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ATP Tour: The Little Case That Could
On May 8, 2014 the Delaware Supreme Court upheld a "loser pays" fee-shifting bylaw for a Delaware non-stock corporation in ATP Tour, Inc. v. Deutscher Tennis Bund. While the decision was released with little heralding, if ATP Tour's "loser pays" provisions are widely adopted by public corporations and held also to be valid, the decisionmay create a significant impediment to the ubiquitous lawsuits alleging that directors have breached their fiduciary duties of loyalty and care to the corporation.
The board of ATP Tour, a membership organization that operates men's professional tennis competitions, enacted a fee-shifting bylaw which provides that a "Claiming Party," i.e. a member organization, would be liable for the corporation's attorneys' fees and other litigation expenses if it loses in an intra-corporation claim against the company. The fee-shifting bylaw obligates any Claiming Party to reimburse the League and any member or owner of ATP Tour that the Claiming Party also sued.
In responding to certified questions from a Delaware federal court where the ATP Tour civil action is pending, Delaware's Supreme Court held that a "loser pays" provision in corporate bylaws can be valid and enforceable. The court recognized that Delaware generally follows the "American Rule," wherein each party to the litigation pays its own costs, but held that there is no provision under the Delaware General Corporation Law, or under any principal of the common law, that would prohibit "contracting parties . . .to . . . obligate the losing party to pay the prevailing party's fees [in a dispute]." Because corporate bylaws are a form of contract between the corporation and its shareholders, the court found no basis to impose a different rule in the corporate context. To be effective, a "loser pays" bylaw need only be validly enacted for a proper cause following proper procedure. Of particular significance, the court recognized that deterring litigation—a principal goal of "loser pays" provisions—is not an improper purpose.
Here, the Delaware Supreme Court was not presented with the question whether the particular fee-shifting provision before it was validly enacted, and left that factual determination to the District Court. The Supreme Court only offered its guidance that the determination is highly fact-specific, and that the key to a valid fee-shifting bylaw is the factual determination whether the bylaw was properly enacted, accounting for the all circumstances of when and how the board decided to adopt the bylaw
Notably, although ATP Tour is a non-stock organization, there is nothing in the language of this decision or the in legal principals cited by the court which appears to limit the outcome of ATP Tour to non-stock corporations. Indeed, the language of the decision itself (and in the cases cited by the court) characterizes bylaws as a contract between a corporation and shareholders, suggesting that the Delaware Supreme Court foresees the broader implications of the ATP Tour decision for stock corporations.
The Court also was not called on to determine whether the extension to "any member or owner" was enforceable. An important question will be whether ATP Tour can be applied to lawsuits in which the corporation is only a nominal party. Even more important, will Delaware courts balk at enforcing stock corporation bylaws that shift fees for the benefit of officers or directors who are sued by virtue of their corporate roles? If ATP tour is given its broadest possible effect and is extended to directors and officers, it will certainly change the landscape of Delaware stockholder litigation.
What Happens If It Does?
In future shareholder derivative lawsuits, broad application of the ATP Tour holding may place small shareholders and union pension funds, which populate the plaintiff's pool, at direct risk for litigation fees that may easily run to millions of dollars. For most, the risk is likely to far outweigh the small possibility of a potential substantial reward from derivative litigation. Given the magnitude of attorneys' fees that can be in play, the "loser pays" provision could potentially alter the calculus in proxy battles between corporate management and activist investors.
As for certain public and union pension funds which have been conspicuous in their willingness to act as repeat plaintiffs in Delaware shareholder cases, the officers of those funds may face their own personal financial liability if they breach their fiduciary duties by exposing their funds to "loser pays" liability for no direct financial benefit to the fund, especially if fund beneficiaries obtain discovery about perks and benefits the officers received from the lawyers. One conceivable response would be for repeat institutional plaintiffs to create shell entities to hold stock subject to litigation and to transfer and assign all rights to the entity, including all legal claims, and in doing so, also make remote the risks from fee-shifting provisions. Although conceivable in theory, this would be hard to effect in reality, even if permitted by pension rules. Such schemes may not thread the needle of Delaware's strict stockholder standing rules which require continuous ownership of the stock throughout the events at issue in the lawsuit.
When lawsuits are brought subject to "loser pays" bylaws, corporations will have substantially greater leverage to settle favorably, or to demand simply that plaintiff dismiss its complaint voluntarily or risk crippling financial liability. On the other hand, these provisions may incentivize corporations to overplay their hand and improvidently reject settlements that they would be better accepting.
By far, the largest potential impact could come in the context of the ubiquitous challenges to mergers and acquisitions. According to the Wall Street Journal, shareholders challenged 94% of all corporate mergers in 2013, up from 44% in 2007. Together with Delaware-specific forum and venue provisions, wide-spread adoption and application "loser pays" provisions by Delaware-chartered corporations could chill these suits. Challenges to cash-out mergers are typically filed as class actions. If the ATP Tour holding is held to apply to shareholder class actions, in which the corporation is not a party but is on the hook for expenses by virtue of its obligations to indemnify directors and officers, knee-jerk M&A litigation may virtually disappear.
In the wake of ATP Tour, the shape of stockholder lawsuits in Delaware will be determined by three developments—the number of corporations that adopt loser pay provisions, the breadth of the provisions, and whether Delaware courts substantially confine ATP Tour to its particular facts. Pending future developments, many corporations should consider adding a "loser pays" bylaw to their arsenal of defensive measures against meritless shareholder litigation.
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9 Skin Care Routine Tips You Never Expected to See
You can never have too many skin care tips and they don't all have to involve fancy products. Today we've rounded up some tips that are unexpected and put a spin on traditional skin care routines. Find out how to care for your skin, eyes and lips in unexpected ways. You may even have some of these ingredients in your pantry. If you wanted to you could make them part of your relaxing movie evening tonight!
1. Cold Spoon
No one wants under eye bags or dark under eye circles. It turns out that you can deal with this annoying skin issue pretty quickly with the help of a utensil. Yes, a utensil. Simply place a spoon in your freezer and keep it on standby for puffy-eyed days. It'll help de-puff and refresh your delicate under eye area and you will look well-rested and glowing.
2. BB Cream Before Foundation
Most people think of either using BB cream or foundation but the two work perfectly together particularly if you're looking for balanced, long-lasting coverage. BB cream has many functions: it can brighten, balance, protect and even out skin tone. It provides light coverage so if you're looking to build additional coverage and hide blemishes you can layer a foundation over.
3. Use Oil to get Rid of Oil
If you have oily skin you probably want to avoid oil at all costs, however you should rethink that. Oil is great at attracting oil and can help thoroughly cleanse oily skin. Consider cleansing with a facial oil, oil-based cleanser or using natural oils such as coconut oil to cleanse your face.
4. Exercise for better skin
Breaking a sweat can be just as good for your face as it is for your body. Working out revs up your circulation and releases sweat and dirt from your pores. It's almost like a mini-facial. Just remember to cleanse your face after you hit the gym to avoid buildup..
5. Black Tea For Your Face
Black tea can you give you a boost when you're feeling tired and it can do the same for your skin! After you brew a cup of tea, cool it off in the refrigerator then use it on oily skin as an astringent. It will make your skin look fresh.
6. Yoghurt For Sunburn
If you spent a little too much time in the sun, you can get easy relief by using yoghurt in your fridge. Apply on a sunburn to help soothe.
7. Honey Sugar Lip Scrub
You can make a super easy scrub with the help of a few things in your pantry. Brown sugar makes a great easy scrub for your lips, just mix it with a little honey and lemon, apply to your skin for a few minutes, then rinse off with warm water or the best cleanser for your skin type. Super easy to make, just try to not eat it.
8. Avocado Mask
Love avocado toast? Well that mash that you love to eat can also be super good on your skin. Take a ripe avocado from your pantry and mash it up and apply to clean skin. Let it sit for 15-20 minutes and the antioxidants and monounsaturated fats will help leave your skin looking radiant and hydrated
9. Sleep on Your Back
Your sleeping position can have an effect on the appearance of your skin. If you sleep on your side or stomach you could cause fine lines to show up. This is because we press our faces into the pillow and over time this action can cause wrinkles. Try your best not to sleep on your side or invest in a silk pillow so that your skin can "glide" at night; meaning your skin won't adhere to the pillow as much as it would on cotton. Also change your pillowcase at least once a week so oil, sweat and residue don't mix with your skin.
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- Science
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- Pangaea begins to break up
Pangaea (sometimes spelled Pangea), the most recent of a series of supercontinents on Earth, formed about 270 million years ago and broke apart about 200 million years ago. At this time most of the dry land on Earth was joined into one huge landmass that covered nearly a third of the planet's surface. The giant ocean that surrounded the continent is known as Panthalassa.
The movement of Earth's tectonic plates formed Pangaea and ultimately broke it apart.
Pangaea existed during the Permian and Triassic geological time periods, which were times of great change. The Permian mass extinction, which wiped out an estimated 96% species about 248 million years ago, was a major event during this time.
Image: Artwork showing the Earth at the time Pangaea broke up (credit: Mikkel Juul Jensen/Bonnier Publications/SPL)
Over 200 million years ago, the continents were joined together.
Dr Iain Stewart explains how the Earth's moving tectonic plates resulted in a supercontinent called Pangaea.
Pangaea or Pangea (pronunciation: /pænˈdʒiːə/) was a supercontinent that existed during the late Paleozoic and early Mesozoic eras. It assembled from earlier continental units approximately 335 million years ago, and it began to break apart about 175 million years ago. In contrast to the present Earth and its distribution of continental mass, much of Pangaea was in the southern hemisphere and surrounded by a superocean, Panthalassa. Pangaea was the last supercontinent to have existed and the first to be reconstructed by geologists.
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There is a grave warning message in the worldwide escalation of natural disasters over the past 20 years. But the fatality statistics show, that during the first half of the 20th century, more people died in natural disasters than nowadays. Those were mostly droughts, floods and epidemics. (e.g. there were the China floods in 1931 with an estimated death toll of between 3.7 and 4 million people.) Click to enlarge!
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There are not so many hotel rooms in Wildschoenau, just 85, still everyone can find an offer to suit his choice. The most common offers in this city are 3 и 4 stars, they count 7 out of 85, and their prevalent location is central district. According to our practice, it is the most profitable to book a hotel in the east of Wildschoenau, as it is the location of the hotels with optimal cost and quality offers along with the cheap hotels. Taking into account the small size of the city, there is no need to dwell hotel reservation on the location: the road to the city center would take less then half an hour, so one can book a hotel in any district of Wildschoenau. The most populated with hotels district of Wildschoenau is the north, 71% of cheap hotel rooms are concentrated here. However, even those who want to live in the south can choose from 2 variants of hotel rooms. Wildschoenau is an ideal place for family and couple, such travellers rate hotels there 8.9 out of 10 on average. The view to garden and mountain from the hotel room can serve as a pleasant addition to the journey. Apart from all these, hotels in Wildschoenau offer their customers pets allowed, bar, restaurant/cafe and swimming pool. The staff of the most hotels is multilingual: it speaks english, italian, spanish and french. The most appreciated amenities in Wildschoenau hotels are vibe and room. According to the visitors reviews, hotels in Wildschoenau has delicious food, clean and great pool. Take a look at our selection of the cheap hotel rooms in Wildschoenau to make a well-informed choice for your reservation!
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Hotels in Wildschoenau are spread around the city within the distance of 8.2 kilometers, while 22 hotels are located directly in the city center. Those who are keen on antique should definitely fall in love with
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When I left school I had a year out. A friend was working as a courier, so I went for an interview. I was given a parcel and told to go to Bedford on my Triumph 650. I knew it was somewhere up the M1 but it took two hours to find the M1. I broke down on the way home, and was freezing cold in my denim jacket, but thought it was fantastic. The fact that I had hypothermia was academic.
Tim and I used to commute together up the Old Kent Road. He was working in a merchant bank. I went to university, but it wasn't for me so I left and went back to work as a courier. All I knew was that I didn't want to work for anyone, because I'm a rebellious bastard. I was on the edge of trouble for most of my adolescence. Tim's much more sensible, stable and a very clear thinker. He has a great grasp of the consequences of any action, while I have a flair, through pig-headedness, for saying: "I will make something happen." I built up rapport with clients, and one said: "How about being a company messenger?" I said: "No, I want my own business." He said: "Okay, I'll set you up." That was my springboard.
Soon, I persuaded Tim to join me. We had drifted through school, having competitions to see how many roll-ups we could make from half an ounce of Old Holborn (about 70 really thin ones). We began working from a coal cellar in New Oxford Street. It was grotty and damp, and we'd go out and do a job and hope the phone would ring when we got back. We went from being a couple of likely lads to a company of 10 people. I was riding bikes for five years and was blissfully happy. Our business grew almost by default. By 1985 we had a turnover of pounds 2m and were working all hours. Tim and I had pounds 25,000 in the bank so we went out and bought an aeroplane; I think the attraction was in the unknown, in pushing your boundaries. We just egg each other on.
In the late 1980s, we had moved to a big new premises when our accountant said: "According to my figures, you're going to go bust in three months." There was all this mad spending and we weren't immune to it. (One PR company would phone us regularly to go and fetch a pint of milk, paying pounds 2.75 for delivery.) We'd bought 11 or 12 Volvos to start up a chauffeur service, something we couldn't afford when things slumped. We lost 25 per cent of our turnover in a few months. We had reserves of pounds 18,000 and owed the bank pounds 250,000.
In 1988, we had to decide whether to cash in our chips. Once we had made the decision to stay, we cracked on and worked like crazy. It was the hardest time of my life; I was married with a mortgage and my first child, and had moved to Shropshire. For four nights a week, I stayed in a camper van at the office. I ran operations; Tim was trying to get the finance turned around. We had to stop serving customers who hadn't paid us - a "take no prisoners" approach.
Tim was superb in dealing with the bank manager, persuading him to continue to lend to us. Tim would look him in the eye and say; "We have a plan." We knew the dire straits we were in, six months before the recession really started. When it got hard, we were ready. We sent out lots of mailshots to other courier companies saying: "If you want to sell up, sell to us." I spent five years buying companies then integrating them into our business. Tim was developing a software system to co-ordinate operations. I'll say: "What needs to happen is this", and he will say: "What that will require is A, B, C ... "
We decided to provide a national delivery service, and needed realtime computer software. Orange gave us the chance to handle a massive account, and we werecompeting with TNT and Securicor.
Plans for our helicopter trip started over a beer 18 months ago. The trip was part of us proving the business was secure. You never really find out how successful you are until you're 8,000 miles away. Tim and I became a lot closer. There was a lot of tension, but we had time to talk, mostly flippantly. We'd play I-Spy. We started talking about how amazing the world is. If it wasn't for Tim, I would probably be in prison by now. I've got a lot of energy, am very impulsive, and if I didn't have a steady hand, could be misguided. Tim's a great ally.
TIM GILBERT: Martin hasn't changed much. He's still cheeky, a maverick and an independent thinker in a way that sometimes needs a bit of reining in. I would often say: "Don't be ridiculous." I remember him suggesting we go to France on a moped and I said: "You can't do that." Sure enough, he did. I grew up conventionally and Martin woke me to the idea that you could do anything. We put effort into doing nothing. We managed to go two terms without handing in any work for English A Level.
I was offered a place at university, but I'd spent 15 years making it my business to do sod-all. Instead, I went to the career service and they said: "We have just the job." It was at Schroder, and I was a human spreadsheet. That was before the days of red braces and fast cars: the clerks were below stairs and the highly educated people had the decent jobs. I thought: Am I on the right side of the divide?" "No," I thought, "I'm clever enough, but I haven't got the key to the door." Martin said: "Come on, let's go and ride bikes", and I saw it as a way of making a lot of money.
There was something compelling about our long-term relationship. Other partners couldn't keep up with it. To be earning a tenner a week year in year out was not everybody's cup of tea. Martin used to say: "I want to be a millionaire by the time I'm 30." I was interested in maintaining a middle-class lifestyle, which meant you had to earn a shedload. It was pre-Thatcherism and nobody really had their own business. A lot of the time I found myself thinking to myself: "You can't do that." But there was always Martin saying; "Watch me."
In the mid-1980s, when things were difficult, I felt there wasn't any option but to get the business back on its feet. I knew we could do it; I'm not troubled by self-doubt. We were besieged by debt, and Martin had moved to Shropshire and had broken his neck after crashing his hang-glider. He was a bit low, stuck at home, and said: "What do you want me to do?" I said: "Most businesses in a recession go bust due to lack of cash. Get on the phone every single hour and ask for that money. And don't go near the bank manager." He did a great job. My biggest challenge was to keep the bank manager on side. One morning I knew he'd come to close us down and change the locks. It was a tense encounter; he reached down for his briefcase and I caught his eye and said: "I'll get it back for you." There was this long pause. Then he said: "All right then." We were close to losing it all.
We realised we were too dependent on one location; we needed a network. Big corporations wanted a single point of contact. We set about knitting together the businesses Martin was buying. We moved from being a rag- tag-and-bobtail courier business to developing measurable information corporations can manage. It meant we could be sitting on the ski piste in Courcheval and watching what was going on in Birmingham.
One benefit of on the helicopter trip was an enforced eight weeks of sitting and talking. We never ran out of things to say - we have no unsaid stuff. We had pictures taken before we left, and we look absurdly young and cheerful. I think Martin will keep looking to me to sort out his ideas - what's plain daft from what's completely inspired.Reuse content


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A novel disguised as a self-help guide, Mohsin Hamid's hotly anticipated new book tells the story of young love between capitalism and the latest target of its cupid's arrow: Asia. Through one smitten tycoon's get-rich-quick scheme, Hamid considers ambition's deep effect on relationships and just how fickle a precipice opportunity can be. Hamid is one to watch—he has been since writing The Reluctant Fundamentalist (2008), whose film adaptation by Mira Nair opens in theaters next month. And How to Get Filthy Rich In Rising Asia, out March 5, is one to read—political, romantic, exciting, and a page-turner throughout.
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Don King's coiffure has always been his crowning glory. It quivers above his head as if, as someone once said, he had escaped from the electric chair just as they pulled the switch. King declares it "an aura of God – I feel it is indicative of my being ordained and anointed by Him". Another, perhaps more plausible, theory is that it is a result of an occasion when a Cleveland gangster, to prevent King from testifying in a court case, peppered him in the back of the head with a shotgun, the pellets lodging in his scalp and permanently damaging the follicles.
King likes to say he is "the living attestation of the American Dream. I am the extolment of this great nation. Only in America could a Don King happen."
Only in America. The phrase he coined, one of many. Here is the master of the malapropism, unashamedly mixing metaphors like cocktails and loudly quoting, or more often misquoting, everyone from Virgil to Churchill, Shakespeare to Solzhenitsyn, whose volumes, together with Hitler's speeches, he says he studied while doing time for manslaughter, finding himself – and God.
This week the black Barnum will be turning up his own volume full blast when he arrives to beat the drum for Marco Antonio Barrera, the legendary Mexican and one of King's men, who fights Amir Khan in Manchester on Saturday. By fight night you can guarantee it won't only be King's hair that is standing on end.
It was back in the early Seventies that King, now in his 77th year, broke the stranglehold of white promoters. He has staged over 400 world- title fights, including the Rumble in the Jungle and the Thrilla in Manila, as well as taking the sport to Russia and China. "As long as I am still breathing I want to be opening up new doors," he says. "I want to give boxing back to the people and recall the glory of yesteryear. I am a promoter of the people, for the people. My magic lies in the people ties.
"As long as God is willing to keep me on earth – and he's never failed me yet – I want to be opening up a legacy, opening doors, and the way forward is for the best to fight the best. Now people don't know who the champions are in the divisions. We need heroes to quantify and glorify the sport."
We first encountered him in Caracas, Venezuela, in 1974, a day before George Foreman blasted out Ken Norton in two rounds. We were summoned to a press conference where a bejewelled King, loud of mouth and suit, blithely announced that Foreman's next fight would be against Muhammad Ali in Kinshasa, Zaire, and that financial backing had been extracted from the African country's president, Mobutu.
Hackles rose among the US media. "Who is this comedian?" It transpired that King was no joker. He had a pair of aces up his sleeve, which he produced again when he sweet-talked President Marcos of the Philippines into coughing up the cash for Ali-Frazier III, memorably held at breakfast time in a sweltering arena outside the country's capital, Manila.
He still has connections in very high places, from the Kremlin to Castro, and was prominently placed at the Obama inauguration wearing accred-itation supplied by the US Navy. Yet, as with boxing, he likes to keep his political options open. Four years ago he campaigned for George Bush's re-election, while contributing to both party funds and terming himself a Republicrat. But he doesn't stick around long with losers. When Joe Frazier fought Foreman in Kingston, Jamaica, King had come into the ring with Frazier, the champion, but left with the victor, Foreman.
He doesn't drink and has never been known as a womaniser. He gets his kicks from wheeling and dealing and there is no one better in the thick-ear trade, as Frank Warren, who lost a £7 million lawsuit to King in a contractual dispute, will testify. They are working together on several promotions here and in the United States; Saturday's is the latest. "Despite what happened between us, we still do business and I'm one of the few people who's got a bit of affection for him, because I see the positives of what he does," says Warren. "He's a visionary and he's got big balls. His downside is that you can't get the street out of him."
What is hard to get out of King is a straight answer. He will navigate the lexicon and revamp history, a man of many words, some of them invented. He is hard to pin down, as the taxman has discovered. He has survived heart surgery, his home being bombed – reportedly by the Mob – the deaths of all six brothers, three years and 11 months in prison and several governmental investigations.
Since his original conviction for kicking a man to death, there have been allegations of financial impropriety but nothing has stuck. After being cleared of tax evasion – it was his female secretary who went to jail – he took one jury on an all-expenses-paid trip to London and another deep-sea fishing in the Bahamas. "The judge said it was OK."
Of his violent past he says: "I recognised my sins, brother! I am confessed. But God didn't come to save the righteous. He came to save the sinners." The sins are well-documented. In a raid on a gambling house on East 123rd Street in Cleveland on 2 December 1954, King, known as "Donald the Kid", shot Hillary Brown dead with a Russian revolver. King said it was self-defence. The court called it justifiable homicide.
Twelve years later, King, then a numbers runner, pistol-whipped and kicked Sam Garrett to death on the pavement outside the Manhattan Tap Room in Cleveland. Garrett owed him $600. His dying words were: "I'll give you the money, Don". The judge agreed to reduce the charges from second-degree murder to manslaughter. "God has tried and tested me and the Ohio governor gave me a complete and unconditional pardon," says King.
Now he reckons to have made over 100 fighters millionaires. "No one comes to me without his being fucked first. Black fighters all want white managers, they only come to Don King after the white man fucks them. I take these guys out of the jails and the gutters and I give them more money than anyone ever had in the entire history of mankind. I raise them from the muck and the mire, I make them distinguish themselves in the field of honour and valour.
"I can find money anywhere, I will get blood from a turnip. I'd sooner be the screwer than the screwee. Sure, like my man William Shakespeare said, 'If you prick me, I will bleed', so I put my pants on one leg at a time. Man, I got a PhD in Caucasianism. I taught them white folks some Niggerology." When King promoted in Russia he said he gave them a lesson in capitalism, laughing: "That guy Leningrad must be turning in his grave."
Whatever they throw at him – the cops, the courts, the mobsters, his rivals – King never seems to feel the punches. He leaves that to the fighters.
King is believed to be worth over £2 billion, and while some disaffected fighters have sued him – not always successfully – many have kept faith. He has promoted all the top modern heavyweights – Ali, Foreman, Frazier, Holmes, Tyson, Lewis and Holyfield – but now describes the division as "a joke, a mess", probably because he no longer possesses a big man of note.
His current great hope is a lightweight, Angel Santana, a Cuban emigré. He once coveted Khan but, switching to ticket-selling mode, he reckons Barrera will beat him. "As Winston said, we shall fight you on the beaches. We shall never, never surrender. Victory is ours. We're declaring war and it will be a return to glory for Barrera, one of the world's great warriors. Khan can always come back, he's young. But Barrera's a fighter's fighter. He'll be calling on all the experience of yester-year. He's going in there to kick Amir's ass. When it's over we'll dust your kid off and put him back in the game again."
There has always been an abundance of bullshit in boxing, and for 35 years the monarch of mayhem has poured bucketloads into our ears. When he is in full thrall, his voice rises like the whine of a jet engine above the jangling of his jewellery. But boxing's Godfather is still being heard loud and clear. Not only in America.
Life and times
Name: Donald King.
Born: 9 December 1932 in Cleveland, Ohio.
Early doors: Sold his mother's home-made pies and roasted peanuts to make ends meet after his father died in 1941 in a factory accident. Dropped out of Kent State University, ran illegal betting syndicates and owned gaming houses. Convicted of manslaughter for kicking a man to death in 1966.
In the house: Lives in a palatial $27.5m (£19.5m) home in Palm Beach, Florida, with eight-foot stone replica of Statue of Liberty outside overlooking ocean. Owns two Rolls Royces, priceless antique and ivory collection and one of Elvis Presley's guitars.
Family fortunes: Long-term marriage to Henrietta; three children and five grandchildren.
Packing a punch: Entered fight game by persuading Muhammad Ali to box a charity exhibition bout in Cleveland. Went on to become world's leading promoter, staging over 400 world title fights, starting with the Rumble in the Jungle in Zaire in 1974. Also promoted Michael Jackson tours, securing the singer the highest fee ever paid for a commercial for his Pepsi TV ad.
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|Red wine
|5 Fluid Ounce (150 Milliliter)
|8 Ounce, hulled and thawed if frozen (225 Gram)
|Mint sprig
1)Cut peeled and cored apples into wedge shaped slices.
2)In a bowl, take some lemon juice and put in the apple slices to avoid them getting decolorized.
3)In a skillet on low heat, melt low fat spread, add sugar and mix well to form a paste.
4)Add in the drained apple wedges and stir to coast in sugar paste.
5)Peel few strips of orange rind and add to the pan. Extract juice of orange.
6)Now add cinnamon sticks, orange juice and red wine into the pan. Bring to boil and let simmer while stirring for 10 minutes.
7)Add in raspberries and cook for around 5 minutes until apples become soft.
8)Throw away the cinnamon sticks and orange rind.
9)Transfer mixture from pan into serving dish.
10)Garnish with mint and serve immediately.
Recipe Summary
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Nutrition Rank
Nutrition Facts
Serving size
Calories 253 Calories from Fat 42
% Daily Value*
Total Fat 5 g7.3%
Saturated Fat 1.1 g5.6%
Trans Fat 0 g
Cholesterol 0 mg
Sodium 2.8 mg0.1%
Total Carbohydrates 49 g16.3%
Dietary Fiber 8.6 g34.3%
Sugars 36 g
Protein 1 g2.9%
Vitamin A 4.3% Vitamin C 72.1%
Calcium 4.7% Iron 3.8%
*Based on a 2000 Calorie diet


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|Xander Bogaerts makes homework against Tyler Clippard pay off with game-winning hit
|06.07.15 at 6:13 pm ET
Nothing symbolized Sunday's dramatic rally from 4-0 down in the bottom of the eighth better than the at-bat Xander Bogaerts put up against Oakland closer Tyler Clippard.
Just like the Red Sox, who started the inning down four runs, Bogaerts found himself in a nasty 0-2 hole against the A's righty when he, like his teammates, began to chip away.
Bogaerts fouled off two fastballs from Clippard to fall behind two strikes before he really went to work. He took two straight pitches out of the strike zone sandwiched around a throw to first to keep Mookie Betts close. After Betts stole second to put runners at second and third, Bogaerts fouled off another pitch.
All the while, Bogaerts didn't change his strategy. A lot of batters would be defensive in this situation, down 4-3 with the tying and go-ahead runs in scoring position. Foul off pitches until you get a fastball you can drive. But Bogaerts, along with hitting coach Chili Davis had a better idea.
"I was not looking for a fastball that whole at-bat and he threw me a lot [of fastballs]," Bogaerts said. "I just fouled them off, stayed alive. I was looking for a changeup since pitch one and he threw me one right there."
Why wasn't Bogaerts looking fastball?
"He has a good changeup and he tends to throw at least one in every at-bat," Bogaerts said. "On the 2-2, I fouled one off right next to the dugout. Chili looked at me like, 'Yeah, that's it.' We always talk about it. It doesn't matter if you foul off a ball, you've got to try to pull it the next time. Just stay on it and he threw me what I was looking for. It was actually a really good pitch by him. I was just waiting on it and put a good swing on it."
Clippard tipped his cap to Bogaerts for hanging in and executing on a changeup that he couldn't have put in a better place.
"Threw a changeup down and in. I got it there. It was probably four inches off [the plate] in," Clippard said. "Normally, when guys get to that pitch, all they can do is hit it foul. He did a good job of staying inside that pitch running into him and kept it fair and hit it off the wall. I wasn't mad about the execution.
"He took some poor swings on my fastball throughout that whole at-bat. I felt like I did a good job of reading his swing up until that last pitch. Probably should have thrown another fastball but in hindsight it's always easy to say. It is what it is. I'm just trying to get him out any way I can. I'm trying to get him to chase my pitch and he put a good at-bat together after that and stayed inside the changeup."
Bogaerts admitted afterward that while he got the pitch he wanted, he knows he just as easily could have headed back to the dugout with the third out of the inning and the Sox still down a run.
"[Usually] a strikeout. I went back and saw that [on video]," he said. "I can't guarantee you that I would do that again if I got that pitch."
Things seemed somewhat dim heading into the bottom of the eighth. The Sox had managed just five hits in seven scoreless innings against Oakland starter Kendall Graveman.
"I remember just looking at the scoreboard in the bottom of the eighth, 4-0," Bogaerts recalled. "Just trying to think how we can get some runs. That was probably the biggest win for us this year, for sure."
|Mike Napoli on the pressure on suddenly hot Hanley Ramirez: 'I don't think that's too fair'
|06.06.15 at 10:44 pm ET
Mike Napoli knows there's a lot of pressure on Hanley Ramirez to perform. Maybe too much.
But the way the slugger has been playing the last 10 games, there are positive signs the investment in Ramirez is starting to really pay off.
Ramirez crushed a two-run homer in the first inning Saturday and had three hits to lead the Red Sox to a 4-2 win over the A's at Fenway. In his last 10 games, nine starts, Ramirez is batting .368 (14-for-38) with three homers. He has at least two hits in six of his last nine starts, lifting his average to .272 on the season.
Ramirez was signed for four years and $88 million in the offseason to do what he did in the first month of the season and what's he's done in the last 10 games since Texas.
"He's a superstar so there's a lot expected out of him," Napoli said after Saturday's win. "There's pressure on him every day to come through every single time. I don't think that's too fair but I think he's up to the task and wants to come through. He works hard and takes it serious and wants to get the job done.
"We all have confidence in him. He's a great player. We're going to need him."
Ramirez acknowledged that responsibility Saturday with a smile after the game in front of his locker.
"I try to control what I can control right now," Ramirez said. "Just go to the cage and do my work to be ready for the game and go out there and compete every day. Sometimes, you just have to go out there and let it go.
"It's a long season. Pretty much everybody in here is a champion and everybody knows how to play the game and what we need to play better."
Ramirez has apparently found something else, his comfort zone in the lineup. After batting .257 in 45 games as the club's cleanup hitter behind David Ortiz, Ramirez batted third for the fifth time Saturday. His 3-for-5 effort raised his average to .400 (8-for-20) with two homers in the three hole.
Ramirez also acknowledged something else Saturday: He can lead offensively but he can't do it all by himself. Yes, he shot a 430-foot missile of a homer to the tarp in center and set the tone offensively. But it was Ramirez who paid props to starter and winner Joe Kelly and the bullpen that held on for win.
Red Sox manager John Farrell can certainly appreciate being part of history, even if it means standing in awe of the opponent.
On Friday night at Fenway, Oakland's Pat Venditte became the first major league pitcher since Greg Harris on Sept. 28, 1995 to pitch with both arms in a major league game.
Then, Harris was with the Montreal Expos and accomplished the feat in the ninth inning of a game against Cincinnati. That was a year after he left the Red Sox, where he pitched from 1989-94.
On Friday, the ambidextrous Venditte was not only pitching from both sides, he was doing so in his major league debut after toiling seven years in the minors waiting for his chance.
Venditte entered the game pitching left-handed. He retired Brock Holt on a grounder to first, featuring an 83 MPH fastball and a slider between 72-76 MPH. Hanley Ramirez followed by grounding a slider into left for a single but Venditte quickly rebounded by getting Mike Napoli to ground into a 4-6-3 double play.
"This game is all about helping the team and I just want to come here and be able to do that," Venditte said after the Red Sox' 4-2 win over the A's. "And if I can do that, that's all I care about, and whatever attention comes with that is fine. But we're here to win games. At the end of the day, it doesn't matter if I'm pitching with both hands or one, it's for one effort.
"Tonight, I felt comfortable out there. I was able to get ahead for the most part. I fell behind a couple guys but I felt good out there."
Venditte had a perfect eighth inning, getting Xander Bogaerts to ground to short and Mookie Betts to fly to right, before striking out switch-hitting Blake Swihart. A very impressive debut for the switch-pitcher. Farrell was jokingly asked why he can't teach his pitchers to throw with both arms as successfully.
"Our hands are full with one arm," Farrell conceded. "That was truly amazing tonight. To watch Venditte, it's a remarkable thing to see what one person's body is capable of doing. The coordination, even guys in the dugout were marveling. This is a very unique thing and a very cool thing."
|Brett Lawrie thinks netting needs to be improved at Fenway, doesn't blame maple bats
|06.05.15 at 11:22 pm ET
After Friday's horrific bat accident in the stands behind the A's on-deck circle, the scrutiny of controversial maple bats is likely to intensify.
But Brett Lawrie, the A's batter whose bat shattered in the top of the second inning and struck a woman two rows deep in the box seats, sees a much different issue.
"I don't think so," Lawrie said when asked about MLB addressing the safety of maple bats. "I just think the netting [needs to be addressed]. I don't think it's necessary for the bats to change. You come into a game, you see I don't know how many foul balls fly into the stands every game and for the most part, everyone is fine all the time, and these things are coming in at 100 miles an hour. And then when one bat flies into the stands at a low [speed], and if you're not paying attention, it's just one of those things where it was some bad luck. There's really no time to react behind the dish.
"I really don't feel like it's necessary to change bats or anything like that. It's just one of those things that's part of baseball and unfortunately, everything is so close behind there and there's limited netting. Yeah, it's really important to be heads up back there."
"First and foremost, our thoughts and concern and certainly our prayers go out to the woman that was struck with the bat. A scary moment certainly. Our concern is with her and her family," Red Sox manager John Farrell said. "All you can think about is a family coming to a ball game to hopefully get three hours of enjoyment and unfortunately, with how close our stands are to the field of action, an accident like this is certainly disturbing. Our thoughts and concerns are with her and her family."
Lawrie was using a Tucci model maple bat that was sawed off at the handle on a 94 MPH cutter from Wade Miley when Lawrie swung and grounded out. The barrel of the bat helicoptered into the stands, striking the woman and causing severe head trauma and bleeding in the stands.
The protective netting behind home plate at Fenway stops just shy of the on-deck circles on both the first and third base sides. Lawrie pointed to that as his biggest concern for fans as a visiting player at Fenway.
"You've got limited netting here in Boston so when you're behind home plate and you're along the third base side or first base side, you've really got to be heads up for foul balls or anything coming into the stands because it's so close. There's really no time to react," he said.
Lawrie said he's seen plenty of scary situations of foul balls and bats flying into stands but nothing in his career that approached what happened Friday.
|Fan leaves on stretcher after being struck by a broken bat, reportedly suffers life-threatening injuries
|at 8:01 pm ET
In a scary moment at Fenway Friday night, a fan was struck and bloodied by a broken bat that flew two rows deep into the stands behind the A's on-deck circle.
With one out and none on in the top of the second, Brett Lawrie grounded out to Dustin Pedroia. But in the process of the swing, the bat shattered and struck the unidentified woman in the face. The Boston Globe reported that the injuries were life-threatening.
The fan appeared to have a large gash over her left eye.
Emergency personnel responded immediately and attempted to apply a neck brace but the fan was still moving around in obvious pain.
After Josh Reddick grounded out to end the inning, the game was held up for five minutes as the fan was put on a stretcher and wheeled onto the infield warning track and out of Fenway in front of the Red Sox dugout.
There was no immediate update on the condition of the fan from the team.
Boston police spokesperson Rachel McGuire told the Boston Globe that the woman was taken to Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center. McGuire also indicated that the woman was sitting with her husband and son at the time.
"As soon as I hit it, I had to get out of the box," Lawrie said. "I was at first base. I saw some commotion kind of behind home plate and whatnot, and then I didn't really know because I was running the bases and whatnot. Then in between innings is when things kind of got serious and realized there was a bit of an issue. Hopefully everything is OK and she's doing all right."
|Red Sox-Athletics series preview
|at 10:39 am ET
Coming off of a four-game series split with the Twins, the Red Sox will remain at Fenway over the weekend and welcome the A's to Yawkey Way. The Sox have lost their last two, including a wretched, error-filled, 8-4 decision on Thursday.
The Sox have gone 3-7 in their last 10 games and lost 11 of 16, placing their record at a woeful 24-31 and earning a cellar-dwelling position in the American League East. On Thursday, Farrell acknowledged that he's taking things personally.
"Absolutely," he said after his team's loss. "That was a poor display of baseball today. Those situations are addressed individually, it's alerted collectively, and we will continue to do so."
While the sky is falling on Red Sox Nation, the visitors this weekend, too, have had a disjointed and unsuccessful season to date. The A's have played to a 23-33 record and sit in last place in both the AL West and entire American League.
However, the A's are winners of seven of their last 10 games and take a four-game winning streak into the weekend at Fenway. General manager Billy Beane's squad has a plus-10 run differential this season, seventh best in the AL.
Manager Bob Melvin has been impressed with his team's performance of late.
"We're just trying to play good — win as many games as we can," he said Thursday after his team swept the Tigers. "We're about trying to climb toward .500, and then worry about where you are in the standings."
|Red Sox-Twins series preview
|06.01.15 at 11:31 am ET
With June upon them, the Red Sox will be more than happy to close the book on the month of May, as they went a disastrous 10-19. To open June, the Red Sox will face the red-hot Twins in a four-game series at Fenway Park.
The Red Sox are coming off of a horrendous road trip, going 1-6 in Minnesota and Texas. The Rangers took three out of four in the Sox' most recent series, after the Twins made quick work of them with a three-game sweep. Following this stretch, the Red Sox are 22-29 and reside in last place in the AL East.
As has been the case all season, the offense, more than the rotation, has disappointed for the Red Sox of late. They have failed to score more than three runs in four of their last seven games. The Twins shut down the Red Sox bats last week, as Ricky Nolasco and Mike Pelfrey combined to allow just three earned runs over their two starts. If not for Dustin Pedroia and his pair of two-run home runs last Wednesday, Phil Hughes would have joined the list of Twins pitchers to stymie the Red Sox.
With the team reeling, manager John Farrell met with five of the team's veterans before Sunday's series finale vs. the Rangers. Following an 8-0 shutout at the hands of the Rangers the night before, Farrell reinforced his team's goals and its dependency upon its leaders.
"There was a group of guys that I had in to talk about a number of things," Farrell said. "I guess the short version of it would be for us to play with some aggressiveness and some smarts inside the game situation. Without getting too detailed. But it was an opportunity to meet with our veteran group, to reemphasize the importance of the role that they provide to the younger players and how they go about and execute inside the game."
The polar opposite of the Red Sox, the Twins have snagged seven of their last eight and 20 of 27 during the month of May. The Twins took two out of three from the Blue Jays to close out the month following their sweep of the Red Sox. With a 30-19 record, they own the best winning percentage in the AL as they sit in first place in the AL Central, a half-game up on the Royals.
"All those things you look at that really good teams do, we've been able to do this month," Phil Hughes said after the Twins' latest win over the Blue Jays on Sunday. "It's a small sample, and we have to continue this trend, but it's a positive sign for us."
|Red Sox-Rangers series preview
|05.28.15 at 9:23 am ET
To close out the month of May and their road trip, the Red Sox begin a four-game series with the Rangers on Thursday in Arlington, Texas.
For the second time this season, the Sox were swept by their opponent in their most recent series, dropping all three games to the Twins and getting outscored 14-7 in the process. In the first and second games of the series, Boston was unable to plate more than two runs before plating four Wednesday afternoon when Dustin Pedroia hit two two-run home runs. The Sox have scored two or fewer runs in 19 of their 42 games this year and own a 4-15 record in those contests. When crossing the plate three times or fewer, Boston is 5-17. In their last 15 games, the Red Sox have tallied two or fewer nine times with a 2-7 record.
"A lot of early outs, put the ball on the ground, a couple of ground-ball double plays. I'd like to think our approach can be a little bit more concerted, a little bit more concentrated," manager John Farrell said after Tuesday's 2-1 loss. "I think we're capable of more than we showed here."
The Sox also made an addition to the 40-man roster, announcing on Wednesday that they had acquired outfielder Carlos Peguero from the Rangers for cash considerations. Peguero, who is a left-handed hitter, doesn't do much to abate Boston's woes batting vs. lefties, and makes the outfield picture just a little more crowded.
Thursday will mark Sox pitching prospect Eduardo Rodriguez's first major league start.
The Rangers, despite dropping their most recent contest against the Indians on Wednesday, ending a seven-game winning streak, are 8-2 in their last 10 games, tied with Minnesota for the best mark in the American League during that stretch.
"Winning is contagious," Rangers manager Jeff Banister said after his team's comeback win Tuesday night. "I think all of it plays together. It's a lot more fun to play when you're winning games."
|Buster Olney on MFB: Red Sox have 'most fixable problems' of AL East teams
|05.27.15 at 1:49 pm ET
ESPN baseball analyst Buster Olney joined Middays with MFB on Wednesday to discuss the Red Sox, their status within the American League East and how they can improve. To hear the interview, go to the MFB audio on demand page.
Last week, with the Red Sox seeming to heat up, Olney said that the team had a great opportunity to take advantage of a relatively weak AL East. Since then, the Sox offense has sputtered and the team has lost five of seven. However, Olney maintains that the Red Sox still have the best chance of any team in the division to turn things around.
"When you look at what they have as their list of potential solutions, it's just a lot longer than, say, a team like Tampa Bay or the Yankees, where they're pretty much stuck with the guys that they have, and it's part of the reason why I think going forward [the Red Sox] have a chance to get better," Olney said.
While the Red Sox have struggled this season, Olney said, "They have the most fixable problems and the most resources to fix them with," as compared to other teams in the AL East.
One change Olney recommended is to move the lineup around based on day-to-day matchups rather than each player's pedigree. The Sox, for example, moved the struggling David Ortiz down to fifth in the order for Tuesday and Wednesday's games.
"That feels like the first step in what has to happen next in fixing the 2015 team, which is to get away from stature and past records and all that and just get back to picking the best lineup every day," he said. "If you move Ortiz, who has the most stature on that team, you can probably do a lot of other things as you go."
|Wade Miley on fast track to leading Red Sox turnaround: 'We're playing a lot better right now'
|05.24.15 at 6:19 pm ET
The Red Sox can only hope they copy the stunningly resurgent turnaround of Wade Miley.
The lefty has suddenly turned into the most reliable and consistent pitcher on staff. On Sunday, that encouraging trend continued when he allowed just four hits and one run over eight stellar innings in a 6-1 win over the Angels at a sun-splashed Fenway Park.
It was a perfect day for a game, and Miley gave fans a perfect start to their Sunday afternoon, retiring the first 14 batters he faced before walking Chris Iannetta on five pitches in the fifth. That was followed up by a single from C.J. Cron, who had been called back to hit after a pitch was ruled to have struck his bat by the umpiring crew.
Miley (4-4) has won each of his last three starts and is 3-2 with a 2.60 ERA in May. On Sunday he took just 45 minutes to race through four perfect innings. He needed just 35 pitches to get through four frames before a 23-pitch fifth. Where did Miley learn his fast pace?
"Probably college, my college coach was huge on that," Miley said, referring to Southeastern Louisiana pitching coach Daniel Latham. "It's kind of stuck with me."
The Angels, who had never faced him before, were aiding the cause of Miley and catcher Sandy Leon by swinging early and often.
"They're a pretty aggressive team and we kind of used that to our advantage and it worked out," Miley said. "That's the biggest thing, being able to throw the fastball. And what Sandy did, it felt like every time he put down a finger, it's what I wanted to do. We were on the same page from the first inning on."
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Pages can do javascript:back() or javascript:forward(), which should update the back/forward state in the Java code to keep everything in sync. Currently there are not many user-visible issues that this results in, but one such issue can be reproduced as follows:
1. Start Fennec
2. Go to any page (e.g. google.com)
3. Go to http://people.mozilla.org/~kgupta/bug/695165.html
4. Click on the "Back" link. This should take you back to google
5. Quit Fennec using the menu item
6. Start up Fennec again
At step 6, it shows the screenshot for google, but is actually loading the test page from people.mozilla.org page in the background, so when gecko is up, it replaces the google screenshot with the test page. This is a result of the Java-side history stack getting out of sync with the gecko history.
These are broken too?
Somewhat, yes. pushState updates the URL bar correctly because it sends an onLocationChange event up, but things get out of sync, so hitting back could cause the browser to exit rather than going back further in the history (java history stack runs out too quickly).
Created attachment 570246 [details] [diff] [review]
(1/2) Minor cleanup in Tab.java
Same patch as was r+'d by Sriram in bug 695165
Created attachment 570247 [details] [diff] [review]
(2/2) Keep java state in sync with gecko
Comment on attachment 570247 [details] [diff] [review]
(2/2) Keep java state in sync with gecko
>diff --git a/embedding/android/GeckoApp.java b/embedding/android/GeckoApp.java
>+ } else if (event.startsWith("SessionHistory")) {
>+ Tab tab = Tabs.getInstance().getTab(message.getInt("tabID"));
>+ if (tab != null) {
>+ event = event.substring("SessionHistory:".length());
>+ tab.handleSessionHistoryMessage(event, message);
>+ }
Why not register a message listener for Tabs and do the redirect there instead of here? I guess you still need to do the "find the tab with tabID" dance, but at lteast it seems more appropriate out of GeckoApp. Think about it.
>diff --git a/mobile/chrome/content/browser.js b/mobile/chrome/content/browser.js
> let flags = Ci.nsIWebProgress.NOTIFY_STATE_ALL |
> Ci.nsIWebProgress.NOTIFY_LOCATION |
> Ci.nsIWebProgress.NOTIFY_PROGRESS;
> this.browser.addProgressListener(this, flags);
>+ this.browser.sessionHistory.addSHistoryListener(this);
Just a note that this.browser.sessionHistory" is lazy and might not actually exist early in the lifetime of the browser. You might be fine in this patch, but I know desktop and mobile use crappy "while (sessionHistory is null) { wait and try again }" logic in some places. Just an FYI.
>+ OnHistoryNewEntry: function(aUri) {
>+ OnHistoryGoBack: function(aUri) {
>+ OnHistoryGoForward: function(aUri) {
>+ OnHistoryPurge: function(aNumEntries) {
Instead of sending -1 for every index except "Goto", you might be able to send "this.browser.sessionHistory.index" - not that it is used in Java, but it would atleast be the right index.
r+, but think about the suggested changes
Created attachment 570705 [details] [diff] [review]
(2/2) Keep java state in sync with gecko (v2)
I moved the event handling into Tabs.java as it does make more sense there, and also stopped sending the index and uri if they are not used. I could have sent browser.sessionHistory.index but decided against because as per bug 698094 I want to lean towards reducing the sync state rather than increasing it, and it's also more efficient this way.
Verified fixed on the latest fennec native build:
Mozilla/5.0 (Android;Linux armv7l;rv:11.0a1)Gecko/20111122 Firefox/11.0a1 Fennec/11.0a1
Samsung GalaxyS, Android 2.2