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Press TV, November 28, 2009
Afghan teenagers claim abuse at a US prison
The two Afghans said they were beaten by American guards, photographed naked and deprived of sleep during their detention at Bagram airbase.
Two Afghan teenagers held in a prison in northern Kabul say they have been abused by US forces in Afghanistan, The Washington Post has reported.
While US President Barack Obama had promised to put an end to the harsh interrogation methods authorized before by the Bush administration, it is claimed that the practices are continuing at certain US-run prisons.
In an article published on Friday, the newspaper said the Afghan teens had been held in solitary confinement in concrete cells for at least two weeks while undergoing daily interrogation about their alleged links to the Taliban.
According to the article, the two teenagers, Issa Mohammad, 17, and Abdul Rashid, (who claimed to be under the age of 16), said they were punched and slapped in the face by American guards during their incarceration.
Obama had promised to put an end to the harsh interrogation methods previously authorized by the Bush administration.
The facility described by the two Afghans appears to be a holding center run by US Special Operations forces on a different part of the Bagram base, the main American-run prison, the paper noted.
Defense Department spokesman Lt. Col. Mark Wright said all prisoners in Afghanistan are treated "humanely" and in accordance with the Geneva Conventions and US law.
"Department of Defense policy is and always has been to treat detainees humanely. There have been well-documented instances in which that policy was not followed, and service members have been held accountable for their actions in those cases," he said.
Jonathan Horowitz, who works on detention issues in Afghanistan for the Open Society Institute, said: "These allegations of physical and mental abuse at a secretive facility are, if true, patently unacceptable and must be investigated."
The Washington Post says there have been different reports about the existence of an interrogation facility at Bagram run by Special Operations forces, but little has been revealed about living conditions or interrogation methods there. The International Committee of the Red Cross has been demanding access to the facility and to the detainees there but thus far, its requests have not been granted.
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Marvel's Inhumans Video: What's the Key to Medusa's 'Hair Acting'? And Will the Cast Ever See a Full Episode?
By Matt Webb Mitovich / July 21 2017, 10:50 AM PDT
The cast of Marvel's Inhumans has completed filming the ABC drama's entire eight-episode freshman run. So, surely by now they as "insiders" have laid eyes on at least one full episode… right?
Exclusive Comic-Con Portraits From Favorite Shows
Graceland alum Serinda Swan, who plays Royal Family matriarch Medusa, and the rest of the ensemble insisted no, they in fact have not, during their visit to TVLine's Comic-Con interview suite. As such, Swan has yet to truly see her character's sentient hair in action, outside of the tease in the new trailer that debuted at Comic-Con this week.
Speaking with Michael Ausiello in the video Q&A above, Swan offers insight into the "bizarre skill set" of acting as if your hair can, say, reach out and kill a person. The cast at large then talks about braving new frontiers of CGI, acting opposite an invisible Lockjaw and such.
Having wrapped production, can the actors confirm if the eight-episode run ends on a cliffhanger? Plus, what did Game of Thrones alum Iwan Rheon think of the fantasy series' record-breaking Season 7 premiere? Press play above for all that and more.
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Q: Angular + Typescript: Accept Text Only If Value Inserted is Part of DataList Apologies if this has been answered before, I was unable to find solution specific to my problem hence approaching you all genius minds. So coming right to the problem, this is what I'm facing,
So I have a list that holds approx 2000+ data entries, I am able to display it in a drop down without any problem but I want to provide the user with the option to type to narrowdown the list for the user to easily select from the list. What I've implemented, I've put it in an example on StackBlitz
What I'm trying to achieve is that user can insert text to narrowdown the drop down list (as currently working in the Code), but if user insert a value that is not in the list, it gives an error. This error could be anything from Highlighting the Text field RED, or Disabling the SUBMIT button with an error stating invalid input etc etc ...
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Five ways the Blue Jays lost the ALCS
Dissecting the reasons behind the Blue Jays six-game series defeat to the Kansas City Royals
By Brendan KennedySports reporter
Sat., Oct. 24, 2015timer4 min. read
KANSAS CITY—They didn't go quietly, but the Jays came up short in just about every facet of the game to the Kansas City Royals, who have now won back-to-back American League championships. Here's a closer look at the key reasons why the Jays lost.
BLOWING GAME 2
If you're David Price and the Jays, this is the game you most want back. Price cruised through his first six innings, retiring 18 consecutive batters after a leadoff single, en route to what was looking like one of the greatest post-season starts in Jays history. Then Ben Zobrist led off the seventh with a pop-up into shallow right field. Ryan Goins looked like he had a bead on it, but at the last minute gave way and the ball landed between him and Jose Bautista. Goins said later he thought he heard an "I got it" — perhaps from the deafening crowd at Kauffman. It was harmless enough when it happened — one misplay, just a single loose thread. But the Royals, prone to lightning-quick rallies, started tugging and five batters later everything had unraveled for the Jays. Single, single, RBI groundout, single, double and a three-run lead evaporated.
ROYALS HIT, JAYS DIDN'T
The Jays had their chances in the series — more than the Royals, in fact — but they didn't capitalize as often as K.C. The Jays hit just .190 with runners in scoring position, more than 80 points lower than their league-best mark in the regular season. The Royals, meanwhile, hit .417 with runners at second or third in nine fewer chances. "When the Royals are right," Kansas City Star columnist Sam Mellinger wrote earlier in the series, "they are more buckshot than bombs, winning the fight like a pack of dogs rather than one lion." The Royals have taken to describing their penchant for rallies as "frenzy hitting" as they string together singles with an assembly-line offence. But not only did the Royals outhit the Jays, they also out-homered them seven to five.
K.C. BULLPEN ROCKS
The seeds of this disadvantage were sown in the Jays' division series against Texas, when Brett Cecil suffered a torn calf muscle while nabbing Mike Napoli in a rundown. That left the Jays without their top lefty, their best setup man and arguably their best overall reliever, who hadn't allowed a single earned run in nearly four months. The Royals also lost closer Greg Holland to Tommy John surgery in September. But even without Holland their bullpen is one of the best. Their relievers allowed just seven earned runs in the series, and Bautista's Game 6 homer off Ryan Madson was the only time their bullpen gave up a run in a win. The homer was also the only runs allowed in the series by the Royals' fearsome, high-leverage relief quartet of Wade Davis, Madson, Kelvin Herrera and Luke Hochevar. The Jays bullpen, by contrast, allowed 17 earned runs in the series.
HOME-FIELD ADVANTAGE
Criticism of John Gibbons' decision to rest his starters for two games after they had clinched the division will begin anew now that the Royals have capitalized on the home-field edge they earned by finishing atop the American League. The Jays tied for the best home record in the AL this season and were clearly more comfortable at the Rogers Centre than they were at Kauffman. It should be noted that if the weather in Baltimore at the end of the season hadn't conspired to squeeze three games into one 24-hour period, Gibbons likely would have rested his starters for just one game not two, and there is no guarantee the Jays would have won the games their starters sat. But that certainly won't stop the second-guessing, particularly since the Jays finished just two games behind the Royals.
The 30-year-old lefty did everything asked of him and more in his first two months as a Blue Jay. He won nine of 11 starts, including pivotal victories over the New York Yankees that helped propel the Jays to their first division title in 22 years. They wouldn't have made it as far as they did without him. But Price will be remembered most for his underachieving post-season performance, although he kept Toronto in Game 6 after a shaky start. Perhaps the Jays messed with his routine by pitching him out of the bullpen in the division series and warming him up in the league championship. But when it comes down to it, he just didn't pitch well enough in the playoffs when they needed him most. In addition to costing the Jays a chance at a World Series berth, his playoff starts might have cost him millions of dollars as he enters free agency this off-season.


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Prince Charming isn't coming
Ashley Milne-Tyte Jan 25, 2008
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Tess Vigeland: So, all you ladies out there: you know, don't you, that we live longer than men and that means we need our money to go further.
Supposedly, we have more wealth and power than ever before, but all kinds of surveys say we're not that confident about keeping it. Last year, the insurance firm Allianz found that 90 percent of us feel only somewhat, or not at all, financially secure.
Some even reported they found the topic of finances so overwhelming, they were holding out for a guy to come along and take charge.
Don't do that! Ashley Milne-Tyte reports on women and money in 2008.
Ashley Milne-Tyte: Barbara Stanny didn't think much about money growing up. She didn't have to: there was always plenty of it.
Her father was one of the founders of H&R Block, but he didn't pass his accounting expertise on to his daughter:
Barbara Stanny: The only advice he ever gave me about money was "Don't worry," because under that was the unspoken assumption there would always be a man to take care of me. My father did not believe that women should make or manage money and that was fine with me, because I just wanted to spend it.
Her blissful ignorance was shattered when her husband burned through much of her inheritance gambling on the stock market. Stanny says her lack of knowledge made her terrified of money.
But she took the aftermath of that disaster and her divorce as an excuse to wise up. She's the author of the book "Prince Charming Isn't Coming: How Women Get Smart About Money."
You might think that sounds a little patronizing. Surely, younger women today don't expect some man to turn up and take care of things. Then again…
In this scene from HBO's "Sex in the City," the character Charlotte claims women just want to be rescued:
Charlotte: I'm sorry, but it's true. I've been dating since I was 15. I'm exhausted. Where is he?
Miranda: Who? The white knight?
Samantha: That only happens in fairy tales.
Charlotte: My hair hurts.
Barbara Stanny says that dream of a white knight is a part of women's collective unconscious. After all, for centuries, men have been the breadwinners, women their dependants.
But both she and others are quick to point out that women's brains are perfectly equipped to understand finances. Stacy Francis is a financial advisor in New York:
Stacy Francis: We're not lacking a money gene at all. What we're really lacking are the tools to understand what we need to be doing with our money.
In other words: some financial education. She says even today, parents are more likely to talk to their sons about money than their daughters — if they discuss money with their kids at all.
In a 2004 study, Northwestern Mutual found Generation Y was pretty clueless about finances. Around 70 percent of girls said they were not very knowledgeable or not at all knowledgeable about money management; that's compared to just 50 percent of guys.
Graduate student Mary Godfrey is a different story. Her financial education started with the opening of a savings account when she was little and continued when she was a teenager:
Mary Godfrey: My mother would do things like go over credit card statements and point out things like, you know, these are the sorts of things that you want to look for in the fine print, this is how you want to pay off your credit card, this is how I do it to make sure I'm not accruing a lot of debt or interest…
She took that advice to heart. Today, at 30, Godfrey is a careful spender. Her credit card balance is zero. She's confident that she'll always be on top of her finances.
But what if you're not that together? Maybe you've been thinking about getting some advice.
Author Barbara Stanny says the male-dominated financial services industry doesn't know how to woo women:
Stanny: Everything they're doing to motivate us is by trying to scare us with all these horrible statistics: seven out of 10 women will never retire because they can't afford to. What this does, generally speaking, to women, it scares us, it depresses us, it paralyzes us.
Financial advisor Stacy Francis agrees and she says her fellow professionals should forget about offering too much advice too soon:
Francis: The biggest thing I do is shut my mouth. I listen and listen and ask questions. What's keeping you up at night? If you had the ideal life, what would that look like?
Then she works out how much they need to save and invest to get there.
To many, of course, the ideal life includes marriage. Mary Godfrey says her mother is proud of the financially-independent daughter she's raised…
Godfrey: …but I do think that somewhere in the back of her mind — and it goes unsaid — that she would like to see me with a man. She would like to see me settled and "happy."
Because, she says, no matter how successful a woman may be in her career, how much money she makes and how well she handles it, society still hopes her prince will come.
I'm Ashley Milne-Tyte for Marketplace Money.
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Trump administration quickly OKs first Arctic drilling plan
By Karen Graham Jul 14, 2017 in Environment
Eni S.p.A., an Italian multinational oil, and gas company has received federal approval to drill for oil in federal waters offshore Alaska, as President Trump makes good on his promise to make America energy independent.
The last time any drilling was done was in 2015 when Royal Dutch Shell ended its exploratory drilling in the Chukchi Sea after the ship they were leasing suffered a gash in the mostly uncharted waters and environmentalists discovered an existing law that limited the company's ability to drill, according to Reuters.
Eni has been holding leases for drilling in the Beaufort Sea off the coast of Alaska for about 10 years, and even though they have been given approval by the Bureau of Ocean Energy Management (BOEM), the approval is contingent on the company getting other state and federal permits.
Eni has been exploring Alaska's North Slope since 2006 and already holds 75 leases in federal waters off the Beaufort and Chukchi Seas. Now that Eni has been given approval, they will join other gas and oil companies, including Caelus, Hilcorp, and BP who are already drilling off artificial islands in the Beaufort Sea.
"We know there are vast oil and gas resources under the Beaufort Sea, and we look forward to working with Eni in their efforts to tap into this energy potential," said BOEM's Acting Director Walter Cruickshank.
Map of Alaska showing Chukchi Sea and Beaufort Sea.
Basically, this is all part of Trump's plan, initiated in April when he signed his so-called America-First Offshore Energy Strategy executive order that extended offshore oil and gas drilling to other areas of the Arctic that had previously been off limits.
Eni's plan is to drill four exploratory wells in the Beaufort Sea from an artificial island using what's called extended wells, over six miles long before the end of December, when the leases expire.
The whole process was done very quickly
It appears that the approval process was rushed through very quickly by the BOEM and environmental groups picked up on that just as quickly. The public was only given 21 days to comment on the exploration plan and only 10 days to comment on the possible environmental impacts.
Kristen Monsell, an attorney with the Center for Biological Diversity, said the time allowed was insufficient, given the potential risks involved. "An oil spill here would do incredible damage, and it'd be impossible to clean up," Monsell said. "The Trump administration clearly cares only about appeasing oil companies, no matter its legal obligations or the threats to polar bears or our planet."
Northstar Island, an artificial island in the Beaufort Sea north of Alaska, is a site of oil and gas drilling.
Joint Pipeline Office
Could it be that the approval process was speed-up because the drilling will take place from Spy Island, an existing gravel island in state waters, located just three miles off the coast of Alaska? And here's the real kicker - The extended reach wells, the longest in Alaska will stretch for six miles horizontally in water that's only six-feet deep.
Monsell also noted that the BOEM's approval of the exploratory drilling at the "11th hour" before their lease was to run out "makes a dangerous project even riskier."
Last month, reports Inside Climate News, 12 other environmental programs, including Earthjustice, Greenpeace, WWF and the Sierra Club sent in comments to BOEM about Eni's proposed drilling plan, explaining that the company had not adequately addressed the extent of environmental harm the project could pose, the likelihood of an oil spill, or how Eni would respond to a large oil spill.
"Eni simply has failed to submit a complete, adequate Exploration Plan and environmental impact analysis, and, accordingly BOEM should rescind its completeness determination and reject Eni's Exploration Plan," the groups wrote. What kills me is that the BOEM said that drilling would have "no significant impact."
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All Information (Except Text) for H.R.5734 - Right of Return Act113th Congress (2013-2014)
Rep. Stockman, Steve [R-TX-36] (Introduced 11/18/2014)
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To achieve a lasting peace in the Middle East and improve the economic situation for its people.
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Right of Return Act - Requires the following courses of action:
the Secretary of State shall call for Israel to increase the standard of living of those living in Judea, Samaria, and Gaza by extending its sovereignty over those territories, and for the Palestinian Arab residents currently residing in those areas to be granted citizenship in the countries that controlled them from 1949 to 1967 and have a right of return to those countries;
no funds appropriated by Congress may be obligated or expended to provide any U.S. assistance, loan guarantee, or debt relief to the Palestinian Authority (PA) as long as part of the PA unity government refuses to allow such right of return;
the Secretary shall ensure that refugees are allowed to return to their host countries in accordance with United Nations High Commission for Refugees (UNHCR) regulations; and
all U.S. assistance, loan guarantee, and debt relief that currently go to the United Nations Relief and Works Agency for Palestinian Refugees in the Near East (UNRWA) shall instead be used to assist those who exercise their right of return.
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Yesterday that Overwatch League's new teams and logos were leaked. Among the seven logos, the strangest one was Hangzhou Spark as it had a picture of a pointing finger with electricity around it.
As it turns out, it is likely a reference to the anime protagonist Mikoto Mikasa from the anime A Certain Scientific Railgun. The company behind the Hangzhou Franchise are fans of the anime. For those who are unaware, the owner of the company originally created a site called Mikufans.cn. In 2010 he then renamed the site Bilibili after the nickname of Mikoto Mikasa.
When the company got the slot, they held a vote on their site to decide what the name of the team was to be called with choices like Railgun and Spark being direct references to the anime.
The Overwatch League looks to getting a whole lot more anime.


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Take Kids Fishing Day – June 1 – Madison Teachers Inc.
The Building and Construction Trades Council of South Central Wisconsin is holding its 4th annual Take Kids Fishing Day on June 1st at Vilas Park in Madison from 9:00 to 11:30am. This is a FREE event and open to the first 150 kids who register. Each kid who registers gets a FREE fishing pole! A picnic style lunch will follow.
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Back in the days when the Beatles began on their path, could those young men from Liverpool ever have anticipated such fame and success? Their songs rocked both sides of the Atlantic and attracted millions of fans - and, in particular, a lot of young women, who believed that they were absolute stars.
Some fangirls were lucky enough to meet their favourite musicians, and some even managed to bind their lives to the guys from Liverpool — some for months, some for decades, and some for life.
What could be more intense and rugged than a rally in the heart of the desert? The thrill is even greater if we are talking about a truck race at the famous Dakar 2019 rally that is being held in Senegal this month.
Some flash mobs have brief lifespans, while others continue to grow more and more popular with each day and each year. No Pants Subway Ride, also known as No Trousers on the Tube Ride, is one that has managed to transform into a real tradition.
This year, The Elvis Express and Blue Suede Express trains were been packed with impersonators of the king of rock-and-roll, Elvis Presley, who set on a journey on Thursday morning to the annual Parkes Elvis festival, 365km away from Sydney.


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Bernie Wrightson · Heads Up!
Heads Up: FRANKENSTEIN ALIVE, ALIVE! by Niles and Wrightson
20 June 2011 20 April 2019 RC
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UPDATE (06 March 2012):
Here's the latest information, from IDW's publishing solicitations for May 2012:
Few works by comic-book artists have earned the universal acclaim and reverence that Bernie Wrightson's illustrated version of Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley's Frankenstein was met with upon its original release in 1983.
Nearly 30 years later, Wrightson returns to his passion project with a comic series that picks up at the end of the classic novel, hailed as one of the greatest horror stories of all time. Frequent Wrightson collaborator Steve Niles provides the script for this epic, decades in the making.
While appearing to be in black and white, each page was scanned in color to mimic as closely as possible the experience of viewing the actual original art, showing off the exquisitely detailed brush work of one of the greatest living artists in comics today.
Each issue will also include supplemental materials, including interviews, essays and a serialization of the original prose story by Shelley.
B&W • 32 pages • $3.99
With very few exceptions, I simply don't buy comics any more; however, I have a suspicion that this series will eventually be published as a hardcover companion to the Dark Horse edition of Mary Shelley's Frankenstein, illustrated by Bernie Wrightson, when it's done. But if not, I guess I'll just have to do without it.
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Dave Ryan says:
The four-issue series came out very sporadically, due to Wrightson's declining health (he died of brain cancer in March 2017). Wrightson did all of the first 3 issues. The 4th he did layouts and pencils, and the issue was completed by Wrightson's own choice, Kelley Jones. A collected hardcover came out in December 2018, in a 9″ X 12″ oversize format, and for the 4th issue, in addition to the story, it has 20 pages of Wrightson pencils in the end section after the story, so you can see very clearly where Wrightson ends and Kelley Jones begins.
It's a nice complementary volume to the CREEPY PRESENTS BERNIE WRIGHTSON hardcover (especially compared to "The Muck Monster"), Wrightson's illustrated version of Shelley's original FRANKENSTEIN novel, and his work in BERNI WRIGHTSON: A LOOK BACK, and THE STUDIO books.
Amazing to receive an informative comment on a post from eight years ago! I did notice the publication of the collected Niles/Wrightson/Jones series, but couldn't be bothered to mark the occasion with an update or new post here at RCN. Apologies to everyone who follows this site for my relative silence, but a long time ago, a certain relentlessly irritating comics "professional" sucked all the fun out of blogging for me. Also, back in 2017, I injured my arm through overuse and have had drastically to reduce the amount of typing that I do. Anyway, I'm pleased that my prediction finally came to pass and that Wrightson's final Frankenstein-related project has been given a lavish presentation worthy of the man.


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Fight Night: Sat, May 21, 2016 - The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas Fight Night: Sat, May 21, 2016 - The Cosmopolitan, Las Vegas
Lara vs Martirosyan
Charlo vs Trout
Charlo vs Jackson
Lara wins by UD
Erislandy Lara used his superior boxing skills to defeat Vanes Martirosyan by unanimous decision and hold onto his 154-pound crown.
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–Vanes Martirosyan's body blows and straight right hands were the more telling shots in the first round against southpaw Erislandy Lara. The challenger took three of the first four rounds by continuing to work the body—including scoring double-lefts to the liver—and connecting upstairs with a sold right hook to the jaw in Round 4.
–Despite a rising hematoma on his forehead resulting from a clash of heads, Lara cleanly landed straight and lead lefts in a slower-paced fifth and sixth while continuing to absorb shots to the midsection.
–Lara's movement and head-rocking lead, counter and straight lefts helped him secure the eighth and ninth rounds. The Cuban also benefitted from a questionable 11th-round low blow that led referee Vic Drakulich to deduct a point from the frustrated Martirosyan.
Neither Erislandy Lara nor with Vanes Martirosyan were satisfied with the result of their first fight in November 2012, a foul-filled match that ended in a ninth-round technical draw after an accidental headbutt caused a deep cut under Martirosyan's left eye.
Erislandy Lara unleashes a left hand to the head of Vanes Martirosyan on Saturday. Lara needed all 12 rounds to win a rematch that was 3½ years in the making. (Stephanie Trap/Mayweather Promotions)
Their rematch wasn't any cleaner, but at least this time, the fight had a more natural conclusion—and a clear-cut winner.
Lara (23-2-2, 13 KOs) overcame a slow start and a nasty welt on his forehead, using his superior boxing skills and defense to retain his 154-pound title with a unanimous decision over Martirosyan (36-3-1, 21 KOs).
The scores were 115-112 and 116-111 twice.
Martirosyan's early body attack—including stinging double-lefts to the liver—won him three of the first four rounds. But then Lara came on strong, using lead, straight and counter left hands to gain distance against the challenger.
As was the case in the first fight, there were numerous head clashes throughout the contest, one of which led to the nasty hematoma on Lara's head. The 33-year-old southpaw also was on the receiving end of a couple of low blows as ruled by referee Vic Drakulich.
Although the second ruled low blow appeared to be right on Lara's belt line, Drakulich deducted a point from Martirosyan. The penalty clearly frustrated Martirosyan, who was so put off by Lara's frequent backpedaling that he mocked the champion by pretending to run in the 12th round.
In successfully defending his title for a fifth time, Lara outlanded Martirosyan,162-94 overall, with a 99-78 advantage in power shots. While Lara improved to 6-1 in his last seven fights, the 30-year-old Martirosyan fell to 4-3 since his first meeting with Lara.
May 15, 2017 / History, Lara vs Martirosyan, Charlo vs Trout, Charlo vs Jackson, Jermall Charlo, Jermell Charlo
This Week in Boxing History: May 15-21
This week in boxing history, PBC looks back at a pair of heavyweight legends defending their crowns, two pulse-raising bouts that were named Fight of the Year and a history-making night in the 154-pound division.
May 22, 2016 / Lara vs Martirosyan, Erislandy Lara, Vanes Martirosyan
Lara takes care of business in foul-filled rematch against Martirosyan
Lara, Martirosyan predict an early and emphatic finish to long-awaited rematch
The last time Erislandy Lara and Vanes Martirosyan shared a boxing ring, opinions were evenly split as to who won the highly competitive yet prematurely stopped fight at Wynn Resort in Las Vegas.


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For those who have been coming to Perth Upmarket for a number of years there is no way you will have made your way around the market without stopping at the TURNER + TURNER stall.
Their eye catching limited edition homeware timber designs simply stop you in your tracks with awe and wonder filling your senses. With an aesthetic that focuses on modern clean, simple lines their pieces truly enhance the natural beauty of Western Australian timber.
We caught up with Neil and Suellen to find out a little more about the creative team behind the TURNER +TURNER brand and find out what inspires their breathtaking work.
So who exactly are TURNER + TURNER ?
TURNER + TURNER is a collaboration between Neil and Suellen Turner which grew from their shared desire to craft functional products with minimalistic design principles.
Neil a timber craftsman for over 40 years now is internationally recognised for his fine timber sculptures and furniture. Suellen helps Neil craft, is chief photographer, social media and marketing guru.
Neil and Suellen are passionate that each piece in their range tell a story and showcase the unique features of the natural materials they use and most importantly designed to be enjoyed on a daily basis.
Can you tell our Perth Upmarket customers why you chose homewares?
We all remember our nana's breadboard or spoon she used and loved. Marks and stains showing years of continual use.
Memories, that's what we want to give to our customers, memories they can pass onto their children and grandchildren. Memories of wonderful kitchen smells, that cake straight out of the oven, the warm crusty bread from the oven, steaming when cut on the board with years of knife marks.
We want our products to be handed down for generations, used and loved, worn and marked full of lifetime memories! Not thrown away like plastic is. Our aim is to produce modern functional objects with clean lines, which customers can use for a lifetime then pass on.
What inspires you both to create?
Central to our creation process is allowing the material to inform the final product, whether it is the shape and grain of the timber.
Every piece reflects our careful consideration of shape, material, functionality and beauty.
Do you have a favourite piece and what is it?
Each new piece that is made!
I wish I could keep everything that is made as I love them all (Suellen). But I would have to say our natural edge bowls.
Neil has been turning them for over 40 years so he's pretty damn good at getting them right. The technique with these is to have points on the top that your eye can join the dots, so to speak. Your eye is always looking for the top to be level and Neil orientates the burl so as to achieve this. And he turns them super thin.
When you pick up a natural edge bowl turned by him they are as light as a feather unlike the original burl. Oh and the grain of these natural edge burl bowls is divine.
Each different and spectacular telling its own story!
For those Perth Upmarket customers not familiar with TURNER + TURNER tell us a little about the range – is there something for everyone?
Our timber product range includes chopping and serving boards, spoons and spatulas, bowls and stools, cheese knives, plates and cake stands, to name a few.
What can Perth Upmarket customers expect from you at our next market?
We are very excited to be launching a new Black Range, at the November Upmarket.
Now this may sound strange when we have beautiful grain timbers here in Western Australia. But Jarrah ebonizes very well (natural process of using timbers natural tannin to turn it black using steel wool steeped in vinegar) and having a hint of black in the kitchen is very fashionable.
Everything you see in the Turner + Turner range will be available in black from bowls to spoons, boards to cheese knives, even a rolling pin.
As always Perth Upmarket customers can expect ethically sourced timber as we source from carefully selected merchants with a sustainable approach.
Quite simply, no timber is worked unless its origin is known. This ensures an ethically sound supply chain – and means everyone from forester to finisher cares enough to know where each piece once had its roots. Information we proudly passed on to every customer, with every product we make.
To find out more about TURNER + TURNER click here to pop over to their website.


The blog has reached half a million hits! The first post was Pasta with courgettes and saffron butter on November the 3rd 2007. Now I'm averaging about 750 hits a day. Still very small, but I'm happy with that.
Thank you all for your support. I wonder how long it will take to reach one million.


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Victory Team begins historic 'new era' in Dubai Grand Prix
Victory Team to enter two boats at the UIM F1H2O World Championship. (Supplied)
Published Monday, February 29, 2016
The Victory Team based in Dubai in the UAE has for over two decades been a world leader in the sport of professional international offshore powerboat racing.
Now it's their first full year in another challenge, F1H2O racing.
In the spring of 2015 the Victory Team turned a new page in their racing history book, deciding to tackle the world's toughest circuit racing series electing to field a pair of boats in the 32-year-old UIM F1H2O World Championship.
Starting a new challenge in any professional racing circuit is never easy, especially when you are mixing new personnel, boats and ideas while starting out against the world's best drivers and crews.
Hastily putting together a new group of personnel, together with a well-used racing boat, they went out and hired one of the most dynamic young drivers in the world in American Shaun Torrente.
The Florida driver was leading the championship after winning the first race of the year in Doha.
He was able to join the team after his organisation disbanded, leaving the Miami driver available for hire.
Torrente was able to produce three top five finishes including a podium result at the last round of the season, helping the team to an eighth place in the Team Championship with 33 points.
He finished third in the drivers' standings, all this, considering they were at full speed developing their own racing boat from scratch while 2015 rolled on.
Now, as the 2016 campaign officially 'kicks off' on their home waters for the very first time, next to the Le Meridien – Mina Seyahi and the iconic Palm Jumeirah on March 2, for the inaugural Grand Prix of Dubai the Victory Team wants to prove they not only belong, but they will also develop into a giant in the sport of F1H2O as well.
"We didn't decide last season to be just another team in this great international series," said Torrente. "We were, then and now, jumping into this project feet first and plan on making this a new 'era' for the organization and for the history of the sport.
"The Victory Team has been synonymous with winning ever since it took up the challenge years ago in offshore racing. Now, we are once again going flat out producing new boats, equipment and futuristic ideas that I feel will make everyone excited that we are here pushing the limits of the sport and we have a future in F1H2O racing for years to come."
With Torrente is offshore legend Nadir Bin Hendi. The driver from Dubai scored a remarkable 30 victories in his 68 race starts on the Class 1 Championship tour including four wins in Dubai.
The 46-year-old driver is developing into a fast learner. Since joining the series at last years' third round in Porto, Portugal, he earned his first points of the year in Sharjah at the final round of 2015 with a ninth place finish and has progressed even more with impressive test times over the winter in preparations for a new season.
Since the final chequered flag on the Khalid Lagoon in mid-December the Victory organization has built a pair of brand new 'Victory' boats. They will once again be coloured in their historic dark blue with yellow trim on the bottom of the boat.
The team will also introduce their new boat numbers for the 2016 season, Bin Hendi carrying the number three with Torrente the number four, a "good luck" number that he's done well with in his racing career including numerous national and international titles wearing it on the side of his hull.
So, as the Dubai International Marine Club (DIMC) begins the start of a multi-year agreement to bring the world's most exciting series on water to the spectacular location of the rapidly developing waterfront, near the iconic Palm Jumeirah, the Victory Team looks forward to embarking on their first full season in F1H2O.
They are hoping their non-stop continuous hard work pays off for them, hopefully becoming a world power in the sport as well.