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The Trade page lists your own Stores, and allows you to select which of those you would like to trade with other cities. There are two options you have to set up your trade. The simplest option is to set the quantity of a Store that you would like to trade. For example, if you have a huge surplus of Food that you wish to trade for much-needed Armor, put a quantity in the Export box on the Food row, and put a quantity in the Import box of the Armor row. When you save the trade data, you will see a list of other cities that wish to export Armor and Import Food.
IMPORTANT: Note that you may only trade with other cities that you have information about. So, if you have no trade options, you should Scout other cities to attempt to find one or more to trade with. During the course of the game, you may get information about conditions in other cities, which could be a clue that you should Scout that city as there may be an opportunity for trade. See the World page for information on Scouting and other options to learn about another city.
The Automatic function allows you to set a minimum level for export that the trade function will not go below, reserving that amount for your use and a maximum level for import that, when reached, will not trade that item further. For each category you choose to set, those items will be traded for other items whenever your reserves are above the minimum and below the maximum you have chosen and there is a willing trading partner.
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By Marlene Merritt, DOM, LAc, ACN
We think it's so easy — just take that probiotic to make up for whatever damage might have happened from the prescription antibiotic your doctor gave you, and you'll be fine, right? And that antibiotic — you hear about antibiotic resistance, but you take it correctly, and you really needed it for that sinus infection, so it's not that big of a deal either, right? You're wrong in ways that you can't possibly imagine and that should make you very, very nervous.
This resistance has occurred for a couple of reasons: one is, the CDC says that 50 percent of the prescriptions written for antibiotics are unnecessary or inappropriate (for example, when a broad-spectrum antibiotic is given when a culture isn't taken to determine a more targeted drug), and two, because 80 percent of available antibiotics are actually given to animals in confined feed lots (which might make you decide to buy grass-fed, or at least, antibiotic-free meat). Roundup® glyphosphate, found in conventionally raised farming, has been shown to have an inhibitory effect on food microorganisms and suppress beneficial bacteria in the gut.
You probably have no idea how ineffective antibiotics are for the things they're prescribed for most often. They're not effective for bronchitis, sinus infections or ear infections. They are incorrectly prescribed in 80 percent of strep infections. And, of course, they are often given for the common cold or the flu, despite the fact that those are both viral, because either the patient demands a prescription, or because the doctor wants to prophylactically prevent a secondary bacterial infection. Think about all the times in your life you've taken an antibiotic — it's most often for respiratory conditions and yet are the least effective. The person who says, one or two months after his sinus infection, that he's gotten another one, probably has the same infection that wasn't properly handled or was resistant to medication. When people feel better taking an antibiotic, it's often just because of a reduction in the pathogenic bacteria, not because it's actually killing them off, and it's been shown time and time again that taking an antibiotic only reduces your illness time by a day or two. "But that's a lot!" you cry. However, if you knew, though, that taking that antibiotic might PERMANENTLY damage your gut flora, or cause other bacteria to become resistant, you might pause, or possibly decline taking that medicine. And it's now been found that bacteria "talk" to each other, and convey resistance to medications. Yes, that means bacteria are passing on antibiotic resistance to other bacteria.
The biggest problem is, our gut flora can't take this abuse. Let's start with some basics that will explain why this is potentially such a problem. You inherit your gut flora from your mother in a vaginal birth and continue to populate your gut with different strains from the air, food, soil, etc. until the age of two, when it's "set." Going back to your mother, how healthy was her gut flora? How many antibiotics did she take in her lifetime? How about your grandmother? We've had antibiotics for 80 years now and while there's no doubt that they've saved a lot of lives, there's no doubt they are less and less effective, and the collective damage to gut flora is irreparable. Add in the high Caesarean section rate, and you can begin to get an idea that our gut flora is currently the weakest in human history. Studies are showing that babies born of C-sections have higher rates of Celiac disease, autoimmune disorders like Type 1 diabetes, and obesity.
Our gut flora outnumbers our body cells by 10-to-1. Yes, we're only 10 percent human. The Human Microbiome Project is attempting to distinguish all the different actions and functions of the gut flora, but to give you some idea on this:
The use of antibiotics is what's frightening — they don't just deplete gut bacteria, but can actually permanently wipe out whole strains. Scientists are now going into remote areas of the Amazon and collecting gut bacteria from tribes that have never been exposed to Westerners, antibiotics or modern foods, and are finding that a pristine microbiome not only has huge diversity, including species never before sequenced.
Of course, how we have tended to look at bacteria is a "good" versus "bad" scenario, but it is much more complicated than that. First, everyone has pathogenic bacteria in their gut, but they are often kept under control by adequate amounts of beneficial bacteria. Take an antibiotic, however, wiping down or out our good guys, and the bad guys can flourish, leading to deadly Clostridium difficile infections, for example. Or take Helicobacter pylori, which we've been trying to exterminate since 1983, when it was linked to peptic ulcers. But it's also been shown that H.pylori regulates acid in the stomach — when people eliminate their H.pylori, they have less peptic ulcers, but higher rates of acid reflux, Barrett's esophagus, and esophageal cancer, rates of which have soared since we've been eliminating H.pylori. It also calms the immune system (populations with higher H.pylori have lower rates of allergy and asthma), and regulates ghrelin and correspondingly, metabolism — obesity related to low H.pylori levels is currently being investigated.
What happens if you wipe out your home team so badly it can't recover? The symptoms can range from chronic, debilitating diarrhea, to malnutrition, anemia, systemic infections, and death. When faced with a pathogenic infection as a result of taking antibiotics, most doctors employ the very method that got the patient in trouble in the first place — antibiotics — but what is becoming a quickly developing (and more effective) treatment are fecal transplants. A fecal transplant takes the gut bacteria from a healthy person and introduces it to the sick person, often with shockingly dramatic improvements. In a study done with patients who had a C. difficile infection and never properly recovered (most had over 150 days of incapacitating diarrhea), a fecal transplant reversed their symptoms in 24 hours, on average, with a total cure rate of over 90 percent. In fact, they halted the study because it became unethical to withhold such a successful treatment to the control group.
The problem is, you can't actually replace what you've lost. We're under the mistaken impression that you can simply take an antibiotic, and then follow with a probiotic and your gut will be completely back to normal, but that's not what being seen in research. Even fecal transplants, with their dramatic impacts, simply buy time for the home team to recover. Probiotics, as well, help to keep the "bad guys" in check, but don't replace lost strains. If my system got "flushed out" with some food-poisoning diarrhea, for example, I might use a probiotic pill to help my gut out while it repopulates, but when someone has to rely on probiotic pills for their digestion to be "normal," that's an indication that there's some dysbiosis/dysfunction in their gut. Taking higher and higher amounts of probiotics isn't great either — buying one with insane amounts of Colony Forming Units (CFU's) can cause dysbiosis as well. And, of course, there's no probiotic that is specific for your individual microorganism makeup.
Prebiotics, like the oligosaccharides found in vegetables and whole grains, as well as in breast milk (to encourage gut flora growth in a baby) are like food and housing for your home team — they encourage your native flora to grow. Focusing on good prebiotics, as well as severely reducing foods like sugar and bad fats (which cause that inflammatory reaction with the gut flora and can encourage dysbiosis) would be a better plan of action. "What if I take my home team and cultivate them in a Petri dish for sometime in the future?" I sometimes get asked. That doesn't work either — when implanted back into the gut, your original "home team" bacteria don't survive long enough to reinoculate.
This is where the impact starts to hit people — when we begin to realize that we're destroying the biggest and most complicated "organ" we have from sheer lack of understanding. In labeling bacteria "good" and "bad", we've sanitized our houses, our skin, our bodies, and our kids, and the result is a confused and weakened immune system, obesity, neurological dysfunction, chronic diseases, and more modern, deadly diseases.
It was after all this research that I began to see that I would literally have to be dying to take another antibiotic. It makes more sense to keep my immune system strong, and use herbs and nutrition to fight infections if necessary, while in the meantime to regularly eat the traditional foods that gave us a little probiotic help — fermented foods like sauerkraut, kimchi, kombucha, lacto-fermented vegetables, etc. It's not just the specter of antibiotic resistance that should scare people silly, it's also the depletion of their own gut flora and the resulting physiological damage for following generations that might make you, or your now-educated patients, choose differently the next time they're in the doctor's office.
Marlene Merritt, DOM, LAc, is a licensed acupuncturist and runs a wellness center in Austin, Texas. She specializes in Oriental medicine and nutritional protocols.
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One of Android's biggest downfalls is the occasional lag throughout the UI. I've been using Android on and off (more on than off) since the release of the G1, and there's no denying the lag exists. It has gotten better over the years, but nonetheless, it always seems to pop up when you least expect it. And unfortunately for perfectionists, it just may never go away.
Ex-Google intern Andrew Munn has taken to Google+ to unleash some knowledge on how Android works in relation to similar operating systems. More specifically, why Android will always experience shudder unless something radical is done.
You see, according to Munn, the way Android renders the user interface differs from other similar platforms. Android doesn't prioritize UI rendering, it occurs on the main thread of an app, with no priority exceptions.
Munn breaks it down like so:
Android follows the traditional PC model of rendering occurring on the main thread with normal priority.
This is a not an abstract or academic difference. You can see it for yourself. Grab your closest iPad or iPhone and open Safari. Start loading a complex web page like Facebook. Half way through loading, put your finger on the screen and move it around. All rendering instantly stops. The website will literally never load until you remove your finger. This is because the UI thread is intercepting all events and rendering the UI at real-time priority.
If you repeat this exercise on Android, you'll notice that the browser will attempt to both animate the page and render the HTML, and do an 'ok' job at both. On Android, this a case where an efficient dual core processor really helps, which is why the Galaxy S II is famous for its smoothness.Andrew MunnGoogle+
The way iOS handles UI rendering is still being hashed out in the original source for this information (apparently developers have to implement this kind of behavior, it's not as simple as Munn originally laid out), but the comparison and Android's behavior still stand.
Things like better processors and hardware acceleration will help going forward (despite what Dianne Hackborn says), but unless UI rendering is changed, the lag will theoretically always be there.
At this point you may be wondering why developers don't change this and prioritize rendering. Essentially, Android would have to be completely rebuilt, causing problems all across the board. Not only would developers have to abandon any new features being worked on, but some sort of legacy mode would have to implemented since any currently available apps wouldn't work anymore.
There a short list of four or five other things Android could do in order to alleviate any problems with lag, but again, UI rendering is the number one problem that needs to be addressed.
On the bright side, developers working for Google, like Romain Guy, are constantly looking for ways to get UI rendering in shape. It's going to be a long process, but Google has some of the brightest developers working under their roofs. If anyone can get it done, they can.
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Congressman Yarmuth's Remarks on Gun ViolenceMonday December 17, 2012
Last Friday's incomprehensible tragedy in Connecticut requires every citizen, and certainly every public official, to reflect on our responsibilities to our fellow citizens, because what happened to so many innocent and helpless children and courageous educators in Newtown can happen in any of our towns to any of our neighbors.
I have been largely silent on the issue of gun violence over the past six years, and I am now as sorry for that as I am for what happened to the families who lost so much in this most recent, but sadly not isolated, tragedy.
Like so many Americans, when I was growing up I thought guns were the things that protected us from the bad guys -- the outlaws, the Nazis, the Red Menace, and the gangsters. Now I know, through painful history, that guns are much more likely to be used by the bad guys or the mentally unstable against the rest of us.
Instead of the fictional Lone Ranger and the Rifleman and James Bond, there was the very real Lee Harvey Oswald shooting JFK, and then James Earl Ray shooting Dr. King, and Sirhan Sirhan killing Bobby Kennedy, and Mark David Chapman shooting John Lennon. More recently we watched the massacres at Heath High School, Columbine, and Virginia Tech. Then I watched my friend and colleague Gabby Giffords attacked with weapons that killed several others and left her permanently changed.
I confess, I am afraid of guns. I am not ashamed of that, because my fear is reasonable and is based on the observations of a lifetime. But the question I ask today is whether the best response to that fear -- a fear that now will be shared by millions of American school-aged children -- is an acquiescence in more guns and fewer restrictions on them, or a concerted national commitment to protect our citizens from their misuse.
The National Rifle Association has spent untold millions of dollars instilling fear in our citizens and our politicians. That organization, which regularly fails to represent the responsible attitudes of its members, wants us to believe that the best protection against the irresponsible and lethal use of guns is for everyone to be armed. And while no specific gun regulation may have prevented the deaths of the 20 Sandy Hook Elementary children, 6 and 7-year-old children, the answer simply cannot be a gun in every elementary school lunchbox.
I agree that Americans have the right to defend themselves and their property. I believe even more fiercely that I have the right, and every child has the right, to be safe from guns without carrying a gun. That gun, by the way, is statistically far more likely to result in the injury or death of someone close to me or them, than someone bent on doing harm.
That is the challenge we face today, and it is a challenge we must not put off another day.
While it is unlikely that Friday's insane massacre of children could have been prevented by any specific gun control law, it is also undeniably true that the perpetrator of the massacre was the product of a culture that sees guns as a solution to problems, whether psychological or others, and we must be determined to change that culture.
Many of my colleagues are afraid that their support of efforts to reduce gun violence will bring the wrath of the NRA down on them. I believe it is more rational to fear guns far more than the illusory political power of the NRA.
I applaud President Obama's statement that we need to take meaningful action to prevent future suffering of the kind we experienced last week. I want to be part of that action, and I promise my constituents, the families of the bereaved in Connecticut, my own family, and every American family, that I will not be silent any longer.


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I didn't like this video very much (except for the part about the roof).CluedIn » 23 Dec 2016, 14:43 wrote:Great work animus! I also located this video this morning. This guy clearly shows that the truck was brought in and then "backed up" to knock over things and to cause the damage. In his video, the first truck they show is RED (to go along with the Red vid above? - although I'm not quite sure I agree with his findings - it is Christmas so the color red would probably be prominent) and it is parked but the extent of damage is nowhere near what the end product was.
Look at this screenshot:
You can see the black truck on the left about to be towed. They had to switch to another truck because the black one's windshield was completely smashed. And the part about the hanging lights can also be easily refuted if you just take a closer look. Take my morning-after picture above. You can see black "hanging" lines reaching further down to the entrance, hence no damage. They look thin but are still visible.
About the cleanliness in the 8:55 picture, I'd say that perspective can be very irritating. Also the view is blocked by the cars as well as by the man in the yellow safety jacket. All the rubber is placed right behind him between the hut and that rose colored, squared area at the end of the red fence, whatever that is. It's definitely not part of the hut's wall. Perhaps the color of the fence from the other side, so the end of the fence is just turned in an acute angle. Not sure but I remember firefighters walking through the area between the hut and the rose square, so it's definitely not the hut's wall.
I'm not sure yet on how the action took place. It is possible that the truck really drove into the market and the driver was skilled enough and knew exactly where to exit. If the area was evacuated enough for him to do this little stunt, it may just have happened this way. I find it more likely than a truck "backing up" in the middle of a busy street. So the new footage from the dashcam can be authentic, meaning it's not digitally fabricated, though it's highly unlikely that there was a random taxi driver with a dashcam nearby. This is not Russia, we don't need dashcams to prevent insurance fraud. So obviously he is in on it. Same with the people running out of the car as if they expect the market to be bombed in a few seconds.


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Following State of the Union, immigration reform advocates in Connecticut hopeful
President Barack Obama's modest-sounding call for "real" immigration reform in the State of the Union address shouldn't be seen as half-hearted. The tone is tactical during an exciting moment for undocumented immigrants, say two men who work in the field.
"We're delighted," said Chris George, executive director of New Haven-based Integrated Refugee and Immigrant Services. "There's real hope that it's finally gonna happen this year, and that's great news."
Obama's speech, said George, "is just another element that shows there is real momentum for immigration reform" after a previous speech in Las Vegas and then word by a bipartisan group of senators on principles for reform. He said the ovation for Obama's words from both parties was also encouraging.
The Rev. Richard Ryscavage, a Jesuit priest in Fairfield who has been consulted by the White House as an expert on the topic, said faith and political groups are converging for reform.
"For the first time, I'm seeing a lot of different elements coming together," said Ryscavage, founding director of Fairfield University's Center for Faith and Public Life. He said there's an emerging consensus on reform in the House and Senate, and the White House is "working vigorously behind to scenes ... and I think it will happen."
"They've been working privately for months now, very quietly in fact," he said. "In the House, they've kept it almost completely secret, with the idea that they did not want to stir up anything ... before they actually have something concrete to put out there."
Ryscavage said he expects a bill to be produced soon in the House.
"The White House has to be careful here, even within their own party," he said, because of the bipartisan nature and chance that "you'll ruffle the feathers" of one side amid the tension of such a thorny issue as undocumented immigrants.
Obama spent five paragraphs on immigration in his speech, casting it in economic terms, and saying "real reform" means strong border security, but also a "responsible pathway to earned citizenship" that also cuts through bureaucracy.
While the president noted that undocumented immigrants would have to get in line behind those who have been waiting legally for citizenship, "A 'pathway to citizenship' is the phrase that all of us who have been working for immigration reform have used," said George. "That is, give the 11 million people here who are undocumented ... the opportunity to become U.S. citizens. I think it's fine that they have to learn English sufficiently to pass the citizenship exam. I think it's fine that they undergo background checks."
George said an overriding principle has to be human rights and "treating people ... in a humane way."
In a Quinnipiac University poll earlier this month, 56 percent of registered voters said that "illegal immigrants" should be allowed to stay in the U.S. and eventually apply for citizenship. Ten percent said they should be allowed to stay but not apply for citizenship, while another 30 percent said illegal immigrants should be required to leave.
New Haven has been a focal point for immigrant debates after the city instituted an ID card system for undocumented immigrants. The Yale Law School, meanwhile, has a Worker and Immigrant Rights Advocacy Clinic.
Ryscavage, who has been working in the field of immigration for more than 30 years, headed up the U.S. Catholic Bishops Refugee Resettlement Agency (placing people in dioceses across the country), has taught refugee studies at Oxford Universty and headed up the Jesuit Refugee Service, which has worked with Homeland Security on detention issues.
As for New Haven's experience with the issue, Ryscavage says, "What really upsets me the most is the family separation issue, where the mother and father are deported. There are cases where ... the kids are put in social services, foster families. ... It's bad for society, it's bad for the families, to ... not deal with them holistically."
Both men said the border should be made secure, but the solution will be creating more legal visas with a prescribed path to citizenship.
George's IRIS serves some 200 refugees a year since its inception 30 years ago, with help such as job search assistance and training, case management, education and resettlement. Its primary mission is working with refugees, who are invited to this country and vetted by officials, but it also assists other immigrants.
Ryscavage's study of Jesuit school immigrant students showed "their network of help is informal and very quiet and under the radar," without any open framework for getting such students into schools.


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We heard a lot about what it means to be the "baddest man on the planet" in the lead-up to UFC 155's heavyweight title fight.
That old term, carried over from boxing, operates under the assumption that the best professional fighter in each division is necessarily the "baddest" man alive at that weight, and the baddest man at the top weight class is therefore the baddest of them all. You have to admit there's a simplicity to that logic that our society can easily understand. If a can of soda is good, a Big Gulp must be great. And the heavyweights? They're our Big Gulp, for better or worse.
To put it another way, as writer Gerald Early once did, being the heavyweight champion is a little like being "the emperor of masculinity." It just doesn't get any bigger or tougher or manlier or … whatever. Although, if we want to think about it in terms of toughness and pure guts, it's hard not to wonder if Cain Velasquez and Junior dos Santos didn't have some competition for that title on Saturday night, regardless of what the numbers on the scale say.
Those of you who tuned in only for the main event at UFC 155 (another practice that's a holdover from boxing) probably found yourselves wondering: 'sup with all the blood? Did someone slaughter a chicken in the octagon between fights? Is this part of a new advertising deal the UFC is running for one of those chainsaw movies? You probably had no way of knowing just how much of it had poured out of one man's face, or how little it seemed to bother him at the time.
Every once in a while I find myself watching this sport and wondering how I'd explain it to a visitor from another planet. Or, you know, a pacifist from this one. When referee Yves Lavigne paused the Jim Miller-Joe Lauzon bout to let the doctor have a look at the ax wound on Lauzon's forehead – and when the doctor wiped away just enough blood to determine that he couldn't see into Lauzon's brain just yet, then allowed the bout to continue – that was one of those moments. Here's a guy gushing blood from a deep cut above his eye, a cut that, if he'd suffered it in a covered wagon on the Oregon Trail, might have led to a shallow grave in an empty prairie, and the medical professional on hand decides that, sure, it's bad, but not bad enough that he needs to stop getting punched in it.
And – here's the really insane part – that was the right call, at least according to the internal logic of this sport. If the doc had stopped it there, Lauzon would have been denied the chance to prove he could fight through it. We would have been denied a fight that instantly revived a flatlining pay-per-view broadcast. None of us would have ever known whether Lauzon could not only survive the beating and the blood, but also mount an attack of his own, which he did. We would have missed a chance to see all that is great and gross and terrible and inspiring about two people fighting in a cage for money and pride, and yet no reasonable person could have gotten too upset at the doctor if he'd taken a look at the hole in Lauzon's face and decided that we'd breached the bounds of safety here.
You could say the same thing about the Velasquez-dos Santos bout, really. As former UFC and WEC fighter Danny Downes pointed out to me on Twitter after the fight, what we saw in the main event was a fighter who was almost certainly concussed in the first round, yet stumbled on through four more rounds of punishment anyway, and for what? Wasn't this an unnecessary level of brutality? Wasn't the risk to his brain, his health, the remaining years of his career (which often have a way of advancing rapidly after a beating like that) serious enough to warrant a stoppage? Have we all gone totally insane to think that a man who can no longer lift his arms or take a step without stumbling should still be taking blows to the brain, just because he hasn't collapsed yet?
It's hard to argue that point, but I keep coming back to the internal logic of this sport, which is already a little crazy to begin with. To borrow a phrase from Dan Carlin's "Hardcore History" podcast, there's a certain logical insanity at work here. Once we accept that men are going to be trying to hurt each other, to knock each other unconscious, and this is not only acceptable but preferable, a lot of strange things can start to seem normal. How else do you explain an environment where a man who wants to stop fighting because of something as petty as a broken hand gets lambasted as a coward and a fraud? In what other line of work do your customers get antsy if you so much as pause for a breather after having your face sliced open? The usual concerns for human safety just don't apply in this world. As trainer Greg Jackson once explained it to me when I asked why a reasonable man would encourage those in his care to fight through nearly debilitating injuries, "The fight is a special time."
Clearly, it is. It's so special that it's kind of insane, and in that insane world the grotesque bravery of guys like Lauzon and the futile obstinance of guys like dos Santos becomes uncomfortably appealing and outwardly appalling all at the same time. But hey, who ever said that being the baddest man was always supposed to look good? Professional violence is bound to get messy. If we don't allow ourselves to get a little horrified by the reality of it from time to time, we might fool ourselves into thinking this sport is saner and safer than it really is.
There, now I've gone on way too long. Still I've only touched on two of the fights from the UFC's final event of 2012. Better move on and deal with other topics, as briefly as possible, before this year is out.
Before we plant Derek Brunson all the way under the bus…
UFC president Dana White conceded that he'd made a mistake putting Chris Leben on the first fight of the pay-per-view broadcast after such a long layoff, but he was also none too pleased with Strikeforce import Derek Brunson, who won a decision despite losing steam early on.
"The other kid was looking at the clock like he was a 14-year-old waiting for school to get out the entire fight – looking at the clock," White said of Brunson (he's the other kid) at the post-fight press conference. "You're in the UFC your first time, and I wasn't very impressed."
I'm not going to try and argue that Brunson looked good against Leben, but I would like to point out that he took this fight on less than two weeks' notice. You factor in the fight week nonsense of doing interviews, cutting weight, sitting around in hotel rooms and waiting for the next thing on the schedule to roll around, and you have about a week or so that Brunson had to physically prepare for this fight – his first in the UFC. That doesn't excuse a poor performance – with cardio as with injuries, don't step on the floor if you're not ready to dance – but it ought to be enough to earn him just a little slack. Let's see what Brunson looks like when he actually gets to train for a fight. As for Leben, maybe he should just be glad he got to ease into a comeback against an opponent who wasn't quite ready to exploit his rusty spots.
You don't have to like what Yushin Okami does, but you'd better respect it
As if it wasn't already perfectly clear that Okami was a much better grappler than Alan Belcher, there came that moment late in the fight where Belcher accidentally found himself in full mount. A rare blunder by Okami put him there, to his apparent shock, and what did Belcher do with it? Not much. Not against Okami, who, within about a minute, was out of there and back to suffocating Belcher with all the implacable patience of an advancing glacier.
What do you do with this guy? He's no match for the champ, but in 15 minutes he can transform almost every other middleweight – even the normally exciting ones – into frustrated puddles on the mat. The man is so good at what he does. It's just a shame that what he does isn't so fun to watch.
Costa Philippou capitalizes on a terrible, no good, very bad night for Tim Boetsch
If you'd have told me on Saturday afternoon that Philippou was going to not only beat Boetsch, but put him away, I'd have told you that sounded like a really impressive night of work from the Serra-Longo Fight Team product. That was before we saw a wounded Boetsch, bleeding from an accidental headbutt and squinting through the remnants of an eye-poke, trying and failing to limp to the finish line.
You can't blame Philippou for all the misfortunes that befell Boetsch, none of which seemed to be the result of malicious intent, but you also can't say it boosted his stock in the middleweight division all that much. Even the finish happened as if Philippou suddenly realized that maybe Boetsch didn't want to be there anymore, leaving us to wonder why he didn't turn on the jets sooner and spare us all a little misery.
Maybe Todd Duffee had to go away, just so he could come back
Duffee's exit from the UFC months after suffering a surprise one-punch KO toward the tail end of a fight he was dominating is still one of the strangest firings in the organization's history, and one that reminded every other fighter that it's not just what you do but also what you say and to whom you say it that matters in this business. He's since struggled to find a gym he can call home, and had to scratch and claw to make a living outside the big time, but he capitalized on a big break in a big way with first-round knockout of Phil De Fries on Saturday.
That's a fight Duffee should win, and he did, so we ought not get too worked up just yet. At the same time, when you see a 250-pound heavyweight who moves like that, and who just might have learned from his past mistakes well enough to avoid similar future ones, how can you not get excited about the possibilities? Duffman can fight. Now we have to hope he can stop holding himself back.
Once again, MMA judges prove they aren't to be trusted
The good news is, the judging screw-ups this time around – at least as far as they actual impact on outcomes – were relatively minor. The bad news is, we saw evidence of some pretty troubling reasoning from the professionals we trust to decide people's futures. How anyone could watch the Jamie Varner-Melvin Guillard fight and come away thinking that was a clean sweep for Guillard is absolutely baffling to me. And the lone judge who gave Brad Pickett two of three rounds in a fight where he spent most of his time running face-first into Eddie Wineland's punches, well, I guess it might make sense if you watched that fight from behind a support beam in the rafters of the MGM Grand Garden Arena.
The most egregious scoring error came in the easiest bout of them all: the main event. Again, the scores all pointed to the right man in the end, but with varying tallies of 50-45, 50-44, and 50-43. Sorry, but if you don't think round one of the Velasquez-dos Santos fight was an obvious 10-8 round, I have to assume you don't know that there is such a thing.
The lone questionable outcome came in a close fight between Max Holloway and Leonard Garcia. I'm sure it's little comfort to Garcia today, but that was bound to be a squeaker either way. Those aren't the kind you can get too upset at the judges over. We should expect that whenever it's close, some disagreement is bound to follow. It's the easy ones the judges have to nail, and it really shouldn't be such a guessing game anymore. When MMA was still such a new sport and a few cranky boxing judges were all we had, fine, there's bound to be some weirdness. But even now you're telling me that we can't rely on three people to watch the same one-sided fight and reach the same conclusion? We still have to hold our breath and hope that at least two-thirds of the professionals hand-picked by the state athletic commissions know what they just witnessed? That's depressing for me to think about, and I'm not even one of the people whose paycheck is hinging on it.
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