Clothing & Gear: I think I used the best clothing gear, from trail shoes to my headlamp lighting system. My "layering" of my upper garment was perfect with a sleeveless Uniqlo shirt inside my Red PAU short-sleeved shirt with my Patagonia "Houdini" Windbreaker Light Jacket. I feel warm with my MIUT Buff/neck Gaiters; Compressport Headband and Salomon Running Cap. I had Giro Cycling Gloves with my LEKI Carbon Trekking Poles. My Salomon Speedcross 4 was perfect for the trail in Lavaredo which I used for two months in my training leading to the event. I was using a Salomon EXO Twinskin Short (Red) which was light, comfortable, and provided me with warm feeling during the night run.
Salomon 5L Sense Ultra Hydration Vest & Pulse Belt: My Salomon Vest carried all the Mandatory Gear and Nutrition Needs for the whole course/event as I opted not to have any Drop Bag at Km 66/Cimabanche Aid Station. My Salomon Pulse Belt was perfect for my Trekking Poles; additional nutrition (Skyflakes) and Cellphone.
Training: My "mountain and hill repeats" were very effective for the uphills and downhill runs for short duration/distance along the course.
Nutrition & Hydration: I only have 5 pieces of Power Gels for emergency situation; 6 pieces of KIND Power Bar; 4 packs of SkyFlakes Crackers (Condensada); NUUN tablets: and two pieces of empty Ziplock.
Pacing & Average Speed During The Race: I have a lot of lessons learned from my early DNF at MIUT in Madeira, Portugal. I needed to be very light during the race and trained for heavy loads (3 Liters of Water + Food) in my daily long runs in my Playground. I was satisfied with my average speed/pacing during my run at the TNF Lavaredo until I was slowed down with dizziness and pain on my knees.
What Did I Do To Make It Right?
My frustration in MIUT last April gave me a lot of lesson learned and I was able to adjust things during my training. My early arrival in Cortina gave me the time to adjust with the weather and the altitude. However, I should have visited Tri Cime and other higher elevations of the course by Bus but with my lack of knowledge of the area, I was limited in trying to find the first and last few kilometers of the course. My CTS Coach John Fitzgerald sent me his last guidance with the gist/bottomline of focusing on the things that I could control during the race (nutrition, pacing, and mindset) with hiking with purpose and positive attitude. I learned a lot of variations on how to use the trekking poles during my training leading to this race. I really wanted to hike the uphills more efficiently with the trekking poles. I had more "push-ups" repetitions during my training days in order to make my shoulders stronger than what I had during MIUT.
Bringing lesser gels, bars, drink mix, and lighter mandatory gear (Salomon Bonatti Waterproof Jacket & Pants and Columbia Long-Sleeved Shirt) made my weight lighter during the run. I also carried lesser volume of water from the start to lighten my load but also carried an extra collapsible Salomon Foldable Bottle just in case I needed more water during the hotter part of the day.
After hiking the uphills, I would run at an easy pace on flatter and downhill portions of the course which gave me enough time to reach the First Cut-Off Time Checkpoint and put in more buffer time at the Check Point in Rifugio Di Auronzo.
Bring at least two empty Ziplocks in your pocket (easily accessible) for obvious reason.
What was NOT quite right during the race?
I opted to run the downhills on the early part of the course without using my trekking poles, most specially, on the seemingly flatter sections but they are actually gradual descents. I was thinking that I would be faster in running the downhills by not using the trekking poles but I was wrong. If only I have used my trekking poles on all the descents, I could have saved my quads and my knees from having pain even if I was slower by a few minutes. My old knees and legs need some cushioning when running the descents to preserve them for the last half of the course which has more descents.
I should have started to ingest my solid food on the start of the uphill climb from Lake Misurina to Rifugio Di Auronzo while on the move and not at the middle of the climb with a 3-5 minutes short stop and rest.
I should have NOT stayed so long at the Aid Station in Rifugio Di Auronzo and spent a lot of time sitting and talking with the Indonesian guy. I should have limited my stay there by simply eating the soup pasta, drinking my Coca Cola, and refilling my bottles while I was standing. I could have shaved at least 10-12 minutes of my stay here.
I really could not understand why I did not take the risk of taking some Aleve tablets to relieve the pain on my knees after the first switchback from Tri Cime/Peak of Lavaredo. I usually take these pain relievers on the middle of my race just to anticipate the pain on my knees which was very effective in solving the situation I am in in my past finishes.
What is the best-case scenario?
1. With a buffer time of 40+ minutes from Rifugio Di Auronzo, I should have maintained it up to the next Cut-Off Time Checkpoint in Cimabanche and gambled any remaining buffer time in every Checkpoint up to the last Cut-Off Time Checkpoint before the Finish Line.
2. I could have used my trekking poles more on the downhill/descents to save my knees/legs and be able to hike relentlessly with purpose up to the Finish Line. The time that made me faster to run or hike on the flatter and downhill sections without the trekking poles was nothing if I could have saved my legs and knees and be able to pass the Cut-Off Time Checkpoints.
3. From the start, one bottle of water/electrolyte mix (500 ml) is enough up to Km 33 to make my load lighter from midnight up to early morning due to the colder air/weather. One bottle filled with liquid in one bottle and another 1/2 bottle of liquid, totaling to 750 ml is needed from Km 33 up to the Aid Station in Rifugio Di Auronzo (Km 50). Carrying just the right amount of water on my vest could significantly reduce the weight I was carrying. Which translates to lighter load to my knees and legs.
What steps can you take to improve?
1. More strengthening exercises to my leg muscles. More push-ups and core exercises for my upper body.
3. More Mountain Downhill Repeats! Simply, the reverse of Hill/Mountain Repeats where one has to run or hike the downhill faster than going up to the mountain. This time, using my trekking poles!
4. Bring a lot of BUFF. One for the Ear Cover; one for the Mouth & Nose for the absorption of fluids due to "running nose"; and one for the neck. In addition, I can bring an extra BUFF to be looped on my wrist just in case I need a cloth to absorb some cold water from the streams to douse my head and neck during hotter part of the day.
5. If I have the time, I could have visited/recon by Bus or Car the highest peak or highest location along the course in order to acclimatize or take a brief hike.
I applied for the lottery to join this year's The North Face Lavaredo 120K Ultra Trail Race in Cortina D' Ampezzo, Italy once the application for lottery was opened last October 2017. I was not hoping to be picked up in the lottery as I am always on bad luck with regards to Race Lotteries. Then I was surprised that I was included among the 1,500 runners who were picked up in the lottery. I just laughed it out when I knew the results as I wasn't sure if I will continue or not because I was registered for the Madeira Island Ultra Trail (MIUT) Race in Portugal in the month of April 2018 due to some budgetary constraints. Moreso, when I was informed and requested by Ms Tess Leono to be her Chief, Support Crew for his participation in the 2018 Badwater 135-Mile Ultramarathon Race on last weekend of July 2018. It came as a double surprise to me that I will be going to the US after one month or less from my participation at the TNF Lavaredo in Italy on the last weekend of June.
It was a hard decision for me to continue or not with my TNF Lavaredo and instead focus my financial resources for my trip to the US to be as the Lead Support Crew in her 2nd attendance/participation to the Badwater Ultramarathon. But there are things that are unexpected and things that I've forgotten where I could source such financial resources for my trips. I was just a matter of proper planning and programming or some resourcefulness that I was able to solve the problem. God has its mysterious ways when you believe in him through prayers and good positive deeds to other people in need!
The registered with the amount of 120 Euros (almost P 7,500.00) for the 120K Trail Race through my postpaid Credit Card. Through "Trip Advisor" and booking.com, I was able to select my hotel accommodation and bus reservations. I was able to select the Dependance Hotel Cortina which was the cheapest during the time that I made my booking/hotel reservation. It was only a week before my departure for Italy that I made my reservations for my bus tickets from Venice to Cortina and back to venice for my flight back to Manila.
Hey, it's not easy to apply for a visa in any country for that matter if it requires that you have some source/s of income; some savings in the bank; some investments; and some real estate properties that you personally own. I think being old, retiree, and pensioner (and lots of visas outside the Southeast Asian Region) gave me more edge or advantage to have my visa approved in other continents like Europe, North & South Americas and Iceland!
The application of visa for a visit in Italy is totally different than the other Schengen Nations as they have their own VIA (Visa Italy Application) and as compared from applying through VFS where most of the European countries contract the acceptance Visa Applications for their countries. Most of my Visa Applications through VFS were approved in 3 days (the fastest) and 5 days (the longest wait). My Visa Application for Italy was approved in 9 days without even informing me that my application and supporting papers were submitted already to the Italian Embassy in Manila. Plus the fact that the Parking Area at the VIA is very limited as compared to the building where the VFS is located. Be prepared to pay P100.00 for 3 hours at the VFS and P50.00 for 3 hours at the VIA. VIA and VFS offices are located at the Pasong Tamo Extension Street in Makati City. If you have the money to spare, one could get their Premium Service where a staff of the office would attend to you personally with coffee and snacks but be prepared to pay double for the visa application. For my Italy Visa Application Premium Service, I paid P6,000+ and I had to pick-up my visa at their office within a designated time of the day.
It was already when I arrived from Madeira, Portugal that I finally decided to push through with my trip to Italy and that was before the end of April. I asked Mon Beleno and Jerome Bautista about their flight arrangements and accommodation bookings to include on how to finally arrive at Cortina D'Ampezzo as they were the two Pinoy runners who participated and finished in last year's edition. The hotel accommodation was very expensive in Cortina D'Ampezzo and I was surprised! 1,000 Euros for 6 days stay in Cortina is really very expensive! But I was able to book my hotel stay for 600+ Euros for 6 days which is about 5-minute walk to the City Center. I was able to get a cheap Flight Ticket via Qatar Airways saving me at least $250 for the Round Trip Ticket with my Flight Departure at the Clark International Airport (on the early evening of Monday, June 18) and arrival at the Manila International Airport on the 29th of June. My flight was from Clark to Doha, Qater (for 9.5 hours) and then Doha, Qatar to Marco Polo International Airport in Venice, Italy (for 5.5 hours) but with a lay-over of about 7 hours in Hamad International Airport (from 12 Midnight to 7:00 AM the following day). My lay-over period served as my training for the sleepless nights for the race! As for the Bus Transport to Cortina D'Ampezzo which is 2-hour trip from the Marco Polo International Airport, costs from 12-18 Euros, depending on the Company name of the Bus. The selection of bus service transports are available at the website of the event. I took the FLIXBUS from Marco Polo International Airport to Cortina D'Ampezzo which I scheduled at least 3 hours after my scheduled arrival in Venice. I made this right decision as the line before the Border Police Booth (Immigration Bureau) was congested where three airline flights (Emirates, Turkey Airlines and Qatar Airlines) arrived at the same time. It took me 1.5 hours to exit the Airport from the time I left the door of the plane and getting my check-in baggage at the luggage conveyor. The traffic of passengers was worse than what we usually have at the Maila International Airport! I had a lot of buffer time to wander around the airport and eat my first authentic vegan Italian Pizza in one of the restaurants inside the Airport.
It was already 3:30 PM in the afternoon of Tuesday, June 19 when I tried to get out of the Airport Building to locate where the Bus Terminal was located. The FLIXBUS Terminal (Bus Terminal for all the Buses at the Airport going outside Venice) is located at the left side of the Airport Building (if you are facing the building) and it is about 150 meters from the Exit Door of the building. From the Exit Door turn right and follow the Pedestrian Lane with a Shade on the side of the Road and then another turn right to cross a street and you could see a big vacant lot where buses are waiting. The lot has only one waiting shed with a limited seating capacity.
The weather during my arrival in Venice was hot and clear skies, the same temperature and sunny skies that we we usually have in Manila. If I am not mistaken, it was 27-28 degrees Celsius.
The FLIXBUS that would be our transport service from the Marco Polo International Airport to Cortina was late for 30 minutes and when the bus arrived, we were surprised that the bus was a Cortina Express Bus! The bus was almost full when it picked us up at the Airport and my Reserved Seat was no longer applicable in the Cortina Express and I just took a sit in one the vacant ones at the 2nd row from the Driver. I was surprised that two of my Pinoy companions who are also participating in the said event were also riding in the said bus as they boarded at Mestre Station.
The distance from Venice to Cortina is almost 160 kilometers and it would take at least two hours to travel the said distance aboard a bus. The two Pinoy runners, Arwin Sta Clara and Rodell Castillo who came from the Middle East, alighted from the bus in a town, 20 kilometers before reaching Cortina. They greeted me and they said that they are booked in one of the hotels in the said town. They promised me that we would meet on Friday at Cortina at the Race Pick-Up/Exposition site which is the Ice Olympic Stadium.


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The effect of diet and exercise on anti-social behaviour in prison
A summary of evidence about the effect of diet and exercise on anti-social behaviour in prison.
Her Majesty's Prison and Probation Service
Exercise and physical activity has many physiological and psychological benefits. Most evidence is about the general population. But there is a growing interest about their effect on prisoners. What effect might exercise have on prisoners' well-being, custodial behaviour and future offending?
There is also growing evidence that diet affects not only our health, but our cognitive ability and behaviour too. What do we know about diet and prison behaviour? Might food or supplements potentially help manage or prevent aggression and violence?
What do we know?
Does diet affect thinking and behaviour and can changes to diet improve prison behaviour?
There is fairly strong evidence linking a Mediterranean or healthy diet with lower risk of depression. There is some evidence to suggest links between low blood glucose levels and irritability and aggression.
There is early, promising evidence around essential Omega-3 and -6 fatty acids. This suggests a diet or dietary supplements of these may reduce aggression and violent behaviour in prison. There is no good quality research examining any link between diet and reoffending.
Can physical activity and exercise improve prison behaviour, and reduce reoffending?
Exercise can reduce depression and anxiety in prisoners, perhaps as a coping mechanism. There is some evidence to suggest that physical activity:
may reduce levels of aggression
can be used to maintain and promote order and control across the prison
can provide skills that have the potential to aid desistance (desistance is how people with a previous pattern of offending abstain from crime) - however, more evidence is needed to assess the impact exercise can have on reoffending
How does diet affect thinking and behaviour?
Diet not only affects health, but cognitive ability and behaviour too. Systematic reviews conclude that:
iron supplements improve attention and concentration in adolescents and women - they may improve IQ among those with iron deficiency
lower vitamin D levels are associated with poorer cognitive performance and an increased risk of Alzheimer's Disease
however, we don't know whether increasing vitamin D levels improve performance or reduced risk of dementia There is good evidence that:
a Mediterranean diet, (rich in oily fish and seed oils, providing Omega-3 and -6 essential fatty acids) reduces risk of depression and cognitive impairment
a 'healthy' diet, rich in fruit and vegetables, fish and whole grains, is associated with a lower risk of depression
Evidence suggests (but is not conclusive) that:
deficiencies in Omega-3 and -6 essential fatty acids may be linked to suicide, violence and aggression
supplements can reduce aggression in healthy adults, children, the elderly and people with a psychiatric diagnosis
there is some association between low blood glucose levels, and irritability and violent behaviour
How does diet affect prison behaviour?
A good quality study1 examined the effect of nutritional supplements on antisocial behaviour, in an English Young Offenders Institution. This found that those who took supplements committed 26.3% fewer infringements of prison rules compared to a control group. While this is impressive, it is a single study, in one site, so we can have only limited confidence in this finding.
A Dutch study 2 found no impact from supplements on self-reported aggression or prison staff perceptions. However, there was a significant impact on reported incidents of aggressive and rule-breaking behaviour. The group taking supplements saw a 34% drop in number of reported incidents pre- to post-trial. Those taking placebos had a 14% increase in reported incidents over that time. Prisoners were not told which type of pill they were taking. But by the end of the experiment the majority could guess whether they were given supplements or placebos. Similar findings were also reported with children aged 13-17, in juvenile detention.
We are not aware of any studies examining the link between diet and reoffending.
How does exercise affect behaviour and mood?
Evidence suggests that Physical activity can impact on depression, anxiety, stress and anger levels in the wider community. Physical changes result from exercise like reduced body temperature and release of dopamine. These can produce calming effects and improved mood. The overall impact of exercise on mood is uncertain. Exercise is however, moderately more effective at reducing depressive symptoms than no treatment or anti-depressants. Neuroscience suggests a link between physical activity and anti-social behaviour3.
How does exercise affect the mood and behaviour of prisoners?
Several studies indicate that physical activity reduces depression, anxiety and hopelessness. The strength of the studies varies. Some show that any exercise has the potential to improve depression and anxiety and act as a coping mechanism. There is less evidence on the relationship between physical activity and behaviour in prison. There is some promising evidence of a link. Some studies suggest exercise alleviates boredom and allows prisoners to 'burn off some steam'. This could have a calming effect and limit disruptive, aggressive behaviour.
In a qualitative study staff reported that exercise can be used:
to maintain order and control by teaching prisoners about discipline
to channel aggression or frustrations, and
as an incentive for positive behaviour
Sport was also cited as a way of:
managing violence
providing opportunities for prisoners to learn how to manage their emotions, and
breaking down barriers by promoting positive social interactions, group working and cohesion
We need more evidence about whether certain physical activities have a greater impact on mood and behaviour.
How does exercise affect offending and desistance?
Some studies suggest exercise programmes can help develop skills and opportunities for education or employment on release. However, despite strong arguments, there is limited evidence on the effect of exercise on reoffending and desistance. More research is needed to determine any impact of sport on reoffending.
A Sporting Chance: An independent review into the role of sport in the justice system highlights the role that sport and physical activity can play in rehabilitation and reducing reoffending, identifies best practice from across the custodial estate and makes recommendations for enhancing provision. (MoJ 2018)
Gesch, C. B., Hammond, S. M., Hampson, S. E., Eves, A., & Crowder, M. J. (2002). Influence of supplementary vitamins, minerals and essential fatty acids on the antisocial behaviour of young adult prisoners: Randomised, placebo-controlled trial British Journal of Psychiatry, 181, 22-28.
Zaalberg, A., Nijman, H., Bulten, E. et al., (2010). Effects of nutritional supplements on aggression, rule-breaking and psychopathology among young adult prisoners Aggressive Behavior, 26, 117126.
Jackson, D.B., and Beaver, K, M. The Impact of Physical Exercise on Anti-social Behaviour: A Neurocognitive Perspective.
This page summarises the available evidence base and is informed by independent academic peer review. It does not represent Ministry of Justice or Government policy.
Young adult male offenders
Investigating disciplinary adjudications as potential rehabilitative opportunities
Delivering rehabilitative conversations with prisoners
Women convicted of crime
Physical environment in prisons
Prison and probation evidence resource
Prisons and probation
Reoffending and rehabilitation

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Drunk EssExTee impulsively ordered new eyeglasses yesterday. It's a miracle he input the prescription correctly. I'm scared but also excited. I've had the same frames for ten years and these new ones are a very different style. I kind of want to cancel the order but I kind of don't.


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In India Diwali approaching, one of the most important festivals held on the entrance of the Hindu New Year. Released clothes, adorn many houses and throw firecrackers and fireworks. As tradition dictates, we Hospital in India Certh clothes given to all patients in the community Dubrayapet, most suffering from leprosy.


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namespace TraktApiSharp.Tests.Objects.Get.Watchlist.Json.Reader
{
    using FluentAssertions;
    using System;
    using System.Threading.Tasks;
    using TestUtils;
    using Traits;
    using TraktApiSharp.Enums;
    using TraktApiSharp.Objects.Get.Watchlist.Json.Reader;
    using Xunit;

    [Category("Objects.Get.Watchlist.JsonReader")]
    public partial class WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Tests
    {
        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Complete()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_COMPLETE.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().Be(DateTime.Parse("2014-09-01T09:10:11.000Z").ToUniversalTime());
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().Be(TraktSyncItemType.Episode);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.SeasonNumber.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Number.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Title.Should().Be("Winter Is Coming");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(73640U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(3254641U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt1480055");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(63056U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(1065008299U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Title.Should().Be("Game of Thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Year.Should().Be(2011);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(1390U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Slug.Should().Be("game-of-thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(121361U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt0944947");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(1399U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(24493U);

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Incomplete_1()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_INCOMPLETE_1.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().Be(TraktSyncItemType.Episode);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.SeasonNumber.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Number.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Title.Should().Be("Winter Is Coming");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(73640U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(3254641U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt1480055");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(63056U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(1065008299U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Title.Should().Be("Game of Thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Year.Should().Be(2011);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(1390U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Slug.Should().Be("game-of-thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(121361U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt0944947");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(1399U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(24493U);

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Incomplete_2()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_INCOMPLETE_2.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().Be(DateTime.Parse("2014-09-01T09:10:11.000Z").ToUniversalTime());
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.SeasonNumber.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Number.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Title.Should().Be("Winter Is Coming");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(73640U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(3254641U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt1480055");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(63056U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(1065008299U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Title.Should().Be("Game of Thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Year.Should().Be(2011);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(1390U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Slug.Should().Be("game-of-thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(121361U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt0944947");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(1399U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(24493U);

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Incomplete_3()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_INCOMPLETE_3.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().Be(DateTime.Parse("2014-09-01T09:10:11.000Z").ToUniversalTime());
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().Be(TraktSyncItemType.Episode);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Title.Should().Be("Game of Thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Year.Should().Be(2011);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(1390U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Slug.Should().Be("game-of-thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(121361U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt0944947");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(1399U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(24493U);

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Incomplete_4()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_INCOMPLETE_4.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().Be(DateTime.Parse("2014-09-01T09:10:11.000Z").ToUniversalTime());
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().Be(TraktSyncItemType.Episode);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.SeasonNumber.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Number.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Title.Should().Be("Winter Is Coming");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(73640U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(3254641U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt1480055");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(63056U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(1065008299U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().BeNull();

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Incomplete_5()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_INCOMPLETE_5.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().Be(DateTime.Parse("2014-09-01T09:10:11.000Z").ToUniversalTime());
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().BeNull();

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Incomplete_6()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_INCOMPLETE_6.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().Be(TraktSyncItemType.Episode);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().BeNull();

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Incomplete_7()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_INCOMPLETE_7.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.SeasonNumber.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Number.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Title.Should().Be("Winter Is Coming");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(73640U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(3254641U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt1480055");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(63056U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(1065008299U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().BeNull();

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Incomplete_8()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_INCOMPLETE_8.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Title.Should().Be("Game of Thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Year.Should().Be(2011);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(1390U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Slug.Should().Be("game-of-thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(121361U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt0944947");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(1399U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(24493U);

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Not_Valid_1()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_NOT_VALID_1.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().Be(TraktSyncItemType.Episode);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.SeasonNumber.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Number.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Title.Should().Be("Winter Is Coming");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(73640U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(3254641U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt1480055");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(63056U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(1065008299U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Title.Should().Be("Game of Thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Year.Should().Be(2011);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(1390U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Slug.Should().Be("game-of-thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(121361U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt0944947");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(1399U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(24493U);

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Not_Valid_2()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_NOT_VALID_2.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().Be(DateTime.Parse("2014-09-01T09:10:11.000Z").ToUniversalTime());
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.SeasonNumber.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Number.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Title.Should().Be("Winter Is Coming");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(73640U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(3254641U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt1480055");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(63056U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(1065008299U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Title.Should().Be("Game of Thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Year.Should().Be(2011);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(1390U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Slug.Should().Be("game-of-thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(121361U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt0944947");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(1399U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(24493U);

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Not_Valid_3()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_NOT_VALID_3.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().Be(DateTime.Parse("2014-09-01T09:10:11.000Z").ToUniversalTime());
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().Be(TraktSyncItemType.Episode);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Title.Should().Be("Game of Thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Year.Should().Be(2011);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(1390U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Slug.Should().Be("game-of-thrones");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(121361U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt0944947");
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(1399U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(24493U);

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Not_Valid_4()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_NOT_VALID_4.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().Be(DateTime.Parse("2014-09-01T09:10:11.000Z").ToUniversalTime());
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().Be(TraktSyncItemType.Episode);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.SeasonNumber.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Number.Should().Be(1);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Title.Should().Be("Winter Is Coming");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Trakt.Should().Be(73640U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tvdb.Should().Be(3254641U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Imdb.Should().Be("tt1480055");
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.Tmdb.Should().Be(63056U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Ids.TvRage.Should().Be(1065008299U);
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().BeNull();

                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }

        [Fact]
        public async Task Test_WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader_Episode_ReadObject_From_Stream_Not_Valid_5()
        {
            var jsonReader = new WatchlistItemObjectJsonReader();

            using (var stream = TYPE_EPISODE_JSON_NOT_VALID_5.ToStream())
            {
                var traktWatchlistItem = await jsonReader.ReadObjectAsync(stream);

                traktWatchlistItem.Should().NotBeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.ListedAt.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Type.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Episode.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Show.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Movie.Should().BeNull();
                traktWatchlistItem.Season.Should().BeNull();
            }
        }
    }
}


text:
Need for in-home nurses in Maryland is growing, families asking for more help
by: Thao Ta
Nurses are skilled healthcare professionals that look after us when we're most vulnerable, but the need for in-home nurses in Maryland is a growing concern for families who rely on the service.
Single mother Kimberley Lanham decided to put her first born, Nathan Roby, who has cerebral palsy, under her care. And lately, she says she's been struggling to find enough skilled nurses to care for Nathan in the comfort of their Hagerstown home.
"To even have a nurse every other day would be better than going four or five days without nursing, and it's hard," said Lanham.
Hard, now that she is left without a weekend nurse. Lanham is a part of Maryland Medicaid's Rare and Expensive Case Management (REM) program, which is for people receiving Maryland assistance with a qualifying diagnosis that are rare and expensive to treat.
21-year-old Nathan is cared for by two, 24-hour nurses as well as his mother. She says it's been a difficult ride emotionally, mentally and physically.
"He also has a seizure disorder that I have to monitor," said Lanham. "I have emergency meds that I have to watch and give if he needs it."
A shortage of in-home nurses in Maryland is creating a lack of access for children and adults with disabilities who rely on their care.
"Although I'm with a nursing agency, Optimal Health Care (OHC), they don't have anyone. They don't have anyone to send out. They don't have anyone to do the hours. Everyone is going to other facilities to work," said Lanham.
These nurses are searching for better pay in other states, and even in Washington, D.C. According to health officials from Bayada Home Healthcare in Hagerstown, the dollar difference is incredible.
"That rate is $35.20, not only for Hagerstown, but for the whole state and it's just not enough," said Bayada Home Healthcare's Director of Government Affairs, Shannon Gahs.
"We may get 84 hours, and only get 28 hours that's actually provided for a week due to the shortages," said Lanham.
Brenda White is a Licensed Practical Nurse and has been caring for Nathan for almost 13 years.
"You're doing everything for a patient that can't do anything at all for themselves, and you wonder, why. Why are they getting paid more?" said White. "They're not doing half as what I'm doing."
"If I were to lose the two nurses I have right now, I probably would have no choice, but to put him somewhere," said Lanham.
Maryland Department of Health Officials says they've included a proposed 3 percent rate increase in the upcoming budget for licensed practical nurses, which would cost the state approximately $3.3 million total funds in the 2020 budget.
Bayada Home Healthcare's Director of Government Affairs Shannon Gahs further says, "because the Medicaid rates are so low, we are unable to do a lot of the services that we want to do now."
Families like Kim are hoping they can find nurses and caretakers soon, so that they can live safely within their homes and communities.
"It's mentally and physically and somewhat emotionally tiresome," she said.
An estimated one million new registered nurses will be needed by 2020, according to a report by the World Health Organization.
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Q: Construct a smooth partitions of unity subordinate to the open cover $U$ Let $U= \{ (-n,n): n=1,2,3 . . .  \}$ be an open cover for $\mathbb{R}$. I need to construct a smooth partitions of unity subordinate to the open cover $U$ .
Now, I know from the definition that I need to find a collection  of functions $\{\phi_{\alpha} :M \rightarrow \mathbb{R}\}_{\alpha \in A}$ ($M$ is a smooth manifold) which satisfies the following properties -
1) $0 \leq \phi_{\alpha}(x) \leq 1 $ for every $\alpha \in A , x \in M$
2) support $\phi_{\alpha} \subset U_{\alpha}$
3) $\{ $Support$ \space \phi_{\alpha}\}$ is locally finite
4) $\sum_{\alpha \in A} \phi_{\alpha}(x) = 1$ for every $x \in M$
But I am unable to think of any such kind of set of functions. Any kind of help is appreciated!

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Anthony Joshua vs. Andy Ruiz – Weigh-in results
Brad Thompson - May 31, 2019
IBF/WBA/WBO heavyweight champion Anthony Joshua (22-0, 21 KOs) looked in superb shape in weighing in at a 247.8 pounds for his title defense against the less the svelte 268 pound Andy Ruiz Jr. (32-1, 21 KOs) for their important fight this Saturday night on June 1 at Madison Square Garden in New York. Their fight will be streamed on DAZN in the United States, and televised on Sky Box Office in the UK.
Joshua, 29, hinted that the fight will be over with early on Saturday, as he plans on knocking out Ruiz Jr. as quick as possible. Joshua has to do it quickly, because he's trying to win over the American boxing fans in his first fight in the U.S. Moreover, Joshua's nemesis, WBC heavyweight champion Deontay Wilder (41-0-1, 40 KOs) obliterated his last opponent Dominic Breazeale (21-2, 18 KOs) by a first round knockout a little less than two weeks ago on May 18 in Brooklyn, New York. Joshua has to try and at least equal what Wilder did if he wants to win over the American fans, and use them to create pressure on him to finally make the fight with him for the undisputed heavyweight championship.
"I won't keep you up too long," Joshua said to skysports.com in sending a message to his British boxing fans at home in the UK. For them, they'll be staying up until the early morning hours on Sunday to see the Joshua vs. Ruiz Jr. fight in the UK. They're obviously on a different time zone than the U.S fans.
"Your weight, your training camp? Put that aside. It's all about getting in the ring and doing the job," said Joshua.
Ruiz Jr. made decision to bulk up for the Joshua fight rather than slim down, which is what many boxing fans expected him to do. The last time that Ruiz Jr. was this heavy was in October 2014 for his 10 round fight against former WBO heavyweight champion Siarhei Liakhovich. Ruiz Jr. struggled to beat Liakhovich. Ruiz Jr. looked lethargic in that fight.
During the face off, Joshua told Ruiz Jr., "Bring a good fight, please."
It's important that Joshua be involved in an exciting fight because he's got to try and impress the entire nation in the U.S in a hurry. It normally takes years for fighters to win over the fans, and even then, it requires that they fight good opposition that are well known. Ruiz Jr. isn't well known to the average U.S fan, and he's not highly regarded. That's what Joshua is up against. You can't fault Joshua's promoter Eddie Hearn for picking out Ruiz Jr. for him to fight, because he's not familiar with the U.S market.
Hearn likely saw Ruiz Jr's record, and that fact that he challenged for a world title in 2016, and figured that he has a huge fan base in the U.S. That's not the case. Ruiz Jr. isn't popular in the States. It Joshua wants to win over the American fans, it's going to take a while for him to accomplish that, especially if he's fighting guys like Ruiz Jr.
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The size difference between these two guys was disturbing. This is another Hearn special. He picked out the much smaller 35-year-old Hassan N'Dam (37-3, 21 KOs) from the 160-pound division for WBA Super World super middleweight champion Callum Smith (25-0, 18 KOs) to make his American debut. Smith weighed 167.6 pounds. N'Dam weighed in at 166 pounds. The two of them looked two divisions apart when they stood for the face off. By fight time on Saturday night, Smith will likely be a cruiserweight in size. N'Dam doesn't stand a chance.
Some boxing fans don't think it's fair that Callum is defending his 168-pound title against a middleweight instead of a contender from the super middleweight division, but this is what Hearn wanted. It's called a 'showcase fight.' That's code for 'mismatch' to make a fighter look good in front of new fans that have never seen them perform before. Unfortunately, this is a practice that's done in boxing all the time, and it works. It also ends in disappointment for the fans when they eventually see the fighter matched against someone good, and discover they're not as talented as they thought they were.
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Smith, 28, needs a good performance to stay in the hunt for a fight against WBA 'regular' super middleweight champion Saul Canelo Alvarez, who has talked of wanting to potentially fight him. Canelo probably isn't too serious about fighting Smith. Hearn and Smith both want the Canelo fight to take place. A more realistic fight would be for Dmitry Bivol to drop down to super middleweight to take on Callum. Hearn and Callum don't seem too excited about the prospects for fighting Bivol for some reason. Perhaps because Bivol wouldn't be out-size like the 5'8″ Canelo. Callum would have his hands full against Bivol, or even some of the super middleweights like David Benavidez and Billy Joe Saunders.
Josh Kelly vs. Ray Robinson
Undefeated welterweight contender Josh Kelly (9-0, 6 KOs) weighed in at 146.4 pounds, while his opponent Ray Robinson (24-3-1, 12 KOs) weighed in at 146 pounds. This fight will be competitive, but the 25-year-old Kelly will likely win handily. He's a better fighter than the 33-year-old Robinson. It's going to be interesting to see if Kelly's trainer Adam Booth will get to keep his hands up a little bit more for this fight than he's done in his first nine fights as a pro. Kelly seems to fancy himself as another Roy Jones Jr. type of fighter. Unfortunately, Kelly lacks Jones' reflexes, hand speed and defensive ability that he possessed in his youth. Kelly was hit a lot by his last opponent Przemyslaw Runowski last April. Kelly won the fight by a 10 round unanimous decision, but he was nailed with shots that would have knocked him out if they were thrown by a bigger puncher like Shawn Porter, Errol Spence Jr., Danny Garcia, Yordenis Ugas, Keith Thurman, Manny Pacquiao or Terence Crawford. The Runowski fight showed how far away Kelly is from being an elite level welterweight.
Joshua Buatsi vs. Marco Antonio Periban
Light heavyweight contender Joshua Buati (10-0, 8 KOs) weighed in at 174 pounds for his fight against super middleweight Marco Antonio Periban (25-4-1, 16 KOs). The 34-year-old Periban weighed 172 pounds. Periban hasn't fought in two years, and has been picked out by Hearn from the 168 pound division for this fight. This is another showcase fight for Hearn fighter.
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Former WBO 140-pound champion Chris Algieri (23-3, 8 KOs) weighed in at `139.8 pounds. Coyle (25-4, 12 KOs) weighed in at 139.6 pounds for their 12 round fight. Algieri will be defending his World Boxing Organisation International Super Lightweight title. Coyle has won his last three fights since losing a close 12 round unanimous decision to Tyrone Nurse in July 2016.
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Statement Against Black Opportunity Fund
What follows is first a letter to Black Academic Student Employees and Postdocs, followed by a call to action for white and non-Black POC union members, to: 1) rescind or offset donations to the Black Opportunity Fund by donating instead to BLM UW and 2) start an internal audit of anti-Black racism within their own departments; please find guidelines here.
Dear Black Academic Student Employees and Postdocs,
We, Black and non-Black organizers of UAW 4121, write this letter first to acknowledge the profound and overwhelming grief of these past months. The tragedy of the deaths of George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Elijah McClain, Charleena Lyles, Tony McDade, Nina Pop, Ahmaud Arbery, and too many others may have landed heavy on your hearts, as it has on ours. We also write this letter because we know that the tragedy of these deaths has been compounded by the breathtaking loneliness of processing it all within an incredibly white campus, within an incredibly white city, during an era of social distancing amidst a historic pandemic. We also write in mourning and in memory of John Lewis, whose lifetime of activism for Black lives is source of continual inspiration, and whose death this past weekend is yet another source of deep heartbreak. We write to wish you peace and gentleness in the tumult and heartbreak of these past few months.
We also write to note the ways in which the details of this moment conspire constantly to add insult to injury. We write to share a virtual eye roll with you at all the lazy, oblivious, narcissistic check-in texts from white acquaintances who don't really know you, but who chose to use you as a means to assuage their white guilt. We write to cringe with you at all the "listening sessions" you have been invited to, in which departmental, college-level, and university-level administrators have performed their polite, bland sympathy, eyes on the clock, waiting for this fluke of anti-racist energy to pass as quickly and with as little inconvenience to them as possible.
We hope that in these weeks of awfulness, there have been good moments too. We hope that you have found that you had allies you weren't aware of, that some people have shown care and concern for you as a person rather than you as an emblem of the Black plight in America, that some people have listened to you, have comforted you, have distracted you, have made you laugh, have taken some work off your plate. We hope that you're eating good food, and drinking enough water, and getting enough sleep; we hope that you have felt safe and understood; that you have had access to spaces in which you experience genuine community.
Right now, we also write to reach out about a recent addition to the parade of indignities, sleights, missteps and white feel-goodery comprising this moment: namely, the Black Opportunity Fund. If you missed this announcement, last week President Cauce announced the creation of a fund that she invited alumni, students, faculty and staff to donate to, with the promise that the donations would go to GO-MAP, OMAD, and the Women's Center.
Because this moment is rife with gaslighting and we are expected to be grateful for even the most scant gestures of acknowledgement, there is value in taking time to name things for precisely what they are. The Black Opportunity Fund is a racist reaction to the ways in which police violence, white supremacy, and racial capitalism stymie Black opportunity at UW's three campuses.
The Black Opportunity Fund is racist because it frames addressing racial inequity as an act of charity, when in fact it should be understood as an obligation that is long overdue. Black people do not need hand-outs or charity; we need the UW to pay what it owes, in much the same way we need all American institutions that have profited from the stolen land, labor and bodies of Black people to pay what they owe. Racial justice cannot be cordoned off, understood as separate from or in addition to the other operations and costs of running the university. A commitment to racial equity cannot be enacted with whatever is left over after all other budgetary considerations have been taken into consideration. Rather, enacting a commitment to racial equity requires reconfiguring university operations at every level, always remembering that the UW's wealth originates first and foremost from the exploitation of Black and Indigenous peoples, both historically and in slavery's afterlives within the colonial present.
Fundamentally, by promoting a one-time voluntary private dollar fundraiser over a sustained reallocation of central funds, the UW administration seeks to position itself as innocent and benevolent. They treat systemic racism as the University of Washington was designed to treat systemic racism: as an external issue separate from the mission of the university and as less important than literally anything else they spend money on. The notion that we can remedy the damage wrought by anti-Black racism via white liberal pocket change is an insulting and outrageous joke.
The Black Opportunity Fund is racist because it name-checks the Black Student Union (BSU) without actually responding to their demands. This fund appears to be a performative version of the demand to fund Black RSOs and the American Ethnic Studies department. When Black students tell the UW what we need, the UW should just listen–full stop. Reinterpreting those needs so that they can be absorbed within the university's existing frameworks is insulting.
The Black Opportunity Fund is racist because it reproduces disparities between the three separate campuses in ways that only reinforce structural racism. The fact that UW Seattle has received far more donations than UW Bothell and UW Tacoma, which both have far more Black students relative to their overall population than UW Seattle, aptly exposes what happens when the UW refuses to think about systemic racism in a holistic and equity-minded way.
The Black Opportunity Fund does nothing to address the ways police violence and white supremacy have systematically prevented Black students from ever getting to the UW in the first place. It is farcical to purport to expand Black opportunity without doing anything for those of us who never make it here in the first place and never will. The UW should refrain from patting itself on the back for expanding "Black opportunity" unless and until it materially supports the Black people whose experiences of police violence and white supremacy systematically prevent their entrance and retention at the University of Washington.
The Black Opportunity Fund is racist because it pits Black students against each other. The white charity of the Black Opportunity Fund pits Black students against each other, encouraging lateral violence through an application process that demands, consumes, and compares the trauma of Black applicants. Rewarding the pain and suffering of Black students rather than mitigating its conditions of possibility, the Black Opportunity Fund also gaslights Black students into thinking this fund is something other than an opportunity for the administration to manipulate, exploit, and tokenize them.
The Black Opportunity Fund lacks transparency. That the funds are channeled and distributed by GOMAP, OMAD and the Women's Center raises questions about whether these funds will go to students of color or women broadly or to Black students specifically. If the intention is for this money to go Black students, the UW owes us far more clarity on how these funds will be distributed. That we do not even know the precise protocols on how, when, or under what basis these funds will be allocated demonstrates the complete lack of transparency on the part of the administration, and their ongoing refusal to implement the demands of the Black Student Union and Decriminalize UW.
The Black Opportunity Fund is racist because it seeks to pay for what should be a central mission of the university by soliciting funds from UW workers under the guise of charity and solidarity. When the UW administration doesn't want to pay for new initiatives themselves, they habitually find ways to offload costs onto their workers through new fees, wage freezes, cuts to healthcare and benefits, layoffs and job cuts. Just in 2018 the UW administration fired nearly 100 workers at the UW laundry, the vast majority of whom were Black women. UW workers currently face sky high rent costs and an uncertain funding situation amidst the current pandemic. The UW administration cannot continue to pay for core initiatives like supporting BIPOC students by harvesting money from their workers, whether voluntarily or otherwise.
As the Black Opportunity Fund remains President Cauce's only material response to the ongoing work of largely undergraduate Black women organizers within the Black Student Union, the UW African Student Union, and BLM UW, the University of Washington has chosen crumbs over redistribution, white virtue-signaling over a systematic restructuring of the University.
Invitation to Black ASEs and Postdocs: Join the recently emergent Black Caucus at UAW 4121! Join the Anti-Discrimination Working Group!
As you manage all this, if your go-to strategy is to keep your head down and get your work done, we honor that. This institution's racism is not your responsibility to fix. When you are accomplishing what you came to UW to do, that is anti-racism enough. But if it would help to be in community with Black organizers or stay informed on what the union is doing to address anti-Black racism and abolition politics, please email the UAW 4121 Anti-Discrimination Working Group at anti-discrimination@uaw4121.org. We're in the process of starting a Black Caucus, and we would love to have you — please email black-caucus@uaw4121.org for more information and to join.
Call for Solidarity from white and non-Black Union Organizers Against Anti-Black Racism: Write to your Department and Conduct an Internal Audit to Address Systemic Racism against Black ASEs and Postdocs!
We must not forget that just nine months before the most recent iteration of acute premature death amongst Black people, before police abolition made it to the New York Times, and before ten of thousands Seattlites marched on the streets to mourn a collective loss, affirm Black life, and demand systematic social change, Washingtonians voted against affirmative action policies that would have supported Black presence on our campus.
White union organizers, in particular, have a responsibility and obligation to keep the pressure on and demand systematic change before the next wave of anti-Black racist violence and white liberal sympathy. As a part of this statement, we call on white and non-Black union organizers to use the attached guideline for white union organizers, and non-Black union organizers more generally, to begin an internal audit to address your department's complicity in systematic racism against Black ASEs and Postdocs. This guideline is the beginning of a long-standing commitment from the Anti-Discrimination Working Group to support Black ASEs and Postdocs within the union and within our departments and to organize against everyday experiences of alienation, isolation, and tokenization at the University of Washington. Mourning for the Black scholars, union organizers, and academic workers who are not with us at the University of Washington must therefore be a struggle with the Black scholars, union organizers, and academic workers who are already here. Black union organizers should not have to do this work alone. Instigating internal audits across the University of Washington is just one method to mitigate the conditions that structure it as a colonial, white supremacist institution. If you would like to strategize on how best to implement a departmental audit, please contact the anti-discrimination working group at anti-discrimination@uaw4121.org.
Finally, for the above reasons we ask that members of UAW 4121 rescind or offset any donations that they may have given to the Black Opportunity Fund and instead reallocate funds to BLM UW's donation page so that Black undergraduate organizers can continue to organize for life-affirming institutions that celebrate, honor, and cherish the vibrancy of Black students on UW's three campuses.
In sum, we believe the creation of Black Opportunity Fund reflects and reinforces a wide array of White Supremacist values that are deeply embedded within the UW institution, and which contribute to systemic inequity. In particular, the creation of the Black Opportunity Fund reflects the White Supremacist values of Paternalism, Sense of Urgency, Power Hoarding, Fear of Open Conflict, Individualism, Right to Comfort. In order to properly address the issue of racism and structural inequality on campus, leaders within this institution are encouraged to explore antidotes to these values.
Douglas Avella-Castro
Leandro Casiraghi
Amanda Clouser
Monica Cortés Viharo
Meg Drouhard
Max Friedfeld
Vern Harner
Dan Hart
Amzi Jeffs
Sam Kastner
Kyle Kubler
Kristin McCowan
Emily Myers
Anzela Niraula
Jacob O'Connor
Elena Pandres
Nayon Park
Marissa Parker
Shua Sanchez
Paige Sechrest
Solmaz Shakerifard
Sam Sumpter
Judy Twedt
Jon Witt
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