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Return to Book Page. The true story of the time Ohio University's alumni marching band fought the Miami of Ohio University football team--and who really won that day. Scott Coffey felt something was wrong. He and the rest of the Ohio University Marching were playing the final song of their halftime set. It was the homecoming game.

Homecoming was a big show for the Marching The true story of the time Ohio University's alumni marching band fought the Miami of Ohio University football team--and who really won that day. Then he saw them. A handful of Miami of Ohio University football players were throwing and kicking footballs right in front of the band. Normally teams waited for the band to clear out before taking the field, or they warmed up on another part of the field.

Neither could the crowd. The — members of the alumni band had just finished performing, and they were incensed. His attention drifted to the sideline as he tried to focus on the music and choreography. Instinctively, the alumni band formed a wall to protect the student band, putting themselves between Miami players and the The crowd roared in approval.

At this point, the band could no longer hear itself play—probably a first for the inside Peden Stadium. A Miami football player and a band member tangled and fell to the ground.

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The rest of the Miami football team was taking the field, and they were bewildered to see one of their teammates underneath some guy carrying a horn. Two alumni band members gave the player chase. A Miami coach dashed across the field towards the alumni band guys. What are we going to do? Kindle Edition , 14 pages. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up. Lists with This Book. This book is not yet featured on Listopia. We will not remove any content for bad language alone, or being critical of a particular book.

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Joe Donatelli rated a book really liked it The Halo Effect: I enjoyed this book, probably like everyone else who read it. Hey, wait a second. Why Being a Great Parent is Less Work and More Fun Than You Think is a joyful and welcome antidote to the common, tired and debunked claim that having more children somehow makes the world a worse place.

Caplan, an economist at George Mason University and prolific blogger, unpacks decades of research that point to nature playing a more important role than nurture in how happy or successful a child becomes as an adult. Might as well let parents and kids enjoy childhood instead, says Caplan. Less time and money and stress invested in each child means a parent can make room in their lives for more kids. Caplan could have laced his reasoning with real-world stories of free-range parents and parents who are glad they had more kids.

And maybe Caplan thought so, too. Perhaps he wanted his arguments to resonate on their own, without appeal to emotion. So maybe this is just my selfish reason to want more book. Joe Donatelli rated a book really liked it The Black Swan: I agree with the premise, The Black Swan: I agree with the premise, which is that humans are terrible at forecasting the future and are completely unaware of just how poorly we do so.

This is all the more worrisome when we engage in deadly conflicts: Owing to this misunderstanding of the causal chains between policy and actions, we can easily trigger Black Swans thanks to aggressive ignorance—like a child playing with a chemistry kit. If you want to know why the world is as screwed up as it is, Taleb provides a detailed map of human ignorance.

Our best bet for the future is for humanity to become aware of this ignorance and act, think and vote accordingly, which is why this is a valuable book. Joe Donatelli rated a book liked it Zero to One: Thiel, who founded PayPal, shares truths that have an audience beyond the entrepreneurs for which the book is intended. It works as a guide to starting a company and to getting ahead in the workplace. Its lessons can be applied by individuals who will never work in Silicon Valley or seek VC funding.

All failed companies are the same: A happy company, according to Thiel, is one that has escaped competition: Here we arrive at the reason this book has received so much attention. A capitalist is arguing that market competition is bad for business.

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Most capitalists will tell you that engaging in such competition is business. Thiel assumes that monopolies occupy a higher state of being. Monopolies—think of cable companies, for example—tend to provide maddening customer experiences in only a way that a company with no real competition can. When profit margins are healthy, the incentive is to protect profit margins, not to defy the status quo and take risks. Lack of competition makes them flabby, and their dominance wanes over time.

Yet here is how Thiel describes monopolies: In fairness to the newspaper industry, there are many monopolies—local, national, global and state-owned—that failed to use their massive profits to innovate.

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Thiel also does not address the fact that the federal government tends to bring the hammer down on monopolies, be they real or imagined. Antitrust lawsuits can drain a company of its market share and resources. A company will either fail in the short-run, according to Thiel, or it will fail in the long-run, according to history. A more appropriate title: Joe Donatelli rated a book it was amazing Rise of the Warrior Cop: This was not a local problem.

A Ferguson has the potential to happen anywhere. To his credit, Balko goes out of his way to empathize, when possible, with police.

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He does not categorize police officers as bad people but rather acknowledges that a militaristic mindset is the inevitable result of poorly-thought-out laws and terrible incentives. And when bad laws give that cop incredible powers in a system in which real punishment is seldom meted out to police who are overly aggressive or incompetent, tragedy ensues.

Following WWII, all three branches of the federal government embarked on a high-speed, bipartisan expansion of police powers—a trend that continues today. Moments later the front door of his house was blown open, he and his mother-in-law had guns aimed at their faces and both of his dogs were shot and killed—by the police. Calvo committed no crime.