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Even though the food was the main attraction, the creative team behind Pig Mountain, Mother New York, really amped up the atmosphere that day in Narrowsburg. There were colorful flyers that said things like "keep eating;"and Pig Mountain "swag"—T-shirts and tote bags featuring Georgie, the pig that inspired it all; and chefs' cards with drawings of each chef on one side and a Q&A on the back—like asking chef Anthony Sasso of Casa Mono, "What's your inspiration/hero?" (Be sure to check out the old-school zine [pronounced zeen] at www.pigmt.com/The-Story.htm). All of these were printed on neon paper, a decidedly punk tableau. The street fair feast has roots in the punk music scene, being born out of a punk rock show in a basement. It was started by NYC chef Heather Carlucci and local artist Matthew Solomon. Narrowsburg set the perfect backdrop for the not-quite-punk but still cool crowd, with Narrowsburg's hipster-cred and under-the-radar locale.
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While the yummy food was good for our stomachs, the pig roast and veggie fest is also good for our town. Pig Mountain has grown from 475 attendees and four chefs in 2011, to over 2,500 attendees and 14 chefs this year. All those people mean good business, and local stores saw a 45 to 50% increase in business during the weekend. Most of the crowd were people from New York City or New Jersey and many are second-home owners.
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You know how when you slip into certain items of clothing you feel like a million dollars? Well, this dress from Sweeties Vintage was one of those moments for me. I've raved about velvet before, but really how awesome are clothes made out of fabrics that are delicious to touch? The structure of the dress is dynamite as well and check out the little zippers in the sleeves.
Red Velvet If You Please
You know how when you slip into certain items of clothing you feel like a million dollars? Well, this dress from Sweeties Vintage was one of those moments for me. I've raved about velvet before, but really how awesome are clothes made out of fabrics that are delicious to touch? The structure of the dress is dynamite as well and check out the little zippers in the sleeves.
52 comments:
- Helen said...
oh i love that dress, it reminds me of a dress that my mum made for me when i was little to go as little red riding hood for fancy dress, only mine was made from corduroy
- May 6, 2010 at 8:19 AM
- nancy : The Sway Report said...
I agree with Helen!
This dress is very whimsical! I love the zipper detail ... You bring it to life. I'll definitely be checking out her etsy store. Such a great setting too, the trees are a lovely contrast to the red.
- May 6, 2010 at 8:38 AM
- Mel said...
Superbe robe !
- May 6, 2010 at 8:50 AM
- Leia said...
I love everything about this photoshoot! The way you have styled the pictures, your outfit, your nails, everything!
- May 6, 2010 at 8:53 AM
- rebecca said...
I only own one thing made of velvet - a dress too, and it's black. I love it so much! Red suits you :)
- May 6, 2010 at 9:32 AM
- r0zz said...
cute pictures! i am forever jealous of your green scenery -,- haha
- May 6, 2010 at 10:16 AM
- natali said...
you have a cute blog..:)
i love the hurts tighs and the lovely dress...if you want, your welcomed to my fashion blog:
- May 6, 2010 at 10:17 AM
- HAL said...
you look amazing in red, and i love those miss sixty slingbacks. xo
- May 6, 2010 at 10:34 AM
- Draft of Vintage said...
Fabulous dress- love it with those heart shoes!
- May 6, 2010 at 10:36 AM
- Sarah Dee said...
You look absolutely amazing!!
- May 6, 2010 at 10:38 AM
- Meghan said...
I really like the heavy texture of the velvet dress and I love, love the shoes! Ah! They're amazing.
Also - I saw that you've listed Bansky in your inspirations. I just spent yesterday afternoon searching for some of his new pieces in San Francisco and I've got photos of them here if you're interested: http://ryours.blogspot.com/2010/05/art-hunting.html
- May 6, 2010 at 10:39 AM
- Angeliq Lipstick and Danielle Blush said...
beautiful dress! beautiful blak shoes!! very nice color 4 you
- May 6, 2010 at 10:43 AM
- needle+thread said...
hey there... you change cameras? your shots are looking crisp, and i'm loving the color! your hair is getting sooooooo long- gorgeous. that red is stellar on you. nice matching lip...
- May 6, 2010 at 10:49 AM
- Danni and Maria said...
I love the first picure...very cute! And love that colour on you, t really suts you :)
- May 6, 2010 at 10:55 AM
- Brittany said...
That red dress is breath taking! You just can't find the construction of vintage anymore, unless you buy designer which lord knows most of us can't!
- May 6, 2010 at 10:56 AM
- Sydney said...
You are definitely one of the best dressed girls on the internet, with some of the best photos, too!
- May 6, 2010 at 11:06 AM
- Zoe_Flood said...
you look so good in red! it really brings out your eyes, and paired with those tights is so classic! love it!
- May 6, 2010 at 11:14 AM
- Hanna said...
That dress looks great on you and I love how your nail polish matches it. I love the first picture as well.
- May 6, 2010 at 11:16 AM
- Celeste said...
girl this dress was MADE FOR YOU.
- May 6, 2010 at 11:40 AM
- Eli said...
oh dear Ilove the colors of these photos!
- May 6, 2010 at 11:56 AM
- Caitlin said...
The shape of the dress is just beautiful. Does it have just bust darts or full length princess seams?
I love the daytime look. I hate that velvet is usually for nighttime...I have a love affair with soft things and wish I was daring enough to wear velvet during the day!
- May 6, 2010 at 12:05 PM
- Sara Lynn said...
So pretty Rebecca! The dress was made for you, but I have to say that my favorite part of this outfit is the shoes, they are so fun.
- May 6, 2010 at 12:08 PM
- Juliette said...
Cute dress, and those lighting bolt shoes are adorable!
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- May 6, 2010 at 12:27 PM
- reckless daughter said...
ah! this is perfection! love it.
- May 6, 2010 at 12:30 PM
- Faux Naif said...
oh you're right, velvet is the most delicious fabric. so, so comfortable.
what a fantastic dress!
- May 6, 2010 at 12:39 PM
- Alyssa said...
This just may be one of my favorite outfits I've ever seen you in. What a perfect red dress... it looks very versatile as you demonstrated with the night look/day look. Of course, it looks fantastic with your hair color and red lipstick. The cut of your black jacket looks great against the red... and that necklace is somethin' else!
- May 6, 2010 at 12:45 PM
- BaronessVonVintage said...
Divine! Like a decadent wearable piece of Red Velvet cake! Love the details in the accessories, too!
- May 6, 2010 at 12:55 PM
- megannielsen said...
Such a cool photo shoot, i love that first shot!
- May 6, 2010 at 1:37 PM
- Fashion Cappuccino said...
What a gorgeous color!! It looks fabulous on you! Those flats are whimsical and beautiful!! xoxoxoxxo
- May 6, 2010 at 1:43 PM
- meganbarkley said...
that bird ring is super cute
- May 6, 2010 at 1:47 PM
- L said...
you always look a million bucks!
especially in red!
- May 6, 2010 at 1:50 PM
- Becca Jane said...
I love both stylings of this dress - so pretty!
- May 6, 2010 at 2:04 PM
- Charlie said...
your nails are so cute! i'm going to steal that :)
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- May 6, 2010 at 2:20 PM
- Jonna said...
Red looks amazing on you !
- May 6, 2010 at 2:23 PM
- celi.a said...
Beautiful photos! They feel very whimsical, even though you've got strong color going on. I feel like I should be looking into the corners of those pictures for other fashion-forward pixies. Nice styling!
- May 6, 2010 at 2:24 PM
- Elissa said...
Gorgeous photos! That dress is so amazing on you! I have a couple of velvet dresses, and I really love the old-timey vibe and sumptuousness of it, but ... I'm not really a sweaty girl, but damn if a velvet dress doesn't make me sweat like crazy! Perhaps I'll have to limit my consumption to things that do not cover my top half....
- May 6, 2010 at 3:00 PM
- Cristina Suspiria said...
i like the first pic
- May 6, 2010 at 3:24 PM
- Chloe, Butterfly Cupcakes said...
Love these photos, the scenery was a great choice for the red dress, really makes you stand out.
By the way, I thought you might be interested in this post because I know you said you loved old childhood photos. http://butterflycupcakesanddaffodils.blogspot.com/2010/05/hippy-child.html
- May 6, 2010 at 6:03 PM
- Nico said...
Whoa! you pull off red velvet soo damn well..love this look. You always amaze me.
- May 6, 2010 at 6:13 PM
- ♥Lola said...
Adore your dress, it's so pretty and such a rich looking colour :)
- May 6, 2010 at 10:58 PM
- orange-lilly said...
What a fun photoshoot! These pictures are so alive!
- May 7, 2010 at 1:22 AM
- pigsy said...
you look great in that red =D LOVE IT! it coud easily come off as sort of plain but it's def. not..
sooo adorable the photoshopped pic of you behind the tree and standing in front <3 LOL.
- May 7, 2010 at 2:39 AM
- Kamila said...
omg great look. amazing dress and shoes... I love your style..
- May 7, 2010 at 4:12 AM
- Megan said...
Where did you get that ring?
- May 7, 2010 at 6:28 AM
- lumikha said...
heehee! that 1st pic made me smile. lovely outfit. :)
- May 7, 2010 at 7:31 AM
- Draxi-Dee said...
You look a million dollars too <3
Absolutely adore this outfit - lovely!
- May 7, 2010 at 8:33 AM
- Maeko @ thereafterish. said...
I love it when people do creative composite photos. Good one, Rebecca!
- May 7, 2010 at 11:15 AM
- Trishna said...
This dress makes you look like Audrey Hepburn. I know it's random, but that's the first thing that came to my mind when I saw the first photo.
- May 7, 2010 at 4:25 PM
- Syed (dapper kid) said...
That necklace looks so interesting, it's pretty cool. And I love the asymmetrical zip jacket, I really want a cardigan like that.
- May 8, 2010 at 5:27 AM
- indigotangerine said...
Really regretting fallig behind on my blogreading, I have too many wonderful posts of yours to catch up on. those photos of you poking out behind a tree? Way too cute.
- May 8, 2010 at 5:08 PM
- the Citizen Rosebud said...
You are a dream. Great series of pics. Yes the red dress looks so amazing, day or night.
- May 9, 2010 at 9:21 AM
- Marie McGrath (The Joy of Fashion) said...
I love how the red dress looks with the hear polka dot tights! super cute!
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Autosomal recessive hyper IgE syndrome (AR-HIES) is a very rare primary immunodeficiency disorder. Symptoms often become apparent at birth or early during infancy or childhood. The disorder is characterized by the triad of highly elevated levels of IgE in serum, recurring abscesses of the skin, and recurrent pneumonia AR-HIES is inherited as an autosomal recessive trait and the first symptoms include the development of a dry, red, flaky skin rash (eczema).
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Leahy seeking answers to Voting Rights Act
MIDDLESEX Sen. Patrick Leahy, D-Vt., plans to call hearings of the Senate Judiciary Committee to see whether legislation can be written to protect minority voting rights that many feel were threatened by a U.S. Supreme Court decision that overturned part of the Voting Rights Act.
Leahy, chairman of the Judiciary Committee, said he had consulted both liberal and conservative legal experts from around the country and he would encourage a range of witnesses.
I have no idea what the best answer is, Leahy said during an interview in Middlesex. Then I can honestly say to both Republicans and Democrats, Look, you call the witnesses you want, well call witnesses. Lets see if there is an answer, rather than saying this is the way its going to be, because it is entirely new ground.
Last week a U.S. Supreme Court split along ideological and partisan lines voted to end a requirement of the 1965 Voting Rights Act that all or parts of 15 states with a history of discrimination in voting, mainly in the South, get approval from the federal government before changing voting procedures.
The Supreme Court decision said the laws provision that determines which states are covered is unconstitutional because it relied on 40-year-old data and did not take into account racial progress and other changes in U.S. society since the law was passed.
Its up to Congress to come up with a new formula to determine which jurisdictions should be subject to the act.
Leahy said scholars believe there could be legislative solutions.
Whats the best way? I dont know, he said. Ive talked to both Democrats and Republicans and said, Lets have a real hearing.
Some officials in the affected states said the old requirements of the Voting Rights Act were no longer needed.
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A high school principal allegedly plagiarized his message to the graduating class, which was printed in the school's yearbook.
News 12 Long Island reports that Dr. Steven Strachan, the principal at Roosevelt High School in New York, told the graduating seniors how proud he is of them and that they are a class of "great leaders, articulate orators, brilliant scientists, breathtaking athletes and extraordinary artists." Those and almost all the other words in the message were actually written by California principal Dr. Ted Barone and presented to Albany High School graduates in 2013.
The glaring error that busted Strachan was the last line of the message, which read, "Congratulations to the Albany High School Class of 2013."
Dr. Strachan claimed that he received permission from Barone to reuse or repurpose the remarks, but Barone told News 12 Long Island that Strachan emailed him recently asking only for permission to quote him. Barone complied, not realizing that Strachan was going to "quote" the entire message.
Newsday reports that Strachan released a statement through public relations firm, Zimmerman/Edelson saying:
"I sincerely apologize to the Roosevelt community and to the class of 2014 for the inadvertent clerical error causing mistakes to be printed in the 2014 yearbook. An unedited draft of my remarks was accidentally published rather than the final version, and I take full responsibility for the oversight."


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Human sexuality can be a mysterious thing. How do we fall in love? What fans our desire? Should it always hurt this much when urinating? I don't pretend to have the answers to any of these questions. I hold no special insight or sexuality degree, but I didn't let that stop me from writing an article about gay dudes who've had sex with a bunch of ladies. When you have an idea this important, you can't let gross incompetence or abject sexual stupidity stand in your way.
I decided early on I'd need some sort of criteria for fitting people into the categories of "straight," "gay," or "other." For the most part (with exception), I've tried to include only men here who've seen themselves as gay. For example, you won't see David Bowie on this list. Has he had a bunch of gay sex? Surely. But he's also had so much straight sex that if you put his men over his women in a sexual fraction, the numerator would pretty much drop to zero. He's also been married to supermodel Iman for like 20 years. What I'm saying is, to make this list it takes more than some gay sex. You either had to declare your gayness at some point or -- and this is the tricky part -- I had to insist that you were gay solely for the purposes of this article. That's right. Sometimes I use my power as a Cracked columnist to overrule a celebrity's claims of bisexuality and shove him forcibly into the gay category. Yep, I said it. I like to force things onto bisexual celebrities. Maybe I'm just jealous of their ability to land high quality female tail.
5 Little Richard
Little Richard's musical significance cannot be overstated. As a singer, songwriter and pianist, he is a towering figure, helping define both rock and soul music with hits like "Tutti Frutti" and "Good Golly, Miss Molly." He is a member of the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and the Songwriter's Hall of Fame, and he's the winner of the Rhythm and Blues Foundation's Pioneer Lifetime Achievement Award.
The Case for Gayness
There's no debate that Little Richard has had all sorts of gay sex, and in 1995, he told Penthouse magazine that he was gay. If there were any doubt, there's also 60 years of rock-and-roll fabulousness supporting the orientation.
Little Richard making Prince seem like Ving Rhames.
Sometimes, he's called himself "omnisexual," and at other times -- like when he became a born-again Christian -- he's claimed to be heterosexual. But if you read some of his authorized biographies, like this one, there's plenty of gayness to be had.
The Women Landed Anyway
Maybe Richard just needed to meet the right women ... women like his on again, off again girlfriend since 1956, Audrey Robinson (aka Lee Angel). Ms. Robinson had a certain something the boys didn't: Specifically, she was a 16-year-old girl with a 50-inch bust and 18-inch waist. She tells it this way in a GQ interview:
"I was not a fan," Angel tells me over lunch in a hotel near her home in West Hollywood. "I was just walking down West Broad Street, in Savannah. Richard looked out of that window, and sent for me ... I said to the person he sent down: 'Who wants me? Little Richard? Excuse me? Is he aware that I am a girl?'
She was captivated "from the second I met him. I almost fainted. I felt weak at the knees. I went through all the classic signs of falling in love. With Richard, I have had a lot of firsts."
During one of his Christian phases, he also married Ernestine Campbell for four years. Oh, and apparently, he participated in a hosts of orgies throughout the '50s where apparently some straight sex slipped in when he wasn't paying attention.
4 Anthony Perkins
Best known for his indelible performance as Norman Bates in Alfred Hitchcock's Psycho, Anthony Perkins was an incredibly gifted actor. Aside from his critically acclaimed performance in Fear Strikes Out, I'd also encourage anyone to watch the much maligned and underrated sequels Psycho II and Psycho III solely for Perkins' unrivaled ability to convey emotion through the tiniest facial movements.
The Case for Gayness
This is slightly dicey because Perkins identified himself as straight later in life, claiming to have been "cured" by psychotherapy. Still, it's hard to overlook all that sex he appears to have had with actor Tab Hunter, composer Stephen Sondheim, dancer Rudolf Nureyev and dancer-choreographer Grover Dale. And perhaps even gayer, he apparently rejected the advances of Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot.
Personally, I didn't think anyone was gay enough to do that.
I don't want to impugn his claimed heterosexuality, but I'm going to have to insist that any man who doesn't lose his straight virginity until he's 39 is either gay or me. (Hopefully, later this year. Fingers crossed!)
The Women Landed Anyway
As mentioned above, Perkins' long gay stretch (which sounds far more homoerotic than intended) ended in 1973 when he was 39. Apparently, while filming The Life and Times of Judge Roy Bean, he met a young co-star named Victoria Principal who managed to do what Jane Fonda and Brigitte Bardot could not.
I'm guessing Victoria knew some tricks Jane and Brigitte didn't.
His newfound heterosexuality led him to marriage. On August 9, 1973, Perkins married photographer Berinthia "Berry" Berenson. The couple had two sons and remained married until his death in 1992.


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They can look like harmless errors: A misspelled name. A transposed number. A paid debt listed as past due.
But mistakes on credit reports can inflict widespread damage. And because there are insufficient rules on how credit-reporting agencies must correct them, Americans are left virtually powerless to erase the mistakes.
The Dispatch documented the plight of thousands who, through no fault of their own, have been denied the chance to buy a home or a car, take out a loan for college, rent an apartment, land a job, join the Armed Forces, receive medical care or even open a checking account.
Elected officials, including President Barack Obama, suspect that the problems plague millions of Americans and are calling for reform after reviewing a summary of the newspaper's findings.
The federal law that governs credit reporting is fraught with loopholes and obstacles that make correcting mistakes difficult, if not impossible, the newspaper found.
During a yearlong investigation, The Dispatch collected and analyzed nearly 30,000 consumer complaints filed with the Federal Trade Commission and attorneys general in 24 states that alleged violations of the Fair Credit Reporting Act by the three largest credit-reporting agencies in the United States — Equifax, Experian and TransUnion.
Industry observers say it is among the most comprehensive reviews ever conducted of complaints against credit-reporting agencies.
The complaints document the inability of consumers to correct errors that range from minor to financially devastating. Consumers said the agencies can't even correct the most obvious mistakes: That's not my birth date. That's not my name. I'm not dead.
Nearly a quarter of the complaints to the FTC and more than half of the complaints to the attorneys general involved mistakes in consumers' financial accounts for credit cards, mortgages or car loans. Houses sold in bank-approved "short sales," at less than the value of the mortgage, were listed as foreclosures. Car loans that had been paid off were reported as repossessions. Credit cards that had been paid off and closed years earlier showed as delinquent.
More than 5 percent complained to the FTC and more than 40 percent to the attorneys general that their reports had basic personal information listed incorrectly: names, Social Security numbers, addresses and birth dates. An Ohio man said his report identified him as having been a police officer since 1923. He was born in 1968. A woman in her 60s said that her credit report listed her as 12 years old.
More than 5 percent complained to the FTC that their reports contained an account that did not belong to them. Many of those accounts involved debts that had been turned over to collection agencies. A woman in Georgia complained about a medical-collection account on her report. It was for treating prostate cancer.
Nearly 200 people told the FTC that their credit reports listed them as deceased, cutting off their ability to access credit.
More than half of all who filed complaints with the FTC said that despite their best efforts, they could not persuade the three major credit-reporting agencies to fix the problems.
"This is just a sliver of the people who have been impacted by these problems," said U.S. Rep. Steve Stivers, a Columbus Republican on the House Financial Services Committee whose assessment of the gravity of the problem was echoed by a bipartisan mix of lawmakers and industry observers. "It sure seems like we need to turn the system on its head."
Shortly after seeing results of the Dispatch investigation, Ohio Attorney General Mike DeWine asked other attorneys general to join a multistate investigation into the credit-reporting system.
"What you found is stunning and infuriating," said DeWine, a Republican. "This is something the average citizen can't control and can't fix."
Obama said in a written statement to The Dispatch that his administration will make regulating the credit-reporting agencies a priority.
"The one thing we can't afford is to go back to the system we had before — a system where risky and irresponsible practices on the part of a few could put our entire economy in danger," said Obama, a Democrat. "We must continue to fight for an economy where everybody plays by the same rules, where consumers are protected."
Obama chose former Ohio Attorney General Richard Cordray to lead the new Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, which has been assigned unprecedented authority to regulate the credit-reporting industry. Cordray is not calling for reform at this point, but his office is expected to release a plan in July that spells out how it will oversee the credit-reporting agencies.
"This is something that affects potentially every adult American," Cordray said. "I think if there are systematic and significant errors in people's credit files, that is of great concern because of all the ramifications credit files mean for people now."
The credit-reporting agencies speak through their trade group, the Consumer Data Industry Association, in Washington, D.C., which also is their congressional lobbying arm. Association president and chief executive Stuart K. Pratt questioned the validity of conclusions drawn from self-reported complaints.
He said the credit-reporting agencies estimate that at least a fifth of complaints are from people trying to game the system by having negative but accurate information removed.
"The FTC makes clear (that) they are unverified complaints, and that is important to us," Pratt said. "You don't know what happened on the back end. ... You don't know what actually was resolved."< /p>
Equifax, Experian and TransUnion strive to get it right every day, Pratt said. "That's our goal: Keep what is accurate, and get rid of what should stay out of the pot."
But mistakes happen, and banks, credit-card companies and other creditors that collectively send 4billion account updates each month to the agencies share the blame for generating inaccurate information, Pratt said.
The Social Security Administration also hampers accuracy because it will not share with the credit-reporting agencies its database linking names to Social Security numbers, Pratt said.
Credit-reporting errors do not discriminate. They happen to men and women, blacks and whites, the young and the old, the rich and the poor.
The system is voluntary for businesses that extend credit; they can choose to report none, some or all pieces of information related to a consumer's account. The system is mandatory for consumers; there is no way to opt out.
Despite numerous studies, the accuracy rate of credit reports largely is unknown. Estimates of those hit by errors range from less than 1 percent from a study funded by the industry to a high of 25 percent by consumer advocates.
But some say that even a 1 percent error rate is alarming, because that affects about 2 million people in the United States.
"If 1 percent of all cars failed and caused horrible accidents, would we say, 'That's OK?'" said Chi Chi Wu, staff attorney with the National Consumer Law Center, based in Boston, which advocates for consumer rights and protections.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act does not require error-free credit reports but rather a standard of "maximum possible accuracy."
The law requires that the credit-reporting agencies conduct an investigation when consumers alert them to errors, but it does not spell out how such an inquiry should be handled.
Short of hiring a lawyer and filing a lawsuit, consumers are virtually powerless to fight a system in which they are presumed to be at fault.
Consumer always wrong
Credit-card offers in the mailbox tipped off Robert Circle that something was amiss. They were addressed to Robert Cirlle.
He pulled a credit report in 2010 and found Cirlle listed as an alias. He thought a simple phone call would clear up the problem. But he reached only an automated phone system. So he sent a letter to the credit-reporting agency and included documents to prove his identity.
"They never got back to me," said Circle, 38, who lives in Piketon in southern Ohio.
After three months of hearing nothing, he filed a complaint with the Ohio attorney general's office, which persuaded Equifax to correct the mistake.
"It was probably an errant keystroke. We all make mistakes," Circle said. "But once it's in the (credit-reporting agency) computer, the computer is not wrong."
In 2007, Paul Pierce began receiving phone calls at his Daytona Beach, Fla., home from an agency trying to collect a $2,563 cellphone debt belonging to Paul Louis of New York.
"You've got the wrong number," he told them.
But the calls and letters demanding payment kept coming. Then, in 2010, Pierce discovered that the unpaid debt had found its way onto his credit report. He said his credit score — the number derived by a secret formula that indicates credit risk — plummeted from excellent (806) to below average (688).
Thus began a frustrating months-long battle to prove that he wasn't Paul Louis.
He followed the dispute process and sent a letter to Experian.
"No, that's your debt," he said the agency told him.
He sent more letters. Nothing changed.
"They say they will investigate, but they don't investigate," said Pierce, 51. "It's the wrong name. It's not even close. What do they think?"
Then he contacted the Florida attorney general's office. "Within four months, it magically disappeared," he said.
James Glaze received a letter in 2009 at his Monroe, Wash., home notifying him that because of a significant drop in his credit score, the limit on his credit card would be reduced from $12,000 to $500.
Glaze discovered that his credit report contained another person's name, unfamiliar addresses and dozens of unpaid tax liens and accounts in collection.
He filed a written dispute. Within weeks, Equifax responded by saying that it had investigated and had removed the incorrect information.
Glaze pulled his credit report to confirm, and he found that the information he disputed had been removed only to be replaced with new errors.
"There's no quality control. There's no lights that go, 'ding, ding, ding — something's wrong,'" Glaze said.
The cycle of removing and replacing inaccurate information continued for months.
Glaze couldn't fathom how such a grave mistake could be made. He found his answer in a bill sent to his house in the name of James Smith. That bill showed Smith's Social Security number. It was nearly identical to Glaze's except for the middle two digits. Glaze's were 46, and Smith's were 64.
He shared that information with the credit-reporting agency and still nothing changed.
Finally, after more than a year, Glaze contacted the Washington attorney general's office. With its intervention, Glaze's report was cleansed.
"You feel so violated," said Glaze, a 60-year-old prison guard. "It's a personal assault on your good name."
Birth of credit reporting
Credit reporting began more than a century ago to help local merchants gauge the risk of extending credit to customers.
By the late 1960s, as scores of regional credit-reporting agencies operated in towns big and small, consumers began complaining that information in their reports was wrong.
The late U.S. Sen. William Proxmire, a Democrat from Wisconsin, heard the pleas from Americans and called for a law to protect consumers.
"Perhaps the most serious problem in the credit-reporting industry is the problem of inaccurate or misleading information. ... Even if it's 99 percent accurate — and I doubt that it's that good — the 1percent inaccuracy represents over a million people," Proxmire said at the time. "Moreover, the composition of the 1million persons is constantly shifting. Everyone is a potential victim of an inaccurate credit report. If not today, then perhaps tomorrow."
He crafted the Fair Credit Reporting Act as a consumer's bill of rights. But what became law in 1971 was far friendlier to the industry than to consumers, critics say.
Since then, Congress has changed the law twice. Both times, consumers' issues about credit-report errors were largely overlooked with one exception: The 2003 amendment gave them access to a free credit report every 12months.
The purpose of the free credit reports was to make consumers watchdogs of their own information. Still, six years after the change took effect, not everyone takes the opportunity to review the reports.
For example, more than 15percent of 1,333 registered voters who participated in a Dispatch Poll in 2010 said they never had seen their credit report.
For those who have checked their reports, the 2003 amendment has created a new set of frustrations, The Dispatch found.
More than 21percent of people who complained to the FTC and more than 38percent who contacted an attorney general said that they were denied access to their credit report. Records show that nearly 900 people complained that they had been tricked into buying a credit report when they attempted to obtain a free one. The only source for the government-mandated free report is AnnualCreditReport.com.
Consumers also complained that they couldn't reach anyone by telephone at the credit-reporting agencies to help them.
A man in Florida said he is blind and couldn't reach anyone to help him understand something in his credit report. An Oklahoma mother couldn't reach anyone to find out what to do about the letter she received from a creditor about her deceased son.
The FTC has cracked down on the credit-reporting agencies several times, through settlement agreements in the past decade, for poor customer service and deceptive practices involving the free credit reports. The agencies promised to be more responsive, yet the problems persist.
Industry spokesman Pratt said the credit-reporting agencies want to help consumers.
"The kind of data I have seen suggests these are isolated problems," Pratt said. "They are employing the right technologies to respond to consumers and respond to consumers with a live person. These are not unsophisticated systems."
For the first time ever, the industry faces intense scrutiny by a government regulator: the consumer-protection agency led by Cordray. The Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform Act gave the agency powers that the FTC has never had — the ability to gain access to the inner workings of the national credit-reporting agencies without legal action.
"This is sort of a shadowy operation that no one quite knows about," said U.S. Sen. Sherrod Brown of Ohio, a Democrat who has asked Cordray's office to investigate. "The government needs to look at them."
Loopholes vs. obstacles
Ohio Attorney General DeWine likens the credit-reporting industry to Oz's mysterious wizard behind the curtain, because few outside the agencies truly know how their systems work.
Much of what is known has been learned through lawsuits consumers filed against the agencies.
The law itself is partly to blame for the mystery because it fails to define accuracy or reinvestigation, the official term used to describe the highly automated process by which credit-reporting agencies determine the validity of a consumer's dispute.
The Fair Credit Reporting Act "operates under a 1960s conception of a credit report. You literally had a file — a card paper file," said Chris Hoofnagle, who is a lecturer at the University of California-Berkeley School of Law and an industry critic who calls the credit-reporting agencies necessary evils. "The law has not kept up with the technology."
Today, all information flows in and out of a credit-reporting agency by computer. When a consumer reports an error, the nature of the mistake is converted to a numeric code, mostly by contract employees overseas, and sent electronically to the creditor.
Except in rare cases, no human investigates the consumer's evidence, which typically is not shared with creditors, either.
"They don't investigate. They compare," said Evan Hendricks, editor and publisher of the newsletter "Privacy Times" and author of the book Credit Scores & Credit Reports: How the System Really Works, What You Can Do.
If the information is inaccurate in the creditors' database, it will remain inaccurate in credit reports, and consumers will receive a letter saying that the inaccuracy has been verified as accurate.
"The credit bureaus see it as their duty to put on your report what the creditors tell them. They see themselves as a library," Hendricks said. "That's going to trump how you tell them that you spell your name."
The credit-reporting agencies naturally are suspicious of documents they receive from consumers because anyone with a computer can create an official-looking record, said Norm Magnuson, vice president of public affairs for the industry association.
But even creditors say they sometimes have difficulty correcting inaccuracies through the automated system.
A North Carolina collection agency tried numerous times to correct an error through the automated system. It had incorrectly assigned a $312 pathology bill in collection to a woman in Washington.
"We have made three attempts ... to have the credit bureaus correct this matter and to place the account on the correct credit report," the company wrote in a letter in 2009 to the Washington attorney general's office. "All three attempts have been unsuccessful."
The industry says a study on credit-report accuracy by the Policy and Economic Research Council, a public-policy research group in North Carolina, proves that the system works effectively and that reports of widespread errors are unfounded.
Pratt's association paid for the study, which included consultation with representatives of Equifax, Experian and TransUnion. Four thousand consumers were asked to review their credit reports for inaccuracies. Those reports involved 81,000 accounts, of which errors were found in less than 1percent, researchers said.
The study also tracked consumers through the dispute process and determined that 95percent were satisfied with the outcome.
But other sources tell a different story.
Nearly a third of respondents to the 2010 Dispatch Poll said they had found errors on their credit reports. Nearly two-thirds of them, however, never attempted to have the errors corrected.
Critics of the system say the deck is stacked against consumers, whose only recourse often is to file a lawsuit. Under current law, credit-reporting agencies face no penalty for reporting inaccurate information.
"It's extremely important to reduce the errors in the system. It's like the beginning of the AIDS crisis, where we were screening every drop of blood because it could be fatal to people. Well, these errors in the credit-reporting system can be fatal to people's lives," said Lucia Dunn, an economics professor at Ohio State University. "There has to be a better way to police this. Our dependence on credit is why the big three (credit-reporting agencies) have so much power."
Pratt said the agencies have plenty of checks and balances, both internally and from outside oversight. Creditors frequently test the accuracy of the information they provide to the agencies.
"Our members always have been driven by accuracy," he said.
But not all consumers would define accuracy in the same terms as does the credit-reporting system.
In an internal industry memo obtained through a lawsuit and shared with The Dispatch, one insider explained accuracy this way: "We don't have to be perfect. We don't even have to be right. We just have to have reasonable procedures."
Americans scarred by errors say the system is quite unreasonable.


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Provincial government commits more than $16M to joint LaurierYMCA facility in Brantford
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BRANTFORD Wilfrid Laurier University and the YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford are one step closer to a new community athletics and recreation centre after receiving more than $16 million in funding from the Ontario Ministry of Infrastructure. The Honourable Bob Chiarelli and Brant MPP Dave Levac made the announcement today at the Brantford Family YMCA.
The funding is a significant contribution towards the development of a 115,000 sq. ft. athletics and recreational centre that would be used by students and the broader community. This unique community partnership involves the YMCA, Laurier Brantford, Six Nations, Nipissing University, Mohawk College and the City of Brantford.
The YMCA is committed to meeting the health and wellness needs of Brantford, Brant County and Six Nations residents through the development of this athletics and recreation centre in partnership with Laurier Brantford, the city and Six Nations, said Jim Commerford, president and CEO of the YMCA of Hamilton/Burlington/Brantford. This project is an important part of the downtown cores continued economic growth, and we are very grateful to the Province of Ontario for their support of this exciting and innovative community partnership.
Since opening a campus in downtown Brantford in 1999, Wilfrid Laurier University has worked in partnership with the community to serve the needs of students and the broader population. A shared athletics and recreational centre is in keeping with this approach and will benefit the growing number of students who are choosing to pursue their education at Laurier Brantford.
We thank the provincial government for its support and we appreciate the ongoing assistance of Brant MPP Dave Levac in this important community project, said Max Blouw, president and vice-chancellor of Wilfrid Laurier University. A shared athletics and recreational centre is a significant milestone in the positive transformation of downtown Brantford and for the continued development of Laurier Brantford.
For detailed information about the proposed Laurier Brantford/YMCA Athletics Complex, including artists renderings, please visit the project website. The website will be updated regularly as new information becomes available.


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I have 21 discs, 10 Molds (2 of the molds are utility discs that are situational)
Certain tournaments, I pull discs out. Tournaments in the mountains my bag drops to about 12 discs and 5 molds.
I always have a hard time taking discs out of my bag because of the what if factor. But I'm really focusing on using the discs I have, in order to drop the amount of discs in the bag in the off season. So far there are a couple discs I have no reason to use anymore.


text: Hi, this is my first time posting here. I have some questions and concerns about weaning. My daughter is 14 months old now. When she was born I thought I would wean her around 18 months, but now I'm not sure if I might want to wait until she is 2 or 2.5 instead (maybe help her immune system get through another winter). We have both had a wonderful time breastfeeding and it is still my daughter's primary food source. I don't see this changing anytime soon. My biggest concern with weaning is around sleep. I have nursed her to sleep since she was born. At different times we have tried to change this practice, but it results if far more crying (and seemingly trauma) than any of us can stand. So I am nervous about the prospect of weaning her; how will she go to sleep at night or take a nap in the afternoon? Will she be more able to understand the process as she gets older or, as one of my girlfriends has advised, will it just get harder? What can I do to help my daughter (and myself) prepare for this major lifechange? I'm sure there are plenty of moms with great advice out there and I would love to hear it. Thanks!


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Enough huntingDecember 05,2013
Enough hunting
Citing the All Outdoors column of the Nov. 13 issue of the Hardwick Gazette, Vermont ranks first in wildlife-related recreation. This is a euphemism for this tiny state being the largest hunting preserve in the nation in the name of wildlife management. If $300 million is collected annually from hunting activities in Vermont and all that money goes to the Fish and Wildlife Department, how can this blatant conflict of interest be called anything but revenue management? Fish and Wildlifes public relations campaign, aided by the gun and hunting lobbyists, to promote even more hunting in this state smells more of greed than maintaining healthy animal populations.
How can our politicians justify confining rural Vermonters inside their homes for four months of the year while our common countryside is turned into a war zone? Do we not have the right to walk, work and play in our own woods? Must we wrap up in day-glow orange gear when walking to the mailbox so those with a gun dont mistake white mittens for the white tail of a deer? Can the rights of landowners be ignored through official mandates that further burden those owners with a town registration fee for posting their land or disallow owners of land in the Current Use program from prohibiting hunting on that land?
Pink guns for Teach Your Kid to Kill Weekend. Shooting fawns, mother bears and bear cubs. Bragging about new recipes for barbecue. Is this the predatory mind-set we should be encouraging? Is the wildlife watching mentioned in this Gazette column referring to animals running in fear from those whose eyes are focused on death instead of wonder? Creating a mental distance between humans and animals helps to exclude them from the family of living creatures to which we all belong, and, consequently, easier to kill. And if lots of money can be made from preserving this notion, thinking otherwise is nothing short of heresy.
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A wounded otter went on a rampage in a restaurant in Norway, sending panicked patrons scurrying out the doors.
"We did not know what kind of animal it was. I have never seen an animal like that in my life," Skippy's Fast Food owner Mohamed Rashed told Norway's TV2. "I was terrified it was going to attack."
The otter had suffered gashes to its legs and face, possibly from a boat propeller.
Witnesses said it was breathing heavily when it made its way into the restaurant in Alesund last week.
Terrified customers fled, and wildlife officials were called to the scene.
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If you don't know by now, we love children's music in our house. Specifically, fun children's music.
Meredith LeVande is a New York City resident who, in my opinion, is going places. I love her sound. I love her music. My kids love her music. Not only does she sound good, but her songs are educational. One of the first things Busy B said to me when I was getting ready to put songs on her mp3 player was to ask me to include the new Monkey CD with the tree on it!!
Monkey Monkey Music: What Are the Odds is the 2nd CD Meredith is putting out and it'll be out August 31st. (Pre-order it here). Listen to samples from the album!
This is the list of songs on the album:
- Hello
- What Are the Odds
- Shake it Loud (My very LOUD 5 year old adores this song (me too)!!)
- This Way, That Way
- In the Garden (My little guy LOVES this one the best!)
- Wheels
- Air Guitar
- Frogs Eat Butterflies
- Circle
- Turn Your Body Around (This one gets the baby groovin')
- Bubbles (We all think this one is extra fantastic)
- Who's A Knockin'
- Silly Animal Friends
- Guess What I Am
- Willow Tree in the Wind
- Goodbye
It's a fun, FUN album with some great educational content but mostly, its fun, and its clean and…well, it's got a good beat and we can dance to it. The Bargains love it!
"This post was written for Family Review Network & Monkey Monkey Music who provided the complimentary product in exchange for my honest reviwew"


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Work begins on Mount Rushmore, Sputnik is launched into space, the pope visits America for the first time, Janis Joplin is found dead of an overdose, all on this day.
1927: Sculptor Gutzon Borglum begins work on Mount Rushmore. Between then and Oct. 31, 1941, Borglum and 400 workers sculpted the colossal 60-feet-tall carvings of U.S. Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Theodore Roosevelt and Abraham Lincoln. When Borglum died from an embolism in March 1941, his son, Lincoln Borglum, took over the project through its completion.


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Hello everyone! Book Monster Reviews and LITERAL ADDICTION are incredibly honored to have the beautiful and talented Gena Showalter back with us today, and we are VERY excited to help her celebrate and promote her latest release —"The Darkest Seduction", the latest LORDS OF THE UNDERWORLD book.
She has always believed in love… An avid romance reader, she decided to try her hand at a story of her own, and is now the author of a multitude of white-hot paranormal romances, sexy contemporary novels, and thrilling young adult titles.
Gena's wildly sensual page-turners have a mix of humor, danger, and wickedly hot sex – a combination that is sure to enthrall! After all, she is universally known to be "made of awesome" and "a star on the rise" and we couldn't agree more!
Gena's library of literary excellence consists of an amazing array of titles and series. We highly suggest you check out her ENTIRE backlist HERE.
For the sake of this Event, we'll be talking about Gena's newest LORDS OF THE UNDERWOLD installment, as well as her new, upcoming series - ANGELS OF THE DARK - which we hope to have her back to promote properly in June.
"The Darkest Fire"
"The Darkest Night"
"The Darkest Kiss"
"The Darkest Pleasure"
"The Darkest Prison"
"The Darkest Whisper"
"The Darkest Passion"
"The Darkest Lie"
"The Darkest Secret"
"The Darkest Surrender"
"The Darkest Seduction" [just released 2/28/12]
Her ANGELS OF THE DARK series, which is coming on June 26, 2012, is a dark, seductive read featuring angels poised at the brink of destruction.
For those of you new to Gena's work, we really do suggest that you bump her titles to the top of your TBR lists ASAP and go do some synopses reading now to find the best order for you to indulge. For today though, we'll give you the synopses for "The Darkest Seduction" and "Wicked Nights" to peak your interests a bit…
Newly possessed by the demon of Wrath, Sienna Blackstone is racked by a ruthless need to punish those around her. Yet in Paris's arms, the vulnerable beauty finds soul-searing passion and incredible peace. Until a blood feud between ancient enemies heats up.
Will the battle against gods, angels and creatures of the night bind them eternally-or tear them apart?
"Wicked Nights"
Accused of a crime she did not commit, Annabelle Miller has spent four years in an institution for the criminally insane. Demons track her every move, and their king will stop at nothing to have her. Zacharel is her only hope for survival, but is the brutal angel with a touch as hot as hell her salvation—or her ultimate damnation?
GENA: Thank you so much for having me.
Book Monster Reviews/LITERAL ADDICTION: We've had you on a few times already and have asked most of our good ice breaker questions so we'll stick mostly to questions directly related to the new releases if that's O.K with you.
Q1): This one isn't release related, but we have to ask… You said you would choose Lothaire over anyone for a free pass date (as you told us back in September). So… 1) Have you read the book yet and what did you think? And 2) Did Kresley take any 'behind-the-scenes' pics of Paul as Lothaire for you while they were on the road (she kind of hinted she might have at the Tampa FL signing)?
GENA: I think Kresley Cole is one of the most talented, dedicated, brilliant, witty, gorgeous--and did I mention talented? and gorgeous?--writers I've ever come across. She puts the reader inside the book as the characters and world come to life. And I did indeed get behind-the-scene Lothaire pics . . . but I'll never share (or I'll never get behind-the-scene pics again and momma want more)
Q2): How are you feeling now that Paris's book is finally ready for consumption?
GENA: I've noticed many differences in my writing lately, and I can see the beginning seeds of those changes in Paris's book. Part of me is beyond excited for the book to hit stores and to hear from readers, but I'm also highly aware readers have been waiting for Paris's book and that they have certain expectations. Wait. What am I doing? Talking myself into worrying? No way. I'm excited. All of me is excited <g>
Q3): What were some of the challenges (research, literary, psychological, logistical, etc) in bringing "The Darkest Seduction" to life?
GENA: The biggest challenges were of my own making. Paris played such a big role in the other Lords of the Underworld books, and so much had happened in his life—after losing the only woman capable of breaking his curse, he went from the life of the party to a drug addicted Debbie Downer (just sayin')—but I had to stay the course, even though that meant wringing myself out emotionally to portray him honestly. Because yeah, all that darkness had to be dealt with and I was the one who had to do it. What I learned? Most men need a woman's help--even fictional men.
Q4): Did you encounter any surprises while writing/editing/releasing "The Darkest Seduction"?
GENA: Many surprises. In fact, the book you will read is not the book I originally envisioned writing—and not the book I began to write. I wrote the first hundred pages, but could go no further and trashed them. I wrote another hundred pages, could go no further and trashed them again—I repeated this process four times, using different heroines and situations. Finally, I let Paris take over. That's the book you will read. It's not the one I wanted for him, but it's the one he wanted for himself.
Q5): We know it's never totally clear who will step up and demand that their story be told next, but do you have a better idea now whom might be next? ;-)
GENA: Actually . . . no. I'm sorry! I'm trying not to think about it right now. I think I'll be writing the second book in the Angels of the Dark series next, and I'm working on Last Kiss Goodnight right now, the first book in the Alien Huntress spin-off, as well as a novella I'm writing with PC Cast (After Moonrise), so I'm trying to focus on those characters and those situations.
Q6): Last time we had you for a solo Event, you weren't able to spill any details about the LORDS OF THE UNDERWORLD spin-off. Can you tell us about it now?
GENA: Zacharel will be leading an army of warriors who have broken all the rules and are in danger of being kicked from the heavens. And when they mess up, Zacharel is the one who's punished. There's a stint in an insane asylum, lots of danger, action, sizzle, battles between good and evil (Go Team Good!), and world travel—in the arms of a winged warrior.
Q7): The cover of "The Darkest Seduction" is absolutely gorgeous! Who did the art, and how much input did you have?
GENA: I had very little input on the cover (or for any of my covers, for that matter.) Well, except for prayer <g> I can accomplish a lot that way (just wait till you see the Alice in Zombieland cover!) But I think the female on the cover of Wicked Nights is one of the most stunning women I've ever seen (and she kind of reminds me of the gorgeous Marjorie Liu.)
Q8): Are you getting excited to unleash ANGELS OF THE DARK onto the world?
GENA: I am. Some of Zacharel's warriors make the Lords of the Underworld look like sticks of cotton candy <--true story. But that's good right? Cotton candy is tasty!
Q9): What about ALICE IN ZOMBIELAND? We know Cole is kind of your crush… are you excited to see how he's received by readers?
GENA: I am SO excited to release this series. I just saw the cover concepts for books 1 and 2 and, oh, I am beyond amazed! I think these are my favorite covers ever. And if readers like a bad boy that you aren't quite sure where he falls on the good or bad scale—is he or isn't he—and if readers like the idea of a young William, well, they will enjoy Cole
Q10): Is there anything else that you want to make sure and let us and our readers know about while we have you here today?
GENA: Lots of secrets are revealed in the upcoming books—The Darkest Seduction and Wicked Nights--and lots of new things ahead with the release of Alice in Zombieland September 25th and a duology with the amazing PC Cast in November and. . . oh, oh, the Otherworld Assassin series! Like I said, this is a spin-off from the Alien Huntress books, and debuts this December with Last Kiss Goodnight. I originally meant to write Dallas's story, but it fizzled out, I had no one else standing up demanding a story, and boom, the idea for LKG appeared. I am BEYOND excited for this book! It features a new black ops section of the Alien Investigation and Removal, with grittier situations, richer emotions, and, I'm just gonna say it, sexier heroes. Plus, I am so in love with the heroine.
Book Monster Reviews/LITERAL ADDICTION: Gena, thank you so much again for spending time with us. It's always such a pleasure! We're really excited to talk to you later tonight in the Live chat and we would absolutely love to have you back in June to promote "Wicked Nights" if you'd be interested.
GENA: Thank you so much for having me! We'll definitely have to do something for Wicked Nights!
If you want to keep up with GENA, you can find her in these places online:
Website: http://members.genashowalter.com/
GENA is graciously offering up a signed copy of "The Darkest Seduction" to a winner from Book Monster Reviews and another winner over at the LITERAL ADDICTION Website.


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UPDATE 9:02 PM: The trade looks nearly complete. As of right now, Reyes, Johnson, Buehrle, Bonafacio, Buck and $4 million will head North of the Border for Escobar, Hechavarria, Henderson Alvarez, Justin Nicolino, Jake Marisnick, Jeff Mathis, and Anthony DeSclafani per Morosi. Ken Rosenthal tweeted that the trade is official barring league approval and all systems appear to be go on that front. Nicolino is the highest profile prospect of the bunch, projects to be a 3rd or 4th starter who relies on control, and ranked fifth on FanGraphs 2012/13 Top 15 Blue Jays' Prospect list. Marisnick ranked sixth on that list and is comparable defensively to Anthony Gose. Hechavarria and Escobar now project as the Opening Day third base and shortstop starters for Miami. In short, the Blue Jays just acquired quite a haul for a lot of middle-tier prospects and two infield experiments.
The Marlins Opening Day commitments now stand at around $16 million, $84 million less than last year's $100+ million payroll. Reyes, Johnson, Buehrle, Bonafacio, and Buck join Hanley Ramirez, Gaby Sanchez, Heath Bell, and recognizable names to be dealt from the club since the beginning of 2012.
Jon Paul Morosi of Fox Sports is reporting that the Marlins have traded a package of Jose Reyes, Josh Johnson, Mark Buehrle, Emilio Bonafacio, and John Buck to the Toronto Blue Jays for a package headed by infielders Yuenel Escobar and Adeinny Hechavarria. The move is in stark contrast to last year's agressive talent acquisition streak by Miami and continues their firesale, eliminating over $150 million more from their long-term commitments. No word yet if the Marlins have also included any cash in the deal to cover the salaries. There is said to be much more involved in this trade so keep us tuned in for updates.
The move, while not Phillies related, seemingly eliminates two tough pitching match-ups for the Phils and subtracts one of the best shortstops from the division and the league.
It was mostly quiet on the Phillies' front today otherwise with remaining free agents but it will be interesting to see if this accelerates or slows the Fightins aggression in pursuing trades or free agents. Possible center field target Torii Hunter is reportedly targeted by 14 teams but has narrowed his desired destination to just Detroit and Texas while the Phils still seem to be in the hunt for Kevin Youkilis per Morosi as well. Also, the Braves have reportedly joined the Phils as teams interested in Cody Ross.
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Wow, this gets the Hot Stove season off with a bang. As long as they are selling off the whole team I hope RA Jr. is on the phone with them about 22 year old Giancarlo Stanton as we speak. – .290/.361./LL.608/.969 wRC+ 156 – Whew, bring it on!
I was thinking the same thing. Nothing, them wham a ten player deal with some big salaries. Jays going for it while the Yanks are expected to have tight pockets, Red Sox rebuilding. Will this push the O's all in on Hamilton?
Right on, right on. Guy is a STUD.
If Giancarlo could play even average outfield I would push for signing him. He is one of the worst outfielders (next to me when I played) I have ever seen – terrible arm too.
But, he is a beast with the bat.
First, the cost in a trade for Stanton would be monumental, if the Marlins were even interested in trading away the one piece they can build a future around. Secondly, every credible metric I see shows Stanton as being solidly above average in the field. Speed and range can make up for (and trump) the occasional botched play.
I really don't get your point Schmenkman. Perhaps I have seen him at the most maybe 15 times in the last 3 seasons, I sit pretty much directly behind the guy in right field. Regardless of what metrics are, they don't fully report on balls he did not get to nor runners he was unable to throw out so he did not even try.
Look, you can read all you want to about his performance on the field and I am here to tell you this guy rocks at the plate but, in the outfield he is mediocre at best. An error doesn't count for a lazy throw or missing the cutoff guy or throwing it to the wrong person.
So, if the Marlins are willing to give up on a #1 pitcher, why wouldn't they give up on Stanton? Hitting without pitching wont get you all that far.
The advanced stats have consistently showed that he fields a higher percentage of balls hit in his area than the average right fielder.
As for the Marlins trading him, they are trading Johnson because he's going to make $13.7 million next year and then he's gone as a free agent. Stanton will be dirt cheap for another year or two, and then relatively cheap until he hits free agency after the 2016 season. So 1) he's the one remaining player fans might still want to watch, 2) he's one of the best players in the league and can help them win games, and 3) he costs very little.
It had been reported last year that when the Fish were said to be close with Pujols, their final offer, or semi-final, wherever they were, didn't have a no trade, and I guess that really opened the door for the Angels. This is very interesting stuff, as was the Heath Bell move earlier if for no other reason than because it was a big multi year deal moved after one. But if Albert had signed with the Fish, with no trade protection, this whole plot leading and possibly including tonight's deal could have been even more interesting.
It'll be interesting to see how the Miami community reacts. I don't know about corporate sponsorship, but by what you could tell by camera shots, as opposed to deceptive attendance figures, year one of If They Build It, They Might Come Park didn't seem overwhelmingly successful. I guess thay figure build a winner around Stanton, and they will come out. But if they did opt to deal Stanton, geez, what a potential return.
So basically the Blue Jays just traded for the Marlin's team. I don't want to hear the Marlin's front office complain about not getting people to go to the games ever again.
Well, scratch the Marlins off the 2013 contender list. Probably the 2014 list, too.
I can't figure out what the Marlins are doing. Are they cleaning house because for all they spent, they were still bad?
Or are they just clearing space to go after guys like Hamilton, Greinke etc. to try again with different players?
They just can't be disregarding their fan base completely after spending all that money on the brand new park- or can they?
Marlins are doing what they've done in the past. They don't believe their current roster can compete in the NL East so they are trying to get value for expensive assets. I believe they get a new competetive lottery pick? They also secured public funding already for the stadium so no need to win now. Get the picks, the revenue sharing, the qualiy young mlb ready players, prospects and salary flexability and in 2-3 years they'll have a young core, $$$ and be able to get right back in it. A pretty devious, but succesful strategy they've used before. How Miami fell for it is pathetic.
Right, they said they'd spend money if the municipalities built them a new stadium. They got their stadium, so they (sort of) spent money for one year. I say sort of because the Reyes and Buehrle deals are heavily back-loaded. No wonder Keith Law calls their home park Boondoggle Stadium.
Pretty sure they're content to rake in the revenue sharing money, the money from the tv and licensing deals, and profit on that due to their extraordinarily low payroll. It's an okay business decision, I guess, but it stinks for anyone who gives a crap about baseball.
"They've lost all credibility," a major league executive said of the Marlins' ownership group. "I don't know how they can even show their faces in South Florida now."
A player agent agreed — sort of.
"It's a disgrace," he said. "But I don't think they even care how they're perceived."
Until Loria and Samson craft a new identity, they'll be perceived as heading an ownership group that built a $515 million ballpark with the help of $360 million in public funds, then took the taxpayers and paying customers for a ride. Remember how Pujols' negotiations with Miami went south last winter because Miami wouldn't include a no-trade clause? Maybe Albert knew something nobody else did."
@Giancarlo818 : "Alright, I'm pissed off!!! Plain & Simple"
I don't know what it would take, but I know he's not happy. Forget Nick Swisher and Cody Ross. This is the guy, realism be damned.
What possible reason would the Marlins have for trading Stanton right now? He's under team control for four more seasons at well below market value. The guys that they traded were making big money.
They still have to sell tickets as well. Stanton is about the only guy they have left that people would pay to see.
Absolutely none. I'm just having some fun.
Good for the Phillies. This trade might be worth one additional win in the games against the Marlins which coud prove beneficial in next year's wild card race.
Great move for the Blue Jays … a team I thought had an outside chance to contend this season, but dealt with major injuries (Morrow, Bautista)…
I too thought this might push the Orioles to go harder after Hamilton, because they no longer need to worry about just NYY or TAMPA… on paper, that whole division could win a World Series
Incorrect! Don M must think the Boston Red Sox were excelling at poker while eating chicken and drinking suds in 2011. I don't know that there's evidence they could win any World Series of Poker, cause they sho nuff ain't winning any MLB World Series in 2013.
I don't disrespect the BoSox enough to say it's impossible, but it's hard to envision that much of a leap back so soon.
I'm not sure what Don M's post had to do with the Red Sox, but I'm sure there's a connection that you'll explain later.
This site is like Brotherly Glove. If you try to quote someone and use brackets, the quote disappears. If you suround it with quote marks, the quote sticks.
So let's try this again.
"on paper, that whole division could win a World Series", from Don M, referencing the AL East, including the Red Sox.
The question of what his post has to do with the Red Sox comes out of that. But the question of what Don M is doing using the Red Sox and 2012 San Fransisco Ginats in the same sentence might be a good one.
let's tag that one a facetious question left to one's own individual preceptions.
AL east looks to be a great division now.
Forget Ross!!! Halladay doesn't want him- ha ha! But seriously- how many good seasons has he had?? Stay away.
I'm OKAY (I guess) w the Youk sign, but not Ross. I'll risk developing Brown over paying Ross.
Thank goodness we do not have to face Reyes. How long has it been??- 10 years running?? And even tho JJ had a down season, it's still good not to have to face him as well.
Go Phils. It's baseball season now (thanks IGGLES)
Yea, the Red Sox are a stretch …but so were the 2012 San Francisco Giants. . .
Ellsbury, Pedroia, Middlebrooks, Ortiz, Sweeny, Salty …. Lester… not great, not the worst team ever. should play around .500 next year i'd think depending on who the add (Napoli, and some pitching?)..
Glad everyone takes my typing so literally.
Prediction: Cole Hamels Cy Young next year …
Wow…just WOW! The Marlins are a despicable franchise and Loria needs to be run out of town. There is absolutely ZERO reason that anybody should complain about the Phillies' ownership after this bombshell. Thanks God we have some stability in South Philly.
I may be in the minority, but I don't think this is such a great deal for the Jays. While they didn't give up much, they only got back 1 year of Johnson (albeit at a fairly team friendly price), 5 years of Reyes (for ~$96M), 3 years of Buehrle (for ~$48M), Bonifacio who seems to be redundant after they gave $10M / 3 to Maicier Izturis and 1 year of Buck.
Reyes's deal seemed like an overpay at $106M for his age 29-34 seasons. Plus, Miami back-loaded the deal and got 1 season of Reyes for $10M, leaving Toronto with Reyes for 5 years at an AAV of ~$19.2M for his age 30-34 seasons. Miami also back-loaded Buehrle's deal, so they ended up getting 1 season of Buehrle for $10M while Toronto gets him for 3 seasons at an AAV of $16M. If Johnson leaves to riches in free agency after 2013 or gets hurt again (he has an injury history), I have a feeling this trade might be judged differently in a few years.
I think its a great deal for the Blue Jays …
Johnson, Buerhle, Romero, Morrow, and a whole lot of depth #4-5 guys behind them.. not quite the Phillies ACE rotation, etc. but better than most staffs.
Lawrie, Encarnacion, Rasmus … Jose Bautista…
plus Jose Reyes, Emilio Bonifocio…
Last year they had a lot of key injuries, I think they are a pretty legit team right now. Doesn't make them AL favorites or anything but they just made major improvements to their roster and seemingly didn't give up a ton to do it
There's no doubt that the Jays added talent, but they paid a big price. In addition to relinquishing a few prospects and a SS who produced 4.2 fWAR in 2011, they overpaid for the production they'll likely get from Reyes and Buehrle over the remainder of their contracts. Is all of that worth it for one year of Johnson at a reasonable price plus Bonifacio, who is under team control for a few years?
If we ignore the past history of the Marlins ownership and just look at what Miami has done from the perspective of a team coming off a disappointing season with a bloated payroll that needs to rebuild, I think many people would be saying that they've done a nice job with the Anibal Sanchez trade in July, the Heath Bell salary dump and this deal.
Say you're ancient enough to recall the days of yesteryear when MLB especially applied heavyweight champion of the world type distinction by awarding one CY Award out of the entire sport. Guys like Koufax and Palmer copped honors, and in no way, shape or form would you never ever dare breathe a runor about the guy getting dealt.
No, with the Dickey/Price parlay complete in CY annals, from both the rumors and sensibility pages, it at least approaches practical that everyone who won a CY in 2012 could be traded.
The Dickey situation is more publicized, but in the case of the Rays, boy, what a package they might get for Price, who just 4 years ago was barely known when he appeared versus the Phils in the Series. Now, he's so good he can brag about beating Justin Verlander for the Big One, AL Edition. Think the Rays couldn't stay competitive on the cheap if they dealt Price for a ton of that Texas Ranger young talent?
It's still tough to trade the big names. Public backlash isn't easy to face. Well, maybe if you're Jefferey Loria. But thinking of Dickey or Price deals isn't insane. And if by chance both got dealt, what a great trivia question 2012 CY winners would answer to.
I'm pretty sure both have never been dealt before. Pedro Martinez was traded the season after winning in Montreal to Boston, that's the only one I remember.


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