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When law office receptionist Sue Carpenter first asked how she might start her own radio station, everyone laughed. Getting on the air (legitimately) in San Francisco was a multimillion-dollar ambition. But in 1995, with the help of a few subversive techies and pirate-radio gurus, Sue built her first transmitter in her hilltop San Francisco apartment and launched KPBJ, enlisting friends as DJs. A few months later, Sue landed a magazine job in Los Angeles, took her transmitter with her, and established KBLT.
From these humble beginnings KBLT emerged as one of L.A.'s best-loved radio stations, staffed with more than a hundred DJs and supported by major music labels eager to reach a different kind of audience. The station expanded its playlist from indie rock to an eclectic mix of jazz, hip-hop, electronica, and countless other styles. In the three and a half years before the FCC finally caught up with Sue, KBLT went from interviewing unknowns to hosting live performances by the Red Hot Chili Peppers -- without ever leaving Sue's apartment.
40 Watts from Nowhere is Sue's frank and hilarious account of her bizarre double life during the height of California's pirate-radio boom: journalist by day, counterculture icon by night. It's an amazing true story, one that will instantly appeal to music fans -- and free spirits -- everywhere.
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nice slice of radio life.......2006-12-21
I liked this book because it felt like a slice of life about living in L.A./Silverlake in the 1990's and being in the music & college radio scene. Personally knowing some of the characters, going to one of the benefit shows, listening to the station & the bands mentioned, being involved in L.A. college radio in the 90's reminds me of a time that has quickly passed. Too bad it went under, but nothing good lasts forever.
A fun read. Definitely not a "how to" cookbook, but great insights into personal media broadcasting before the crest of the great tidal wave.
Micro Radio, Pirate Powered.......2005-06-19
Excellent book! What an expose into the world of pirate radio in the nineties. Susan's strength of storytelling really shines; though I knew the FCC bust was coming, he style kept me anticipating and wondering how it would go down. Though Corporate Radio smiles at the end of the day, thousands of people (maybe millions) are working to pull radio out from the huddle of gatekeepers and reinvigorate the medium that has defined America. Great work Susan!
How this book kicks ass, and other pirate booty..........2004-08-25
I HATE cryptic reviews so i thought i would add my own 2 cents. I loved this book! The author comes across as so honest and forthright that you feel like you are in her inner circle while the story unfolds. The story is funny, tragic, and all too real if you live in L.A. Who would have thought that running a pirate radio station would be sooo much work? I love the idea that one person (with the help of some friends) could make all of this happen. It's a very empowering story. Quite honestly, i couldn't put it down.
Too Bad The Girl Won't Live...........2004-05-02
It dawned on me that I might be reading a story about cops on a roof in LA, telling the 4th year skin-job what time it is.
What happens when the veil is lifted, but the beginning of the end.
The slow Mercedes represents the fires of orc. The Chief Engineer is J.F. Sabastian.
They are so dismissable, Aren't they?
I really want to read your story in the future Ms. Carpenter.
Please show your face and tell us what happened in 1981/82 to you.
The book might not sell as many copies but it could reveal that part in all of us that wants to be free.
Very good but a little dry.......2004-03-07
The narritive is wonderfully honest and sufficiently detailed but also a bit dry. For all her counter-culture bravado (on the outside she is a leather-clad, motorcycle-riding radio pirate with a junkie boyfriend) she frankly says that inside she thinks of herself as the nerd from high-school that never quite made it to the cool level. The problem I had with the book was that she never really delves deeply into how she feels about things. Her reasons for starting the station are vague, and when you get right down to it, what she really did was play mama to the project and put her ass on the line as the one responsible if the FCC came knocking. She only learned as much as she needed to in order to operate the equipment, she only DJ'ed a few hours a week, and most of the time WBLT was on the air she was living at her boyfriend's while letting a series of kleptomanical strangers have full run of her apartment where the studio was located.
Her "hilarious" scenes are not really set up well enough to generate a great deal of humor, and she could do a much better job with her dialog, but on the whole the story carries well. What would have put this book over the top for me would have been a series of interviews with DJ's, famous guests, and loyal listeners. That would have given the reader an outstanding perspective on the project.
If you are at all interested in underground radio, or had experience listening to KPBJ or KBLT in the 1990's, or just want to get an extremely honest insight into what it's like to be a leader of a group of vacuous leftist misfits, don't miss this book.
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Albert Einstein once said Imagination is more important than knowledge. Albert Einstein never met Bill James.
For years baseball fans have been praising the so-called “Guru of Statistics.” Now, you can join the Woodward and Bernstein of the baseball world as they uncover the TRUTH about sabermetrics and the baseball pariah that is Bill James.
The mainstream sports media, as well as men inside the game, have ignored the obvious for years; Bill James' methods, formulae, and approach to the game DO NOT WORK.
In Covering the Bases: Making Sense of Bill James' Statistical Nonsense, Walsh and McFall will take you deeper into the modern statistical mindset than anyone has gone before.
After months of researching and examining James' writings, they have systematically revealed the fallacies perpetuated by Bill James and his fellow sabermetricians.
Join them in discovering the truth about Runs Created and Win Shares. Find out the REAL reason the Boston Red Sox won the 2004 World Series. And discover new and accurate non-sabermetric calculations such as scoring position percentage.
Customer Reviews:
How to Waste a Bookbuyer's Money.......2007-04-10
Save your money and pass this book by. Some books you know are good, but just don't like. Some books you think could be improved, but still have something of value. This book in contrast is probably the worst book I've read in the last 4-5 years, and I read over 100 a year. It desperately needed an editor to make the writers' "technical arguments" understandable, but it might not have really helped because when you do go through it, it's of very poor quality and perhaps could not have been helped. Worse, a reader feels like every other sentence is full of vitriol against James as if the writers think that vitriol is an argument. It's time for a good critique of James - one based on sound technical and/or baseball argument. He has gotten a bit pompous in his recent books (though I find them all easy to follow and with some wonderful nuggets and often mineloads of solid and insightful analysis.) But James writes with clarity and wit - something one can not begin to claim characterizes this book of critique. He also was frequently self-deprecating in the first 10-15 years, even if a little less so now. Humility is never found in this current book of critique.
James' most wonderful trait has been, however, that he puts analysis first
- wanting to test ideas in what is truly a scientific orientation, and frequently has rescinded earlier of his claims as he comes up with a better research method to test the claim. In this book, the critiquers do not understand James' arguments or claims. (Their bibliography indicates that they only have read the James' books of the last few years.) They do not really provide any systematic testing of the claims, but usually merely cite a counter-example of an individual or a team that seems contrary to the general statement. They believe approximations and estimates are worthless, and that if you haven't got a precisely accurate prediction at the end, your analysis has been worthless. The critiquers have no understanding of statistics nor probability, nor analysis. They do present three new statistics of their own construction. Only one to me seemed interesting; a measure of baserunning or speed that focuses on a runner's ability to generate extra bases. The other two don't hold up at all. But the book's own presentation in the appendix of the statistics for a whole season across teams indicates that their statistic has little consistent relationship with a team winning, in spite of the claims they make for the statistic. In short, save your money. This is a book designed to sell by a marketing association with Bill James, even though it pretends to be a critique. It never should have been given a go-ahead by the editors or publishers.
A Waste of Paper.......2007-03-09
There was a great idea for a book buried here - a critical examination of Bill James's ideas would make an excellent read. Unfortunately, this book is simply an ignorant tirade that casts light on nothing. The authors clearly do not understand statistics or probability and distort or deliberately misinterpret James's writings.
I would love to have the opportunity to play poker with these guys: their mathematical shortcomings would be highly lucrative for me.
Do yourseleves a favour and avoid this book.
The worst book I have ever read.......2006-11-24
This is quite easily the worst book I have ever read. The authors are clearly vindictive towards Bill James, and it comes through on every page of the book. Worse than that, they do a terrible job of attempting to deface the name and work of James.
Not only do the authors fail awesomely to disprove any of James' theories, they show beyond a shadow of a doubt that they do not understand anything that James writes about in his books. Every single page of this book has at least one misinterpreted quote or fact.
Here is an example:
On page 24, the authors cite James' "Estimated W-L" based on marginal runs scored and allowed. This formula, as James preaches, provides a better representation of the team's quality than wins and losses. For example, if the Blue Jays are 41-40 through 81 games, but have scored 600 runs and allowed 400 runs. Clearly, they are clearly better than a .500 team and if you saw the over/under for their final win total at 81, you would place a lot of money on the over. THAT is the point of the formula - identifying teams that are better than their records.
The authors point to the 1944 National League. As it turns out, none of the eight NL teams that year had an estimated W-L that matched its record. James would be fine with this - some teams were better than their record, some were worse. All James cares about is that the wins and losses add up. Which they do.
Quote from the book: "The fact that not a single one of his estimated won-lost records contain even a hint of accuracy gives his marginal runs method a 100% failure rate which should render it completely unusable by any good statistician."
Obviously, the "failure rate" in this case has nothing to do with what James was aiming at. He wasn't guessing team records; he was trying to show team quality. This is perhaps one of the most basic principles James has introduced to date, and the authors, who clearly have taken an interest in James' work, seem unable to grasp the concept.
The book is literally filled with examples just like this. Not a page goes by without these authors doing two things: 1. taking cheap shots at Bill James and 2. demonstrate clearly that they do not understand the concept they are talking about.
If this was simply a book attempting to disprove Jamesian theory, the authors would come across as childish. However, the utter lack of understanding and intelligence displayed again and again makes the authors come across as stupid. The combination makes this the worst book I have ever read. Worse than that, the mean-spirited nature of the book wants me to lose my lunch. This book offends me and, needless to say, I will never purchase another book from these authors again.
If you have any interest in reading this book, for the sake of historical documentation, I recommend taking it out of the library or borrowing it.
Ignorant Arguments Poorly Researched and Written.......2006-11-07
This is one of the most juvenile and idiotic books I've ever read. It's like sitting at a bar next to a drunk guy who insists that Sammy Sosa is the greatest player ever and every other player "stinks" and the only proof he offers is that he watches a lot of baseball. Instead of an intelligent look at James' work and writings (which would be great), they take items out of context, look at them superficially and then make pronouncements. They waste time attacking James' personality and style, rather than his writings. Their arguments are oftentimes idiotic and always juvenile. There's no basis for most of them, other than their dislike of James. Yes, the baseball media and many baseball fans are overwhelmed with useless and sometimes ridiculous statistics. This book does nothing to change that and provides idiotic rants instead of solid proof. All you need to know about the pathetically ignorant arguments the authors expound upon is that they believe that NO ballpark has any impact on statistics; they are all neutral. Even Don Zimmer knows that's not true.
Populist Garbage.......2006-10-12
This book is of the variety "tell the people what they want to hear" and they will buy it. There are a sizable number of people who simply do not want to be involved in any objective analysis of the game or the players. They are only interested in reinforcement in what they "know" and what they "saw". To them Bill James is the Devil Incarnate. This book panders to that crowd.
James has been a fairly prolific writer over the years and it is not hard to find a contradiction in them. A person's information and attitude do change over time. There are actual cases where he writes things as a trial balloon.
If you want a better view of the whole sabermetric revolution and James' role in it you would be much better off with Alan Schwarz's The Numbers Game: Baseball's Lifelong Fascination With Statistics.
Book Description
This clearly written and generously illustrated book unravels how children make sense of place. The author demonstrates that, either at birth or shortly after, all children are natural environmental mappers and protogeographers. Matthews, a geographer who is equally at ease with psychological research, also makes valuable suggestions on how adults can make provisions for play and schooling which take into account children's environmental needs and capabilities. This is the most comprehensive, and current, work to date on the psychology of children's understanding of geography.
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Making Sense of Sport
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Sports are more important than ever socially, economically and culturally. Sports now reflect many of the worries of wider society. Drugs, racism, corruption and violence are all now major concerns.
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Making Sense of the Ecg: A Hands-On Guide
Andrew Houghton , and
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This is a practical, hands-on book for the non-expert in ECG interpretations, heavily illustrated with two-colour ECGs specially re-drawn from original ECG printouts. A wide range of abnormalities are included. ECG interpretation is explained in the context of overall patient assessment, with emphasis on crucial questions such as, "Are the abnormalities I can see significant?" and "Has this patient has a myocardial infarction?" and then takes the reader through what to do about the problem identified, including "Should I refer this patient to a specialist cardiologist?" Chapter 1 provides a concise introduction to electrocardiography. The book is thereafter structured according to significant aspects of the ECG trace, e.g. The P wave and The ST segment, aiding the development of essential pattern recognition skills. Information related to specific medical conditions or to specific ECG patterns is readily accessible via two special contents lists at the front of the book. The three final chapters present practical guidance on three key clinical scenarios (pacemakers, exercise testing, and cardiopulmonary resuscitation) related to ECG interpretation. This book should be particularly invaluable to any non-cardiologist dealing with a cardiac problem.
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A very good ECG guide for medical students.......1999-10-13
After reading this book I finally could interpret the ECGs. I think it's a very good book for medical students, learning how to "read" all the information given by an ECG.
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Spectator-Sport War: The West and Contemporary Conflict (Making Sense of Global Security)
Colin McInnes
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Stop Making Sense
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This digital document is an article from Coach and Athletic Director, published by Scholastic, Inc. on February 1, 2005. The length of the article is 1451 words. The page length shown above is based on a typical 300-word page. The article is delivered in HTML format and is available in your Amazon.com Digital Locker immediately after purchase. You can view it with any web browser.
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Title: Making sense in softball training.(SOFTBALL)(Column)
Author: Gilbert Arzola
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Coach and Athletic Director (Magazine/Journal)
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Making sense of performance gels.(fuel intake) : An article from: Running & FitNews
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Title: Making sense of performance gels.(fuel intake)
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Recent media events like the confirmation hearings for Clarence Thomas, the beating of Rodney King and its aftermath, and the murder trial of O.J. Simpson have trained our collective eye on the televised spectacle of race. Living Color combines media studies, cultural studies, and critical race theory to investigate the representation of race on American TV.
Ranging across television genres, historical periods, and racial formations, Living Color—as it positions race as a key element of television’s cultural influence—moves the discussion out of a black-and-white binary and illustrates how class, gender, and sexuality interact with images of race. In addition to essays on representations of "Oriental" performers and African Americans in the early years of television, this collection also examines how the celebrity of the late MTV star Pedro Zamora countered racist and homophobic discourses; reveals how news coverage on drug use shifted from the white middle-class cocaine user in the early 1980s to the black "crack mother" of the 1990s; and takes on TV coverage of the Rodney King beating and the subsequent unrest in Los Angeles. Other essays consider O.J. Simpson’s murder trial, comparing television’s treatment of Simpson to that of Michael Jackson, Magic Johnson, Michael Jordan, and Clarence Thomas and look at the racism directed at Asian Americans by the recurring "Dancing Itos" on Jay Leno’s Tonight Show.
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Can any subject inspire less excitement than "data quality"? Yet a moment's thought reveals the ever-growing importance of quality data. From restated corporate earnings, to incorrect prices on the web, to the bombing of the Chinese Embassy, the media reports the impact of poor data quality on a daily basis. Every business operation creates or consumes huge quantities of data. If the data are wrong, time, money, and reputation are lost. In today's environment, every leader, every decision maker, every operational manager, every consumer, indeed everyone has a vested interest in data quality.
Data Quality: The Field Guide provides the practical guidance needed to start and advance a data quality program. It motivates interest in data quality, describes the most important data quality problems facing the typical organization, and outlines what an organization must do to improve. It consists of 36 short chapters in an easy-to-use field guide format. Each chapter describes a single issue and how to address it.
The book begins with sections that describe why leaders, whether CIOs, CFOs, or CEOs, should be concerned with data quality. It explains the pros and cons of approaches for addressing the issue. It explains what those organizations with the best data do. And it lays bare the social issues that prevent organizations from making headway. "Field tips" at the end of each chapter summarize the most important points.
Allows readers to go directly to the topic of interest
Provides web-based material so readers can cut and paste figures and tables into documents within their organizations
Gives step-by-step instructions for applying most techniques and summarizes what "works"
Customer Reviews:
Great Resource.......2005-03-29
Comments from using the electronic version of the book at books24x7.com.
I read the entire book for use on a capstone project I'm working on. This book hammered home many of the exact concepts I believed were present, but couldn't prove. I work in IT for a multi-billion / year company. Many of the issues Tom describes are the exact issues we've either gone through or are currently struggling with.
Key concepts for me:
1) IT cannot be responsible for data quality, but they are definately involved.
2) Data quality is a multi-facted management issue.
3) Quality has to be defined by the each organization. (i.e. what's good enough for company A may be substandard for company B.)
I also noticed the website address listed in the book is obsolete and has been replaced with this:
http://books.elsevier.com/companions/1555582516/?country=United+States
Good Practical Advice.......2004-08-08
Good practical advice for improving data quality. Covers the most common data quality problems. Well written. Some other sources to look at online:
http://www.dmreview.com
http://www.datalever.com
Complete and Thorough.......2004-07-28
I like this book quite a bit because although it's not a huge doorstop of a tome in terms of length, it's quite complete and thorough. Some data quality books cover management aspects, some the technical aspects, and some take other angles. This book takes a look at all of the different angles on data quality and sums them up into a very nice package.
One of the things I liked about it is the section on social aspects of data quality, since so many technical people I work with have a great idea but aren't able to implement it for lack of understanding of the social aspects of working on data quality projects. Another is a part where Redman goes through the process of how data quality is tracked over time, to see if things are improving, and the way that he draws a distinction between records that are "perfect", and records that are "usable", which points out some differences that are important. There is even a very relevant section on data quality problems in the US elections of 2000.
The nice thing about this field guide is that it should have everything an organization needs to do some serious data quality work (including even middle management roles and responsibilities). I think it's a very solid book that would be a great addition to data manager's and other tech manager's libraries.
Practable and Useful!.......2002-12-13
Have actually improved performance results by implementing many of the techniques found in the Field Guide (tips have helped me in a number of places and ways). An easy read. Practical, applicable and actionable.
The Essential Guide to Data Quality.......2002-06-17
This is an excellent everyday guide to data quality. Easy to read and filled with tips and techniques for starting and improving a data quality program. The field guide format makes it a great reference book.
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