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2010 MLB season preview: AL Central
Meet the worst division in baseball
Today, I'll be covering the American League Central in the fifth of a six-part series previewing each division, team by team as well as giving my 2010 overall divisional predictions.
Final 2009 AL Central Standings
Minnesota: 87-76
Detroit: 86-77
Chicago: 79-83
Cleveland: 65-97
Kansas City: 65-97
The Twins will open the 2010 season in their new outdoor, natural grass home – Target Field. Though the aesthetics of the new digs will be pleasing, my concern is over how well the Twins will transition there. It's no secret that the Twins had a significant home-field advantage at the Metrodome – guaranteed 70 degree weather, no rainouts, snowouts and the lack of freezing air knocking down potential homers. The ball won't travel well later in the year when the temps take a turn into freezing and that could really push the Twins into small-ball territory. In that case, the name of the game becomes quality pitching.
This off-season, GM Bill Smith re-signed Carl Pavano, brought on reliever Clay Condrey and is apparently gambling on Francisco Liriano being able to recapture his 2006 form after he lit it up in winter ball. If Liriano does recapture his form and Nick Blackburn ends his inconsistency for the better (22-22 the last two years), the Twins may have a chance. Adding to the concern over the Twins is the loss of closer Joe Nathan, who underwent season-ending Tommy John surgery in March and thus, will cause Minnesota to start the season with a closer-by-committee situation. Jon Rauch will likely lead-off with the closers role.
Pitching hurdles aside, the Twins look a bit better offensively and defensively than in previous years. The Twins were able to snatch up Orlando Hudson at second for the more-than reasonable price of one-year and $5 million. Smith also traded for SS J.J. Hardy, upgrading the middle of the infield for $5 million and OF Carlos Gomez. Sweet price, if you ask me. Jim Thome was added to the bench for run-producing options which was smart and, again, pretty cheap – one year, $1.5 million. The only part of Smith's game plan that I didn't like was the two-year extension given to 3B Brendan Harris. Sure, it only cost the Twinkies $3.2 million total, but for a guy who hit .207 away from the Metrodome and is on his way out of the starting job, it seems to me that money could've been put towards something else. I know I'm pinching pennies with that criticism, but the Twins need some pitching insurance. Small-market teams like this (especially ones that just committed $184 million to Joe Mauer) have to pinch pennies. I'm just thinking down to their level.
I like the Twins in the AL Central, mostly because it's still pretty weak and the Twins can out muscle most of em. But the potential for a repeat of the 2000 Astros is certainly there. It may take an off-year to acclimate the team to Target Field. If the offense goes south, the Twins could sink from division favorites to cellar dwellers quickly. Because of the said nature of the division, I think they'll win it. But the red flags are up.
Prospect watch: The Twins have only one premier prospect waiting in the wings for a shot in Minnesota this season, three-bagger Danny Valencia. The Twins are desperate for a power-hitting third baseman and Valencia projects as just that. Defensively, he's hit-and-miss with a plus arm but lacking concentration and proper footwork. Earlier in his career, many felt he was too immature, but that doesn't project as a problem at this point. Valencia should easily beat out Brendan Harris for the third-base gig.
Going into the off-season, the Tigers made it known that they needed to dump salary and bad contracts. So they went and dumped a good contract in Curtis Granderson by trading him to the Yankees. In the same deal, the Tigers gave up Edwin Jackson to Arizona. In return, the Tigers acquired OF Austin Jackson and pitcher Phil Coke from the Yankees and pitchers Max Scherzer and Daniel Schlereth from the D-Backs.
Fair enough.
But the Tigers then turned around and signed closer Jose Valverde to a two-year, $14 million deal and then brought on OF Johnny Damon for one-year, $8 million. While the deals themselves aren't going to kill the organization, they represent a win-now attitude, which completely contradicts the Granderson deal. Why not hang onto Granderson for one more year and go for it all one more time with him in tow? The chances of success are increasingly less without Granderson. I understand the difficulty in dealing off overpaid players like Dontrelle Willis, Carlos Guillen or Magglio Ordonez – it's damn near impossible with the way things have been in the economy. But the Tigers did a poor job of picking which side of the fence they're on. Are you dumping salary or winning now? I'm not saying the Tigers sunk themselves with this chain of events, but they didn't really help themselves, unless this is their strange way of saving money.
Before I move on, you know what else gets me about the Granderson trade? They traded him to the Yankees! If GM Dave Dombrokowski is reading, I have to ask – How do you sleep at night? You didn't just trade him to an AL team; you dealt him to the Yankees. For your sake, I hope Austin Jackson is ROY and an instant All-Star. That's perhaps the only way out of this deal.
Other cost-cutting moves were made by letting pricey free-agents walk. Guys like Brandon Lyon, Fernando Rodney, Placido Polanco and Aubrey Huff all moved on. That saved some cheese, but didn't necessarily make the Tigers better.
The Tigers dealt Nate Roberston to Florida earlier this week, clearing the way for Dontrelle Willis to nab the No. 3 spot in the rotation (while Roberston makes his way into the Florida rotation). Willis will join Justin Verlander (fresh off a new five-year, $80 million contract extension), Max Scherzer, Rick Porcello and Jeremy Bonderman in a rotation that projects to do pretty well as long as, well, everyone behind Verlander can hold their own weight. Bonderman and Willis are the question marks, while the pen is always a question mark for Detroit. If Jose Valverde can transition cleanly from the NL to the AL, that'll make things a lot smoother for Detroit down the stretch.
I'm mixed on the Tigers. Looking up and down their lineup, there's not a whole lot of oomph in it. If Austin Jackson and Scott Sizemore can cut it in center field and second base, respectively, and Magglio and Carlos Guillen rebound from horrendous 2008 campaigns, the Tigers will be in business. Lots of question marks though.
Prospect watch: Scott Sizemore, Austin Jackson and Daniel Schlereth will all get their chances in Detroit this season. Sizemore at second, Jackson in center and Schlereth out of the pen. While Jackson and Schlereth are known commodities as far as their overall skill sets, Sizemore is homegrown and hasn't been tossed in every trade rumors for the past two seasons. Sizemore is what scouts have called a blue-collar grinder with a compact swing with an ability to consistently put the barrel on the ball. His remaining tools are fringe, but his instincts are a plus. He's simply adequate defensively, but he'll stick if he can make the routine plays. OF prospect Wilkin Ramirez is expected to be in Detroit by season's end if his development in Triple-A continues as it has. Ramirez excites the Tigers with raw five-tool plus potential. His high strikeout totals are a result of his hard swing, but his good outweighs the bad. Catcher Alex Avila will back-up Gerald Laird to start this season as he prepares to take over full-time in 2011. For the exception of his inability thus far to handle left-handed pitching, Avila is a plus-plus player with tons of upside.
I like the White Sox, but I don't. Does that make any sense? I'll try to explain.
They've got tons of power potential in Paul Konerko, Alex Rios and Carlos Quentin, but Rios is a question mark after his horrible performance upon joining the White Sox last season. Outside of those three, questions marks galore. Andruw Jones at DH, Mark Teahen and his 123 K's in 09, Juan Pierre at the top of the order and Gordan Beckham and the potential for a sophomore slump.
The Sox have a solid rotation with Jake Peavy, Mark Buerhle and John Danks leading the way, but I don't like Freddy Garcia's presence there and I still question whether or not Gavin Floyd can cut it consistently. Buerhle went 2-7 with a 4.78 ERA after his perfect game last season, so that's something else to keep an eye on.
Relying on the homer to get them by last season didn't work for the Sox, so they focused their off-season on guys like Pierre, Mark Kotsay, and Omar Vizquel to shore up the defense and upgrade the team's speed. I'm mixed on the deals as I feel that money could've been put towards a semi-significant offensive upgrade. I don't necessarily mean to sign simply home run threats, but someone who could do more than field well and hit .226 annually. That's all.
Every facet of the White Sox is a mixed back of like and dislike. Ultimately, I feel they'll contend in the AL Central, but more or less on the power of their pitching than their offense, where they'll be weak at traditionally power areas. You also can't forget the Ozzie Guillen effect. Ozzie's nuts at times, but he's a smart baseball mind with a knack for milking the best out of his players. It's unknown what effect his new Twitter account will have on the team (other than making all of us laugh, creating headlines and causing GM Kenny Williams' head to explode), but it already cost his son a job in the organization so I guess we'll see.
Prospect watch: Catcher Tyler Flowers, the crown jewel of the 2008 Javier Vasquez trade to Atlanta, has been everything the White Sox have wanted and more. He is the catcher of the future but will have to wait a bit as A.J. Pierzynski is in the final year of his current deal. Flowers got some time in Chicago last September and will now polish his skills in Triple-A while the Sox decide what to do as the season progresses. OF Jordan Danks, younger brother of John Danks will begin this season in Double-A but could find himself in Chicago by September if things go well and he stays healthy. Danks is an excellent athlete with future center fielder written all over him. He's got tremendous bat speed, gap power, superb bunting ability and plus speed. He's prone to slumps when he gets pull-happy, but he finds his way soon enough. A potential set-up man of the future, Clevelan Santeliz will open this season in Triple-A with a ML ETA of mid-summer if all goes well. Santeliz believes he's a closer after converting 10 of 11 opportunities in Birmingham during the last month of the season, but the Sox see him as a potential starter. This cross in projections could delay his ETA, but with only two plus pitches (fastball and slider), he seems to be the perfect eighth-inning man.
After finishing 65-97 in 2009 and jettisoning off numerous veterans, the Indians enter 2010 in full-on rebuilding mode. Free agent spending was limited to a mere $2.5 million, which was spent on catcher Mike Redmond and 1B Russell Branyan. The immediate outlook for the Indians, meaning the 2010 season, isn't good by any means. They'll spend the season attempting to deal off other veterans (Kerry Wood, Travis Hafner, Jhonny Peralta and Jake Westbrook) while incorporating raw, inexperienced players into the big leagues.
Cleveland, meet triple-digit losses.
New manager Manny Acta has spent the spring trying to figure out how to squeeze as much out the team as possible, much like he did in his previous gig in Washington. But this season will be a lost-cause for anyone in Cleveland with thoughts of even semi-contending in 2010. Their focus should go towards to development of key prospects making their way to Cleveland this season and young guys who will be getting their first full Major League season under their belts this season.
Asdrubal Cabrera, Grady Sizemore and Sin-Shoo Choo will be bright spots in the lineup, Matt LaPorta will battle prospect Michael Brantley for the LF job, though both should be starters once Hafner is dealt, and catcher Lou Marson is simply taking up space until top prospect Carlos Santana reaches Cleveland.
On the mound, look laughably bad. Fausto Carmona is the presumed ace coming into camp, so already you know things are going to get ugly. I like southpaw David Huff, but not much else. The closer is Kerry Wood for now, but that job could be vacant by July if Wood is able to be dealt.
The only thing that'll keep Cleveland out of last place will be if Kansas City stinks worse than they do. Seeing as that's not likely, you can go ahead and pencil Cleveland in for a last-place finish.
Prospect watch: The fourth-ranked farm system in baseball is about to be strained a bit by the current and upcoming needs from the parent club. Carlos Santana is the catcher of the future though his season will begin at Triple-A. OF Michael Brantley could also be in Triple-A to start the year if he doesn't beat out LaPorta, but his plus hitting, plus speed and outstanding instincts will carry him to Cleveland regardless if he starts there. RHP Hector Rondon will begin the year in the Columbus rotation with a shot at Cleveland's rotation coming later this season, especially if Westbrook is dealt. Outside of Rondon's impressive 96 mph fastball, he'll need to work on his secondary pitches in order to prove he can get big league hitters out consistently. RHP Carlos Carrasco, one of the pieces received in last July's Cliff Lee deal, could crack a rotation spot in Cleveland this spring, but likely begins in Columbus and then works his way up later on. Carrasco packs a plus fastball and changeup with a come-and-go curveball that needs to be harnessed before he can pitch at Progressive Field.
It's hard to say much about the Royals. They have Zach Greinke, who turned in a Cy Young season in 09, leading the rotation and then there's nothing behind him. The lineup has…um, Alex Gordon's potential.
Let's be real, the Royals have no shot in 2010. Even worse, their ninth-ranked farm system has nothing to offer them this season either. The Royals' system is loaded with talent in every direction, but they're all in Double-A, Class A or lower. Last season, catcher Brayan Pena and OF Mitch Maier were the only September call-ups because the Royals simply have no one worth bringing up right now. GM Dayton Moore has made it his mission to restock the Royals' farm system with as much depth and talent as one system could conceive and he's well on his way to do doing that. But none of that talent is ready for Kansas City. Not until at least mid-2011. So with that, the Royals focused on acquiring veteran leadership for the team in hopes that the old guys would mentor some younger ones while pulling their weight in the field.
Outfielders Rick Ankiel and Scott Podsednik were cheap pick-ups with some reward potential, but signing Jason Kendall to a two-year, $6 million deal was just plan dumb. Kendall's old, a terrible hitter and barely the catcher he once was in his heyday with Pittsburgh. I did like the trade of Teahen for infielders Chris Getz and Josh Fields. Pretty impressive that Moore could get two useful pieces for a non-tender candidate. That should allow for depth off the bench if/when injuries do pop-up.
Again, nothing noteworthy going on in KC. Greinke is the main attraction and the Royals have a great chance to win each and every time he's on the mound. But they're hopeless when he's not. Joakim Soria is an amazing closer, but he's useless on a team destined for 100 losses.
Prospect watch: 2009 first-round pick Aaron Crow could see KC in September if all goes well this season. I doubt it'll happen with this being his first pro-season but if the Royals are desperate enough, they might pull the trigger. Crow projects as a future No. 2 starter, slotting in right behind Greinke (if he's still there).
2010 AL Central projections
Minnesota: 89-73
Detroit: 88-74
Chicago: 84-78
Kansas City: 62-100
Cleveland: 57-105
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GREENSBORO, N.C., Aug. 12 /PRNewswire-FirstCall/ — Lorillard, Inc. (NYSE: LO) announced today that its Board of Directors has elected Murray S. Kessler as President and Chief Executive Officer, effective September 13, 2010, succeeding Martin L. Orlowsky, current Chairman, President and Chief Executive Officer. Mr. Kessler also was elected to serve as a member of the Board of Directors of the Company, effective September 13, 2010.
In addition, Mr. Orlowsky announced his intention to retire as Chairman of the Board and a director, effective December 31, 2010. The Board of Directors has entered into a consulting agreement with Mr. Orlowsky to provide ongoing advice to the Company for a period of two years following his retirement.
"It has been a privilege to serve as Lorillard's President and Chief Executive Officer for the past eleven years. I have enjoyed working with the Board of Directors, leadership team and dedicated employees to build a successful business and oversee its transition as a public company," said Mr. Orlowsky. "With his qualifications and proven track record at UST, Inc., Murray is well positioned to continue to build on Lorillard's success. I look forward to assisting with his transition over the next few months."
Speaking on behalf of Lorillard's Board of Directors, Lead Independent Director Richard Roedel said, "On behalf of the Board, I want to take this opportunity to thank Marty for his leadership, vision and commitment to Lorillard. For the past year, the Board of Directors has searched for a Chief Executive Officer with the industry and leadership experience to succeed Marty. Murray's outstanding background and significant experience in the tobacco industry make us confident that he is the right choice to successfully lead Lorillard going forward."
Commenting on his new appointment, Mr. Kessler said, "Thanks to Marty and his strong leadership team, Lorillard has outperformed the tobacco industry in almost every key measure. I am honored to join the leadership team of this great company, its dedicated employees and passionate Board of Directors. I am confident that together we will build upon the Company's strategy of responsibly winning in the marketplace and, as a result, grow shareholder value. I look forward to working with Marty to ensure a smooth transition."
Mr. Kessler, 51, joins Lorillard most recently from Altria Group, Inc. ("Altria"), where he served as Vice Chair of Altria and President and Chief Executive Officer of UST LLC, a wholly owned subsidiary. Mr. Kessler held this position from January 2009 through June 2009, the six months following the acquisition of UST, Inc. ("UST") by Altria. Prior to 2009, Mr. Kessler had served as Chairman of the Board of UST, the principal businesses of which included U.S. Smokeless Tobacco Company ("USSTC") and Ste. Michelle Wine Estates, since January 2008 and President and Chief Executive Officer of UST since January 2007. He was President and Chief Operating Officer from November 2005 to December 2006 and was President of USSTC from April 2000 through October 2005. During his tenure at UST, the company experienced tremendous growth including an increase in enterprise value from $3 billion to $12 billion. Prior to joining UST, Mr. Kessler had over 18 years of consumer packaged goods experience with companies, including Campbell Soup and Clorox.
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Much ado has been made about 22-year-old Taylor Swift's budding romance with a Kennedy, RFK Jr.'s son Conor Kennedy, a mere 18-year-old. But it looks like the country crooner has won over at least a second person in the famous Kennedy clan: Conor's aunt Rory Kennedy.
"I think she's fantastic and I couldn't be more thrilled," gushed Rory to Us Weekly Sunday. She also admitted to being a "huge fan." "She's a good friend of our family and we all adore her and love her."
Well, not all of them. In August, Swift crashed a Kennedy wedding when she arrived with Conor but refused to leave even after being asked by the bride's mother, Victoria Gifford Kennedy. "I personally went up to Ms. Swift, whose entrance distracted the entire event, politely introduced myself to her, and asked her as nicely as I could to leave," she told the Boston Herald.
Either way, it looks as if Swift is planning on spending heaps more time with the famous family. The "Sparks Fly" singer recently plunkered down a reported $4.9 million for a vacation home near the Kennedy family compound in Hyannis Port, Mass. And just over the weekend, Swift and Conor were spotted doing cute couple-y things like shopping for antiques and dining out near Deerfield, Mass., where the Kennedy kin attends boarding school.
FILE - This Nov. 22, 2011 file photo shows singer Taylor Swift performing at Madison Square Garden in New York. Swift's single, "We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together," is the top song for the week ending in Aug. 27, 2012. (AP Photo/Charles Sykes, file)
FILE - This May 20, 2012 file photo shows singer Taylor Swift at the 2012 Billboard Awards at the MGM Grand in Las Vegas, Nev. Swift joined several members of the Kennedy clan, including boyfriend Conor Kennedy, in a somber weekend visit to the grave of his mother on Cape Cod. Swift and Kennedy held hands and at one point appeared to bow their heads in prayer, as did his siblings, while visiting the resting place of Mary Richardson Kennedy on Sunday, Aug. 19. (Photo by John Shearer/Invision/AP, file)
FILE - In this March 2, 2012 file photo, Taylor Swift performs on stage at the Burswood Dome during the opening night of her "Speak Now" Australian tour in Perth, Australia. Multi-platinum selling superstar Taylor Swift is releasing her fourth studio album called
FILE - In this Aug. 7, 2011 file photo, singer Taylor Swift arrives at the Teen Choice Awards in Universal City, Calif. Swift wears a white halter-style dress just like Marilyn Monroe's dress in "The Seven Year Itch." Monroe passed away a half-century ago this week, a murky death that remains one of Hollywood's most tantalizing mysteries. But look around: Her legend lives on, more vibrantly than ever. In a twist she surely would have appreciated, this 1950's bombshell has become a 21st-century pop culture phenom. (AP Photo/Dan Steinberg, File)
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Though the first day of school was many months ago, two local elementary schools will welcome 25 new students today.
The new Preschool Readiness Academy opened today in Hardin County Schools. The two classrooms, at North Park Elementary School and Heartland Elementary School, serve students who don't qualify for preschool under state guidelines. The program was approved by the HCS board in December.
Since then, administrators have contacted families whose children were close to meeting preschool requirements, staff members were hired and rooms were readied for new students.
Teacher Suzanne Carter and teaching assistant Kayci Coyne made plans Wednesday for the first day at North Park. They have 14 students and can accept up to 40.
Carter said they will move more quickly through the preschool curriculum because students are starting in the middle of the year.
"We're still going to stick with the curriculum but it will be expedited," she said.
Julia Keathley, the preschool teacher at Heartland, said in an email the program will focus on literacy and math. Students will work on early reading skills such as the alphabet and math skills including patterns and sorting.
Carter and Coyne have met with most of their students' families. Carter said parent and student response has been "overwhelmingly positive."
"Some of the kids wanted to come with me that day," she said.
North Park Principal Beth Brandenburg said the program is a great opportunity to prepare more children for kindergarten. To further that, the school plans a summer program for students preparing to enter kindergarten.
"We really want to give a big boost before they start kindergarten," she said.
Eleven students are enrolled in the Heartland preschool class.
"I think this is a wonderful opportunity to help children who need early exposure to school that often many children don't get a chance to have," Heartland Principal Emily Campbell said in an email.
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2. Put the wheat flour, salt, rose essence and ghee in the thala. Mix well and add half a teacup of water. Knead for 5 minutes and divide into 5 equal balls.
3. Put all the ingredients mentioned under date stuffing in a pan over a low fire and mash thoroughly for about 5 minutes.
4. Take one portion of dough and spread it on the palm of your hand. Spread one ball of Maan on top of it and fold the layers into a small flat cake. Spread this on the thala to form a circle 3" in diameter. Put one full tablespoon of the date stuffing in the centre of the flat cake and fold it over. Pat it flat into a 3" diameter cake. Repeat for the remaining portions.
5. Heat vanaspati/ghee in an iron kadhai. When hot, add the Ghari (stuffed date cake) to the ghee and deep-fry until golden brown.
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I've recently been involved in analysing LibQual+ Survey at my new institution and one of the things recommended nowadays when doing LIBQUAL analysis is to do a plot of performance of various items versus how important those items are to users.
Above we see sample data from Library Assessment and LibQUAL+®: Data Analysis.
We proxy importance of a factor by the mean desire score on the vertical axis and the how well a factor is performing by the adequacy mean score on the horizontal axis, so the higher the dot the more important it is.
In the above sample data IC 1 or "Making electronic resources accessible from my home or office" is the 2nd to 3rd most important factor, and I suspect this is typical for most libraries.
Also do note that the analysis above is for to *all* users. Undergraduates traditionally have high desire for space, if we include only faculty, it will probably be even higher ranked.
In the above sample data IC 1 or "Making electronic resources accessible from my home or office" is the 2nd to 3rd most important factor, and I suspect this is typical for most libraries.
Also do note that the analysis above is for to *all* users. Undergraduates traditionally have high desire for space, if we include only faculty, it will probably be even higher ranked.
LibQual questions can be hard to pindown on what they mean, though in this case, I would suspect it is the accessibility from home that is the issue. Currently, most forward looking academic libraries try to make access as seamless as possible by ip authentication in-campus so users don't need to use proxy methods within campus. (Expecting users to start from the library homepage to access resources is a futile goal)
Off campus access is more tricky since not all users will be informed enough or bother to VPN even if that is an option.
Meeting Researchers Where They Start: Streamlining Access to Scholarly Resources
Is seamless access to library resources particularly off-campus really that difficult? Roger C. Schonfeld in the recent Meeting Researchers Where They Start: Streamlining Access to Scholarly Resources believes so. He wrote , "Instead of the rich and seamless digital library for scholarship that they need researchers today encounter archipelagos of content bridged by infrastructure that is insufficient and often outdated."
He makes the following points
- The library is not the starting point
- The campus is not the work location
- The proxy is not the answer
- The index is not current (discovery services often have lag time compared to Google/Scholar)
- The PC is not the device (despite the mobile push in the last 5 years, publisher interfaces are still not 100% polished)
- User accounts are not well implemented
Most of these points are not really new to many of us in academic libraries, though it is still worth a read as a roundup of issues researchers face.
Still the listing above misses one very important issue, that is the classic problem of the "Appropriate copy problem" that the openurl resolver was invented to fix. The key problem is that openurl still isn't widely implemented and while Google Scholar, supports it , Google itself doesn't and it is extremely easy to end up on an article abstract page without any opportunity to use openurl to get to the appropriate copy. More on that later.
BTW Bibliographic Wilderness responds to Roger Schonfeld from the library side of things, pointing out among other things the appropriate copy issue and difficulties of getting vendors to improve their UX (aka we can't cancel stuff based on UX!).
Shibboleth and vendor login pages
So what should be ideal view when a user lands on a article abstract page and needs to authenticate because he is off campus and/or without proxy?
One way is Shibboleth but that is not something I have experience with but it seems it is poorly supported and as poor usability. Without Shibboleth is there a way for vendors to make sign-ins easier when users are off campus and land directly on the article page without the proxy?
The way JSTOR has done it (for last 1-2 years?) has always impressed me.
JSTOR will intelligently look at your ip and suggest institutions to login from. As far as I know you don't have to have Athens/Shibboleth or do anything special for this to work.
Recently Stephen Francoeur brought to my attention the following announcement from Proquest
Essentially the Proquest login screen is redesigned to make it simple to allow users to enter their institution and the system will attempt to authenticate you using the usual method.l
"Today we are debuting a simplified login experience for institutions that use a remote login method such as Proxy, Shibboleth, OpenAthens, or barcode to authenticate users into ProQuest (search.proquest.com/login)."
"To reduce this confusion, we've redesigned the login page (search.proquest.com/login) as shown below to make it easier for remote users to authenticate into ProQuest by adding the "Connect through your library or institution" form above the ProQuest account form. Further, remote users can select their institution on the login page, instead of having to click through to another page as they had to do previously. After users select their institution, they will be re-directed to the remote authentication method their institution set up with us."
Though it doesn't seem to suggest institutions, it's still fairly easy to use, just type in your institution and you will be asked to login (via ezproxy in my case).
Ebsco is another one that seems to make it possible to select your institution and login for full text but like the Proquest one above, I could never get it to work either at my old institution or new. This could be some configuration setting needed.
It's really amazing how few publishers follow the lead of JSTOR and Proquest. If the Elseviers/Sages etc of the world followed a similar format, I am sure there will be much less friction for accessing to paywall articles. Let's hope Proquest's move will lead to others converging to a similar login page, the way now many article databases look pretty much similar.
Say most publishers start to wise up to UX matters and implement a login page like JSTOR so our users can select a institution and quickly get access. Will that solve every problem? Arguably no,
At my old institution, we had great success with promotion of the proxy bookmarklet, Libx etc to overcome proxy issues (part of it is because ALL access is through proxy whether in campus or off so the proxy bookmarklet would be essential all the time as long as you did not start from the library homepage)
But even if a user was smart even to add the proxy string , that still led to a common problem.
Often even after proxying full access would still not be granted. The reason of course is because we may not have access to full text on that particular page but may have access somewhere else on another platform.
A classic example would be APA journals, where access would be available only via Psycharticles (which can be on Ovid or ebsco platform). Google results tend to favor publisher rather than aggregator sites, so one would often end up on a page where one would have access only via another site.
The more a academic library relies on aggregators like Ebsco or Proquest as opposed to publishers to supply full text the more the appropriate copy issue arises.
As mentioned before this issue can be solved if the user starts off searching at a source that supports openurl such as Google Scholar and access via the library links programme or even a reference manager like Mendeley. But with multiple ways of "discovery" you can't always guarantee this.
In fact, I am noticing the rise in number of people who tell me they don't even use Google Scholar but Google to find known item articles. Interestingly enough the recent ACRL 2015 proceedings Measuring Our Relevancy: Comparing Results in a Web-Scale Discovery Tool, Google & Google Scholar finds that Google is even better than Google Scholar for known item searching. Google scored 91% relevancy in known item queries while Google Scholar and Summon both scored 74%!
If so, we will have ever increasing number of users who will land on article abstract pages without the opportunity of using link resolvers to find the appropriate copy.
Another example, I find many interesting articles including paywall articles via Twitter. From the point of someone sharing, what is the right way to link it so others who will have different options for access will be able to get to it?
There's doesn't seem to be a obvious way (link via doi? link to a Google scholar search page?) and even if there was this would be troublesome to the sharer, so most of the time we end up with a link to a publisher version of the article which others may not be able to access.
Lazy Scholar and the new Google Scholar Chrome extension
So what should we do, if we end up on a article page and we want to check access via our institution?
I've wrote about Libx before but my current favourite Chrome extension is Lazy Scholar, which I reviewed here.
It exploits the excellent ability of Google Scholar to find free full text and also scrapes the link displayed by Google Scholar for the library link programme.
With more and more providers cooperating with Google Scholar (see the latest announcement by Proquest for Google Scholar to index full text from Proquest), Google Scholar is by far the largest storage of scholarly articles and every Scholar's first stop to check for the existence of an article.
Lazy Scholar automatically attempts to figure out if you are on a articles page and will search Google Scholar for the article and scrape what is available. In this case there is no free full text so it says no full text. But you can click on Ezproxy to proxy it or click on "Instit" which triggers the link resolver link found in Google Scholar (if any).
There are many other functions that the author has added to try to make the extension useful , I encourage you to try it yourself.
Interestingly in the last few days, Google themselves had a similar idea to help known item searches by exploiting the power of Google Scholar. They created the following Google Scholar Button extension.
It is very similar to Lazy Scholar but in the famous Google style a lot simpler.
On any page with an article, you can click on the button and it will attempt to figure out which article you are looking for an search for the title in Google Scholar and display the first result. This brings in all the usual goodies you can find in Google Scholar.
If the title detection isn't working or if you want to check for other articles say in the reference, you can highlight the title and click on the button.
It's interesting to see the future of both extensions, see here for a comparison between the features of Lazy Scholar vs Google Scholar button.
"Making electronic resources accessible from my home or office" isn't as easy as it seems. A approach that combines
- improved usability of publishers login pages
- Plugins to support link resolvers and the ability to find free full text via Google Scholar
is probably the way to go for now, though even that doesn't address issues like seamless support for mobile etc.


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Lest you thought Motherlode took to heart some reader complaints that it's somehow too Jewish focused, the New York Times parenting blog has launched a three-month series called Diary of an International Move by Devorah Blacher, a freelance writer and novelist.
In the first installment, Blacher discusses her ambivalence about picking up stakes after 20 years in Jerusalem and relocating to Rockland County, New York. Change is hard, after all, and moving is arduous even when it's just across town.
Those who believe that moving to Israel—making aliyah—represents a kind of ascendant enlightenment, though, may look askance at what this family is doing, that is, making a descent, jumping ship from the Zionist project. In Hebrew, yeridah. Fortunately, comments thus far have not ventured into the murky zone where criticism bumps up dangerously against prejudice. But July is still three months hence.
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This Mars Global Surveyor (MGS) Mars Orbiter Camera (MOC) image was acquired during the first week of June 2003. It shows a small mesa surrounded by a plain of dust-mantled dunes and ripples near 5.9°S, 202.8°W. Large, house-sized boulders have tumbled down the mesa slopes. This is one of the highest resolution images from Mars, each pixel covers an area of 1.5 meters (5 feet) across. Sunlight illuminates the scene from the left.
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CHICAGO–LeBron James scored 26 points and notched 12 rebounds Thursday to lead the Miami Heat to an emphatic 86-67 NBA victory over the Chicago Bulls that stretched their winning streak to nine games.
James's seven assists left him three shy of a triple-double, and Dwyane Wade added 17 points for a Heat team that shot 51 percent from the field against one of the league's top defenses.
Miami held Chicago to their lowest points total this season.
The Bulls were again without point guard Kirk Hinrich, who had missed seven games before returning in Tuesday's victory over the Hornets.
The pain in his right elbow flared up and sidelined him again, leaving Nate Robinson to start.
Robinson had a team-high 14 points, while Carlos Boozer added 12 points and 11 rebounds.
The Bulls' 17 first-half turnovers were more than their season average of 14.7 coming into the contest.
They lost the ball five times in a definitive 13-0 Heat run in the second quarter that saw Miami take a 39-28 lead. The Heat led by at least seven points for the rest of the game.
After Wade's layup gave Miami a 70-56 lead early in the fourth, Bulls head coach Tom Thibodeau sat All-Stars Joakim Noah and Luol Deng.
France's Noah finished with 11 points, eight rebounds and eight assists while Britain's Deng scored six points on 3-of-12 shooting.
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Social advertisers are like goldfish, not elephants. Because social data is largely real time, it forces marketers to rely on their short-term memory. That's fine for serving a Taco Bell banner to someone who just tweeted that they're hungry, but valuable social signals aren't only those communicated right now.
For example, when T [1]arget [2] rolls out its Black Friday ads, the retailer may want to target consumers who tweeted about visiting Walmart on Black Friday last year. Social ad firm LocalResponse [3] is making that possible.
Three months ago LocalResponse began testing the ability to turn back the clock on the social data it used to target ads, and on Wednesday it officially rolled out historical intent targeting. "Before we could only target based on relatively real-time data, [going back] a few weeks. Now it's years," said LocalResponse CEO Nihal Mehta.
LocalResponse has partnered with social data platform Datasift—one of three Twitter-certified [4] data providers—to access historical tweets, which LocalResponse then mines for signals of intent to be used to target desktop and mobile display ads.
As with LocalResponse's intent-targeting tool launched earlier this year [3], the company only digs through social data that users have made publicly available, which are usually tweets. If someone has shared a Foursquare check-in or Pinterest pin to Twitter, then LocalResponse can use that to target ads, Mehta said.
While Datasift only retrieves tweets from 2009, its competitor Gnip recently [5] made available the full Twitter archive dating back to 2006. Mehta downplayed the three-year gap, saying that the volume of tweets sent from 2006 to 2008 is equivalent to one month's worth of tweets in 2009.
Sony Pictures piloted the capability with a recent movie campaign. Mehta declined to share campaign results but emphasized how film studios could use historical targeting. For example, a studio could promote a film's DVD release to users who had tweeted about the movie when it was in theaters.
LocalResponse's historical intent targeting could help advertisers keep their targeting segments fresh. For example, the company could see that someone had tweeted years ago about being pregnant and derive that that person's child is now a toddler and promote Gap Kids instead of babyGap to them. Or vice versa, Gap [6] could set date ranges for the targetable data so that it only runs babyGap ads to anyone who tweeted about being pregnant nine months to a year ago.
[1] http://www.walmart.com
[2] http://www.target.com
[3] http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/be-careful-what-you-tweet-pin-or-check-someones-watching-140738
[4] http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/twitter-anoints-12-partners-certified-product-program-143224
[5] http://www.adweek.com/news/technology/gnip-opens-entire-twitter-archive-first-time-143816
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Depends on the child, really. We started sailing with my older daughter when she was just about 15 months or so. Lifejacket was on, but otherwise we didn't do much else. She's a good sport in that she falls asleep on board pretty quickly (partially because we give her quarter of childrens Dramamine to avoid occasional seasickness, you never know with kids). So, we just tuck her into the corner of the cockpit with lifejacket under her head and for the next 6 hours or so she's catching some zzzs. Make sure child lifejacket has support behind his head - it is both a safety feature and really convenient as a pillow
The little one is 8 months now and pretty active, so we try to stick her in a v-berth where she is free to roll around
In the cockpit unless coaming is really high, active child might be a problem - and it isn't so much about harnesses. Harness will not keep a toddler from falling on the floor or bumping his head.
One thing that worked for us (for the older one but we plan to try it on the little one too) is a kind of a "seatbelt" we fashioned out of nylon webbing and snap buckle, and an adjustable foam seat (the one where the top inclines). Keeps her relatively safe in one location, if needed.
YMMV but above all don't worry too much - kids seem to love boats and do better then their parents occasionally
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MANILA, Philippines–While inclement weather continued to paralyze Philippine markets, Asian emerging markets (EMs) are likewise battling a "storm" arising from a capital flight to developed markets in anticipation of the US Federal Reserve's tapering of easy money policy.
EMs are continuing to suffer from weaker sentiment in developed markets (DMs) as investors are fearful that Federal Open Market Committee (FOMC) minutes and the Jackson Hole meeting this week might result in policy changes that will divert capital away from the emerging world, investment bank Credit Agricole CIB said in a research note on Tuesday.
Indonesia and India's assets were under the most pressure due to vulnerability concerns arising from their current account deficits, Credit Agricole said.
In a separate note on Tuesday, Citigroup said the Philippines seemed as the "most insulated" to both US Fed tapering and China slowdown. "It has a very strong net external position, making it more insulated from taper; Philippines weakness has generated a positive income shock via the remittance channel; BSP (Bangko Sentral ng Pilipinas) is still easing liquidity; and it has limited trade linkages to China demand," Citi said.
Central bankers and policy makers are set to meet in Jackson Hole, Wyoming on August 22 to 24 to discuss global economic and monetary issues. On the other hand, the minutes of the latest US FOMC meeting were expected to provide more clues to the Fed's $85 billion monthly bond buying, which many are expecting to taper by next month.
Credit Agricole said the only positive story out of Asia on Tuesday was the announcement that China's central bank would boost financial support for the economy and fine-tune its policy in the second semester. This suggests sustained stimulus in China in support of a 7.7 percent growth this year, Credit Agricole said.
For its part, Citigroup said growth risks from Fed tapering were likely to impact "deficit" and portfolio-dependent countries more, thus a bigger concern for current account deficit countries like India, Sri Lanka and Indonesia and more recently, Thailand. It was reported on Tuesday that Thailand had entered recession. Malaysia also looks relatively vulnerable given the large role of portfolio inflows, Citi said.
Infrastructure development is increasingly becoming more attractive to policymakers in emerging economies facing slowing economic growth but there is no automatic growth response to such. Instead, Citi said it will likely further erode the balance sheet strength that used to be a pillar of the EM story for investors.
Citi said the ability of monetary conditions to adjust would vary across Asia. Indonesia was cited as the most under pressure to hike policy rates to mitigate the impact of its external imbalances amid already high inflation, given its pursuit of a less flexible exchange rate policy.
On the other hand, Citi noted that India had unexpectedly pursued measures aimed at curbing currency volatility by tightening liquidity and short-term borrowing costs. Given weak growth and moderating core, Citi said these measures were time-bound.
China growth risks are seen to hurt the more trade-linked economies, with East Asia looking more exposed to China slowdown risk relative to other regions. Citi sees this as a bigger risk to China-trade linked economies such as Singapore, Taiwan and Hong Kong, followed by Korea and Malaysia.
For the near term, Citi said a US growth upturn alongside a resilient Japanese rebound would more than offset the impact of a downside growth risk in China. Over the medium to longer term, it said the prognosis would be "much more uncertain."
It is in this context that Citi had cited the Philippines as being the "most insulated" to these external headwinds.
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PSA fetes top athletes of 2012 tonight
THEIR exploits brought pride and joy to the country. It's only fitting that they will celebrate sporting excellence together.
The country's top sports achievers take centerstage tonight in the Philippine Sportswriters Association-MILO Annual Awards Night at Centennial Hall of Manila Hotel.
Fifty-nine personalities make up the honor roll with world champion boxers Nonito Donaire Jr. and Josie Gabuco and champion teams Ateneo Blue Eagles and Manila softball team headlining the elite list. They will receive the coveted Athlete of the Year from the country's oldest media organization headed by Rey Bancod of Tempo.
While Donaire has won the award twice, Gabuco, the Eagles and the world champion Manila softbelles are first-time honorees.
The major awards in various sports include the President's Award (Smart Gilas Pilipinas), Executive of the Year (Chito Salud), NSAs of the Year (SBP and NGAP), Mr. Football (Chieffy Caligdong and Eduard Sacapano), Outstanding High School Players (Axel Toni Ngui and Kirsten Chloe Daos), and Tony Siddayao Award.
A minute of silence will be offered to prominent athletes and friends of sports who died last year.
Keynoting the ceremony is sportsman-businessman Mikee Romero, who will also serve as guest of honor in the two-hour gala that starts at 7:30 p.m.
Hosting the event are basketball great Benjie Paras and courtside reporter Ai dela Cruz, while Isabelle De Leon will add glamour to the event that will be attended by top sports officials led by Philippine Olympic Committee president Jose Cojuangco Jr. and Philippine Sports Commission chair Ritchie Garcia.
Long-time PSA partner dzSR Sports Radio 918 will broadcast live the event presented by the PSC, San Miguel Corp., Smart, Philippine Basketball Association, Globalport 900, Rain or Shine, LBC, Meralco, Sen. Chiz Escudero, SM Prime Holdings, and ICTSI and Philippine Golf Tour.
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Where is it!? It didn't change my background to Republic City. And i can't "open" the application! Is there something I'm supposed to do? Or is this a bug? Either way, I just wasted $0.99 :/


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