Bonds are a way for investors to loan money to governments, corporations, and other types of institutions. In exchange for borrowing money, the issuer of the bond agrees to pay the bond holder interest at a specified rate and repay the debt at a designated date in the future.
Bonds are typically lower risk than stocks because their interest rate establishes ahead of time what the investment is expected to return. Because bonds carry less risk their returns tend to be lower than average returns for stocks. However, investors must factor in the possibility that the borrowed money won't be repaid, and the risks and returns of bonds will certainly vary depending on the likelihood of default.
For instance Treasuries, which are bonds issued by the U.S. Government, are particularly safe because it's hard to imagine the U.S. Government won't make due on its obligation (Treasuries are the type of bonds Betterment accounts are invested in). Due to the high certainty of repayment, returns for Treasuries are moderate .
On the other hand, if a company with a weak financial position issues a bond there will be serious questions about repayment and as a result the company will offer a high interest rate to entice lenders. Especially risky and high yielding bonds are often called junk bonds.
The risks and returns of a bond depend not just on the credit worthiness of the issuer but also on the duration; bonds that have a long duration until repayment are higher risk and higher reward.


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#Inequality–An American Fairy Tale
June 19, 2019 June 3, 2020 Asphlex--
Once upon a time women had finally had enough of the bullshit. That's what it was too, lifetimes of being brutalized, being cheated, being told they were neither good enough nor smart enough to compete with men. They were paid less for sometimes even working harder than men and, most significantly for the highly ambitious woman, they were frequently kept out of the most important discussions because men wrote them off as "too emotional," those same men who cried or shouted when their favorite teams won or lost; those same men who were prone to violent rages and hopeless depression when things did not go their way. Hell, it had been just over one hundred years since women were even allowed to vote, and with all the predatory sexual violence dating back to the Stone Age, women felt it was time to truly assert themselves and let the patriarchy know that the future was going to be a whole new world.
Sara Michard was the greatest athlete everyone in her home town of Waterloo, Iowa had ever seen. Ever since she was eight years old, her older brother Kevin then ten, she had been playing baseball. Not softball–baseball. She was a pitcher and she played shortstop. She quickly advanced to be on her brother's team. Sara humiliated him (or so Kevin believed) because she was so much better than he was.
In the league Sara was the best hitter, she threw the hardest, she was a spectacular fielder and faster than everyone (within a few years she would star on the track team as well). Many of her teammates loved Sara, seeing in her a prodigy that could lead them to championships. They dreamed of playing on the fields in Cooperstown, in the Little League World Series, and they figured that with Sara on the mound there was no one who could beat them.
But even more people resented Sara, the offended parties more often than not being the parents who wanted their own children to be the shining lights on the field. Parents would boo the young girl when she was pitching or batting. One time someone even threw a can of soda at her (this person was removed from the stands by the umpire, who also resented the girl because he felt her presence made his job harder). Sara seemed to understand, however. She grew to be a student of history, fascinated by the groundbreaking athletes who had helped inspire change in America. She would smile when they booed her, sometimes wave. One time, when a particularly virulent mother shrieked that Jesus said girls shouldn't be allowed to play against boys, Sara threw a high and inside fastball harder than she ever had before, terrifying the woman's mostly talentless child, who screamed at her, and then stormed off the field crying, vowing to never play the game again.
Sara dealt with this prejudice all throughout her childhood. She started playing basketball when she was twelve, and soon elevated her school's girl team to the state championship (they won the final game 60-14, Sara scoring 36). The following year the coach of the boy's team arranged to have her join his squad.
The first few practices with the boys were rough, renewed resentment causing them to treat her particularly poorly. This was a problem for them more so than her. By the age of fifteen Sara was nearly six feet tall and stronger than just about everyone she knew. When they shoved her or elbowed her Sara merely shook it off and swished her two free throws. She was even better at basketball than baseball, and her teammates, who soon embraced her as their star, began telling her that she was a shoo in for the WNBA.
And yet Sara remained unsatisfied. She loved the competition, loved playing all the sports (her room at home had overflowed into an entire cabinet in the downstairs living room, filled with trophies from a variety of other sports too: golf, tennis, archery, and gymnastics. Sara had been training at a Ninja Warrior gym too, lately, and had won a first place ribbon in a youth contest, beating her nearest rival by almost thirty seconds through the course). But her favorite–Sara's absolute favorite sport, the one she had been watching on television and live with her father since she was two years old, continued to be considered off-limits. Sara loved football. She did not see why she shouldn't have a chance to play that too.
The day came, when Sara was a junior in High School, that the football team's bus en route to an away game slid on a sheet of ice and slammed into the guard rail on the highway, tipping over. Seven players were seriously injured. One of them died. The coach of the team–a seriously good one, genuinely in competition for a national championship–was devastated. He needed to keep his team in the public spotlight for anything other than the tragedy. He needed a positive spin, or at least a controversial one. He went to Sara's house and begged her parents to let her play.
The only objection at home came from Kevin, since grown into a sullen young man, barely passing his two classes at community college, having given up on all ambition other than getting high. Sara's mother was openly not happy about the plan (although deep down she was happier than anyone, closet feminist that she was). Her father was thrilled. Everything about his daughter made him proud. And since his son had proven to be such a disappointment, Sara was clearly his favorite. He had attended nearly every game and competition she had ever been involved with (including junior high spelling bees, none of which she ever won). She was his joy, the only member of his family he loved any longer. Anything she wanted she could have.
The first time Sara showed up on the practice field she was greeted almost exclusively with scowls. The coach, too, began to regret his decision, seeing the effect her presence was having on the rest of the team. And while he shouted and berated them about Sara being there, and talked about the importance of teamwork like he always did, a secret part of him was hoping that she would fail and he could simply call the season lost.
On the first play (Sara was playing Tight End), a huge boy playing defensive end plowed into her and crushed her to the ground. He kept his full weight on her for a few additional seconds and spit into her face "Get off the field, cunt," he before getting up and slapping two of his teammates hands.
Sara slowly got up and shook herself off. The coach raced up and put his arm on her back and asked her a panicked "Are you okay?" Sara brushed the hand off and returned to the line. On the next play she held the boy who'd tried to hurt her off the quarterback, who threw a touchdown to the star wide receiver. The rest of the practice continued in a similar manner, Sara catching two passes for twenty-three yards, and running a punt return more than forty yards down the field. She seemed to be excellent at defense and, despite the fact that several of the larger boys were able to knock her down or swat her aside pretty easily, Sara was tough and very resilient. She was a far better athlete than most of the boys on the team and the coach wound up being impressed and satisfied that she was a fine addition to the team.
In the third game Sara played a nearly mindless, steroid infused boy decided to tackle her on a play she was not really involved with. This boy was almost three hundred pounds, fat, sure, but incredibly strong. He actually lifted her up over his head and slammed her down to the ground as hard as he could. Then he kicked her and stomped on her. He broke her left shoulder and then intentionally crushed her knee. He sneered at her, saying "You don't belong here." Nearly every member on his team laughed. Nearly half on her own team were also laughing. The coach on the other team was laughing (he had instructed the boy to hurt Sara). Much of the crowd was either laughing or gaping in horror at what had happened to the "poor little girl." A wave of conversation spread through the crowd repeating "This is why girls and boys shouldn't play against each other."
It took a long time for Sara to recover, and she would never be as fast as she'd once been, but her natural gifts helped her to resume her athletic excellence. She did not play football any longer (this was not her choice, but her doctor's, who refused to sign off that she was physically eligible. Two members of the city council, both of them old men and both of whom had been laughing in the stands over her injury, had either bribed or blackmailed the doctor into this decision). She resumed basketball, returning to the boy's team, and she was quickly offered a scholarship to the University of Connecticut, where she starred for three years, leading the team to two NCAA titles. When the WNBA finally did come calling she turned them down flat. "No," Sara Michard told the recruiters, "I want to play in the NBA."
As doubtful as most executives were, Sara had grown legendary in the sports world. A frequent profile subject on ESPN, and the story of her assault on the football field something that had gained national attention, General Managers of some of the less successful teams believed that having a girl on the roster might boost ticket sales and would allow them to go down in history as the first professional sports team to break the gender barrier.
Sara whizzed through the D-League, simply too good of a shot to be restrained. And while several of the larger guys would step on her feet, shove her, or elbow her savagely, the atmosphere of the professional basketball surprised her. The men were far more accepting of her presence than any other sport she had ever played. The men seemed to realize and accept her talent. They knew that she was going to be the most famous woman in the world very soon. All of her teammates rooted her on and were thrilled when she finally got the call to join the big team.
Her first game was uneventful. She played for only four minutes, during garbage time, the team down by thirty points. She took two shots, missed them both, and fouled the third string point guard she found herself up against.
Sara accepted the fact that she was not going to be in the starting line-up any time soon, and felt safe around her teammates, who all seemed to want to protect her. Most of them teased her in the locker room, called her a "fine piece of ass" as she unashamedly changed in front of them. She smiled at them and laughed with them, but remained more focused on work than even the most dedicated superstar on the team. By her sixth game she was up to twenty minutes, and had proven to be an excellent passer with remarkable on court intelligence. This of course made Sara a target to many of her unwilling competitors. One man, a back-up center named George Shakhovsky on the Memphis Grizzlies, decided that he needed to make a point to the world. Fans had started to embrace Sara, seeing that she was honestly good enough to be playing with the men. It was going to become the norm. Other teams–even George's own!–had started sending scouts out to watch the top female college players. Things were changing too much for this giant from Russia, and he could not stand the swirling of so-called gender-equality taking over the world. His six year old son–George's own son George Junior!–had told him the other day that he was really a girl and that he wanted to be known as Georgiana. His mother had even bought him a dress!
George blamed Sara for all of this. She was the central figure fucking up the world, he told several of his teammates in a rage before the game. Most of them either nodded halfheartedly or simply walked away. And while some of them mostly agreed with him, they could not quite muster the same anger that their seven foot, three hundred pound big man had.
Out on the floor George made it a point to cover Sara. He would violently swat the ball out of her hand. He slapped her to the floor, tumbling over her with his knee bent, aiming for her chest. He said some of the same things Sara remembered from the other times she faced off with people like him. She was most reminded of the football player in high school. She called him an asshole and kneed him in the balls.
After the game (Sara had scored seventeen, notched five rebounds and eight assists), George, who had fouled out in the third quarter, stomped over to her and told Sara that he was going to rape her. This took her aback. No one had ever even thought about trying such a thing with her, much less said it aloud. But there he was, a towering figure, and he had threatened her in the most intimate way. George then grabbed her hand and started rubbing it against his cock through his shorts. "Yeah, you want this too, don't you you fucking slut?" Sara recoiled and raced away.
In many of the arenas away from home, the opposing teams mandated that Sara have a separate locker room. They insisted she needed a private place to change. There in Tennessee it had been made into a law, more in an effort to forestall the rise of transgender rights than having anything to do with basketball. It was known that several state senators had declared that Sara could not possibly be an actual female, but was some sort of "Faggot Frankenstein monster." And so the segregation of her from the rest of her team that night after the game allowed what happened to finally happen.
George shoved his way into the room while Sara was in the shower and locked the door. He took off his clothes and sprayed some lotion into his palm. He got himself hard and then walked into the stall. Sara had just turned the water off and when she turned around and faced him, her eyes grew wide and her pupils shrank to pinpoints of fear.
Without saying anything George grabbed Sara by the head and cracked it against the tile before she could even scream. He had his way with her, and then again, knocking her out twice more, until blood was dripping from her head and she wasn't waking up any longer as he stabbed himself inside her.
Sara did not wake up for three days after that, and her brain had been so greatly rattled that she honestly could not remember what happened. She could feel the pain all throughout her body, and she realized she had been raped, but she did not remember by whom. The commissioner of the NBA (along with the President of the United States) both repeated the claim that "this is why women and men are kept apart on the field of play." And for the first time in her life, Sara started to agree with this.
The rape, the traumatic brain injury, changed Sara's personality entirely. She immediately retired from sports, putting that old way of life behind her. She started going back to church, where she soon became born again. After this, whenever someone announced her as "the first woman in the NBA," she scoffed and turned it into a mantra that it had been "the worst decision of my life." She even went so far as to blame herself, like her pastor had right to her face in a public prayer session at the super church, claiming that she should have expected such a thing to happen, that men and women were not equal. Sara even got married and decided to have children, also renouncing her formerly lesbian inclinations.
She would live the rest of her life as an advocate for stay-at-home mothers and "a return to better time, when men were men, and women were women, and everyone knew their place." And on the day when she was considered for the NBA Hall of Fame because of her remarkable historical accomplishment, protests from the left, more than the same misogynistic blather that had haunted her for her entire life, rose up to keep her out. She was called a hypocrite, a "Sister Thomasine," and was screamed at by many angry people, both hating women and hating men. There was no dominant politics among this scorn.
And yet Sara merely smiled at all of this. She had finally decided what her true place in the world was. She nodded with firm conviction. She truly meant what she said next, although she was fully aware just how much it would bother them. She said "I'll pray for you," and then returned home to her mansion to watch old videos of herself on TV.
©2019, 2020 Lance Polin
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A Look at Police Brutality in America
Each year, hundreds of people die after encounters with the police
By Amy O'Kruk	• Published July 1, 2020 • Updated on July 1, 2020 at 7:10 pm
George Floyd, Breonna Taylor, Rayshard Brooks. These were a few of the Americans killed by police officers this year, and their names have been raised up at protests across the country calling for reforming or defunding the police.
There is no comprehensive government data available on killings by police officers in the U.S. The FBI, which compiles crime statistics, has not required local police to provide the bureau with complete data on their use of lethal force. The most comprehensive data has come from efforts by news organizations like The Washington Post and advocacy groups such as Mapping Police Violence.
But across these datasets, the numbers tell the same story: Despite making up only around 12% of the population, Black Americans are the most likely to be killed by the police. Since the Washington Post began tracking fatal police shootings in 2015, the rate remains steady -- around 1,000 Americans die every year. Overall, 99% of these cases don't result in criminal charges against the police officers involved.
Sources: 1. Fatal Encounters, a national database of people killed during interactions with law enforcement as of July 1, 2020. 2. Washington Post database of fatal police shootings from January 2015 to June 9, 2020. 3. Washington Post, American Community Survey, 2018. 4. Washington Post 5. Washington Post 6. Mapping Police Violence
Credit: Amy O'Kruk/NBC
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Confederate statues Jul 1, 2020
Richmond Mayor Orders Removal of Confederate Statues
POLICEGeorge FloydracismBreonna TaylorRayshard Brooks


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package org.reactfx.value;

import java.time.Duration;
import java.util.NoSuchElementException;
import java.util.Objects;
import java.util.Optional;
import java.util.function.BiFunction;
import java.util.function.Consumer;
import java.util.function.Function;
import java.util.function.Predicate;
import java.util.function.Supplier;

import javafx.animation.Interpolatable;
import javafx.beans.InvalidationListener;
import javafx.beans.property.Property;
import javafx.beans.value.ChangeListener;
import javafx.beans.value.ObservableValue;
import javafx.scene.Node;
import javafx.scene.Scene;
import javafx.stage.Window;

import org.reactfx.Change;
import org.reactfx.EventStream;
import org.reactfx.EventStreamBase;
import org.reactfx.EventStreams;
import org.reactfx.Observable;
import org.reactfx.Subscription;
import org.reactfx.collection.LiveList;
import org.reactfx.util.HexaFunction;
import org.reactfx.util.Interpolator;
import org.reactfx.util.PentaFunction;
import org.reactfx.util.TetraFunction;
import org.reactfx.util.TriFunction;
import org.reactfx.util.WrapperBase;

/**
 * Adds more operations to {@link ObservableValue}.
 *
 *
Canonical observer of {@code Val<T>} is an invalidation observer
 * of type {@code Consumer<? super T>}, which accepts the _invalidated_ value.
 * This is different from {@linkplain InvalidationListener}, which does not
 * accept the invalidated value.
 */
public interface Val<T>
extends ObservableValue<T>, Observable<Consumer<? super T>> {

    /* *************** *
     * Default methods *
     * *************** */

    default void addInvalidationObserver(Consumer<? super T> observer) {
        addObserver(observer);
    }

    default void removeInvalidationObserver(Consumer<? super T> observer) {
        removeObserver(observer);
    }

    default Subscription observeInvalidations(
            Consumer<? super T> oldValueObserver) {
        return observe(oldValueObserver);
    }

    default Subscription pin() {
        return observeInvalidations(oldVal -> {});
    }

    @Override
    default void addListener(InvalidationListener listener) {
        addInvalidationObserver(new InvalidationListenerWrapper<>(this, listener));
    }

    @Override
    default void removeListener(InvalidationListener listener) {
        removeInvalidationObserver(new InvalidationListenerWrapper<>(this, listener));
    }

    @Override
    default void addListener(ChangeListener<? super T> listener) {
        addInvalidationObserver(new ChangeListenerWrapper<>(this, listener));
    }

    @Override
    default void removeListener(ChangeListener<? super T> listener) {
        removeInvalidationObserver(new ChangeListenerWrapper<>(this, listener));
    }

    /**
     * Adds a change listener and returns a Subscription that can be
     * used to remove that listener.
     */
    default Subscription observeChanges(ChangeListener<? super T> listener) {
        return observeInvalidations(new ChangeListenerWrapper<>(this, listener));
    }

    /**
     * Returns a stream of invalidated values, which emits the invalidated value
     * (i.e. the old value) on each invalidation of this observable value.
     */
    default EventStream<T> invalidations() {
        return new EventStreamBase<T>() {
            @Override
            protected Subscription observeInputs() {
                return observeInvalidations(this::emit);
            }
        };
    }

    /**
     * Returns a stream of changed values, which emits the changed value
     * (i.e. the old and the new value) on each change of this observable value.
     */
    default EventStream<Change<T>> changes() {
        return EventStreams.changesOf(this);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a stream of values of this {@linkplain Val}. The returned stream
     * emits the current value of this {@linkplain Val} for each new subscriber
     * and then the new value whenever the value changes.
     */
    default EventStream<T> values() {
        return EventStreams.valuesOf(this);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a stream of non-null values of this {@linkplain Val}. The returned stream
     * emits the current value of this {@linkplain Val} if it is not null for each new subscriber
     * and then the new value if it is not null whenever the value changes.
     */
    default EventStream<T> nonNullValues() {
        return EventStreams.nonNullValuesOf(this);
    }

    /**
     * Checks whether this {@linkplain Val} holds a (non-null) value.
     * @return {@code true} if this {@linkplain Val} holds a (non-null) value,
     * {@code false} otherwise.
     */
    default boolean isPresent() {
        return getValue() != null;
    }

    /**
     * Inverse of {@link #isPresent()}.
     */
    default boolean isEmpty() {
        return getValue() == null;
    }

    /**
     * Invokes the given function if this {@linkplain Val} holds a (non-null)
     * value.
     * @param f function to invoke on the value currently held by this
     * {@linkplain Val}.
     */
    default void ifPresent(Consumer<? super T> f) {
        T val = getValue();
        if(val != null) {
            f.accept(val);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the value currently held by this {@linkplain Val}.
     * @throws NoSuchElementException if there is no value present.
     */
    default T getOrThrow() {
        T res = getValue();
        if(res != null) {
            return res;
        } else {
            throw new NoSuchElementException();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns the value currently held by this {@linkplain Val}. If this
     * {@linkplain Val} is empty, {@code defaultValue} is returned instead.
     * @param defaultValue value to return if there is no value present in
     * this {@linkplain Val}.
     */
    default T getOrElse(T defaultValue) {
        T res = getValue();
        if(res != null) {
            return res;
        } else {
            return defaultValue;
        }
    }

    /**
     * Like {@link #getOrElse(Object)}, except the default value is computed
     * by {@code defaultSupplier} only when necessary.
     * @param defaultSupplier computation to produce default value, if this
     * {@linkplain Val} is empty.
     */
    default T getOrSupply(Supplier<? extends T> defaultSupplier) {
        T res = getValue();
        if(res != null) {
            return res;
        } else {
            return defaultSupplier.get();
        }
    }

    /**
     * Returns an {@code Optional} describing the value currently held by this
     * {@linkplain Val}, or and empty {@code Optional} if this {@linkplain Val}
     * is empty.
     */
    default Optional<T> getOpt() {
        return Optional.ofNullable(getValue());
    }

    /**
     * Returns a new {@linkplain Val} that holds the value held by this
     * {@linkplain Val}, or {@code other} when this {@linkplain Val} is empty.
     */
    default Val<T> orElseConst(T other) {
        return orElseConst(this, other);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a new {@linkplain Val} that holds the value held by this
     * {@linkplain Val}, or the value held by {@code other} when this
     * {@linkplain Val} is empty.
     */
    default Val<T> orElse(ObservableValue<T> other) {
        return orElse(this, other);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a new {@linkplain Val} that holds the same value
     * as this {@linkplain Val} when the value satisfies the predicate
     * and is empty when this {@linkplain Val} is empty or its value
     * does not satisfy the given predicate.
     */
    default Val<T> filter(Predicate<? super T> p) {
        return filter(this, p);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a new {@linkplain Val} that holds a mapping of the value held by
     * this {@linkplain Val}, and is empty when this {@linkplain Val} is empty.
     * @param f function to map the value held by this {@linkplain Val}.
     */
    default  Val map(Function<? super T, ? extends U> f) {
        return map(this, f);
    }

    /**
     * Like {@link #map(Function)}, but also allows dynamically changing
     * map function.
     */
    default  Val mapDynamic(
            ObservableValue<? extends Function<? super T, ? extends U>> f) {
        return mapDynamic(this, f);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a new {@linkplain Val} that, when this {@linkplain Val} holds
     * value {@code x}, holds the value held by {@code f(x)}, and is empty
     * when this {@linkplain Val} is empty.
     */
    default  Val flatMap(
            Function<? super T, ? extends ObservableValue> f) {
        return flatMap(this, f);
    }

    /**
     * Similar to {@link #flatMap(Function)}, except the returned Val is also
     * a Var. This means you can call {@code setValue()} and {@code bind()}
     * methods on the returned value, which delegate to the currently selected
     * Property.
     *
     *
As the value of this {@linkplain Val} changes, so does the selected
     * Property. When the Var returned from this method is bound, as the
     * selected Property changes, the previously selected Property is unbound
     * and the newly selected Property is bound.
     *
     *
Note that if the currently selected Property is {@code null}, then
     * calling {@code getValue()} on the returned value will return {@code null}
     * regardless of any prior call to {@code setValue()} or {@code bind()}.
     */
    default  Var selectVar(
            Function<? super T, ? extends Property> f) {
        return selectVar(this, f);
    }

    default  Var selectVar(
            Function<? super T, ? extends Property> f,
            U resetToOnUnbind) {
        return selectVar(this, f, resetToOnUnbind);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a new {@linkplain Val} that only observes this {@linkplain Val}
     * when {@code condition} is {@code true}. More precisely, the returned
     * {@linkplain Val} observes {@code condition} whenever it itself has at
     * least one observer and observes {@code this} {@linkplain Val} whenever
     * it itself has at least one observer and the value of
     * {@code condition} is {@code true}. When {@code condition} is
     * {@code true}, the returned {@linkplain Val} has the same value as this
     * {@linkplain Val}. When {@code condition} is {@code false}, the returned
     * {@linkplain Val} has the value that was held by this {@linkplain Val} at
     * the time when {@code condition} changed to {@code false}.
     */
    default Val<T> conditionOn(ObservableValue<Boolean> condition) {
        return conditionOn(this, condition);
    }

    /**
     * Equivalent to {@link #conditionOn(ObservableValue)} where the condition
     * is that {@code node} is showing: it is part of a scene graph
     * ({@link Node#sceneProperty()} is not {@code null}), its scene is part of
     * a window ({@link Scene#windowProperty()} is not {@code null}) and the
     * window is showing ({@link Window#showingProperty()} is {@code true}).
     */
    default Val<T> conditionOnShowing(Node node) {
        return conditionOnShowing(this, node);
    }

    default SuspendableVal<T> suspendable() {
        return suspendable(this);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a new {@linkplain Val} that gradually transitions to the value
     * of this {@linkplain Val} every time this {@linkplain Val} changes.
     *
     *
When the returned {@linkplain Val} has no observer, there is no
     * gradual transition taking place. This means that there is no animation
     * running in the background that would consume system resources. This also
     * means that in that case {@link #getValue()} always returns the target
     * value (i.e. the current value of this {@linkplain Val}), instead of any
     * intermediate interpolated value.
     *
     * @param duration function that calculates the desired duration of the
     * transition for two boundary values.
     * @param interpolator calculates the interpolated value between two
     * boundary values, given a fraction.
     */
    default Val<T> animate(
            BiFunction<? super T, ? super T, Duration> duration,
            Interpolator<T> interpolator) {
        return animate(this, duration, interpolator);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a new {@linkplain Val} that gradually transitions to the value
     * of this {@linkplain Val} every time this {@linkplain Val} changes.
     *
     *
When the returned {@linkplain Val} has no observer, there is no
     * gradual transition taking place. This means that there is no animation
     * running in the background that would consume system resources. This also
     * means that in that case {@link #getValue()} always returns the target
     * value (i.e. the current value of this {@linkplain Val}), instead of any
     * intermediate interpolated value.
     *
     * @param duration the desired duration of the transition
     * @param interpolator calculates the interpolated value between two
     * boundary values, given a fraction.
     */
    default Val<T> animate(
            Duration duration,
            Interpolator<T> interpolator) {
        return animate(this, duration, interpolator);
    }

    /**
     * Let's this {@linkplain Val} be viewed as a {@linkplain Var}, with the
     * given {@code setValue} function serving the purpose of
     * {@link Var#setValue(Object)}.
     * @see Var#fromVal(ObservableValue, Consumer)
     */
    default Var<T> asVar(Consumer<T> setValue) {
        return new VarFromVal<>(this, setValue);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@linkplain LiveList} view of this {@linkplain Val}. The
     * returned list will have size 1 when this {@linkplain Val} is present
     * (i.e. not {@code null}) and size 0 otherwise.
     */
    default LiveList<T> asList() {
        return LiveList.wrapVal(this);
    }

    /* ************** *
     * Static methods *
     * ************** */

    /**
     * Returns a {@linkplain Val} wrapper around {@linkplain ObservableValue}.
     * If the argument is already a {@code Val<T>}, no wrapping occurs and the
     * argument is returned as is.
     * Note that one rarely needs to use this method, because most of the time
     * one can use the appropriate static method directly to get the desired
     * result. For example, instead of
     *
     *

     * {@code
     * Val.wrap(obs).orElse(other)
     * }
     *

     *
     * one can write
     *
     *

     * {@code
     * Val.orElse(obs, other)
     * }
     *

     *
     * However, an explicit wrapper is necessary if access to
     * {@link #observeInvalidations(Consumer)}, or {@link #invalidations()}
     * is needed, since there is no direct static method equivalent for them.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> wrap(ObservableValue<T> obs) {
        return obs instanceof Val
                ? (Val<T>) obs
                : new ValWrapper<>(obs);
    }

    /**
     * Adds the given invalidation {@code listener} to the {@code obs} and returns a {@link Subscription} whose
     * {@link Subscription#unsubscribe() unsubscribe()} will remove the listener and prevent memory leaks.
     */
    static <T> Subscription observeChanges(
            ObservableValue<? extends T> obs,
            ChangeListener<? super T> listener) {
        if(obs instanceof Val) {
            return ((Val<? extends T>) obs).observeChanges(listener);
        } else {
            obs.addListener(listener);
            return () -> obs.removeListener(listener);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Adds the given change {@code listener} to the {@code obs} and returns a {@link Subscription} whose
     * {@link Subscription#unsubscribe() unsubscribe()} will remove the listener and prevent memory leaks.
     */
    static Subscription observeInvalidations(
            ObservableValue<?> obs,
            InvalidationListener listener) {
        obs.addListener(listener);
        return () -> obs.removeListener(listener);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is either the value of {@code src} when it is null, or the {@code other}
     * value when {@code src}'s value is null.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> orElseConst(ObservableValue<? extends T> src, T other) {
        return new OrElseConst<>(src, other);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is either the value of {@code src} when it is non-null, and the value
     * of {@code other} when {@code src}'s value is null.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> orElse(
            ObservableValue<? extends T> src,
            ObservableValue<? extends T> other) {
        return new OrElse<>(src, other);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is either null when the value stored in {@code src} does not pass the
     * {@link Predicate#test(Object) predicate's test} or the value stored in {@code src} when it does.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> filter(
            ObservableValue<T> src,
            Predicate<? super T> p) {
        return map(src, t -> p.test(t) ? t : null);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is the result of applying the given mapping function, {@code f}, to
     * {@code src}'s value wheneve it changes.
     */
    static <T, U> Val map(
            ObservableValue<T> src,
            Function<? super T, ? extends U> f) {
        return new MappedVal<>(src, f);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is the result of applying the current mapping function stored in {@code f}
     * to {@code src}'s value whenever it changes.
     */
    static <T, U> Val mapDynamic(
            ObservableValue<T> src,
            ObservableValue<? extends Function<? super T, ? extends U>> f) {
        return combine(
                src, f,
                (t, fn) -> t == null || fn == null ? null : fn.apply(t));
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is equal to that stored in the returned {@link ObservableValue} after applying
     * the function, {@code f}, to {@code src}'s value every time it changes.
     */
    static <T, U> Val flatMap(
            ObservableValue<T> src,
            Function<? super T, ? extends ObservableValue> f) {
        return new FlatMappedVal<>(src, f);
    }

    static <T, U> Var selectVar(
            ObservableValue<T> src,
            Function<? super T, ? extends Property> f) {
        return new FlatMappedVar<>(src, f);
    }

    static <T, U> Var selectVar(
            ObservableValue<T> src,
            Function<? super T, ? extends Property> f,
            U resetToOnUnbind) {
        return new FlatMappedVar<>(src, f, resetToOnUnbind);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is the value of {@code obs} while {@code condition}'s value is true; when
     * that becomes false, this {@code Val}'s value will be the currently stored value of {@code obs} and
     * not update its value, even when {@code obs}' value changes, until {@code condition} becomes true again.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> conditionOn(
            ObservableValue<T> obs,
            ObservableValue<Boolean> condition) {
        return flatMap(condition, con -> con ? obs : constant(obs.getValue()));
    }

    /**
     * Same as {@link #conditionOn(ObservableValue, ObservableValue)} but uses {@link #showingProperty(Node)} as
     * its {@code condition} using the given {@code node}.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> conditionOnShowing(ObservableValue<T> obs, Node node) {
        return conditionOn(obs, showingProperty(node));
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is the value of {@code obs} while unsuspended; once suspended, the
     * {@code Val} will ignore any updates until unsuspended again, which will cause this {@code Val} to recompute
     * its value to the latest stored in {@code obs}.
     */
    static <T> SuspendableVal<T> suspendable(ObservableValue<T> obs) {
        if(obs instanceof SuspendableVal) {
            return (SuspendableVal<T>) obs;
        } else {
            Val<T> val = obs instanceof Val
                    ? (Val<T>) obs
                    : new ValWrapper<>(obs);
            return new SuspendableValWrapper<>(val);
        }
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new {@linkplain Val} that gradually transitions to the value
     * of the given {@linkplain ObservableValue} {@code obs} every time
     * {@code obs} changes.
     *
     *
When the returned {@linkplain Val} has no observer, there is no
     * gradual transition taking place. This means that there is no animation
     * running in the background that would consume system resources. This also
     * means that in that case {@link #getValue()} always returns the target
     * value (i.e. the current value of {@code obs}), instead of any intermediate
     * interpolated value.
     *
     * @param obs observable value to animate
     * @param duration function that calculates the desired duration of the
     * transition for two boundary values.
     * @param interpolator calculates the interpolated value between two
     * boundary values, given a fraction.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> animate(
            ObservableValue<T> obs,
            BiFunction<? super T, ? super T, Duration> duration,
            Interpolator<T> interpolator) {
        return new AnimatedVal<>(obs, duration, interpolator);
    }

    /**
     * Creates a new {@linkplain Val} that gradually transitions to the value
     * of the given {@linkplain ObservableValue} {@code obs} every time
     * {@code obs} changes.
     *
     *
When the returned {@linkplain Val} has no observer, there is no
     * gradual transition taking place. This means that there is no animation
     * running in the background that would consume system resources. This also
     * means that in that case {@link #getValue()} always returns the target
     * value (i.e. the current value of {@code obs}), instead of any intermediate
     * interpolated value.
     *
     * @param obs observable value to animate
     * @param duration the desired duration of the transition
     * @param interpolator calculates the interpolated value between two
     * boundary values, given a fraction.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> animate(
            ObservableValue<T> obs,
            Duration duration,
            Interpolator<T> interpolator) {
        return animate(obs, (a, b) -> duration, interpolator);
    }

    /**
     * Like {@link #animate(ObservableValue, BiFunction, Interpolator)}, but
     * uses the interpolation defined by the {@linkplain Interpolatable} type
     * {@code T}.
     */
    static <T extends Interpolatable<T>> Val<T> animate(
            ObservableValue<T> obs,
            BiFunction<? super T, ? super T, Duration> duration) {
        return animate(obs, duration, Interpolator.get());
    }

    /**
     * Like {@link #animate(ObservableValue, Duration, Interpolator)}, but
     * uses the interpolation defined by the {@linkplain Interpolatable} type
     * {@code T}.
     */
    static <T extends Interpolatable<T>> Val<T> animate(
            ObservableValue<T> obs,
            Duration duration) {
        return animate(obs, duration, Interpolator.get());
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is recalculated using the given function, {@code f}, whenever any of the
     * given observable values (dependencies) change by passing the currently stored value of each dependency
     * into {@code f} and storing the returned result into the {@code Val}.
     */
    static  Val<R> combine(
            ObservableValue src1,
            ObservableValue src2,
            BiFunction<? super A, ? super B, ? extends R> f) {
        return create(
                () -> {
                    if(src1.getValue() != null && src2.getValue() != null) {
                        return f.apply(src1.getValue(), src2.getValue());
                    } else {
                        return null;
                    }
                },
                src1, src2);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is recalculated using the given function, {@code f}, whenever any of the
     * given observable values (dependencies) change by passing the currently stored value of each dependency
     * into {@code f} and storing the returned result into the {@code Val}.
     */
    static  Val<R> combine(
            ObservableValue src1,
            ObservableValue src2,
            ObservableValue<C> src3,
            TriFunction<? super A, ? super B, ? super C,  ? extends R> f) {
        return create(
                () -> {
                    if(src1.getValue() != null &&
                            src2.getValue() != null &&
                            src3.getValue() != null) {
                        return f.apply(
                            src1.getValue(), src2.getValue(), src3.getValue());
                    } else {
                        return null;
                    }
                },
                src1, src2, src3);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is recalculated using the given function, {@code f}, whenever any of the
     * given observable values (dependencies) change by passing the currently stored value of each dependency
     * into {@code f} and storing the returned result into the {@code Val}.
     */
    static  Val<R> combine(
            ObservableValue src1,
            ObservableValue src2,
            ObservableValue<C> src3,
            ObservableValue<D> src4,
            TetraFunction<? super A, ? super B, ? super C, ? super D,  ? extends R> f) {
        return create(
                () -> {
                    if(src1.getValue() != null &&
                            src2.getValue() != null &&
                            src3.getValue() != null &&
                            src4.getValue() != null) {
                        return f.apply(
                            src1.getValue(), src2.getValue(),
                            src3.getValue(), src4.getValue());
                    } else {
                        return null;
                    }
                },
                src1, src2, src3, src4);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is recalculated using the given function, {@code f}, whenever any of the
     * given observable values (dependencies) change by passing the currently stored value of each dependency
     * into {@code f} and storing the returned result into the {@code Val}.
     */
    static  Val<R> combine(
            ObservableValue src1,
            ObservableValue src2,
            ObservableValue<C> src3,
            ObservableValue<D> src4,
            ObservableValue<E> src5,
            PentaFunction<? super A, ? super B, ? super C, ? super D, ? super E,  ? extends R> f) {
        return create(
                () -> {
                    if(src1.getValue() != null &&
                            src2.getValue() != null &&
                            src3.getValue() != null &&
                            src4.getValue() != null &&
                            src5.getValue() != null) {
                        return f.apply(
                            src1.getValue(), src2.getValue(), src3.getValue(),
                            src4.getValue(), src5.getValue());
                    } else {
                        return null;
                    }
                },
                src1, src2, src3, src4, src5);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is recalculated using the given function, {@code f}, whenever any of the
     * given observable values (dependencies) change by passing the currently stored value of each dependency
     * into {@code f} and storing the returned result into the {@code Val}.
     */
    static  Val<R> combine(
            ObservableValue src1,
            ObservableValue src2,
            ObservableValue<C> src3,
            ObservableValue<D> src4,
            ObservableValue<E> src5,
            ObservableValue<F> src6,
            HexaFunction<? super A, ? super B, ? super C, ? super D, ? super E, ? super F,  ? extends R> f) {
        return create(
                () -> {
                    if(src1.getValue() != null &&
                            src2.getValue() != null &&
                            src3.getValue() != null &&
                            src4.getValue() != null &&
                            src5.getValue() != null &&
                            src6.getValue() != null) {
                        return f.apply(
                            src1.getValue(), src2.getValue(), src3.getValue(),
                            src4.getValue(), src5.getValue(), src6.getValue());
                    } else {
                        return null;
                    }
                },
                src1, src2, src3, src4, src5, src6);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is recalculated using the given {@link Supplier}, {@code computeValue},
     * whenever any of the given observable values (dependencies) change.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> create(
            Supplier<? extends T> computeValue,
            javafx.beans.Observable... dependencies) {
        return new ValBase<T>() {

            @Override
            protected Subscription connect() {
                InvalidationListener listener = obs -> invalidate();
                for(javafx.beans.Observable dep: dependencies) {
                    dep.addListener(listener);
                }

                return () -> {
                    for(javafx.beans.Observable dep: dependencies) {
                        dep.removeListener(listener);
                    }
                };
            }

            @Override
            protected T computeValue() {
                return computeValue.get();
            }
        };
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@link Val} whose value is recalculated using the given {@link Supplier}, {@code computeValue},
     * whenever any of the given {@link EventStream}s emit a value.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> create(
            Supplier<? extends T> computeValue,
            EventStream<?> invalidations) {
        return new ValBase<T>() {

            @Override
            protected Subscription connect() {
                return invalidations.subscribe(x -> invalidate());
            }

            @Override
            protected T computeValue() {
                return computeValue.get();
            }
        };
    }

    /**
     * Returns a constant {@linkplain Val} that holds the given value.
     * The value never changes and no notifications are ever produced.
     */
    static <T> Val<T> constant(T value) {
        return new ConstVal<>(value);
    }

    /**
     * Returns a {@linkplain Val} whose value is {@code true} when {@code node}
     * is showing:  it is part of a scene graph
     * ({@link Node#sceneProperty()} is not {@code null}), its scene is part of
     * a window ({@link Scene#windowProperty()} is not {@code null}) and the
     * window is showing ({@link Window#showingProperty()} is {@code true}).
     */
    static Val<Boolean> showingProperty(Node node) {
        return Val
                .flatMap(node.sceneProperty(), Scene::windowProperty)
                .flatMap(Window::showingProperty)
                .orElseConst(false);
    }
}

class InvalidationListenerWrapper<T>
extends WrapperBase<InvalidationListener>
implements Consumer<T> {
    private final ObservableValue<T> obs;

    public InvalidationListenerWrapper(
            ObservableValue<T> obs,
            InvalidationListener listener) {
        super(listener);
        this.obs = obs;
    }

    @Override
    public void accept(T oldValue) {
        getWrappedValue().invalidated(obs);
    }
}

class ChangeListenerWrapper<T>
extends WrapperBase<ChangeListener<? super T>>
implements Consumer<T> {
    private final ObservableValue<T> obs;

    public ChangeListenerWrapper(
            ObservableValue<T> obs,
            ChangeListener<? super T> listener) {
        super(listener);
        this.obs = obs;
    }

    @Override
    public void accept(T oldValue) {
        T newValue = obs.getValue();
        if(!Objects.equals(oldValue, newValue)) {
            getWrappedValue().changed(obs, oldValue, newValue);
        }
    }
}

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« Heavyweight: 2014, Oct 6-12
Heavyweight: 2014, Oct 20-26 »
Heavyweight: 2014, Oct 13-19
Unbeaten English Olympian Anthony Joshua continued to impress on Saturday, systematically breaking down Russian gatekeeper Denis Bakhtov- who was coming off a win over Joshua's prior victim Konstantin Airich- all inside two rounds. Bakhtov is a reliable trial horse who occasionally upsets a prospect, or at least deserves to before the judges get ahold of him. He's been stopped before, but never inside of 5 rounds (aside from one injury-related stoppage). This was the quickest and most thorough dismantling he'd ever suffered, even having fought contenders as solid as Vyacheslav Glazkov, whom he took the distance. Even aside from comparisons, Joshua looked excellent. He's a big, strong, powerful, and athletic heavyweight. He doesn't have obvious flaws, and looks like the kind of complete fighter that flourished in the early 90s. Look out.
On the not-so-impressive side of the top 50 coin, massive Argentine champion Matias Vidondo, who won the title on his knees when Fabio Moli hit him while he was on the canvas for a third time in that specific round, took care of 44 year old journeyman Marcelo Dominguez to retain his national championship. Really all he proved is that a 38 year old 6'7″ fat guy beats a 44 year old 5'9″ fat guy. The fight was stopped suddenly on a really bad cut while Dominguez was backed up into the corner. In the Moli fight, Vidondo had completely gassed out by the 5th round, but luckily for him Dominguez wasn't able to take him even that deep.
Bakhtov is the first even borderline top 50 fighter that Joshua has taken on, but it's enough to get him more or less in the top 30 by my reckoning, and based on the groundwork he'd previously laid with quality journeymen, he's a very strong #30 despite the limited resume. He's already the most proven British contender after Fury and Chisora, and probably has the potential to eclipse both, which is realy saying a lot. Still, no changes this week.
Champ: Wladimir Klitschko (277-490-490)
Last Fight: 4/26/2014- TKO5 #16 Alex Leapai
Next Fight: 11/15/2014- vs. #5 Kubrat Pulev
The Pulev defense has now been rescheduled for November 15.
1) Tyson Fury (35-35-35)
Last Fight: 2/15/2014- TKO4 Joey Abell (UNR)
Next Fight: 11/29/2014- vs. #6 Dereck Chisora
Fury-Chisora II has been moved back a week, to November 29.
2) Alexander Povetkin (20-364-364)
Last Fight: 5/30/2014- TKO7 Manuel Charr (UNR)
Next Fight: 10/24/2014- vs. #7 Carlos Takam
Povetkin will attempt to halt the meteoric rise of rugged slugger Carlos Takam when the two meet in Russia on October 24.
3) Vyacheslav Glazkov (20-31-95)
Last Fight: 8/9/2014- W(MD10) vs. Derric Rossy (UNR)
Glazkov didn't exactly earn any style points for his lazy showing against big underdog Rossy, but a win's a win, I suppose…
4) Amir Mansour (28-28-28)
Last Fight: 4/4/2014- Robbery L (UD10) vs. #4 Steve Cunningham
Next Fight: 11/8/2014 – vs. Fred Kassi (UNR)
Mansour gets a stay-busy type fight against the unknown Fred Kassi, who despite a relatively attractive 18-2 record, has lost to the likes of Lionel Butler and Kendrick Releford, and has only fought 3 times since April 2010.
5) Kubrat Pulev (35-128-205)
Last Fight: 4/5/2014- RTD3 Ivica Perkovic (UNR)
Next Fight: 11/15/2014- vs. Champ Wladimir Klitschko
See Klitschko's notes, above.
6) Dereck Chisora (35-150-213)
Last Fight: 2/15/2014- UD12 Kevin Johnson (UNR)
Next Fight: 11/29/2014- vs. #1 Tyson Fury
See Fury's notes, above.
7) Carlos Takam (19-19-39)
Last Fight: 6/6/2014- UD12 #9 Tony Thompson
Next Fight: 10/24/2014- vs. #2 Alexander Povetkin
Takam looks to go from contender to international superstar when he looks to topple Povetkin in Russia in late October.
8) Bermane Stiverne (19-23-85)
Last Fight: 5/10/2014- TKO6 #13 Chris Arreola
Another postponement of the purse bid for the Wilder fight, as Don King and Oscar De La Hoya are apparently desperately trying to reach a deal to keep Jay-Z from getting a shot at buying the rights to the promotion.
9) Steve Cunningham (19-95-95)
Last Fight: 4/4/2014- Robbery W (UD10) vs. Amir Mansour (UNR)
Next Fight: 10/18/2014 – vs. Natu Visinia (UNR)
Cunningham gets what, at least on paper, looks like a stay-busy fight in October against Natu Visinia. Visinia is unbeaten at 10-0, but has fought nobody. He's a big boy, though. The Samoan typically tips the scales in the 260s or 270s.
10) Tony Thompson (19-30-229)
Last Fight: 6/6/2014- L (UD12) vs. #12 Carlos Takam
Next Fight: Unknown Date- vs. #12 Odlanier Solis
The Thompson-Solis rematch has been postponed due to a Solis ankle injury. No word yet on the new date.
11) Tomasz Adamek (19-234)
Last Fight: 3/15/2014- L (UD12) vs. #18 Vyacheslav Glazkov
Next Fight: 11/8/2014- vs. Artur Szpilka (UNR)
Originally penciled in for October 18 in Lodz, it now appears that Adamek-Szpilka is destined for November 8 in Krakow.
12) Odlanier Solis (19-229)
Last Fight: 3/22/2014- L* (SD12) vs. #13 Tony Thompson
Next Fight: 10/18/2014- vs. #10 Tony Thompson
See Thompson's notes, above.
13) Deontay Wilder (23-77)
Last Fight: 8/16/2014- W(RTD4) vs. Jason Gavern (UNR)
See Stiverne's notes, above.
14) Chris Arreola (23-58)
Last Fight: 5/10/2014- L (TKO6) vs. #12 Bermane Stiverne
Arreola had elbow surgery, and was said to be expected back in October. No news about an upcoming fight, though.
15) Erkan Teper (28-59)
Last Fight: 6/13/2014- RTD6 Newfel Ouatah (UNR)
Teper's effort in his last fight- and perhaps especially in the gym leading up to it- was awful, and he got lucky when his opponent turned out to be almost as out of shape as him, in addition to being an apparent quitter.
16) Alex Leapai (28-47)
Last Fight: 4/26/2014- L (KO5) vs. Champ Wladimir Klitschko
Next Fight: 10/24/2014- vs. #20 Malik Scott
After intended fights with Shannon Briggs and Sam Peter fell through, Leapai will have an interesting matchup with Malik Scott.
17) Andy Ruiz (28-47)
Last Fight: 5/17/2014- TKO2 Manuel Quezada (UNR)
Ruiz's fight with Sergei Liakhovich was cancelled about a week in advance of the September 20 date when Ruiz withdrew for "family reasons."
18) Bryant Jennings (6-12)
Last Fight: 7/26/2014- W* (SD12) vs. Mike Perez (UNR)
Reasonable minds can disagree on the correct result of Jennings-Perez. What's clear, though, is that Jennings is not nearly ready for Klitschko, a fight some of his supporters have been proposing for a while now. He himself appears to want the Wilder-Stiverne winner, which might be more within his competency.
19) Mike Perez (6-12)
Last Fight: 7/26/2014- L* (SD12) vs. Bryant Jennings (UNR)
Next Fight: 11/?/2014 – vs. Unknown Opponent
Perez, who calls Cork, Ireland home, will return to his home base in November when he headlines a card there. Details TBD.
20) Malik Scott (6-6)
Last Fight: 3/15/2014- L (KO1) vs. #13 Deontay Wilder
Next Fight: 10/24/2014 – vs. #16 Alex Leapai
See Leapai's notes, above.
Joseph Parker vs. Sherman Williams; Auckland, New Zealand; TV Unknown
After seeing one big athletic prospect coming into his own last week, we get to see New Zealand's answer this Thursday. Parker takes on the limited but generally capable Sherman Williams, who gave a somewhat compromised version of Robert Helenius a fair amount of trouble a while back. Parker is bigger but somewhat slower than Anthony Joshua, but both are members of a new breed of more dynamic heavyweights that may well go on to dominate- or even usher in- the post-Klitschko era at some point.
Mariusz Wach vs. Samir Kurtagic; Dzierzoniow, Poland; TV Unknown
If Joseph Parker is a member of a new breed of dynamic heavyweights, then Wach is a member of the aging breed of mountainous and ponderous giants that has in some ways typified the current era. He is predictably slow, but iron chinned. His only loss was a decision to the Champion nearly two years ago, and he hasn't been in the ring since. That is in large part due to a positive steroid test following that fight. Kurtagic began his career 7-0, but has since proven himself very mediocre when matched with reasonably decent opposition. He is a 6'7″ beast in his own right, and sturdy, if nothing else. He's never been stopped in his 6 losses, including fights with the likes of Edmund Gerber, Francesco Pianeta, Alexander Dimitrenko, and Denis Boytsov. He's always good for getting work in, which might be what Wach needs most of all right now.
#9 Steve Cunningham vs. Natu Visinia; Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; NBC Sports (US)
A good big man beats a good small man. The problem for Visinia is that it's not at all clear that he's good. He comes in at 10-0, but his best opponent has literally less than 1% of the boxrec ratings points as does Cunningham. For all intents and purposes, he might as well be making his pro debut against a top 10 contender. You would think that a guy that usually scales around 270 lbs. would have some sort of power, though, so even with the huge experience and skill gap, I'm not sure you can fully take it for granted. Still, on paper it's a blatant mismatch.
This entry was posted on December 25, 2015 at 4:43 pm and is filed under Heavyweight, Rankings with tags Anthony Joshua, Joseph Parker, Mariusz Wach, Matias Vidondo, Sherman Williams, Steve Cunningham, Tyson Fury, Wladimir Klitschko.	You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed. You can leave a response, or trackback from your own site.


Despite rumors swirling abound that Ray Fisher's Cyborg character would appear in The Flash, the film's director shoots it down.
Rick Famuyima shot a short but sweet message to the people who currently think that a Cyborg/ Flash team-up would happen in the solo Flash movie starring Ezra Miller.
The director might be saying one thing but could be another by the time the movie will be hitting theaters.
Remember we never did really get any news of The Flash making an appearance in David Ayer's Suicide Squad. But he was there for a few seconds and managed to beat up Jai Courtney's Captain Boomerang.
So there's still hope for the appearance after all its too early to say what could appear and what could not appear.
But I really want WB and the DC Expanded Universe to succeed in their CBM bid. For me theh dodged a big bullet with Suicide squad but they really should have learned after the negative response to Batman v Superman. And they should never rely on the Ultimate Version or a do over.
So what do you think? Leave a comment below and discuss.
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His award winning songs include- Kaal ka pahiya ghume re bhaiya (Chanda Aur Bijli), Bas yahi apradh main baar baar karta hun (Pehchan) and Ae bhai, zara dekh ke chalo (Mera Naam Joker).
The Hush Post: Eminent poet and lyricist Gopal Das Neeraj passed away in Delhi Thursday evening a prolonged illness. The Padmabhushan awardee breathed his last at the All India Institute of Medical Sciences (AIIMS) where he was shifted from an Agra hospital on Wednesday. He was admitted to the ICU ward of the Trauma Centre at AIIMS.
Neeraj was in Agra to visit his daughter Kundnika Sharma and had taken ill after breakfast on Tuesday. He had complained of chest pain and was admitted to a local hospital in Agra. He was put on ventilator there. The doctors had removed around 800 gms mucus from his lungs.
Born on January 4, 1925 in Purvali village of Etawah district in Uttar Pradesh, Neeraj was a famous poet who had penned down many superhit bollywood songs. His award winning songs include- Kaal ka pahiya ghume re bhaiya (Chanda Aur Bijli), Bas yahi apradh main baar baar karta hun (Pehchan) and Ae bhai, zara dekh ke chalo (Mera Naam Joker).
The 92-year-old was awarded the Padma Shri in 1991 and then in 2007 he was confrerred with the country's third-highest civilian honour- the Padma Bhushan. He was also honoured with Yash Bharti by the Uttar Pradesh government. Besides, Neeraj has be awarded with the Filmfare award thrice.


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The classics offer artists endless inspiration, says baritone Darren Chase. Each classic piece not only captures its creator's zeitgeist, but also becomes fertile soil for the works of subsequent artists.
Some contemporary composers recite the mantra "new, new, new, form new things!" But Chase feels that it's "better to anchor a new creation in something great and respond to it respectfully," as countless artists have done before.
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"I'd rather build from those time-tried classics with an eternal quality that have been passed on for a long time," he said on April 11.
Winner of the 2013 American Prize in Art Song, Chase has sung with opera companies, baroque orchestras, and contemporary classical ensembles, and at prestigious music festivals. With two albums, "Robert Schumann: Liederkreis" and "The Young Debussy," to his name, Chase is as at home with music as he is with languages.
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This effort allowed him to see that his translations might fulfill a need for his audiences. Many attending his concerts hadn't been getting the full effect of the music because they didn't understand the languages being sung and didn't read the translations he'd provided in the programs. "They were just there to listen to my voice and create a story in their minds based on the vocal line, the vowels, and the piano," he said.
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A few years ago, he hit upon the perfect set of art songs to inspire him: Franz Schubert's most famous cycle of songs, "Winterreise" ("Winter Journey"). Composed for voice and piano, they are based on 24 poems by Wilhelm Müller.
Chase was not drawn immediately to the works, as he knew they were dark, but the song cycle appealed to him because it could remain in his repertoire for years and his interpretation could deepen over time. He was also attracted to the idea of a cycle in story format, "a saga in itself, … sort of like a one-man opera" rather than, as with many song cycles, a collection around a common theme.
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In the eight months that it took him to translate the rhymes and vocalic harmonization, he delved deeply—more deeply linguistically, historically, musically, and dramatically than he ever had with a song cycle.
As a result, during the last two years of his performing the concerts in English, people have loved hearing in their own language songs that reveal the soul of winter. And he believes that his artistry has matured, which will augment future concerts when he sings the pieces in German next year.
Beyond these benefits, his immersion into the Schubert/Müller songs inspired a completely new project: He's writing a novella. As some of Müller's symbolism touched on the effects of industrialization that were then emerging, Chase is updating these symbols with a dystopic look at the technological interface between man, artificial intelligence, and spirituality.
But, of course, Chase is not the only artist building on works of the past. Müller loved the sonnet, a classic form of poetry, and he loved German folk songs. He combined these old forms, using the direct vernacular of folk songs with the "condensed emotion and lofty spiritual rumination of sonnet form," Chase said.
And Schubert relied on the traditional A-B-A song structure, but added to the emerging Romanticism of the time by strengthening the emotional aspect through the music.
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The examples are endless, Chase said. This year, he sang a piece written in 1946, "20th-century but very classical," he said, by Paul Hindemith called "When Lilacs Last in the Dooryard Bloom'd: A Requiem for those we love." It's about the assassination of President Abraham Lincoln and is based on a Walt Whitman poem of the same name.
Whitman was influenced by the works of the European Romantic poets and who, in turn, looked to the Upanishads, ancient Hindu texts. "It all goes back to the old texts. Whitman was riffing on an ancient tune," Chase said.
With regard to works of huge impact, "there's the aphorism that we are reinventing the wheel. I believe that," he said.


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KOMETS PICK UP NIEUWENDYK
The Fort Wayne Komets of the ECHL announced Monday that four players have been added to the preseason roster. Defenseman Curtis Leonard and forward Mason Baptista have agreed to terms and will be returning to the Fort Wayne fold for 2016-17. Also rookie forwards Daniel Erlich and Chase Nieuwendyk have inked agreements to make their pro debuts with the Komets.
Nieuwendyk, 25, finished a four-year NCAA-III collegiate career with Brockport in the SUNYAC (State University of New York Athletic Conference) last season leading Brockport for the second straight year in goals with 14. The rookie forward also led the team with 37 points for the third consecutive season.
Nieuwendyk is a nephew of NHL Hall-of-Famer Joe Nieuwendyk and began his juniors career in 2008-09 with Brampton in the OJHL. The Georgetown, Ontario native led Brampton with 24 goals in 2009-10 and completed his juniors career in 2011-12 skating 49 games with Trenton, leading the golden Hawks with 27 goals and 57 points.
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As a collegiate ice hockey player, Stephen Mallaro helped lead Oswego State University in upstate New York to back-to-back NCAA Division III National Tournament "Frozen Four" appearances in 2010 and 2011. Now, five years later, four as a collegiate assistant coach, Mallaro will take on the most unique opportunity of his career after being named the head coach of the new men's ice hockey program at King's College. Mallaro will start his new position on August 1 according to King's Director of Athletics Cheryl Ish.
On February 25, King's announced the addition of both men's and women's ice hockey programs with each sport slated to open competition in 2017-18. With head coaches of both sports scheduled to be hired this summer, King's will provide both the men's and women's programs with a full year of recruiting before entering competition. Mallaro is the first of the two head coaches to be hired and will take on the task of building the Monarchs from the ground up.
"We are thrilled to welcome Stephen Mallaro as the very first men's head ice hockey coach at King's College," Ish stated. "Stephen came across as a great fit for King's the moment he stepped on our campus and that sentiment just grew throughout the entire interview process. His commitment to the Division III philosophy, combined with his experience and a very competitive spirit, resonated with the search committee. I am confident that Stephen will do an outstanding job with our men's ice hockey program. He will have a busy year ahead in recruiting our first team of student-athletes, but I know he will represent King's in a first-class manner. We feel confident he is the person with the vision and work-ethic to build our program from square-one. With Stephen leading the program, we are all excited about this new chapter in King's College Athletics. We really feel we found an outstanding young coach in Stephen Mallaro and are thrilled he will become a part of the King's Community."
Mallaro comes to King's after spending the last two years as the assistant coach at NCAA Division III member Brockport State University, Brockport, NY. Mallaro, who coached the Golden Eagles special teams and defense, helped Brockport to a combined 24-23-6 mark and two straight years of for qualifying post-season tournament play in the nationally-respected State University of New York Athletic Conference (SUNYAC).
Now, at 29 years of age, Mallaro will have the rare challenge of building a collegiate ice hockey program from the ground up. Revolution Ice Center in nearby Pittston will serve as King's primary venue for practice and games.
"It's a dream come true," Mallaro said of being named King's first head coach. "To be able to start your own program and put your stamp on something is very special. I know the coaching business is not an easy mountain to climb, but with the support of good people, good things will happen. King's College is a very unique place. The campus is a very tight-knit community where you feel at home and everyone knows one another. The athletic department is fully supportive of the new ice hockey program and everyone I had contact with is excited to bring hockey to King's. I was very impressed with the people that I met on my visit and the values that they help bring to King's. I was able to interact with a number of administrators and coaches that are proud to be a part of the King's College family and that has me excited about joining their family. I would also like to thank Cheryl (Ish) and the search committee for putting their faith in me and giving me this tremendous opportunity."
As a collegiate player, Mallaro enjoyed a distinguished career as a four-year letterman and two-year starter at nationally-recognized Oswego State.
As a junior in 2009-10, he was a starting defenseman for the Lakers, who finished 26-3 overall and 15-1 in the SUNYAC, while winning the conference championship. Oswego earned an automatic berth into the NCAA Division III National Tournament and advanced to the Frozen Four where the Lakers fell to St. Norberts 4-3. Mallaro was the top-scoring defender for the Lakers that season, registering 17 points on seven goals and 10 assists.
As a senior team captain in 2010-11, Mallaro helped lead Oswego to a 23-5 record while again going 15-1 in the SUNYAC. After being upset in the SUNYAC Tournament semi-finals, Oswego received an NCAA national tournament at-large bid and once again advanced to the national semi-final round, dropping a 5-3 decision to Adrian College of Michigan. Mallaro again topped all Laker defensemen with 19 points on four goals and 15 assists.
Over the course of his four-year career at Oswego, Mallaro played in 68 games and totaled 38 points on 11 goals and 27 assists. He was a first-team All-SUNYAC selection in 2010, then was named second-team all-conference as a senior in 2011.
After graduating from Oswego, Mallaro enjoyed a brief professional playing career. He played in the ECHL with the Elmira Jackals, the Trenton Titans, and finished the 2011-12 season as a member of the Gwinnett Gladiators, helping the team to a first-place finish in the Southern Division of the ECHL and a second place finish in the Eastern Conference. He also had a 10-day stint with the Syracuse Crunch of the American Hockey League (AHL).
Mallaro then began his coaching career as a two-year graduate assistant coach at Manhattanville College, earning his Master's degree in Sports Management in 2014, before joining the staff at Brockport State. At Manhattanville, he coached ECAC West "Co-Defensive Player of the Year" Anton Racklin, who went on to earn third-team Division III All-American honors in 2014.
As a first time head coach at a brand new program, Mallaro is well aware of the many responsibilities that will be necessitated by not only developing a program, but recruiting the right student-athletes who will become part of building a tradition at King's.
"I will be looking for student-athletes who will be the right fit for King's," Mallaro noted. "As a coach you never sacrifice character and we will know exactly what we are looking for. We want to recruit elite people who are highly-competitive and want to be a part of the King's College culture. Academically, we will look for good students who will excel in the classroom and be good role models representing King's. Coaching is all about the process of developing people and we want quality student-athletes that want to be a part of the journey. It is important to create an identity for the program and to familiarize the hockey world with the King's College brand. I also am looking forward to meeting other coaches and staff members at King's and building a professional relationship with them."
Mallaro was practically born on the ice as he began skating at age three and first played competitive hockey at four years old. After continuing through the youth ranks he played three years of ice hockey at West Genesee High School in Syracuse, NY. before moving on to play at Northwood Prep in Lake Placid, N.Y. from 2004-06. He then spent a year playing junior hockey with the Nepean Raiders in Nepean, Ontario before moving on to his collegiate career at Oswego State in 2007-08. For Mallaro, each step along the way helped shape him for his first head coaching job.
"I have to thank my family for all the support they have given me over the years, Mallaro concluded. "I know it wasn't easy on my brother and sisters all the times my parents would be taking me to hockey games all over the country. I especially have to thank my mother for all the love and support she has given me throughout, not only during my playing days, but also my entire coaching career. To my dad, he always believed in me. I would also like to thank Frank Colabufo and Scott McDonald, my high school hockey coaches at West Genesee, for the development and encouragement to continue to get better every day. Thanks also go out to close friend and mentor David McNab, the Vice President of Hockey Operations of the Anaheim Ducks, for believing in my character, and to Mark Morris, my coach at Northwood who is now the head coach at St. Lawrence University, for influencing my style of coaching and passion for the game. I also want to thank Oswego State head coach Ed Gosek for recruiting me and giving me the opportunity to play college hockey, as well as Coach Arlen Marshall at Manhattanville and Coach Brian Dickinson at Brockport for providing me with coaching opportunities that led to this moment. Manhattanville director of athletics Keith Levinthal was also another person who did a great deal to help me. To all the people who have helped my coaching career move in the right direction and continue to encourage and support me, thank you. There are so many people that have been such a positive influence on my career and I am grateful for everything they have done for me."
When ice hockey officially begins play, King's will field one of only four NCAA Division III men's and women's programs in the entire state of Pennsylvania. King's will join Neumann University, located in Aston in the Philadelphia area, Lebanon Valley College in Annville, and Chatham University in Pittsburgh as NCAA Division III varsity ice hockey members. Chatham has had a women's program since 1996 but will be adding men's ice hockey in 2017-18.
"With the popularity of our own Wilkes-Barre/Scranton Penguins and the influx of local high school programs, we at King's are thrilled to be part of the growth of ice hockey in Northeastern Pennsylvania," Ish concluded. "Being the first local college to field a varsity ice hockey program is exciting and there has definitely been a buzz since we announced we were adding the sport back in February. We look forward to starting this new chapter in King's College history."
According to the NCAA, during the 2015-16 season a total of 76 men's varsity programs competed in Division III while 58 women's varsity programs also took to the ice.
King's conference affiliation for both men and women's teams have yet to be finalized.