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CARSON, Calif. – The LA Galaxy's CONCACAF Champions League Semifinals opponents Monterrey trained at The Home Depot Center on Tuesday ahead of Wednesday's first leg match up.
Monterrey head coach Victor Manuel Vucetich addressed the media and offered his thoughts on the Galaxy…
(On what he knows about the Galaxy…)
VUCETICH: "Robbie Keane is an international who has played in the Premier League. He's an element of the highest quality. Landon Donovan we also know even though he's had the extended quality and we know Omar Gonzalez is a Mexican on the U.S. national team and we know what his strengths are. And we know of a few other of their elements like Juninho and their other defensive midfielder, we've also identified Magee and Clark on the left side. We know their lineup at any given time and we know efficient that they've been in MLS."
(On the importance of set pieces…)
VUCETICH: "In world football, set pieces are fundamental. There are a high percentage of goals that come on set pieces. We've been working on this and have improved and we have to continue improve on that aspect."
(On what he expects from the Galaxy…)
VUCETICH: "We expect Galaxy to want to win and to show their superiority on the field because the football that they've demonstrated lately speaks well of them. So I think that it's going to be a team that's going to be very competitive. "
(On whether there is an advantage for LA playing at home…)
VUCETICH: "I wouldn't call it an advantage. We will play 90 minutes on each field. The time is exactly the same for both teams. Maybe the second leg, the fact that we're at home changes things a little bit because we have the support from our fans."
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FALL FESTIVAL/Health Fair at Haw Branch AME Church, Richlands from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 26 with pumpkin patch, bounce houses, health information and more. Call 910-546-1853.
FALL FESTIVAL/Health Fair at Haw Branch AME Church, Richlands from 10 a.m. to 6 p.m. Oct. 26 with pumpkin patch, bounce houses, health information and more. Call 910-546-1853.
CELEBRATING Life service at 9:30 a.m. Oct. 12 at Manhollow MB Church, Hampstead honoring cancer survivors. Light breakfast served. Information call 910-347-4996.
JACKSONVILLE SDA Church, 453 College Street hosts a disaster training workshop from 1:30 to 4 p.m. Oct. 12 with Steve Stillwell. Information call 910-787-3477.
BLOOMING Hill FWB Church, Richlands celebrates its 9th male chorus anniversary at 6 p.m. Oct. 12 at the church. Information call 910-265-1853 or 358-2551.
FALL FESTIVAL from 3 to 6 p.m. Oct. 26 at Dawson Community Church, 2311 Dawson Cabin Road with games, prizes, inflatables, cake walk and more. Jfcog.com.
OPEN DOOR Food Bank will have a food give away from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. Oct. 11 at Bethel Word Church, 1675 Halltown Road. For more information call 910-938-3855.
FAITH BODY of Christ Assembly hosts a fall conference at 7 p.m. Oct. 11, 6 p.m. Oct. 12 and at 11 a.m. Oct. 13. For more information call 910-320-6420.
MARSHALL Chapel MB Church hosts a Rainbow Tea at 2 p.m. Oct. 12 with food, fun and fellowship. Wear colors of the rainbow. Call 910-353-8300.
CHORUS Choir of Sandy Run MB Church celebrates its 63rd anniversary at 3 p.m. Oct. 13 with various choirs and singers welcome. Information call 910-346-4840.
TRUSTEES/Stewards service at 7 p.m. Oct. 12 at Union Chapel AMEZ Church with speaker Erlinda Dobson. Appreciation service for the Rev. Frances Boomer at 4 p.m. Oct. 13 with the Rev. Brian Cornelius.
MEN�S DAY service at 4 p.m. Oct. 13 at St. Paul FWB Church, Richlands with guest speaker the Rev. Genard Sawyer and Kinston Community Male Chorus. Dinner. Call 910-324-5883.
UNION CHAPEL Christian Church, Richlands celebrates Homecoming at 11 a.m. Oct. 13 with the Rev. Randy Carter of Dunn. Lunch served after service. Call 910-455-2242.
BELGRADE U.M. Church, 2944 Belgrade-Swansboro Road in Maysville celebrates Homecoming at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 13 with speaker Eddie Barber. Lunch follows service.
DEACONESS Board Day celebration at 3 p.m. Oct. 13 at St. Paul AMEZ Church, Hubert with the Rev. B.L. Simmons and congregation of St. Luke AMEZ Church. Dinner. Call 910-236-6070.
FAMILY/FRIENDS centennial closing service at 7:30 and 11:15 a.m. Oct. 13 at First Baptist Church, Broadhurst Road. For more information call 910-347-4211.
CATHERINE Lake Baptist Church commemorates Reformation Month at 11 a.m. Oct. 13 featuring Particular Atonement.
HOMECOMING/Quarterly meeting at 11 a.m. Oct. 13 at St. Louis MB Church, 188 Quaker Bridge Road with the Rev. A.M. Kelly. Dinner served after service.
ST. MARY Holy Church, Trenton hosts guest speaker John Lawrence at 11:30 a.m. Oct. 13. Pastor installation service at 3 p.m. for the Rev. Ralph Lawrence. Call 910-353-7732.
SHEPHERDS of the Community Day at 4 p.m. Oct. 13 at Moses Temple AME Zion Church with the Rev. A.M. Kelly and St. Louis Baptist Church.
MEN�S DAY service at 3 p.m. Oct. 13 at J.T. Kerr Memorial Baptist Church with music by Blooming Hill FWB Male Chorus. Information call 910-455-3888.
BETHLEHEM OFWB Church celebrates its 100th church anniversary at 11 a.m. Oct. 13 with lunch following service. Information call 910-324-1747.
MEN�S DAY service at 3 p.m. Oct. 13 at Jenkins Chapel Church, Sneads Ferry with speaker Curtis Clark of Morgan Chapel and New Order Worship Choir. Dinner. Call 910-358-4989.

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WASHINGTON -- The National Transportation Safety Board recommended on Tuesday that all 50 states adopt a blood-alcohol content cutoff of 0.05, compared with the current 0.08 standard used by law enforcement and courts to prosecute drunk drivers.
The idea for a tighter standard is part of a safety board initiative outlined in a staff report and approved by the panel to eventually eliminate drunk driving, which accounts for about a third of all road deaths in the U.S. The board also recommended on Tuesday that states expand laws allowing police to speedily confiscate licenses from drivers who exceed blood alcohol limits.
In the past 30 years, according to NTSB chairman Deborah Hersman, more than 440,000 people have died in the U.S. due to alcohol-impaired driving. Lowering the BAC rate to 0.05 would save about 500 to 800 lives annually, the safety board said. If a 0.05 rate becomes the law of the land, a typical 180-lb. male will hit 0.051 after only three beers over an hour, according to bloodalcoholcalculator.org, an online blood alcohol calculator.
However, states set their own BAC standards, not the NTSB, which only investigates transportation accidents and advocates on safety issues. While it cannot impose its own regulations, it wields great influence when recommending changes to federal and state agencies or legislatures, including Congress. More than 100 countries on six continents have BAC limits set at 0.05 or lower, the safety board said.
"This recommendation is ludicrous," said Sarah Longwell, managing director of the American Beverage Institute. "Moving from 0.08 to 0.05 would criminalize perfectly responsible behavior. Further restricting the moderate consumption of alcohol by responsible adults prior to driving does nothing to stop hardcore drunk drivers from getting behind the wheel."
Before the laws banning smoking in bars and taverns became common in most states, tougher DUI regulations were considered responsible for reducing foot traffic in those locations, according to sources in the coin machine trade. In the early 1980s, most states required a 0.15 BAC rate to establish intoxication. But over the next 24 years, Mothers Against Drunk Driving and other groups pushed states to adopt the 0.08 standard, with the last state conceding in 2004.
The coin-op industry is married to taverns, which have been pummeled by America's 40-year war against drinking and smoking. In his last interview with VT as president of the Amusement and Music Operators Association, Andy Shaffer said, "I maintain the worst is over when it comes to the impact of smoking bans and tougher DUI laws on our industry. Unless another Prohibition reenters the picture, I think we've reached bottom concerning the economic toll on the industry."
Many in the music and games industry hope Shaffer is right, for the sake of business. Critics outside the industry argued that lowering the BAC rate any more will criminalize responsible social drinkers, and will do little to make the roads safer. Even MADD appears to be on the sidelines regarding the NTSB's new 0.05 recommendation.
In related news, Washington State is pushing tougher DUI enforcement. Gaining support is Senate Bill 5912, which would add 10 days in jail to all minimum sentences for DUI, make drunken driving a felony on the fourth conviction (it currently is on the fifth) and require ignition-interlock devices be installed before repeat DUI offenders are released from jail after an arrest.
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A longtime Bay Area rap label, long linked by East Bay law enforcement to armed robberies, drug dealing and murder, has been implicated in a nationwide drug trafficking distribution network after a four-year federal drug investigation, prosecutors said Tuesday.
Twenty-five individuals - including the CEO and numerous rappers associated with "Thizz Entertainment," the label founded by slain Vallejo rapper Mac Dre - have been charged on multiple drug counts of distributing Ecstasy, cocaine, heroin, marijuana and codeine cough syrup across the East Bay and the country, according to a federal prosecutor. The head of the organization, Michael Lott, 47, of Vallejo, who raps under the name "Miami the Most," remains on the lam, along with nine others.
Thizz Entertainment's business model was simple - sell drugs to finance its record label, said Vallejo police Lt. Ken Weaver.
For many in law enforcement, Thursday's bust marks the end of a dangerous few decades in Vallejo involving the rap label, which started as a street gang committing robberies and selling drugs to finance its fledgling rap careers and turned into a nationwide criminal enterprise, authorities said.
"The main players that belong with Thizz Entertainment now have warrants for their arrest for the drug trafficking trade," Weaver said. "The streets of Vallejo will be a little safer this summer because of this."
The bust also spotlighted the controversial history of Thizz Entertainment, including the murder of Mac Dre, who was shot to death in 2004 after a performance in Kansas City, sparking a brief Vallejo-Kansas City rap war.
In the 1980s and 1990s, a group of young men in a small Vallejo neighborhood called the Country Club Crest, or The Crest, across Highway 37 from Six Flags Discovery Kingdom, began knocking off pizza parlors. The Romper Room Gang moved on to hitting banks, slinging dope and committing murder, police and DEA officials said, to raise money to fund "Romper Records."
"It was an explosion of rap music and rock cocaine," Weaver said. "That was a huge deal to us because it was the first time we saw such organization by this culture and it was new to us. We learned from them and they learned from us."
Many members were put behind bars, as police locked in on rap lyrics detailing and glorifying their robberies, including Mac Dre, who in 1992 got a seven-year prison sentence.
Upon his release, Mac Dre formed Thizz Entertainment. The word "thizz" derived from the feeling one feels while on MDMA, or Ecstasy.
The label blew up and put the Bay Area on a nationwide rap spotlight.
"Thizz, when Mac Dre was on the label, were a major factor. They were coming out of a transformative time in the Bay Area," said Davey D, Bay Area journalist and hip-hop expert. "It was a resurgence of having national attention refocusing on the Bay."
As Mac Dre and his label's popularity soared, he went on tour and played a show at a Kansas City club Nov. 1, 2004. As he left the club in a van, he was killed in a hail of gunfire.
Kansas City police named Kansas City rapper Fat Tone as a person of interest in Mac Dre's death, but by May 2005 Anthony "Fat Tone" Watkins and Jermaine "Cowboy" Akins, were found shot to death at a construction site near the Palms Casino. Bay Area rapper Andre "Mac Minister" Dow was convicted and sentenced to life in prison for their murders, and authorities said his motive was to avenge Mac Dre's murder. He is also accused of killing a prostitute who was a witness in Fairfield.
Lott, who was with Mac Dre when he died, took over Thizz Entertainment after his friend's death and produced albums for more than 60 artists, some who were arrested in the drug probe, including Gaylord Franklin, 32, who raps under the name "Geezy," Bruce Thurmon, 41, aka "Little Bruce," and Major Norton, aka "Dubee."
In July 2008, DEA agents found a confidential informant who led them to Lott, and an undercover agent made his first buy of 200 Ecstasy pills in a Vallejo gas station parking lot.
The agent gained the trust of Lott, who introduced him to the large distribution ring, focusing on Ecstasy with Transformers, Batman and Lexus emblems, but dealing in just about any drug, the DEA said.
After numerous undercover drug buys and hours of surveillance and recorded phone calls, the DEA pulled the agent in December 2010. During the year and half, members of Thizz Entertainment and its associates were slain and one was shot at by police in drug related activities, according to the DEA.
They began to spread the enterprise to other states where they made music connections while on tour, Weaver said. Drug shipments were sent from the Vallejo area to Oklahoma City, New York, Atlanta and Milwaukee, the DEA said.
The drug money is used to finance the rap label, he said, a strategy not uncommon to many young men trying to leave tough urban neighborhoods, Davey D said.
"Do my dirt and invest it into something legitimate and graduate," Davey D said. "It's a longtime formula that doesn't hold the stigma because it's looked at as bettering yourself and getting yourself out of danger. This is not an unusual story. I've heard that story lots and lots of times."
The story ended Thursday, as agents cascaded into Vallejo and other East Bay cities to serve arrest warrants on 25 Thizz Entertainment associates.
A preliminary hearing has been scheduled for May 4 in Sacramento federal court.


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SANFORD, Fla. - George Zimmerman's defense plans to use surveillance videos, evidence receipts, warrants and video of Zimmerman surrendering to authorities as they fight the state's claim that Zimmerman murdered Trayvon Martin.
Those were some of the items listed on Friday in a notice to prosecutors filed by Zimmerman's lead attorney, Mark O'Mara.
The defense is also seeking records from ABC News regarding an interview the Martin family attorney did with a key witness in the case last March. At least one ABC News employee witnessed the telephone call with Witness 8, a young woman Martin was talking to on the phone as he was being followed by Zimmerman on the day Zimmerman shot Martin to death.
Zimmerman, charged with second-degree murder, claims he acted in self defense after being attacked from behind by Martin.
In his motion for a subpoena of ABC News, O'Mara claims he has received recordings revealing less than half of what was said in a 26-minute telephone call. "There are several 'starts' and 'stops' and other obvious edit indicators" on the recordings turned over by Martin family attorney Benjamin Crump, the motion states.
The motion to subpoena ABC News records has been set for a Feb. 5 hearing.
The defense already has other potential evidence in its possession and today notified the state of what it might rely on both at trial and at a self-defense immunity hearing, where Zimmerman will seek to have the charge dismissed, based on his self-defense claim.
The items include:
- Surveillance video from a Sam's Club, Kohl's and apartment complex -- all nearby the Retreat at Twin Lakes complex where Zimmerman lived and Martin was killed
- A Crimeline report regarding an unidentified 8-year-old potential witness
- A letter from former state attorney Norm Wolfinger requesting the Florida Department of Law Enforcement to assist in the case (before he recused himself and a special prosecutor was appointed)
- The entire Sanford Police case file Wolfinger's office turned over to FDLE
- FDLE warrants, subpoenas and affidavits seeking Martin's cell phone and its records
- Various evidence and property receipts.
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Chemotherapy can cause a range of side effects. It is important that you talk to your healthcare team about your concerns. Keep in mind that side effects depend on factors like the type of chemotherapy drugs that you need, the dose, and the way that they are given. Chemotherapy can be admistered by mouth, IV, or injection into the tumor or spinal column.
Side effects can also vary between individuals using the same treatment protocol. They may be related to your type and stage of cancer, other treatments you are getting, and your overall health.
Examples of Side Effects
The most common chemotherapy side effects include:
- Fatigue —You may feel tired or extremely exhausted. Fatigue may be related to the chemotherapy drugs, emotional strain (including depression and anxiety ), or other conditions that you may have, like anemia or an infection.
- Nausea and vomiting —You may feel sick to your stomach and vomit, or try to vomit even if your stomach has no food in it. Nausea and vomiting can happen during or right after chemotherapy treatment. In some cases, you may feel sick days later.
- Loss of appetite —While undergoing chemotherapy, you may not feel like eating. This may due to medications that you are taking or other side effects, like nausea, pain, or mouth sores.
- Hair loss —Chemotherapy can cause the hair on your head, as well as other parts of your body, to fall out. Hair loss can happen within 2-3 weeks of starting chemotherapy. Hair typically grows back a few months after the treatment has ended.
- Flu-like symptoms —You may feel like you have the flu. The symptoms, which can last 1-3 days, may include muscle and joint aches, headache, tiredness, nausea, slight fever, chills, and poor appetite. This may be especially true if you are receiving chemotherapy in combination with biological therapy.
- Fluid retention —Your body may retain fluid because of hormonal changes from the therapy, the drugs themselves, or the cancer. Retaining fluid can cause swelling or puffiness in your face, hands, feet, or abdomen. In serious cases, fluid can build up around heart and lungs.
- Eye problems —If you have contact lenses, chemotherapy may make wearing them painful. Other eye problems related to chemotherapy include blurry vision and watery eyes.
- Cognitive problems —You may have difficulty remembering things or feel confused at times. This can be due to not getting enough sleep or taking certain chemotherapy drugs or other medications.
- Poor growth —Long chemotherapy treatments can interfer with growth in children.
- More frequent infections —You may get sick more often. Chemotherapy can damage your immune system.
Your healthcare team can explain other side effects that you may experience and treatment options to make you feel more comfortable.
Talk to Your Doctor
Remember that you are an individual, and the way that you respond to chemotherapy will be different than the way other people respond. You may not experience all of the side effects that your healthcare team describes. And if you do have problems related to the chemotherapy, there are treatments available, like medication to reduce nausea and vomiting. Work with your healthcare team by sharing concerns that you have and by asking about strategies that can help you get through this challenging time.
- Reviewer: Michael Woods, MD
- Review Date: 12/2015 -
- Update Date: 12/21/2015 -


text: Dear all, Once again, I'm stumped as to which forum to post this in. No-one seems to have posted the link before, even if I'm the last to find it, so: http://archive.org/details/starlogmagazine is a link to the Internet Archive's scans of the first 224 issues of "Starlog" magazine. I've only had time for a quick look so far, but the general quality of the scans seems fairly good, it seems to be legal, and it's free! This is my big chance to track down all those issues I regret throwing out years ago, and finding that they weren't that great anyway... Best wishes Timon


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I'm a middle-aged white woman and I love those teams you listed! (Except for the twins. Boo!)
Ryan took it in stride that he came in second this week. Maybe he only hates getting beat by the Twins? Whatever the reason, he went up a bit in my estimation.
Forgot to add earlier...As a fellow Texan, T & L do NOT represent my state, either.
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I cannot believe they are allowed to keep the money. This is hindering another team and if I remember correctly this is a penalty. Maybe since it did not affect the outcome we did not see the consequences. Both teams are at fault for keeping the money.
Totally agree. I can't believe the producers just stood by and let that happen. I would really love to hear Phil's comments on this. I wish he could do a commentary like Tim Gunn used to do for Project Runway. Was it last season when that poor girl's team lost a passport? A kind stranger turned it in for them. What if another team had found it and tossed it in the garbage? Would that have been non-punishable, too? CBS had better be glad the Rockers came out ok, because the internet might have been melting down otherwise. This reminds me of when all the other teams ganged up on the Cowboys and eliminated them. At least the Rockers are safe for now, which keeps me from feeling even more disgusted than I did back then.
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I'd be annoyed if the ice cream man was doing a show with my ice cream...give me my cone.
That's what I thought!


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I have Zone Alarm Extreme Security
I am having a problem with popups in Firefox even though Popups blocked ON.
I wanted to use Zone Alarm to block the offending URLs in the popups, such as serve.bannersdontwork.com.
My problem is that when I set a block under Advanced -> Settings Expert Rules using host/site the block always resolves to a static IP address.
You can enter the URL but if you try to select it without doing a host lookup of the IP address it does it automatically.
The problem is the spam software is smart enough to keep changing the IP address so the block does not work because ZA is ignoring the URL and uses the static IP address.
Is there a way to make ZA dynamically look up the URL for the block?
My profession is Software Quality Assurance and I would consider this a bug since there a separate selections for host/site (where I would expect the URL to be used) which is separate from an IP address selection.
I'm aware that there may be a performance issue with the dynamic lookup but that's my problem if I select host/site and expect the URL to be used.
If just a static IP address is used and the address is changing for the URL I am trying to block then this feature is useless to me.


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Success in business is a love game
With the Australian Open in its last week of competition, some would be surprised at the many similarities between tennis and running a business.
The first is universal and applies to just about every pursuit. The amount of effort you put into something, and enjoyment you get from it, has a direct effect on your success.
When a tennis player stops enjoying the game, and starts treating it as a job, their performance suffers. The same applies to business owners. As soon as they stop enjoying what they are doing, and regard it as a job, then that is the time to consider either selling or closing down the business.
If you're like me you, will have had numerous experiences of walking into a business where you know the owners are tired and no longer enjoy what they're doing. Often it comes across in the way they deal with customers or in the way the business looks. The longer they stay in the business the more it suffers to the point where it can never be sold, and in some cases can become a financial burden.
When someone starts playing tennis, after finding out that they have the necessary skills and physical attributes to play the game, they need to work out at what level they want to play the game. They could decide to become a social player, play a high grade of competition tennis, or set their sights on making tennis their career. Once this decision has been made the training and other steps to achieve what they want can start.
The same applies to anyone starting a business. The sooner an owner works out what sort of lifestyle they want their business to provide them, the sooner they can start working on the business. This includes working out the turnover the business must be to achieve the profit required, which decides how big the business must grow.
Anyone watching the tennis will have noticed that every tennis player has a group of people supporting them. Often the higher the ranking a professional player has, the more people they have helping them. These can include tennis coaches, fitness coaches, dietitians, and even success coaches to help keep them at the top of their mental game.
A business owner serious about achieving maximum success realises they can't do it by themselves. In addition to having well trained and motivated employees, they also need assistance and guidance from accountants, marketers, business coaches and others within their industry.
One of the main things that separates social tennis players from those who play at a higher level is the amount of measuring they do. The social player will often content themselves with the score alone. Professionals measure all facets of their game and look for ways to improve them.
The more an owner measures the different factors that contribute to the success or failure of their business - rather than just looking at how much profit they make at the end of each year - the greater the chance that the business will improve and ensure it grows to the size and profitability that the owner wants.
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"Swimmers: Take your mark."
That's the sound of summer at swim clubs all over Pleasanton as kids ages 4 to 18 grip their toes on the edges of pools and starting blocks, preparing mentally and physically to dive right in and give it their all.
Each lane has two timers, one from each team, who click their stopwatches as the swimmer touches the edge. Some emerge from the water anxious to learn their time. Beginners are pleased just to have made it all the way.
Joan Strom, coordinator for the Del Prado Stingrays for 10 years, said it's rewarding to see the children advance in their swimming skills.
"We do the time trails at the beginning and we get these little ones that have been practicing for two weeks," she said; they often have to stop mid-swim, hang on to the lane line and catch their breath.
But soon they learn correct strokes and develop stamina.
"That's very rewarding to see," Strom said.
Swim meets in the Tri-Valley Swim League are a very big deal. Eight teams compete against each other, with volunteer parents staffing the meets. Officials line one side of the pool, tracking times. Swimmers begin to gather as their swim times approach, with the younger ones shepherded by parents.
The Strom family has been involved with the Stingrays since they joined in 1995.
"My daughter, Julianne, was 7," recalled Strom. "We were new in the neighborhood and to the community, and I talked her into joining."
In a couple of years, Julianne was joined by her younger siblings, John and Jaclyn. Dad Jay became the meet announcer. As swimmers stand poised to begin, he calls off their first names.
The season runs from mid May until the end of July, with meets Saturday mornings and Wednesday evenings, and practice every weekday.
"It makes me feel good," Joan Strom said. "We spend the summer as a big unit. We camp for half a day every Saturday."
"There's a very strong family tradition at Del Prado," she added. "So many stick with it all the way through high school."
This summer, the team has 10 graduated seniors, and most of them joined when they were little.
"It's very neat, very special to me. That's our hope, that they'll stick with you," commented Strom. "It's hard when they get to be 12, 13. If you're not a strong swimmer it gets hard. But we hope that we recognize everyone, and that there's something special there that they keep coming back."
Some swimmers choose to join Seahawks, a USS year-round competitive swim team, which makes them ineligible for recreational swimming. Many of the Stingrays swim for their high school teams, which is allowed.
"My oldest daughter didn't want to swim when she got to Foothill, but she tried it and loved it," said Strom. "She became so much stronger. That's my hope, that most of them have at least done it a year."
Strom remembers when the only activities competing with the swim season were girls soccer and baseball all-stars.
"Now there is that along with water polo, lacrosse, cheerleading, which is now like a sport," she said. "Some go away to camp, and kids are very involved in community service and foreign languages. Some people are really squeezing a lot in."
Last Wednesday evening, the Stingrays hosted FAST, the Foothill Area Swim Team, at the Del Prado Cabana Club on Paseo Santa Cruz. Youngsters played on the grass, enjoying the warm temperatures, while older swimmers lounged around snacking and visiting while waiting for their events.
Lizzy Gates and Lani Cohen, both recent Amador Valley High grads, started with Del Prado at an early age. They said they stay on the team for the social aspect.
"I quit for a few years. I was teaching swimming and didn't want to be in the water 24 hours a day," said Gates, who is going to Chico State in the fall.
She still came to watch her younger sister swim so decided this year she might as well join up again.
"I like how much of a community our team is," said Cohen, who is heading off to University of Hawaii. "I see families from Del Prado around town and they say hi."
"It's a really great way to spend your summer," she added.
They said most of the seniors also have jobs but with a recreational swim team it's OK to miss practice once a week to accommodate their schedules.
The snack bar was doing a brisk business on this warm evening. It raises funds for the team, along with apparel sales and the dues, which are $120 for members of the Cabana Club and $130 for non-members. Del Prado has 148 swimmers this season, who are spread throughout the age groups, and it practices Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings and Wednesday and Friday mornings.
"Practices are sometimes really hard but they're really fun," Strom said.
They can include a donut relay -- swim a lap, eat half a donut, make sure your mouth is clear, then dive back in -- or a piggyback race with big kids carrying the little ones on their backs.
"That way the big ones know the little ones and the little ones know the big ones," Strom explained.
Del Prado has a history as a club of families who support the kids, she noted.
"When they're swimming, everyone is watching and cheering. Lots of parents are there -- they don't just drop them off," Strom said. "I think the kids love to compete. We have fantastic coaches that the kids really like."
The League season ends with a championship meet the last weekend in July held at the Dolores Bengtson Aquatic Center.
"We can take 130 swimmers," Strom said. "We used to have to beg people, now we want people to volunteer to not do it. If you're a diehard swim team member, you don't go on vacation until August."
Whichever team scores the most points is crowned the champions, and Del Prado earned the honor in 2009. Last year it was ClubSport Pleasanton.
The night before the championship meet, the Del Prado "chalk fairies" hit up the homes of the swimmers 10 and younger and write encouraging messages in their driveways.
"The ones that have been on the team will be waiting and expecting it," said Strom with a laugh. "I liked it as a parent when that was done for my kids."
After the championships, Del Prado has its awards banquet.
"We thank everybody for the season, with a potluck dinner, and the swim team provides hamburgers, hotdogs and drinks," Strom said. "We recognize outstanding swimmers, athletically, and the ones that had great character, cheered on teammates, who had the 'Del Prado Spirit.'"
They end the evening with a slide show that starts with the first meet and follows the team through the season.
Former swim coach Mark Hudson (2000-01) was at the Wednesday meet, saying he enjoys a dose of the family atmosphere once a week. He swam USS in college.
Gina Juarez and her husband Tom met when they were both coaches for the Stingrays in 1992. They married in 1997. Now although they live in San Ramon they have their children Tommy, 11, and Reagan, 10, swimming for Del Prado.
"The families are so welcoming," Juarez said.
"This year we have all coaches that swam for us," Strom said. "They know the history of what we stand for."
Jaclyn Strom is heading off to college in the fall so is completing her last summer as a Del Prado Stingray, ending her parents' involvement in the team after 17 years.
"I'm a little concerned about it," admitted Joan. "We've never missed a home meet."
But they know that they'll still be welcomed back at the meets -- it's the Del Prado way.
Tri-Valley Swim League
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Our Nation's Prayers Have Been Answered: I Love Money is Back on VH1
We bet that few television franchises could survive an actual, non-fictional murder/suicide by one of its champions, but I Love Money lucked out (sort of) when that heinous crime occurred before any of Ryan Jenkins's winning season was broadcast.
So, why not scrap that whole cycle and start over?
If you're feeling generous, you could describe I Love Money as a self-aware parody of reality game shows such as Survivor and Big Brother, exclusively featuring the fame-whoriest losers from other terrible VH1 reality shows as contestants. Or, you could simply call it a TV cockroach — a nasty little byproduct of evolution destined to crawl out of our ashes and outlive us all.
Either way, 18 of VH1's worst/best examples of humanity have once again convened in Mexico to delight us with fake boobs, cheap booze, and the shadiest of schadenfreude-ready vignettes. Whether you enjoy watching exotic dancers bounce across a sandy beach in skimpy outfits, or whether you enjoy laughing as those same poor harlots attempt complex tasks such as walking in a straight line and counting, this clip has something for everyone:
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Thank goodness my DVR remembered my season pass for this show from a year and a half ago, because VH1 has not been promoting the new cycle very heavily. So, tune in Thursday nights at 11:00 PM EST! This is, without a doubt, the worst/best show on television.


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Global Exchange Executive Director, Carleen Pickard is blogging from the road as she travels with the Caravan for Peace through the (very hot) state of Texas.
The Caravan for Peace consists of two full size buses carrying the caravanistas across the United States and, to date, one RV.
The RV looks funny tailing the buses wrapped with the Caravan for Peace banner and the Movimiento Por la Paz dove that has become iconic to the movement, because it's one of those CruiseAmerica vans that clog campgrounds and National Parks every summer and are typically viewed as greedy, gas guzzling monsters contributing to climate change.
The buses make sense. The Caravan for Peace is itself meant to be a spectacle – our branding is visible and proud and at each rest stop or restaurant we offload and talk to anyone and everyone about our travel and our mission. The victims from Mexico spend time together, with U.S. riders and Mexicans and U.S. media, giving lots of time for coverage. Their solidarity with each other grows each day and people's good-night hugs grow stronger when we get split up into home stays.
But even I've been thinking – an RV? Really?
I boarded our RV monster at 5am today (Wednesday) and for the next 10 hours en route from El Paso to Laredo, TX I've thought very carefully about its service to the Caravan for Peace. As I'm part of the Committee in charge of the overall finances, I need to be mindful about it's cost versus benefit to the Caravan. Can we keep it? Should we keep it?
Firstly, it's used as a 'peace room'. Organizers meet en route and review the day's agenda, make changes to the schedule, come up with new ideas for actions as we approach cities and pieces fall into place (look out, Houston!). Reviews are also done of the previous days, so that we are sure to take our new experiences forward.
For example, this morning we talked about the City Council meeting in El Paso yesterday, thought through the presentations by Javier and Ruben Garcia of Annunciation House, and agreed we can be a little more clever in our messaging at the next opportunity to speak to elected officials.
Second, it acts as Javier's mobile interview room. There is never a moment – even while we are en route – without a reporter around and the RV acts as a quiet(ish) place to conduct an interview. After addressing the crowd in El Paso on Monday night, Javier was swarmed by reporters and could barely make it back to the RV.
Third, over and above the organizing and the planning, we organizers are learning too.
This morning Oscar Chacon of National Alliance of Latin American and Caribbean Communities (NALACC) in Chicago talked through his vision of the Caravan 'planting a seed' for the future of successful progressive organizing, building on his decades of experience organizing immigrant Latino communities. Roberto Lovato of Presente.org supported our media strategy planning, advising on the delicate line to tell victims' stories, but not exploit the story for the purpose of 'getting the hit'. He later, and somewhat privately, takes Javier aside and records an interview with him about his poetry. And Janice Gallagher – an amazing woman leading most of the logistical planning for the Movimiento por la Paz continues to blaze our path forward, modeling calm and dedicated organizing.
So, I'm not sure. Do we keep this beast, which does provide a decent mobile meeting and interview space, and some solace between city stops? We'll see.
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This collection contains wall maps, city plans, and atlas sheets published between 1830-1890, a period when Burlington became the largest city in Vermont and a center of commerce and industry on Lake Champlain. The earlier maps show the village and rural sections of the town of Burlington. Later maps cover the City of Burlington, which was established in 1865 when the rural areas were set off to create the town of South Burlington. Maps of the neighboring village of Winooski are also included in the collection. The maps show streets, buildings and lots, building owners' names and functions, parks, cemeteries, wards, railroads, and some natural features. Some of the maps include illustrations of prominent buildings and business directories.
Time Period Covered: 1830-1890
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Jessica Alba Jets Off to St. Barts For Pal's Anniversary
Jessica Alba and Cash Warren traveled to St. Barts yesterday to celebrate their friends Kelly Sawyer and Jamie Patricof's 10-year wedding anniversary. Cash suited up in tiny trunks while Jessica wore a printed Tory Burch cover-up as they met up with their pals on the beach for a drink. The group trip comes hot on the heels of the release of The Place Beyond the Pines, which was produced by Jamie, and stars Ryan Gosling, Bradley Cooper, and Eva Mendes.
Jessica will have two film premieres of her own to look froward to later this year when Machete Kills and the sequel to Sin City get released in the Fall. However, right now she has been juggling family time and work following the release of her new book, The Honest Life, last month. Jessica and Cash spent Easter with their kids in coordinating pastel outfits following the actress's appearance at the 2013 Kids' Choice Awards in mid-March.


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|October 7, 2009, 05:57 PM
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870 vs. 870 Super Mag
I have been kicking around the idea of buying a used 870 Express Super Mag synthetic to use for a knockaround waterfowl gun, and also to put a cantilevered deer barrel on it. I own a Wingmaster now, but would like to reserve that for the field and for clays.
I have heard on many occasions that the Super Mag jams a lot and is not anywhere near as smooth as a 3" 870. I've also been told and have read that I really don't need a 3 1/2" shell for ducks and geese. Would the Mag shells give me enough advantage to offset the jamming issues I've read about? Thought I'd ask the experts...
|October 7, 2009, 06:08 PM
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I'm no expert but I've never encountered a situation where a 3" shell was not enougth. I don't claim there is no use for a 3 1/2 shell exept maybe for skybusting geese with steelshot.
|October 7, 2009, 06:18 PM
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I have heard complaints with ruff chambers on both express models as well as super ugly finish. Heck the Maverick 88 looks like a "WingMaster" compared to the express models...
|October 7, 2009, 07:37 PM
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The Super Magnum is no less reliable or smooth than any other Remington shotgun.
The Express guns are Remington's "budget" guns made to sell at as low a price as possible to compete with cheaper brands like Mossberg.
In order to lower the price, the Express guns are not as smoothly finished inside or out.
As they're used, the Express guns get smoother.
I haven't heard anything about the Super Magnum having any special reliability problems, but a lot of people are reporting extraction problems with all guns when using cheap ammo.
If the Super Magnum had some special issue with reliability, Remington would have fixed the design years ago.
In fact, the Super Magnum is simply the standard 870 with an action lengthened enough to handle the longer shells. The design is the same as the 3" guns, which is the same as the old 2 3/4" guns.
Where the Super Magnum "fits" is for use with steel shot on waterfowl.
Since steel isn't was effective as lead shot, the more shot put up, the better. The 3 1/2" shell simply contains more shot.
One work around, is to use the heavy shot high density non-lead ammo.
This is made from various heavy-metal alloys that don't have toxic issues like lead and are heavy enough to reach up for high flyer's.
|October 7, 2009, 07:58 PM
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I don't know. I haven't found any need for anything that shot 3.5" 12 gauge shells so far...
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|October 7, 2009, 08:17 PM
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I bought one for a waterfowl gun, and it handles just as smoothly as any 870. I've carried it into quail fields and it doesn't seem any heavier or bulkier than any other 870. I like the option of 3 1/2 inches for ducks and turkeys, every pellet counts. I have the express magnum and one thing I'll say is the finish is not up to par. The barrel started spotting with rust after a few days in the blind, and the finish on the stock is wearing off quickly. But hey, its a 870 and never jams no matter what I feed it.
|October 8, 2009, 08:12 AM
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I'm with the, " I've never needed a 3.5" crowd. Spent last week in Canada (goose, upland, duck) and made the longest shot of the group with my 3" BB's. Three were shooting 3.5 and two 3. The two 3's were as I quote, "dial 911 there in a murder in progress by the Beretta boys". The thought of a 3.5" pump makes my should hurt.
I am looking for a pump to use as a knock around/bu gun. I typically don't like pumps, but the price for a beater draws me.
|October 8, 2009, 08:50 AM
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Luck of the draw
My buddy and I both own 870s in their Express trim. Mine is just the garden variety 870, his is the Super Mag. Neither of us mind the cost cutting measures (el cheapo wood, matte finish, etc) but reliability is luck of the draw on these guns. In the hundreds of rounds I've run thru mine, I've only had real difficulty extracting once. His, however, would have constant issues with crappy ammo. We'd have to bash the buttstock into the ground while holding the fore end to get the shell to come out of the chamber (careful doing this or you could rip the extractor claw right off the rim of the shell). All that being said, when he bought an 18" barrel to convert it to HD mode, it cycled like a champ. Go figure. After he polished the chamber of the other barrel it cycled well too.
Moral of this story: you might get lucky like me, or you might have to do some polishing to get yours to work right. I don't think regular 870 vs SuperMag has anything to do with it. The SuperMag felt just as smooth and swung the same as the regular 870, BTW.
|October 8, 2009, 09:03 AM
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As far as new guns go, rarely have I not had to do some polishing or touching up to get them to function perfectly. I'd expect a little work on an 870 as I would any other...just strip it down, give it a good cleaning, smooth out any rough patchs and then take it shooting. The 3.5 "should" work just as well as the 3.0 model.
As for the utility of the longer chamber, I can't imagine living without it. As a guy who hunts in situations where close shots are rare I feel I absolutely Must have the 3.5 chamber for waterfowl. But that is because I use steel shot and it is a truely pathetic substance to use as a projectile.
If I were still firing lead, or if I had the inclination to buy shells for $4 each and use the new "heavy as lead" (or heavier) metals, then I doubt there would be many situations where a 3" chamber would not be plenty.
|October 8, 2009, 04:24 PM
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I have had some issues with extracting on my 870 supermag with
28" barrel. It was after the gun heated up a bit after shooting though. I just followed the advice given and detailed it, and then just racked the forend a good bit while just around the house and of course shooting it.
The gun just keeps getting better and better.
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You've probably already heard the news: video of a living giant squid in its natural environment has been captured for the very first time.
The bad news: all we've got right now is teasing little snippets of the video. It's a slightly disturbing use of science in that it's getting sensationalized for commercial purposes: it's going to be shown on the Discovery channel on 27 January at 8pm — a very strange outlet for a scientific discovery.
The good news: Steve O'Shea, the cephalopod expert, has seen it and offered his opinion.
I can assure you that you will not be disappointed when you watch the show. In press release and title they demonize the animal again, and there has been an outcry from those involved at their doing so (but I cannot and will not get drawn into the 'behind the scenes' politics of all of this), but when you see this animal, alive, full-grown, beautiful, well, demon it is not. It is the most exquisite thing you will see, and it is no fleeting glimpse either – you see a LOT for a LONG time, in full colour, full HD, complete focus.
I have probably said more than I should have; I am awaiting confirmation that we can talk about it, because this announcement caught us off-guard (we had no forewarning that it would be announced today).
27 January is a day you want to mark in your calendars!
OK, now that tantalizes me. I'll alert you all on the 27th again, and you can pretty much guarantee I'll be glued to the TV that night.


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In the fourth tutorial in our six-part series on Grass Valley EDIUS 6, we'll discuss Singular Software's PluralEyes, a third-party plug-in now available for EDIUS 6 that allows you, the editor, to easily sync all of your audio and video sources quickly on your timeline without going through the laborious task of doing it manually. Designed for anyone using dual-system audio on their shoots, it's especially helpful for DSLR shooters who need to use external audio devices to get pro-quality sound. PluralEyes will speed up your edits and, as we all know, "Time is money."
Step 1: Dropping the Video Clips and Audio Source into the TimelineIn the example we'll use in this tutorial, I've got 8 different clips that I'll set up for a multicam edit. I'll take my clips and randomly drop them down on my timeline in different spots so we can create a syncing challenge that will put PluralEyes through a good test. And let's put PluralEyes to a good, little test. I'm just going to randomly drop them all over. (We used this same section in the multicam tutorial that premiered a couple weeks ago.)
As I've got one more clip that I'm going to drop in, a DV clip that was shot with a good mic connected and will serve as our raw audio source. I'll going to turn off the video on this clip because we don't want to use the audio. I'll drag it down and drop it right here on our 1A track (Figure 1).
Figure 1. Adding the DV clip to the 8-track timeline as our audio source
Step 2: Syncing in PluralEyesNow, it's time to let PluralEyes do its thing. To access PluralEyes, we go to the Tools menu and click on PluralEyes (Figure 2).
Figure 2. Selecting PluralEyes from the Tools menu
The PluralEyes Information Screen appears (Figure 3). Let's take a look at some of the options and see what we can do with it. The first option that is available is Clips Are Chronological. That's the default selection. You'll choose this one in cases when you've done your best to assure the clips are on the timeline chronologically, especially on any tracks where you have placed multiple clips. It will help PluralEyes do a better job and be more accurate in the sync process.
Figure 3. The PluralEyes Information Screen
The next option is Level Audio. If you choose this option, PluralEyes will take your louder clips and quiet them down, and take your quieter clips and raise the volume on them to get all the audio into the same ballpark, level-wise. That means it can do a better job of finding the sound stamps that it's going to link to when it starts to sync your clips.
This brings us to how Plural Eyes works: First, it reads through all of your audio files that are linked to the video files. Then it looks at the audio files that aren't linked with any video clips-such as those sourced from solid state audio recorders-and tries to find common areas that match. And then it's going to sync to those areas. This will leave you with a timeline that's ready to rock.
The next option is Try Really Hard. If you choose this option, PluralEyes will do exactly what it says: try really hard. Use this only for especially challenging sync jobs—like when the first 2 options don't work. It will take a little bit of extra time, but PluralEyes will go through as thoroughly as possible and it will do its very best job. It's really good to use this option, say, if you've got a clip with a lot of background noise and not a whole lot of points in the audio where PluralEyes can find a sound stamp on and grab onto your natural audio file or your good audio file and sync it to the video. In this type of scenario, PluralEyes is just going to try really hard to do a good job for you.
The last option is Replace Audio. With this option, PluralEyes locates the first audio-only track on your timeline. As all the files get synced up, it will actually impose the audio from that audio-only track onto all of the clips that it syncs to as the main audio. This option can be very handy in some situations. But there are other types of edits where you may not want it to go this route.
Now that we know what each option does, we'll press the sync button and see what happens. After PluralEyes does its work, as you can see in Figure 4, by all appearances, we're all synced up.
Figure 4. Video tracks are all synced up to the master audio track from the DV camera
Step 3: Testing the SyncThe timeline looks great now but, the question is, did it really work? To gauge how well PluralEyes has synced your audio and video, pick a random spot in the timeline and see how it did (Figure 5). If you watch (and listen to) the video tutorial above, you'll see (and hear) that PluralEyes did a good job on this set of clips. You'll note that audio levels are very high because every audio track is running. Before continuing with or completing the edit, I would probably keep my master audio track and go through my project and mute most of those other channels. I might select one or two of them to keep active, and then I would expand them to use as ambient sound to enrich the overall sound of the piece.
Figure 5. Testing...
One other thing that's worth noting is that we have a new sequence now called Sequence 1 Synced with a big, long date code on it (Figure 6). What has happened is PluralEyes took our original sequence and left it completely intact from how we set it up. It has not touched any of that information. It's gone out and made a new sequence for you to work out of. This is helpful because if, for some reason, you need to start over or go back to your original setup, it's all right there for you. You've got both sequences. This is the one you're probably going to be working out of the most though. So you may want to rename it something a little shorter that will show up in the Sequence tab and be easier to read.
Figure 6. Sequence 1 Synced is a new synced sequence created by PluralEyes because it left our original sequence intact.
That's all for today's tutorial. Come back in a few weeks where we'll be talking about how to get creative in EDIUS using custom filter presets in nested sequences.
You can see other video tutorials in our ongoing series of EDIUS 6 tutorials on EventDV.tv's EDIUS channel on Vimeo.
Philip Hinkle (philip at frogmanproductions.com) runs Madison, Wis.-area video production company Frogman Productions. A 2008 EventDV 25 honoree and nationally recognized EDIUS instructor, he won a 2008 WEVA CEA Gold in the Social Event category and a 2006 4EVER Group AAA Diamond. He was a 2009 WEVA CEA judge and a featured speaker at WEVA Expo 2009. He is co-founder and vice-president of the Wisconsin Digital Media Group.


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9 Celebrity Women Who Could Star In An Episode Of "The Bad Girls Club"
Being feisty is a good quality in a woman, but these celebrity women are known for going ham.
Here are 9 women who could star in an episode of next season's "The Bad Girls Club."
Erica Mena
If she kicks the chicks on the show like she kicked her baby daddy in the head, she would be the star of the show.
K Michelle
K. Michelle would turn "The Bad Girls Club" all the way up. We would have to listen to how Toya's husband allegedly busted her upside her head for the millionth time, but it's the price you pay for good entertainment.
Rihanna would be piff-puffin, twerking to Drake's music, and cussing chicks out left and right. Welcome to Ri Ri land.
Miley Cyrus
Miley is not about that life, but maybe the rest of the bad girls can teach her how to properly twerk. Calling Rihanna…
Ciara is not a rude girl, but it would give Ri Ri someone to pick on and add drama to the show. Plus reality TV would give a big boost to her CD sales.
Amanda Bynes
Amanda would be calling people ugly on Twitter and getting her azz whooped on the daily. Now that's entertainment.
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Joseline Hernandez
Joseline might scare the other women with her manly features and broken English… that will start some isht right there.
Tami Roman
Taami has real anger management issues. We're scared she might bust a chick's head down to the white meat for real. She blindsided poor Meeka and was about to phuck up Keisha.


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The definitive inside account of the file-sharing revolution that overthrew the music industry, All the Rave reveals the family betrayal, greed, and mismanagement that hijacked one the most fundamental innovations of the Internet era.
Named one of the three best books of 2003 by Investigative Reporters and Editors Inc., All the Rave has been out of print until now and unavailable in most electronic formats.
Author and veteran technology journalist Joseph Menn also wrote 2010's Fatal System Error: The Hunt for the New Crime Lords who are Bringing Down the Internet.
As an added bonus, this audiobook includes a special interview with the author, conducted by Susie Bright.
©2003 Joseph Menn (P)2013 Audible, Inc.
"The book, by Joseph Menn, provides a well-documented history of one of the most celebrated collapses of the Internet. But it goes far deeper, giving an inside account of the creation of Napster, the battle for its control and the maneuvering by big Silicon Valley names to try to turn music piracy into gold." (The New York Times)
"That rare business book that nicely avoids either hatchet job or hagiography." (San Francisco Chronicle)
"An admirable piece of reporting, of interest to both friends and foes of the movement Napster helped to create." (The Washington Post)
"Great (and surprising) story of Napster"
a great story of fans of any of of the following - peer-to-peer, the changes to the music industry, napster, entrepeneurs, silicon valley, leadership of innovation, the law and it's relationship to technology and innovatoon and more. really enjoyed it. Good production from Audible too.
"The Far-reaching Karma of Napster"
Shawn Fanning and Napster overthrew the music industry—and if you don't think you're still reeling from that revolution, sit down and prepare to have your mind blown.
Fanning never went away. His legend in IT and the transformation of intellectual property on the Internet is something we take for granted now— but its origins are something out of a down and dirty mystery novel.
This is Joseph Menn's meticulous investigation of how Shawn unearthed the firmament— the eye-opening reveals are incredible. The tale of Fanning's shady uncle pushes the story into a true-crime investigation.
Take a listen!
I looked up, it was zero zero out of time. Pirate it like its 1999
"Digital Ponzi Scheme"
After reading about Napster and Shawn Fanning, the company seem like a digital Ponzi scheme. I'm a child from the Napster era and "All the Rave" was a decent read, but the actual company and leadership was a big joke. Terrible management.
I don't feel bad for Shawn Fanning. He might had been a good coder, but no leadership and you never do business with family. John Fanning, his uncle, was the reason for Napster failures. Maybe if Shawn's uncle wasn't apart of the company, Napster would still be here.
They pretty much destroy themselves. The company just sounded shady from the start.
Even after the death of Napster, any savvy user could easily find these files elsewhere.
Thank you Napster for bringing the technology of "sharing" to the Internet.
"Could have been such an interesting story"
I found the story was not put together in a way that was engaging or very interesting. The potential for a great telling of the story of Napster. This was boring.
The narrator's delivery and weak writing.
I would have to hear a sample first to make sure this book's failure was just the bad writing and storytelling.
Disappointment. Was excited to learn more than was in the newspaper about the rise and fall of Napster.
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Daniel Halper / Weekly Standard:
Biden: Obama Considering 'Executive Order' to Deal With Guns — Vice President Joe Biden revealed that President Barack Obama might use an executive order to deal with guns. — "The president is going to act," said Biden, giving some comments to the press before a meeting with victims of gun violence.
David Weigel / Slate: What Crazy Fascist Executive Orders Might Obama Use to Take Away Your Freedoms?
Michelle Jaconi / CNN: CNN's GUT CHECK for January 9, 2013
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo: GOP Rep: An Executive Order On Guns Smacks Of 'Dictatorship'
Donald Sensing / Sense of Events: Gun control "dead" in the House, says Member
Robert Stein / Connecting.the.Dots: Silver Bullets for Gun Control
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Jim Hoft / The Gateway Pundit: Reminder: Stalin's Firearms Confiscation Was a Tremendous Success for Socialist State (Video)
Michael D. Shear / The Caucus: N.R.A. Will Send Representative to Meet with Biden on Guns
Amie Parnes / The Hill:
Biden: Obama prepared to take executive action on gun control — President Obama will likely take executive action in an effort to tamp down the recent rash of gun violence, Vice President Biden said Wednesday. — "The president is going go act," said Biden, who is conducting meetings all week on the issue of gun control.
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Erika Johnsen / Hot Air: Biden: "Executive action can be taken" on gun control
Sterling C. Beard / The Hill: Poll: NRA's popularity dropping
Evan McMorris-Santoro / Talking Points Memo:
California Town Hall Provides Glimpse At The Future Of The Gun Control Debate — Advocates on both sides of the gun control debate are prepared to make a lot of noise about the future of gun regulations in the wake of the Newtown, Conn. shooting. That's the message from the first of House …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Return of the Town Hall Wars
John Alston / KGO-TV: Gun violence forum in Napa becomes tense
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: Hang tough on guns, Dems. It's gonna get ugly.
Josh Levs / CNN:
Gun debate centers on White House — On Wednesday night, Piers Morgan goes one-on-one with firearms lobbyist Larry Pratt over guns in America. "Piers Morgan Tonight" airs nightly at 9 ET. — (CNN) — President Barack Obama is exploring executive orders to help prevent mass shootings in America …
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Some Heads Explode: Biden Says Obama Exploring Executive Orders to Combat Gun Violence
Janet Shan / The Hinterland Gazette: VP Joe Biden Suggests President Obama Could Use Executive Orders in Gun Control.
Anjali Sareen / Mediaite: WH Responds To Piers Morgan Deportation Petition: 'When Discussing 2nd Amendment, Keep The 1st In Mind'
GottaLaff / The Political Carnival: 2009 university study: Gun owners 4.46 times more likely to be shot in an assault than those not in possession.
Patrick Howley / The Daily Caller: White House is wrong: First Amendment doesn't protect Piers Morgan from deportation
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Joe Biden / This Just In: Wal-Mart now sold on gun-control summit
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Wal-Mart Misses a Meeting With Biden on Gun Violence
Wal-Mart Misses a Meeting With Biden on Gun Violence
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David Edwards / The Raw Story: Ron Johnson: Walmart 'trying to grow the economy' and doesn't have time for gun control
Dave-Dr-Gonzo / Alan Colmes'Alan Colmes': Walmart Snubs Biden Invitation To Gun Pow-wow
Kevin Roose / Bloomberg:
Jack Lew's Terrible Signature May Grace Dollar Bills Now — Obama's America. — Jack Lew, President Obama's reported pick to replace outgoing Treasury secretary Tim Geithner, is known as a no-nonsense backroom negotiator with wonkish tendencies, who is admired on the left and grumbled about on the right.
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Sarah Parnass / ABCNEWS: Likely Treasury Secretary Under Fire for Signature
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Rachel Weiner / Post Politics: Will Jack Lew change his crazy signature?
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Derek Thompson / The Atlantic Online: 'OoooooooO!': Jack Lew's Insane Signature Is Going to Be All Over Your Dollar Bills, Soon
Hans Nichols / Bloomberg:
Obama Said to Name Jack Lew to Replace Geithner at Treasury — Obama Said to Name Lew Tomorrow to Replace Geithner — President Barack Obama plans to name White House Chief of Staff Jack Lew tomorrow as his choice for Treasury secretary, replacing Timothy F. Geithner, a person familiar with the process said.
Jonathan Easley / The Hill: Obama to nominate chief of staff Lew for Treasury secretary
Tommy Christopher / Mediaite: Binders Full Of White Dudes: Don't Slam President Obama For Picking Jack Lew To Head Treasury
Reid Pillifant / Capital New York: Republicans threaten a fight over Jack Lew, too
Doug Mataconis / Outside the Beltway: Jack Lew's Horrible Signature
Jamelle Bouie / The Plum Line: If Republicans want to choose the Cabinet, they should win an election
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Breaking: Bloomberg reports Lew to get Treasury job
Joe Gandelman / The Moderate Voice: Obama Will Reportedly Name Jack Lew to Replace Geithner at Treasury
Halimah Abdullah / CNN:
Obama's cabinet shaping up to be a boys club
Obama's cabinet shaping up to be a boys club
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Charles C. W. Cooke / National Review: More 'Diversity' Nonsense — Per CNN, a theme today: … So?
Why President Obama is picking fights with Congress
Why President Obama is picking fights with Congress
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Michael O'Brien / NBC Politics: Contrary to Obama's hopes, GOP 'fever' hasn't broken
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Who Is Jack Lew, Obama's Nominee for Treasury Secretary?
Who Is Jack Lew, Obama's Nominee for Treasury Secretary?
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Andy Kroll / Mother Jones: Flashback: Obama's Treasury Secretary Pick Claimed Deregulation Did Not Cause the Financial Crisis
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Wall Street Journal:
Lew to Be Tapped for Treasury
Lew to Be Tapped for Treasury
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James Pethokoukis / AEIdeas: GOP isn't booing, they're saying 'Lew!' No, actually they're booing
Alicia M. Cohn / The Hill:
White House won't deport Piers Morgan — The White House defended Morgan's First Amendment right to free speech regarding the Second Amendment right to bear arms. — The White House officially responded to a petition to deport Piers Morgan on Wednesday by defending the CNN anchor's right …
Justin Sink / The Hill:
White House declines to rule out the minting of a 'platinum coin'
White House declines to rule out the minting of a 'platinum coin'
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Aaron Dykes / Infowars:
Piers Morgan and Guests Discuss Shooting Alex Jones
Piers Morgan and Guests Discuss Shooting Alex Jones
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Crazy person Alex Jones rants and raves on CNN
Crazy person Alex Jones rants and raves on CNN
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Andy Kroll / Mother Jones:
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Maggie / Maggie's Notebook: NEA, SWA, NAACP, GreenPeace Meet to End Voter ID, End Filibuster - and GET BIG MONEY OUT OF POLITICS
Josh Israel / ThinkProgress:
Inaugural Benediction To Be Delivered By Pastor Who Gave Vehemently Anti-Gay Sermon — The Presidential Inauguration Committee announced Tuesday that the President Obama has selected Pastor Louie Giglio of the Georgia-based Passion City Church to deliver the benediction for his second inauguration.
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John Aravosis / AMERICAblog: Rick Warren's anti-gay evil twin Louie Giglio to give inauguration benediction
Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: Obama Inauguration Pastor Gave Anti-Gay Sermon, and His Father Created the Chick-fil-A Logo
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Katie Glueck / Politico:
President Obama poet Richard Blanco's 'queer shame' pain
President Obama poet Richard Blanco's 'queer shame' pain
Ann Althouse / Althouse: Obama's inauguration poet "tackles 'the intersection of his cultural identities as a Cuban-American gay man.'"
Moni Basu / CNN: Obama taps Latino poet for inauguration
Sheryl Gay Stolberg / New York Times:
Richard Blanco, 2013 Inaugural Poet
Richard Blanco, 2013 Inaugural Poet
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Andy Towle / Towleroad News #gay: Obama Selects Gay Latino Poet Richard Blanco to Read at Inauguration Ceremony: VIDEO
Jordan Fabian / ABCNEWS: Richard Blanco: First Latino, Gay Man Selected as Inaugural Poet
Sunnivie Brydum / Advocate: Richard Blanco, Gay Latino, Named Inaugural Poet
Matthew Yglesias / Slate:
The Biggest Myth About The Platinum Coin Option — The biggest and weirdest myth out there about the $1 trillion platinum coin is the idea that it would require a large quantity of platinum to make one. The National Republican Campaign Committee, for example, is out there warning that …
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Brad Plumer / Wonkblog: The worst objection to the platinum coin idea
Tom Maguire / JustOneMinute:
He's Ready For The Clown Suit
He's Ready For The Clown Suit
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Ann Althouse / Althouse: Hope and change... into a clown costume.
Alex Fitzpatrick / Mashable!: This Illegible Signature Might Appear on All U.S. Paper Currency
Ryan Cooper / Washington Monthly:
Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe on the Legality of #mintthecoin
Harvard Law School Professor Laurence Tribe on the Legality of #mintthecoin
Kevin Drum / Mother Jones: Platinum Coins and the Fever Swamp
P.M. Carpenter / p m carpenter's commentary: Would you like your ceiling fixed with impeachment, or without?
Jamelle Bouie / American Prospect: What Goes Around (Comes Back Around)
Devin Smith / New Economic Perspectives: What is it About Money that Scares the Bejesus Out of People?
Joe Weisenthal / Business Insider: Legendary Harvard Law Professor Gives The Ultimate Verdict On Whether The Trillion Dollar Platinum Coin Is Legal
Stephen Stromberg / PostPartisan: Don't make just one platinum coin
McKay Coppins / BuzzFeed:
Labor Secretary Will Resign — Hilda Solis leaves after serving since 2009. Sebelius, Shinseki, and Holder to remain. — U.S. Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis. — Image by Richard Vogel / AP — Secretary of Labor Hilda Solis resigned Wednesday afternoon, three sources told BuzzFeed.
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David Weigel / Slate:
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Will Resign
Labor Secretary Hilda Solis Will Resign
Ned Resnikoff / msnbc.com: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis resigns
Laura Clawson / Daily Kos: Labor Secretary Hilda Solis resigns
Jonathan Chait / New York Magazine:
Why Republicans Won't Bargain With Obama Again — James Capretta, writing at National Review, lays out what looks like the emerging Republican strategy on the debt ceiling. Rather than take up President Obama's offer to cut Social Security and Medicare in return for higher revenue through tax reform …
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Ed Kilgore / Washington Monthly: Strategic Retreat On Debt Limit?
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James Hohmann / Politico:
At 100, still little love for Nixon — Richard Nixon would have turned 100 Wednesday, but about the only people marking the occasion are historians, family members and loyalists from the disgraced 37th president's administration. — And even they're slowly dying off.
Discussion: USA Today, CNN, Taylor Marsh, ABCNEWS, The Week, Washington Monthly and Althouse
David Jackson / USA Today: Nixon at 100: An awkward anniversary
Timothy Stanley / CNN: Nixon at 100: A model for GOP?
Sarah Parnass / ABCNEWS:
Five Key Legacies of Former President Richard Nixon On His 100th Birthday
Five Key Legacies of Former President Richard Nixon On His 100th Birthday
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Roger Simon / Politico: Happy birthday, Tricky Dick
Michael Catalini / NationalJournal.com:
Are Republicans Scared of Al Franken? — SNL star-turned-senator isn't drawing much early GOP opposition. — After winning election by the narrowest of margins in 2008, Sen. Al Franken looked like one of the GOP's most inviting Senate targets in 2014. But instead, the party is facing …
Discussion: The Fix
Aaron Blake / The Fix: Al Franken: Bulletproof?
Alexander Bolton / The Hill:
McConnell to take lead in entitlement talks, with Boehner in back seat — Senate Republican Leader Mitch McConnell is poised to play a bigger role in negotiations to reform entitlement programs in the wake of the tax deal he helped forge last week. — Lawmakers see the passage of a bill …
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Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: GOP turns to McConnell for entitlement-reform fight
Greg Sargent / The Plum Line: GOP disarray over debt ceiling
BooMan / Booman Tribune: Head Through a Wall
Ginger Gibson / Politico:
McConnell takes a hit from the right
McConnell takes a hit from the right
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Dylan Stableford / Yahoo! News:
Yahoo News exclusive: Trump releases birth certificate to Bill Maher, demands $5M — Donald Trump has placed himself in the middle of another controversy involving a birth certificate—this time his own. — In a letter obtained by Yahoo News, the real estate mogul and de facto leader of last year's …
Discussion: Reuters, The Political Carnival and Mediaite
Kevin Cirilli / Reuters: Donald Trump, Bill Maher 'birther' feud
Paddy / The Political Carnival: Quickie- Trump releases birth certificate to Bill Maher, demands $5M
Rosemary Regina Sobol / Chicago Tribune:
Police: Man threatened to blow up CTA bus in 'jihad' … A man threatened to blow up a CTA bus and told police he was "jihad against the white devil" this week, causing evening rush hour passengers to flee in fear for their lives, authorities said. — A judge set bail at $90,000 Tuesday …
Discussion: Jihad Watch, The Jawa Report and Atlas Shrugs
Stable Hand / The Jawa Report: Police: Man Threatened To Blow Up CTA Bus In 'Jihad Against The White Devil "..
Jeffrey M. Jones / Gallup:
In U.S., Democrats Re-Establish Lead in Party Affiliation — In 2012, 47% identified or leaned Democratic, 42% Republican — PRINCETON, NJ — An average of 47% of Americans identified as Democrats or said they were independents who leaned Democratic in 2012, compared with 42% who identified as or leaned Republican.
Discussion: Liberal Values, The Fix, The Moderate Voice, The Political Carnival, Hot Air, msnbc.com, Politico, The Daily Caller, Ballot Box, Post Politics and National Review
Ron Chusid / Liberal Values: Democrats Take Lead In Party Affiliation
Ed Morrissey / Hot Air: Gallup: Independents remain at 2011 high, Democrats gain slightly in leaners
Katie Glueck / Politico: Gallup: More identify with Democrats
Meghashyam Mali / Ballot Box: Gallup poll: More voters identify with Democrats than GOP
Katrina Trinko / National Review: Gallup: More Americans Democratic than Republican
Amy Odell / BuzzFeed:
DC Sex Workers Prepare for Huge Influx of Inauguration Partiers — If you require the services of a stripper or dominatrix over inauguration weekend, be prepared to pay extra. — Image by Shutterstock — When Steve Baker talks about the inauguration, he gets a little giddy.
Discussion: The Gateway Pundit
Laura Bassett / The Huffington Post:
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David Ferguson / The Raw Story: Paul Ryan signs on as cosponsor of new 'fetal personhood' bill


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