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Two Pulitzer Prize-winning plays and an evergreen Oscar Wilde comedy are among the offerings scheduled for Everyman Theatre's 2018-2019 season.
The company will also give the first staging in repertory of "Queens Girl in the World" and "Queens Girl in Africa," semi-autobiographical works by Washington-based playwright and American University theater professor Caleen Sinnette Jennings.
These works chronicle the adventures of an African-American girl coming of age in 1960s New York and, in the sequel, traveling to Nigeria after the assassination of Malcolm X.
"Queens Girl in the World" premiered in 2015 at Theatre J in Washington as part of the Women's Voices Theater Festival, starring Everyman resident ensemble member Dawn Ursula, who will repeat the role next season. "Queens Girl in Africa" premiered at this year's festival in January at Mosaic Theater Company starring Erika Rose, who will perform in the Everyman production.
The plays "blew me away," says Everyman artistic director Vincent Lancisi. "Caleen is an incredible writer. I knew I had to do them here, and I didn't want to wait."
That urge led to the idea of putting on productions of both pieces to run concurrently in repertory in May and June 2019.
"I'm incredibly excited and impressed by the painstaking way Vinny has put this together," Jennings says. "The plays are semi-autobiographical. Everything that happens to [the central] character happened to me. Some other characters are conflated. The years 1962 to 1968 were awesomely turbulent for this country."
The double production will increase Everyman's season from the usual six plays to seven.
Launching the season in September will be Brian Friel's Tony Award winner "Dancing at Lughnasa," directed by Amber Paige. Set in an Irish village in the 1930s, this memory play about unmarried sisters and the faint promise of love is full of "three-dimentional, unique people," Lancisi says.
Opening in October will be the local premiere of the Pulitzer-winning "Sweat" by Lynn Nottage, a look at disillusionment and economic struggles within a working-class community in Reading, Pa.
"It could easily have been set in Baltimore," says Lancisi, who will direct the production.
During the holiday season, the company will offer a revival of Wilde's brilliant farce "The Importance of Being Earnest," directed by Rep Stage producing artistic director Joseph W. Ritsch. The staging will find Everyman resident ensemble member Bruce Randolph Nelson donning drag to portray the imperious Lady Bracknell.
Nelson and resident ensemble colleague Deborah Hazlett will star in "Everything Is Wonderful" by Chelsea Marcantel, opening in late January 2019, directed by Noah Himmelstein. The work looks at Amish parents coping with the loss of children killed in an accident caused by a drunk driver, who unexpectedly arrives asking to be forgiven.
Lancisi will direct another Pulitzer winner, "Dinner With Friends," by Donald Margulies, opening in March 2019. "It's about two couples discovering things about each other, the kind of play we love at Everyman," Lancisi says. The cast will include company regulars Beth Hylton and Megan Anderson.
"What a neat collection of stories we have about identity next season," Anderson says. "They ask the question we are always asking — who we are and how we fit in. Every single play, whether fun or dramatic or ironic, pushes that question in an exciting way."
Subscriptions to Everyman Theatre's 2018-2019 season are $105 to $329. For more information, call 410-752-2208, or go to everymantheatre.org.


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If you've read about me in the "about" section, you'll know that I'm a Virgo. ^^ But what you probably didn't know is that I'm a proud Virgo! I don't have anything that has the Virgo astrological sign on it because, honestly, a lot of them are extremely tacky, in my opinion.
Or if it's something I'm interested in, it's always expensive!! However, I was just browsing random kawaii stores until I saw this cute and adorable charm! It's a Rilakkuma zodiac set and they had the Virgo one for cheap! ^^
Aw man, though, I had to buy it! I caved and got it right away but I had purchased them from Modes4U, an official San-X retailer. ^^ I'm not going to expect them to be here right away, as I just ordered and purchased it. :3 That's okay... I shall try to be patient!
But anyway, I just think this charm shows off both my pride as a Virgo and show off who I really am - a girly Virgo who's just obsessed with Rilakkuma!! ^^
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|Happy go lucky
|Audi 200 babtized with lucky Alfa Romeo drivers looking on
This trip almost ended in agony! The otherwise very experienced ITR drivers Per Einarsson (Alfa Romeo Bertone GT) and Gert Sterner (Alfa Romeo 145Q) should by all rights have ended up with their cars burried in the armco. Only driver to behave sensibly was Søren Bærholm, who finally got the Audi 200 20V tested for real.
|Per Einarsson was confused and shunted in the very fast Pflanzgarten section when an otherworldly aggresive M3-driver forced him off after the first jump. Luckily the car didn't roll over despite going sideways in the gravel pit.
Gert Sterner drove several laps with a front tyre on the verge of bursting. Only after the last high-pace lap did he realize it while investigating the 'strange vibration' at the workshop of rent4ring in Adenau.
Lucky bunch, then!
The pace was high in general - nothing new there; except Søren Bærholm mingled with his newly finished Audi and performed on a par with the Alfa Guys. The Audi drew a lot of attention amongst the Germans; they know their breed, and this car is special.
The lap times were modest - mostly. This was mainly due to yellow flags from a lot of accidents but also because the track was altered around Hohenrain, where the traffic was routed through the 'old pit lane'.
So we survived. And we and are ready for more action - in due time!


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What might be on the table when Turkey's President Erdogan meets US President Trump in Washington DC? https://t.co/mSGAeapb3n pic.twitter.com/fhcGrNAKNc— TRT World (@trtworld) May 15, 2017
In a meeting with U.S. President Donald Trump on May 16, Turkish President Recep Tayyip Erdogan is expected to press the United States to refrain from arming Syrian Kurdish rebels that Ankara considers to be terrorists.
The White House meeting comes amid intense and complex international diplomacy over the war in Syria, where Turkey and the United States both support forces in opposition to President Bashar al-Assad's government.
But Ankara and Washington are at odds over some aspects of the conflict as well as other issues that may be in focus during the visit.
Erdogan is also expected to continue to pressure the United States to extradite cleric Fethullah Gulen, whom the Turkish president blames for an attempted coup last July, and to drop an Iran sanctions case against a wealthy Turkish-Iranian businessman.
Erdogan, who is scheduled to meet Trump at 12:30 p.m. local time, has expressed confidence that his U.S. visit will mark a "milestone" in what are now strained relations between the two NATO allies.
He told reporters on May 12 that he hopes that his talks with Trump will lead to a "breaking point" in a U.S. plan to arm a Syrian Kurdish militia.
The YPG militia is the most powerful element of an alliance of Arab and Kurdish fighters that has advanced to within a few kilometers of Raqqa, the last large Islamic State stronghold in Syria.
But Turkish officials say the YPG is linked to the outlawed Kurdistan Workers Party (PKK), which has been fighting a decades-long insurgency against Turkish forces for greater autonomy.
Recep Tayyip Erdogan will be seething when he steps into the Oval Office today https://t.co/YAIOYiPlV3— The Economist (@TheEconomist) May 16, 2017
New Round Of Talks
A new round of Syria peace talks is opening in Geneva on May 16, but hopes for a major breakthrough remain dim.
Five previous rounds of UN-backed negotiations aimed at ending a six-year conflict that has killed more than 320,000 people have failed to yield concrete results.
Trump's meeting with Erdogan also comes after Russia, Iran, and Turkey agreed at separate talks in Kazakhstan on a plan to set up four "de-escalation zones" in Syria.
Rebels have criticized the plan and the United States has voiced reservations, citing concerns about Iran's role and pointing to the failure of past agreements whose stated intention was to decrease fighting.
Meanwhile Erdogan, who pushed through a referendum strengthening his powers last month, also said he would pursue "to the end" Turkey's demand for Gulen's extradition.
The Turkish president blames the U.S.-based cleric's supporters for last year's failed coup, which was followed by a purge of tens of thousands of Turkish state employees accused of links to Gulen's network in a crackdown that has drawn criticism from Washington.
Gulen denies any involvement in the plot.
Ahead of the talks, rights activists and opponents of Erdogan urged Trump to raise the issue of human rights and democracy.
"Turkey is under a state of emergency since [the failed coup], during which human rights have been trampled on," said Sezgin Tanrikulu, a legislator from Turkey's main opposition Republican People's Party, or CHP. "The media and press freedoms have been placed under government control. Torture and ill-treatment have increased."
Opinion: Trump and Erdogan's similar attitudes towards the media and the courts should worry Americans https://t.co/T5FIView6R pic.twitter.com/PDioU2urBa— Financial Times (@FT) May 15, 2017
Trump congratulated Erdogan after the referendum, while the State Department urged his government to "protect the fundamental rights and freedoms of all its citizens" regardless of how they voted.
Lobbying For Reza Zarrab
In addition to the extradition of Gulen, Erdogan has also been seeking the release of Reza Zarrab, who is charged with acting as a go-between to help Iran's Islamic Revolutionary Guards Corps and other Tehran clients evade U.S. sanctions.
Court documents made public last month revealed that Zarrab's attorneys, led by former New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, met with Erdogan on the case in February and afterwards attempted to initiate Zarrab's release from jail through a diplomatic process. Erdogan has since openly called for Zarrab's release.
Giuliani's law firm is registered as a foreign agent for Turkey. A former prosecutor who advised Trump during his campaign, Giuliani appeared on a list of potential nominees for FBI director this week after Trump fired James Comey.
Guiliani's ties with both Trump and Turkey have been under intense scrutiny by the Manhattan judge in the Iran sanctions case, who asked at one point whether Giuliani was working for Erdogan or Zarrab. On May 15, the judge demanded to know more about Giuliani's ties to Trump.
'Political' Settlement?
Giuliani has spoken of trying to arrange a "political" settlement of the case between Washington and Ankara, using Zarrab's past associations with Erdogan as a bargaining chip.
In 2013, U.S. prosecutors say Erdogan pressured Turkish prosecutors to drop criminal charges in a high-level bribery case brought against Zarrab. Erdogan's pressure as then-prime minister resulted in the firing of the prosecutors who brought the charges against Zarrab.
U.S. prosecutors say the 2013 charges pertained to a massive bribery scheme executed by Zarrab involving the payment of tens of millions of dollars to cabinet-level Turkish officials and high-level bank officers in Turkey to facilitate Zarrab's transactions on behalf of Iran.
Ahmet S. Yayla, a professor at George Mason University in the United States and a former Turkish prosecutor, wrote in Modern Diplomacy this week that he believes Erdogan knows that "Zarrab is going to testify against him unless Turkey finds a way to save him from prison," Yayla said.
Yayla wrote
that he believes Erdogan will use the U.S. lease on the vital Incirlik air base
in southern Turkey as leverage to pressure Trump to accede to his demands.
With reporting by AP, Modern Diplomacy, and Deutsche Welle
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Susperia - We Are The Ones
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We Are The Ones - DIGIpack
Here it is, the much anticipated and talked about anniversary album, celebrating 10 years of album releases, released on the once in a lifetime special date 11.11.11.
This album marks 10 years of releases, and at the same time a nice end of a circle where Mustis (ex-Dimmu Borgir), who participated on Susperias first demo in 1999, now returns after 12 years to once again put his magical touch on new, as well as old songs. A very fruitful cooperation which now has led to some fantastic re-recordings of some very popular, classic songs, now in complete symphonic versions.
A brand new song has been recorded, with a massive orchestral theme. The contribution to the Eurovision Song Contest is of course featured. And to round up a celebratory album of this magnitude the right way, here it is finally, the entire infamous demo recording from 1999; "Illusions Of Evil" ! Remastered and officially released for the very first time.
Øyvind "Mustis" Mustaparta has been a guest musician in the band for a period of 6 months, and the result of this junction is finally ready. Really just a huge celebration of the long-time brotherhood of the band, and an even bigger thank you to the devoted fans worldwide.
Tracklist "WE ARE THE ONES" :
1. We are the Ones - New song composed with Mustis 2011
2. Devil May Care (Orchestral version 2011) - Originally from "Unlimited" 2004
3. The Bitter Man (Orchestral version 2011) - Originally from "Vindication" 2002
4. Cut From Stone (Orchestral version 2011) - Originally from "Cut From Stone" 2007
5. Nothing Remains - Eurovision Song Contest contribution 2011
The 1999 "Illusions Of Evil" Demo remastered:
6. The Hellchild (DEMO version 1999) - Re-recorded on "Predominance" 2001
7. Illusions Of Evil (DEMO version 1999) - Re-recorded on "Predominance"
8. Of Hate We Breed (DEMO version 1999) - Re-recorded on "Predominance"
9. The Coming Of a Darker Time (DEMO version 1999) - Re-recorded on "Predominance"
10. Behind Consecrated Walls (DEMO version 1999) - Only previously released in studio album version in South Korea 2001 as bonus track on "Predominance"


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Monday, 29 October 2012
The mango tree!
This is a poem one of my closest friend wrote around three
years back, and I wanted to illustrate it.I did the drawings
around a year back but could'nt decide on how I wanted to
colour it,
and then it just got lost somewhere and I forgot
about it.But today I finally pushed myself to complete it.
So happy!
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(Written June 2014 by MJ Law)
Boxing fans in the UK who subscribe to Sky Sports will likely tune in to
, a weekly show that covers the events of the boxing world and which is hosted by Adam Smith and former boxer Johnny Nelson. With regard to Adam, it is difficult to decipher whether he is a genuine boxing fan who has landed a dream job or if he is a run-of-the-mill Sky TV presenter who has been shunted into this job and therefore acts as though he loves boxing more than he really does. Whatever the case, his melodramatic style of presenting can be quite nauseating. Almost every week he informs the viewers that the British boxing scene is buzzing as he practically foams at the mouth with excitement. He conveniently ignores the fact that the mainstream media gives little coverage to the sport, except for truly big fights involving the likes of Carl Froch. A typical example of Adams exaggerated hyperbole occurred prior to bantamweight Jamie McDonnells bout with Julio Ceja at the Keepmoat Stadium in Doncaster on 11
May 2013. Adam claimed that this bout had the whole city of Doncaster buzzing (his preferred adjective), yet Sky Sports had declined to televise it and when it did take place more than two thirds of the seats in the stadium were empty. Still, its not easy to deter Adam Rose-Tinted Glasses Smith.
Furthermore, Adam frequently gushes about each fight that Sky televises, making out that it is a timeless classic which was bursting with non-stop, edge-of-the-seat-action as well as being a magnificent display of masterful skills. Of course, its his job to generate high viewing figures so hes not going to admit that an upcoming fight is probably going to be a forgettable bore between a pair of ordinary journeymen. But its still cringe-inducing when he lowers his voice for dramatic effect, which he does habitually.
Another aspect of Adams presenting technique is to compare the current thrills and spills of boxing to Britains golden era. By this he means the prime years of Chris Eubank, Nigel Benn and Michael Watson. This is a custom that he occasionally repeats as he adopts a dreamy, faraway look and sighs Oh, the glory days of Benn and Eubank. Benn, Eubank and Watson were good fighters, but why doesnt Adam ever mention Jimmy Wilde, or Ted Kid Lewis, or Benny Lynch? Wilde, Lewis and Lynch were all truly great fighters, certainly greater than Benn, Eubank and Watson. Maybe Adam has never heard of Wilde, Lewis or Lynch, or at least knows very little about them. Maybe his boxing knowledge only encompasses his own lifetime and anything beyond that is largely unfamiliar to him.
This reference to Benn, Eubank and Watson coincides with a book that was released earlier this year entitled
No Middle Ground; Eubank, Benn, Watson and the Last Golden Era of British Boxing
by Shanjeev Shetty. Was this really a golden era and just how good were Eubank, Benn and Watson? Certainly they each had a colourful personality (each very different) and their rivalry ignited passions and a bit of fun too.
A major instigator of their legacy is that their careers overlapped and they all fought in the same weight divisions. Consider as a comparison the brilliant career of Lloyd Honeyghan, who also had a colourful personality. He won the British, Commonwealth and European welterweight championships and scored wins over talented contenders such as Gianfranco Rossi (whom he flattened in three rounds, and bear in mind what Rossi went on to achieve), Sylvester Mittee and Horace Shufford. He then won the undisputed (and lineal) world welterweight title with a stunning victory over the awesome, previously undefeated Donald Curry. His subsequent defences included victories over Johnny Bumphus and Maurice Blocker (a future lineal champion). Honeyghan was just as entertaining in the ring as Eubank, Benn and Watson and his quality of opposition was higher overall. In contrast, neither Eubank, Benn nor Watson ever beat anyone on the level of Curry or became undisputed world champion in any division they fought in, or even unified any titles. Honeyghans accomplishments were superior but Adam Smith never mentions him.
The programme for Benn v Watson
So heres the question; was the era of Eubank, Benn and Watson really golden? Or was it lacking in a few carats?
Nigel Benn was born in Ilford, Essex, and was nicknamed The Dark Destroyer. He was a rather rough and ready, blue collar guy with a big punch, reasonable skills and (as it turned out) a suspect chin. He turned professional on 28
January 1987 and scored a first round KO over Graeme Ahmed, who was coming off four straight losses. Benn proceeded to crush fourteen no-hopers before beating fellow prospect Darren Hobson on 14
March 1988. Next he won the vacant Commonwealth middleweight title by trouncing an undistinguished, unknown Ghanaian called Abdul Umaru Sanda. Five more wins over softies followed before he stepped into the ring with Michael Watson.
Watson was born in London and was a polite, humble guy who had made his professional debut on 16
October 1984, stopping Winston Wray in four rounds. His quality of opposition whilst rising through the ranks was higher than Benns. Although he had dropped a decision to James Cook on 20
May 1986, he had triumphed over Don Lee, a decent fringe contender, on 3
February 1988.
Benn and Watson squared off on 21
May 1989 at the Majestic Ballroom in north London and Watson demonstrated courage, guile and an airtight defence on his way to knocking out Benn in the sixth round. At the time, Benn was being hailed as an unstoppable wrecking machine but on this night he lost his unbeaten record, his Commonwealth title and the overblown myth that surrounded him. At this point in his career, Benn had not beaten anyone of note.
Watsons victory earned him a shot at WBA middleweight champion Mike McCallum on 14
April 1990 at the Royal Albert Hall. However, Watson was outboxed and stopped in the eleventh round. He rebounded with a trio of wins over so-so opposition, one of whom was a faded Errol Christie. Then he tackled Chris Eubank for the WBO middleweight title on 22
June 1991 at Earls Court. This bout was closely contested and ended in controversy, with Eubank being awarded a majority decision, though many at ringside thought that Watson was robbed.
Chris Eubank was an outlandish, eccentric character who was aloof, arrogant and behaved as though he was a highbrow aristocrat. At various times he has taken to wearing jodhpurs, a monocle and a cravat, and has occasionally walked with a cane. This pretentious nonsense belies his rather ordinary origins. He was born in London and spent parts of his childhood in Peckham and Hackney, both of which were deprived neighbourhoods. During his career, Eubank often attempted to talk in an intellectual manner, vainly stringing together lengthy, complex sentences in the fashion of a poet but he came across as more of a target for ridicule than an intellectual.
Eubank made his professional debut on 3
October 1985, outpointing Tim Brown in the glamorous setting of Atlantic City, New Jersey. He put together a winning streak of twenty-one bouts before facing his first notable opponent, Kid Milo, whom he stopped in the eighth round on 5
September 1990. This led to him winning the WBO middleweight title, and the man he won it from was Nigel Benn. But how did Benn win it?
It should be stressed that the WBO title was quite meaningless. Its still meaningless now, but it was even more so back in 1990. The WBO had been formed in 1988 and was struggling for recognition, basically offering up their belts to anybody (which is not much different to how they operate today). The inaugural bout for the WBOs middleweight title had taken place on 18
April 1989 and was between Doug DeWitt and Robbie Sims, a pair of ordinary, borderline contenders who were both coming off losses. In fact, they had both lost to the same man; Sumbu Kalambay, who at the time was the WBA (and lineal) middleweight champion. Therefore, the WBO were accepting a pair of defeated cast-offs to battle for their pointless belt. DeWitt won a split decision and defended against Benn on 29
April 1990. Benn won with an eighth round KO, but lets be honest; beating DeWitt was hardly a jaw-dropping achievement and it was absurd to consider him a real world champion.
Benn was a hard-hitting slugger
Benns initial defence was a first round stoppage of Iran Barkley, and on paper this was a terrific victory. However, the actual circumstances painted a different picture. Barkley was a tough guy from the Bronx in New York City and had experienced a rollercoaster career. He had beaten Michael Olajide and scored a stunning upset victory over the superb Thomas Hearns, but he had also lost to the aforementioned Robbie Sims and Sumbu Kalambay. Furthermore, before meeting Benn he had additionally suffered back-to-back losses to Roberto Duran and Michael Nunn respectively. After this he had undergone surgery for a detached retina and been inactive for a whole year, so Benn was facing a tainted, ring-rusty version of the New Yorker. Barkley was actually beaten on the three knockdown rule, but on the first and second knockdowns Benn had hit him while he was down and Barkley was given no time to recover. Benn was lucky not to be disqualified, though his tactic to jump on Barkley from the opening bell was shrewd.
Benn went on to defend his WBO belt against Eubank on 18
November 1990 in Birmingham. This was a highly-charged encounter, with Eubank wearing Benn down and finishing him off in the ninth round.
Eubank had made two successful defences before his fight with Watson. These defences were against unproven Canadian prospect Dan Sherry, who had no significant victories on his record, and British hopeful Gary Stretch, who also had no significant victories on his record. Neither Sherry nor Stretch were world class, and in the case of Sherry, a victory for Eubank was certainly dubious. In the tenth round, Eubank had inexplicably head butted him and Sherry was unable to continue. Showing a great deal of leniency, the referee opted to merely deduct two points from Eubank, who was then declared the winner by technical decision. Within minutes, leaflets were being handed out to the crowd promoting his next fight against Stretch.
After Eubanks disputed win over Watson, there was considerable demand for a rematch and this took place on 21
September 1991. It was also for the WBOs vacant super-middleweight title, Eubank having relinquished the middleweight belt and choosing to move up in weight. The debatable necessity of the super-middleweight division is explored elsewhere on this website, but regardless of what division the rematch occurred in, the outcome was a terrible tragedy. Watson was stopped in the twelfth round of a gruelling bout and sadly collapsed whilst still in the ring. He was rushed to hospital but had lapsed into a coma, in which he remained for forty days. Thankfully, after extensive surgery, he regained consciousness but he faced prolonged rehabilitation. To his tremendous credit, Watson has far exceeded doctors original expectations and although he remains partially paralysed, he is a shining example of the human spirit.
Eubank proceeded to make fourteen successful defences of his new belt, two of which ended in a draw. His challengers were a mix of decent fighters (such as Lindell Holmes, Thulani Sugar Boy Malinga and Tony Thornton) and mediocre pushovers (such as John Jarvis, Mauricio Amaral and Dan Schommer). One of the draws was a rematch with Nigel Benn, which was also a unification bout, for Benn had gained the WBC super-middleweight title. Eubank was somewhat lucky to get a draw.
After losing to Eubank in their first meeting, Benn had gone on to beat limited Italian Mauro Galvano on 3
October 1992 to win his WBC belt. He subsequently made nine successful defences, incorporating the draw in his return match with Eubank.
Excluding Eubank, Benns challengers were an unremarkable bunch of reasonable fighters who were not quite world class, such as Lou Gent, Vincenzo Nardiello and Daniel Perez. There was also Henry Wharton, whom Benn outpointed on 26
February 1994, but he was an unproven novice lacking in international experience. However, there was one prominent exception amongst Benns challengers and that was Gerald McClellan, from Freeport, Illinois.
McClellan had been a big hitting middleweight, twice blitzing Julian Jackson, and against Benn he was fighting above middleweight for the first time. In addition, he had never been beyond eight rounds. Their bout took place on 25
February 1995 in London and ended in a heartbreaking manner with McClellan going down twice in the tenth round and suffering horrible injuries from which he has never recovered. Beforehand, McClellan had been favoured to win and dropped Benn in the first round (Benn was knocked completely out of the ring) and again in the eighth round. It was a wild, brutal slugfest and Benn showed incredible resiliency in surviving some heavy bombardments. It was almost certainly his best performance but it was also one of the most distressing nights in boxing history. Benn should have also demonstrated a degree of compassion after the fight ended. Even though McClellan had collapsed after returning to his corner and had been placed on a stretcher while receiving medical attention, Benn continued stomping around the ring gesturing aggressively in triumph.
There was no rubber match between Benn and Eubank despite their second bout ending in a draw. Benn finally lost his WBC belt on 2
March 1996 when he was beaten on points by Thulani Malinga, who already been defeated by Eubank. A pair of inside-the-distance losses to Steve Collins occurred later in the year which brought his career to a close.
Eubank looking....well....make up your own mind!
Collins had previously ended Eubanks run as the WBO title-holder on 18
March 1995 with a unanimous decision. Eubank lost a rematch to Collins and suffered three further defeats (one to Joe Calzaghe and two to Carl Thompson) before retiring in 1998.
Its interesting to note that Watson, Benn and Eubank campaigned during an era when there was a change in the culture of boxing. This change really began in the 1980s, when gaining experience and developing world class skills became less of a priority. What became more of a priority was remaining unbeaten and winning a title. The accomplishment of winning a title had become much easier because the number available had doubled in the 1980s. Previously, there had been only the WBC (formed in 1963) and the WBA (formed in 1962), but the IBF was formed in 1983 and the WBO unfortunately came along in 1988. These self-serving sanctioning bodies also created more weight classes; in 1950 there was only eight, by 1960 there were ten, by 1970 there were eleven, by 1980 there were thirteen and by 1990 there were seventeen. If there was only one world champion per division (as there should be), Benn and Eubank would never have been a world champion. In fact, if there was just the WBC and WBA, its unlikely they would have been champions. And if there were only the original eight weight divisions, they would not have held titles in more than one division. They have clearly benefited from the crazy increase in titles and divisions.
TV networks like to showcase an unbeaten fighter with a title, figuring it will easily attract viewers. They seem unconcerned with what the title actually is or who the title-holder has actually beaten. This is why it has become such a precedence to try to keep a fighter unbeaten and to get him a title, any title. Promoters attempt to steer their star protégé towards a title whilst exposing him to minimal risk.
As an example, take the recent case of British hopeful Brian Rose, promoted by Eddie Hearn. Rose is an affable but limited fighter from Blackpool who is clearly not world class. But this wouldnt discourage Hearn from getting him a title shot because its easy to get a title shot. Why? Because there are so many titles available and a fighter doesnt have to face the best in the world to fight for one. Boxing is the only sport in existence in which a competitor doesnt have to defeat the best available opposition to become a world champion. If Usain Bolt wants to the win 100m at the world track and field athletics championships, then hell have to beat the best sprinters in the world. If Andy Murray wants to win the mens singles crown at Wimbledon, the premier tournament in tennis, then hell have to beat at least two or three of the best players around. Its a totally different scenario in boxing.
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June this year, Rose challenged Demetrius Andrade for the WBO light- middleweight title, but what exactly had he done to earn this chance? He had beaten an utterly shot former welterweight called Vivian Harris (who had won just one of his previous nine bouts) and Joachim Alcine (who had been knocked out in the first round of his previous fight by Matthew Macklin). Rose was obviously not prepared to tackle Andrade and it came as no surprise when he was soundly thrashed in a one-sided mismatch. He had not gained the necessary experience nor developed world class skills. Basically, Hearn had opted for a short cut to get him a title shot and Rose predictably came away with a sore head and presumably a nice payday. If that was all he wanted, then fine, but he was almost certainly going to fall short by using a short cut and thats exactly what happened. For Andrade, this was merely a routine, keep-busy fight.
If the unthinkable had happened and Rose had scored an amazing upset, he still would not have had the skills or experience to rule over the division in which he would supposedly be the world champion of. The light-middleweight division currently includes the likes of Saul Alvarez and Erislandy Lara, and Rose is clearly not in their class. But this illustrates just how ludicrous the state of world championship boxing is, because even if Rose becomes a so-called world champion, he wouldnt necessarily have to defend against the best in the world anyway. Eddie Hearn is not concerned with developing a genuine world class fighter; he is a short-term schemer and just wants to get one of his fighters a title shot the easiest way possible. And if a fighter strikes gold and happens to win a title, then Hearn will negotiate a route for him to keep it for as long as possible by avoiding the most dangerous challengers. This is the culture of boxing.
Watson's win over Benn was probably the best of his career
Take another prime example; Ricky Burns. On 5
November 2011, Burns outpointed a battle-worn Michael Katsidis to win the interim WBO lightweight title. Earlier that year, Katsidis had already been beaten by Robert Guerrero in a shot at the WBA title. The WBO subsequently promoted Burns to their full-fledged champion and he reigned as such until being outclassed by Terence Crawford on 1
March this year. During his reign, Burns made four successful defences, including wins over a couple of decent fighters in Paulus Moses and Kevin Mitchell. But what is significant here is that between 2011 and 2014, a list of the best lightweights in the world would have to include Miguel Vasquez, Brandon Rios, Richar Abril, Antonio DeMarco and Adrien Broner. And Burns never defended against a single one of them. But why not? He was supposed to be the world lightweight champion, right? So why would he not defend against the best contenders? Is it because Hearn figured that Burns couldnt beat any of them? The Box Nation network and later Sky Sports, which televised Burns defences, were seemingly unconcerned about whom Burns faced and it was Hearns job to keep Burns winning. Its a nice arrangement and everybody is making money, but its the sport and the fans that are given a raw deal because its rare when this eras world champions actually face the best in their division. Did it bother Burns that he wasnt facing the best lightweights in the division? Or was he content to go along with the charade? Before each bout, Hearn would launch his usual propaganda campaign, attempting to portray whoever Burns was fighting as a genuine threat and a worthy challenger, but in reality the biggest threats in the lightweight division were not in the opposite corner when Burns stepped into the ring. Maybe Burns challengers were good fighters, but they werent the best and only in boxing does a world champion not have to face the best. If they did, world welterweight champion Floyd Mayweather would have already defended against Manny Pacquiao, and world light- heavyweight champion Adonis Stevenson would have defended against Sergei Kovalev, and world flyweight champion Akira Yaegashi would have defended against Juan Francesco Estrada.
If the subject of Burns fighting someone like Brandon Rios ever cropped up, Hearn would likely spout the usual issues preventing such a match-up, along the lines of contractual disputes, or no agreement on a date, or the other fighters camp being uncooperative. But boxing fans shouldnt fall for it. Rhetoric of this nature is a lot of phoney baloney hogwash and Hearn knows it. If Burns and Rios really had wanted to square off in the ring then a clash between them could have been made. Theres always a way to reach a deal. Remember back in 1988 when Michael Spinks and Mike Tyson came together in a monumental showdown? There was a whole truck load of obstacles standing in the way of Spinks battling Tyson, including lawsuits and arrangements with rival TV networks. But both Spinks and Tyson wanted the fight and it got made. There should be no excuses.
In a post-fight interview, how many times has a victor been asked who they would like to face next? Its a standard question, isnt it? And heres the standard answer; Its up to my manager. Ill fight whoever he wants me to fight. Another lot of phoney baloney hogwash! The manager works for the boxer, not the other way round. The manager should line up the boxers preferred choice of opponent and if the boxer is a world champion then it should be the most worthy contender available, not some second-rate South American that no one has ever heard of with a record of fifteen wins against nobodies.
This was the culture of boxing that Eubank, Benn and Watson grew into as they rose through the professional ranks, with TV networks and promoters looking to build potential stars with a minimum of risk, though it has worsened over the years. Why have the sanctioning bodies allowed this? Its simple; its all about making money. And even the power of money cant force the best fights. Why would Floyd Mayweather risk himself against Manny Pacquaio when he can generate far in excess of fifty million dollars by taking on easier opponents? The WBC, whose welterweight title Mayweather currently holds, are happy to let Mayweather face whoever he pleases because he makes so much money for them.
When Eubank and Benn picked up their various titles, they did not face the best in their divisions. During the late 1980s and early 1990s, the most outstanding middleweights in the world included Sumbu Kalambay, Michael Nunn, James Toney, Mike McCallum and Julian Jackson. Neither Benn nor Eubank faced a single one of them. Watson did face one of them and that was McCallum, who decisively beat him.
During the early-to-mid 1990s the most outstanding super-middleweights in the world would include Nunn, Toney, Roy Jones and probably Frankie Liles too. Again, neither Benn nor Eubank faced any of them. Therefore, not Watson, Benn or Eubank dominated any division they fought in, at least on an international level and were not the best in the world while they were active. The conclusion here is that they are not great fighters and they do not compare to the likes of Jimmy Wilde, Ted Kid Lewis or Benny Lynch. But thats not such a terrible notion is it, because thats what makes Wilde, Lewis and Lynch so special; that they are just about incomparable.
Benn and Eubank in their rematch
But having said that, Watson, Benn and Eubank certainly carved out their own niche in British boxing history. In terms of pure ability, Watson was probably the best of the three, though his legacy is not what he accomplished inside the ring but outside it. His self-belief and willpower to battle back from the injuries suffered in his last fight are just mesmerizing and for that he should always be remembered.
Eubank was the most carefully matched of the three and benefited from some questionable officiating; not being disqualified against Sherry, a gift decision over Watson in their first fight and a generous draw in his rematch with Benn. He had decent ability but it was sometimes masked by his eccentricities. In the ring he would often spend more time posing and posturing than he did boxing, as if he were trying to get onto the cover of
magazine instead of
The Ring
magazine. He would trot forward a couple of steps, and then trot backwards a couple of steps, almost like he was tiptoeing on creaky floorboards. Then he would lurch at his opponent with a single shot from an odd angle. He probably thought he was executing masterful boxing moves but he was no masterful boxer. Such a distinction would go to a champ like Pernell Whitaker and Eubank was nowhere near Whitakers level. When he actually got down to fighting, Eubank could display grit and durability, but his inflated opinion of himself was always greater than his achievements. Perhaps Eubanks status was enhanced by how he became a foil for impressionists and stand-up comics. He really did seem to take himself far too seriously.
Benn was crude and had a weak defence, but this made his fights more exciting and so he was definitely the most fun to watch of the three. If Eubank and Watson could beat him, then his contemporaries such as James Toney and Roy Jones would also have beaten him too, in all likelihood quite easily. But lets not take too much away from him, he usually put his heart and soul into his performances and provided plenty of exciting moments.
To surmise, the era of Benn, Eubank and Watson was maybe not quite as golden as Adam Smith has made out, or least not golden in the sense that it involved a trio of all-time great fighters. It was an era which involved a trio of good fighters who fought with a lot of spirit and whose rivalry made them entertaining to follow.
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Today we released CocoaPods thumbs. It's a CocoaPods plugin that allows users to check for peer votes of the dependencies they are including in the project. We are using it at Quadion (our thumbs are public, you can check them here).
We started using CocoaPods as soon as we discovered. It's great for seasoned developers, but can quickly turn into a double-edged sword. Searching for the magical Podspec that solves a specific problem quickly becomes second nature to any developer (only second to copying and pasting unknown code from Stack Overflow).
The problem is that there are tons of Podspecs, and the quality varies hugely. From long time abandoned code, to code that violates AppStore submission rules by using private APIs, to code with too many bugs.
So I wanted to improve on this, at least a little bit, and then CocoaPods thumbs was born.
How it works
The use case is straigforward. There's a server that returns a JSON with a given format, including Podspecs (with version requirements) and votes (optionally with comments).
Users first register the server URL (which conveniently can be a GitHub URL to the RAW JSON file), and then simply run
pod thumbs from a folder with a Podfile. When run, CocoaPods thumbs will:
- Calculate the dependencies.
- Check the server votes.
- Match the resolved dependencies with the votes, and display it to the users.
There's also an alternative command to just display the votes of a single Podspec, useful to help you decide if a particular dependency has opinions among your team members.
The future
I'm not sure how this will evolve. I'd love for this to become a part of CocoaPods daily usage for more people, and maybe consolidate our thumb lists instead of each team having their own. For now, if you use it, feel free to submig Pull Requests, or suggest enhancements on GitHub.


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An unnamed Nigerian drug courier, who boarded a plane from Istanbul to Madrid, the capital of Spain, was left for dead after ingesting a drug overdose that eventually imploded inside him, ripping his stomach open. The man, gripped by excruciating pains due to the drug effects could not be helped by airport officials who feared he had Ebola. A Spanish newspaper, El Mundo reported that the man was left to shiver on the floor in the customs section of the Madrid-Barajas airport for over an hour. Initially unaware of his actual problem, Ebola scared airport officials distanced themselves from the victim when they learnt he was from Nigeria. The officials merely knew he was writhing from drug pains more than an hour later, and which time his condition had become irredeemable. El Mundo said the man arrived from Instanbul on 18 October, and died 90 minutes from the drug overdose.
"A civil guard officer initially positioned the man on his side and identified him from personal documents.
'When it was clear he was a Nigerian, no one dared touch him.
'Medical staff decided immediately that there was a risk that this could be a case of Ebola," the paper reported. Daily Mail added that the an accompanying passenger told the police that the deceased had not been to Nigeria in four years.


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IT Carlow hosts Dargan 150 Seminar
William Dargan, engineer and philanthropist, died 150 years ago in 1867. It's fantastic that a group of Carlow historians, including Pat O'Neill, have organised a seminar to mark this anniversary. Great line up of speakers who'll reveal lesser known aspects of Dargan's remarkable career.
The all day seminar takes place in the aptly named Dargan Centre for innovation at the Institute of Technology, Carlow on Sat 18 Nov 2017. Further details from Pat O'Neill at firstname.lastname@example.com.
The Leitrim Guardian, an annual voluntary community magazine, celebrates 50 years in 2017. This year's launch is in the Bush Hotel, Carrick-on-Shannon on Friday 10 November 2017.
As in the past 20 years or so, the Editor asked me to select the winners among the best prose and poetry pieces accepted for publication. This year there were 60+ submissions so choosing 2 prose and 2 poetry winners was not easy. The winners are announced on the night at the launch. The cash prizes are modest but the boost to a novice writer or a poet's confidence is immeasurable.
It's a happy coincidence that the weekly county paper is the Observer and the annual magazine is the Guardian.
The Rape Crisis Centre does excellent work supporting victims of rape and sexual violence. Recently their premises at 70 Lr Leeson St, Dublin 2 were renamed McGonnell House, in gratitude to a generous benefactor.
Brendan McDonnell, a very successful business man who died in 2014, left almost his entire estate to a number of chariites. His generous legacy enabled the RCC to buy no. 70 Lr Leeson St, a building they had rented heretofore, thus ensuring security of tenure for ever.
Brendan McGonnell was one of 7 authors who wrote their life story as a joint project in a book called Circle of Friends. A beautiful, large format, full colour hardback it was published privately in 2016 and as Brendan Coyle, the coordinator of the project says in the Foreword, the book came out in memory of their good friend, Brendan McDonnell.
We were pleased and proud to be involved in its publication.
RTE 1 film crew in 44 Oakley Road this week doing an item on Fab Food Trails for Nationwide, a magazine programme that goes out three times a week.
They filmed in the office, the kitchen and the garden then went on a Food Trail around Dublin. I'll post when it's due for broadcast.
Great publicity for www.fabfoodtrails.ie.
Tempest in the Andes
The UN Food and Agriculture Organization is about to publish a most challenging report on climate change, a topic that affects everyone on the planet. Even the deniers in the White House. FAO's goal is to achieve a world free from hunger and calls for a food systems approach to climate change, from production to consumption that targets above all the poor in developing countries while observing that we need to do more in the richer countries to reduce the amount of food that is scandalously wasted. Available shortly on www.publishing.ie.
Lesser Spotted Rome
Fergus Mulligan visits Rome several times a year and knows the city intimately. But there are always more things to be discovered there. As the Italians say: "Non basta una vita: a lifetime is not enough." If you're visiting Rome and would like some tips on some of the less well known delights of this amazing city, you'll find them in this article: "Lesser Spotted Rome".
Fergus Mulligan
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Children's Play: The Emperor's New Clothes
Sponsored by the Department of Theatre & Dance and The Agnes Scott Blackfriars
Thursday, February 25 - Saturday, February 27, 2016
Thursday & Friday at 9:30 a.m. and 11 a.m.
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This story revolves around two wandering tricksters, appropriately named Sly and Dim, who see in the sartorial preening of the vain Emperor an opportunity to make some welcome cash. Despite the misgivings of the Emperor's two fastidious ministers, Timely and Puckering, Sly and Dim are engaged to weave a most remarkable suit of clothes from a most remarkable fabric- a cloth that only the wise can see. And it isn't until the Emperor is parading in his boxer shorts in the town square that, with the audience's help, the weaver's ruse is finally revealed.


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This is an excellent book, filled with character development, interesting scenarios and environment, and intriguing plot. I give it a 4.75/5. Here is my breakdown:
Characters: 5/5. I really enjoyed both the main and supporting characters of this story. Both robots played their parts well, and watching their interactions and their development over the course of the book made me happy and made me care about them. The supporting human characters, met chiefly through flashback and recorded programming input, felt realistic and understandable, viewed as they were through the lenses of robotic understanding.
Plot/Storyline: 5/5. Engaging from start to finish. Sawh drops us in the middle of the action and pulls off the slow reveal with aplomb. Like the breadcrumbs from the titular characters' original story, I was hooked from the beginning, wondering where we were going from here. I won't spoil the ending, but I was reading it to work, and it made me tear up. It was good.
Flow: 4.75/5. Every reveal is timed well, keeping the reader interested the whole time. The language used is clean and effective, telling the story and maintaining the sense of immersion. My only stuttering point was at the beginning, when Sawh used the word "metal" like ten times. In the first page or two. It just made me shake my head and laugh a little.
Spelling/Grammar: 4/5. There were some typos in this book. Overall very good, but I did note a few missing words and misspellings.
Overall: 4.75/5. I knew going in that this was a solid piece of work, but as it went on it pulled me deeper and deeper. It's not long, but it's amazing and unique. I've never seen a book take on this perspective before, and not since R. Daneel Olivaw have I been as interested in what is going on in a robotic mind. Well done!


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NetWrix is excited to announce its recent expansion into Japan. With the recent growth, NetWrix has now established a completely localized Japanese presence that will further establish NetWrix's global position as number one for change auditing. As a result, NetWrix now offers localized versions of NetWrix products, local sales, support and resources for the Japanese market.
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