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Tito Ortiz on Cyborg-Rousey superfight, PEDs, relationship with Dana White, coming out of retirement and more

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If his 12-year tenure in the UFC's light heavyweight division proved anything, it's that Tito Ortiz is not a timid man. Ortiz, a former champion and current UFC Hall of Famer, was never one to shy away from a hot microphone, regardless of the consequences.

That penchant for honestly landed Ortiz in hot water on more than one occasion, especially with the higher-ups at Zuffa. Although retirement may have mellowed the former "Huntington Beach Bad Boy," Ortiz's ability to say exactly what is on his mind often made him a fan favorite, and it is still present.

Appearing on Monday episode of The MMA Hour, Ortiz riffed on a number of wide-ranging topics, from his efforts to secure a Cris Cyborg vs. Ronda Rousey superfight and thoughts on retirement, to the prevalence of PEDs in MMA and his current relationship with Dana White. The following are excerpts from that conversation:

On a potential Ronda Rousey vs. Cyborg Santos superfight:

"Working with Cyborg is challenging. The girl wants to fight, of course, but it's just a question with her getting down to 145 [pounds]. She really feels it's impossible. She walks around 160, 165, and to make 145 for all the years she's done it, she's like, Tito, it really takes the last energy just for me to make 145. Now they want me to cut down to 135? It's going to be really, really, almost impossible.' I battle back and forth with her, telling her how the UFC is going to take care of her, this and that. We're still just ... we're at the end of the rope, I think. I'm not sure if she wants to do it. Me and my partner, George Prajin, we just sit there and we just try to talk to her over and over again.

"Will she make 135? As a person who has cut weight for 22 years: no, I don't think it's going to happen. It's hard for women to cut that much weight. For a woman to be three-percent body fat, it's not healthy. She talks about that she wants to have kids some day. Things like that can damage her [in that regard], and a lot of people don't understand that. This is not a man we're talking about. This is a woman we're talking about. For Ronda to cut down the weight, yeah, she had a lot of extra weight on her.

"[Cyborg] doesn't have much on her. She used to walk around at 170 and she lost some muscle mass just to try to see if she can get lower in this weight to do it. So far, so good. Like I said, she's 160, 165. She bounces back around there. She says she stopped lifting weights the way she does and really just [been] focusing on her jiu-jitsu. She's been training, putting in the time.

"I hope I can put this fight together, man. I'm trying my hardest. I hope Dana [White] understands. I hope Dana is listening to this and understands. I'm trying to get this thing together."

On Ronda Rousey and the UFC women's division:

"I think it should be more about the women's division in general, than about one person. Ronda's fought maybe, what, five times now? Or only five times now? To do that to somebody, it just shows disrespect towards all the other women fighters that are in that weight class.

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Local teen campaigns for smoking ban at beaches and parks

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By Chuck Weber/CBS 12 News

JUPITER, Fla. -- Would banning smoking at beaches and parks go too far?

Caitlyn Johnston, a high school senior from Jupiter doesn't think so. She said her grandfather died from tobacco-related illness.

"I saw the effect it had on my family," said Johnston. "No one else should have to go through that."

Caitlyn started working with the Health Department's tobacco prevention specialist. She cleaned local beaches, finding pounds of tobacco products.

Now Caitlyn is backing the efforts of State Representative Bill Hager of Delray Beach. He's sponsoring a bill that would give cities and counties the ability to ban outdoor smoking at parks and beaches. Right now local governments cannot do that.

But the idea of banning outdoor smoking was a tough sell to the men playing Boccie ball at Carlin Park in Jupiter.

"Smokers should at least have the outdoors to smoke," said Frank Caprino, who identified himself as a parttime smoker.

Chimed in Bill Byrne, "As long as you don't litter, and the smoke doesn't bother anybody, I think you'd be okay out here."

"I'm not telling them they can't smoke," said Caitlyn. "They can smoke outside in their backyard. They can smoke in other areas where children and parks aren't going to be affected."

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Beaches battered by huge swells

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STRONG winds, heavy seas and high tides have combined to cause destruction on North Coast beaches.

The situation on the beaches is expected to worsen this morning, before easing off after midday.

Yesterday beaches were hammered by 6m seas, with an easterly swell of about 4m.

The swell is expected to decrease to 2-3m late this morning and the sea will also decrease to 2m by early evening.

Despite continued warnings for people to stay at home, many ventured to coastal lookouts to see the roaring ocean.

This is the third time in 12 months that North Coast beaches have been battered and Ballina Environment Society spokesman Lee Andresen said that if there was another depression again soon, it could have major impacts.

"An enormous amount of sand is being shifted because of the strength of the wind and the angle of the wind, which at first came from the east and then the north," he said.

"We get sand drift at the edges of the beach because the vegetation is getting covered by sand.

"We are wondering if we are in for something like what we had in the mid-1970s - a recession of the beaches.

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Local teen campaigns for banning smoking at beaches and parks

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JUPITER, Fla. -- Would banning smoking at beaches and parks go too far?

Caitlyn Johnston, a high school senior from Jupiter doesn't think so. She said her grandfather died from tobacco-related illness.

"I saw the effect it had on my family," said Johnston. "No one else should have to go through that."

Caitlyn started working with the Health Department's tobacco prevention specialist. She cleaned local beaches, finding pounds of tobacco products.

Now Caitlyn is backing the efforts of State Representative Bill Hager of Delray Beach. He's sponsoring a bill that would give cities and counties the ability to ban outdoor smoking at parks and beaches. Right now local governments cannot do that.

But the idea of banning outdoor smoking was a tough sell to the men playing Boccie ball at Carlin Park in Jupiter.

"Smokers should at least have the outdoors to smoke," said Frank Caprino, who identified himself as a parttime smoker.

Chimed in Bill Byrne, "As long as you don't litter, and the smoke doesn't bother anybody, I think you'd be okay out here."

"I'm not telling them they can't smoke," said Caitlyn. "They can smoke outside in their backyard. They can smoke in other areas where children and parks aren't going to be affected."

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Dirty Beaches' Alex Zhang Hungtai Throws an Emo Fit Over YouTube Comments

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He doesn't "give a shit" what people think of his mournful instrumental 'Love Is the Devil,' the title track of his new album, due May 21

Montreal's Dirty Beaches, a.k.a. experimental musician Alex Zhang Hungtai, will follow up his acclaimed 2011 LP Badlands with a double album called Drifters/Love Is the Devil on May 21. Over the weekend, Hungtai unveiled the latter-half title track, a moody, Mellotron-driven instrumental that could double as a moving funeral dirge. "This is my heart & soul. I need to get this off my chest," Hungtai tweeted. "This title track has blood & tears all over it and is the sound of my empty self. I need to share this before it becomes something else. we always hurt the ones we love the most. Im a rotten piece of shit. blast it LOUD if your hearts broken."

As an added bonus, Hungtai is lashing out at people that criticize the song in the comments section on YouTube. When one fan mentioned that they were "expecting more than modulated synth chords" but still looked forward to Drifters/Love Is the Devil, Dirty Beaches commented back, " i don't care about pleasing your expectations . i just do what i want to write. you can judge it all you want. modulated synth chords. i was crying my fucking eyes out when i wrote this and punching myself in the face. i don't give a shit what peoples expectations are. This is why I'm doing this record. its for myself and my life."

And on that note, don't forget that Dirty Beaches has been recruited to perform at the Yeah Yeah Yeahs-curated All Tomorrow's Parties festival in London this May.

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Researchers solve biological mystery and boost artificial intelligence

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By simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, Cornell University engineering and robotics researchers have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as modules a finding that will lead to a deeper understanding of the evolution of complexity.

The new insight also will help evolve artificial intelligence, so robot brains can acquire the grace and cunning of animals.

From brains to gene regulatory networks, many biological entities are organized into modules dense clusters of interconnected parts within a complex network. For decades biologists have wanted to know why humans, bacteria and other organisms evolved in a modular fashion. Like engineers, nature builds things modularly by building and combining distinct parts, but that does not explain how such modularity evolved in the first place. Renowned biologists Richard Dawkins, Gnter P. Wagner, and the late Stephen Jay Gould identified the question of modularity as central to the debate over "the evolution of complexity."

For years, the prevailing assumption was simply that modules evolved because entities that were modular could respond to change more quickly, and therefore had an adaptive advantage over their non-modular competitors. But that may not be enough to explain the origin of the phenomena.

The team discovered that evolution produces modules not because they produce more adaptable designs, but because modular designs have fewer and shorter network connections, which are costly to build and maintain. As it turned out, it was enough to include a "cost of wiring" to make evolution favor modular architectures.

This theory is detailed in "The Evolutionary Origins of Modularity," published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society B by Hod Lipson, Cornell associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; Jean-Baptiste Mouret, a robotics and computer science professor at Universit Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris; and by Jeff Clune, a former visiting scientist at Cornell and currently an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Wyoming.

To test the theory, the researchers simulated the evolution of networks with and without a cost for network connections.

"Once you add a cost for network connections, modules immediately appear. Without a cost, modules never form. The effect is quite dramatic," says Clune.

The results may help explain the near-universal presence of modularity in biological networks as diverse as neural networks such as animal brains and vascular networks, gene regulatory networks, protein-protein interaction networks, metabolic networks and even human-constructed networks such as the Internet.

"Being able to evolve modularity will let us create more complex, sophisticated computational brains," says Clune.

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Contact: Blaine Friedlander bpf2@cornell.edu 607-254-8093 Cornell University

ITHACA, N.Y. By simulating 25,000 generations of evolution within computers, Cornell University engineering and robotics researchers have discovered why biological networks tend to be organized as modules a finding that will lead to a deeper understanding of the evolution of complexity. (Proceedings of the Royal Society, Jan. 30, 2013.)

The new insight also will help evolve artificial intelligence, so robot brains can acquire the grace and cunning of animals.

From brains to gene regulatory networks, many biological entities are organized into modules dense clusters of interconnected parts within a complex network. For decades biologists have wanted to know why humans, bacteria and other organisms evolved in a modular fashion. Like engineers, nature builds things modularly by building and combining distinct parts, but that does not explain how such modularity evolved in the first place. Renowned biologists Richard Dawkins, Gnter P. Wagner, and the late Stephen Jay Gould identified the question of modularity as central to the debate over "the evolution of complexity."

For years, the prevailing assumption was simply that modules evolved because entities that were modular could respond to change more quickly, and therefore had an adaptive advantage over their non-modular competitors. But that may not be enough to explain the origin of the phenomena.

The team discovered that evolution produces modules not because they produce more adaptable designs, but because modular designs have fewer and shorter network connections, which are costly to build and maintain. As it turned out, it was enough to include a "cost of wiring" to make evolution favor modular architectures.

This theory is detailed in "The Evolutionary Origins of Modularity," published today in the Proceedings of the Royal Society by Hod Lipson, Cornell associate professor of mechanical and aerospace engineering; Jean-Baptiste Mouret, a robotics and computer science professor at Universit Pierre et Marie Curie in Paris; and by Jeff Clune, a former visiting scientist at Cornell and currently an assistant professor of computer science at the University of Wyoming.

To test the theory, the researchers simulated the evolution of networks with and without a cost for network connections.

"Once you add a cost for network connections, modules immediately appear. Without a cost, modules never form. The effect is quite dramatic," says Clune.

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Astronics Corporation to Participate in Cowen and Company 34th Annual Aerospace and Defense Conference

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EAST AURORA, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--

Astronics Corporation (ATRO), a leading provider of advanced technologies for the global aerospace and defense industries, announced that Peter J. Gundermann, President and Chief Executive Officer, and David C. Burney, Executive Vice President and Chief Financial Officer, will present at the Cowen and Company 34th Annual Aerospace and Defense Conference at the InterContinental Barclay Hotel in New York City on Wednesday, February 6, 2013.

Astronics presentation is scheduled to begin at 1:15 PM ET. A live webcast of this presentation, along with presentation materials, will be available at http://www.astronics.com and an archive of the presentation will be made available in the Investor Relations section, on the Calendar of Events page, of the Companys website.

ABOUT ASTRONICS CORPORATION

Astronics Corporation is a leader in advanced, high-performance lighting, electrical power, specialized avionics products and automated test systems for the global aerospace and defense industries. Astronics strategy is to develop and maintain positions of technical leadership in its chosen aerospace and defense markets, to leverage those positions to grow the amount of content and volume of product it sells to those markets and to selectively acquire businesses with similar technical capabilities that could benefit from our leadership position and strategic direction. Astronics Corporation and its wholly-owned subsidiaries, Astronics Advanced Electronic Systems Corp., Ballard Technology, Inc., DME Corporation, Luminescent Systems Inc. and Max-Viz, Inc., have a reputation for high-quality designs, exceptional responsiveness, strong brand recognition and best-in-class manufacturing practices. The Company routinely posts news and other important information on its website at http://www.astronics.com.

For more information on Astronics and its products, visit its website at http://www.astronics.com.

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UTC Aerospace Systems Showcases Complete Range of Safety, Situational Awareness, Precision Guidance and Passenger …

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CHARLOTTE, N.C., Jan. 29, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- With key positions on nearly every aircraft flying today, UTC Aerospace Systems will exhibit a range of products, in hall B, booth 4.8 at Aero India in Bengaluru, February 6 10, 2013. Products on display will span military and civil markets and offer critical benefits such as enhanced safety, improved comfort, increased precision and extended situational awareness. UTC Aerospace Systems is a unit of United Technologies Corp. (UTX)

Two new unmanned aerial systems (UAS) will make their Indian debut at the show. The Vireo and Optio UAS are applicable to a wide variety of markets and offer low-cost, effective and flexible surveillance from a variety of sensors including electro optical and infra-red. These systems deliver actionable data to law enforcement, government agencies, agriculture producers and first responders. Further UTC Aerospace Systems UAS technology can be found in hall A on the TATA booth1.2A, providing a solution for India's UAS multi-intelligence collection requirement.

Also on display on the UTC Aerospace systems booth in hall B will be:

Technical staff will be available throughout the show to discuss all products on display on the UTC Aerospace Systems booth.

UTC Aerospace Systems, was formed in July 2012 by combining two industry leaders - Hamilton Sundstrand and Goodrich.

UTC Aerospace Systems designs, manufactures and services integrated systems and components for the aerospace and defense industries. UTC Aerospace Systems supports a global customer base with significant worldwide manufacturing and customer service facilities.

United Technologies Corp., based in Hartford, Connecticut, is a diversified company providing high technology products and services to the building and aerospace industries.

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Stem Cell Therapy Helps Stroke Victims Recover in Two Weeks

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The rats completely recovered from a stroke within two weeks with stem cell therapy (Wiki Commons)

Stem cell therapy administered shortly after a stroke could significantly increase the sufferer's chance of a complete recovery.

When administered to rats within 30 minutes of suffering a stroke, the rodents made a full recovery within two weeks, a study showed.

The research, published in BioMed Central's open access journalStem Cell Research & Therapy, found that stem cells from the bone marrow of fat can improve the recovery of rats following a stroke.

Researchers at La Paz University Hospital found that treatment improved the amount of brain and nerve repair, as well as the animal's ability to complete tasks.

Rats were treated intravenously with stem cells half an hour after a stroke. In humans, such rapid response is known to dramatically improve the outcome of victims.

The researchers found improvements in the stem cell group within 24 hours of the treatment, compared to the control group.

The FAST response advertising campaign has aimed to increase awareness of symptoms. Facial and arm weakness and speech problems suggest it is time to call emergency services.

Human trials

A delay in treatment can result in death or long-term disabilities. A stroke occurs when the blood supply to part of the brain is cut off.

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Physiology in 7 Minutes – NTAI 128 – Ms. Sindhuja – Physiology of Muscle Spindle in Tamil – Video

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Part 3, Tai Chi Push Hands

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Part 3, Tai Chi Push Hands Physiology of the Brain
Welcome to Basks.com Tai Chi (Tai Ji) Push Hands (Tuishou) Physiology of the Brain, part 3 After watching the video, answer the following 7 questions 1. what are the 4 topographical brain regions? 2. what is a Brodmann Area? 3. What is myelin? 4. Is visual reaction time faster than audio reaction time? 5. Is touch reaction time faster than audio reaction time? 6. Is reflex faster? 7. What are the Serial and Parallel models of the reaction time? Why Parallel improves the reaction time? Please like our facebook page at http://www.facebook.com It is important we share our experience and discuss the best way to learn Taiji. We don #39;t want to lose the traditional martial arts treasures, we want to improve them by developing better skills and enabling better learning. part 1: basks.com part 2: basks.com part 3: basks.com

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