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Saturday, October 26, 2013

Marlon Moraes considered leaving MMA for muay thai before WSOF wins

Marlon Moraes is one of the best bantamweights outside of the UFC, and he almost gave up on fighting MMA a few years ago.

Born in Nova Friburgo, a small city located 90 miles away from Rio de Janeiro, Moraes wasn’t as good as he is today. In fact, he even struggled to have a good training camp for his MMA fights.

Before he decided to move to the United States, Moraes had a 4-2-1 record while competing in regional shows in Brazil, and he considered leaving the sport.

"I used to train at Nova Friburgo and twice a week at Nova Uniao gym in Rio de Janeiro," Moraes told MMAFighting.com. "Unfortunately, I never had the chance to spend a whole week to train at Nova Uniao."

"I had tough moments," he said. "I wasn’t doing great in MMA but I fought and won some muay thai tournaments. I had to decide, should I just fight muay thai or keep fighting MMA? I considered leaving MMA for muay thai, but at the same time I always sparred with good MMA fights and did great, so I saw I had potential. Something was missing, but I don’t feel that anymore."

Moraes had to do something to get back to winning fights, so he decided to move to the United States. At first, the change showed some results as he won his first couple fights outside of Brazil with two submissions. However, a pair of losses forced him to change his life once again.

"I came to the U.S. two and a half years ago," he said. "I had the opportunity to train and teach here. My career wasn’t good in Brazil so I decided to take the risk.

"We always come to the U.S. thinking that it will be a lot easier than it was in Brazil, but it was even harder. The fighters here are prepared, good in wrestling. Most of the Brazilian fighters are ready to stand and bang, but they are not ready to be taken down and get back up all the time. But now that I’m training in a great team I feel ready for everything."

The bantamweight moved to New Jersey to train with UFC veteran Ricardo Almeida and his team, and a new Moraes was born.

"I started to believe more in myself and kept training hard," he said. "There’s no secret, You need to keep training to evolve and that’s what I did. I never gave up. I had every reason to stop fighting. A career with ups and downs, losses, but I believed in myself and kept going. And it worked. My career has changed completely and now I feel comfortable inside the cage."

Moraes has won five straight, including wins over Miguel Torres and Tyson Nam. He returns to the World Series of Fighting cage on Oct. 26 against Carson Beebe, younger brother of WEC veteran Chase Beebe, and wants another win to his record.

"My camp was excellent and I’m feeling great," Moraes said. "I had some small foot injuries after my last fight but I’m 100 percent now. I’m ready to go there and fight. I became a better fight every day in this camp."

"My opponent is a tough guy," he continued. "He has a good wrestling. He also has a good stand up game but he basically uses that to set up his takedowns. He’s good on the ground but I’m ready to fight him wherever the fight goes. I’ll mix it up and be unpredictable. Anything can happen in this fight."

At 3-0 under the WSOF banner, Moraes wants to be the promotion’s first bantamweight champion after he beats Beebe.

"I’m really motivated, like I’ve never been before in my whole career," he said. "I’ll be the happiest guy in the world when I step in that cage. I believe that I’ll fight for the title after this fight. I always train focused in my next fight, of course, but I’m ready to go five rounds. Sooner or later I’ll get there. It’s a dream for me to fight for a title and my time will come.

"It’s great to fight for WSOF. My fights air on NBC, I have nothing else to say about them. It’s great. They are one of the best promotions in the world. I’m really happy and motivated to compete there."

Mores feels great to be part of the WSOF, but his goal is to be in the UFC one day.

"Every fighter dreams with the UFC," he said. "You even see kids saying that they want to fight in the UFC. It’s not ‘I want to fight MMA’, it’s ‘I want to fight UFC’. UFC is the big deal today and it’s a dream to me. I believe I’m ready to go against these guys (in the UFC). I want to go where the best fighters in the world are. If the best are in the UFC, that’s where I want to be."

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Microsoft exec scoffs at talk that Apple's free iWork threatens Office

Microsoft's head of communications took shots today at Apple's decision to give away its iWork productivity software, calling the move "an attempt to catch up."

In a post to the Official Microsoft Blog, Frank Shaw countered what he said was misguided at best, reality-bending at worst, coverage by the media and blogosphere on Apple's giving away iWork to new Mac and iOS device buyers.

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Apple made that announcement Tuesday during an 80-minute event in San Francisco, where executives touted new iPads, lower-priced MacBook Pros, and declared OS X Mavericks and the iWork apps would be free to segments of the Mac installed base.

"Seems like the RDF (Reality Distortion Field) typically generated by an Apple event has extended beyond Cupertino," Shaw wrote. "So let me try to clear some things up."

Shaw took exception to the conclusions by some pundits that the Apple maneuver was a shot at rival Microsoft, and that by throwing in iWork with a new Mac, iPhone, or iPad, Microsoft's Office franchise, the Redmond, Wash., company's business model and its tablet strategy were threatened.

"When I see Apple drop the price of their struggling, lightweight productivity apps, I don't see a shot across our bow, I see an attempt to play catch-up," said Shaw.

But Patrick Moorhead, principal analyst with Moor Insights & Strategy, saw it as exactly that: A shot. "I don't know any other way to interpret that than to say Apple was going after Microsoft," said Moorhead.

The "that" Moorhead was talking about was the slide shown behind Eddy Cue, Apple's head of Internet software and services, yesterday just before Cue announced that iWork would be free for new device buyers. That slide displayed the logo of Office 365, Microsoft's software subscription service, and cited $99 as the annual price for Home Premium, the consumer SKU.

Shaw has lashed out at the press over reports or at bloggers over their interpretations of news before. In May, he decried negative coverage of Windows 8 in general, and the update then code-named Windows "Blue" in particular. He took special exception to news and news analysis stories that compared Blue's restoration of the Start button to Coca-Cola's "New Coke" disaster of nearly thirty years ago.

Windows Blue was later named Windows 8.1, the free update that launched last week.

More recently, Shaw called out the media over how it handled news of current Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer's retirement announcement two months ago.

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NIH hosts national research summit on link between aging processes, chronic disease

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WHAT: "Advances in Geroscience: Impact on Healthspan and Chronic Disease" brings together 50 renowned investigators to examine how the basic biology of aging drives chronic disease. Aging is the single biggest risk factor for the development of non-genetic, chronic diseases; better understanding of this interplay is crfitical for progress. The meeting reflects the emergence of "geroscience," which features an integrated approach to the study of diseases and disability associated with aging.

WHO: Keynote speakers include: Francis S. Collins, M.D., Ph.D., Director, National Institutes of Health (NIH); Brian Kennedy, Ph.D., President and CEO, Buck Institute for Age Research; Linda Fried, Ph.D., Dean, Mailman School of Public Health, Columbia University; Christopher Murray, M.D., D.Phil., Professor of Global Health, University of Washington

WHEN: Wednesday and Thursday, October 30-31, 2013

8:00 a.m. 5:00 p.m.

WHERE: Natcher Conference Center at NIH

9000 Rockville Pike

Bethesda, MD, 20892

In addition to a plenary session with the keynote speakers, the summit features seven scientific sessions covering inflammation, adaptation to stress, epigenetics, metabolism, macromolecular damage, proteostasis, and stem cells and regeneration. (A brief summary of these sessions appears here: http://www.nia.nih.gov/newsroom/2013/10/nih-hosts-national-research-summit-link-between-aging-processes-chronic-disease#.UmfwYBD-TK0.)

The summit was organized by the trans-NIH GeroScience Interest Group (GSIG) and co-sponsored with the Alliance for Aging Research and The Gerontological Society of America, with additional private sector support through the Foundation for the National Institutes of Health (FNIH). The GSIG was formed to focus on the relationships between aging and age-related diseases and disability and is among the newest trans-NIH interest groups. Additional information and the agenda are available at: http://www.geron.org/gerosciencesummit.

Media are invited to attend the meeting, which will be held on the NIH campus in Bethesda, MD. Please contact the communications office at the NIH's National Institute on Aging at nianews3@nia.nih.gov or 301-496-1752 if you plan to attend.

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Amazon's Gigantic Biodomes Have Been Endorsed By Seattle

Amazon's Gigantic Biodomes Have Been Endorsed By Seattle Amazon has somehow gained initial approval to build a huge series of greenhouses slap-bang in the middle of Seattle so it's employees need never leave work.

HP Slate 21

Pros

Good range of tilt angles. Speedy boot and wake times. Don't have to worry about Windows malware. Wide viewing angles and bright screen.

Cons
8GB is too little local storage space. 1GB isn't enough RAM. Browser is optimized for mobile sites. Kludgy SD card slot. Fonts are huge. No accelerometer for games. Laggy touch screen.

Bottom Line

The HP Slate 21 is a promise that Android will work for desktop PC users as well as it does for tablet users, with a nice price. The system fails on both counts.

By Joel Santo Domingo, Sascha Segan

The HP Slate 21 ($399) is a product in search of a certain user. That user pines for the kludgy early days of mobile operating systems when only certain things worked right, and only if you were patient. It's an all-in-one desktop PC that runs Android Jelly Bean, and while that's an admirable trait for the anti-Windows folk, in reality, using the Slate 21 is a painful experience that really only works for very few tasks and leaves you asking why this product exists.

Design and Features

The white plastic chassis of the Slate 21 measures about 14 by 21 by 3 inches (HWD), which is relatively compact for an all-in-one desktop PC. The system comes with an easel-style arm on the back, which can tilt down from 15 to 70 degrees, which puts it in a position where using the touch screen is comfortable for either seated or standing users. The 21.5-inch touch screen has a 1,920-by-1,080 resolution IPS panel and two-point optical touch sensor. This is similar to, if less sophisticated than, the five-point optical sensor in the HP Pavilion TouchSmart 23-F260XT AIO. In use, the touch sensor works okay for games like Fruit Ninja, but at times it seemed like the touch sensor wasn't tracking our fingers quite fast enough. The screen itself is very clear and visually flawless, but as you'll see below, that high resolution introduces its own problems.

The system comes fitted with an Nvidia Tegra 4 processor, 1GB of DDR3 system memory, 802.11 a/b/g/n Wi-Fi, and 8GB of SSD-based storage. It runs Google's Android Jelly Bean OS (4.2.2), rather than Microsoft's Windows 8, which is found on budget all-in-one PCs like the HP Pavilion 20-b010z and our current Editors' Choice for entry-level all-in-one desktops, the Gateway One ZX4970G-UW308. This introduces benefits and drawbacks. The major benefit is that the Android operating system is efficient, so boot times and load times are fast. Android also fits on the smallish 8GB SSD, which also adds to speeds. Another benefit is that the system isn't susceptible to Windows based viruses and malware, though any web-based phishing attempts can still trip you and your digital ID up. The big drawback to this setup is that the system isn't Windows compatible, so you can't use the millions of programs written for Windows PCs.

Another drawback is the fact that the system's browser defaults to mobile versions of websites, most of which look ridiculous when viewed in landscape mode instead of portrait mode. Also, mobile websites tend to blow up the size of the typography on the site, so you'll be scrolling a lot. This is an obvious (and ugly) disadvantage when you have a 21-inch 1080p HD screen to work with. For example, when we tried to get to Facebook on the Slate 21, it only let us on to the mobile version of Facebook, which is optimized for four-inch screens. Each post and picture on Facebook was blown up to full-screen width, which meant that you could see spinach in your relative's teeth since their faces are blown up to larger than real life. This was the case in the Android browser, Chrome, and using the native Android Facebook app. As many tablet users know, you can't force the desktop version of Facebook to show up unless you use a third-party browser that fools Facebook into believing it's a real desktop browser like IE.

Things were worse when we tried to access heavy HTML 5 websites like our sister website's Museum of Mario (Mario.ign.com), which dropped frames, had background audio issues, crashed both browsers, and generally didn't work right. We're surmising that this is due to the paltry 1GB of system memory on the Slate 21, since the website worked fine on an Acer C7 Chromebook (C710-2457) , which has 4GB of memory. Last, but not least, Netflix worked fine using the Android app (which doesn't support multiple users yet), but when we tried to view Amazon Instant Video in either browser, it wouldn't let us because of the lack of Flash and Silverlight support.

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The Populist Egghead

U.S. Sen. Ted Cruz (R-TX) answers questions from the media after meeting with small business owners during the Fort Worth Small Business Roundtable on October 22, 2013 in Fort Worth, Texas. — Sen. Cruz isn't being mocked for low wattage the way Palin and Reagan had been. He's being singled out for a lack of common sense born of his rarefied résumé.

Sen. Ted Cruz may be the conservative movement's first populist egghead—a grassroots leader who is attacked for being too smart to have common sense. In political theater, you're usually allowed to wear only one of these costumes.

The populist claims to possess the horse sense of the electorate and has no need for fancy schools, with their eating clubs, trays of sherry, and debating societies. That was Sarah Palin's posture. It was also true of the men to whom Cruz has recently been unfavorably compared—Huey Long, Joe McCarthy, and George Wallace—and those conservative luminaries he aspires to join—Barry Goldwater and Ronald Reagan.

Cruz came to Washington as an anti-establishment bolt from the blue, having defeated the GOP’s preferred nominee in his first Senate race. In the recent Obamacare fight, he sharpened his populist credentials against the elites. After his bid to defund the Affordable Care Act failed, Cruz took to the microphones and aligned himself with the “millions of Americans” harmed by the president’s pet project—people who he claimed the GOP establishment had forsaken.

The establishment usually scorns the populist as a dummy, full of overheated rhetoric for the masses but not much more. When the smarty-pants set attacked Cruz for his Obamacare grandstanding, it looked like a familiar script. The elites thought it was dumb, but "real Americans," thought Cruz was a hero, said former House Majority Leader Tom DeLay. Mike Gallagher, the conservative talk radio host, said in an interview with Cruz, “You’re not getting the credit you deserve from the intelligentsia, but you sure are from the American people.”

But Cruz wasn't being mocked for low wattage the way Palin and Reagan had been. Cruz was being singled out for a lack of common sense born of his rarefied résumé. He graduated cum laude from Princeton and magna cum laude from Harvard Law School. He clerked for Chief Justice William Rehnquist, practiced law, and worked in government, avoiding the practical world of business. Even his wife—a Goldman Sachs investment banker and vegetarian—seems at odds with Cruz’s image as the tribune of the silent majority.

When Republican Sen. Bob Corker sought to discredit Cruz's strategy to defund Obamacare by pushing a budget showdown, he tweaked him about his education. “I didn’t go to Harvard or Princeton, but I can count—the defunding box canyon is a tactic that will fail and weaken our position,” said Corker. After the gambit failed, Democratic Majority Leader Harry Reid sounded the same theme: "[Sen. Cruz] might be able to work a calculus problem better than I can. But he can’t legislate better than I can.” The junior Texas senator's strategy, wrote conservative columnist John Podhoretz, gave "flesh to George Orwell's warning that some ideas are so stupid, only an intellectual could believe in them."

It is usually the self-styled populist who levels the egghead charge. George Wallace complained about "pointy-head college professors, who can't even park a bicycle straight." Historian Richard Hofstadter traced the tradition of anti-intellectualism through the American experience, but in the modern age the attack was first effectively used by Dwight Eisenhower and his running mate Richard Nixon in the 1952 presidential race against Adlai Stevenson. Ike accused the former Illinois governor of using “aristocratic explanations in Harvard words,” which he associated with Stevenson’s “faintness at heart.” (After his defeat, Stevenson famously joked: “Eggheads of the world unite. You have nothing to lose but your yolks.”) When Nixon became president, one of his special tirades was directed at Ivy League presidents who had not seen things his way on Vietnam: "The Ivy League presidents? Why I’ll never let those sons of bitches in the White House again. Never, never, never. They’re finished. The Ivy League schools are finished.”

For now, Cruz appeals to both the truck drivers and the Federalist Society.

New Jersey Gov. Chris Christie, who may face Cruz in a Republican primary, took up the anti-intellectual cudgel easily in a speech to Republican Party officials in August. “We are not a debating society,” said Christie. “We are a political operation that needs to win. We have some folks that believe that our job is to be college professors. You know, college professors basically spout out ideas that nobody ever does anything about.” (Nobody does anything about them except the law students who use the training to become governor and senator).

Though there have been few conservative politicians who lived at the nexus of elitism and populism, there have been several conservative luminaries who have championed the cause of the grassroots while having rarefied intellectual backgrounds. Bill Kristol, editor of the Weekly Standard, who went to Harvard for undergraduate and graduate school, was a robust supporter of Sarah Palin. As Vice President Dan Quayle's chief of staff, Kristol championed the views of a man who conservatives thought spoke plain truths but who elites mocked as dim-witted.

The most famous public conservative in this category was National Review editor William F. Buckley. Yale-educated and with an accent so erect it suggested high tea could break out at any moment, Buckley nevertheless fit within the post-New Deal conservative populist movement that gave rise to Ronald Reagan. "I would rather be ruled by the first 2,000 people in the Boston phone book than 2,000 members of the Harvard faculty," he famously said.

But the friction between erudition and populism is always ready to flare up. Kevin Phillips, author and former Nixon aide, called Buckley "Squire Willie," and in his book The Emerging Republican Majority, heralded a “New Right” that connected with real people. "Nor can we expect Alabama truck drivers or Ohio steelworkers to sign on with a politics captivated by Ivy League five-syllable word polishers,” wrote Phillips, who attended Harvard. “Any politics or coalition has to surge up from Middle America ... not dribble down from Bill Buckley's wine rack and favorite philosophers shelf."

For now, Cruz appeals to both the truck drivers and the Federalist Society. He heads to Iowa on Friday, where he will no doubt be greeted with a roar by activists who will travel hours just to see the populist egghead, a rare bird in the Republican menagerie.

Source: http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2013/10/ted_cruz_is_a_populist_egghead_the_texas_senator_has_elite_credentials_but.html
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Netgear A6100 WiFi USB Mini Adapter AC600 Dual Band

Netgear's new A6100 wireless adapter is a tiny adapter that's very similar to another tiny adapter I reviewed; Linksys' AE6000 Wireless Mini USB Adapter AC58 Dual Band. As with the Linksys adapter, the only real benefit to having the Netgear A6100 is to use it to connect to the router at 802.11ac mode. Otherwise, my 3x3 built-in Intel Centrino wireless adapter makes my laptop connect much faster to Netgear's 11ac routers in 802.11n and other legacy modes.

Setup and Specs
As mentioned, this is a small piece of networking hardware, although not quite as miniscule as the Linksys AE6000. The A6100 ships with a resource disc. You will need the disc to install the hardware, at least I did, because when I connected the adapter to my Windows 7 laptop, the OS could not auto-install the drivers.

The disc auto-plays and gives you the option of checking for updates, or you can just install from the disc. A Netgear Genie app for the adapter is installed on your system. It's a sharp-looking interface and is consistent with the Genie app for Netgear's routers.
The adapter has a soft, white LED that lights when connected to a network. It's also WPS (Wi-Fi Protected Setup) compatible. It supports up to a theoretical 130Mbps on the 2.4 GHz band and 433Mbps at 5GHz.

Features and Performance
One feature I do like better on Netgear's little adapter than Linksys' is the Genie app. It doesn't list all wireless networks in range, but it gives pretty detailed information, including a network map, which shows how all devices in the network are connected with one another (called network topology) and other cool information such as amount of packets sent and received, IPv4 and IPv6 information, and diagnostics logging.

I really didn't find the adapter's performance all that impressive in 802.11n mode at 2.4GHz. In fact, I received worse performance using it to connect to the Netgear Nighthawk router than I did with my laptop's on-board Intel Centrino 3x3 wireless adapter. This inferior performance was consistent whether I connected at 2.4 or the 5 GHz band in "Mixed" legacy or 802.11n-only mode.

For example, from a distance of 15 feet from the router, my laptop averaged throughput of 78 Mbps in 2.4 GHz 802.11n mode. The Netgear adapter only managed 42 Mbps.
Netgear's adapter didn't fare as well in 5 GHz 802.11n-only mode, either. My laptop's throughput against the tiny USB adapter's: 109 Mbps from 15 feet versus the AC6100's 90 Mbps.

Now, the slower performance from the Netgear adapter isn't particularly surprising, as I am comparing a 3x3 powerful, business-class wireless adapter to a USB adapter. So this definitely isn't an apples-to-apples comparison, as far as specs go. Still, I was surprised by how different throughput is between the two in testing.

Where the little adapter proved itself was in 802.11ac performance. It achieved triple-digit numbers when tested with the Nighthawk router, and gave some of the fastest 802.11ac speeds we've seen from an 11ac adapter. Of course, my laptop's adapter only supports 802.11n so I don't have a comparable test using the laptop's built-in adapter. Click the image for performance results.

An Ideal Adapter at 802.11ac
The best usage case for Netgear's adapter is a good on-board 802.11n adapter and an 802.11ac router you want to connect to—especially if you are considering the Nighthawk router. You can flip back and forth between the two depending on the standard you want to use to connect. For example, if connecting to 802.11n you use the built-in adapter, and, if trying to connect at 802.11ac, you connect the Netgear adapter to the USB port and disable the built-in adapter.

The A6100 is not ideal for use at the 2.4GHz band, but it is absolutely fine at 5GHz in 802.11n-mode and blazes in 11ac mode with Netgear's Nighthawk router (and can be used with any 11ac router). Plus, the Wi-Fi software is well-designed. The Netgear A6100 earns three and a half out of five stars for USB.

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The NSA Says an 'Internal Error' Caused Its Outage Not a DDoS Attack

The completely competent folks of the NSA are saying that its nuked website is a result of an internal error, a glitch, a mistake and not because hackers launched a DDoS attack on it. That's cool, the NSA didn't go down because of hackers but because it screwed itself up.

Friday, October 25, 2013

Diddy Discusses Constant Name Changes on "Ellen"

He's gone from Puff Daddy to P Diddy to just plain Diddy, and now Sean Combs is finally revealing what has caused so many name changes.

During his interview on Ellen DeGeneres' hit talk show, the host stated that she was confused what to call the rapping superstar.

"Is it Diddy? Because you keep changing it," Ellen joked. "It was Puffy, it was Daddy, who are you now?"

Mr. Combs replied, "I do have a problem with that and I have admitted to it."

When asked if he goes to meetings to sort out the name changes, the 43-year-old stated, "I have been looking for meetings and there are no name-changing meetings."

Diddy continued, "I've been in the Puff Daddy spirit because I'm launching this network [Revolt TV] and I had to go back to my roots of aggression and intensity and relentlessness. And, that's Puff Daddy. That's a super hero."

"It's not technically a name change. It's just that I'm channeling one of my previous alter egos," he added.

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We have a winner in our Gogo High Above sweepstakes and more tickets to give away

We're excited to crown the winner of our Gogo "High Above" sweepstakes, and his name is David Simkins. He'll heading out to Chicago first, where he'll hop aboard "Gogo One," the private laboratory that Gogo uses to test out the latest inflight wireless technology. We'll be with him on this journey to Engadget Expand in New York City.

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DARPA's Spending $70 Million on a Brain Chip for Mentally Ill Soldiers

Picture this: In the near future, ten percent of our veterans could be walking around with chips implanted in their brains. These aren't intended for some I, Robot-style takeover, but rather to treat conditions like PTSD and substance abuse. Sound crazy? DARPA only deals in crazy.

Saturday, October 26, 2013

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