Monday, May 12, 2014

Regardless of what you call it, I still see a difference in what Jones did vs. most other submission

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Nick Diaz can't be bothered kabuki to fight the elite of the welterweight division so an argument for this Thomson kabuki fight need not be made. Nate Diaz is another matter. Sitting at No. 6 in the lightweight division the man from the 209 needs to maintain momentum built upon his stunning KO of Gray Maynard in November. Returning off an injury and a loss to Ben Henderson at UFC on FOX 10 , Thomson (No. 4) would seem to make sense as an opponent.
Glover reflects. Glover Teixeira on his torn labrum, making a 'big mistake' against Jon Jones and being scared of eye pokes. 'I was a little afraid to close the distance and get poked in the eye again and maybe stop the fight. The second eye poke really scared me because I thought it could hurt my eye.'
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I was wrong to call Jones' arm crank on Teixeira dirty. I don't know what Jones was thinking. I don't know if he thought of the consequences. I don't know that any other fighter wouldn't have done the same thing given the same opportunity.
Regardless of what you call it, I still see a difference in what Jones did vs. most other submissions. Jones threw his body into the crank, full power all at once. I see other fighters apply submissions quickly, but usually with enough control and restraint that the opponent has at least a split second to tap before significant damage is done.
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Sunday, May 11, 2014

Wells' profile lists him as the new art director for the studio behind the 2012 exclusive PlayStatio


Wells' profile lists him as the new art director for the studio behind the 2012 exclusive PlayStation 3 game The Unfinished Swan. Giant Sparrow rave is working on an unannounced game it describes as "not a sequel to The Unfinished Swan but... rave not a million miles away either."
Wells is the third key Naughty Dog developer to leave the studio this year. Uncharted creative director rave Amy Hennig left the studio in March amid reports that she was forced out (reports Naughty Dog would quickly deny ). Later that month, Uncharted 4 director Justin Richmond departed for a role with League of Legends developer Riot Games.
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Not rave enitrely sure what's going on over at ND, but these recent departures seem to be adding up to more than just a coinsidence. Perhaps there is a shake-up happening? Either way, ND can and will continue to attract top talent.
Hard to say whether three people is more than coincidence rave of personal choices. rave It's only interesting because all three were rather senior. You're right, though. Case in point: http://www.gameanim.com/2014/04/14/now-at-naughty-dog/
Its funny how so many people are losing their jobs and other that have good positions are leaving them. I know people are eeger to do their own thing, but breaking companies up and forming new ones doesnt always result in that happening. And a few people have left Naughty Dog in a rather short time. All had very solid positions their, It cant be coincedince.
If you want to progress in your career on a personal level and feel challenged and satisfied on a daily basis, you've got to take a jump into something new. Simple as that I'd say. Career progress from their position in the company was probably unlikely rave due to the corporate world of Sony and its shareholders hovering rave just above their heads.
I don't know how many people are leaving Naughty Dog or why, but what it really demonstrates in my opinion is just how mobile people rave and their skills are in the industry. Definitely great challenges and rewards ahead.
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"I look at Some Nights and some of the things that I feel like I did wrong on that, and I look at ot


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Nate Ruess definitely earned his vacation days – and he was determined to use 'em all. So much so that it basically took the combined powers of Bruce Springsteen, the NCAA and his bandmates in fun. to lure him down to Dallas for a performance at the Final Four .
"After doing this for three-straight years, I've been thrilled about getting some time off. So my feeling for the Final Four show was kind of like, 'Gosh, I can't believe we gotta do this,'" he told Rolling Stone. "It's always weird going back … the same thing used to happen when I'd go away on tour. When I'd come home, my girlfriend and I would have to spend a week getting used to each other again."
It didn't take quite as long for Ruess to reconnect with guitarist Jack Antonoff and multi-instrumentalist Andrew Dost; after all, they'd spent almost three years on the road together, touring in support of fun.'s breakout Some Nights album . And at several points during that Final Four show, it was apparent that the reunion had succeeded in lifting Ruess' spirits ("We need to fucking come out of retirement," he joked to the crowd), noteworthy because singer is the first to admit that he's definitely been enjoying his time out of the spotlight.
"I've been golfing a lot," he laughed. "But once I saw everybody, I just felt good. That's about as sincere as it gets. But it also showed me that less is more. Between me, Andrew and Jack, we're the kind of people who think anything worth doing is also worth overdoing, so I want to find a balance."
Striking that balance begins with the follow-up to Some Nights, brewers fayre which Ruess is currently brewers fayre writing – tentatively. Because now, whether he likes it or not, he's aware that these new songs will have stand the test of time and stand up to repeated brewers fayre plays on the road.
"It's moving. There's an apprehension at first, because I don't want this thing to move too fast, because I want to be able to enjoy being at home," Ruess explained. "And with this album – and after being on the road for a few years – you can't help but think of how each song is gonna fit. You start thinking about what you're gonna want to play, and what you're gonna want to say."
And to that end, while he's aware that the success of Some Nights has raised his band's profile exponentially , Ruess said he's less interested re-creating that record and more taken by the idea of documenting this very unique point in his life, which, needless to say, is quite different from the last time he sat down to write a fun. album.
"It's weird to talk about this, but it is interesting when you look at a song like 'Some Nights.' I remember when writing it, the thought was, 'No one’s gonna understand this. This isn't gonna happen. And this is the last chance, and then I gotta go get a real job,'" he said. "The first song on this new album is like the opposite of that, lyrically. You know, 'You got what you wished for. What the fuck are you wishing for now?'"
Still, he's taking any and all pressure in stride. Like he said, over the past three years, Ruess has had plenty of life experiences, and he's survived them all. His break may be coming to an end, and the business of following-up Some Nights  just beginning, but Ruess is rested and ready to get back to work. Vacations can't last forever, brewers fayre after all.
"I look at Some Nights and some of the things that I feel like I did wrong on that, and I look at other albums that I’ve brewers fayre done in the past as a lyricist brewers fayre and not only do I want to maintain a certain level, I want to exceed it," he said. "The pain for me in songwriting is always putting lyrics to things. And so hopefully I’ve got enough firepower. I’ve definitely had enough shit go down in the last few years."
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Saturday, May 10, 2014

Yesterday, The New York Times launched The Upshot , a new politics and policy vertical that was conc


Yesterday, The New York Times launched The Upshot , a new politics and policy vertical that was conceived when Nate Silver left the paper for ESPN. The project is led by David Leonhardt previously a Pulitzer-winning economics columnist and Washington bureau chief at the Times who says he’s excited to experiment with story formats and tools for storytelling.
The first day of publishing at The Upshot revealed a content scope that goes beyond the numbers-driven journalism subway surfers Silver subway surfers has become famous for. The launch subway surfers included a reported piece on the American middle class , a Senate forecast model explainer , a “where the data came from” piece on income, a short post about an old Truman-in-peril photograph , and more.
Leonhardt believes there’s a market in news for complicated issues, simply explained, subway surfers which has invited much comparison with recently launched FiveThirtyEight and Vox. It’s too soon to say exactly how the three measure up Leonhardt says he’s fan of the work being produced by both sites but the Times has both resources and a preexisting audience to set it apart. Here’s a lightly edited transcript of a conversation in which Leonhardt explains how The Upshot will function as an experimental space that is both outside the Times, in a sense, while also integrated into the newsroom.
Caroline O’Donovan : Thanks for making the time to chat with me. It was nice to look at the site and read some of the pieces you have up there. So much different stuff going on it’s not just data and explainers. You’ve got photos of former presidents, you’ve got pieces about why you’re going open source on the polling model it really is an ambitious project.
David Leonhardt : Thank you! I appreciate that. One of the things that’s fun for me is this is the first interview I’ve done with someone who’s read the site, because all the other ones were before it launched. Let me just tell you: It’s so much more fun. I enjoy talking about it, period, but it’s so much more fun to talk about specific journalism rather than principles of journalism.
O’Donovan : That’s a good point. Something I think people have been talking about is the difference, when you launch something, between explaining what it is you’re going to do what the goals are, who we are, who we’re not versus just doing it. How did you approach how you were going to launch the whole thing?
Leonhardt subway surfers : We started with a pretty general idea. What this grew out of was Nate Silver’s subway surfers departure. Nate left, and I was well known internally as a champion of Nate’s. I was a sort of obvious person to put on a committee to figure out to do after he left.
We decided quite quickly maybe even in our first meeting that we didn’t want to go out and replace subway surfers Nate. Nate has a set of skills that is unusual, in a good way. And not only that, but that 2012 wasn’t going to be repeated. There wasn’t going to be, in all likelihood, another election that went the way that one did. Trying to recapture that lightning in a bottle, when other people out there including Nate were going to be out there doing it, seemed like not the right way to go.
On the other hand, we said, you know what? The lessons of FiveThirtyEight are not narrow lessons. They’re consistent with a bunch of whole other lessons we think we’ve heard here. You look all over the paper, in all kinds of different ways, and it’s clear that readers had a demand for this sort of journalism. subway surfers This funny mix of really substantive on really big, complicated topics, but presented in a really approachable way. Our hugely successful interactives are another example of this. The most visited page in New York Times history is based on an academic study about linguistics , right? That’s amazing.
We realized, when we do this journalism, people like it, and we can do much more than we’re doing. subway surfers Once we defined it that way, I realized it was a dream job for me, and I got interested in doing it.
O’Donovan : I had this question, and someone actually voiced it in the Guardian earlier today: Conventional wisdom might say the audience for explanatory journalism and data journalism are opposite. That the explainers are for people subway surfers who don’t know as much as they want to about something, and the data is for people who really know a lot about it and want to know specifically new things.
Leonhardt : I don’t know that we’ve invented subway surfers anything totally new. I really do think people want both. I don’t think they conflict. I think that people want information on big, complicated topics that they can grasp, even if they’re not experts. I think that description encompasses what I would define both as explanatory journalism and data journalism.
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Constantino happy meal said Nurmagomedov will immediately resume a full training regimen after Ramadan, which this year runs from June 28 to July 28. With that in mind, Constantino said his client would be ready to go in “late August or early September” and is happy to fight “whoever is put in front of him to get a title shot the fastest.”
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“Nobody called me about a Cerrone fight,” Kogan said. “I’m not ignoring anybody. I’m pretty sure in my job description it says, ‘Don’t ignore calls and texts related to people you represent.’”
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Friday, May 9, 2014

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The social networking giant acquired part of Bolt’s design research papa johns pizza firm Bolt Peters back in 2012, with Bolt becoming a design research manager. As part of the deal, he was able to spin out a separate company focused on Bolt Peters’ product Ethnio , and Facebook gave him permission to work on it for three hours each week.
Bolt told me that Facebook was an Ethnio customer then, and remains one today, but there was no reason for the company to acquire the product. papa johns pizza And yet Ethnio papa johns pizza (which allows businesses to recruit users for design research) had 4,000 customers, so he didn’t just want it to die. Bolt admitted that the idea of working on it for three hours a week was a bit arbitrary — what mattered was the fact that he was allowed to work on it at all.
In Bolt’s view, the deal showed that while many large companies pay lip service to the idea maintaining an entrepreneurial culture when they acquire startups, Facebook actually lives up to that ideal.
In the two years since he joined Facebook, Ethnio has continued to grow, but Bolt admitted that the product has “stagnated” a bit. He’s not the only one working on it, but everyone has been, to use his word, “part-time-ish.” There was no specific breaking point, but Bolt recalled looking at the “giant papa johns pizza spreadsheet” of features that he wanted to add, and he thought, “Some of this stuff, we’re just kind of phoning it in.”
So he’s back on Ethnio full-time, and he’s looking to recruit a team. Bolt said he doesn’t know where he wants to establish the company yet, but it definitely won’t be San Francisco, which he said is “not a great climate,” especially in terms of commercial rents. (Post-Facebook, Bolt has been doing a lot of traveling — though he still technically lives in SF, he was in New York when he and I spoke last week, and now he’s in Berlin.)
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