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With considerable sadness, I have decided to take Advogato offline. It has filled its purpose of demonstrating the trust metric ideas, which was the original purpose of the site.
With considerable sadness, I have decided to take Advogato offline. It has filled its purpose of demonstrating the trust metric ideas, which was the original purpose of the site.
It has also served as a congenial virtual home for free software developers. That role, I think, is being subsumed by a new generation of blogging tools and aggregators, particularly the "planets". One such aggregator of note is advogato.ev-en.org, aka Planet (Former) Advogato, which syndicates former Advogato diarists who have moved their blogs elsewhere.
Of course, it would be technically possible to pour lots of development into mod_virgule to add the features needed to make it a competitive blogging tool, but the question remains: is that a good use of resources? The design of mod_virgule is quirky in many ways, being programmed in C and using lots of XML in the file system as a "database". These decisions seemed reasonable in 1999 when I first wrote mod_virgule, but now are obviously out of the mainstream.
I was hoping to do this more slowly, to give people a chance to move their diaries elsewhere, but (I think) some idiot has decided to mount a DoS attack on Advogato. I don't really have the time or patience to come up with a patch, so I'm just moving up the timing instead. People may experience trouble getting to the site, depending on how aggressive the DoS is. [It's also possible that the downtime this morning had more to do with a hardware problem, the fan on the power supply had stopped turning, but there was definitely a DoS a few weeks earlier with similar symptoms.]
I'll make Advogato a read-only archive soon. Thanks to everybody over the years for making Advogato a great site!
Raph Levien
Before anything goes offline. Thanks for the space. I've never been good at blogging and this space really helped a lot.
i'll take him out. Thank you Raph for your kindness in hosting this far.
It seems a shame it will end this particular way but thanks for your great invention!
Can we ask Steve Rainwater to host advogato.org for us at his robots.net?
let me write to him. Hold off.
i'll be back!
It's hard to tell for sure but is this spam? Seem a shame this will beocme enshrined too if so - http://www.advogato.org/person/arascofield16/
Thanks so much for putting Advogato together. It was clearly well ahead of it's time and led the way in the whole gendre of blogging and aggregating.
Congrats an a fine invention and good luck with your future endeavours.
Your decision is completely understandable. Like others here, I'd like to thank you so much for what you did here.
- David
It has been a pleasure, thanks Raph.
It has been fun! thanks for starting the site!
I'd like to offer you sincere thanks for all the time and effort you've put into the site over the years. Even with the brief lapses where things suffered this site has always been one I've enjoyed being part of.
Its very sad to see the recentlog spam over the past few months, but I have been very impressed at the way the ratings was fighting it successfully.
I hope that trust metrics will start appearing in more sites. It is almost suprising that they haven't caught on. Maybe they're just not sexy enough ..?!
Would just like to echo the words of thanks that have been expressed so far. Advogato has been a great place to call home.
Aw crap. :-)
Let me quickly post my thanks for this service before things go readonly. I know I've been critical of the trust metric in the past for mostly non-technical reasons, but I did, and still do, think Advogato is a great invention and service, and it will be a terrible shame to see it go.
I've never considered myself a blogger, but Advogato's community style and particular focus conspired to convince me to create an account, and post some 28 diary entries over the last year or so. I'll miss it.
Thanks again for your invention and your work in keeping the site going!
This is sad but understandable.
I think your decision is right, as you can see from the responses, that everybody agrees, nobody desperately tries to keep it alive. I am sure it will be missed.
There was great work in the trust metrics involved and I am quite sure the results live on in a lot of the Web 2.0 communities.
Gruss Bernd
I haven't been here in a very long time. Which in itself is support for your decision to shut it down. But I very much appreciate the existence of this site: it was my primary introduction to blogging in the first place and recentlog is the first "planet" I ever used, despite not being referred to as one.
Again, thank you.
(a suggestion to future thank-you-ers: include a link to your current blog, if any. I'll start - here's mine)
- Stuart
(I don't presently have a blog outside of Advogato, so no link unfortunately...)
It's been a good time.
Plenty of it already, but one more "thank you raph".
I'll be using my LiveJournal account in the future.
I'd like to add my thanks to Raph for his work on Advogato and mod_virgule over the years!
As to badvogato's suggestion that I take on the hosting and maintenance, I'm willing to consider it if there's a general concensus that advogato should continue. However, if everyone really thinks it's time to move on, I don't want to stand in the way progress either.
Anyone have thoughts on what the future of advogato would be in an ideal world? Shut it down, keep it alive as is, keep it alive but modernize mod_virgule?
It's been a long time since I've been back here, I moved my blog away a long time ago now.
That said, Advogato and its community gave me the first place - and the first good reason - to start blogging. Hitting the 'recent diaries' page was always great, well before the many 'Planet' sites we have now.
So, Thanks :)
This was my first encounter with (what later became) blogging, and it was certainly a nice one. I haven't been a regular contributor (or visitor) in years, but Advogato still holds a special place in my memory. Thank you for that!
Much enjoyed. Much appreciated. Much learned.
Thanks so much Raph!
Advogato was the chief inspiration for 'www.gnome.org/~jdub/planetgnome', which became planet.gnome.org and planet.debian.org, and then Planet -- now used by so many FLOSS projects to bring the same collegial atmosphere and personal awareness to their projects as Advogato brought to the entire Free Software community when you launched it so many years ago.
Very sad day -- but also happy, because it recalls so many fond memories.
... and thank you for all the fish !
I must say it is the end on an era. Fortunately it is the beginning of another.
I started blogging on Advogato, then I installed nitlog on my own server (nitlog was a PHP hack written by a soon to be, now former co-worker in Montreal, <person>dcoombs</dcoombs>) to get more feature, then upgraded to dotclear (still on my own server), with a transition on LiveJournal on which I'm still online.
Thank you Raph, thank you so much for all these years.
I do hope Advogato can be put into cryogenic sleep or some kind of life support rather than killed off. Even if new postings stopped it would be a much appreciated luxury to be able to go back and correct all those spelling mistakes and correct the occasional broken link. Maybe even remove comments which turn out to be embarassing in hindsight, although I do usually leave them in anyway. Having said if any tools to exist to help migrate the backlog to other services such as LiveJournal I would thank you all to make mention of them here.
The trust metric in Advogato is an expression of the desire to interconnect sites in a meaningful way, long before people went nuts about the quantity of friends on their list with MySpace. There are many community websites out there using a lot of brute force who could stand to learn a lot more from the idea of the trust metric, a far more elegant solution.
Take pride in having had so many of the right ideas so early on.
For those migrating away, you can get your diaries in XML format, eg:
Thank you for having created Advogato.
While I no longer update my Advogato diary and have moved elsewhere, Advogato was where I started blogging regularly. It was also a convenient place for reading the diaries of other Free Software hackers.
mibus: Thanks for the very useful tip!
It's a shame that Advogato is going, but it's understandable. I guess it is time to move on now, but I will miss the low-style high-content nature of the site.
It would be nice if it could continue elsewhere, but it might be a good time just to immortalise the site now.
All the best to everyone!
Advogato and AbiWord have been the constants of my free software involvement from the beginning. The diversity of the crowd here has made the recentlog into something special.
Thanks for everything!
Thanks Raph. I've really appreciated the site, and the community that passed through the recentlog.
Thanks for Advogato Ralph (and everybody who posted on it). Reading all the blogs made me appreciate the Free Software world so much. It was also the inspiration for Planet Classpath to mimic in the small for our project what Advogato was for the community at large. I do hope there is some way to keep Advogato going. It would be sad to see it go away completely.
Goodbye Advogato. You were wonderful. I learned much more from things that began here than from anywhere else, I think.
Thanks for setting up Advogato, Raph! It had very high moments; I remember the Knuth interview very fondly.
i've always loved advogato - for its simplicity, for what it provides, for what it doesn't stop people from doing (shooting themselves in the foot as well as making useful contributions).
as one of the people who most often shoots themselves in the foot with advogato, it has often left me greatly concerned that my more esoteric ramblings have people running away screaming - and then we get full-on psychedelic articles from proclus and badvogato and i know that i no longer have to worry about that.
so even though i've been driving some people absolutely NUTS with my words, i'm grateful for advogato's existence, and yes, i would therefore of course like to see it continue - and help do that.
here's the thing:
1) raph, your announcement is effectively a fait-accomplit which has caused people already to start live-journals etc. perhaps they will come back, if they know that advogato would continue: perhaps they wouldn't.
2) anyone who runs the site needs to have the absolute and implicit trust of the free software community at large: that's the whole point of the site. whilst i would love to offer time/resources (i have a happy server i lease from blackcatnetworks.co.uk) i'm not sure i qualify for people trusting me to run the site, i've caused _that_ much chaos [deservedly, i am absolutely and unashamedly convinced].
3) there are only a few people who understand mod_virgule's 10,000 lines of code - small as it is - stephen is one, i'm one, raph is another: i don't know of anyone else!
most of that is because the concepts behind the trust metric, and the way it's used, are so radically advanced from anything else.
ironically, as Pymmetry demonstrates, that 10,000 lines could be cut down to about 3,000 in python, so perhaps a port to mod_python would be a very good start.
...i am beginning to ramble.
so, anyone: how about it?
raph - would you reconsider - would you consider transferring responsibility for the running and maintenance of advogato to someone (e.g. stephen) and keeping hold of the domain record in case (whoever it is) they decide to go off-the-rails or break people's trust in them?
and then to crackmonkey's badvogato. federico, federico i can't remember inkling of how i loop and hoot but viola, i remember it's you who tricked me here.
I heard from Raph and he seems to be okay with the idea of me taking over hosting and maintenance of Advogato. So, the real question is whether or not to do it. There have been a few posts from folks who'd like Advogato to continue but many others seem ready for it to go.
I'd like to see more people in agreement about keeping it going before putting a lot of effort into it. Also, Advogato eats a pretty good chunk of bandwidth (even without DoS attacks and the occasional Slashdotting) so I wouldn't want to take on that expense unless we really think it's going to benefit the free software community.
Lkcl, I'm sure I don't have the "absolute and implicit trust of the free software community" either. Based on Advogato's own trust metric, I'm less trusted than you or badvogato! :-) So I'm fine with your idea of Raph retaining control of the domain name.
hmmm... then that should give a pretty good indication that it might actually be a valuable resource!
i'm taking a complete guess here - consider this to be a hypothesis - an empirical observation. i bet you that the people who 'want to see advogato go' are those who would like to have seen advogato 'evolve', and who have been disappointed by it not moving forward from its initial beginnings, as other sites have, just like raph said.
i mean, heck - it's only 10,000 lines of c-code and it's _stayed_ at 10,000 lines of c code.
the number of significant changes that have been made (e.g. the CSS update) can be counted on the remaining fingers of a one-handed yakuza boss.
(btw where _is_ the latest cvs repository for mod_virgule, anyway? :)
so anyway, stephen, here's the thing: i believe that if you were to host and maintain advogato that your willingness to evolve it and adapt it would keep people a bit more ... happy? / eager? / active?
no disrespect to you, raph: the site's been ticking along for nearly six years now, thanks to your efforts and willingness to host it.
also, as one of the major contributors to advogato article content, and as i speak freely and honestly and without reservation, there are going to be people whom i drive absolutely nuts and these people try to dismiss what i say by telling themselves that i am a complete blithering idiot.
i make a _lot_ of people nervous, because i ask the questions that they daren't ask, and i put issues in front of them that they'd rather not consider.
so perhaps the better - and more honest - question to ask of the people who 'want to see advogato go' should be 'do you want advogato to go, or do you actually just want to take away a high-profile forum where lkcl, the major contributor, could possibly criticise you and possibly embarrass you (if he thinks you deserve it)?'
and yes - to make sure, i just wrote a small python program to count the articles, and it's 53 by me, with advogato coming at 47, atai with 30 and schlomif 19. source code _will_ be posted in just a mo - try not to run it _too_ many times, people...
p.s. perhaps i am flattering myself by believing that what i say is worth listening to. perhaps i am not that easily overawed by 'limelight' - and not as egotistic as some people believe i am.
#!/usr/bin/env python
from urllib import urlopen import sys
def href_find(line):
href = l.find('href=') if href < 0: return None endquote = l.find('"', href+6)
by = l.find('>', endquote) byend = l.find('<', by)
return l[href+6:endquote], l[by+1:byend]
articles = {}
for n in range(10,898,20):
url = "http://advogato.org/article/older.html?start=%d" % n
txt = urlopen(url).read()
who_by = None
for l in txt.split('\n'):
hr = href_find(l) if hr: url, link = hr
if link == 'Read more...' and who_by: article_num = int(url[9:-5]) print who_by, article_num who_done = articles.get(who_by, []) who_done.append(article_num) articles[who_by] = who_done sys.stdout.flush()
idx = l.find('Posted') if idx < 0: continue
if hr: chuck, who_by = hr
print print
def list_cmp(x, y):
(who1, how_many1) = x (who2, how_many2) = y
return cmp(how_many1, how_many2)
count_of = map(lambda (who, what): (who, len(what)), articles.items()) count_of.sort(list_cmp) count_of.reverse()
for (who, how_many) in count_of:
print 'number of articles written by %s: %d' % (who, how_many) print articles[who] print
aaaand what that came up with:
number of articles written by lkcl: 53 [69, 81, 179, 176, 247, 263, 288, 302, 298, 292, 333, 356, 354, 404, 399, 463, 480, 600, 596, 595, 594, 593, 616, 631, 670, 663, 680, 728, 725, 744, 742, 738, 734, 763, 782, 781, 776, 800, 792, 827, 818, 817, 814, 848, 842, 866, 864, 856, 890, 888, 882, 879, 877]
number of articles written by advogato: 47 [10, 7, 5, 28, 26, 24, 23, 22, 20, 18, 16, 15, 12, 11, 49, 46, 44, 43, 34, 33, 65, 58, 56, 52, 87, 82, 71, 104, 127, 126, 122, 120, 148, 139, 162, 161, 180, 280, 301, 293, 322, 357, 378, 400, 753, 777, 774]
number of articles written by atai: 30 [101, 187, 241, 282, 308, 300, 299, 393, 424, 423, 432, 467, 453, 473, 525, 538, 566, 571, 598, 645, 665, 659, 656, 710, 721, 735, 799, 822, 869, 885]
number of articles written by shlomif: 19 [361, 360, 395, 458, 457, 456, 499, 529, 527, 515, 546, 649, 713, 736, 789, 786, 793, 841, 835]
number of articles written by Bram: 16 [225, 215, 269, 261, 258, 316, 437, 431, 587, 628, 625, 614, 723, 746, 731, 825]
number of articles written by garym: 15 [482, 478, 474, 541, 532, 561, 560, 554, 583, 576, 623, 654, 651, 711, 828]
number of articles written by badvogato: 15 [461, 475, 551, 712, 749, 740, 733, 762, 806, 801, 798, 824, 813, 857, 876]
number of articles written by raph: 15 [8, 2, 1, 0, 25, 17, 38, 37, 32, 31, 70, 89, 110, 105, 92]
number of articles written by proclus: 14 [612, 648, 640, 720, 764, 757, 790, 829, 839, 859, 889, 878, 875, 873]
number of articles written by ncm: 13 [117, 169, 489, 514, 555, 606, 604, 726, 732, 759, 756, 752, 804]
number of articles written by yeupou: 12 [590, 615, 676, 751, 805, 803, 819, 850, 840, 834, 868, 854]
number of articles written by Malx: 10 [249, 264, 254, 346, 342, 377, 420, 505, 639, 791]
number of articles written by nymia: 9 [197, 226, 385, 410, 409, 408, 411, 501, 743]
number of articles written by sye: 8 [265, 386, 421, 465, 526, 667, 652, 784]
number of articles written by exa: 8 [427, 426, 537, 588, 624, 687, 716, 846]
number of articles written by Alleluia: 8 [442, 488, 523, 548, 539, 533, 531, 553]
number of articles written by jono: 7 [246, 310, 306, 330, 325, 315, 447]
number of articles written by sej: 7 [211, 284, 389, 413, 445, 460, 484]
number of articles written by Radagast: 7 [21, 19, 41, 130, 233, 231, 454]
number of articles written by schoen: 7 [113, 251, 355, 391, 459, 717, 714]
number of articles written by jbucata: 6 [586, 572, 609, 621, 641, 633]
number of articles written by itamar: 6 [212, 558, 575, 673, 672, 707]
number of articles written by gilbou: 6 [650, 636, 666, 724, 755, 867]
number of articles written by csm: 6 [267, 276, 273, 323, 349, 335]
number of articles written by MisterBad: 6 [270, 309, 317, 313, 312, 722]
number of articles written by johnnyb: 5 [494, 522, 592, 632, 779]
number of articles written by DeepNorth: 5 [684, 679, 699, 715, 830]
number of articles written by Raphael: 5 [27, 75, 114, 183, 287]
number of articles written by mentifex: 5 [769, 809, 832, 865, 884]
number of articles written by lilo: 5 [76, 198, 252, 443, 487]
number of articles written by alan: 5 [151, 190, 370, 476, 585]
number of articles written by goingware: 5 [224, 216, 402, 510, 495]
number of articles written by matt: 5 [147, 136, 199, 388, 392]
number of articles written by dan: 5 [39, 256, 471, 618, 677]
number of articles written by casantos: 5 [307, 381, 477, 570, 689]
number of articles written by mdupont: 5 [701, 698, 696, 694, 760]
number of articles written by dmarti: 5 [86, 80, 121, 154, 186]
number of articles written by apm: 5 [189, 209, 202, 250, 362]
number of articles written by BrucePerens: 5 [73, 279, 348, 352, 351]
number of articles written by adulau: 4 [283, 314, 449, 578]
number of articles written by mbp: 4 [66, 138, 549, 610]
number of articles written by Lehrig: 4 [626, 643, 634, 719]
number of articles written by scrottie: 4 [579, 765, 761, 787]
number of articles written by cmacd: 4 [181, 397, 690, 674]
number of articles written by mglazer: 4 [504, 498, 497, 547]
number of articles written by ishmukler: 4 [503, 563, 552, 599]
number of articles written by gregorrothfuss: 4 [544, 581, 657, 778]
number of articles written by tnt: 4 [574, 853, 852, 883]
... and decide for yourself: are these (oops - i put the list, with no line breaks, in a < pre > oops!)
do bear in mind that 'quantity' is not necessarily any better an indication than 'quality'
the question that you should be asking yourself is, "is the quality of what is read on advogato - is it any _good_?"
bearing in mind that there is both articles and diaries.
if the answer is a resounding 'no', then heck - yep: kill it.
if the answer is anything vaguely approaching 'mmmmmm.... not sure' then it would be a disservice to people to stop.
hmmm... a possible solution to the diary attacks at the moment...
I created my Advogato account oh so many years ago and have only lurked since then. But I have enjoyed countless hours reading the stories, comments, and diaries on this quirky site. I'll miss it, and am using my first and last comment post to thank you for keeping it up so long! Advogato was way ahead of its time and could have been much more, but I'm just thankful for what we had.
I started using advogato after its prime, but even so, I've enjoyed reading and (occasionally) writing here. It's the only place I know of with such a broad mix of open-source developers. Project-focused sites like Planet GNOME and Planet KDE aren't quite the same. I'm not a member of this limited communities, so they didn't give me an opportunity to participate, and I never even found them as interesting to read.
I'll have to try setting up some sort of blog and linking it into the new Planet Advogato. I guess this is how I get dragged kicking and screaming into the blogosphere...
On a totally different note, now that Advogato has successfully demonstrated trust metrics in action, what other people are using them?
Whatever happens to the site, you provided a wonderful place to write and share.
much sadness at it leaving. Many an hour have I spent reading and learning from ... gah, it hurts to say, betters. I must admit, I would have prefered some more work done on the recent posts, such as showing them all in date order - but this is purley because i read those more then I read the advogato articles.
I support the site continuing to run. It would be nice.
Just add me to the long list of people thanking you for running Advogato all these years! This site has a place in the history of the Internet and the free software movement. It was a social network and a blogging platform before those existed. And most of all, you never "sold-out" the community - that counts for everything. :-)
Remember the waves of new arrivals as advogato spread from developer group to developer group? That was fun :)
If it's had its day now, then fair enough, but it was a great idea, Raph, and thanks for keeping it going for so long. I suspect it has outlasted several of the projects listed on it.
It has been a great time here. A pleasure to be part of this community.
It was my first blog site and it was fun to be here :)
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Vandalism in Our Neighborhood
Posted in the Fairfax Forum
1 - 18 of 18 Comments Last updated Jul 1, 2013
#1 Jul 26, 2006
I watched my neighbor pick out one by one the hundred shards of glass from the front seat of his new car this morning. At around 9:45 last night, someone slammed a baseball bat into the driver side window breaking the glass and then breaking the driver side mirror. The same vandals also brazenly forced open the fuel cap on another neighbor's car and poured bleach into the gas tank making the car inoperable.
Two weekends ago, one neighbor said he had been the victim of vandalism for over three months. Someone was driving through our neighborhood and hitting his son's car with eggs...lots of eggs for over three months. But, two weeks ago the acts of vandalism grew more brazen, and other cars were 'nailed'. And, now the vandals seem to have graduated from eggs to baseball bats, from a five dollar car wash to remove the eggs to hundreds of dollars bill to repair the cars.
My neighbor whose window was smashed in his new car is a hard-working, honorable man. He'd gone outside last night to get in his car to go to work because he works the night shift. And, he was forced to face the results of someone's "joy ride". He had to take another car to work because he didn't have time to clean up the glass shattered all over the seats, and when he came home from work this morning, tired and ready for sleep, he had to clean up the glass. He nor anyone else deserves this.
Why did this have to happen to him?
#2 Jul 27, 2006
It seems acts of vandalism increase this time of year because the kids get bored and restless. This is only made worse by the fact that Fairfax County students don't go back to school until after Labor Day. I have friends and relatives all over the United States, and this is unheard of in other areas. A few years ago, the big news story was year-round school with just a few weeks of vacation at a time scattered throughout the year. I would think that the increase in crimes committed by kids (whether the crimes are petty or more violent) would be a very strong argument in favor of year-round school, but you never hear any discussion about it anymore.
#3 Jul 27, 2006
The police officer my husband and I spoke to last night would agree with you. He said that this type of crime increases during the summer; however, I don't agree that the only solution is to keep the kids in school all year. That would be another example of punishing the whole for the actions of the few, and it would be a very expensive bill for the taxpayers to have to pay when the parents don't do their job. In the four states that I have taught in, year round school was established because of poor parenting skills, and the good students were robbed of the experiences of summer employment, summer camps and a break from academics. Statistics show that there is little to no academic growth in year round schools.
My teenagers have to pay for their own gasoline, and they would never dream of cruising around at three dollars a gallon for the sole purpose of vandalizing others' property. My children use their gas money to go to their jobs, to swing dance lessons, to the gym to work out or to the movies. I don't think we want to rob kids of true summer time joy by making school year round because some parents hand over money for gas, eggs and bleach and never ask what the money is being used for.
The good new is: They returned to the neighborhood again last night. Two of the neighbors got their license plate number and the police are going to arrest them.
#4 Jul 27, 2006
I really don't consider year-round schooling a punishment for the kids. To have intervals of 4 weeks vacation throughout the entire year rather than have 3 months in one shot in the summer has met with positive response from most of the teenagers I spoke with when this was a big issue.
I am, by no means, suggesting that the schools do the parenting for the parents that are incapable of parenting their children. All I'm saying is that it is a real shame that the kids' minds turn to mush over the summer because they are sitting in front of the TV watching garbage or playing video games. It seems to me that the first few weeks back at school are a complete waste because the teachers have to review so much work that was taught the previous year and forgotten over the summer break. Besides, I am getting tired of hearing my son and his friends complain at the end of July (every year) that they are bored.
#5 Jul 29, 2006
"The cure for boredom is curiosity. There is no cure for curiosity." -Ellen Parr
#6 Aug 23, 2006
My house is frequently toiled papered. This pranked is always laughed off, and not done for meanness. Although, this past weekend my house was viciouly and vindictively vandalized along with our vehicles. 2 of our 3 vehicles had to be towed to the dealership since the gas tank was tampered with and therefore messed up the engine. The other vehicle, we didn't try and start....so maybe the tank can be just cleaned. My question is do you have any good ideas of how to find out who is responsible for things like this. WE called and made a police report, and my girls and trying to see if they hear anything from school, but to prosecute someone for the thousands of dollars damages, we need proof..and i'm at a loss of what to do. I feel so helpless and alone.
#7 Aug 28, 2006
I don't think there is too much you can do to get actual physical proof of who the culprit(s) was/were. Unfortunately, the practice of tampering with someone's gas tank has been going on for years. When we were in high school, we used to hear kids bragging about messing up someone's car by doing this. I would recommend going to your local auto supply/parts store and purchasing a locking gas tank cap.
#8 Dec 11, 2006
One gentleman spent the 100.00 at Walmart to buy a security camera. He caught the kids, and they had to pay for the damage on his property.
#9 Apr 18, 2007
A few nights ago I was awakened at 3:00 in the morning to glass breaking and someone screaming, I called 911 thinking I was helping my neighbor who I saw being chased in the carport area. Turned out it was my 73 Chevy Nova that was the victim of vandalisim. One of them had kicked out my headlight, kicked in my grill, urinated on the side of my car and also spat 3 big dripping brown lugies. I don't even know these people, they have lived in my apartment complex a short time and they are always fighting. I did file a police report, though I only have their word as to whom did it. I'm worried that if they are lying about who did it, the case will be thrown out due to taking the wrong person to court. There were 3 of them, and I feel it was a group effort. Does anyone know if I can hold the tenant responsible for her "guests", whom she is claiming did the damage?
#10 Apr 27, 2007
we are spending the evening wasting 50.00 dollars werth of gas due to eggs being stuffed down into gas tank what an expensive prank
#11 Feb 19, 2008
I used to blame the parents too until I became a single mom of a son with learning differences whose father thought he belonged in public school. There he met some really scary kids and learned a lot of behavior that would make any human being cry and scream with frustration. I say that the problem is not that of parents not wanting to 'do their jobs' I believe most really want to, but they are up against multiple influences outside of the home enviroment that are beyond most parent imagination, let alone their control. I am a school nurse and it actually amazes me to see teacher blame the parents and administration, administration blame the teachers and parents, and the parents blame administration and the teachers. This type of blame game simply keeps one from the overwhelming sense of helplessness we feel when we realize that our country and our system is so broken, it is downright scary.
If we want our kids to quit being destructive the whole climate of this nation is going to have to support that. I don't know of many neighborhoods anymore in which kids can just hang out safely. Only kids whose parents can afford it are able to participate in sports. Others are made to feel like they are charity cases. Some kids have parents that both work and still can't afford to even pay to go see their kids play sports. When I was growing up no one had to pay admission to watch their child play sports. What does that say about our value system?
In affluent neighborhoods you have the poor little rich kids whose parents are too busy making money to spend the time just being there. Being able to 'hang out' safely is almost a thing of the past, due to lack of general supervision. If a child had a seizue on the sidewalk of most neighborhoods, that child better hope someone has a cell phone to call 911, because it is unlikely that there would be many people home during the day to answer the door.
Our society has become a lonely place and we wonder why children feel so disconnected that they could do harm to other people. What do they watch on TV? Who do they spend their time with? Where are their role models and heroes?
We need to stop blaming the parents and look upon the environment of our society. Vandalism isn't just happening in inner cities, it is everywhere.
Most importantly, when my son began to get in trouble, I had the opportunity to meet many parents whose children were getting in trouble. They included principals, teachers, child psychologists, physicians, nurses, and many other civil servants. They were fine people with great values. Some even taught classes on parenting skills. If these good people are not 'doing their jobs' I don't know who is.
I'm happy for the lady that wrote the above comment that here kids are doing so well, but many are not. They are lost. And so are their frustrated and caring parents.
#12 Mar 31, 2008
My tires were slashed the other night right in front of my apt. This doesn't seem to be some random vadalism because mine was the only one hit & they parked right beside my car when they did it. My neighbor got the plate number & a vague description of the vehicle. A couple of other neighbors gave the same description of the car. I filed a report with the police, the guy was questioned & denied it. His girlfriend said that he was with her at the time. His car not only carries the plate number given but matches the descriptions given. But I am being told that because he has an alibi, there is nothing that I can do. Is this true?
#13 Oct 31, 2008
When these acts of violence are happening after 8:00pm, it is the parents fault. I see teenagers walking through are housing plan at 1,2 even 3 in the morning. Who's fault is that? I know where my child is at all times!
#14 Oct 1, 2009
A neighborhood watch might help. I would get security camera's put up all over my property if I lived there.
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#15 Oct 7, 2010
Ok seriously I agree with enough. I'm growing up with a single mother and a father who dose not pay so we can not afford fancy housing. I live where its not the safest community but that dose not mean I'm a bad person. I believe it is the parents fault to a degree my mother taught me with great morals and respect but parents should know that kids make their choices, they know what is wrong and right and it is the choice they choose which defines them. Though reading some of the stories some kids should be reminded the trouble they put themselves into. And adults need to remember that not every child or teenager is out to get them.
#16 Oct 28, 2010
You can get security systems at a much better price from other sources, like super circuits and many other sources, and set them up yourself, but be sure to get at least one great very expensive high quality low light sensitive camera with a long lenses so as to be able to get the tag number clearly and make sure that the recording unit is capable of very high resolution to be able to record in high quality. My cameras are not High definition but they are great resolution, 600 line resolution for black and white or 470 for color. Do not be penny wise pound foolish. When you finial catch someone you will be glad you spent the extra thousand dollars. The surveillance system answers a lot of questions for me almost every day. I know who did what or what they did not do, and how long it took them to do it. It gives me great piece of mind. Do not let some moron tell you that you do not need a system and that you are being paranoid. Video surveillance systems are one of the most useful tools any house hold can have.
Some of you should really be asking your selves just what are it about us and our neighbors that make all these hoodlum kids hate us so and want to target our neighborhood. I think you know why they are doing this to you. I think they call it Karma. But then again I do not know, so only you can answer all that.
I was never one to come down on peoples spelling as my spelling is not much better, but if you kids ever want to be taken seriously you should drop the text slang and learn how to spell.
#17 Oct 31, 2011
I think most of you are blaming kids. It also appears as though you're doing it without evidence. I believe my vandalism was done by an exgirlfriend (He says she's 40 years old. I think she looks 50) of my (now) exboyfriend. My evidence she showed up the one and only day (over a 3 month period) that the vandalism occurred. They were constantly communicating back and forth. He NOW has a security system, but I don't care. I'm not willing to make that my problem.
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Rider University 10, Iona College 6
Iona College 10, Rider University 5 / 8 innings
Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference Doubleheader
LAWRENCEVILLE—The Rider University softball team split a Metro Atlantic Athletic Conference doubleheader against Iona College on Sunday afternoon at Herb and Joan Young Field.
"This team has been dealt things that in my 28 years of coaching, I have not seen," said head coach Tricia Carroll. "I am so proud of the way we are handling things and competing. This group is a lot of fun to be around."
For Rider (7-31, 3-5 MAAC), senior Kehli Washington (Lulea, Sweden/New Rochelle) had five hits on the day and scored four times.
"I felt really good at the plate," Washington said. "It felt good to help the team by getting on base. The fact that we battled back and didn't give up is awesome."
Rider won the opener 10-6, despite being out-hit by Iona.
In the opener, Rider jumped out to a 4-0 first inning lead, including a three-run home run by freshman Dana Sensi (Allentown). For Sensi, who had three hits on the day, it was her team-leading fifth home run of the season.
Iona bunched together five of its 12 hits to tie the game at 4-4 in the top of the fourth inning.
The Broncs rallied right back with three runs in the bottom of the fourth when sophomore Allysen Breeden (Hagerstown, Md./North Hagerstown) hit an RBI single with the bases loaded and the bases were cleared on the ensuing Iona error to give the Broncs a 7-4 lead.
Sophomore Amanda Irving (Westminster, Md./Westminster) hit a two-run double in the bottom of the fifth inning, putting the Broncs ahead 9-4 and freshman Kim Valdes (Jupiter, Fla./King's Academy) hit her first collegiate home run to give Rider a six-run cushion. Irving had three hits, two runs scored and two RBI in the opener, five hits on the day and has now hit safely in 12 straight games. Valdes had four hits, three RBI and scored twice in the doubleheader.
Iona (8-28, 4-4 MAAC) scored two runs on three hits in the top of the seventh inning for the final score.
Freshman Ali Meagher (Clark/Arthur L. Johnson) went the distance, recording one strikeout for her first collegiate win.
"A week ago, we don't know if we have Ali for the rest of the season due to a possible stress fracture and here, she is standing as our only healthy pitcher," Carroll said. "She wasn't recruited to have to pitch every inning four games in a row, none of the pitchers were. Like all of the rookies, we wanted to work everyone into a role and it just hasn't happened that way. I'm proud of how she has stepped up, her poise was great."
In the nightcap, despite out-hitting the Gaels, Rider lost a wild 10-5 decision in extra innings after leaving 16 runners on base.
Iona took a 2-0 lead in the third inning on four hits, including a two-run single with two outs.
The Gaels used an RBI single and a sacrifice fly to open up a 4-0 lead in the fifth inning.
Rider rallied with three runs in the bottom of the sixth inning, on an RBI single by Sensi and a two-run single by Valdes, cutting the deficit to 4-3. Sensi had three hits and four RBI on Sunday.
Iona took advantage of a Rider error to plate one run in the top of the seventh to lead 5-3 heading into the bottom of the frame.
The Broncs would not go down quietly as sophomore Gina McCool (Marlton/Cherokee) doubled and with one out, sophomore Lauren Davies (Pittsburgh, Pa./Seneca Valley) launched her first home run of the season to send the game into extra innings. Davies entered the game batting .142.
"In the last few games, I've been letting good pitches go by," Davies said about her approach to the at-bat in the seventh inning. "I was just looking to put a good swing on the pitch and it went over the fence. I knew I hit it far and it felt really good to tie the game."
"The comeback shows we aren't willing to give up and throw everything away," Washington said. "We take things one at a time and we know we can score runs and that keeps us in games."
"Lauren has generally had a nice swing," Carroll said. "A lot of times, she has just missed squaring up on the ball. She is starting to get the ball in her contact zone and when she squares it up, she can be dangerous."
The Broncs have scored 29 runs in its last four games.
"We are going to score runs," Carroll said. "We have 12 home runs by five different players and we have decent speed. We can't ask for anything more, we are out there competing and they are doing everything we ask of them. They are a passionate group of players and we are going to be fine."
"We are a resilient group," Davies said. "We know we can stage comebacks if we keep battling and we did that multiple times today."
Rider made a crucial error on a sacrifice bunt in the top of the eighth inning and Iona used three hits and a sacrifice fly to plate five runs for the final score.
The Broncs opened the bottom of the eighth inning with three straight singles but the rally was short lived after Rider lined into a double play with the final batter retired by strikeout to end the game.
Meagher threw all eight innings in the second game, recording two strikeouts while allowing five earned runs.
"Five of our six conference games, we were in them and we could easily be 5-1 in the MAAC," Carroll added. "We need to just continue to compete and play for each other."
Rider and Iona split two games in New Rochelle, New York last season with the Broncs winning 1-0 and losing 5-3 in the second game. Iona swept Rider 6-0 and 2-1 in 2011 in Lawrenceville and the Gaels won both games in New Rochelle (1-0 and 11-1) in 2010. Rider has won 18 of the 33 games all-time in the series. The teams split in Lawrenceville in 2009 with Rider winning the second game 4-3.
Rider travels to Delaware on Wednesday for a non-conference game at 3pm.


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Kate Middleton & Prince William Launch A Lifeboat
In their first public appearance since announcing their engagement, Kate Middleton and Prince William were on hand to launch and dedicate a new lifeboat in Wales earlier today.
With 2,000 locals watching dockside, Middleton, 29, was all smiles and looked tres chic in her Vivien Sheriff hat, oatmeal coat by Katherine Hooker and booties by Russell & Bromley, according to the Telegraph. The couple sang both the Welsh and English national anthems and Middleton poured champagne over the "Hereford Endeavor."
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U.N. lifts Syria death toll to "truly shocking" 60,000
AMMAN/GENEVA, (Reuters) – More than 60,000 people have died in Syria's uprising and civil war, the United Nations said yesterday, dramatically raising the death toll in a struggle that shows no sign of ending.
In the latest violence, dozens were killed in a rebellious Damascus suburb when a government air strike turned a petrol station into an inferno, incinerating drivers who had rushed there for a rare chance to fill their tanks, activists said.
"I counted at least 30 bodies. They were either burnt or dismembered," said Abu Saeed, an activist who arrived in the area an hour after the 1 p.m. (1100 GMT) raid in Muleiha, a suburb on the eastern edge of the capital.
In the north, rebels launched a major attack to take a military airport, and said they had succeeded in destroying a fighter plane and a helicopter on the ground.
U.N. Human Rights Commissioner Navi Pillay said in Geneva that researchers cross-referencing seven sources over five months of analysis had listed 59,648 people killed in Syria between March 15, 2011 and Nov. 30, 2012. "The number of casualties is much higher than we expected and is truly shocking," she said. "Given that there has been no let-up in the conflict since the end of November, we can assume that more than 60,000 people have been killed by the beginning of 2013."
There was no breakdown by ethnicity or information about whether the dead were rebels, soldiers or civilians. There was also no estimate of an upper limit of the possible toll.
Previously, the opposition-linked Syrian Observatory for Human Rights monitoring group had put the toll at around 45,000 confirmed dead but said the real number was likely to be higher.
Video footage taken by activists at the scene of the air strike on the petrol station showed the body of a man in a helmet still perched on a motorcycle amid flames engulfing the scene. Another man was shown carrying a dismembered body.
The video could not be verified. The government bars access to the Damascus area to most international media.
The activists said rockets were fired from a nearby government air base at the petrol station and a residential area after the air raid. "Until the raid, Muleiha was quiet. We have been without petrol for four days and people from the town and the countryside rushed to the station when a state consignment came in," Abu Fouad, another activist at the scene, said by phone.


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The EPA's cleanup plan calls for what amounts to a massive pile of dirt, offering this solution: scraping the contaminated soil on and around the site, and piling it up into a mound that would cover 32 of the 90 acre superfund site.
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A weekly column taking a look at the sports stories that left us asking the question, "did that just happen?"
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Despite all of the debate this was potentially going to cause, apparently the Red Sox management thought it was worth it to trade for Billy Wagner and use him as a set-up man. Of course, this possibly means that we should prepare ourselves for fireworks or a tussle in the bullpen – Papelbon is known for getting over-excited about certain things, and he can't be pleased that anyone is even thinking about taking away his position as a closer.
So if the Red Sox wanted to play Billy Wagner before Sept. 1 before the rosters expand (if they want Wagner to play in the playoffs, he needs to be on the active roster before that time), the Red Sox needed to release someone to make room. With Tim Wakefield back in the starting rotation and pitching well, the Red Sox parted ways with the slumping Bad Penny (that's not a misspelling). He was pretty decent in the first half but has fallen off a cliff since then with just one win in his last 11 starts. Rumor has it that three NL teams are interested in Penny…and who knows, he'll probably pitch better than John Smoltz did in his first outing with the Cardinals. Speaking of which…
We all know what Red Sox Nation thinks of curses, and I might be ready to throw this in there with the rest of them – as soon as we get rid of Smoltz he pitches his best game of the season? It's either luck, a curse, or he was too damn stubborn and tried to make it a point to be absolutely awful on behalf of the Sox. I leave the choice up to you.
So Jim Rice was never great with the media, and this latest faux-pas proves it – Rice spoke out and named Manny Ramirez, Alex Rodriguez, and Derek Jeter as being bad influences for kids. Oh, but when he realized that didn't go over so well with the general public, he told everyone that he was "misquoted." Funny, he didn't seem to mention the whole scandal regarding David Ortiz – apparently being called out on steroid usage doesn't make you a "bad influence" when you're a current member of the Red Sox.
No kidding. Watching this, I couldn't remember the last time I saw the Red Sox walk-off a game; funny how just a few years ago it seemed so routine, while now it's something I want to DVR and watch again (Ok, maybe not – it wasn't like it was a playoff game or anything). Nevertheless I couldn't believe it, but I'm glad David Ortiz is finally back to saving games.
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Princeton blanked visiting Grand Rapids 33-0 when the Section 7AAAA quarterfinals were held Tuesday, Oct. 22. Billy McClay got things started for the Tigers with a 55-yard punt return 1:40 into the game. Cole Warren scored twice against the Thunderhawks, and the Tiger defense allowed just 128 total yards.
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The player who's given me the most fantasy points this season is Aaron Rodgers. I can count on him for at least 20 points, but often he gets closer to 30.
I've chosen Rodgers nearly every week, no matter who the Packers are playing, and I will most likely use him the rest of the season. The Packers are going to make the playoffs as the number one seed, but they might not play their starters in the last game. Make sure you check the news before you start any Packers players.
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Rupert Murdoch is a very wealthy man who has a very wealthy group of reporters and media folk who believe they have the right to get into the lives of anyone, living or dead. He recently appeared at headquarters of the Sun newspaper to announce his support of reporters, several of whom are being charged with bribery of public officials. The Boss announced "unwavering support" for those facing charges.
According to the Boss man, everyone is "innocent unless proved otherwise." He regards charges as simply liberals attempting to silence the voice of conservatives. Rupert is upset that other media folk assume his men and women are guilty. Of course, when Fox News charged future president Barack Obama of not being an American citizen and claimed he was a secret Muslim, it was simply freedom of the press to lie.
As I recall, Rupert, Obama produced evidence he was born in America, but that did not satisfy your lying group at Fox News. They continued their smear campaign. In reality, Rupert believes those who work for him are innocent and those making charges are the guilty ones!


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About Face 2.0: The Essentials of Interaction Design
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excellent, though dense book; not much on web design due to date (i.e. pre-RIA, AJAX) but comparison of software interface design extremely useful!!
excellent, though dense book; not much on web design due to date (i.e. pre-RIA, AJAX) but comparison of software interface design extremely useful!!
This book offers a very deep look at the various aspects of interaction design, including user research, persona and scenario development, and a painstakingly detailed review of interface mechanisms, widgets, and screens. Chapter 11 discusses navigation for desktop software applications in particular.
What a well-thought-out and well-written book.
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First published seven years ago-just before the World Wide Web exploded into dominance in the software world-About Face rapidly became a bestseller. While the ideas and principles in the original book remain as relevant as ever, the examples in About Face 2.0 are updated to reflect the evolution of the Web.
Robert Reimann has spent the past 15 years pushing the boundaries of digital products as a designer, writer, lecturer, and consultant. He has led dozens of interaction design projects in domains including e-commerce, portals, desktop productivity, authoring environments, medical and scientific instrumentation, wireless, and handheld devices for startups and Fortune 500 clients alike. Joining Cooper in 1996, Reimann led the development and refinement of many goal-directed design methods described in About Face 2.0. He has lectured on these methods at major universities and to international industry audiences. He is a member of the advisory board of the UC Berkeley Institute of Design.
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Hi all,
I ordered a 2013 SWP WRX hatch last month, and in preparation for her arrival, I picked up a few things from autogeek.net:
1. Griot's Garage 6-inch DA polisher w/ white, blue, and orange CCS pads (came with the kit)
2. Opti-coat 2.0
3. pinnacle clay kit
4. Optimum finish polish
5. Optimum no-rinse wash
6. Optimum polish-II
7. Pad cleaner and pad conditioner
8. Chemical guy's citrus wash (BOGO)
9. Iron-X
10. A bunch of microfiber towels in bulk
My plan of attack once she arrives is to wash her with optimum no-rinse, spray w/ Iron-X, clay where necessary, hit it with optimum finish polish if the paint is in good shape, and put down a layer of opti-coat 2.0.
My question is- I have heard that the subaru clear coat is REALLY soft. In your experience, what pad would go well with the finish polish to remove any light defects and jewel the paint in preparation of the Opti-coat 2.0 application? I dont want to use too-aggressive of a pad and mar the paint, adding an additional step to the process.
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As many of you know, I purchase a buttload of games and actually own way too many of them but oh well - first world problems and all that. My backlog of videogames is actually something crazy like 300 to 500 games.
Anyway, for the last couple years, I've been using a strategy to keep me focused on finishing games and it has actually helped me quite a bit. What I do is I keep a list of about ten games that I cross off as I finish them. Finishing a game can mean I have completed the main story, that I've gotten all achievements or that I fucking hate the shitty ass game and that I never want to see its stupid face again.
Whenever I cross a game off the list, I allow myself to add a new one to the mix. Ten games in progress may sound like a lot but it's not for someone who plays as many platforms as I do (PC, PS3, Xbox 360, Wii, DS, 3DS, PSP, and older consoles too).
Here is my current list: 1. Tales of the Abyss (3DS) 2. New Super Mario Bros 2 (3DS) 3. God of War 3 (PS3) 4. Sleeping Dogs (Xbox 360) 5. Skyrim (Xbox 360 and PC) 6. Magic 2013 (Xbox 360) 7. Miles Edgeworth (DS) 8. Xenoblade Chronicles (Wii) 9. Might and Magic 6 (PC) 10. Tactics Ogre (PSP).
I think it's a cool things to do. It helps me finish games. I hate returning to a game after a long hiatus. At a certain point I feel I need to start all over again and that's just time wasted when you already have too many games to play.
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Like every other straight man in America Adam Brody has a little crush on his Jennifer's Body co-star Megan Fox. In an interview with MTV Adam talked about Fox's hotness and his nipple missed opportunity.
"We've all got a little bit of a crush on Megan Fox. You get to see a lot more sides of her [acting skills in Jennifer's Body], not just the hotness. I think people will be very pleasantly surprised — or pissed off that she's talented and beautiful."
Those who are looking forward to seeing Megan Fox's nipples in the film are going to be disappointed as Brody was. "The nudity is questionable. It's like, What is nudity, specifically? Because if we're talking about nipples, I don't think there are any nipples in the movie."
"I knew this going in, and I remember being a little disappointed — like the rest of the world. But then, I remember seeing it and having no more want for sexual activity. It's sexual in the best way, and they did plenty with what was on the page. You're not going to feel gypped by a lack of sexuality."
So do you still want to see Jennifer's Body?
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The Minnesota Vikings and Buffalo Bills meet Friday night and NFL writer Andrew Garda is here to give you the low-down on what to watch.
The Buffalo Bills and Indianapolis Colts top off the weekend's preseason action at 1:30pm EST. NFL Writer Andrew Garda gives you the low down on what you need to watch.
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UPDATE x 4: One final recap for the night ……….
There are different stories going around regarding the reason behind Alberto Del Rio's WWE release, one of which is that Del Rio slapped a WWE.com reporter at this week's television tapings.
At this time, the belief is that he will have the standard 90-day non-compete clause. This would apply to TNA and AAA, who are both said to have interest in him. AAA is launching their US expansion this year, with a show on the El Rey Network.
UPDATE x 3: Here is what RF Video's Rob Feinstein posted on his Facebook page:
I am sure the reason ADR was released will come out but he was 100% let go after TV incident that took place in the back at TV. He did get into a altercation with a employee who does stuff for the company with social media. I was told that there were words exchanged and a slap which is all just allegations at this point. When I first read the WWE release the wording struck me very strange as WWE would never say that unless they were super hot about the firing. It's no secret that he has expressed lots of interest in going back to Mexico as soon as his contract expired, and he is very well off.
UPDATE x 2: It's interesting to note that during their release announcement on WWE.com, WWE did not wish Alberto Del Rio "the best in his future endeavors". That is pretty much confirmation that they are pissed off over whatever happened. We also believe that there is more to the slapping story that we posted about earlier and we're working to confirm that. Several sources believe something happened within the last day or two.
As previously reported, Del Rio's current WWE contract was set to expire within the next several months. While WWE was planning to re-sign him, he had been very open to friends and colleagues about possibly leaving WWE and heading back overseas to work in Mexico (likely AAA). Of course, that had nothing to do with his release as he was fired by the company. It wasn't his choice to leave on his own.
Some of you may remember that we reported the following here on the website on February 5th, 2014:
As noted earlier here on the website, there was talk backstage at Monday's WWE RAW that Alberto Del Rio has been making noise about potentially leaving the company when his current WWE contract expires.
Apparently Del Rio has been frustrated after going from being a top guy on the SmackDown brand to what he considers to be someone simply being fed to Batista. A lot of the talk in the company is that due to Del Rio's age, him talking about retirement in the past and the fact that he has had a considerable amount of success and notoriety in Mexico, that maybe it's getting close to the time that he eventually walks away.
There is no definitive word at this point as to whether or not Del Rio has started working on a new contract, but there is at least a certain amount of concern over his future after the talk at RAW this past Monday night.
We'll keep you posted as we hear more. Stay tuned for more on this developing story ….
UPDATE: As we noted earlier this evening, Alberto Del Rio has been released from WWE for what the company described as "unprofessional conduct," as well as an "altercation with an employee."
It's worth noting that WWE.com has the Alberto Del Rio release story as their top headline right now. It's featured with a big photo of him headlined by "Breaking News: Alberto Del Rio" released. Normally when a release takes place, they tend to "hide" it in their news section or on the main page but below the main top stories. They also normally use the real name of the Superstar who has been released but that is not the case with Del Rio.
According to RF Video's Rob Feinstein, Del Rio was involved in a backstage incident at a recent WWE television taping. Feinstein claimed that Del Rio "had words" with a WWE employee who works for the company's social media department and allegedly slapped him.
It should be noted that we have been unable to confirm this rumor, so it should be taken as exactly that until further notice. We will continue to update you as more information surfaces regarding Del Rio's WWE release
Del Rio's final match with WWE would have been on this past week's WWE Main Event broadcast where he lost to Jack Swagger. He did not work the SmackDown TV tapings and also wasn't at WWE's live event in Melbourne, Australia earlier today.
We know that Del Rio's contract was expiring soon and there was talk that he was thinking about leaving the company.
More as we get it.
ORIGINAL: WWE announced today that Alberto Del Rio has been released. The short statement on WWE.com reads:
WWE announced the release of Alberto Del Rio due to unprofessional conduct and an altercation with an employee.
Obviously, more on this as it becomes available. Del Rio–real name Alberto Rodríguez–has been with WWE since June of 2010. He made his debut on the main roster on June 25th of that year, winning the WWE Title twice and the World Heavyweight Title twice.
i would love him in tna he a great talent even if he a head case off camera
Tna should go ahead and put some money down, and pick del rio up
TNA has interest in him? According to who? I still think the whole thing is a work but regardless TNA wouldn't be able to afford him at this stage, it would be more likely if he really was released that he would go back and wrestle in Mexico..
TNA would have interest in him – at the right price, of course. That said, I agree with you completely. He'll head back to Mexico.
Why would it be a work? No one really cares if he's fired or not
The firing doesn't follow normal WWE protocol, they are yet to wish him all the best in his future endeavours and he's been talking up his bad attitude prior to this… No one cares if your fired or not but the wrestling community cares about this or it wouldn't be news.
Nope I don't think so TNA is better off without him. TNA is building stars and building a brand.
Nah, lashley is the main man. Tna just need to build for a legit guy to knock him off at bfg. I imagine it to be angle. But moving into 2015 I think ec3 is the guy and needs to start being a little more serious and eventually switch to face when he begins to get 'heel hot' like the shield, wyatt and cesaro all have done
with all due respect to him i'm pretty ignorant about the E! and AAA so i think i just remember his boring announcer at an undefined WM that i watched


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Published on Monday, October 2, 2000 in the Boston Globe
Nader 'Super Rally' Draws 12,000 To Boston's FleetCenter
by Yvonne Abraham
He may not be part of the biggest show to hit Boston this week, but perpetual outsider Ralph Nader had plenty of company yesterday.
The Green Party presidential nominee, who will not be allowed onstage with Vice President Al Gore and Texas Governor George W. Bush at tomorrow night's presidential debate, got a rock star's reception from a crowd of 12,000 at the FleetCenter. That's bigger than either major party candidate usually attracts.
But yesterday, Nader's condemnations of corporate greed, the current electoral system, the two major parties, Washington's handling of the environment, and inequality all raised deafening cheers from this audience. Talk of his exclusion from the debates drew the most passionate responses from the crowd, most of whom had paid $10 to attend.
Spotlights projecting the words ''Let Ralph Debate'' swept the stage, as the audience chanted for his inclusion.
''The keys to the gate are being held by the two parties we're trying to challenge,'' Nader said, referring to the Commission on Presidential Debates, composed of Democratic and Republican officials.
The commission allows candidates to participate in the debates only if they can garner 15 percent of voters in national polls. Nader, who has attracted quite high numbers of voters in some states (17 percent in Alaska, and 6 percent in Massachusetts, for example) is currently at about 3 percent nationally, according to a Zogby International tracking poll.
Those are huge turnouts for a candidate who continually laments the lack of media attention paid to his campaign, and more remarkable because Nader's share of voters in recent national polls has been dropping.
Nader and his camp say that events like yesterday's prove the polls are wrong, and that the major parties are in for a shock come election day, when unlikely voters venture out to the ballots.
''National polling numbers don't reflect grass-roots third party support because they only target likely voters,'' said Nader press secretary Laura Jones. ''They don't reflect the young voters who are pouring into these events and voters who sat out the last elections because they're alienated from and disenchanted with the corporate parties.''
Others say Nader's big crowds won't make much of a dent in support for Democrats and Republicans, but that in a one- or two-point race, his 3 percent could loom large and hurt them anyway.
Either way, Nader has struck a chord with tens of thousands of activists in liberal states like Massachusetts.
At yesterday's rally, as at most of the recent ones, the audience heard speeches by fervent Nader supporters like former talk show host Phil Donahue, who said that voters would never allow the major parties to exclude third party candidates again.
''For this bit of arrogance, for this usurpation of the people's power, millions of people will vote for Nader this campaign season,'' he said, to loud applause.
Historian of the working class Howard Zinn said ''an election that excludes an important candidate is not a democratic election.''
''Ralph Nader has a fatal flaw,'' Zinn said. ''He tells the truth.''
Nader has long maintained that if he could get into the debates, he could pose a serious threat to the major party candidates.
''I've campaigned in all 50 states and the District of Columbia,'' Nader said recently on a swing through the district. ''But you can do that for a hundred years and not reach as many voters as you can in national debates.''
More characteristic was his recent day in Washington, D.C., where Nader, driven around in an unmarked drab gray minivan to campaign for D.C. statehood, visited a poor neighborhood, and continually lamented the lack of attention paid him despite his past and his potential.
''Here he is, folks!'' a supporter with a bullhorn yelled at passing pedestrians in Anacostia, where Nader had gone to protest the absence of grocery stores in the mostly black neighborhood. ''Ralph Nader! Right here! Right now!''
But the only people who turned up for a visit to a farmer's market at the Liberty AME church were the four vendors who were already there, four reporters, several Green Party officials and Nader's own film crew. Nader was especially angry at the Washington Post for staying away from his first full day of campaigning in their backyard.
''By what criteria of newsworthiness can they refuse to cover me on the first full day I'm spending campaigning in the district?'' Nader asked. ''See, and that's the virus you have to deal with.''
Annie Dunlap, who worked the farmers' stall, said she liked Nader but couldn't say why, or whether she'd be voting for him. Sharon Minter, another vendor, thought Nader seemed nice, but was determined to vote Democratic in November, ''because the party has done right overall for my people.''
If he could only get to the voters, Nader often says, he could easily break the 15 percent mark in the polls. But he says the media, which he calls ''a weapon of mass distraction,'' won't let him.
Hence his unsuccessful fight to be included in the debates.
Now Nader's electoral fortunes are more closely tied to those of Al Gore, the man he has pilloried most enthusiastically on the trail.
In the early summer, Nader seemed like more of a threat to Gore. He garnered high enough polling numbers in California to worry Democrats, and the Teamsters and United Auto Workers said they were considering endorsing him. Back then, Nader's constant refrain was that there was no difference between the presidential candidates, and that a vote for Gore was the same as a vote for Bush.
The vice president tacked to the left somewhat, his speech at the Democratic Convention full of populist appeals. In the end, the unions ended their flirtation with Nader and endorsed Gore.
''They said I couldn't win, and they were going for the winner,'' Nader explained.
So have other voters, according to the polls.
Voters' preferences during the spring and summer were ''cost-free at that point,'' said Charles O. Jones, emeritus professor of political science at the University of Wisconsin. ''I don't doubt that it expressed their identification with Nader, but as we get close to the election, it isn't Gore versus Nader versus Bush for them. It's just Gore versus Bush, and so they're going to go for Gore.''
The latest Zogby International poll shows Nader at 3 percent nationally, though Zogby believes Nader is likely to end up with 5 percent on election day - enough to qualify the Green Party for federal funds in 2004.
While some voters at yesterday's rally said they would vote for Nader no matter what, others said they would do so only if Gore seemed safe on election day.
''I like Ralph Nader a lot, I like what he stands for,'' said Carla Herwitz, of Fall River. ''I don't want to see the world run by corporations. I think if it seems clear that Al Gore will take Massachusetts, I'll vote for Ralph Nader.''
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"Monsters University" (2013, G, 104 min., $29.99). Walt Disney's Pixar Studios really has a handle on this animated movie thing. However, it's still trying to work out the kinks with its sequels. Yeah, the "Toy Story" franchise was fantastic, but let's not mention that follow to "Cars." "Monsters University" is Pixar's latest picture, and it's more of a prequel to 2001's wildly popular "Monsters, Inc." The film follows the two main characters from the initial movie — Mike (voiced by Billy Crystal) and Sullivan (John Goodman) — and this time, the boys are finding their scares at Monsters University. It's a coming-of-age flick that has the youngsters surviving a rough college experience and eventually becoming friends. "Monsters University" almost lives up to its mighty Pixar predecessors, but it doesn't separate itself from the pack by taking chances with an original plot and new characters. It's done well, but there's nothing new here. As usual, Pixar offers a treasure of special features with its films, and this one has lots to offer. The Blu-ray package packs in a heavy dose of featurettes that explore every angle of the film. Commentary and an animated short are also in the mix. As for standard DVD sets, commentary and the animated short are the lone extras. 3 Stars.
"R.I.P.D." (2013, PG-13, 96 min., $29.98). When it hit theaters this year, "R.I.P.D." was written off as the biggest flop of 2013. It's not bad, but it's not good either. The chemistry between the leads — Jeff Bridges and Ryan Reynolds — is the one thing that saves the film adapted from the Peter M. Lenkov comic book "Rest in Peace Department." Otherwise, the formulaic "R.I.P.D.," a science fiction action comedy, is a predictable flick viewers will be able to compare unfavorably to "Ghostbusters" or the "Men in Black" franchise. When Nick (Reynolds) is killed by his partner in the line of duty, he's recruited by the Rest in Peace Department. It's a band of dead cops targeting lost souls that make it back to Earth. Nick is partnered with Roy (Bridges), who has been around the department for a long time. Together, they catch wind of a conspiracy that could threaten the future of all living souls. Consumers will find much more in the way of special features in Blu-ray and 3D packages. A pack of featurettes exploring the making of the film and its adaptation from the comic book is available. Deleted scenes and a gag reel can be found on standard DVD and Blu-ray. 2 Stars.
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whilst the maker of this vid has an angle, if you look at what very rich people are doing around the world, it is getting out of dollar and euro currency.
People with the best financial advisers and insider knowledge have been buying assets that will survive a big global economic meltdown for some time now (property, gold, silver and to some extent Asian currencies).
The writing is on the wall.
I don't know exactly what will unfold or how bad it will be but I think its foolish to pretend that the dollar will be OK and somehow the debts will be worked out. Its way past that point.
What is interesting is it almost seems its been intentionally driven in that direction.
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Already watched it, they're just selling their "research" by suckering you in with fear. Kinda like how Fox (or should I say Faux) News works.
|Already watched it, they're just selling their "research" by suckering you in with fear. Kinda like how Fox (or should I say Faux) News works.
Good Find.
It's not news. Many people such as Schiff, Faber and Rogers were warning people to get out of or even short mortgage derivatives collateralized from sub prime borrowers in the mid 2000's because of the fundamental problems where loans were originated under the exclusive pretense of being eventually sold on a secondary market made possible by FNMA and FHLMC.
The points he makes are valid regarding the currency collapse, though. These are problems inherit in any centrally banked fiat currency system which is abused.
Back on topic though, you guys need to do some research before posting crap:
Stansberry Research Reviews - Legit or Scam?
Though Stansberry Research works hard to seem like an investment company, the reality is that they are simply an umbrella website that draws internet traffic to a single site and then sells subscriptions for a variety of people who use them for publishing purposes
The judge found Stansberry guilty of intentionally defrauding his clients by falsely claiming to have the 'inside track' on government deals and charging his clients $1,000 each for access to this 'inside' information. In addition, Stansberry used the rising price of the stock he was promoting as proof of his knowledge and reliability to convince further clients to purchase the stock.
So this guy is basically a bullshit scammer. Any asshole can predict doom and gloom, and many do. Harold Camping anyone?
As with my own life, I always assume my country is doing the worst shit possible. Why? Because if we understand the problem and realize we are a big part of the solution, it can be fixed. Patriotic denial on the otherhand does nothing to solve the problem. It picks a scapegoat and lays the blame elsewhere while the problem grows exponentially in scope. I love the U.S but I am never so patriotic so as to not criticize it's shortcomings in full. I always criticize the U.S before a foreign nation.
Regarding war stimulating the economy, it does have that effect but things have changed since WW2. Just like our whole economy, the revenue created from wartime efforts goes to several mega-corporations who more or less lump the money, rather then it going to a wider distribution of contractors and the wealth being spread out. It's direct vs. trickle-down, and trickle-down involves shit like outsourcing. Snowolf has it right on.
You make a fair point, I can be a bias.
As you have probably guessed by now I will take the opposing view when people play the patriotic bugle.
Any country. Its just as bad in the UK or Japan. People get their flag out and will support total nonsense if their patriotic buttons are pushed. I see it as a means to control.
Julius Ceasar "divide and conquer".
I feel we need to get over looking at things from "our countries" perspective and see the planet as it is. With no lines between countries. The economy is so interlinked we can't just have one country doing well, either we all learn to prosper and have a sustainable way of life or we are all up the creek.
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My point is that war is big business. Big business which has huge influence over US government and foreign policy.
You and any regular American is drained thorough war I agree, but there are many who benefit financially.
Whilst Thunder likens the US military to the worlds police many people around the world see it quite the opposite.
Like the bully imposing himself and throwing his weight around where it is often not helpful to the people who live there.
In fact often disastrous.
I was just pointing out that many of the wars (UN sanctioned or not) were basically started by the "police" themselves.
I am not trying to say the USA is inherently bad either, just that the upper political structure and big business in the USA and around the world are in bed.
You have been taught to be "patriotic" and stand up for the USA when its criticized. Just as I have for the UK where I grew up.
If we can get see things without those "patriotic glasses" on they are often quite different than what we thought they were.
We the regular people of planet earth are pretty much all against war.
Then why is it that our planet has been subject to constant wars even in the last 50 years?
Don't you think that something is wrong with that picture?
Wars solve nothing but they do make great business.
You fill in the blanks.
I understand your point about starting wars, and the whole "World Police" thing is a pile of horse shit thats fed to us by our government and media.
That being said your initial post is blatantly bias and I will defend my country against that. yeah our country has done some stupid shit(which country hasn't?) but odds are you've eaten beef lately, or wheat bread, or anything containing refined corn, some of that probably came from the US, but you probably don't own any USA made weapons.
Just because your viewpoint comes from the "outside" does not make it any more or less bias, or correct for that matter.
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