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RBDigital is the library's downloadable audiobook service (previously known as OneClickDigital). It is compatible with many devices, including Kindle Fire, Nooks, and iPads.You can access, browse, checkout, and download titles directly from the app on your device.
Get the app for iOS here or for Android here.
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- Go to RBDigital
- Click on Register in the upper right corner
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- Once you are registered, you can Sign In to your account. Click on your name to get to My Account – where you can change your settings – or My Titles – where you can see what you have checked out currently and previously
- RBDigital lets you search or browse for titles. Note that there are both audiobook and ebook titles available
- Click on a title to check it out or place it on hold if not available
- To listen to an audiobook, you will need to download either the desktop program or for an even better user experience, download the app on your mobile device (Get the app for iOS here or for Android here.) Bonus, you can also read magazines on the same app!
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The live/work space of Academy Award-winning actress Anjelica Huston and her late husband, Robert Graham just hit the market for $13.9 million, reports the Los Angeles Times. Huston, who is currently starring in NBC's show "Smash," bought the home back in 1992 for $500,000, the same year the actress married the famous sculptor.
Part art studio, part home, the Venice, Calif. property is impressive to say the least with an ideal location near the beach and with views of the ocean. The modern five-story abode comes complete with a dance studio, gym, media room, office, and service entrance. But that's not all — the actress' pad also features a heated pool and parking for 10 cars.
If Huston fetches the full asking price for the home, she is set to make a whopping $13.4 million off the sale. Now, that's impressive.
A view of Anjelica Huston's live/work space in Venice, California.


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Mixin' It Up: DJ Tuco
Friday and time for another Mixin' It Up, this time we're going to Brazil for some baile funk via British born but currently residing in Prague DJ Tuco. He recently spent a month in Rio and he picked up some tunes. Enjoy!
"Hi, my name's DJ Tuco, I'm from a pretty dull place in England called Reading (Does It Offend You Yeah?, Ricky Gervais, Kate Winslet) where I grew up on a diet of house music and Hip hop, I've been DJing and promoting parties since the mid – late 90's. I've also lived in Italy and and the last few years i've been in Prague which is wicked. Alongside DJ Quime we promote the infamous Dutty Weekend parties…Be sure to check out them out if you are ever round these parts.
I recently spent a month in Rio where I hooked up with a lot of people and had a blast, during my time there I picked up a lot of music mainly Baile Funk so I decided to throw a mix together. The hardest part was going though all the CD's finding the playable stuff as the quality of the tracks over there wasn't great, Most of this took place on a 10 hour car journey from Italy to Prague that almost sent my brother over the edge (mentally), next up was IDing the tracks (also a difficult task) then of course the fun part of mixing them. I don't claim to be a Baile Funk expert, this is just a personal choice of music I thought was cool, if you want to know more check out these great blogs Soundgoods & Rio Baile Funk… So turn your heating up full, turn the volume up so its distorting and you have to shout to communicate with your flat mate, grab a warm whisky and red bull, sit back and enjoy!"
DJ Tuco – Mixin' It Up for Discobelle (Sharebee)
MC Gi – Karma Sutra (Produced by DJ Edgar)
Anyone who has met Edgar will tell you he's one of the nicest guys you could meet, we tours europe regularly and is well worth booking, before I left Rio he gave me a lot of his own production so he features heavily on this mix, which isn't a bad thing because the quality is high and he's one of the best out there!
DJ Sandrinho – Parapapa
Sandrinho shouldn't need any introduction on these pages, one of the biggest names in Funk.
Lady Gaga – Just Dance (DJ Edgar Remix)
Edgar with another classic Montagem (Remix) the beckies on their year out in Prague love this…
Dino E Fu – Aquecimento Do Buffalo
This track translates to something like "warming up to buffalo" Buffalo Bill is referenced a lot in funk and would love to know why… I guess its something to do with the sample…
Putaria – Track 18
No it all gets a it strange, I bought a CD outside a Baile I went to with Gringo, they sold CD's of Putaria (a word for sexually explicit funk), the CD itself cost one Reais… I did enjoy asking for "1 pack of cigarettes, 1 beer and CD of Putaria" needles to say there was no track list or artwork, just a CDR in a paper case. This is one of the few tracks from the CD without annoying drops every few seconds. If you can ID it I would be really grateful.
Putaria – Frog
From the same CD, its not actually called frog, I just tagged it that, it will become obvious why, again an ID would be sweet, Im sure I heard this quite a bit out there…
Pras Novinha Safada – Relaxa Na Pica
This is a dope track, I also like it because in Czech it would translate loosely to "relax on c**t" no idea what the it means in Portuguese.
????? – Mini Game
Dj Google tells me this montagem seems to have been made by quite a few people but I believe this could be another one of Edgar's because the sound quality is actually very good, simple but great track, initial crowd reaction in Europe is usually one of bemusement!
DJ Vinicius – Delicia
Again another big track, this isn't the original, the quality was just too bad, the Delicia sample is another one thats heavily used.
DJ Edgar & DJ Lendrao – Destination
Those horns again, given the Carioca treatment they sound as fresh as ever.
M (thats all I could get) – Cornetinha Fodoska da Vila Alianca
Crazily infectious, you'll be humming this for hours after hearing, providing you've made it this far!
MC Bolinho & DJ Woody – Buffalo Bill
Ol' Buffalo Bill rears his head again, I think this is the original "Buffalo Bill", could be wrong, its a huge track though. you can sing along to this track "buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo buffalo, bill bill bill bill"
Tigrao – Uma Por Uma (Dj's Dinho e Fu)
Tigrao not sure if this is linked to Bonde Do Tigrao or not but I love the sample of the kid (or woman with a squeaky voice), you get that a lot in funk… again I wish I knew what they were saying, I guess its know different to Czechs listening to Dancehall though!
Corneto Da Putaria
Unfortunately this track is pretty bad quality but it had to be included, it ticks all the boxes, shouty chorus, kids screaming some questionable beat boxing etc etc…
DJ Edgar Feat: Million Stylez
I like the break down in the middle of this track it kind of reminds me of a Funk version of a Scottie B track or something.
MC Gringo Feat: Amazing Clay – Berimbal
Ok, I had this track long before I went out to Rio but if I wouldn't have met Gringo I wouldn't have seen or heard half the stuff I did, so I wanted to include a track of his on here, amazing Clay is one of the original Funk Dj's and also a great producer
Alex DJ MPC – Aquecimento Do Globo
I woke up on someone's couch after a heavy drinking session at about 9 am and was woken up by this tune, my first reaction was to scramble around for my phone then I realized that it was coming from a car parked a few roads over, they must've have played it 3 or 4 times over the next couple of hours, then I just seemed to hear it every where! Very simple but a big big tune…


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Fahrenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury
Read May 12-14 2016
Premise: In the future, firemen are the censorship arm of the surveillance state burning books (which are illegal) to ensure the cohesion of a society built on sensationalism and shallowness.
Verdict: I had read this book a long time ago and my local library did a read-along of it in May. It's small enough to knock out in a few hours tops so I re-read it, loved it, and headed off to the library discussion which was all doom, gloom, and terror. Sci-fi is all about speculating on the dark paths our actions may lead us down in the future, but I think something about this group (who were all at least 50 or older and most claimed to hate science fiction) just made them more inclined to declare that the entire world was degenerate and our society was failing. Also, if you've read any of my previous Hugo project reviews, lately I've gotten free of a lifelong abusive situation and have been working on my brain. All fun things. So, with that preface, here's what I thought about Fahrenheit 451 on this, the xth time I've read it.
When I first read this book I was convinced it was about how stupid our culture is because people don't want to think. I was an angry teenager who loved books and learning and I was relentlessly bullied for it. Fahrenheit 451 felt like a vindication to me. Now that I'm not an angry teenager it still feels like a vindication, but less of intelligence and more of compassion. Our discussion at the library eventually got into Cold War paranoia which was an astute conversation topic. But I feel like it's worth noting the censorship aspects not from a totalitarian angle, but more from the way Bradbury presents a culture of despair.
Reading this novel is very familiar, not because I've read it before, but because our society becomes more and more recognizable in its dystopian future. The novel presents a utopian infrastructure (with what's basically a hyperloop, virtual reality television, ubiquitous transportation etc.) but a totalitarian rule of information. The head fireman Beatty does plenty of philosophizing, but it's explicitly stated that society itself decided it no longer wanted anything to do with critical thought. Ideas in books became "too confusing" because you could never reach blanket consensus. People willfully gave up their right to think and instead consume pre-packaged sensationalistic media. As someone currently living with a disagreeable roommate who alternately blasts CNN or Bravo, reading this book in this house was surreal. "Sitting around and talking" is weird because "what do you talk about?" Your life is judged by what you consume and the populace is kept busy by manufacturing need in consumers to strive for more and "better" goods. The culture in the novel is so disconnected that they literally have a special "handyman team" of medical professionals who go around "cleaning out" the stomachs of the plethora of people who attempt to commit suicide every day. The McCarthyist paranoia is rampant, but it just emphasizes that American culture on the whole has never recovered a sense of trust in others. We still have a default mode of "everyone is out to get you."
What's even more prescient, perhaps, is the notion of a live high-speed televised chase that has to have narrative structure. The Hound chasing Montag at the end narrativizes chunks of life in ways that satisfy the culturally constructed notions of justice and payoff. It's all about eyes, not information. This book is so short, but it's creepily like Bradbury just peeled a little window through time and cast judgment on what he saw. Good sci-fi is like that.
At any rate, for me the burning of books became less about censorship and more about the books symbolizing critical thought. Yes, censorship is bad. But censorship also implies that some part of the culture wants the information they have no access to. Either that, or that there is a state-sanctioned brainwashing going on a la nationalistic book burnings. There's something eerie in reading about the narcissistic disaffection of society in a novel written in 1954. Maybe there's nothing particularly special about 2016 except the speed at which information flows.
I mean, this book is a classic. One of the must-reads of American literature. So go read it.


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Outline emerges of last moments before plane crash
Nearly a week after Asiana Flight 214 collided with a rocky seawall just short of its intended airport runway, investigators have pieced together an outline of the event - what should have been a smooth landing by seasoned pilots turning into a disaster.
With each new bit of information, the picture emerging is of pilots who were supposed to be closely monitoring the plane's airspeed, but who didn't realize until too late that the aircraft was dangerously low and slow. Nothing disclosed so far by the National Transportation Safety Board investigators indicates any problems with the Boeing 777's engines or the functioning of its computers and automated systems.
"The first thing that's taught to a pilot is to look at the airspeed indicator. It is the most important instrument in the cockpit," said Lee Collins, a pilot with 29 years and 18,000 hours experience flying a variety of airliners. "Airspeed is everything. You have airspeed, you live. You don't, you die."
Investigators are still trying to nail down hundreds of details about the crash last Saturday that killed two people and injured dozens. NTSB Chairman Deborah Hersman has cautioned against reaching conclusions.
But investigators already know a great deal. They've listened to the Boeing 777's voice recorder, which captured the last two hours of conversation in the cockpit. They've downloaded its flight data recorder, which captured 1,400 indicators of what was happening on the plane, from the temperatures inside and out to the positions of cockpit instruments.
The flight's four pilots have been interviewed, as have passengers and dozens of witnesses. Air traffic control recordings and video of the flight's last moments, including the crash itself, have been examined.
Here's what investigators have revealed about a Seoul-to-San Francisco flight that was normal until its last minutes, when the wide-body jet carrying 307 people rapidly lost altitude:
The pilot flying the plane, Lee Gang-kuk, 46, had nearly 10,000 hours of flying experience, but just 35 hours flying a Boeing 777. He had recently completed training that qualified him to fly passengers in the 777, and was about halfway through his post-qualification training. He was seated in the left cockpit pilot seat. In the co-pilot position was Lee Jeong-Min, an experienced captain who was supervising Lee Gang-kuk's training. It was Lee Gang-kuk's first time landing a 777 in San Francisco.
At 11:19:23 PDT, after a nearly 11-hour flight, the plane was traveling over the San Francisco Peninsula. The weather was near perfect, sunny with light winds.
Lee Jeong-Min and a third pilot sitting in a jump seat just behind the main seats, a first officer, were supposed to be monitoring the plane's controls. One of their most important jobs was to closely monitor the plane's two airspeed indicators. In the U.S., if an amber bar is more than five knots above or below the target speed during landing, the pilot flying is supposed to abort and make another attempt, according to pilots interviewed by The Associated Press.
As the plane descended to 1,600 feet, the autopilot was turned off. At 1,400 feet, the plane's airspeed was about 170 knots.
The flight data recorder shows the plane's autothrottle - similar to a car's cruise control - was set on idle during the approach, Hersman said, and that there were multiple commands at times given to the autothrottle and autopilot.
At 11:26:58 and 1,000 feet, the pilots made contact with the airport tower. When they were cleared to land 12 seconds later, the plane's altitude had dropped to about 600 feet. The plane was configured for its approach and the landing gear was down. The airspeed was about 149 knots. A target speed of 137 knots was set.
At 500 feet there was an audible automated altitude alert. The airspeed was about 134 knots. At this point that pilots realized they weren't properly lined up with the runway, Hersman said.
"Between 500 and 200 feet, they had a lateral deviation and they were low. They were trying to correct at that point," she said.
At 200 feet and another automated altitude call out, the airspeed had slowed to 118 knots - well below the target level.
At this point, U.S. pilots would typically call for an aborted landing because the plane was more than 5 knots below its target speed, Collins said. But at no point in between 500 and 100 feet does the voice recorder show the pilots making any comment related to airspeed, Hersman said at a briefing Thursday.
Hersman said at earlier briefings that it was not until 200 feet - 16 seconds before impact - that Lee Jeong-Min, the instructor pilot "recognized the auto-throttles were not maintaining speed."
At 125 feet and 112 knots, both throttles started moving forward, indicating more fuel was being sent to the engines to increase power and speed. That was eight seconds before impact. Even if the autothrottles weren't fully turned on, either of the pilots in the two front seats could reach down and manually push the throttle levers forward to increase power.
It was about this time that the cockpit voice recorder indicated the first officer - the third pilot seating behind the front two pilots - realized the plane was traveling too slowly and called for an increase in speed.
A second later, Lee Gang-kuk's yoke can be heard rattling violently on the voice recorder. This is the sound of a stick shaker going off, a piece of safety equipment that tells a pilot the plane is about to stall because it has slowed to a dangerous speed and lost lift.
When the pilots in the two front seats realized the plane was in trouble, they both reached for the throttle. Passengers heard a loud roar as the plane revved up in a last-minute attempt to abort the landing.
At three seconds before impact, the plane reached its slowest speed of 103 knots. Its engines were at 50 percent power and power was increasing. At this time, one of the pilots called for an aborted landing.
At one and a half seconds before impact, another of the pilots calls for an aborted landing.
At 11:28, with the airspeed up three knots, the landing gear, followed by the plane's tail, collided with the seawall just short of Runway 28 Left. The plane careened wildly before slamming down onto the tarmac and sliding about 1,000 feet. The tail was sheared off and three flight attendants seated in the back of the plane fell out. Rocks from the seawall and pieces of the mangled landing gear were strewn along the runway.
The NTSB's investigation is being followed closely by pilots in the U.S. and around the world. At one gathering of pilots in Dallas Wednesday night, the discussion centered on why the Asiana pilots didn't realize their low speed sooner. No one had an answer.
"There are a lot of very experienced airline pilots who are scratching their heads right now," Collins said.
Meanwhile, crews removing the plane's wreckage encountered smoke early Friday morning. The smoke was captured by KGO-TV cameras, and the news station said it occurred moments after crews used a sling to lift the fuselage.
It appears that the wreckage has since been removed.
Calls to airport and fire officials to determine the cause of the smoke were not immediately returned.
Airport officials hope to re-open the runway by Sunday. The closure has led to flight cancellations and delays.


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As a child, Chip was raised by abusive parents. I am not going to give any of the stories away, but it is abuse by a man who was evil and sadistic and, in my opinion, a mentally ill mother.
That he survived at all, is a miracle, and he has shared his story with the world, as well as his break-through recovery.
This is a special cause for me, as I find abuse in my own family. I am now raising, well they are almost raised at 21, 19 and 16, three abused boys. I see, on a daily basis, how this background haunts them. They struggle with many things the rest of us take for granted. They are seeing a clinical psychologist, and have all had flashbacks from Post Traumatic Stress.
They were robbed of their childhood and education, and they hold a constant fear as to what is happening to their siblings. They sit and reminisce about being locked in closets and beaten with horse cinches. I am hoping that, Mr. St. Clair's book can help them learn how to recover and I recommend it as a must read by everyone.
How many times have you said to yourself, "I wonder what goes on in that home?" Don't just say it. Become informed. Go to some of the websites Chip lists as resources. Get involved. Do not sit back and wait for someone else to report it. It's hard enough to get anything done about it; believe me, I know.
Children are too precious to ignore.
P.S. I want to thank http://www.crazyauntpurl.com/ for the give-away I won this book on. It will mean a lot to my family


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