rosin bag while following a popup that landed in the infield. Sogard scored once again with two outs when Blue Jays second baseman Izturis dropped a high popup off the bat of Brandon Moss in shallow right field.
The blunders came at a perfect time for Colon, who, while effective, was not as dominant as he's been for much of the season. He allowed three walks for the first time since June 11 in the no-decision, striking out one and allowing two runs (one earned) on seven hits.
The right-hander simply lacked control; just 53 of his 97 pitches on the day went for strikes -- a drop from his usual production.
"Sometimes you're behind in the count and you try to make the best pitches possible and you just can't," said Colon, who tossed six or more innings while allowing three runs or fewer for his 15th straight start, the longest streak by an A's pitcher since 1916. "That's what happened today."
Oakland could've seized the lead in the eighth inning after putting runners on first and second following consecutive singles by Donaldson and Seth Smith with one out, but Chris Young and Vogt both struck out swinging to end the threat.
The A's had an earlier scoring opportunity in the fourth when they loaded the bases with two straight singles by Moss and Donaldson and a throwing error by Izturis that allowed Smith to reach base with no outs. Dickey, however, escaped unscathed by forcing back-to-back popups to third base by Young and Vogt with his knuckleball before Coco Crisp flew out to center.
Ryan Cook, Sean Doolittle and Grant Balfour teamed up to keep the Blue Jays off the board before the 10th, with Balfour striking out the side in the ninth. Jesse Chavez entered the game to start the 10th and quickly gave up a leadoff single to Reyes before Vogt allowed the passed ball so he could move into scoring position. Bautista doubled in Reyes, and after an intentional walk, Jerry Blevins was then inserted. He walked the first batter he faced and then yielded a single through the hole at second base that allowed two more Blue Jays to cross the plate.
Newly acquired infielder Alberto Callaspo pinch-hit for Sogard in the seventh and flew out to right field in his first at-bat since his departure from the Angels. He finished 0-for-2 in his A's debut.
Jeff Kirshman is an associate reporter for MLB.com.


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My local BMW mechanic can't get the battleaxe BT-45's in the standard sizes (3.25-19 and 4.00-18).
I found the Roadriders in that size.
Searching online isn't yielding much results either yet Bridgestone has them listed on their site. They seem available in the UK but not in the USA.
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Welsh Rugby
Alun Wyn Jones ruled out for four months
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Alun Wyn Jones will play no further part in the Ospreys' Heineken Cup campaign © Getty Images
Wales international Alun Wyn Jones is set for shoulder surgery that will sideline him for an estimated four months.
The Ospreys lock appears in danger of missing the start of next year's Six Nations after sustaining an injury to his AC joint during Wales' 26-12 defeat to Argentina in Cardiff last Saturday. He was ruled out of the remainder of Wales' autumn international earlier this week and now his region have revealed the extent of the injury and the extent of his likely lay-off.
A 16-week absence would see the Lions second row miss the first three games of Wales' campaign against Ireland, France and Italy. The injury is also a significant blow to the Ospreys as Jones will definitely miss the remainder of their testing Heineken Cup Pool Two campaign, with crucial games against Toulouse (twice), Leicester and Treviso still to come.
Ospreys physio Chris Towers said: "He is due to undergo the surgery at the end of this week, and we will be looking at a 12-16 week rehab process post-op to get him back on the field."
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Brazil beats US in climate change awareness
[RIO DE JANEIRO] Almost 80 per cent of Brazilians think global warming is caused by human activities, a survey has found, compared with less than half of Americans and around 70 per cent of Britons according to similar recent surveys.
Around 90 per cent of Brazilians believe that global warming is happening and think it is a serious issue, putting them on a par with Europeans and well ahead of Americans.
The results challenge the belief that in the developing world there is a lack of knowledge of the importance of climate change, said Yurij Castelfranchi, an expert on public perception of science based at the Federal University of Minas Gerais.
"The results show that climate change is on the agenda not only for the government but also for civil society," he told SciDev.Net.
More than 2,000 Brazilians were interviewed for the survey, which was conducted by the National Confederation of Industries (CNI) and published last month (December).
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The County Commission's plan to take advantage of the community's natural wonders now looks south.
OCKLAWAHA — The County Commission's plan to take advantage of the community's natural wonders now looks south.
At a recent workshop, the board indicated it would revisit its management strategy for the Carney Island Recreation and Conservation Area, a 601-acre county park along the western shore of Lake Weir.
Commissioners in recent weeks have been focused on tapping the renewed potential of Silver Springs to attract tourists' dollars once it becomes a state park in October.
Now, the commission apparently wants to find a way to do the same for Carney Island, the largest facility in the county's park system.
But doing so will require a balancing act, since many of those gathered at last Monday's workshop objected to the introduction of large-scale commercial activity on the property.
Many in the crowd attended the meeting to express concerns about the lake level declining to an historic low.
That has hobbled boat access to the lake, rendering the three boat ramps at the park nearly unusable.
Commissioners saw the need to tackle that with summer approaching, and they directed staff to prepare a report addressing the problem within 60 days.
The fix could be pricey.
The cost of one plan to extend the ramps was pegged at $48,000 to $68,000 per ramp.
County officials on Wednesday met at the park to begin discussing what can be done with the ramps to help boaters access the lake, according to county Parks and Recreation Department Director Gina Peebles.
The board last Monday also conceded that it might be time to revise the long-range plan for the park.
The document has not been updated since it was adopted a decade ago — before the board's senior member, Commissioner Stan McClain, was elected. McClain has served since 2004.
McClain, who has been the commission's foremost champion of creating economic opportunity from the transition of Silver Springs, primarily by promoting it as the heart of all the public recreation lands in eastern Marion, suggested the same be done with Carney Island.
"There's a lot of opportunities for us to be able to use the land that's here in Marion County," McClain said.
"My desire is to figure out how we could get to some of those places and allow this ecotourism to spring here in Marion County," he added.
"We certainly could be a mecca for ecotourism in Florida."
David Owen, owner of a bed-and-breakfast on the lake, indicated a market already seemed to exist.
Owen said 80 percent of his guests come from the Orlando or Tampa areas, and he routinely steers out-of-towners to Carney Island for hiking and other activities.
The visitors, Owen reported, are "amazed" by the park. He called on the board "to protect the park we've got here."
Others urged the same.
The meeting was populated with people bothered by the commission's recent flirtation with the owner of a local restaurant chain.
In December, the board considered a plan by Wendell Landry, owner of the Horse & Hounds restaurants in Ocala, to locate an eatery at Carney Island.
Landry was the only restaurateur to respond to the county's May 2012 request, which aligned with the park's master plan that had called for food service at the facility.
Landry's plan was attacked by lakefront property owners, including his potential competitors.
Some complained that the restaurant was an affront to preserving the land for conservation and recreation.
In a different vein, the lawyer representing both the owners of Gator Joe's restaurant on the north side of the lake and those of a new restaurant set to open this summer at Eaton's Beach on the south end complained about Landry getting a sweetheart deal. That was primarily because the land would be rent free at the beginning of the contract.
The blowback was sufficient for the County Commission to pull the plug on Landry's offer in February, overruling a staff recommendation to award the contract.
That prospect haunted last Monday's meeting, at which commission Chairwoman Kathy Bryant told the crowd that there had been a "misconception" about what the board wanted to accomplish.
The idea, she added, was for a weekend concessionaire who could sell hamburgers and hot dogs to parkgoers.
Some in the crowd, however, wanted to ensure the board understood they didn't want intense development there.
"This park's extraordinary," said former Florida Gov. Buddy MacKay, who lives on the north side of the lake.
"We voted for taxes for these parks," said MacKay, recalling the $20 million Pennies for Parks program that voters approved in 1988.
The program to build the county's inventory of parks and environmentally sensitive lands was funded through bonds that were repaid through a property tax.
Carney Island, purchased for $1.8 million in 1991 from the Coca-Cola Co., was the second parcel acquired under Pennies for Parks.
"If we thought there was going to be commercial development here," MacKay added, "I can guarantee you this thing would not have passed."
Jane Sands, a board member of the group Save Lake Weir, echoed MacKay's point.
"We don't want to commercialize this park. Once you start commercializing it, I don't feel like there would be any end to where you end up."
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A crowd of more than 150 people witnessed the initial flight of the Eurocopter CH-53GA—the medium lift transport for the German Armed Forces—on Feb. 10 in Donauwörth. Test pilot Rene Nater and flight engineer Antoine Van Gent conducted the first flight under the CH-53GA retrofit program. The helicopter features a number of upgrades, including digital avionics, advanced navigation system, an automatic flight control system and a modular equipment package with FLIR, satcom and electronic warfare system (EWS). Training flights using the CH-53GA are scheduled to commence in early 2011, with deliveries planned later that year. (From March 2010 Rotorcraft Report)


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Fins from up to 73 million sharks are used in shark fin soup each year
An estimated 100 million sharks are killed every year with fins from up to 73 million used for shark fin soup, primarily to supply the market in Mainland China. A pair of shark fins can sell for as much as US$700 per kg in Asia. Some shark populations have declined by up to 98% in the last 15 years and nearly one third of pelagic sharks species are considered threatened by the International Union for the Conservation of Nature.
Our goal is to measurably reduce this consumption of shark fin in China and Southeast Asia. In 2006, when we started our shark fin campaign, knowledge of the problem in China was negligible. Surveying showed that 75% of Chinese were unaware that shark fin soup came from sharks (the dish is called "fish wing soup" in Mandarin), while 19% believed the fins grew back, and few understood the impact on shark populations.
To measurably raise awareness and concern about the impact of the consumption of shark fin soup on shark populations and marine biodiversity, we work with media network partners in China to broadcast our Say No to Shark Fin campaign messages via TV and other media outlets, including video boards in subway and train stations, airports, and university campuses. We have produced many high quality TV PSAs on shark fin for China with our celebrity ambassadors Yao Ming and others, including prominent Chinese CEOs. Our latest campaign features several new PSAs including sports icon David Beckham, actor and director Jiang Wen, and actress Maggie Q.
Our campaigns, in combination with government bans at official events, have contributed to a reported 50%-70% decrease in China's shark fin consumption.
In the upcoming year we will continue our work with governments in consuming nations, increase our restaurant and hotel partnerships, recruit more ambassadors for additional media outreach, and much more.
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Gifts for sale, but tunes and gallery viewings are free
A Creative Art Studio is offering a special music and shopping event for First Friday Denton from 7 to 10 p.m. Friday.
The monthly local arts mixer invites local folks to visit galleries and other arts-related business downtown on the first Friday evening of each month.
At A Creative Art Studio, at 227 W. Oak St., Suite 101, the night kicks off with jazz music from the Dana Isaac Trio — Deke and Dana Isaac with Rick Johnson on keyboard. Following the trio at 8:30 p.m. will be the duo PurlSnapShirts, made up of Joe Stack and Garrett Phelps.
Unlike previous months, when the studio has hosted a featured artist, this Friday several of the studio's artists will host a special art sale, just in time for Mother's Day. Special gift items will be available. Throughout the evening, A Creative Art Studio will also have various art demonstrations and a community collage project.
Around the corner at Oxide Gallery, at 211 N. Cedar St. off Oak Street, there will be demonstrations by photographer Rocky Phillips and live music by Eddy Herrera.
At UNT on the Square, 109 N. Elm St., the Jordan Gheen Quintet will perform from 5 to 7 p.m.
Other businesses participating in First Friday include Denton Square Donuts, SCRAP Denton, Banter Bistro and Circa 77 Vintage — all on Oak Street west of the Square.
For more information, visit http://firstfridaydenton.com .
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Six Nations
Conor O'Shea rejects Ireland talk
ESPN Staff
February 26, 2013
Conor O'Shea has no intentions of leaving Harlequins © PA Photos
Harlequins boss Conor O'Shea is adamant that he is happy at the Aviva Premiership club despite being linked with the Ireland job.
Current Irish coach Declan Kidney's contract runs out after the 2013 Six Nations and reports suggest that he is unlikely to have it renewed. Ireland have just one win from three in the Six Nations and fell to a 12-8 defeat to Scotland on Sunday despite having the majority of the possession and territory.
After that loss at Murrayfield, Kidney was asked about his future, but he deflected the question telling RTE: "I've always said that my role is all about getting ready for the next match. That's what it always has been and that's what it always will be."
Ireland fullback Rob Kearney came to Kidney's defence post-match saying that the players should be blamed for the team's failures on the field rather than the backroom staff.
"On a day like that when we had so much possession and created so much, the blame has to be on the players," Kearney said. "The coaches can't make that final pass for you or make that clinical decision. The players must take responsibility and must bear the brunt."
Despite Kearney's backing for Kidney, former Ireland fly-half Tony Ward said on Tuesday that he feels the former Munster coach's time in charge of Ireland should come to an end and he called for O'Shea to be given the job. "Conor would be my choice to take Ireland forward," Ward told the Guardian. "He has the track record, he trusts the people around him and he is Irish at a time when all our provinces are coached by New Zealanders.
But O'Shea is adamant that he is happy at the club and hopes to stay for a while longer. O'Shea told reporters on Tuesday: "I'm contracted to Harlequins until the end of the 2013-14 season. I will be honouring that commitment and hopefully continuing beyond it."
Other than O'Shea, Ireland Under-20 coach Mike Ruddock's name has also been mentioned as a possible successor to Kidney along with Leinster's Joe Schmidt.
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High hopes for Star Wars MMO
EA needs a million players ASAP
Star Wars: The Old Republic is a huge project, with claimed full voice-acting and almost a full single-player campaign for every class in the game. It is by far the biggest MMO-project EA has ever gotten involved in, and it is certainly the biggest project Bioware has ever done. According to Industry Gamers, Sterne Agee analyst Arvind Bhatia just had a meeting with EA that gave a little bit of information about just how huge it is.
Speaking about the money EA is making (or not making), Bathia said that "earnings are somewhat depressed due to ongoing expenses of the Star Wars MMO, management has high hopes for this and believes 2M+ subs is possible". Two million subscribers would make Star Wars: The Old Republic one of the biggest MMOs ever made, after giant World of Warcraft. He also said that EA would need over one million subscribers before the game could even reach break even.


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The board has announced plans to vote Tuesday on whether to retain Sullivan, the first female president of the prestigious public university founded in 1819 by Thomas Jefferson and renowned today as much for its white-colonnaded pavilions as for turning out top scholars and leaders in all walks.
Ten of the university's 11 school deans, as well as the Faculty Senate, have demanded Sullivan's reinstatement amid wide condemnations of the board's abrupt firing of the popular Sullivan.
Sullivan, a 62-year-old eminent scholar of labor-force demography whose appointment drew national attention in 2010, was forced out during a closed-door session of the Board of Visitors in which no official vote was taken. The June 10 announcement that she would resign blindsided Sullivan and ignited wide outrage and protests.
Those opposed to Sullivan's removal likened the ouster to a coup d'etat that went against the stately Charlottesville university's longstanding principles of honor, respect and transparency. In calling for the board to explain its actions some repeated Jefferson's 1820 pledge that the school should "follow truth wherever it may lead."
For her part, Rector Helen Dragas publicly disclosed Thursday more detailed reasoning behind Sullivan's ouster. A six-page statement said Sullivan wasn't acting quickly enough to address financial pressures facing higher education, the role of online learning, changes in the health care environment, the increased student-faculty ratio, fundraising, and other strategic challenges. The university lacks long-range plans on several of those fronts, it added.
"No matter how you feel about our actions, these challenges represent some very high hurdles that stand in the way of our university's path to continued success in the coming decade, and they are going to remain front and center for the next board and the next president over the coming years," the statement said.
In comments to the panel earlier this week, Sullivan defended her performance since taking office in August 2010, outlining aspects of her strategy of measured change, including implementing a new budgeting model that decentralizes financial planning.
Sullivan admitted to being an incrementalist, according to remarks released after her appearance at Monday's closed session: "Sweeping action may be gratifying and may create the aura of strong leadership, but its unintended consequences may lead to costs that are too high to bear."
"Corporate-style, top-down leadership does not work in a great university," she said.
But Dragas said U.Va. needs "the rapid development of a plan that includes goals, costs, sources of funds, timelines and individual accountability."
She did acknowledge that the board mishandled Sullivan's removal, and apologized. "In my view we did the right thing, the wrong way," Dragas said.
A majority of the 15-member board would have to approve the reinstatement for Sullivan to remain in office. Messages left for the 14 other board members, as well as for the law firm representing Sullivan, weren't returned Thursday.
On Thursday the 10 deans asked the board to retain the popular Sullivan, who took office in August 2010 after serving as provost and executive vice president for academic affairs at the University of Michigan, another top public university.
A gathering outside the historic Rotunda on Monday drew a sea of 2,000 Sullivan supporters who decried her ouster and loudly cheered and serenaded her with U.Va.'s anthem, "The Good Ole Song." She waded into the crowd, all smiles, as admirers snapped photos of her.
The deans said in a letter Thursday to the board that they think the board acted out of the school's best interests but that removing Sullivan and installing an interim president would delay action on the university's pressing fiscal concerns and other needed change.
"We recommend strongly that discussions begin immediately to reset the relationship with President Sullivan, reconstitute the team she had put together over the past year, and accelerate the important decisions to be made," the letter said.
The deans didn't ask McIntire School of Commerce Dean Carl P. Zeithaml to sign their letter because they didn't want to put him in a difficult position. After a marathon session, the board on Tuesday named Zeithaml the interim president to take over after Sullivan's departure.
A glimpse of the roles that Rector Helen Dragas and Vice Rector Mark Kington played in the ouster of Sullivan was detailed in emails between the two top board members in the weeks leading to the June 10 announcement. They exchanged links to articles about online learning, hospital mergers and other issues that surfaced in the reasoning behind Sullivan's removal.
Kington resigned Tuesday, stating it was "the right thing to do and I hope that it will begin a needed healing process at the university."
And Thursday, Sullivan urged that those angered by her ouster cab engage in vigorous debate yet remain civil.
"I know that emotions are running high ... but there is no excuse for abusing anyone with whom you disagree," Sullivan said in a statement.
She also said that the spray-painting of "G-R-E-E-E-D" on six columns of U.Va.'s stately Rotunda early Monday "goes beyond free speech into vandalism."


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This Snowman Prank Is a Chilling Holiday Treat
Ghastly little children and zombie corpses in elevators aren't the only things petrifying people around the world this holiday season. It looks like even Frosty himself is getting in on the act to wish us all a very happy (and spooky) holiday.
Thanks to YouTube's UCMagic and this prank — in which patrons pick up a fallen sign from a storefront's "display" snowman only to come face to face with a Christmas present they never expected — the holiday season will forever be changed. Yet despite being horribly shaken, each customer seemed to enjoy the hoax, welcoming it with a warm holiday cheer. Or maybe those were shrieks.
Either way, to the unfortunate shoppers on the prank's receiving end, and to all, Happy Holidays! And watch out for living snowmen.


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A Houston couple was shocked to learn last year they were going to have two sets of identical twins -- at once! The four babies, born on Valentine's Day, are not quadruplets.
This is extremely rare, and the couple says they did not use fertility drugs.
Parents Tressa and Manuel Montalvo already have a 2-year-old, and now he has four baby brothers.
This story from HLN affiliate KTRK is already pretty cute, but it gets cuter: The new baby boys are named Ace, Blaine, Cash and Dylan. A, B, C & D!


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Fed Finalizes New Rule Requiring Lenders to Disclose to Consumers the Reporting of Negative Credit Information
June 20, 2004
As part of its implementation of the reauthorized Fair Credit Reporting Act, the Federal Reserve Board (the Fed) last week issued a final rule requiring that lenders who furnish negative information on a consumer to a consumer reporting agency (CRA) provide a disclosure of this negative notice in writing to the consumer. MBA submitted comments on this proposal to the Fed in early May, supporting the rule but urging that the Fed make several clarifications regarding how these disclosures are to be made and what they can include.
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Under the final rule, which lenders must comply with by July 16, 2004, lenders must provide notice to the consumer no later than 30 days after furnishing the negative information to the CRA. After providing the notice, the lender may submit additional negative information pertaining to the same transaction without giving the consumer an additional notice.
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