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During an interview with MMA Fighting, Dos Santos, who has used his hands to devastating effect in the UFC, turned his attention to the two best heavyweight boxers of the past decade, brothers Vitali and Wladimir Klitschko.
"I’m a boxing guy. I love to box with my training partners and everything but now everybody is saying this, everybody wants to fight with boxing guys. It’s become not sincere. When I say that, I’m sincere,” Dos Santos said, leading up to his punch line.
"I think if they give me four months to get prepared, I can beat [the Klitschkos]" he said. "I love to train boxing and I think I have enough skills in boxing. I know how to see a good fight. Four months, that’s what I need."
Now, we’ll be the first ones to jump down the throats of any foolish boxer who disrespects the well-rounded skills that mixed martial arts fights possess by suggesting that they could dismantle any UFC fighter with ease. It is just as absurd for even a top-level MMA fighter like Dos Santos to suggest that he would be able to beat any top-ten heavyweight boxer, to say nothing of the two very best, in a straight boxing bout.
Just as MMA fighters spend decades learning myriad skills and styles to prepare them for the most realistic and useful of combat sports, professional boxers spend their entire lives refining a very specific set of skills that, within the confines of boxing rules, no one that hasn’t spent the same amount of time doing the same could hope to match them in a boxing contest.
"I did talk to Dana but just a little bit once," Dos Santos of him doing boxing matches.
"It wasn’t very serious. Next time, maybe I’ll do that."
Dos Santos may be serious, but he has no serious prospect of beating either of the Klitschkos in a boxing bout even if he manages to pull off the near-impossible cross-promotional logistics to make such fights happen.
Dana White is no longer fond of cross-promoting and Vitali is busy with running for President of the Ukraine. Perhaps Wladimir would be open to an easy pay day.
What do you think? Does Dos Santos have the athleticism and KO power to beat the Klitschkos in a boxing ring or should he just worry about avenging his last loss to Velasquez this Saturday at UFC 166.
Source: http://sports.yahoo.com/blogs/mma-cagewriter/ufc-heavyweight-contender-junior-dos-santos-wants-box-194520035--mma.htmlLos Angeles (AFP) - Peyton Manning, who has thrown 22 touchdowns in leading Denver to a 6-0 start, takes the Broncos to Indianapolis Sunday in what promises to be an emotional return to his former NFL home.
The quarterback himself, whose 14-season tenure in Indianapolis yielded four Most Valuable Player awards and a Super Bowl title in 2007, says he honestly doesn't know how he'll feel.
"Football is certainly an emotional game, but to predict how you will feel? I just don't know."
But the game -- which will pit Manning against the young quarterback the Colts drafted as his successor in 2012, Andrew Luck -- has already sparked plenty of feeling.
Broncos coach John Fox took Colts owner Jim Irsay to task for comments made to USA Today, in which Irsay said the decision to release Manning was an effort to build a team that could win more Super Bowls.
Irsay told the newspaper that seeing New England, Pittsburgh and the New York Giants rack up multiple Super Bowl wins as the Colts managed just one in Manning's tenure "leaves you frustrated".
Fox called the remarks "disappointing and inappropriate" but he wasn't surprised that Manning opted not to comment.
"Peyton would never say anything, he's too classy for that," Fox said. "But they sounded a little ungrateful and unappreciative to me for a guy that has set a standard, won a Super Bowl, won division titles, won four MVP awards. I'd be thankful with that one Super Bowl ring because there's a lot of people that don't have one."
Despite his ire, Fox said the pre-game hype would be meaningless on Sunday, when he expected Manning to be -- as usual -- at his best.
"He's the most prepared player I think I've ever been around," Fox said of Manning. "He's going to stay focused. He's not going to get involved in the circus."
The Broncos can't afford any letdown, with AFC West rivals Kansas City also off to a 6-0 start. It's only the second time since the divisional structure was introduced in 1933 that two teams in the same division have started 6-0.
"Every win is a big win," said Kansas City coach Andy Reid, whose chiefs host Houston on Sunday.
The Texans will be without injured quarterback Matt Schaub, who hurt his right ankle and departed in the third quarter of a loss to St. Louis last week.
Week seven opened Thursday night with NFC West leaders Seattle handing division foes Arizona a 34-22 defeat.
Seattle's Russell Wilson threw for 235 yards and three touchdowns, completing 18-of-29 passes and adding 29 rushing yards in the victory.
Marshawn Lynch racked up 91 yards and a score on 21 carries for the Seahawks, whose 6-1 start is a first in club history.
Other key matchups this week include the Dallas Cowboys at Philadelphia in a duel for first place in the NFC East.
"The division games are big," said Dallas quarterback Tony Romo, whose team notched a 31-16 win over division foes Washington last week.
"It's a tough place to play," he said of Philadelphia. "They're playing tough football, so it'll be a good test for us."
The Eagles have won two straight after a 31-20 victory at Tampa Bay last week.
But they'll be without quarterback Michael Vick, who Thursday ruled himself out as he continues to recover from a hamstring injury.
Nick Foles will get the starting nod, having completed 22 of 31 passes for 296 yards and three touchdowns against Tampa Bay.
AFC North-leading Cincinnati face a tough test at Detroit.
The Lions are tied with Chicago atop the NFC North and will be aiming to beat an AFC opponent for the second straight week.
Other games this week see Tampa Bay at Atlanta, Chicago at Washington, New England at the New York Jets, Buffalo at Miami, St. Louis at Carolina, San Diego at Jacksonville, San Francisco at Tennessee, Cleveland at Green Bay, Baltimore at Pittsburgh and, on Monday, Minnesota at the New York Giants.
Alfonso Cuaron's Gravity has a strong shot of staying at No. 1 in its third weekend, but with horror thriving, newcomer Carrie has the potential to unseat the blockbuster space epic.
Director Kimberly Pierce's Carrie remake, starring Chloe Grace Moretz in the title role opposite Julianne Moore, opens nearly four decades after Brian De Palma's big screen adaptation of Stephen King's novel Carrie turned into a sensation, helping to launch the careers of Sissy Spacek and John Travolta.
MGM and Sony's Screen Gems produced the updated Carrie for under $30 million. The horror pic has a chance of hitting $30 million in its debut, although Sony is being far more conservative, suggesting it could open in the $18 million to $20 million range.
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Gravity is a formidable opponent, and could easily earn $30 million or more. The Warner Bros. film has earned $204 million globally through Wednesday and could approach $300 million by the end of the weekend.
Prospects are grim for the weekend's two other wide releases, DreamWorks' WikiLeaks movie The Fifth Estate and action pic Escape Plan, teaming Sylvester Stallone and Arnold Schwarzenegger.
Directed by Bill Condon and distributed in North America by Disney, Fifth Estate may only open in the $5 million to $6 million range, a blow for the filmmakers. The movie, starring Benedict Cumberbatch as WikiLeaks founder Julian Assange, has received decidedly mixed reviews and faces fierce competition for adults from Gravity and Tom Hanks-starrer Captain Phillips (Sony's Captain Phillips opened to a better-than-expected $25.7 million last weekend).
DreamWorks has limited financial exposure, since Fifth Estate was made for $26 million. Participant Media co-financed the film.
Summit Entertainment and Emmett/Furla films have much more at stake financially with Escape Plan, which cost at least $70 million to produce and may not cross $10 million in its opening. The male-skewing film is another critical test for Schwarzenegger as he tries to resurrect his acting career, considering his film, The Last Stand, bombed.
High-profile films opening at the specialty box office include Fox Searchlight's 12 Years a Slave and Roadside Attraction's All Is Lost, starring Robert Redford. Both movies are critical hits and considered award contenders (ditto for Gravity and Captain Phillips).
From filmmaker Steve McQueen, 12 Years a Slave opens in 18 theaters in select top cities, including New York and Los Angeles. New Regency partnered with Brad Pitt and Dede Gardner's Plan B Entertainment in producing the harrowing slavery drama.
The ocean-set All Is Lost, directed by Margin Call filmmaker J.C. Chandor, opens in six theaters in Los Angeles and New York.
Sony Pictures Classics also launches biographical drama Kill Your Darlings in New York and Los Angeles (the film opened mid-week). Starring Daniel Radcliffe, Dane DeHaan and Michael C. Hall, the film, set against a murder, brings together beat poets Allen Ginsberg, Jack Kerouac and William Burroughs.
October 16, 2013
If your company isn't fully taking advantage of social media, it might be missing out on opportunities to connect with customers, gain market share, and bring needed talent into the organization.
Experts say virtually every type of business can benefit from using social media as a business tool.
"We really are seeing interest and the potential for business value across the board," says Jeffrey Mann, research vice president at Gartner. "No one is immune, although it will be easier for some than others."
The most likely to see value, Mann says, are knowledge-based and highly collaborative industries, such as media, education, consulting, and high technology; industries or organizations that aren't hamstrung by regulation; and organizations with younger employees who are accustomed to working with social media.
LOON, Philippines (AP) — The earthquake that struck the central Philippines and killed at least 144 people also dealt a serious blow to the region's historical and religious legacy by heavily damaging a dozen or more churches, some of them hundreds of years old.
As rescuers reached some of the hardest hit areas on Wednesday and the death toll from the quake a day earlier continued to rise, images of the wrecked religious buildings resonated across a nation where 80 percent of the population is Catholic.
The bell tower toppled from Cebu city's 16th-century Basilica of the Holy Child — a remnant of the Spanish colonial era and the country's oldest church building — becoming a pile of rubble in the courtyard by the front gate.
Other churches on the neighboring island of Bohol, epicenter of the quake and a popular tourist destination, were also damaged, some beyond repair, while the Bohol seaside town of Loon was a jumble of toppled houses, churches and other buildings.
"The heritage old churches are also very close to the hearts of the Boholanos," said Bohol Gov. Edgardo Chatto, using the term for residents of the island.
He said authorities would attempt to restore the historic churches, but some may never return to their former state.
"Every piece of the church should be left untouched so that restoration efforts can be easier," he said. "It may not be a total restoration, but closest to what it used to be before."
Tuesday was a national holiday in the Philippines, incidentally celebrating the Muslim feast of Eid ul Adha, which meant some of the most damaged structures, like schools and office buildings, were empty when the quake struck, which saved many lives.
"That is our only consolation," said Bohol's provincial health officer Reymoses Cabagnot.
Secretary of State John Kerry flies over Afghanistan on Oct. 11. He met with President Hamid Karzai to work out an agreement on U.S. presence in the country.
Secretary of State John Kerry flies over Afghanistan on Oct. 11. He met with President Hamid Karzai to work out an agreement on U.S. presence in the country.
Syria's chemical weapons could be consolidated and moved out of the country, Secretary of State John Kerry suggested in an interview with NPR.
Weapons inspectors are still in Syria assessing the country's stockpile and how to destroy it, in accordance with a United Nations Security Council resolution approved in September.
Asked by Morning Edition host Renee Montagne whether the agreement ensures that Syria's President Bashar Assad will remain in power, perhaps for many more months, Kerry replied:
"The fact is that these weapons can be removed whether Assad is there or not there because we know the locations, the locations have been declared, the locations are being secured. And my hope is that much of this material will be moved as rapidly [as] possibly into one location, and hopefully on a ship, and removed from the region."
Where such a ship would go is unclear, NPR's Michele Kelemen reports, and even the logistics of dealing with the weapons inside Syria are complicated.
"The Chemical Weapons Convention bars countries from moving their stockpiles — but in Syria's case, a U.N. resolution allows it and urges member states to help," Kelemen says.
Ralf Trapp, a consultant in chemical weapons disarmament, tells Kelemen that the idea of moving the material has been under discussion. However, he adds:
"It's a big, big logistical operation, and just doing this under peacetime conditions is not an easy job, so doing this under the conditions of Syria today is a challenge."
In an interview airing Thursday on Morning Edition, Kerry emphasized that the way forward in Syria would have to be diplomatic and that maintaining state institutions is key to future progress.
"There is no military solution. Absolutely not. There is only a continued rate of destruction and a creation of a humanitarian catastrophe for everybody in the region if the fighting continues," he said.
His remarks follow a two-week trip abroad, including two days in Kabul, where Kerry met with Afghan President Hamid Karzai. The leaders reached a deal on the terms of U.S. presence in Afghanistan after its combat mission ends.
"Everything that will be necessary to a successful agreement is in the agreement. We succeeded in defining exactly what the limits would be for American participation in the future," Kerry said.
But a council of public and tribal leaders, known as the loya jirga, still has to sign off on the issue of jurisdiction over Americans who would be working in Afghanistan.
"Needless to say, we are adamant it has to be the United States of America. That's the way it is everywhere else in the world," Kerry said. "And they have a choice: Either that's the way it is or there won't be any forces there of any kind."
Psychologist Greg Walton has found that a simple intervention can help many students get the most out of college. The trick is in helping students see that setbacks are temporary, and often don't have larger implications.
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Tens of thousands of freshman have just finished their first month in college. They've signed up for classes, met a bunch of other people and, if history is any guide, asked themselves a question: What am I doing here? Everyone else is smarter and better adjusted than I am. And for some, that question totally changes the college experience, may even cause them to drop out, which is why a researcher was determined to intervene. He told his story to NPR's Shankar Vedantam, who's here to tell it to us. Hi, Shankar.
SHANKAR VEDANTAM, BYLINE: Good morning, Steve.
INSKEEP: OK. So, what did he do?
VEDANTAM: Well, Greg Walton was looking at this fact that all students go through difficulties when they get to college, Steve. But some students look at the problems that they're facing and they draw global conclusions from them. They say this is not just a professor giving me a bad grade or someone not sitting next to me in the cafeteria. This reflects that fact that I am not ready for college, or I shouldn't be in this college at all.
INSKEEP: Because they're in this sensitive moment, and they're judging themselves.
VEDANTAM: And they feel like impostors. So, Greg Walton - who, by the way, is a psychologist at Stanford - here's how he explained it to me.
GREG WALTON: If you're walking around in an environment, asking yourself whether you belong, when something bad happens - if you get criticized, if you feel excluded or lonely - to you, in your head, you might think that it means that you don't belong, in general, in that school.
INSKEEP: And that is the moment at which you might, I suppose, socially withdraw, or just withdraw from school.
VEDANTAM: That's right. And Walton said that some minority students and some women were especially affected by this. You already feel like you don't quite belong or you stick out in class, and now you get negative feedback. And you connect the two things together, and now you feel like you really don't belong.
INSKEEP: And that's interesting, because you're suggesting that women or minorities might feel more like outsiders. There's a lot of different kinds of people that might feel like outsiders. I went to a university in eastern Kentucky, and there were a lot of people from small towns that just seemed overwhelmed by that experience in the same way you're describing.
VEDANTAM: That's exactly right, Steve. Because I think what Walton is talking about is that some students are just going to be more vulnerable than others. And he conducted an intervention to see if he could actually reverse this. He brought a bunch of freshmen in. He told them this is what earlier students who've been to this college have experienced. They went through difficult periods of time and then things got better over time, and they heard ostensibly from these earlier students who said when I first got to college, I didn't have any friends, but I realized it takes some time to make friends. And in the long run, everything worked out great. And then he had the freshmen themselves tell stories about how their own experiences matched this pattern.
INSKEEP: OK. So, all they really did was find out they're not the only people in the world who are having these feelings. How much of an effect did that have on them?
VEDANTAM: It had a remarkable effect. It improved the academic performance and well-being of students who went through the intervention compared to students who didn't go through the intervention. And what was most remarkable, Steve, is that the effects of this one-time intervention lasted the next three years of these college students' lives.
INSKEEP: Just from having, what, one brief session?
VEDANTAM: It seems remarkable, Steve. And I asked Walton this, because I said it's hard to imagine that this one session could have had such a big effect. He explained to me that he didn't think, actually, it was the intervention that made the difference. The reason these students did well in college is because they studied hard, they worked hard and they did well. That's why they did well. All the intervention was doing was it was removing a barrier inside their heads, this barrier that made them see a local setback as some kind of a global statement on themselves.
WALTON: What the intervention did was it prevented students from feeling that they didn't belong in general when they had negative experiences. You can then imagine how if you're feeling less vulnerable to threats, you are better able to connect with other people, to peers, to teachers and build the kinds of relationships that actually sustain performance over a long period of time.
VEDANTAM: You know, Walton gave me another analogy, Steve. He said this intervention might be like engine oil in a car. The engine oil doesn't actually make the car go forward, but it removes some of the friction inside the car and helps the engine run more smoothly, and that's what helps the car move forward.
INSKEEP: OK. So, did the young people who had the engine oil applied, did they themselves sense the difference after this intervention?
VEDANTAM: Here's the interesting thing, Steve. When Walton went back and talked with these students later on, they didn't even remember that they had done this three years ago. And Walton was very careful when he brought them in the first place not to signal that he was actually doing an intervention. He dressed up the intervention as saying you're going to be helping future freshmen deal with coming to college. So, he placed them in a role where they were seeming like they were helping others rather than being in need of help themselves.
INSKEEP: Oh, because if you just went directly at them, it's one more adult giving you one more homily. But this way, the message just sneaked up on them.
VEDANTAM: Yeah, and not just that. When you bring students in and say we're doing an intervention to help you, what's the message you're sending those students?
INSKEEP: You're messed up.
VEDANTAM: You're messed up, and you need help. And I think Walton's point is if schools want to apply this intervention, it needs to be done with some subtlety, or it could backfire.
INSKEEP: Shankar, thanks very much.
VEDANTAM: Thank you, Steve.
INSKEEP: That's NPR's Shankar Vedantam. You can follow him on Twitter @HiddenBrain. You can follow this program, as always @MorningEdition and @NPRInskeep, as well as NPRGreene.
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