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Day 1: Arrive in Auckland
Upon arrival into Auckland, you will be met at the airport and transferred to your hotel. Relax and rest after a long flight before you meet the group at the welcome dinner and meeting.
Day 2: Auckland Sites
After breakfast, we start our city tour with a visit to the volcanic cone of Mount Eden with extensive views of Auckland city and its surrouding area. We then make our way through the city's CBD (Central Business District) and continue with a drive along the waterfront of Tamaki Drive to Orakei and Mission Bay. We also pass through the suburb of Parnell, known as the "oldest suburb" in Auckland where buildings have been restored in the old colonial style.
Day 3: Waitomo Caves, Rotorua
After breakfast, we depart for Waitomo.
Day 4: Rotorua, Maori Feast
Today we have the opportunity to experience the wonders of Rotorua. We visit the Agrodome for a live show displaying aspects of New Zealand agriculture, including sheep shearing and sheep-dogs working. There are 19 different breeds of sheep here!
Day 5: Rotorua, Huka Falls, to Taupo
After breakfast, you can walk to the church at Ohinemutu for a quick visit to see a Maori Christ figure depicted walking on the waters of Lake Rotorua. We then travel to Waimangu Volcanic Valley which was created by the eruption of Mount Tarawera. Enjoy a sightseeing walk through the valley of craters, steaming cliffs, and lakes.
Day 6: Tongaririo River Rafting, Wellington
After breakfast, we continue to Turangi and begin our white-water rafting adventure on the Tongaririo River. This area is only accessible by raft or kayak, so you will see plenty of spectacular unspoiled wilderness. We raft for about 3 hours, covering over 60 rapids. The rapids are Grade III which makes for an ideal adventure for both expert or first-time rafters.
Day 7: Wellington Sites
After breakfast, enjoy a city sightseeing tour of Wellington along with a tour of the Parliament Buildings, including the "Beehive", so called because of its unusual shape. We also visit Old St Paul's Cathedral, one of the oldest wooden churches of New Zealand.
Day 8: Ferry to Picton, Nelson
Today, we take a ferry to Picton, through the beautiful Marlborough Sounds. The sheltered waterways of these sounds meander for more than 600 miles and are full of secluded coves and pristine beaches. Transfer from Picton to Blenheim, the main town of the Marlborough Wine Region. Enjoy wine tasting in the tasting room and a two course lunch at one of the local vineyards.
Day 9: Abel Tasman National Park - Kayak, Seals & Walking Tour
This morning, we make our way to Abel Tasman National Park, graced with magnificent beaches, unspoiled native forest and rocky headlands. The park was named after Dutch explorer Abel Tasman, who anchored in Golden Bay over 350 years ago. He was the first European to explore the New Zealand coastline.
Day 10: Nelson
Today is free at your leisure in Nelson and transportation will be provided for you to explore many of the local art galleries, stores, food markets & craft breweries in Nelson city.
Day 11: Golden Bay
Today we travel across the infamous Takaka Hill to arrive in Golden Bay. In this remote part of the region, we fill our day with interesting sightseeing including:
Day 12: Punakaiki
Today, we leave Nelson to travel the full length of the South Island's west coast. It is the most scenic drive in New Zealand and arguably one of the most scenic highways in the world. Nestled between the Southern Alps and the Tasman Sea, the west coast of the South Island is an area in a spectacular and beautiful environment.
Day 13: Franz Josef Glacier & Fox Glacier
This morning we continue our journey along the spectacular west coast through Greymouth and on to Hokitika where we visit a local greenstone (jade) factory before lunch.
Day 14: Mountains, Lakes & Glaciers, to Wanaka
We will travel out to Lake Matheson for a hike around this tranquil lake. We will pass through forests of red and white pine to Bruce Bay, an old gold mining settlement. Continue through attractive bush scenery until you pass tranquil lakes Paringa and Moeraki, the haunt of the fabulous white heron, to the township of Haast. From here, we drive through the Haast Pass Highway, viewing enroute Mount Brewster, towering 2423 meters and the Brewster Glacier. Descend 82 kms, past the Lake Hawea Dam, water storage for the Roxburgh Hydro Electric Station, before we journey to Wanaka.
Day 15: Queenstown
We leave Wanaka this morning and make a stop at the unusual Puzzling World. We then travel towards Queenstown with a stop in the quaint former gold mining town of Arrowtown where we have time to explore the town and have lunch.
Day 16: Te Anau, Milford Sound
We depart for Milford Sound following an early breakfast. Enroute, we travel through Te Anau along a scenic highway of massive peaks and bluffs, stopping for short bush walks if time allows. We skirt around Lake Wakatipu with the spectacular Remarkables towering above us.
Day 17: Queenstown - Shotover Jetboat Ride
We depart mid-morning to the Shotover Jet river base. The Shotover Jet is an icon of Queenstown, offering one of the most thrilling jetboat rides in the world. From the moment the accelerator first hits the floor, your adrenaline starts working overtime. Speed through river canyons as you experience the special manoeuvring of this vessel. The rock faces blur in your peripheral vision and the water sprays into myriads of white crystals with every turn. We return to Queenstown for lunch and you will have the afternoon at leisure.
Day 18: Depart Queenstown
Today we depart Queenstown and transfer to the airport as our New Zealand adventure comes to an end.
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Teach me how to be a better parent to my toddler. I'm failing miserably.
Naptimes and bedtime are becoming my own private hell. I can't effectively discipline my 2.5 year old. We are not on a good path.
I just bought $100 worth of parenting books and DVDs from Amazon. I bought Love & Logic stuff. I bought Magic 1-2-3 stuff. I bought the No Cry Sleep Solution for Toddlers book. I might have bought other stuff. I can't remember off the top of my head. I've never bought a parenting book before. I thought they were a joke. I'm desperate now though. I don't like the kind of mom that I'm becoming. I don't want to be the kind of mom that I'm becoming.
I almost cried tonight. I'm so tired of yelling. I'm ashamed to admit that I'm spanking now. I was desperate. I HATE doing it though. It doesn't work anyways. Nothing does. I never wanted to spank. I hate spanking. The more often I do it, the more miserable I become. I really hate it. I don't want to do it anymore. I feel awful.
I decided that nothing that I'm doing is really working. I just need to open my mind and be ready to completely change things up. I'm going to listen to anyone and everyone's advice. I'm going to read parenting books cover to cover. I don't want to be a screaming & spanking psycho. That is what I'm on the path to become if I don't change now. I need to add some new tools to my toolbag. I want to be a better parent. What do you do that really works?
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What sort of issues are you having? 2.5 is a hard hard age. Try to be kind to yourself mama, we've all reached our limits and have regrets.
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Unfortunately I don't have any advice for you because I am in the same exact boat. I have a 2.5yr old, a 4yr old and a 7 month old and the older 2 are driving me batty and I'm losing it far to often. I just started reading the Love and Logic book. There are some good ideas for my 4yr old but my 2yr old is too immature to use their methods. This book is better for the kindergartner and older kids. Is there a book out there that talks specifically about toddlers? I'll be subbing because I need some advice too.
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I'm hoping you get some good advice, since we are dealing with similar problems.
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Here is some info I posted to another thread a while back....I have several ages in kiddos-from age 17 yrs down to 17 mths, so I just put here information regarding my younger ones since your children are young and you don't really need any help for older children... Hope some of this might help you out mamas.
For my 4 yr old wild child: I think this works for any child age 2 and up especially if they are very verbal at 2 yrs old.
1.) Madilynn is my hardest child by far...she is very strong willed and very active. She is smart and I have found the smarter the kid the more they challenge authority.
2.) With this child I try to keep her BUSY!! Very important...cause when she gets bored she will get into EVERYTHING...she is very tactile and LOVES to mess with anything goopy, messy, etc. Lotion, shampoo, soap- you name it and she has played in it and made a mess when I haven't kept her busy. So I make sure to have plenty of busy activites for her daily- playdough, rice boxes, coloring, painting, pushing fluffy balls into tiny holes in a box etc...playing with shaving cream etc.
3.) When she is naughty we give her ONE warning and then if she continues the behavior we either send her to her room for a "calm down" time....or we do a "think about it" sit down. Sending her to her room gives her a chance to be away from the situation she was acting up in- she is free to play in her room and can come back to us when she is ready to calm down and listen better. The second choice of the "think about it" is where we actually sit her down on the couch, the stairs or the floor and she is not allowed to get up till she can talk to us about her behavior and what she needs to do differently.
4.) We also use 2 behavior charts with her- one for bedtime behavior (going to bed when told without fussing and staying in her bed) and another chart for general behavior (listening and not bugging her baby brother). She earns a star everyday on these charts depending on her behavior that day (we remind her throughout the day about her charts to give her incentive to behave good). Once she earns a weeks worth of stars she gets a reward. I have seen different variations of behavior charts but this is what works for her currently.
5.) We do a singing bedtime with her...I will tuck her in, we read 2 books, say prayers etc and then I let her chose one song for me to sing..I sing the song and then tell her to lay very still and very quiet while I go do a few things..I tell her if she will remain quiet and stay in her bed I will come sing her another song of her choice. I basically stay out of her room for increasing lengths of time in between the song singing....like 3 min the first time, then 6, then 10, usually by 10-15 minutes she is already fast asleep...lol! Works like a charm and I got this idea from another mama on here (THANKS!!)
General Discipline Ideas-
1.) Give one warning only and then if they disobey you need to follow thru with a discipline
2.) Try to always make the discipline fit the behavior (for ex- not picking up toys= toys are taken away for a period of time) (Not going to bed when told=early bedtime the next night) (Act up at the store means no going to store with mom next time)
3.) We really try to focus on their good behavior and praise them when we see them making good choices
4.) Talk talk talk with your child!!! I can't stress this enough...but when you develop a really good, close relationship with them they will naturally want to please you and act good! A lot of times kids act out to try to get more attention from their parents....so when they start acting up try to assess if they need MORE time with you. I spend a bunch of time just hanging out and talking with my kids daily even with my 4 year old.... I really try to get inside their heads..lol! I plop down on their beds and just hang out and listen to them and explain stuff to them.
5.) Don't sweat the small stuff- I don't act perfect every single day, so I certainly don't expect perfection from my kids. Extend GRACE to them on issues that don't really have to be dealt with by a punishment...instead try doing "do-overs" (we say "oops- lets try that one more time") and give the child a chance to self correct their behavior- if they don't know a different way to change how they acted we model the correct behavior. We also offer little encouraging reminders when we see a child heading in the wrong direction with a behavior..(" Hey son, remember to use kind words when dealing with your brothers") etc.
6.) When everyone is in a grumpy mood and just acting up a lot, either get them outside or turn on dance music! lol! Seriously...nothing changes bad moods/behavior faster than a change of scenery or sound. I get in there and dance goofy with my kids and before you know it we are all laughing and acting better! :-)
7.) We are Christians so we use the bible to help reinforce proper behaviors in our children even my younger ones..I remind them when we are having our chats to remember what God says about their behavior...etc. I also quote bible verses that pertain to their issue when needed during the day.
8.) Try your best NOT to yell...the more you raise your voice the more kids learn to tune you out till you have to scream to get their attention...then they think its OK to yell also and will do it with you, their siblings etc...Tell your kids you will not yell at them and they are not to yell either. We use quiet voices with each other..etc...
OK for babies and toddlers under age 3-4:
1.) Make a touch safe zone where baby/toddler can explore safely without you having to say no...put up fragile things, use gates, use outlet covers, TV guards...etc...outlet plugs etc. Your sanity will thank you! Baby will be able to explore and touch things without being in trouble.
2.) Use the phrase "not for ___" (insert your babys name) to help baby learn when to not have things they want in areas where they cannot touch everything safely...as your gently re-direct them to something they can have. This sounds much nicer than "No!"
3.) Understand what is normal behavior for your childs age...babies and toddlers LOVE to touch/poke/grab/drop/squish/manhandle EVERYTHING! lol! That is how they learn about their world. So make sure you do #1 in my list and make life better for mommy and child.
4.) When your toddler does truly disobey or be naughty either redirect them to something else, or do a time out in their crib, playpen etc...I only do timeouts for kids older than 2 years. Before this age they simply do not understand a time-out and your much better off simply re-directing their behavior than trying to punish for it. (ex- my 17 month old son LOVES to pull hair...and he thinks it is SO funny when he is doing it...now I know he does not truly understand how painful that is for someone or that this behavior is naughty...he is learning that it is but has not grasped this concept yet- SO what I do is when he starts to pull hair is I say " Oh! Not for TJ!! Ouch- that hurts!" as I release his hand and then I quickly re-direct him to something else to get his mind in a better place than wanting to pull hair. I may have to do this several times but he eventually gets busy doing something better. Over the past couple of weeks his hair pulling as decreased significantly- and now he hardly ever does it. We are also in the process of teaching him to have "gentle hands" and will help him touch softly and do things like pet our dog softly and such.
5.) Some parents say they would spank if their child ran into the street etc...OK to address this is important. In our home we start training our toddlers early about street safety...but even with that sometimes toddlers (again it has to do with brain development) are very rash and careless and they DO NOT think things thru...they just have a strong urge to do something so they do it...again without thinking about the consequences!! So you have to expect and know that a young child might try to run off and could get into the street...so we teach ours rules of safety early on (we teach them if we yell STOP they are to freeze in place like a popsicle- we practice this all the time in the house)- reinforce it constantly and make sure to implement precautions such as holding hands, etc. When those fail because of the impulsiveness of a toddler and they try to run ahead of us or into the street (this has happened with Madilynn) we shout "STOP" and they freeze in place, then we run to them and in a very shocked voice without yelling we tell them how dangerous that was and remind them again of our safety rules...then we discipline them with a time-out, and they are not allowed to go outside for a day or so. Kids too young to understand any of this should not have been down loose anyways imo (keep them in a stroller or hold them or something)- cause a spanking won't teach them not to run into the street either, my neighbors little girl runs into the street ALL THE TIME and she is spanked for doing it EVERY SINGLE time! My little 4 yr old girl KNOWS she should not do it and WHY and now is very careful about making sure she has a grownup with her before venturing into any street! She has never been spanked, but clearly remembers the times when she was not allowed to go play outside because of not obeying our street safety rules.
For those who are spanking as a form of discipline and want to stop, it will be one of the hardest things you do...because once you get used to being able to spank it is hard to stop....you really have to commit to it and learn to think on your feet per say...spanking really does not require much thought...but parenting without spanking DOES! lol! I even print out a list of why we don't spank and alternatives to spanking and keep it taped to the inside of a cabinet so I can read it whenever I need a reminder or ideas.
Hope this helps- I will edit this if I can think of more to add that might be helpful. I think the book choices are a good starting point too! :-) Hang in there mamas!
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I don't know what problems you're having during bedtime, but I can tell you what worked for us. My son is a month younger than yours, my daughter is almost 1 now and a couple months ago I was pull my hair out. My DH is occasionally some kind of weird genius when it comes to teaching our son, and this was all his idea.
He started out by laying down with DS for bedtime, staying until DS was asleep and then sneaking out. He did this for a week.
Next, he laid down with DS for about 10 minutes, then said "I need to go check on Mama, I'll be right back, you stay in bed". So he'd leave the room for 2 minutes, then go back in and check on DS, leave the room for 4 minutes, so back and check on him, etc. and DS eventually would fall asleep. Over the course of a week, DS went from taking an hour to fall asleep to about 10 minutes.
Finally, he made a deal with DS - they'd read books in bed, then they'd snuggle for a couple minutes, then DH would leave - if DS got out of his bed, DH would shut the door; if he got out again, DH would lock the door. He did have to lock the door one night (for about 5 minutes) and there was a lot of yelling and drama over it (from DS), but then DH went back in, gave hugs and kisses, and put DS back in bed and he stayed. The whole thing was pretty peaceful overall, and now naps and bedtimes are super easy (for me too, not just DH). Hope that was helpful in some way.
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I know this is kind of silly, but I think that watching SuperNanny is one of the greatest things. My cousin, who I watch often as his dad is pretty much absent and completely dysfunctional, is 4 years old and I use her methods with him and they work very well. There is also a book about her methods. It is just nice to relax and watch some TV and watch other people with kids who are a little out of control, because it makes you laugh and not feel so alone, plus her methods are EXCELLENT
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My DH is a psychotherapist and uses 1-2-3 Magic with his clients and brought home a DVD last week called "Painless Parenting" in the same series. It is geared for parents of toddlers. Not sure if he was trying to tell me something ...
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Could your DS be upset about the new addition and the lesser attention he's getting and he's acting out?
I'd a thread on here about sibling rivalry when DS2 was born. I got some wonderful advice and Emilythestrange linked me upto alphamom's blog. I used SOOOO many tips fm the comments section of it. I can tell you they worked..esp'lly ones wherein you loudly announce to the LO that the older brother needs help with that/ praise the older one for being such a nice boy and tell the LO -who BTW only cares about peeing and food- that he needs to be just like the older one when s/he grows up.
I employ it even now, and it works like a charm. Nothing like the pressure of being told that you are being admired/watched right now.
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We love 1-2-3 Magic. But you have to be unfailingly consistent.
Here are some things I have found that work for me. 1) I do not raise my voice, ever. I am not a yelling sort of person. I feel it is counter-productive and generally the only thing it does is cause the person on the receiving end to raise THEIR voice or else cease to listen. It's about self-control. I'm the adult, I can master self-control. 2) I do 1-2-3 consistently and fairly. There are some things that do not get a count--for example, things that are safety related and that I have already taught my son (he's 2). For example, walking into the road is immediate time out, no exceptions. 3) I provide alternative activities. ALL. THE. TIME. It is a pain in the hiney sometimes and keeps me busy but it keeps me sane. 4) We spend a lot of time out of the house. It keeps him from destroying it, lol. Outside time is key for us.
Bedtimes and naptimes are hard at this age. For us, the best thing we have found mimics what a pp said. We do bath, toothbrushing, read 2 stories, and DS chooses 2 songs for me to sing. Then we talk about his day....I've found this really helps him wind down. We review all the good things that happened in the day. We do not talk about anything negative that happened, only the good things. I tell him all the times I was proud of him and all the behaviors he did that made me happy. I try to reinforce the positive. Then he gets in bed and I tell him if he is very still and quiet I will sit by his bed and pat him or rub his back. The key is, if I can get him still and quiet, he usually goes to sleep pretty easily. If he is not still or quiet, I get up and move to the rocking chair across the room. If he is still not still or quiet, I leave the room. He does not like that, so usually all it takes is me saying "are you being still and quiet?" and he calms down.
It has taken at least a year to get to this point for us, mama, but it's possible!
Kudos to you for wanting to make a change! And good luck! Being a mama is hard work.
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I live in the Santa Cruz Mountains in California. We live on a lake called Lexington Reservoir. For the past few weeks, the lake has been draining to replenish the underground aquifer. This morning, on one of my regular walks around the lake bottom, I came across this strange mass. The sack was attached to a branch submerged in the water. At first glance, I thought it was just a big piece of silicone, mostly because it looks like jelly fish that wash up on the ocean beaches. But this is a freshwater lake. I brought the thing home and sliced it open with a shovel. Inside was a clear jelly like substance with these striations. It almost seems fibrous, but in a stringy jello kind of way. There doesn't seem to be any eggs or larvae in the sack, just these fibers that cling to the tree branch it has adhered itself to. Does anyone have any idea what it could be? It is a good size sack too, as you can see from its size in comparison with the empty Coke can. Any help would be much appreciated.
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I could see Coach and Tyson being blindsided soon enough as well. And Stephen, Taj and JT will stick together all the way to the final 3. I could also see Erinn, Sierra and Debbie making the final 6 as well..Just want Coach and Tyson off my TV screen ASAP.
I read that Taj is the final juror over at sucks but really have not kept up with the spoilers too much there is so much its hard to read between the lines. Also Stephen and Sierra are part of the final 6 ( I read) . I guess folks are speculating that Stephen and JT are final 2?
http://www.survivorfever.com/vc_s18/vc_s18_ep9_4_18/vc_s18_ep9_4_18_0058.jpgI wasn't sure how to copy just the image.But I noticed on this screencap that there is a strap around Stephen's shoulder. Perhaps that's his bag from when he returns from Exile Island??
If the spoiler/rumor is true then Sierra must win, especially if she makes final 6.
I think Sierra's sad face with the black tie on her head is the icing on the cake that her group does not win.I so hope Sierra wins and throws all of their plans off
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The softspoken mastermind is a "he", as it said. It must be Stephen, I can't see any other males making last-minute plans. Coach & Tyson are stick to voting Sierra. I can't see JT being a mastermind, or at least I can see Stephen being it a lot more.
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Curl, 63, of Vienna, Va., founder of the suburban Washington Curl-Burke Swim Club, allegedly began to sexually abuse his victim when she was 13 in the early 1980s, police said. The sexual abuse progressed from inappropriate touching to a sexual relationship while the victim was age 15 to 18.
Police said the abuse occurred throughout Montgomery County, including Curl's former residences in Rockville and Darnestown and the swimming facilities at the Georgetown Preparatory School in North Bethesda. Curl coached the victim when she was nine to 19 years old, police said.
Curl was banned for life from USA Swimming in September and his club was renamed the Nation's Capital Swim Club. Among its swimmer are Olympians, including Katie Ledecky of Bethesda. She won a gold medal in this year's London games.
The Washington Post reported earlier this year that Curl agreed in 1989 to pay the family of his victim $150,000 over 11 years for "pain and suffering." The victim, who is now 43, had not pressed charges, under the nondisclosure agreement between her family and Curl.
Montgomery County Police began investigating the case in July, the same month the initial newspaper article was published. Police interviewed the victim on Aug. 15.
Police issued an arrest warrant for Curl on Tuesday. He was charged with one count of child abuse related to his supervision of the victim as her coach.
The arrest comes in the weeks after USA Swimming revealed an allegation of "inappropriate conduct" in 1975 between a female swimmer and a long-time coach at the North Baltimore Aquatic Club. The coach allegedly involved resigned last year after the woman reported the alleged abuse to the club.
The woman left an anonymous message in August 2010 with USA Swimming, but the Colorado-based organization said its attempts to investigate the allegation at that time were not successful because the woman left very few details and could not be reached for follow-up questions.


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Nick Diaz In Black Belt Magazine
By Edward Pollard
Nick Diaz is an outsider whose uncompromising stance as a fighter and as an individual put him in a unique position as a professional athlete. At the fairly young age of 26, Diaz is a seasoned veteran whose experience covers a broad spectrum of the mixed-martial arts landscape. He started fighting as a professional at 18 and has been at it ever since. Hes competed in the Ultimate Fighting Championship as well as the defunct PRIDE Fighting Championships in Japan, and he is now under contract with San Jose, California-based Strikeforce.
Aside from the fact that this Stockton, California native was raised in a difficult environment, he has had to deal with the added setback of being diagnosed with attention deficit disorder. However, Diaz refused to take prescription drugs like Ritalin, preferring to deal with the symptoms in his own way. Discovering that martial arts provided him with both a structure for his behavior and an outlet for his physical gifts, he came to adopt Brazilian jiu-jitsu with the help of Cesar Gracie, a teacher-student relationship that he still maintains.
Keep in mind that Diaz maintains a punishing training schedule that could floor the average mixed martial artist. He may not be a champion now, but you can bet that his path will soon lead to a title shot.
Black Belt: Youve been training hard for a specific opponent and he gets bumped from the card. How do you deal with the period when you dont know who youre going to face?
Nick Diaz: Thats probably the hardest part about mixed martial arts for me over the last seven fights. I never know who Im going to fight, usually. Ive never had like a whole month knowing who Im going to fight. If I did, I trained for that month for that person in particular and they changed my opponent.
So thats happened to you a lot?
Thats what happened this time. I trained for a certain guy and now Im training for a different guy, which is really de-motivating, especially at a time when I dont know who Im fighting. Once I know who Im training for, I start training real good and real hard.
Do you think in a way thats an advantage? Police dont know who theyre going to face specifically, but they still have to be prepared. In a way, youre also ready for anybody.
Yeah, but I just think about what history shows. Any time anybodys ever gone into battle, whoever doesnt know what theyre up against usually loses.
You could probably narrow down your list of opponents by now.
The only times Ive ever lost are when I didnt know enough about my opponent or didnt know who my opponent was. Thats the biggest challenge for me, knowing who it is, getting on the ball real quick, and finding out how to deal with him.
How do you stay alert and ready for that next opponent? How do you get through that period?
I pretty much have to push myself and I have to rely a lot more on good judgment instead of that adrenaline and energy I would get from knowing who Im going to fight. Its kind of automatic then. But now I know who Im going to fight so Ive just got to be really smart about making it into the gym anyways, putting in the same effort and getting ready.
MMA fighter Nick Diaz competes in Strikeforce
In general, how do you maintain your level of competitive interest in MMA?
I want to be really happy, so I use training to stay balanced. I use the other things I do throughout the day to balance things out.
So instead of thinking MMA all the time, you pursue a normal life.
You cant really [think about MMA all the time]. You have to have some sort of life. Thats the hard part, though. You have to have a life to balance. This has to complement that and thats got to complement this, you know?
Tell me about prepping for the fight you had with Frank Shamrock. Franks another guy who is really capable in a lot of different fields, right?
For me, I know Frank and where he came from. I work harder than him and I know his tricks. I know what his mentality is. He thinks he knows exactly what I do, but he didnt know that I came from his backyard.
I have the same sort of mentality as Frankhe thinks the same way I do. I think the same way he does on account of him. He brought a lot to the table when it comes to mixed martial arts and training jiu-jitsu. When he fought Tito [Ortiz], I heard a lot about that fight.
Was his meeting with Ortiz an MMA landmark? Did he prove a lot to you in that fight?
Yeah, and some of these people who looked up to Frank were so up his ass for the five years that I was training in the beginning. So many guys would come in with wrestling shoes, but I would tap them all out with chokes and arm locks and sweeps and stuff. I would train with a gi and despite all that they would show up and try to act like Frank. They wanted to lift weights and do steroids and paint their hair. This is the sporty type of attitude.
Is being sporty more of an attention thing?
Yeah. They want repercussions from training. They like the look. They didnt like the way they looked doing martial arts in a gi. They thought that was dorky or something. They dont like karateits just sort of a dorky thing or something. They like to be cool, more like jockslift weights, you know. Here in America they felt better trying to impress their girlfriends than they did walking around with ninja skills and a karate gi. I heard a lot of people from the Lions Den would call it pajamas.
Its the mentality that is mostly concerned with having a strong and big upper body. Thats why wrestling remains popular. Do you think thats why steroids are such a factor?
Yeah, but these guys liked to hang out together to do all that stuff. Id go right in and tap all of them out and they wouldnt like that. I was younger than them, too. Id wear a gi and they were against that. So I had to go where there was an instructor who could tell people that this is the way. Because theyre not going to listen to anything, even though I was tapping them out. Thats how ignorant people are. Even when they see it right in front of their faces theyre not going to believe it. Im tapping them out.
Once I got into the academy everybody had the same mind-set as me, so I thought, Great, well all learn jiu-jitsu together and train together. Sometimes I tried to get those guys to train and theyd be like, You go run and lift weights like we did and then well train with you. And Im like, Dude, why are you doing all that when Ill beat you? Its obviously not helping you. I actually went through that with a lot of people from the time I was 16 until I was about 19.
Mixed martial artist Nick Diaz fights in Strikeforce
Your brother Nate fights for the UFC and you used to fight for them. Do you give him advice about how to handle things?
Yeah, I do. I give him the heads-up about what they do. He understands that theyre not completely all for you over there. You have to watch out and be ready for what youre doing. Its geared to that sportier athlete.
Im at war. As far as Im concerned, this is warfare and Im a ninja warrior and Im taught to kill in the most efficient way possible. Thats the sort of mentality Im going in there with.
I dont want to sit next to you and have a conversation and lunch and have an interview together and talk and shake hands. Im like, Fine, if the media wants to talk to me or see me or ask me questions, they can hear about whatever.
The UFC thinks [marketing] is good for the sport, but we dont need to worry about that anymore. Im sorryI just dont believe that we do. Its not like were marketing Crystal Pepsithis things here to stay now.
Im sorry that it scares people and that theyre not mature enough to understand that violence is a part of life. Its just the way it is and its not my problem. Thats just the way I feel.
I dont mean to be bad for the sport. Im sorry if Im bad for the sport. I dont necessarily love this sport, either. I love jiu-jitsu and martial arts and competition, but mixed martial arts and what it is today, I dont necessarily love it. Its just not an easy job. And people like to point their fingers a lot and think its a ballgame and they think its an easy job, and its not that easy. I need to look like this killer to my adversary. I need to have that mental edge and I will have it. Its the most important thing if Im going to be fighting.
And you dont want to piss away that mental edge by doing promotional stuff.
Yeah, Im not going to sell out to anything like that. Ive already said Im not going to, so how could I now? Its just bullshit anyway. Im going to put on an act and then go fight somebody? Im going to go in there and fight for my life, but then I have to go and act like I like this person? Its hard.
When I got into this, I was 17 years old. I had this mentality and it worked for me, but I just turned 26 and I had a girlfriend for five years and its harder. Her sisters kids have to see me go out there and fight and I have to try and act sportsmanlike and its kind of hard. So this isnt my favorite thing to do on Earth. People are calling me a creep and telling me that Im a monster or whatever, but I dont especially enjoy this.
I dont think you enjoy going to your job eight hours a day, do you? So I can smile and act nice and be a good sport, but Ill do that when I get home. At the same time, this has caused me a lot of problems. People who dont agree with how I feel have a hard time understanding me. My ex-girlfriends dadin five years I never met this guy. He was probably intimidated by me. He probably intimidates everybody hes ever met in his life, but he doesnt want to meet me. That sucks a lot.
I got into this sport as an angry, rebellious, mad kid. I was going to be nothing and nobody and all that stuff, coming from nowhere like Stockton. I was real angry about that and I had a really hard time trying to do good in school, especially when they moved me around a few schools and it just wasnt easy for me, so you know I was angry.
You get a lot of things out of fighting if you work hard. For instance, I had a girlfriend and I started to have a normal life after a while. Then you have something new to work for instead of just being angry. I had a potential family and stuff like that to take care of. Now that Im making money, thats actually a possibility.
Mixed martial artist Nick Diaz fights in Strikeforce
You didnt have much to look forward to before.
Yeah. But for me the only problem was that five years in I wasnt concentrating on that until I started to see repercussions. Then I started to think about that, but by then I was just acting like an asshole.
I had to start from scratch when I broke up with my girlfriend. Im at this point where Ive fought for all these years straight and now Ive made some money. I still live at home with my brother and my parents, but I want out now; Im ready to go do something. Im at a crossroads.
Youve got to have people to trust, for sure.
But fighting makes it hard. Youre putting people off on account of training. You have to. Nobody understands that if youre out there, youre going to get your head pounded into the mat. Gil Castillo told me that. Hes always stressing out about his girlfriend. Hed be fighting and training and hed want a personal life or just a life, period, but he couldnt take care of both.
Its a lot of physical stress and all of a sudden you have mental stress. Id be like, Oh, dude, you have no physical to carry you through the mental part. He would say that nobodys going to know what youre going through, not your mom, not your girlfriendonly you. Youve got to think about that if youre going to fight mixed martial arts. Nobodys going to understand how fucked up and hard that **** is. So youve just got to make the best of all the good things. If you cant, then youre in trouble.
Im trying to be 100 percent happy and manipulate myself into being angry, into being happy, into being all these things. I have to trick myself with all these emotions and Im going to have to be strong enough to trick myself with it all the time. So I dont ever just get to be a normal human and be emotional or some **** like that. Ive got to block all that off.
Do you think what happened to Josh Barnett is going to shake a lot of people from the tree in terms of steroid use?
Theyre all on steroids, though, you know? All of them are on steroids, dude. Obviously, he was trying to cycle off and they got him.
Theres a certain type of person who does steroids. I just dont fall into that category. If you do steroids, you cant stop. You have to do them. Even if the steroids were placebos, it would be a mental issue and you would still need steroids because youre aware of your testosterone level and how it goes up and then drops, but it wont go back up to 100 percent unless you use steroids again.
So youre screwed once you start.
Yeah, steroids turned me off from the very beginning. I think I was brought up with certain good habits and one of them was to not stick needles in my ass. (laughs)
Maybe some people arent that lucky. But maybe you grew up and saw some of those people become pro wrestlers. No one told them not to do it and now you see what happens to them. They just turn into caricatures.
And I always thought it was kind of funny. So much of steroids is for looks. When I started fighting, most of the time I would have a confrontation with people I didnt get along with: jocks and high school kids. Not to cry about how I didnt have this or that and whateverbut they did. And we were both there. I wasnt going anywhere, so we clashed. They did steroids and I never did.
Mixed martial artist Nick Diaz fights in Strikeforce
Wow, they were already using stuff like that in high school for football and stuff?
Yeah. When I was in high school, the whole football team was on steroids. The whole football team. The wrestlers were on steroids and they were weird. You would always hear stories about people getting carried away. Youd hear about this guy smashing someones head.
A roid rage kind of thing.
Yeah, and so people would be so intimidated by these guys, but I wouldnt punk out. At the same time, they wouldnt invite me to come play football with them. So I had a lot of anxiety involved with going to school every day and having to think about fighting or getting jumped. So this never went away for me.
In high school I started fighting in mixed martial arts, so by the time the confrontations stopped in school I was fighting in MMA. People didnt want to fight with me anymorethey wanted to be my friend. But then every three months or so I would have a serious fight, so its hard to sleep now. Its the same anxieties, the same energy.
I dont like to use emotional words like anxiety, nervous or excited. People abuse these words to market medicine for kids. They tried to stuff Ritalin down my throat my whole lifeits methamphetamines. They try that with every single kid. You might not be doing your homework and you get thrown around a few schools and [your assignments are] going to look shitty compared to the other kids, so you dont do it at all. Then they decide, Hes not paying attention. He needs Ritalin.
As far as Im concerned, they use emotions to market drugs and I think its negative; I dont agree with it. I think a lot of it has to do with the fact that people are weak.
Is that why you prefer a natural approach?
Yeah. I know that if I poke at somebodys mental aspects, theyre not all there, either. They might have anxiety or depression. If were going to get political and start talking and doing interviews together, I might be able to poke at this stuff. You might not want to have me sitting right next to one of these guys in an interview.
Im just too conscious of what makes people tick and what makes people the way they are, mostly because Im trying to figure out a way to beat them, to be a more efficient killer, if you will. I want to figure out exactly what makes you tick. I feel like Ive got the right information, especially if I know where you come from and who your friends are. If youre from another country, that makes it a little trickier, but then I like to think about all the things you dont have over there. You might not have a lot of our bad habits, like all the emotional things that come into play, but over there theyre missing a lot of things in general. They dont have good boxing training over there, or good wrestlers. The whole rest of the world doesnt have all three, so by the time they start coming out and having competitors, well just decide on what theyre not good at.
Your opponents gotta watch out, man.
My opponent is gonna have to be rock solid or something, because Im going to figure out what [of theirs] is not and Im going to attack that. Thats the idea. At the same time, Ive always gone this way like [a kind of] insurance.
I used to have a girlfriend, but I didnt bring her to shows and stuff. I wasnt going to walk in and show that Im happy and have a normal life. A lot of times I wouldnt, and thats not a normal life. Even acting like you have a normal life is not having a normal life. You can quote me on that. Acting like you dont have a normal life is pretty much not having a normal life, because putting on that front for 24 hours is just crazy.
And then you have to live with it.
Yeah, so if I have to live with that, and youre not, that gives me a whole lot of confidence in a weird way. It gives me a whole lot of things, but it doesnt give me a whole lot of other stuff, but it gives me a whole lot of one thing and thats confidence to know that Im going to smash you, because you havent suffered and you havent given up the things that Ive given up. You expect to come in here and beat me and then youre going to wear a bunch of pink colors on top of this and youre going to bring your happy wife and kids that I dont have and I might not even potentially ever havea happy life.
For all I know, everybodys just going to go ahead and keep calling me a creep and saying, Oh, what an asshole punk kid because I talk **** or the way I look or whatever. So for all I know, its going to be the same way that it has from the start. For all I know, by the time I actually do start to have a life, then Ill start to take an ass whooping.
So when I go in to fight somebody, I take all these things into consideration. I look at your family, I look at who you have. Youre going to bring your kids in? Youre going to tell me that youre going home, you have a happy familyoh, youre married now? You have to tend to your kids, you have to worry about them having dinner? You cannot. Even if you explain things to them and you think that its OK because youve explained it and you know that youre in the right because you had to do whatever, theyre not going to understand. No ones going to understand. Thats what I was talking about. Its your head getting pounded into the mat, not theirs. Nobodys going to understand but you.
Except another fighter.
Maybe another fighter. And if not that fighter, then hes definitely not going to beat me. There are plenty of people who havent taken care of what they needed to take care of, and they think they can have this mentality, and they can go out there and still lose. Where Im at right now, youre doing something right if youre beating me. Whatever it is, you did something better than I did. You were taking care of something.
Unless it was a decision.
Yeah, or a stupid doctor.
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He's definitely an interesting guy, but I'm still pissed at the whole ducking Hieron thing. Guy needs to catch a break, and Diaz needs to find a way off the bud.
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Crisis of Faith in Modern Turkey
Your film shows us a "fundamentalist" who doesn't live at all like a radical, but he still finds it hard to fit in to the wider society. Is this the first film on this topic in Turkey?
Özer Kiziltan: There are many films about Muslim topics in Turkish cinema but no-one has ever filmed inside a mosque or within a religious order before. So-called "white cinema" has produced a few Muslim propaganda films. And there have been many films which attack the Dervishes and make fun of Islam, like for example "Vurun kahpeyi". We wanted to take a more conciliatory approach.
And how did you come up with the film's plot?
Kiziltan: The father of our screenwriter Önder Cakar was an atheist until he was 55 years old, and then he became a very pious Muslim. We worked on the film for about five years, the screenplay was rewritten around twenty times and six new versions were written. Each time there were new ideas, new characters and new actors.
"Takva" seems to be very realistic – for example the Sufi ritual, the so-called "Dhikr," which looks as if it comes out of a documentary. How far are there documentary elements in the film?
Kiziltan: Everything is supposed to be close to the reality of life in the order. And that was above all the result of intensive research and many conversations with people. In the case of the "Dhikr," I must say that we had both actors as well as real strictly religious Dervishes, whose friends also took part.
Was there any criticism of the project on the side of the order?
Kiziltan: The Dervishes helped us a great deal throughout the process of making the film because the film deals with their own problems, and they identified with the screenplay. They believe that nothing in this world can really touch you or damage you, so it was no problem for them to work with us on the film. They saw positive aspects in it and had no criticisms.
How far did working on the film have an influence on the Dervishes themselves? Were they able to understand the issues you were getting at?
Kiziltan: You can't ask them that directly. But they are questioning themselves currently whether they should continue to live such a purely spiritual life, or whether they should move towards greater worldliness. That is really an issue for them.
"Takva" means "asceticism." And sexual need drives the main character to madness in the end. Should Muharrem live even more abstemiously, or should he accept his desires?
Kiziltan: There are many reasons why Muharrem goes mad. He wants to be a good man, close to God, but there are the temptations of money and politics – and the daughter of the Sheikh. It's a complicated puzzle, a tragic story, and many Muslims feel sympathy for Muharrem.
From time to time one hears enlightened Turks say things like, "We come from Istanbul, such things don't happen round here." Do they really have such a distance from the religious traditions of the country?
Kiziltan: The history of Istanbul is a mirror of the history of this religious order. In Istanbul there are 2,500 religious houses, in the whole of Turkey there are 25,000 and even members of the government belong to them. They are represented throughout society.
The division between religion and the modern is not that deep then?
Kiziltan: I myself am an atheist, I don't believe in God, but Dervishes and religious people have worked with me. So I can't see a division. Many of our modern atheists have religious parents. We're not that far away from each other. And the Sheikh of the order we worked with has just seen the film and complimented me on it only a few minutes ago.
This film would not have worked if you hadn't had such an extraordinary actor as Erkan Can involved. Was it hard to cast the role? And how is it that he gets into the role so deeply?
Kiziltan: He had five years to prepare himself for the role. And as a well-known actor he was irreplaceable for us. From the beginning it was clear that Erkan Can would be part of the team. He belongs to our group "Yeni Sinemacilar," and has already been in five films which I've directed. He'll be in our 150th film too.
You won nine prizes in Antalya, and then after that your film became a surprise hit with the Turkish public. "Takva" has just played at the International Berlinale in Germany. How do you explain such a success?
Kiziltan: To be honest, that's a question I ask myself.
How did you come to work with Fatih Akin who's the co-producer of this film?
Kiziltan: I got to know Fatih many years ago at the Antalya Film Festival, and we are now friends. We have very similar ideas about cinema, and when we found the story for "Takva," we agreed very quickly to work together on it.
On that point: has anything changed in the nature of German-Turkish cooperation in film since Fatih Akin's film "Head-On"?
Kiziltan: Our friendship goes back a long way before "Head-On" – all the way back to Serif Gören, who co-produced several films in Germany. We know many directors who live here. Fatih Akin himself has just made a new film in Turkey, and we helped him with that. You can do lots of things together. It doesn't matter whether you live in Germany or Canada.
Interview: Amin Farzanefar
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Translated from the German by Michael Lawton
Turkish Cinema
The Mirror of Social Change
Today's modern Turkish film industry - multi-faceted, complex, innovative, is also home to a new wave of directors whose films no longer shy away from the politically or socially sensitive. Amin Farzanefar takes a front-row seat
Popular Cinema, Turkish-Style
Turkish films are securing a place in German cinemas now that producers have discovered a new target audience of German-Turks. Far from being on the fringe, the films are making it into the nation's biggest theaters. By Amin Farzanefar
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Hardware YTD:
4: WiiU - 187,273 (-)
7: Wii - 124,277 (-72.5%)
Software YTD:
1: Call of Duty: Black Ops II (PS3) - 309,045
2: Call of Duty: Black Ops II (X360) - 292,654
3: Halo 4 (X360) - 252,990
4: Animal Crossing: New Leaf (3DS) - 219,041
5: New Super Mario Bros. 2 (3DS) - 215,320
6: Just Dance 4 (Wii) - 192,138
7: FIFA Soccer 13 (PS3) - 180,018
8: Far Cry 3 (X360) - 171,782
9: Far Cry 3 (PS3) - 155,199
10: Assassin's Creed III (PS3) - 129,823
So If I see this correctly, the Vita has sold more on 2013 already than on 2012?
Im confused at this chart.
what Im confused about is that the psp still outsold it
The Vita was only out in Japan this time last year. That's why it looks like it sold more YTD.
@haha123, The PSP is cheaper, way cheaper and has a lot of support in Japan and other areas still.
Plus, all the rumours about the incoming Vita Monster Hunter made me replace my broken PSP so I could play Monster Hunter again.
THAT is why it sold more :-)
But seriously, PSP's are cheap as s*** now. I got one for $60 brand new, and have seen them go for $50. When I first got one, they were $400 lol. PSP isn't really dated either as far as handhelds go. Should buy Monster Hunter for it, still kicks a$$!!
Go Sony!!!! 3 cheers for Sony!! Hip hip horray! Hip hip horray! Hip hip horray!! XD
Suck on it haters!
I was 15 once.
Calls out immaturity; Yet ignores Senõr Poop_On_Vita. Priceless.
I'm actually 30. See the 82 refers to my birth year lol
Ps3 bossing the home console sales as per usual.
I get the feeling ps3 will continue largely outselling the WiiU long after next gen is in full swing.
WiiU needs a price drop to stay competitive!
Nope it definitely won't. As soon as good hardware comes you will eat those words.
The wiiu is 1.5 Months old globaly. The ps3 is 7. So it's cheaper and got more games. But it's going to stop selling by the end of 2013. Stop selling as much anyway. By then the wiiu will be getting into its stride and increasing and increasing.
"But it's going to stop selling by the end of 2013."
i stopped reading right there ..you comment is an epic fail in every possible way
Sad to say, but there's more excitement for PS3 and PS4 (rumored name) than the Wii U.
What ridiculous logic you adopt. The PS3 will only become a more viable platform choice for entry-level families looking for something cheap, with a library of content available for it at bargain prices.
The PS3 will only pickup steam when the new hardware generation hits. Not everyone can afford the latest & greatest, which is a bit of a disservice to the PS3 considering how many great titles are available exclusively on the platform.
WiiU is dead. It backfired for Nintendo. They wanted to be out first with a yet again low end machine. Feature wise it can match the PS360; and that's not enough with a $100 higher price point.
And comes fall it will be out matched by the new generation of PS and Xbox. If Sony wanted to play a price card; they can simply sell a low cost PS3 model (no HDD) by end of 2013 below $200 and done. This is what the WiiU will have to compete with.
They won't do it to not cannibalize PS4 sales. But the WiiU would need to be cheaper than that to make a dent.
This can't be correct. We know that there was a huge deal about the PS3 surpassing the Xbox in total sales. Regardless of their estimates this month, VG Chartz still shows the Xbox up by over 1.6 million on lifetime sales.
According to VG Chartz:
XBox - 73,844,354
Actual, documented figures from Sony and Microsoft:
PS3 - 70.2 million (Source - Sony)
Xbox - 70.0 million (Source - Microsoft)
vg always has ps3 about 2m behind no matter how much they outsell them every year
@poop, i believe sony is still the only console maker in history to have everyone of their home console sell over 70 mill
@Poop on Vita
The fact you have to make multiple accounts to troll on here like a sad little coward is laughable XD
Which is why it is best to hear it from the horses mouth. Vg chartz is an estimate. A good one but easily can be out by 1.6 million in the grand scheme of things
after 6 or 7 years and 70mil each, who sells the most is irrelevant
you guys love to jump on the "doesn't matter"wagen ..
when you guys keep say how xbox crashed ps3 in sales
but right after ps3 beat xbox in world wide sales
it's "irrelevant or doesn't matter"
this gen is far from over and will only end when both stop making ps3/360 hardware/software
...but as soon as the NPD charts come out sales matter again
Sorry dude but your figures are just as wrong. MS reported selling over 2 million the past few months with 1.4 million sold over the holidays alone.
Please link Sony's latest official sales data LOL
I have a feeling VGC is guessing based on that false report by that data firm. Some of what VGC does is guess based on percieved demand or trend.
-MSFT won this year.
-MSFT is still ahead by millions
-MSFT destroyed the competition this holiday easily making up for any gains Sony made this year if any, truely.
You will see this when Sony and MSFT release the real latest figures.
Are emotions running high causing delusional desperatness because of next gen being around the corner?
PS3 fanboys think PS3 passed the 360 but VGC has the gap, although smaller than it actually is, still at a hard to beat gap at this point.
Do PS3 fanboys think VGC is rubbish about the overall Worldwide numbers but believe these two VGC articles on the front page of N4G are the words of GOD?
I see the same behavior from PlayStaion fans now as I did before this gen started a few months before the 360 launched.
Come on man. Call Of Duty #1 on PS3 LMAO
This exaggerated manufactured Playstation hype being created in the response of Xbox 720 rumors/leaks/talk to keep PS3 in a certain spotlight is boring and pathetic.
Sources to back up your claims? Nevermind I noticed the one bubble you wasted on BS.
EDIT: The way you're trying to put down the PS3 is pathetic. You say Microsoft is still millions ahead of the PS3. Let me see some facts to back them up, or are you just gonna keep talking out of your ass like you always do?
Sorry to burst your green bubble, but SONY outsold M$ all year as usual, but MS did not get enough back this year in the holidays.
Sony are already 400k in front this year alone.
Microcrock and failu have no good exclusives.
Let's all remember that PS3 came a whole year after Xbox. Yeah, eat that up.
The ps3 is rubbish and really sucked at launch but has gotten better by copying ms online model and giving it out for free.
Impressive from the PS3....I think the Exclusives are now paying off.
2013 Wiiu only 81,635 units behind the 360 hmnnnnn A few good games and the big N can get on top of that list.
it's only 40,000 above the psp which some people think "died" 2 years ago. It's sad because i thought it would do better considering the hype for next gen is at its peak. And nobody is choosing WiiU over a 7y.o. console even at a similar price.
A price reduction might pick things up for them.
The same could be said about the Vita, which has been out for over a year now.
What Rupert said. why would you not by a 7 year old system with a cheaper price tag and more original content.
People actually care about VGC numbers...?
Ps vita dominating the nintendo wii as usual
As usual, a few days the PSP was at the very bottom of chart with Vita directly above it by about a 1000 units.
How is this "as usual"?
Hes a troll, ignore him and down bubble, hopefully the mods will ban him soon enough.
im happy ps3 is doing so well, it mean support for years to come.i just hate when i see sony fan boys act like they own stock on sony, it makes me puke when someone say's "sony best in the world, i want your baby". you guys are sick. as for wii U, I dont see it lasting long. i was close to getting one too but i got my ps3 to keep me busy till ps4 or 720
thing is you hate fanboys but you make comments to instigate fanboism?
fanboy > hypocrite
this is a look at only 2.5 weeks of sales.....means nothing lol
EDIT actually its only up to jan 12th which is just a week and a half of sales. which means even less
regardless if it is sales over a week or two or if it is sales over a period of 5 years it should make a difference. the only people who care about sales figures are fanboys. if the console i'm using provides a variety of different quality games and continues to release quality exclusives then i couldn't care less, and currently that is the case. plenty of exclusives being released next year that i'm looking forward to.
surprised no one in the comment mentioned the fact that COD is doing better on the ps3 than on the 360. not that i care or anything its just amusing that the only game all the xbox users i know play is doing better on a rival system. that aside i think it ridiculous fanboys care so much about how much the company that made the console is selling. since when was sales figures relevant to gaming anyway?
well one things for sure, you dont work for activision. if you did then you would be saying "since when does gaming matter to sales figures"
btw the average CODboy cant understand what all these numbers and complicated graphs mean so its not that big a surprise
Reading comments from n4g you would think ps3 owners are playing uncharted, killzone and ps all stars, but no they are paying cod, fifa and far cry 3
i'm a ps3 owner and i played uncharted,resistance and heavy rain. i still play killzone 2 & 3 for multiplayer regularly i also play fifa13 and i got black ops the first one for a while then gave it to a friend i play most multiplats on PC though. anyways i'm not sure what point you are trying to make. if xbox had the chance to play ps3 exclusives why wouldn't they? do you expect me to buy a ps3 and buy nothing but multi platforms? maybe i have misunderstood you or you just made a silly comment.
DC Universe, White Knight Chronicles, Uncharted 3, Valkyria Chronicles, GOW Beta, Gran Turismo 5 are all the games I've played within the past week.
None of them are available on 360.
I don't even own any of the games you listed, and the last new multiplat I got was Borderlands.
Oh, wait. You're pretty anti-PS3, huh? Wasted my time with this one, I guess.
You make it seem like a bad thing that we have exclusives AND multiplats to play; just because numbers aren't 9+ million per game doesn't mean it's a flop or it "sucks," it means there's other games to play and some like me are back logged to play other games first.
As I mentioned before, the ones worried about sales apparently have stock in these companies otherwise they wouldn't care.
I didn't say it's a bad thing, just showing that there's a big gap between what games people here talk about vs what people actually buy and play :/
I really really wonder, as I have now owned a 3DS and a Playstation Vita how the Vita is losing. The 3DS is a hot mess...it's e-shop is horrible, almost no support for older advance titles and very difficult to find something unless you know exactly what you're looking for. While the Vita is a seamless experience that provides more and more as it's life goes on. The games are top notch and it's just a really comfortable handheld through and through. Why in the world has the 3DS jumped ahead by such a margin I have no idea...it's a good handheld, just not as good as the Vita...not even by a longshot.
My only theory is 3DS is more geared towards kids than older gamers, and kids will almost take anything that will make them "cool" or that has real easy to pick up games since mommy/daddy will pay for it. Where the Vita is more "adult" in certain aspects the 3DS is more advertised as a kid/young adult handheld, and if you notice it's more kids owning one than adults. I'm not saying only kids play 3DS, but they are more of the majority.
Don't forget the price. For both console and games. It's cheaper. And it still is built to attract kids more; I just think there is a "barrier" for parents to buy their kids nice and shiny things believing those must be kids safe. And the Vita doesn't give this impression, the 3DS does (even though I thought the DS broke more often than the PSP).
That is precisely what it is. People don't seams to understand that although the vita is a handheld it is directly competing with the ps3 and 360. Not only on the consumer level but at the development level also.
Developing a game for the vita properly will cost almost the same as a console game, so they have to take into consideration install base and development experience. It's a no brainier that consoles would be more profitable.
"surprised no one in the comment mentioned the fact that COD is doing better on the ps3 than on the 360."
That might have to do with alot of people have it on 360 already. Or even Halo4.
Finally people are seeing the true value of the PS3, Waited years to see this, I only hope they are all taking advantage of Playstation Plus & the exclusives.
Nah, people still blinded, its the price.
Whatever, Its on...Microsluts!
Lots of 3d tvs sold this holiday.ps3 is the.cheapest bluray player that supports 3d. I still have mine for that reason. Cant remember the last time I bought a ps3 game.
You can easily find stand alone players that support 3D for less than $100. More than half off the price of a new PS3.
Brought this one for my dad for $89 this Christmas. It's currently $96. It also supports more streaming options than both the PS3 and 360 combined.
Pretty much every streaming service I've seen on the PS3 and Xbox(although my knowledge of Xbox's services are limited), and a lot of other things that I've never seen before. They could possibly be available through an app or something. All the major ones are there, then a lot of specialty ones. It's a pretty decent player, and the only downside is my dad doesn't like how the youtube app organizes searches, and the completely useless browser which doesn't let you actually select anything once you get to a page because of no cursor or way to select links. He really likes the dlna stuff though, which is something he's wanted to do for a while.
My dad doesn't care about 3D and probably never will, it wasn't the deciding factor, I picked it up over the lower priced model because it had Wi-Fi built in.
Does anybody know which console has sold the most overall? Wouldn't it be between the PS2 and Wii? I think I heard the Wii sold faster, but hasn't surpassed the PS2, or did it?
Nope dude... and at this rate it will never do it
Wii=98 M
IF you look at just the console section. Top 3 consoles.
PS2 is at 153 million
PS1 at 102.5 million
Wii at 97 million.
The Wii will probably surpass the PS1, but will be hard pressed to pass the PS2 most likely.
Any of the current gen numbers on that list should be taken with a grain of salt, however the Wii is right around there based on official numbers I believe.
Good info thanks to both, I was just wondering because the Wii has hit quite a decline for a console that started so great.
@Nes_ Daze, Sometimes it not always best for a console to sell extreme well at the beginning because I think it would die off sooner. Wii has done well for itself and I think the Wii U has the potential of doing well in the long run as well, because of the start it has right now.
I'm basing this off of how well the PS3 has done so far and how it done at the beginning.
The graph picture is so wrong lol numbers are right but the level of the graph is so poorly done lol


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Last Hurrah for Bitter Cold
The Arctic air first plunged into the Upper Midwest on Saturday, Jan. 19, reaching northern parts of North Dakota and Minnesota where temperatures tumbled throughout the day.
By Sunday, Jan. 20, parts of this region stayed below zero all day, including Grand Forks, N.D., and International Falls, Minn.
The bitter cold spread south and east on Monday, Jan. 21. Minneapolis-St. Paul logged a high of -2 that day, the first subzero high there since Jan. 2009; the streak of four years and six days without a subzero high was the longest on record there, and nearly a year longer than the previous record streak.
Des Moines, Iowa, also ended a record streak that day, reaching a low of 2 below zero and ending a 710-day streak without a subzero low, the longest such streak for Iowa's capital.
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On Tuesday, Jan. 22, both Chicago and Rockford, Ill., fell below zero for the first time in 711 days. For Rockford, this was the longest at-or-above-zero spell on record, and it was the fourth-longest in the Windy City.
Other lowlights Tuesday included lows of -30 in International Falls; -33 in Ely and Bigfork, Minn.; and -37 in Big Black River, Maine.
The big chill hit the East Coast on Tuesday as well; New York, Philadelphia, and Washington, D.C., all recorded their highs for the day between midnight and 1 a.m.
On the morning of Wednesday, Jan. 23, Reagan National Airport in the nation's capital fell to 15 degrees, its coldest reading since March 3, 2009. Philadelphia (12 degrees) and New York (11 degrees) noted their lowest temperatures since Jan. 24, 2011.
Other frigid readings Wednesday morning included -36 at Estcourt Station, Maine, and -24 at Saranac Lake, N.Y.
While winds were light over the lower elevations, the mountains of New England experienced high winds and brutal wind chills. The feels-like temperature bottomed out at 86 below zero on top of Mount Washington in New Hampshire, and 63 below zero on Mount Mansfield in Vermont.
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OAKLAND, Calif. (AP) — The Golden State Warriors agreed Thursday to trade swingman Stephen Jackson to the San Antonio Spurs for small forward Richard Jefferson and a conditional first-round draft pick this year, a person with knowledge of the trade told The Associated Press.
Also Thursday, the Warriors announced they had acquired a second-round pick for this June's draft from the Atlanta Hawks for cash considerations.
Golden State acquired Jackson — who helped the Warriors reach the second round of the playoffs in 2007 — and center Andrew Bogut from the Milwaukee Bucks on Tuesday for Monta Ellis, Ekpe Udoh and Kwame Brown. There was immediate thought that the Warriors would then try to deal Jackson by Thursday's NBA trade deadline.
While coach Mark Jackson said he couldn't formally comment on the Stephen Jackson trade because it was yet to be finalized, he spoke in general terms about owner Joe Lacob and the organization's commitment to building a playoff-caliber roster for the future. Golden State's postseason run in '07 is the organization's lone playoff berth since 1994.
"One thing I will say is that we've made a commitment as an organization to do whatever we have to do to get to where we want to get to," Jackson said after practice. "These fans should be excited in knowing that that promise is true. It's exciting to be part of it. … Again, doing whatever it takes to put ourselves in position to continue to get pieces to be the team we expect to be. It says a lot about this ownership. It's just great to be part of it. I've seen the other side."
Rookie Klay Thompson appreciates the efforts being made to upgrade the roster moving forward.
"I think Warriors management is doing a great job," Thompson said. "They're not going to make any moves that are going to move this team backward. I'm happy with it, and I support whatever they do."
The 31-year-old Jefferson is averaging 9.2 points, 3.5 rebounds and 1.3 assists per game this season for the Spurs. He could be in the Bay Area in time for Friday night's game against the Bucks, which will mark Ellis' much-hyped, quick return to Oracle Arena in an opposing uniform.
"It's going to be very odd," Mark Jackson said of seeing Ellis and Udoh suit up for the Bucks. "In my short period, obviously those are two guys that I love, developed great relationships with. I'm proud to say that I coached them. I have a lot to be grateful for them. It's going to be different, but I'm going to be one of the people that's going to be clapping for them. It will be my first time clapping. I never turn around when the other team is being introduced. I'm not sure whether I'll turn around for those two guys, if they're starting or when they come in, but I will be clapping, no question about that."
Everybody knows he will try to go off for a big night against his former teammates — and Jackson is preparing for a defensive challenge. Ellis is averaging 21.9 points, 6.0 assists and 3.4 rebounds.
The Warriors will have a game plan for Ellis.
"He knows," Jackson said, chuckling. "The thing about it is it's no secret. The guy is such a great player that we'll defend him the way that everybody tried to defend him. He'll have some success. It's going to be a great challenge but we're up for the challenge and it's going to be a lot of fun."


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How Do You Improve the Quality of EHR Data for Healthcare Analytics?
John Lynn is the Founder of the HealthcareScene.com blog network which currently consists of 10 blogs containing over 8000 articles with John having written over 4000 of the articles himself. These EMR and Healthcare IT related articles have been viewed over 16 million times. John also manages Healthcare IT Central and Healthcare IT Today, the leading career Health IT job board and blog. John is co-founder of InfluentialNetworks.com and Physia.com. John is highly involved in social media, and in addition to his blogs can also be found on Twitter: @techguy and @ehrandhit and LinkedIn.
A month or so ago I wrote a post comparing healthcare big data with skinny data. I was introduced to the concept of skinny data by Encore Health Resources at HIMSS. I absolutely love the idea of skinny data that provides meaningful results. I wish we could see more of it in healthcare.
However, I was also intrigued by something else that James Kouba, HIT Strategist at Encore Health Resources, told me during our discussion at HIMSS. James has a long background in doing big data in healthcare. He told me about a number of projects he'd worked on including full enterprise data warehouses for hospitals. Then, he described the challenge he'd faced on his previous healthcare data warehouse projects: quality data.
Anyone that's participated in a healthcare data project won't find the concept of quality data that intriguing. However, James then proceeded to tell me that he loved doing healthcare data projects with Encore Health Resources (largely a consulting company) because they could help improve the quality of the data.
When you think about the consulting services that Encore Health Resources and other consulting companies provide, they are well positioned to improve data quality. First, they know the data because they usually helped implement the EHR or other system that's collecting the data. Second, they know how to change the systems that are collecting the data so that they're collecting the right data. Third, these consultants are often much better at working with the end users to ensure they're entering the data accurately. Most of the consultants have been end users before and so they know and often have a relationship with the end users. An EHR consultant's discussion with an end user about data is very different than a big data analyst trying to convince the end user why data matters.
I found this to be a really unique opportunity for companies like Encore Health Resources. They can bridge the gap between medical workflows and data. Plus, if you're focused on skinny data versus big data, then you know that all of the data you're collecting is for a meaningful purpose.
I'd love to hear other methods you use to improve the quality of the EHR data. What have you seen work? Is the garbage in leads to garbage out the key to quality data? Many of the future healthcare IT innovations are going to come from the use of healthcare data. What can we do to make sure the healthcare data is worth using?


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European Central Bank President Mario Draghi said on Tuesday that EU governments, not the central bank, must take "fundamental" measures to solve the region's debt crisis.
"Our policies can only be the bridge towards a more stable future… governments must undertake more fundamental measures," Draghi said, after meeting with German Chancellor Angela Merkel in Berlin.
"We expect the economy to return to growth next year… governments must act to ensure this immediate upturn strengthens rather than weakens," he added.
Draghi said Europe's economic plight and fragmented financial markets necessitated "exceptional measures."
"Regaining stability sometimes requires exceptional measures. We cannot always look to the past; we may need to take new steps… In the current circumstances, the greatest risk to stability is not action, it is inaction. That is why the ECB has acted. " he said.
Draghi emphasized that unprecedented steps taken by the ECB, such as its unlimited bond-buying program, were within the central bank's mandate.
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An early Open University lecture being filmed for broadcast
Today (3 January) is the 40th anniversary of the first Open University (OU) broadcast on the BBC.
Since that first broadcast, over 7,000 television and 4,000 radio programmes have been produced as part of The Open University and BBC partnership, with over 300 million viewers tuning in to OU/BBC in 2009/2010 alone.
Broadcasts began with late night lectures, transmitted when students would be available to watch them, to provide visual teaching to students enrolled with the new distance-learning Open University. Open University Social Scientist, Professor Michael Drake, took part in the early pioneering recordings and recalled the challenges: "Each programme took one day. We rehearsed once then recorded it with no stopping because of errors.â€
Late night lectures moved to the early hours when video recorders were widely in use and, since the 1990s, have evolved into prime-time programming designed to remain educational but engage mainstream viewers and take education to the masses.
The Open University and the BBC have produced award-winning peak-time television and radio programmes such as Coast, Bang Goes the Theory, Rough Science, Seven Ages of Britain, Child of our Time, Can Gerry Robinson Fix the NHS?, James May's Big Ideas and Olympic Dreams.
Today, OU academics are mostly found behind the scenes providing expert advice and guidance on the topics being featured, with household names such as Richard Wilson, James May, Jimmy Doherty, Kate Humble, Neil Oliver, Theo Paphitis and Evan Davis in front of the camera or microphone.
Dr Sally Crompton, Head of The University's Open Broadcasting Unit, said: "The Open University's partnership with the BBC provides a unique way to combine academic expertise and high quality production. TV, Radio and online content brings education to millions of people and, while it has evolved from late night programmes to mainstream television, it is still central to what the OU does, making learning accessible.
"Through our partnership with the BBC, we stimulate people's curiosity, open up access to new learning opportunities, transfer knowledge across a wide range of areas and we look forward to working together in the future'
The OU and BBC's joint programming has consistently been recognised with industry awards, and this year alone has picked up 'best documentary' at the Mind media awards for the portrayal of mental health in its documentary, Sectioned; a Digital Emmy for Virtual Revolution; and four Learning on Screen awards for programmes including Saving Britain's Past.
The reach of OU/BBC programmes extends beyond television viewers and students, with many organisations using programmes as training materials for staff. Examples include Can Gerry Robinson Fix Dementia Care Homes?, Sectioned and Mental: A History of the Madhouse.
The Open University continues to use innovative methods to deliver learning, including online and social media to make course materials and other learning resources available online for viewers and members of the public to take their interests further. The Open University's iTunes U channel has had over 28m download since it was set up two years ago and its OpenLearn website providing free course materials to the public has had over 11m visitors.
To see a timeline of OU/BBC programmes across the 40 years, go to: http://www.open2.net/40years/40years_timeline.html
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The OU has been highly rated for teaching quality, and has been at the top of student satisfaction rankings in the National Student Survey since it was introduced in 2005. 70% of students are in full-time or part-time employment, and three out of four FTSE 100 companies have sponsored staff to take OU courses.
The OU supports a vibrant research portfolio and in the UK's latest Research Assessment Exercise (RAE 2008), the University climbed 23 places to 43rd, securing a place in the UK's top 50 higher education institutions.
Regarded as Britain's major e-learning institution, the OU is a world leader in developing technology to increase access to education on a global scale. Its vast 'open content portfolio' includes free study units on OpenLearn, which has had 11 million unique visitors, and materials on iTunes U, which has recorded over 28.5 million downloads. The OU has a 40 year partnership with the BBC which has moved from late-night lectures in the 1970s to prime-time programmes such as Life, Coast, James May's Big Ideas and The Money Programme.


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To put "shit on toast" is an expression used to describe nothing or nothing desirable. Similar to jack shit or if there was indeed a culinary dish with shit or faeces on warm breed it would be considered undesirable by most.
Jack: "What is for dinner love?".
Jill: "Shit on toast!"
Jill: "Shit on toast!"
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To put "shit on toast" is an expression of how awesome something is. When you really like something - a song, for example - it is your "jam." And what do we do with jam? We put it on toast. As a result, anything awesome is shit put on toast.
Did you see that one-armed clown riding the unicycle over that pile of puppies?
Hells yes! I put that shit on TOAST!
Hells yes! I put that shit on TOAST!
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When somebody will not leave you alone. Refering to the gravy in Shit on a Shingle ( Creamed Beef on Toast )
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Someone asked about PCI Express 2.0 Versus PCI Express 3.0 on a GeForce GTX 760...
I ran a quick FRAPS benchmark on Far Cry 3... No significant difference at all.
PCIe 3.0 = Avg: 32.389 - Min: 29 - Max: 35
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I saw from other articles that there wasn't a noticeable drop in performance and no drop in some cases. I didn't ask the question but it is spot on with the last few upgrades I did. Went from Z68 to a Z77 and kept my 2600K. Then a few weeks later I bought a GTX 760 to replace the GTX 570 that was in the computer. From what I can recall the only time the difference was noticeable was on highend cards at super high resolutions. And even then the only change really was the minimum FPS.
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Beachgate, is a peninsula located in southeastern Broker, Liberty City, and is home to an affluent community. It is bordered by Crockett Avenue to the north, (Firefly Projects), Shinnecock Avenue to the west (Firefly Island), and Broker Sound to the south and east. It is based on the New York neighborhood of Seagate.
Beachgate is an affluent, gated community, housing a low-rise apartment and a number of large houses usually with luxurious cars parked in their driveways. The neighborhood is separated from the rest of Broker, giving it its own unique feel that is unmatched by any other area in the borough. At the end of the main street, there is a broken road barrier. If the player looks down in the ocean, they will see two car wrecks. It is also home to the Russian Mafia leader Mikhail Faustin.
The Faustin family, Mikhail, Ilyena and Anna, resided in a mansion at the very southern end of the community's main street, Shinnecock Avenue, until Mikhail's death, when Ilyena and Anna fled to a boardwalk in Hove Beach. A Turismo can be found parked in the driveway (in GTA Chinatown Wars, an Infernus or Cognoscenti appears instead). Also in GTA Chinatown Wars, a very rare Resolution X can be found outside a mansion near Faustin's. The Russian Mafia, as well as Eastern European pedestrians, are also very common.
Beachgate's real life archetype is Coney Island's Seagate neighborhood in Brooklyn, New York.
The Liberty City Subway does not provide service to Beachgate. However, there is a station in nearby Hove Beach. It is made up of three streets, the main one being Shinnecock Avenue and a smaller Ketchum Street.