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Topic: TEMPE TEAM - RADIO INTERVIEW (Read 45707 times)
August 13, 2007, 05:26:52 PM »
Here is the audio to my radio interview on Inspire Radio.
I'm pretty much done with this entire topic. We started talking about the Nationals at about 18-21 minutes in until the end.
I pretty much said everything that I need to say about the situation, and I'm done with it after this. Peace to everyone
Re: TEMPE TEAM - RADIO INTERVIEW
Reply #1 on:
August 14, 2007, 01:35:15 PM »
I said everything i have to say in this interview. So far, i've heard nothing but bs excuses and people talking about the details.
From what i've heard, this happens EVERY year, so that says something about everyone involved, and the process. EVERY SINGLE YEAR this happens?? That's ridicilous. It seems like this organization is worse than a religious cult or even our own government.
3 PEOPLE on the OTHER side of the arguement OPENLY ADMITTED that we wouldn't have gotten protested if we didn't make the semi-finals, and that they didn't expect us to make the semi-finals.
So the protests were based on the RESULTS, and the jealousy of a 26th place team who got outslammed by a bunch of rookies. Here are a few LIES that were told to us by people on the other side:
1. We HAD to have ONE slam-off and pick the team from the winners of that slam-off
2. Me and my slam master got into a fist fight
3. Our slam master wasn't allowed to compete
4. ONLY the 26th place team can file a protest
5. We hand-picked our team just like that!
This is the 'poetry community' so everyone wants to 'talk things out' and talk behind someone's back...Like i stated in my last post, I don't come from such a fake passive-aggressive background. I'm use to dealing with things directly and as bluntly as possible; It's amazing how many snakes, and egotistical people are in this community.
It's NOT ABOUT WHAT HAPPEENED. IT'S HOW IT HAPPENED. It's the fact that we got lied TO and lied ABOUT that pisses me off.
EITHER OR. PSI AND THE BOARD are to blame. My MAIN point that noone can argue with is VERY simple:
1. We either were a REAL team and got screwed over
2. We were a FAKE team and the entire competition got screwed over.
EITHER OR- Your organization messed up. PERIOD.
TERREN SHOULD put together every single video tape back to back with the dated weeks on it, and send you the 100's of hours of video footage with the dates on each event, to prove you guys wrong. And than i'd like to see the 'diplomatic 'lets sit down and talk' apology from your organization.
And on an off-topic..
I'm just curious real quick.......considering all the teams payed over $35,000 for this event, how much was 1st place?
Considering that everyone paid for their own hotels, travel costs, food, and the people who worked were volunteers, where does the rest of the money go? I HOPE it's to a charity....but i heard 1st place was like 2 k or something..... COMPARED to Famecast, which was 10 k.., which was free to enter...so what happens to all that money psi?
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Reply #2 on:
August 14, 2007, 02:22:21 PM »
Yep, it sure would be nice if Terran put together every video, every flyer, every piece of information to justify your selection process. He didn't. He was told to.
Great slam master you have there.
And as for this...<<And on an off-topic..
I'm just curious real quick.......considering all the teams payed over $35,000 for this event, how much was 1st place?
Considering that everyone paid for their own hotels, travel costs, food, and the people who worked were volunteers, where does the rest of the money go? I HOPE it's to a charity....but i heard 1st place was like 2 k or something..... COMPARED to Famecast, which was 10 k.., which was free to enter...so what happens to all that money psi?>>
My team didn't pay the registration fee-my city did. We fundraised for it by putting on events. My team didn't pay for lodging or travel costs. That you did, suggest, once again, your slammaster and slam aren't as wired into your community as you think. If you can't raise the $5000 dollars to get to NPS from your community, then how small is your community? What the hell is your slam master doing?
The $35,000 money goes to pay salaries, produce product, fund part of the other three events we put on. Maybe your show on MTV2 didn't prepare you for how non-profit arts organizations actually function? $35,000 is almost nothing for putting on an event as large as NPS, or even IWPS for that mater. As a former host city of the National Poetry slam, I know what it takes. It took us about $200,000. And we made money. You want to know how much I got for my 40 hours of work for a year and then 60 hours for a month and 80 hours the week of? $4000. Wow! I'm really taking advantage of you aren't I? And if we actually didn't make money at the door through merch and ticket sales, I would've made nothing.
I made nothing this year going to a meeting every morning, then bout managing 3 bouts, emceeing 1 bout and bout managing finals. Did I get to hear much poetry? No. Did I get to hang out with all the people I wanted to? No. I was getting up at 8 AM to go to a meeting because I'm an elected member of the Executive Council you feel so justified in trashing.
I would love to sit down, or be on the other end of the phone to go through this. And you can call me at (505)254-2285. The person you should be mad at is your slam master. He was told that this might come up, that he better be ready to back up his case and he wasn't. Now how is that the ECs fault because they gave him the benefit of the doubt by letting you come? Knowing what I know now, I would've disqualified you before you "wasted" your time. But I didn't know the details that the protest committee found because I took myself out of the investigation.
Yes, ABQ was in a bout with Tempe. And seeing how it would not have made a difference if we made semi's I didn't protest. The only team that had standing to protest was Chicago. Your eligibility or lack of it made a difference to Chicago. That you were allowed to come, when I actually received the formal protest a week before NPS and then removed myself because I was competing against you, is what really makes this a bitter pill.
As it stands now, you sound a like a first year slammer who got screwed by a bunch of bad judges. You got screwed because of the choices you made. You relied too much on your slam master and he let you down. Period.
And this is not a statement from the organization, this is a statement from me.
Don McIver
ABQ Slam Master
Don McIver
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Re: TEMPE TEAM - RADIO INTERVIEW
Reply #3 on:
August 14, 2007, 02:24:36 PM »
Apollo, PSI and the board are not 100% to blame here. And to throw the blame on just one element of the situation isn't cool either.
I listened to the interview this morning and you made some good points in it, but there are things that are or were clearly overlooked here on all parties parts.
As a slammaster, Tarrin should have been more thorough in how he handled his slam-off and asked questions. He knew enough to participate in W&YI, which means he was looking in the exact same place as everyone else who needed to do the same process. True, EOS doesn't mandate that a final competition be held, but there has always been a general assumption that one would be held (if not by PSI and EC, then by all slammasters).
This doesn't happen EVERY YEAR, contrary to what people are telling you. There are protests about several different issues every year, and that is the risk one takes with any competition. But to make a blanket statement that this sort of protest about the exact same matter happening every year is simply false.
Had PSI received notification of this issue prior to 4 days before the competition, then I think that their results and findings would have been different than what they were. While I understand the heinousness of the matter at hand and how it was handled, it doesn't advance us (the PSI family, PSI or you) by perpetuating false accusations.
They did what they could with the time that they had.
*The views expressed by Delrica are not that of PSi nor the Executive Council. Her gems are her own...deal with it*
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Re: TEMPE TEAM - RADIO INTERVIEW
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August 14, 2007, 02:27:33 PM »
And like Don, my statement is mine, not one from PSI/the board/da man.
*The views expressed by Delrica are not that of PSi nor the Executive Council. Her gems are her own...deal with it*
Re: TEMPE TEAM - RADIO INTERVIEW
Reply #5 on:
August 14, 2007, 02:34:33 PM »
And JUST by the way you responded Don, I can automatically tell that you DO have some sort of anger towards SOMETHING in life.
Notice how I simply asked a question..You don't know my TONE of voice..You don't know what I was implying....You just read my question how your pre-concieved mind is programmed to do so.
I was HONESTLY SIMPLY asking.... "How does the money get dispursed'...and you go on a verbal rampage, refer to my MTV experience which has absolutely NO simliarities to this one....and just went-off...when i was asking a sincere honest question....Funny how people's true colors show.
I'm not putting the blame on JUST one person. I'm not defending my slam master. I told him on the phone yesterday that he screwed up and should've had his shit together. As a first-time competing poet, I had no clue it was like this and didn't think that I had to get into the rules and details- The poets just show up to the slam every week, and slam. That's all.
But with you and Bob both being slam masters for soooo long, nobody's talking about how you guys both lied to us and told that we HAD to have 'one final slam off ' or we can't compete. (when that's a blatant lie that was continously told to us by people who KNOW the rules). So either 1. You guys lied or 2. You guys were also ignorant of the rules, which is what you're accusing US of being....but US are just 'poets'. YOU GUYS are 'slam masters'.
You should know the rules wayyy more than we do....So for you and bob to tell us that we HAD to have a slam-off was an obvious attempt to keep us out of the competition.
But once again, I'm not even mad at THAT...I'm not mad at ANYTHING anymore. My point was clear in the radio interview-
And from the responses I've gotten....About 10% of them agree with the other side and 90% of them agree with our side...and our 'side' is that we should've been disqualified before we went out there, or not have been disqualified at all. Period.
Re: TEMPE TEAM - RADIO INTERVIEW
Reply #6 on:
August 14, 2007, 02:38:58 PM »
Here is a DIRECT quote from Alvin from Chicago:
"Sadly, one of the reasons this came up is because Tempe was underestimated. Everyone expected your rookie team to get demolished in the preliminaries, and no one would've noticed or file a protest. Without a doubt, you were protested because you made semi-finals and affected the tournament. "
Isn't that just sad??? Doesn't everyone realize that it doesn't matter if we made semi-finals or not..we still would have affected the tournament?? Different bouts...different poets....different scores...different semi-finals.
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Re: TEMPE TEAM - RADIO INTERVIEW
Reply #7 on:
August 14, 2007, 02:59:11 PM »
I hear what you're saying, Apollo.
But you're taking Alvin's comment and turning that against the whole tournament and the staff. Alvin's statement is Alvin's and no one else's.
Of course we recognize the implications from all sides. But that doesn't negate the fact that when your SM was asked for information to clear your slam, he didn't provide it. Even after being advised to bring it, he chose not to.
Does that make PSI, the organization that initially received the complaint, wrong for erring on the side of caution and letting you compete? No. Because based on the time period PSI had, they conducted their investigation to the best of the their ability and made judgment based on their findings. Tarrin was advised to bring those items with him because there was possibility it would be brought up again.
It's not the protest committees fault that Tarrin wasn't equipped with proof (that he was forewarned to bring) that the slams were legit.
I know there is anger and resentment from a lot of different areas (yours included - and to say otherwise would make be a contradiction in that no one still talks about things that they feel nothing for), but the truth of the matter is that the damage has been done and we need to start working towards ways to better our situations collectively so it doesn't happen again.
*The views expressed by Delrica are not that of PSi nor the Executive Council. Her gems are her own...deal with it*
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Re: TEMPE TEAM - RADIO INTERVIEW
Reply #8 on:
August 14, 2007, 03:11:03 PM »
The Protest Committee doesn't file protests, it answers them. Any team Tempe beat could have protested after their bouts. They chose not to. If Chicago had chosen not to protest, your Slammaster's mistakes would have gone unpunished (at least until Tempe beat another team out of the finals, and they protested). If Tempe didn't make it into the semi-finals, the mistake would have slipped completely under the radar.
Your "either or" logic is a little flawed. It presupposes that your team should not have been competing, yet blames PSi for Tempe's mistakes. This isn't a zero sum game. There is no "either or". There were 2 separate investigations by 2 separate bodies. The first investigation was done by phone, and was inconclusive. The second was done by your preferred method. Face to face. It found that your team should not have been allowed in. Your team did damage to the tournament. The Protest Committee removed your team to prevent further damage. If anyone needs to apologize, it's your Slammaster who needs to apologize to you for not understanding the rules, and to the team that was prevented from entering the tournament because it was full, Knoxville. They didn't even get to compete at all.
You had two opportunities to bring this face to face with the entire community. The Slammasters meeting was the on Friday morning. I was there. You weren't. The Slammasters passed a new resolution that requires Slammasters post their selection process here, hopefully that will help avoid this in the future. The Slam Family meeting was on Saturday. I was there, this wasn't brought up there either. It was however brought up here and on Livejournal. Not quite "face to face".
And for the record, no one protested you for your altercation with your Slammaster the first night. The MC told me about it after you pushed her out of the way to get to your Slammaster. She didn't protest, she asked you to calm down, face to face. You did. I'm not sure where the protest you claim happened shows up there, there was certainly no form filed, nor a protest meeting. When I spoke to you about it, it was in passing. You said it was nothing, and I believed you, and that was the end of it.
The fact that you had a weekly slam was never in question. How the team was chosen from your community was.
And another thing, there wasn't a single protest last year, not one. Happens every year? Not really. What does seem to happen every year is some one gets their feelings hurt and takes it out on the people that work hard, year in and year out to keep this organization moving.
This forum is here for the community to answer questions, you say were told a bunch of lies by "the other side". Well all of the information your Slammaster needed is right here in this forum. The rules, and a whole bunch of people that are happy to answer questions.
You certainly deserve to be angry. I think you were hurt, but not by Chicago, PSi or the Protest Committee; by a disorganized Slammaster. I would ask that you not be so hard on him though, since I would like to think that he made an honest mistake.
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Re: TEMPE TEAM - RADIO INTERVIEW
Reply #9 on:
August 14, 2007, 03:13:58 PM »
Actually Apollo I'm mad because you are attacking an organization that I love. And yes, you may read my post as angry. Because I am angry. I am reading your posts here as an attack. You've posted it in as many places as you can think of. Your actions suggest you are interested in tarnishing the reputation of an organization I have very strong feelings for. Yep. I'm angry. Angry because people don't own up to their actions. Your actions say you feel you got screwed. Your words don't say exactly that, but your actions do. I'm angry because I tried to do the right thing by not investigating because I felt it would be perceived as wrong if a coach of a team that is competing against Tempe is also the one who is investigating it. And now, after the fact you are mad because you were allowed to go to NPS rather than just dismissed.
I've received your posts about this in several different places: LJ, MySpace, here. And chose to respond here because you say your "done with it" then continue to post. And then put up a radio interview? I thought you were done with it? Until your posts, I didn't even know about your MTV2 experience, so that's why that is there. And you are right, my anger got the best of me there and that's a low blow. I apologize. Your prior work isn't relevant.
And Terran never once asked me about how the team was chosen. I talked to him about WinandURin and made sure you didn't disqualify yourself then, which you didn't. But I never once told Terran he had to have slam off. You don't have to have a slam off. I didn't talk to Terran after WinandUrin until the Tuesday before nationals. If he's telling you he talked to me before that he's wrong and lying.
If you would like to get past tone of voice being an inhibitor of us communicating, you can call me. Here's my work number (505)224-5313. I want nothing more than for you to get the answers to your questions. But you have to understand that your actions, though maybe not intended that way, were read as an attack by me and I responded. If you would like to ask me pointed questions I will give you straight answers.
Don McIver
Re: TEMPE TEAM - RADIO INTERVIEW
Reply #10 on:
August 14, 2007, 03:47:51 PM »
Ok...but don't think that I didn't vent the same form of frustration to my slam master....He's stepping down as slam master, and we probably will lose a leader in our community because of this. One of us will probably take his spot...and if anything, this has motivated me to get even more into the scene out here.
AND I posted 'I'm done with it, in the same post that I posted my audio....I said 'here's my audio and I'm done with it" and posted THAT everywhere.
BUT i'm not done listening to other sides..I'm just done with trying to explain ourselves....I DO think that most of the people involved GENUINELY care...and TRULY care about the organization....And I'm 100% sure that there are some involved that are cowards and two-faced shit-talking backstabbers. And it's taking a lot of patience for me to not deal with that the way i normally would. AND YES, I might be taking some of the anger that was built up from the fake people and taking it out on the real people, and I'm sorry for that. But at this point, it's hard for me to tell who's real and who's not.
After staying with Mesa, and then having them walk right by me without saying a word on their way to contributing to a 'ruling' which they say they disagreed with..etc...
I'm just disgusted by it all. And I probably did put a blanket on everyone..Mesa, Phoenix, Chicago, Alberquerque (when 95% of these people have never even been to the tempe slam and have no proof or evidence of anything, except what a couple people are telling them), and I'm probably speaking too generally.
Another side question:
Do you think that we should get a refund since we didn't have a fair and open chance to compete all the way and we spend tons of money getting out there? and I mean us poets...not the SM..but the poets who were just victims more than anything
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Reply #11 on:
August 14, 2007, 03:58:42 PM »
Oh the refund issue (and I hate to add another Tarrin issue on this, but it is):
All competitors are given the same date restrictions on refunds. By the time NPS comes around, all monies received in registration are spent. There's a timetable somewhere (Scott/Steve/someone with a memory and location, please post it) that states when monies can be received back.
We can't give you a refund of your registration fee because of Tarrin's screw up. If we gave every team that got DQ'd a refund, we'd never have any money. Not really fair to all, you know?
*The views expressed by Delrica are not that of PSi nor the Executive Council. Her gems are her own...deal with it*
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Reply #12 on:
August 14, 2007, 04:00:02 PM »
Sure. Your SM screwed you over. Ask him for the refund.
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Reply #13 on:
August 14, 2007, 04:12:49 PM »
Ok fine...how about this:
PSI and the board were 100% right.
Does that make some of you guys feel better? I'm not putting ALL the blame on them...But if people can't complain bout situations and the way that they were handled, and everybody wants to be buddy-buddy and pucker up, nothing will ever change. And there should always be improvements made on all systems. So I'm just saying: This is what happened. This is what could've happened. and this is what needs to happen.
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August 14, 2007, 04:21:06 PM »
It's not about feeling better, Apollo.
But at this point in time, there's not much of anything that can be done outside from learning from this experience (on ALL sides) and moving forward, so that this doesn't happen to someone else. That's what this should be about. Ways to make sure this doesn't happen to another team ever again.
*The views expressed by Delrica are not that of PSi nor the Executive Council. Her gems are her own...deal with it*
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I'm a little nutty and I know it but if you go back and take a look at my history
You will see that I am not the only one who's off his rocker, there were many before me
I was always labeled the black sheep of the family, what a bad seed I'd grow to be
But if you take a look at us now you'll see the apple didn't fall too far from the tree
Alright look, I'mma tell you the story from my side
Maybe you'll understand, check it out
[Verse 1]
You done witnessed unexplainable shit
Too insane to explain, people run from what they just don't get
Maybe Shady should have just hit 'em with a little bit
Did I spit too soon? Should I have spoon fed 'em it?
But I was just so eager to prove I was even
Worth being in the same league or the room
Of the people of whom I was in
Every now and then, I look up like I was seekin' approval
Was it because of the pigment of my skin?
Or was it a figment of my imagination?
Maybe it bothered me more than it did them
Maybe it wasn't a big deal back then
But to me it was, see what it was
Was I had developed a complex from being judged
Proof spit his verse, so I'm next, let's see who balks
I'm in the booth staring back to see whose mugs
I get a reaction from, usually the first thumb
Was from Proof and the rest of the crew backed him up
And no one lied to each other cause none of us had deals
It was real, we just wanted tickets for that meal
Sometimes I feel like it's just me
Sometimes I'm feeling like I'm goin' crazy
But take a look at my family
Cause the apple don't fall too far from the tree
I said sometimes I feel like it's just me
Sometimes I'm feeling like I'm goin' crazy
But take a look at my family
Cause the apple don't fall too far from the tree
[Verse 2]
Ever since my mother was pregnant with a second egg
Cause she said that I had a baby sister
Who fell outta the window, I was too young to remember
Kansas City projects, I was like 5-6
And how come, I remember Malcolm, Isaac, and Boogy
If it was the projects in Missouri?
Cause those were my best friends until Isaac
Took my tricycle and my Uncle Todd went to try to go get it back
And ended up gettin' jumped and cut in the gut
With a switch and 70 some stitches
Which is, to this day, why my mother still tries to show me
Some old fake pictures
Of a fictitious little sister who never existed
And this is why part of my life's so twisted
But I can never be as sick as that bitch is
And by the way, that pictures one of my relatives
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You probably have to peel back layers upon layers of pain
To see why everything I say is so insane
What's different about my brain
That separates me, from other players in this game
On the surface it may seem like a scheme
Or some sort of scam for me to get some damn sympathy
But that's the last thing I need
Is for people to walk around feelin' sorry for me
And I am not a G, never claimed to be
I gave my vest to Cashis, just hope he don't need it more than me
But we'll see, cause we ain't lookin' for beef
But if it comes our way, what do we turn the other cheek? Come on
Yeah, and I'm the crazy one right?
Whatever, then let me be the crazy one
Cuckoo, cuckoo, tweet
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Avast me hearties! You are the Captain of a miniature Pirate Galleon. It is your goal to make yourself the only Captain of the bathtub. Your ship is armed with one forward and eight side-facing cannons. While searching for booty, dodging soap-bergs and bottles of shampoo, you'll be battling other scurvy dogs through the foamy fog.
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Game description: ClimbActic is a 3D cooperative platform game in which players combine the skills of two distinct characters to conquer a striking cartoon environment. Within each level players are confronted with a range of challenges, including sheer rock faces, deep chasms and icy summits. ClimbActic's unique gameplay is focused on dynamic interactions with the environment and other players, as opposed to pre-defined scripted events where only one outcome is ever possible. This encourages the players to experiment during play, finding multiple ways to complete the puzzles and obstacles which populate each level.
Cold Sanity
Remanence is a third person, story driven, hovercraft combat game set in 2119. In a flooded Earth stay alive in order start a new home on a distant planet. Upgrade your hovercraft once you scavenge enough scrap, either from killing enemies or from the environment then trade it in for big guns. Battle on raging waves and city landscapes at hypersonic speed. You will meet the notorious pirates and the radical religious crusaders in battle or alliance. Exploring is hazardous with dangerous waters and vengeful fog. Plunder both life and possession if you think the means justify the ends & settle a few scores along the way.
Emergence Games
Forgotten Souls
Forgotten Souls is a first person survival game. Set in a post-apocalyptic world, the player must protect a child from hordes of demons. During daytime the player carries the child through the world, gathering what weapons and ammunition they can find, looking for a suitable shelter to defend. At night, demons stalk the land, hunting the player and seeking to reclaim the child. The player can fortify their chosen shelter using destructible objects within the game to build barricades, to keep the demons out. Strategic use of flares distracts the demons, while guns are needed when your barricades are breached.
The Silence of Night
The scene is set: 150 years ago in feudal Japan. Playing as a ninja assassin, you must infiltrate a private manor in order to eliminate your target. By using the shadows, treading softly and watching their movements, the enemy guards can be avoided through multiple routes of gameplay. Set among beautiful Japanese architecture and gardens, and featuring a strong musical score, "The Silence of Night" is a stealth game with a difference. The game features two innovative technologies, a sound visualisation system and an interactive geometry cutting system, both allowing for a unique style of gameplay.
Lucid Dreams (finalist)
Desire FX
In Desire FX players take on the role of a modern-day cupid, charged with the task of spreading happiness and love to make amends for past sins. The action takes place in alternate contemporary world, an idealistic setting, where the player is able to navigate the world with by the gift of flight and use his magical bow and arrow to affect both human actions and emotions. The player is free to do as they wish within the world, whether it be taking on missions to progress the narrative, cause a little mischief or indulge in some freeform match making.
Evolution of Man
Evolution of Man is an action orientated strategy game which puts the player in the role of an early human being who rises to lead manking to survive as the dominant species on the face of the earth. The player will use their intelligence and wits to guide their human followers to gather resources, build weapons and battle against wild animals. Using intuitive keyboard and mouse controls, the game is easy to pick up and an absorbing experience to the very end. In this prototype, the humans will aim to gather in numbers and make their first great discovery of fire.
Phoenix Seed (winner)
Bear Go Home
Bear Go Home is a very cute, far eastern styled, side scrolling platform game, aimed at casual gamers. Players must help Bear find his way home but, without direct control over the bear, they must influence his movement by stretching and squeezing him to keep him. The highly intuitive control mechanism adds to the fun and quirky game play to maximise the accessibility of the game while providing great depth for more experienced players. The truly stunning and unique art style and original game play sets Bear Go Home apart from other games.
Super E.G.O (finalist)
Airborne is a flying game set in a fictional Victorian era where flying machines rule the sky. Players can test their skills as an inventor by trying out different combinations of parts to build their own flying machines. As well as testing their creations in various skill based missions, the player can explore the world and set their own challenges in free flight mode; be it attempting to fit through the smallest gap or simply taking in the scenery. Airborne is designed to take advantage of the Nintendo Wii's innovative motion sensitive controller allowing for intuitive and fun flight control.
'Tag' is a Massively-Multiplayer Online Game. It defies traditional MMOG convention by allowing players of all ages and absolutely any skill level to pick-up and play the game for as little or as long as they wish. Set in a unique environment that allows all players to see and interact with each other, the player will take part in a number of fast and fun gameplay modes, all based around the worldwide known concept of the playground game; Tag. A Multitude of power-ups and interactive level elements will add to the already exciting and effervescent gameplay experience.
Voodoo Boogy (winner)
Ragnarawk is a Rhythmic RPG Adventure set in a fantasy world based around the many genres of music. The player takes control of Rift: a young, aspiring guitar player who through a twist of fate has found himself swept up in an epic battle of good vs. evil.
Wielding a mystical guitar Rift must battle and defeat an evil that is slowly consuming the land. With the teachings of Stratos, an ancient Rock God and the support of "Save Girl" – Rift's one and only fan - can you defeat the source of the evil and save the day?
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Heaven2Ocean is a 2D puzzle platformer that will keep you hooked for hours. Testing reaction times and skills in logical thinking you must tilt the world in order to guide a body of water through levels filled with hazards and obstacles. To successfully navigate each level you need to dramatically alter the drop's form, interchanging between liquid, ice and steam. Points are gained for not only completing each level in the fastest possible time, but also for maintaining the highest possible volume of water. H2O promises to be an addictive and fun experience that is both simple to play yet difficult to master.


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I began talking with FM from Vermont Creamery about this project a few months ago, and was pretty excited about it from the start. The idea was to create five different "bites" using Vermont Creamery cheeses, while Sas from Stonecutter Spirits and Jeff from Oak45 crafted cocktails to pair with them. And then we'd take a day to photograph the bites and cocktails, along with holiday tablescapes filled with delicious foods and desserts, in Oak45's beautiful space. Cheese, booze, partnering with awesome Vermont businesses, and getting to stand on tables all day in a gorgeous space with perfect light? Yup, basically my dream project.


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College Football Recap - October 9
Tuesday, October 9, 2012
Here's a brief look at the highlights of week six of the college football season, a week which included three upsets in the Top 5 alone and nine total Top-25 losses with some incredible finishes as an added bonus. The rankings used in this recap are the preseason AP Rankings from prior to the games.
North Carolina State 17, #3 Florida State 16: After being shut out in the first-half, NC State gave FSU a taste of its own medicine, shutting out the Seminoles in the second-half and with 16 seconds remaining, QB Mike Glennon found WR Bryan Underwood for a 2-yard TD on fourth-down for the win.#10 Florida 14, #4 LSU 6: Florida's dominant defense shut out the Tigers in the second-half and RB Mike Gillislee ran 34 times for a career-high 146 yards and two touchdowns in another come-from behind-win for the Gators.#6 South Carolina 35, #5 Georgia 7: In an SEC matchup that was anticipated to be a very close game, South Carolina's defense helped to write a different story, holding Georgia to 224 yards, less than half its season's average, shutting out the Bulldogs until a TD with 1:55 to go.
#2 Oregon 52, #23 Washington 21: Oregon QB Marcus Mariota threw for 198 yards and four TDs and RB Kenjon Barner, ranked 10th in the nation with an average of 121 yards rushing per game, ran for 122 yards to lead the Ducks to victory. #7 Kansas State 56, Kansas 16: After a first-half in which everything seemed to fall Kansas' way, Kansas State returned for the second-half and dominated, only allowing two points and scoring four TDs in the third-quarter as QB Collin Klein threw for 129 yards and two scores while running for 116 yards and two more TDs.#9 Notre Dame 41, Miami (FL) 3: Improving to 5-0 for the first time since 2002, the Irish produced 587 yards of offense and 376 yards rushing as RB's Cierre Wood and George Atkinson III gave Notre Dame its first 100-yard rushing duo in a decade.
Iowa State 37, #15 TCU 23: Iowa State ended the longest winning streak in major college football at twelve games with its victory over TCU as the Cyclones completed their third consecutive season with a win on the road against a Top-25 team. TCU played without suspended QB Casey Pachall. Penn State 39, #24 Northwestern 28: The Nittany Lions trailed going into the fourth-quarter, but scored twenty-two points while shutting out Northwestern to finish, including a 5-yard TD run with 2:37 left to hand the Wildcats their first loss. California 43, #25 UCLA 17: Cal QB Zach Maynard started the game off with an interception and from then on was extremely difficult for the Bruins defense to stop, completing 25 of 30 passes for 295 yards as the Bears beat UCLA for the seventh straight time at home.
#12 Ohio State 63, #21 Nebraska 38: Despite a first quarter in which the Buckeyes did not have a first down, Ohio State dominated Nebraska in the remaining three quarters of a decisive victory, as Braxton Miller broke his own school record for QB rushing yards (188) and RB Carlos Hyde rushed for career highs of 140 yards and four TDs. #13 USC 38, Utah 28: After a 14-0 start for Utah, USC settled down behind QB Matt Barkley who led the Trojans to 28 straight points, passing for 303 yards and three touchdowns. #15 Clemson 47, Georgia Tech 31: Although Georgia Tech had the better start, Clemson had the better finish as it ran 93 plays and gained 601 yards as QB Tajh Boyd threw for a career high 397 yards.
#14 Oregon State 19, Washington State 6: Beavers CB Jordan Poyer had three interceptions including his third which sealed the victory with 3:18 remaining and DE Scott Crichton added three sacks as the Beavers defense dominated the low scoring affair. #22 Rutgers 19, UConn 3: Rutgers defense, which came in ranked No.1 in the country in rush defense, allowed 53 yards rushing and 244 yards total and forced five turnovers while Jawan Jamison ran for 110 yards to lead the Scarlet Knights to their best start since 2006.
#8 West Virginia 48, #11 Texas 45: West Virginia RB Andrew Buie stole the show as he ran for 207 yards and two touchdowns as the Mountaineers came away with a win in an offensive battle, which was not sealed until West Virginia secured an onside kick with 14 seconds to go. #18 Stanford 54, Arizona 48: In the only OT game in the Top 25, Stanford rallied to beat Arizona thanks to a strong performance by QB Josh Nunes who threw for a career-high 360 yards and two touchdowns and ran for three more, leading his team back from a two-touchdown deficit.
#17 Oklahoma 41, Texas Tech 20: After losing two weeks ago, the Sooners came back strong as QB Landry Jones passed for 259 yards with two TDs helping Oklahoma to victory over Texas Tech which had its worst defensive performance of the year, giving up 380 total yards after coming in ranked No. 1 in the nation.#20 Mississippi State 27, Kentucky 14: Mississippi State QB Tyler Russell led the Bulldogs to a win over Kentucky as he passed for two TDs and was 23 of 29 for 269 yards while RB LaDarius Perkins carried 25 times for 110 yards, including a 31-yard score, putting Mississippi State at 5-0 for the first time since 1999. Bowl Predictions
CBSSports.com (Palm): Georgia vs. Louisville (Georgia replaces LSU)ESPN.com (Schlabach): South Carolina vs. Kansas State (replacing Georgia vs. West Virginia)ESPN.com (Edwards): South Carolina vs. Kansas State (South Carolina replaces Georgia)SI.com (Mandel): South Carolina vs. West Virginia (replacing Georgia vs. Texas)Orlando Sentinel: South Carolina vs. Kansas State (South Carolina replaces LSU)Phil Steele: Florida vs. Oklahoma (Florida replaces LSU)Sporting News: South Carolina vs. Notre DameCollege Football News: Notre Dame vs. Georgia (not updated)Dallas Morning News: West Virginia vs. Georgia
Each week the Allstate Sugar Bowl will make its YouTube Pick of the Week, top highlights, impressive off-field performances, great games and amazing plays, including NC State's QB Mike Gleenon who threw a 2-yard game-winning TD on fourth down with 16 seconds remaining to take down #3 Florida State.
College football fans, be sure to "like" the official Allstate Sugar Bowl Facebook page (linked above) and vote each week for the Manning Award Player of the Week. The top quarterback performances from each week will be posted giving you the chance to vote for that you think was the best effort each week of the college football season.
Manning Award Stars of the Week
While 25 quarterbacks are on the Manning Award Watch List, additional players may be added later in the season and every quarterback in the country remains eligible for the honor. Here's a look at the best performances of the second week of the football season:Tajh Boyd, Clemson26-of-41, 396 yards, 2 TDs, 2 INTBoyd tallies 64 rushing yards and a score as the Tigers score 17 unanswered points to close the game in a 47-31 victory over Georgia Tech.Mike Glennon, North Carolina State30-of-55, 259 yards, 2 TDs, 1 INTGlennon struggled for much of the game, but came to life when it counted, driving the Wolfpack to the game-winning score by completing three fourth-down passes, including two inside the 15, in a 17-16 upset of No. 3 Florida State.Jordan Lynch, Northern Illinois16-of-23, 195 yards, 1 TD, 0 INTLynch, who also rushes for 207 yards and three touchdowns, leads the Huskies back from a 23-13 second-half deficit by tallying three straight scores (one passing and two running) in a 35-23 road victory over Ball State.Zach Maynard, California25-of-30, 295 yards, 4 TDs, 1 INTMaynard also rushes for a touchdown as he sets a career-best in completion percentage in a near flawless performance for the Bears, who upset No. 25 UCLA.Josh Nunes, Stanford21-of-34, 360 yards, 2 TDs, 0 INTNunes rushes for three touchdowns, including a pair in the fourth quarter which tied the game and forced overtime where the Cardinal went on to defeat Arizona, 54-48.Denard Robinson, Michigan8-of-16, 105 yards, 1 TD, 0 INTRobinson also rushed for 235 yards to become the Big Ten's all-time rushing leader among quarterbacks as the Wolverines rolled to a 44-13 victory over Purdue.Trent Steelman, Army5-of-13, 81 yards, 0 TDs, 0 INTSteelman directs Army's option-offense to perfection, rushing for 147 yards and three touchdowns, including the game-winning score on a 29-yard dash with 57 seconds remaining to shock Boston College, 34-31, and snap an eight-game losing streak.Tyler Van Tubbergen, Western Michigan23-of-28, 283 yards, 5 TDs, 1 INTVan Tubbergen throws touchdowns to five different receivers and also rushes for a score as the Broncos roll to a 52-14 victory over Massachusetts.
Top Upcoming Games
#15 Texas vs. #13 Oklahoma (ABC, 11 a.m.): Once again, the Red River Rivalry will have national implications as the highly-ranked long-time rivals will clash at the Cotton Bowl in Dallas.Duke at Virginia Tech (11:30 a.m., ESPN Game Plan): The only team in the country with 10 wins in each of the last eight seasons, the Hokies already have three losses, putting the streak in serious jeopardy. Meanwhile, perennial cellar-dweller Duke comes into the game with a 5-1 record, its best start since 1994, as it can become bowl eligible for the first time since 1994 as well.#5 West Virginia at Texas Tech (ABC/ESPN, 2:30 p.m.): The Mountaineers and Geno Smith continue their Big 12 debut season with a road game in Lubbock, where head coach Dana Holdorsen developed his high-octane offense as Mike Leach's coordinator.#17 Stanford at #7 Notre Dame (NBC, 2:30 p.m.): The Fighting Irish face another challenge on their road back to the elite of college football as the Cardinal come to Indiana for the game chosen for the ESPN GameDay showcase.#10 Oregon State at BYU (ABC, 2:30 p.m.): The Beavers have climbed to their highest ranking since 2001 with some key Pac-12 wins, now they face independent BYU on the road after receiving news that standout quarterback Sean Mannion will be out with a knee injury.TCU at Baylor (6 p.m.): A pair of one-loss Big 12 teams square off in Waco with the loser likely out of the BCS picture; TCU is hampered by the suspension of its starting quarterback while Baylor looks to recover from giving up 70 points to West Virginia.#3 South Carolina at #9 LSU (ESPN, 7 p.m.): The Gamecocks have impressed their way into the national title picture, but now have to take on the Tigers in an always-tough Death Valley night game – the last time LSU beat a Top-5 team at home at night came in 1997 when the 14th-ranked Tigers upended No. 1 Florida, coached by Steve Spurrier.#22 Texas A&M at #23 Louisiana Tech (ESPN-U, 8 p.m.): Originally scheduled for the opening weekend of the season, but postponed by Hurricane Isaac, the Aggies visit Independence Stadium in Shreveport to try to derail the Bulldog scoring machine – undefeated Louisiana Tech is averaging over 52 points per game.
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As Mitt Romney prepares to travel to Europe and Israel to make his case to past and current world leaders this week, he leaves behind a public disagreement with one of America's strongest allies.
At a fundraiser Sunday night in San Francisco, Romney recounted his version of a conversation he had earlier in the day with Bob Carr, the Australian foreign minister. Romney claimed that Carr had told him in their private meeting that America was "in decline," but that the situation could be turned around if an appropriate budget deal is reached.
Romney has repeatedly attacked Obama by saying he won't "apologize for America", as he insists the president has. But instead of rejecting Carr's line, Romney used it to attack Obama.
Carr took issue with Romney's characterization of the events, insisting that the former Massachusetts governor got it backward. He said in a statement released by the Embassy of Australia that "his remark that 'America is just one budget deal away from ending all talk of America being in decline' was in praise of America's economic strengths."
Romney's fundraisers are covered by a rotating pool of reporters (much like White House events that aren't big enough to accommodate a full press corps) so Romney's recounting of the Carr quote comes from a single reporter who was in the room. Romney and Carr met for an impromptu visit in San Francisco before the fundraiser.
"I met today with the foreign minister of Australia. He said something, and I said 'Can I quote you?' and he said yes," Romney told fundraiser attendees, according to the pool report. "He said 'America is just one budget deal away from ending all talk of America being in decline.'"
Romney offered his own assessment of what Carr meant:
What he meant by that is that if we get serious about taking steps to make sure that America will finally get to a balanced budget, and if we make sure these unfunded liabilities don't crush us, if we show the world that we come together to get that job done, if we have real leadership that will get Congress to work together and actually reach that conclusion, that agreement, than the world will recognize America's going to come roaring back.
"This idea of America in decline, it was interesting he said that, he led the talk of America being in decline," Romney said. "See that's not talk we hear about here as much as they're hearing there. And if they're thinking about investing in America, entrepreneurs putting their future in America, if they think America's in decline they're not gonna do it."
That makes Romney's version: Carr was saying that America is in decline, and that only a budget plan that balances the country's books — presumably Romney's — will change that assessment.
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Chefs at last night's Waitrose Summer Party at the Natural History Museum were underwhelmed by the 5:2 diet, in which you eat almost nothing for two days a week and feast on the other five. "It's ridiculous," said French chef Raymond Blanc. "The British are so messed up about food. They have fear and guilt, they binge and purge. Why can't they just enjoy food? There's no food culture here, like in France, although it's growing."


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For years, I've been writing about the mutuality of cities in America and across the world. I've been intrigued – not just by the sweep of challenges cities face, but by the exciting promise of sharing experience, learning from each other.
Now it's time for me to do something about it. With this writing, I'm stopping the weekly column, syndicated by the Washington Post Writers Group, that I launched 38 years – some 1,900 weekly dispatches – ago. Last week's column summarized and bid adieu to that undertaking. To all the readers who sent heartwarming messages of farewell, my deepest thanks.
But I'm going on to an exciting new chapter. With colleagues Farley Peters and Curtis Johnson and others, I'm launching a new global news service – we're calling it Citiscope Global News – dedicated to reporting on innovations already underway, proving their mettle in cities around the world.
Why this mission? We learned about the need the hard way. The Rockefeller Foundation asked us to attend, then write the report on a month long "Global Urban Summit" it held in 2007 with attendees from across the world. Repeatedly, participants mentioned interesting new experiments in their communities. But when we checked for press reports on those efforts, we found sparse pickings. Most news media coverage of cities remained focused on political maneuvering, crime, conflict and corruption. So as we finished our book reflecting on the summit – we titled it Century of the City – we started thinking of ways to help fill the gap.


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Eagles Fly Past Tornados, 5-1September 13, 2008
Waleska, Ga. - The Brevard College women's soccer team hit the road on Saturday afternoon, traveling to the state of Georgia for the first time in 2008, but they came defeated, falling to Reinhardt College, 5-1. BC freshman Latoshia Hopewell scored her third goal of the season off a beautiful pass from Emily Belchyk, but it wasn't enough for the Tornados as they fell to 2-4 on the season. Reinhardt improves to 3-1 with the win.
After a scoreless first half, the Eagles took the lead in the 47th minute when Megan Parker found a gap in the BC defense, scoring off a long shot from the left side. Linday Taylor doublesd the lead in the 50th minute after the Tornados committed a foul in the 18-yard box. Taylor was called on to take the penalty and she delivered, stretching the Eagle advantage to 2-nil. Taylor struck again in the 53rd minute, receiving a cross from Parker and blasting a shot past BC keeper Sydney Douglas to make the score 3-0.
Parker notched her second score of the game in the 60th minute off a through pass from Hailey Pope, all but sealing Brevard's fate and increasing the gap to 4-nil. Reserve forward Alli Bennett ended the Reinhardt scoring barrage in the 72nd minute after linking up with fellow sub Katherine Amatulli to put a 5-spot on the Eagle side of the board.
Hopewell broke up the shutout bid with a consolation goal in the 90th and final minute, scoring off the pass from Belchyk from the left side of the penalty box. It was too little too late, however, as the final scoreline would rest at 5-1.
The Tornados are back in action on Wednesday, September 17, as they will host the North Greenville Crusaders. Kickoff is set for 4 p.m. Reinhardt travels to Covenant College Wednesday for a 5 p.m. showdown.


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Friedreich's ataxia is a rare disease passed down through families (inherited) that affects the muscles and heart.
Spinocerebellar degeneration
Friedreich's ataxia is caused by a defect in a gene called Frataxin (FXN). This gene is located on chromosome 9. Changes in this gene cause the body to make too much of a part of DNA called trinucleotide repeat (GAA). Normally, the body contains about 8 to 30 copies of GAA. Those with Friedreich's ataxia have as many as 1,000 copies. The more copies of GAA a patient has, the earlier in life the disease starts and the faster it gets worse.
Friedreich's ataxia is an autosomal recessive genetic disorder. This means you must get a copy of the defective gene from both your mother and father.
Symptoms are caused by the wearing away of structures in areas of the brain and spinal cord that control coordination, muscle movement, and other functions. Symptoms generally begin in childhood before puberty, and may include:
Muscle problems lead to changes in the spine, which may result in scoliosis or kyphoscoliosis.
Heart disease usually develops and may lead to heart failure. Death may result from heart failure or dysrhythmias that do not respond to treatment. Diabetes may develop in later stages of the disease.
The following tests may be done:
Blood sugar (glucose) tests may reveal diabetes or glucose intolerance. An eye exam may show damage to the optic nerve, which usually occurs without symptoms.
Treatment for Friedreich's ataxia includes:
Orthopedic interventions (such as braces) may be needed for scoliosis and foot problems. Treatment of heart disease and diabetes may help improve the quality and duration of life.
Friedreich's ataxia slowly gets worse and causes problems performing everyday activities. Most patients need to use a wheelchair within 15 years of the disease's start. The disease may lead to early death.
Call your health care provider if muscle weakness, numbness, loss of coordination, loss of reflexes, or other symptoms of Friedreich's ataxia occur (particularly if there is a family history of the disorder).
Individuals with a family history of Friedreich's ataxia who intend to have children should consider genetic screening and counseling to determine their risk.
Ramirez-Montealegre D, Mink JW. Ataxias. In: Kliegman RM, Behrman RE, Jenson HB, Stanton BF, eds. Nelson Textbook of Pediatrics. 19th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Saunders Elsevier; 2011:chap 590.1.


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Gutted, was really looking forward to that fight. Hope both guys get well soon!!!
Good finish from Wilson.
Mcveigh came up short. Whiteford will now need to be Scotland's new great White hope for the UFC. What happened in the mcveigh fight?
The Wilson Reis fight was outstanding!
good stuff from Cage Warriors.
Great show by CW, been to a few MMA shows in that venue and cagewarriors set up made it look like a different hall.
Some great fights.
Good pro debut for Alex Davidson
Another win against a tough opponent for Mark Connor, goning to be a force at flyweight
Outstanding win for Dan Hope against a great opponent in Avi Jack, been waiting on that performance form him, big guy deserves that so much.
Turner looked back to his best, I rate Beer highly and know how dangerous he is. Massive win topping of 3 wins in 4 months, picking up the Vision Fc and On top promotions belts moving his record to 21 wins, just turned 25 a few weeks back ( on a aside note that's two former UCMMA champions not made it out a round with Dinky Ninjas in a week)
Big win and back on track for Alan Johnson, toughest test of his carear against Aaron. People forget he's only been training 3 years and is only 21.
Paul was a step behind against a very good fighter, made the weight fine and got 15 minutes in, he will be back and still rip up the flyweight division.
Didn't catch a lot of the others except Owen Roddy in fight of the night, one of my favourite fighters had us all jumping about the changing room going mental. CrAzy crazy fight.
Hopefully CW back in scotland next year
That was a really good show every fight was brilliant tbh loads of skills on display.... cheers for letting us watch it live this time CW team!
Best Cage Warriors show of the year for me. Everything on the main card was epic. Reis v Roddy will live long in the memory.


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July 24. Kaufman
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July 25. Chwang
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· Stephen Gardiner, "Ethics and Climate Change: An Introduction"
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· Andrew Light, "An Equity Hurdle in International Climate Negotiations"
· Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change, Fourth Assessment Report, "Summary for Policy Makers"
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PROUD Wanderers boss Gareth Ainsworth hailed an immense display from his side as they beat Rotherham - but said the result had been coming.
The 39-year-old had been left frustrated Blues hadn't been picking up the results to go alongside their performances in a six match winless league run.
Last night they put that run to bed as a Matt McClure brace and Dave Winfield header saw off the high-flying Millers on their own patch and Ainsworth was jubilant at finally getting his first win as full-time Wanderers boss.
He said: "It's been coming. I said before the game we're a really good bunch, a really tight bunch and I can see these boys going out together, I can see them winning and losing and battling together. I've seen that tonight, I've seen it against Rochdale and against Northampton on Saturday.
"Those results didn't go our way even though the performances warranted that. Tonight we've got the result on top of the performance and I'm over the moon for those boys, because they deserve it.
"I can only see Crewe as the the only bad performance so far since I've taken the reins. Our performances have warranted something. One of the biggest steps we've taken is to see that turning into goals. If we can keep doing that we won't go far wrong.
"There's not one I can miss out tonight, they were all fantastic. I'm proud of every person who got on that bus tonight."
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He said: "We've got players like Dave Winfield and Leon Johnson - they can onslaught all they want, I've got two warriors at the back that can take that. That's what they're there for and that's what they did.
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It has become apparent over the last year, that Miley Cyrus has left behind her clean-cut, angelic, Disney princess image, for a way more grown up look and feel. The singer turned a lot of heads when she cut off her long locks and chose an extremely short, bleach-blonde 'do. Now she's making headlines again with her new cover shoot for "V" magazine.
The photos in the magazine reveal a lot of Miley, which includes under-boob, mid-drift, and even a little of her butt!
In the magazine she opens up about everything from her relationship with fiance Liam to her new sound, and more.
Miley on working with Pharrell Williams:
"I met Pharrell, and it was the first time I was in the studio just being really free. Pharrell opened that door. At the end of the day, it's what me and P are making. And of course we're so grateful for the people that got us here, that brought us to each other, and now we're on our own path. I've never been more thankful for someone in my life. It's just crazy. It's been almost a year since we started, and my life has been completely different."
Miley on her new hair style:
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Miley on her relationship with Liam:
"I work every day...I'm not home with my boyfriend all the time. We work. Every week it's 'Are they broken up? Because we don't see a photo of them.' I don't have time to go to Starbucks with my boyfriend every morning. I wish I did, but I don't. I'd rather chill at my house and be there for the time I actually get to spend with him. And then I'm at the studio all day. He gets up to work out at six and I come home at five from the studio. I put this record before everything, and I've never done that with anything. I've put too much into this record to put anything else in front of it."
Read the full interview, and see all of Miley's photos here
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From the best-selling author of The Black Swan and one of the foremost thinkers of our time, Nassim Nicholas Taleb, a book on how some things actually benefit from disorder.
In The Black Swan Taleb outlined a problem, and in Antifragile he offers a definitive solution: how to gain from disorder and chaos while being protected from fragilities and adverse events. For what Taleb calls the "antifragile" is actually beyond the robust, because it benefits from shocks, uncertainty, and stressors, just as human bones get stronger when subjected to stress and tension. The antifragile needs disorder in order to survive and flourish.
Taleb stands uncertainty on its head, making it desirable, even necessary, and proposes that things be built in an antifragile manner. The antifragile is immune to prediction errors. Why is the city-state better than the nation-state, why is debt bad for you, and why is everything that is both modern and complicated bound to fail? The audiobook spans innovation by trial and error, health, biology, medicine, life decisions, politics, foreign policy, urban planning, war, personal finance, and economic systems. And throughout, in addition to the street wisdom of Fat Tony of Brooklyn, the voices and recipes of ancient wisdom, from Roman, Greek, Semitic, and medieval sources, are heard loud and clear.
Extremely ambitious and multidisciplinary, Antifragile provides a blueprint for how to behave - and thrive - in a world we don't understand, and which is too uncertain for us to even try to understand and predict. Erudite and witty, Taleb's message is revolutionary: What is not antifragile will surely perish.
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"[This] is the lesson of Taleb...and also the lesson of our volatile times. There is more courage and heroism in defying the human impulse, in taking the purposeful and painful steps to prepare for the unimaginable." (Malcolm Gladwell, author of The Tipping Point)
"[Taleb writes] in a style that owes as much to Stephen Colbert as it does to Michel de Montaigne." (The Wall Street Journal)
"The most prophetic voice of all.... [Taleb is] a genuinely significant philosopher...someone who is able to change the way we view the structure of the world through the strength, originality and veracity of his ideas alone." (GQ)
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"Some good ideas, smart guy, not smart as HE thinks"
As a longtime reader of Taleb, I find him at best mostly bracing, sometimes head-turning with new twists of ideas, sometimes charmingly abrasive. He can be like a bright, independent-thinking pal to spend a walk with (and I walk with books mostly). This book is worth it on that level. There are important ideas here which the herd misses, probably to its ultimate regret. But plenty of time is spent here with ideas not as new and revolutionary as he touts them as, and of course the self-absorbed cheap-shot attacks on straw-man "academics," etc. Why spend so much time attacking mediocrities in that corner of the world? It gets repetitive, and that's where (despite his protestations) a SMART editor (unlike, again, the mediocre straw-man editors he criticizes) would come in handy. There seems to be a framing effect, a saliency bias, Mr Taleb is brilliant but very wrapped up in his world of airport luggage, dinners, academics, with a certain adolescent resentment about elements of it. I feel sometimes like I'm trapped in an airport luncheon with him and his loathsome dull academics, as he prattles on.
"How to focus on impact instead of risk"
There are two things to say about this book: one is about the intellectual content, which is brilliant and thought-provoking. The other is its tone and character, which is nauseating at times and simply boring at most others. Enough is said about that in other reviews, suffice to say that he does it even more in this book than in his previous tomes.
Back to the content then: Taleb asserts that we cannot KNOW the probability or risk of certain events, that is why instead we should focus on its consequences, bad or good. Almost all relevant events are 'non-linear', meaning that the potential benefits far outweigh the potential costs or vice versa. If we focus on reducing the potentially large negative consequences of events and expose ourselves to potentially large positive consequences of others (at little cost) than we are really progressing. He advocates a barbell strategy, of limiting your biggest risks while exposing yourself to the biggest upsides.
Some interesting elements:
(1) the 'via negitiva' or subtractive way of doing things. It is easier to predict the things that in the future will no longer be there (the fragile), then the new things that will arise and be successful. The old is more likely to stay around than the new (it has been around longer). (2) The small, decentral is less harmful than the big central which drags everybody along. (3) 'stressors'. Minor stressors (pains, damage) due to volatility are good for strength. Too much stability creates comfort and lack of strength. This is true for humans: no effort, no strength. But also for government monopolies.
And finally (4) his main point: let us try to intervene less in society, economy and human beings, because practically all intervention has large negative and unknown consequences. Only intervene when not intervening ends most likely very bad. This could be a policy for the military too?
I for one can recommend the content of this book if you can stomach the tone, and am myself still digesting its consequential conclusions.
"big fan but what is up with the bleeps?"
Taleb and his "abrasive personality" as another reviewer aptly noted is slightly obnoxious but mostly brilliant...long time fan here. But does anyone know why the book is censored with those horrible bleeps? What does Audible have to say about it? There is really no excuse for it.
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"My Pick, Book of the Year, 2013"
The 1960s' (earlier or later depending on the field) represented the zenith of a particular collection of ways of thinking about applied probability, about large systems, and about epistemology. Defining this paradigm is tricky. I think of Thomas Kuhn, Kalman Filters, NASA's approach to quality, Karl Popper, and the invention of the FFT, but list is too idiosyncratic to be helpful. But the point here is that this way of thinking (which I have trouble defining) has given way to a new paradigm that is more about complexity theory (although not so much about chaos theory), network affects, heavy tail distribution, facials, and the unknowable. This book is trying to explain this new paradigm.
Taleb's technical papers have contributed some to the development of this new paradigm, but his great contribution is the creation of an accessible philosophy built around this new science. This philosophical construction started with Fooled by Randomness, progressed in The Black Swan, and now culminates in Anti-Fragile.
To "get it" you probably have to just read the books, but I'll try to explain. In Fooled by Randomness he examines the oft practiced money manager con, where you are sold a betting system is right 80% of the time. Sounds like a winner, but beware, the losses when the scheme is wrong are more than 4 times the winning when it's right. Many a high wage earner has been bilked by myriad versions of this con. In The Black Swan he follows the question of how such cons are constructed, to propose that reality is partitioned into two types of probability distributions: those like the distribution of the height of people and those like the distributions of the wealth of people. The latter distribution is incomprehensibly more varied than the former. He then asserts that randomness fools use when we confusion the two kinds of randomness. In the Anti-Fragile he considers how the two types of randomness are constructed. It is well known that the low variance type arise from combining lots of independent events and the high variability type arise form feedback between lots of connected events.
And then his punch line is … large systems with lots of feedback among the connected parts can be fragile as when the connections cause cascading failures, or they can be anti-fragile as when small failures lead to compensations that strengthen the system. This insight leads to a way of about almost everything.
Oh yea, the alternate title might be, "The Quasi-Organized Ranting of a Misunderstood Genius". He has learned that anti-fragile things benefit from verity, adversity, and controversy; and has concluded that writing popular books falls in this category. So in each book he increases the narcissus, the adolescence, and the taunting. In this book I think the new high water mark was when he said his former boss was constipated. I hope he hasn't crossed a threshold were the anti-fragile is simply annihilated.
"Why was this censored?"
Captivating, applicable, snarky.
Taleb does a good job of linking his overall points to experiences in day to day life.
The narrator did an acceptable job. What was unacceptable was the decision to bleep out swear-words. This isn't a children's book, and the occasional "bullsh*t" and "f*ck-you" are very much in Taleb's style of communicating. Bleeping them out was distracting and very disruptive.
I have to ask, why would someone bleep out swear words in a book like this? It's not quite as bad as censoring a book like Orwell's 1984, but it's close.
"Self aggrandizing anti-intellectual polemic"
I really wanted to like this book. I enjoyed "Fooled by Randomness" and "The Black Swan". I'd forgotten how arrogant and self-important Taleb is by the time I purchased this book. In the other two books, interesting thoughts and data made the arrogance tolerable. After three or four chapters of this book, I had to give up.
I'm the *FIRST* one to be excited by discovering that the "conventional wisdom" is wrong. It means new and interesting thoughts and wider future possibilities, and I've got a perverse attraction to such things. But I don't - not for one minute - believe that the researchers that accept the "conventional wisdom" are fools or idiots. I can believe someone has drawn the wrong conclusions, yet still believe that they are intelligent people of good will and intent. I've been wrong myself, so I understand that it is possible to do so - be wrong, that is - without being an idiot, a fool, or mendacious and malicious.
The concept "I understand, but disagree" is completely foreign to Taleb's mindset. He asserts repeatedly that those who disagree with him are fools and simpletons. He spends more time deriding them than he does illustrating his evidence. He often substitutes anecdotal evidence as authoritative, then cherry-picks research to support the idea he's chosen. This doesn't mean the idea is *wrong*; it means that it doesn't provide the necessary evidence to choose it over other possible explanations. I don't mind the occasional well-placed, witty jab at one's intellectual opponents in the arena of ideas, but Taleb's incessant sniping at everyone from "academics" (which he speaks of with a decided sneer) to "bankers" (which he speaks of equally sneeringly) grates on my nerves after a while. "All right, Mr. Taleb, I get it. You don't like academics or bankers, nutritionists, cardiologists, fitness scientists, etc. Can we get past this now?"
I hope someone else repackages these ideas in a more palatable package. If they're as earthshaking as Taleb thinks they are, it won't be long. Until then, I guess I'll be behind the curve, as this is unreadable.
-- Andre
"Rambling and unctuous, self-absorbed and trite"
Another Taleb book that spends more time talking about how brilliant Nassim is (and how stupid everybody else is and how stupid they are for not realizing how brilliant he is) than anything else.

Taleb's attempts to construct parables, to stitch together what appears to be an unedited notebook around his central theme is a repetitive morass of endless repetition and the same thing over and over until the very end where he repeats himself again.

Only he doesn't appear to realize he's doing it...

Here is the take-away. It is an old one, and one that is not new, and didn't really need a new name (no matter what Taleb seems to think):

There are things that fall apart when faced with surprises. These things are fragile. Often you can make small gains in the short run by investing in these, but you are exposed to tremendous loss when that surprise comes along. There are also things that make small losses in the short run (under normal circumstances) but that gain from surprises. If you can survive the stream of small losses, the big gains are really big. For this reason, it's always better to be in the second situation than the first.

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He accurately captured the self-absorbed, vitriolic and condescending tone of the book. I grew to hate his voice and speaking style as much as Taleb himself!
You could cut 2/3 of this book without affecting the quality. I'm sure Taleb would fire you as editor and tell you you're too much of a simpleton to understand his genius and that every drop of turd in this book is a pearl of his infinite and misunderstood wisdom.
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"Dense Books, Not People"
This book is dense. I cannot wait to listen to it a second and third time because I know the revelations will keep coming. I am a newbie when it comes to Taleb's writing. I have not read or listened to his other writings. I found this book not only satisfying, but provocative. And it lives up to Talib's description as a book that is not an addendum to previous writing. I highly recommend a listen!
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"Arrogantly offputting.... if he wasn't so smart."
Unique perspective with real utility. Top quartile.
Applying a scientific and intelligent rationale for traditionalism.
Read with believably conceited indignation which would have been off-putting were it not earned and justified.
"I spit in your general direction"
As a physician and leader, I'm drawn to innovative ideas that can guide our work and lives in a healthier and more fulfilling manner. Taleb's principles provide a compelling counter to our tendency to over-engineer and "fragilize" our lives and businesses. Resonant.
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