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Who Won 2022 Emmys? Where Are they Held, When Is It? Where Can I Watch It? Explore The List of Its Winners!
All interested persons can read this blog on Who Won 2022 Emmys to find out the winners list of this year's event.
All the fans eagerly wait for the Emmys Award every year. Are you waiting inquisitively for this year's Emmy Awards? Do you want to find out the winner's list? Well, it is quite evident that most of the citizens of Canada, the United Kingdom and the United States have already watched the show. But for those who missed out here, you can know all the relatable details of the lately broadcasted award show.
So, to find out the details on Who Won 2022 Emmys, keep reading until the final wrap.
Details on the Award Show
Where Are the Emmys Held 2022?
Where Can I Watch the Emmys?
List of Emmy Winners 2022
The Final Closure
This year it was the 74th Primetime Emmy Awards which is held annually. This award show honors America's best and most extraordinary Primetime TV Shows. The team of ATAS (Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) selected the winner based on performance between June 1, 2021, to May 31, 2022. The announcement of the nominees for this event was made on 112th July 2022. Also, many people are keen to know When Is the Emmys 2022 event will be organized?
This year the 74th Primetime Emmy took place on September 12, 2022 (Monday). The Done and Dusted and the team of Hudlin produced the entire event. The announcement for organizing an event on September 12, 2022, was made back by the ATAS team (Academy of Television Arts and Sciences) in April 2022. The event preceded a Creative Arts ceremony on the 3rd and 4th of September 2022. Kenan Thompson hosted the ceremony, and the announcement was made on August 9, 2022.
Almost after two years, the event took place at the Microsoft Theater, located in Downtown Los Angeles, California. However, due to Covid-19, the organizers paused the whole event for a while. Before Kenan Thompson agreed to host the show, they previously approached Dwayne and Chris Rock to host the show, but they didn't settle for the same. Finally, on July 12, 2022, the list of nominees was announced. Several great prime shows are on the list, such as Succession, Ted Lasso, The White Lotus, etc.
The most awaited event was aired live on NBC and streamed on the peacock streaming service at 8 p.m. ET, and keen persons can watch the whole event on YouTube TV and Hulu. The organizers also broadcasted the show on Sling TV, Direct TV, and Fubo TV. This year, Succession had the most nominations; enlisted them for 25 category nominations. Also, the channels HBO and HBO Max have 140 nominations and topped the list nominations-wise.
The winner's list for the 2022 Emmy Awards is too long. Take a look below to find out the list:-
Best Comedy Category– Ted Lasson.
Best Drama Category– Succession.
Best Limited Series Category– The White Lotus.
Best Actress for Comedy- Jason Sudeikis for Ted Lasso.
Best Actress for Drama- Zendaya for Euphoria.
Best Actor for Limited Series- Michael Keaton, Dopesick
Best Actress for Limited Series- Amada Seyfried for The Dropout.
Thus, the major winner list is stated above.
People from all over the world were quite curious to know When Are the Emmys 2022? By far, the interested persons have got the answer for the same. More than any other details regarding the event, everybody was eager to know the Emmy's 2022 winner list. Also, comment on your favorite show below.
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July 17, 2017 · by lsbushey	· in Drama, Thriller.	·
The Beguiled is not the sort of film where you should ever try to dwell upon any one thing it tries to be about. It's too sprawling, too swift and suffocating, the dramaturgy so distanced it would be enough for a film school student to write an entire senior thesis on. The antiquated ideals reside next to the encroaching post Civil War ramifications, the rapidly onset disillusionment layered and leaking sexuality from a carefully poured kettle. Historical currents flow through all of its underground sewage tunnels, rarely bubbling above the surface. But make sure to look out when they do. Here's a film that blisters and bakes in a stifling Southern Gothic heat, seducing its own characters button by button and testing the audience's ability to think critically. The Beguiled is like a tattoo stamped on our arm sleeve while in a numbed slumber; the pain doesn't come from the process, but from the lingering and irremovable impression it seals on our skin with a snickering and insincere kiss.
We're never privy to Miss Farnsworth's (Nicole Kidman) Virginia located Seminary for Young Ladies before a man, the badly wounded Union corporal John McBurney (Colin Farrell), is stumbled upon by young Amy (Oona Laurence) while she forages for mushrooms. His presence immediately changes the chemical equation in the overgrown estate, the younger women always eager to ask if they can go greet the Confederates as they pass by the gates. While they cling to a life destined to soon change, McBurney represents a respite from their worries and an opportunity to maintain an illicit normalcy. His injured leg is mended and sewn by Miss Farnsworth, her hands trembling as she bathes him and the sponge meets his pelvis. Edwina Morrow (Kirsten Dunst), the eldest and most apt pupil is the teacher. She fawns and blushes at his spoken advances. The just-of-age Alicia (Elle Fanning), a curious and bored student, kneads McBurney's doughy insides with a hushed gaze, sultry smile, and an airy articulation.
Performed with great genius by Farrell as a flirt for all ages, McBurney is a rattlesnake who charms us with his chameleon approach, wooing these prim Christian ladies with friendly concern or overt double entendres (most obviously him telling the high-strung and churlish Farnsworth her rose bushes need trimmed.) He's a mercenary with no place to go besides confinement should they turn him over; the ladies are bent by the laws of attraction, not inherently angled towards sexuality, nor is McBurney, but collectively more inclined to flirt with the possibility of drifting back towards the center of their comfort zones best suited for their manless manor. The Beguiled rips the pages away from 19th century history books and hides them within the binding of Men Are From Mars, Women Are From Venus, embroidering its context in a blistering affront that's littered with not so obvious subtext. This is a grueling, punch for punch fight that goes the distance. You feel it its rhyme and rhythm in the early rounds, lulling us into a routine beat, all before the film lands a sharp right uppercut. It's a KO.
Nearly everything about Sofia Coppola's take on Thomas Cullinan's novel is an improvement compared to Don Siegel's wildly tone-deaf and exploitative 1971 film interpretation. Widely (and wrongly) criticized for removing the only slave character, not only is Coppola's take more socially relevant and pertinent to various time periods, it's also historically correct. The difference is in the approach. Siegel identified with the rooster in the henhouse whereas Coppola focuses on the characters laying the story's eggs. As such, the '71 film feels more like a soft-core Cinemax porno than it does a social critique, finding a passionless Clint Eastwood starring in a role all too suited to his Dirty Harry persona (hell, he makes out with a minor in the opening minutes after saying she's, "old enough for kisses.") Siegel's film lacks grace or subtlety, the inner-narration from every character a lazy writing/directorial move that could have challenged the actors to share such emotions through their performances. In contrast, Sofia Coppola's The Beguiled is a formal affair told with pensive prayer and poise.
Two middle-aged women voiced their opinions post my screening. "I'm no 'filmmaker,' but I could have made a way better movie." Her friend chimed in with, "I'm going to make sure I tell everyone I know to not go see it." That's arrogance and ignorance and a blindness to artistic endeavors. Those are the same types of people who blame their botched execution of timeless recipes; they forget that the knife is in their own hands. An appropriate critique of Sofia Coppola would be that she's made the same film time and time again. Whether that be from a place of self-interest or pity or her own perfectionist outlook, she tends to focus her lens on beautiful vagrants of the privileged class. You could define her style as a combination of the feminist realism found in French New Wave heroine Agnès Varda's work with the cold-hearted nature of an Anthony Minghella film. Blend it together and you get Coppola's odd, challenging, introspective approach. By its very nature, The Beguiled will immediately turn off audiences wanting to be thrilled and excited. I applaud her individuality, because Coppola has earned her right to avert expectations, and with her latest has directed a laborious, at times tedious story deserving of a sharp scalpel for a proper dissection. Lost in Translation might be her best film thus far, but The Beguiled is far and away her most visually present and meaningful picture. The images are her stamps, so carefully peeled and placed, and she sends them to us with a snide grin at the sake of her characters' own chagrin, their inner vexations, and their imprisoned identities.
"The enemy, as an individual, is not what we believe."
Tags: Addison Riecke, Angourie Rice, Colin Farrell, Drama, Elle Fanning, Emma Howard, Film, Kirsten Dunst, Movies, Nicole Kidman, Oona Laurence, Review, Sofia Coppola, The Beguiled, Thriller
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ladylavinia1932 January 24, 2018 at 1:35 pm · · Reply →
For a movie that is supposed to be a Southern Gothic tale, it seemed to lack any dramatic punch, aside from Colin Farrell's performance in the last 20 minutes. When one has to struggle hard to stay awake through a story like "The Beguiled", then there is somethinng seriously wrong.
I'm sorry, but I find Sofia Coppola's take on this story rather boring.
lsbushey January 25, 2018 at 7:34 pm · · Reply →
That's fair, although I did think Kidman and Dunst were even better than Farrell, and loved the cinematography. Still found it to be a far stronger film than the original. Thanks for checking out my review!
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Q: How did stripe do the background colors behind the slide images? I'm pretty decent by now at looking at other dev's code and applying their techniques on my own projects. I'm curious though as to how the dev's at Stripe styles these backgrounds on each of the sliders on their home page.
I don't see an image link nor do I see any code using CSS gradients.

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I don't see an image link nor do I see any code using CSS gradients.

Well, I do :

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Absolute link to the element :
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In May, Massachussetts will have gay marriage, and several other states already have some form of civil unions (though Vermont's is the strongest and most similar to full marriage rights). Over time, I forecast that more and more of the socially liberal states (probably the same ones that legalized abortion first) will gradually offer civil recognition of gay partnerships (either civil unions or full-fledged marriage), until there is a divide between states that have strong public policy against it and states that allow it, just as there was in 1973 when the Supreme Court took up the issue. When there are 16 or more states with gay marriage, there will start to be a problem, as we will be as a nation, once again, a house divided, with the rights of some people being significantly limited in some parts of the country, and equal in others. At some point, the issue will have to come before the courts and the US Congress. And, eventually, maybe by 2030, the issue will be settled in favor of gay marriage.
Now, I don't mean to suggest that the issues are identical, for there are significant differences. For one, illegal abortions were quite widespread before the laws began to be liberalized. Marriage is not something that can be entered into "illegally," as it is in essence a legal construct in the first place, not an act. So, there's no flouting of existing laws for pragmatists to point to as the basis for making legal what people are going to do anyway. Second, the constituency for liberalized abortion laws was very large, for unwanted pregnancy was something that affected a large majority of the population. Gay marriage has no such built-in majority constituency.
Nonetheless, I still think there's an important parallel: attitudes on the subject are widely divided in the country, and the states are beginning to institutionalize that difference in law, in both directions, just as happened in the decade before Roe vs. Wade, when the Supreme Court stepped in and completely revamped the whole issue by finding a right to privacy in the Constitution that severe restrictions and prohibitions on abortion impinged.
I honestly do not wish for the Supreme Court's interference, at least not until several decades in the future when it's become clear from experience that gay marriage does not in any way endanger any thread of the fabric of society (this should be clear already, but some people are slow on the uptake). But I do think the swing has already begun, and might very well occur very quickly (though surely not as quickly as happened with abortion). I would expect 10 years from now that gay marriage will be common in the socially liberal states and that in 20 years, it will seem perfectly ordinary in all but the most conservative parts of the country (say, Utah), and 30 years from now, will be legal nationwide. And I also expect that, along with that, full equal rights will by that time have been accorded gay citizens since I can't imagine gay marriage being sanctioned without it.


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U.S. SEC Moves to Tighten Security on the Industry's "Digital Doors"
BBH's Adrian Whelan looks at three significant points from the SEC's recent proposals for new cybersecurity related rules.
3.5 million. I did a double take when I saw this figure, which represents the number of unfilled cybersecurity job vacancies Cybercrime Magazine1 suggests will exist globally by 2025. Then again, for the past several years, cybercrimes and data breaches across industry, governments, and between people have risen drastically. With digitization changing our work and personal lives since the Pandemic, the increased prevalence of cloud-based business models and the added concern of geo-political conflict and war, society is rightly bolstering against cyber threats.
The current threat is so prevalent that it recently prompted U.S. President Joe Biden to raise it loudly to the private sector as a national security concern.
Most of America's critical infrastructure is owned and operated by the private sector and critical infrastructure owners and operators must accelerate efforts to lock their digital doors"
U.S. President Joe Biden, March 21, 2022
Given the wider societal concerns, it's not surprising that regulators too have bumped cybersecurity to near the top of their own list of priorities. Well publicized hacks, phishing and denial of service attacks2 continue to occur with victims ranging from public companies to government institutions to individuals. In March 2022, the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission (SEC) moved to propose new cybersecurity related rules. Here are three significant points from the SEC proposals:
1. Reporting Urgency
The new rules require much more detail and greater urgency to the reporting of material cybersecurity incidents. The requirement to disclose such events within a four-day limit significantly moves the dial in terms of time to assess and report when an event occurs and is a challenge to anyone required to report. Some comfort may be found in the fact that the trigger for the four-day reporting period is when a company makes the materiality determination, not when the incident is discovered, but regardless, timelines remain tight to adhere to the SEC's new deadline.
One of the reasons behind the timebound reporting is that increasingly regulators want to have a sense of whether an incident is specific to a company or a systemic assault on the market. It is a huge consideration, but currently the SEC has no real way of knowing because there is no formal reporting regime in place. This systemic risk is increased where geo-political conflict is on the rise and nation state actors look to use cyber as an instrument of war.
2. Reporting Detail
The level of reporting detail is also greatly enhanced with reporting entities having to specify when the incident was discovered, a description of what happened, whether data was stolen or abused, the effect of the incident on the company's overall operations and whether the problem has been resolved. However, the new rules do not require companies to release technical information about their response or cybersecurity systems.
The incident disclosure rule takes precedence over other considerations, such as an ongoing investigation by law enforcement. The SEC said it is "critical to investor protection and well-functioning, orderly, and efficient markets that investors promptly receive information regarding material cybersecurity incidents."
Some companies have expressed concerns that by requiring disclosure of their cyber incidents so quickly, it could give wrongdoers a chance to exploit existing vulnerabilities before they are patched or resolved. In addition, there are worries that with two or more reports of cyber deficiencies, companies could become marked for attack or that by making some information public they could unintentionally provide a playbook to potential hackers.
The new rules also add various qualitative disclosure requirements to companies' quarterly and annual reports as part of Regulation S-K.3 Companies would have to disclose any material changes or additions within their 8-K filings. These disclosures generally request an outline of policies and procedures to identify, manage, and report on cybersecurity risks – including board and managerial responsibilities, competencies within the firm, or use of third-party expertise utilized to conduct risk assessments.
The proposed method of reporting will also allow for comparability since disclosures will be of consistent format and the information submitted in Inline XBRL format.
3. Greater Accountability
The SEC measures may require companies to examine whether they have sufficient safeguards in place in connection with their use of third-party providers, which are used to process record keeping and dissemination of documentation. The topic of oversight of outsourcing models and operational resiliency of third-party service providers is already an area of intense regulatory focus and one which the SEC embraces within these cybersecurity proposals. It is a classic case of the chain only being as strong as its weakest link when it comes to cyber defenses.
Another change would require disclosures about the role of the board of directors in cybersecurity management, such as whether specific board members have responsibility for managing cybersecurity risks and how the board is told about risks when they occur. The cybersecurity expertise of directors would also have to be publicly disclosed in their filings. Financial services firms may not have specific cybersecurity competency in-house or on the board but will the future dictate that this is a "must-have" rather than a "nice-to-have", or are the days of fully outsourcing cybersecurity competency to third parties over?
Many managers already have experienced cybersecurity teams in place. But the new rules will require the firm to report on the governance process of disseminating risk information up through the business lines to the board of directors. The new SEC rules bring cybersecurity into much greater scrutiny because they mandate individual accountability, which has been voluntary up to this point. Senior executives can delegate cybersecurity tasks but not the responsibility for carrying them out.
The SEC proposals will likely draw much scrutiny within the comment period, which runs to May 9, 2022, as the U.S. capital markets look to ensure tighter security around their digital doors.
Gensler's Huge Year Ahead
As the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission pursues an agenda more aggressive than we have seen from the market watchdog in decades, its leader must find a delicate balance between fostering market growth and innovation with investor protection principles.
1 https://cybersecurityventures.com/jobs/
2 https://www.a10networks.com/blog/5-most-famous-ddos-attacks/
3 Regulation S-K is a prescribed regulation under the US Securities Act of 1933 that lays out reporting requirements for various SEC filings used by public entities


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Stefan Jan Kowalski (ur. 2 września 1945 w Szadku, zm. 27 kwietnia 2022 w Poznaniu) – polski profesor nauk technicznych, inżynier-chemik, mechanik.

Życiorys
Doktoryzował się w 1975 roku, habilitację uzyskał pięć lat później. Tytuł profesora nadano mu w 1992 roku.

Członek korespondent Polskiej Akademii Nauk od 2013 roku. Pracownik naukowy Instytutu Podstawowych Problemów Techniki PAN, wykładowca na Wydziale Technologii Chemicznej Politechniki Poznańskiej.

Nagrody i wyróżnienia
Uhonorowany m.in.:
 Nagrodą Ministra Edukacji Narodowej (trzykrotnie – 1997, 2004, 2015)
 Medalem Komisji Edukacji Narodowej (2006)
 Medalem "Societas Humboldtiana Polonorum" (2007)
 Odznaką honorową "Za Zasługi w Rozwoju Województwa Poznańskiego" (1985)
 Srebrnym oraz Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi

Przypisy

Linki zewnętrzne
Politechnika Poznańska – biografia Stefana Jana Kowalskiego

Członkowie korespondenci PAN
Ludzie urodzeni w Szadku
Odznaczeni Medalem Komisji Edukacji Narodowej
Odznaczeni odznaką honorową "Za Zasługi w Rozwoju Województwa Poznańskiego"
Odznaczeni Srebrnym Krzyżem Zasługi (Polska Ludowa)
Odznaczeni Złotym Krzyżem Zasługi (Polska Ludowa)
Pracownicy instytutów naukowych PAN
Polscy inżynierowie chemicy
Polscy mechanicy
Wykładowcy Politechniki Poznańskiej
Urodzeni w 1945
Zmarli w 2022

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Next Tuesday (11/7) at 6:00pm, artist and art historian Marlene Aron returns to the Montclair Branch to give a lecture and slide show on Five Fabulous Women Artists of the 1800s. Come learn about the artistry and lives of Mary Cassatt, Berthe Morisot, Marie Bracquemond, Eva Gonzales and Camille Claudel.
Lydia Cassatt Reading the Morning Paper: A Novel by Harriet Scott Chessman (FIC CHESSMAN) (not at Montclair) – This story is told by Mary's sister Lydia as she poses for five of her sister's most unusual paintings while dying from Bright's disease. The paintings are reproduced in the book and form the focal point of each chapter.
Naked by Betsy Franco (FIC FRANCO) (not at Montclair) – In 2008, Jesse Lucas discovers an eighteen-year-old girl (who turns out to be Camille Claudel) who has emerged from a statue in Stanford's Rodin Sculpture Garden.
Painting in a Man's World: Four Stories about Berthe Morisot, Mary Cassatt, Eva Gonzalès, Marie Bracqueond, edited by Ingrid Pfeiffer (not in OPL – available through Link+) – Short stories by four well-known women writers about four women Impressionists. This one's only available through Link+, but it's about four of the five artists we'll be hearing about.


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Monae was inspired to become a journalist at very young age. She would watch the news almost every morning before school, and she also led the school video announcements every morning in middle school.
Monae graduated from the University of Alabama with a bachelor's degree in Communication and Information Sciences, specializing in Telecommunication and Film. During her time in college, Monae was the Vice President of the Capstone Chapter of Radio Television Digital News Association and a mentor for first year UA students and at-risk children at a local elementary school.
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Yom Kippur Encore Special
Martha Mendoza
Winning Investigative Reporter, AP
North Korean slave labor processes salmon. You can buy it at Walmart. Wednesday 09/19
I've always thought of journalism as a kind of religion. What journalists serve, our diety, if you will, is reality, as best we understand it.
That's what all our sacred questions are aimed at: the 5 Ws — who, what, where, when, and why and how. But understanding reality is hard, because reality is a moving target, ready to change at any moment. That's why we call our product "news."
Understanding a story takes time, and especially when there are many answers to "where?" and "how?" and "why?" are hard to pin down, it takes a lot of people in a lot of places.
The global resources of the Associated Press' enable the AP to report stories too big for almost any other news organization to take on. But what makes them spend those resources, spend literally years, employing people in bureaus or on assignments almost everywhere, is a religious devotion to journalism, to helping you understand the realities of the world we live in.
Like the divine cultists they are, journalists at the Associated Press know when they sign on, they will never get rich, and hardly ever get famous. But they also know, they will always be working on real news stories, and will sometimes get the chance to report stories, often as part of a team, that the competition wouldn't even try.
Like the story of the global seafood industry, and how it has come to depend on slave labor, and how it has brought slave-processed fish into the American marketplace…through the wholesalers to the supermarkets to the high-end fish stores and restaurants. Fish that may have been caught, or transported or cleaned or packed by slave labor are also found in American cans and packets of brand-name cat food.
Our guest today, Martha Mendoza and a team of journalists from AP bureaus in Thailand and Indonesia and New York and Washington broke this story in 2015 and won a Pulitzer Prize for revealing how men kept in cages on a tiny island in Indonesia were connected to men working 22 hour days and being kicked and beaten if they dozed on the job taking Indonesian fish to Thailand where other people paid pennies a day and often locked in to their workplaces and living areas processed seafood for global export.
Finally, the AP team tracked packages of fish from those Thai processing centers to wholesale markets and supermarkets and fish stores and restaurants in the United States.
Then in 2016, the AP team revealed a new American side to the story. Piers in the Port of Honolulu docked fishing boats whose crews included people who by any American legal definition were slaves. But the slaves couldn't be rescued, couldn't even be let ashore, neither could this American connection save them from exploitation after their ship sailed away. Oh, and AP again tracked the fish these slaves handled and found them headed to some of the priciest markets and restaurants on Hawaii or in New York, Boston or Los Angeles.
Now, AP and the reporting team of Martha Mendoza, Tim Sullivan and Hyung-Jin Kim have an even more startling twist to the story. This time the slaves processing the fish are North Koreans, working in China, and turning as much 70% of their pay directly back to the government in Pyongyang, the one busy building missiles and nuclear warheads to threaten the United States. And once again, AP has interviewed the slaves and tracked their product from China to the United States, to the frozen seafood cases of Wal-Mart and the ALDI supermarket chain.
That's right, Wal-Mart and ALDI may have sold you seafood produced by North Korean slaves to profit the nuclear weapons project of Kim Jong-Un.
Martha Mendoza is an Associated Press journalist whose reports have prompted Congressional hearings, Pentagon investigations and White House responses. She was part of a team whose investigation into slavery in the Thai seafood sector led to the freedom of more than 2000 men and won a 2016 Pulitzer Prize. She also won a 2000 Pulitzer Prize that revealed, with extensive documentation, the decades-old secret of how American soldiers early in the Korean War killed hundreds of civilians at the No Gun Ri bridge. She's worked for AP from Silicon Valley, New York, New Mexico and Mexico City. She was a Stanford University Knight Fellow and a Princeton University Ferris Professor. A credentialed teacher, she has lectured in the Science Communications graduate program at the University of California for more than a decade.
https://apnews.com/8b493b7df6e147e98d19f3abb5ca090a
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https://www.ap.org/explore/seafood-from-slaves/over-300-slaves-rescued-from-Indonesia-island-after-ap-investigation.html
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CATEGORIES: Human Rights, Journalism and Investigative Reporting, Labor
TAGS: AP, Martha Mendoza, North Korea
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The Reality on the Border
North Korean slave labor processes salmon. You can buy it at Walmart.
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USO Y VENTA DE FOTOGRAFÍAS
Winners announced for the 5th Jalón Ángel International Photography Award: Raquel Enriquez Parriego and Jesús Chacón Carrasco from Spain and Kazim Kuyucu (Turkey)
The 5th Jalón Ángel International Photography Award lives up to its name, with participants from a range of countries and Spaniards among this year's winners. The 'Portrait' award went to Jesús Chacón Carrasco (Marbella, Spain), while the one for 'Travel' went to Kazim Kuyucu (Turkey) and the 'Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park' award stayed in Spain in the hands of Raquel Enríquez Parriego (Burgos).
The three winners each receive a commemorative sculpture, a certificate and €1,000. This edition of the award saw over 2800 entries from around the world (105 countries); the participants were from Spain, Russia, Colombia, India, Brazil, Argentina, Madagascar, Bulgaria, Venezuela, Yemen, the UAE, Australia, Hong Kong, Canada, Palestine, Libya, Macedonia, Kenya, Ghana, Singapore, the Cayman Islands, Costa Rica and St Kitts and Nevis, and other countries.
The jury for this year's award was comprised of Julio Álvarez Sotos (CEO of Spectrum Sotos Gallery and School), Virginia Espa (teacher and photographer, with an academic and artistic background in photography), Jesús Antonio Insausti López (Service Manager for the Rural Areas Ministry at the Government of Aragon) and Pilar Irala-Hortal (curator of the Jalón Ángel Photography Archives and researcher and lecturer at San Jorge University).
In the 'Portrait' winner (entitled 'As de Magdalenas'), the jury were strongly impressed by the technique used to obtain this group portrait, the way the stage was set (the photo of the wedding from time gone by, the food, the seat of the static bicycle, the outfits) and, most especially, the reimagining of the lives of our senior citizens. The photographer, Jesús Chacón Carrasco from Marbella (Malaga, Spain), is self-taught and keen on artistic photography. He has worked for international companies such as Red Bull, Dior and Hermês. His work has been seen in magazines and media, including El Mundo, El País, Absolute and Mondo Sonoro. Awards garnered for his photography include the bronze Laus in 2013 and First Prize at the International Tour Film Festival, Rome, 2015.
The winner in the 'Travel' category, entitled 'Semazen or Whirling Dervishes' saw the jury highlighting the angle of the shot which captures a notable part of Turkish culture: a type of religious dance which speaks to their God of emotions and a desire for love. The interplay of lights across the location photographed also caught the jury's attention as it created a suggestion of a stage bound by spotlights, drawing one's eye to the central figure. The photographer, Kazim Kuyucu from Konya (Turkey) is an amateur photographer whose style is narrative documentary. He sees himself as a messenger of the historical and cultural heritage of his community. Photography and passion are one and the same for him. He joined the AFIAP ('Federation Internationale de l'Art Photographiique') in 2012. His work has been exhibited in galleries across Turkey, England, France, Taiwan and Serbia, among many others, and he has received recognition in photography competitions, such as the Rotary or 'Fotografium' in 2011.
This 5th edition of the JAIPA saw a further prize awarded in a special category based around the centenary celebrations of 'Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park'. The winning photo was entitled 'Y al fondo... Monte Perdido', which comprises an extended exposure to obtain an image containing movement, capturing the lights created by Mother Nature and the park itself. The jury remarked on the photographic technique used and valued the oncoming nightfall in the composition of the glowing lights, hinting at the passing of time in Ordesa y Monte Perdido National Park. Raquel Enríquez Parriego, from Medina de Pomar (Burgos, Spain), is an amateur photographer whose photographs have participated in the Agrophoto competition, the "VII Concurso Fotográfico: Ven a Burgos", Aquae Fundación and FotoMeteo. Additionally, she has won national prizes, among them 'Biocastanea 2015' and the 3rd photography competition organised by the Spanish Ministry for Organic Transition.
The jury also wished to make mention of various other works:
The Looted Honor by Mohammad Rakibul Hasan (Dhaka, Bangladesh) for its composition, the poetic choreography of the woman with the colours in a black and white image with two spots of colour from the flowers, and the delicate effect reflected in her pose.
Fotógrafo Alberto Schommer by Adrián Domínguez (Madrid, Spain) for being an observational photograph, revealing both the investigative and professional aspects of the subject, and for the scene in which this character stands out professionally and personally.
Medios de transporte by Mario Moreno Iglesias (Cáceres, Spain) for its composition, location, perspective and the shot taken. The jury felt this image contained everything, every detail the photographer wanted to include, adding in a touch of humour with the title: the antique motorbike and the way the characters travel around, revealing a hint of their culture here too.
The Time of the Sands by Mark Anthony Agtay (Abu Dhabi,UAE) for its different focus, a truly other trip, emphasising a culture and questioning whether the landscape is within or without the house; a new way of looking at the very concept of landscape photography.
Ordesa:
El silencio blanco del Estrecho' by Roberto Bueno Hernández (Hospitalet del Infant, Tarragona). The jury highlighted the vertical composition of the image, contributing a novel aesthetic and invoking a unique atmosphere by means of the snow and nature's self-created parameters within the park.
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People Share The Quickest They've Gone From Liking Someone To Losing All Respect For Them.
By Shey A.
Shutterstock / Dean Drobot
This article is based on the AskReddit question "Whats the quickest way someone lost your respect?"
[Source can be found at the end of the article]
1. I went on a date with a girl in college. She was very kind but I could tell from the start she was quite a bit more affluent than I was. So she drives us to a coffee shop and pulls right into a handicap spot. When I notify her of her mistake she says, "Oh I know. Princess parking!" And she pulls out a handicap sticker from her purse and hangs it on her mirror. Personally I wanted to end the date right there, but I had to get a ride home somehow.
mecklerox
2. There used to be a homeless man that would sleep outside of the pizza place I used to work at. Never bothered anyone, never asked for food, though we did offer him some when we had leftover pies. Middle of winter, he stopped coming around. Couple weeks later, coworker tells me him and his friends dumped water on him while he was sleeping for laughs, thinking I would think it was funny. Yeah, no.
BrahmanLlama
3. My boss charged a colleague for a table's bill because that table had left without paying and were seated in her section, thus being her responsibility. The bill was 75 pounds. We're payed 6.95 an hour. This was on Christmas day.
Prokopton
4. When our 26-day-old daughter died my wife and I hunkered down and quit showing up to church for a while. A friend from there finally touched base with me months later, and I asked him why no one had come looking for us or tried to help after the funeral. He said, "I've know people who have had miscarriages before, and it didn't take this long to get over it. When are you going to get over it?" This conversation was almost 6 years ago and my blood still boils when I think about these words.
FundipTuesday
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5. Seeing my employer act friendly to other employee's faces and then immediately trash talk them the second they leave the room.
reptar_6969
6. My uncle told us that when he decided he didn't want his cat anymore, he took her to the woods behind my grandparents' house and just left her there. I was appalled. Definitely lost all respect for him. She was an indoor cat who'd never even been outside before.
(Fear not, though, my other uncle was there, and he went to those woods, eventually located the cat and brought her home with him. They were buddies until he passed, and then she went to live with another family member. So she's fine! But still.)
april_a
7. One sentence: "I can't believe he's not over his dad's death yet!"
The kid's dad had died barely two months ago at the time.
ostentia
8. Making fun of someone for not knowing something/how to do something
Once a couple of kids from a group were making full of a man for asking questions about how to use the computer Nobody is born with instant knowledge about everything.
Msfannymcfart
9. My manager doing what I just told a customer we can't do because of policy.
As in:
"I want to return this gift card, it doesn't work."
"We can't do that, we do not do returns on gift cards because we can not verify the balance. If there is an issue with the gift card you need to contact Visa and have them solve the issue."
My computer system is even set up so that if you try to return it like you are supposed to, it'll tell you to back off. Customer asks for manager and manager just gives her the value of card plus the fee by returning it as a "Non-taxable Item."
The reason it's policy is because it's a scam and they want to double dip. They used the card and they want to see if they can get the cash they just spent back again.
And of course the customer came back two more times and asked to return the card again and again. In total she got $615 because my manager is such a twat and so scared of getting negative reviews.
M37h3w3
10. Ex Girlfriend " I don't love you anymore, I don't know why and I don't want to feel this way and We'll work on getting things back to normal……. Ohh I've been seeing Insert Douches name from work as well but I'll stop
LangyLangLang69
11. Little bit of backstory. I once had a friend , whom I considered a good friend, randomly message my then girlfriend asking if we were still together. I thought he was just checking up on me, making sure it was a good relationship because when she said yes, he said good. Fast forward now, about 2 weeks after we break up, he messages her again, saying the same thing. Proceeds to try to console her and literally that night tries to flirt with her and sends her a dick pic. Does this many many times for the next few months ( her not reciprocating or showing any interest) not knowing that she and I were still very close and she was telling me everything. He also had a girlfriend at the time that he was trying to convince my ex that they broke up. I've lost all respect and I'll never give it back. A simple apology and talk could reconcile our friendship but he'll never be respected by me ever again.
happyfeeliac
12. A couple people I know have done this lately: made a GoFundMe for some trivial crap. I'm not going to give details on the specific fundraisers just in case but take my word for it: it's the most poorly disguised, pathetic attempt to beg for money I've ever seen from someone who absolutely doesn't need it.
GaryOak-dotjpg
13. When I was an RA I had a resident who got really drunk and started spouting off a lot of homophobic stuff in the middle of the hall, making another resident cry. Later on another resident whom I had a lot of respect for, class president, triple major, pretty much came from nothing, came up talking to me telling me I shouldn't write the drunk person up because she was just spouting off the truth about "Them." Never looked at her the same way again.
DLRexx
14. "Aww she's so beautiful i feel bad for her, what a waste of beauty"
I'm on a wheelchair.
I feel bad for you for begin ugly but able to walk, what a waste of legs.
TheRebelMia
15. My RA freshman year of college: she had just lost a board game and threw a fit. At first I thought she was joking, but soon realized she was completely serious. A 20-year old having a tantrum over Ticket to Ride. In front of her friends and residents. Thinking it made her seem "scary" rather than juvenile. Never could respect her after that.
PartySong
16. I took my son to work with me, while I was on holiday, to pick up a pay cheque. I met our shipper and introduced my son who has a slight speech impediment. My son said "Hello" and stammered on the 'H'. The shipper started to laugh at him. I took my son's hand and we walked away. Didn't speak to the shipper again.
windy496
17. Male coworker walked past a female coworker and said "i'd love to fondle her huge tits" loud enough for her to hear it. respect went from 100% to 1% in a second.
Found out, same guy was stealing other collegue's personal stuff at work. There you go, last 1% of respect.
Sidemark: When I talked to our boss, she said: That's your personal problem. Work it out. Bam: 100% respect-loss in under a second.
schbrongx
18. I was out with a guy, we stopped at Taco Bell and were walking with a couple of tacos. He finished his first one and let the wrapper flutter to the ground. I'm typically non-confrontational but kind of knee-jerked a shocked reaction. He blew it off and I thought maybe he was just embarrassed. But after the next taco, he doubled down and dropped that wrapper too. Lost all respect for him in that moment.
Another time I was walking with some co-workers when one flicked a cigarette butt onto the sidewalk. Someone else said something and her response was, "but it's so small and New York is so dirty anyway." Ugh, go home.
Socialbutterfinger
19. Ex-girlfriend found someone's ATM card left in the machine. Promptly went on a shopping spree. I was so furious. People like her are the reason I have a panic attack when I can't find my wallet. Just a straight up scummy thing to do.
Citizen_804
20. Supervisor kept giving me additional work that wasn't my responsibility (I was less than two weeks into a new job in a warehouse) and eventually another supervisor asked what I was doing, so I told them, and they cussed the other supervisor out for putting myself and other people in danger when I had not been trained how to offload trucks and navigate the docks. Ever since then, when this first supervisor tells me to do work, I ask someone else first.
Slaughterhouse451
21. Dude squeezed my then-girlfriend's breast right in front of me then tried to laugh it off because he's gay and "would rather play with this guy's big dong" (referring to a random guy standing within earshot).
I still can't believe I had to explain to this guy that being gay doesn't entitle you to touch other people's bodies without permission. I don't go around grabbing mens penises and saying "it's okay, I'm straight", then harass some stranger to try and prove it.
MaggotMinded
22. My mother's best friend from when I was growing up added me to Facebook one time as a way to reconnect after she'd disappeared to France for several years. I stayed friends with her on there for a while. Until…
She posted something anti-vaccine, so I posted a response based on the facts – That vaccines don't cause autism, and are actually bringing deadly diseases back, etc. and so on. I don't mean to start fights, but I do this on occasion with my other friends on there so we can have reasonable discussions back and forth about it. Her response began with "As a mother…" and ended on "You'll understand when you have kids." Wow. Wooooow.
I've never unfriended someone so fast in my life. I just couldn't rid myself of the stupid quickly enough.
Anna_Draconis
23. A college girl I worked with at a restaurant on campus bragged about how she told off a manager who politely asked her to order or leave at a restaurant downtown where she was studying and not buying anything. She told him that the whole town is her library and the only reason he had a job was because of students like her (college town), and that she was going to college to do something meaningful with her life and make a difference so she wouldn't end up a sad restaurant manager like himself.
I was so stunned I couldn't say anything. I have never heard anything more bratty and self-entitled in my life.
branddrinnkona
24. Any conversation which goes like this:
Them (someone from outside the UK): "Where are you from?"
Me (I'm brown): "UK"
"Ok but where are you originally from?"
"… London?"
"I mean, where did your parents come from?"
"Also England, born and raised."
"If you're asking for my ethnicity, I have distant roots in Asia. But that isn't really what you asked for."
"Yeah, you didn't look British, I knew you must be from Asia."
"… I'm not. I'm from the UK."
It's 2017 yet some people still can't accept the concept of being fully British, whilst not being white.
hextree
25. When I was in 6th grade, there was a girl who we'll call Emma in my class who was a little odd. She was painfully shy and awkward, her clothes were too small for her, and she smelled kind of bad. A less-known fact and possibly irrelevant other than to explain some of her strangeness was that she had been sexually abused for years by a family member. I was best friends with her cousin, who told me in confidence, because I was nice to Emma; my friend was not a gossip and was protective as fuck of her cousin. Emma usually ate lunch in the classroom and would opt to spend recesses in study hall, presumably either because she felt more comfortable away from people or to avoid being bullied, possibly both. One day we had recess in the gym (pretty common when it was freezing or raining out) and Emma is there. (Some days study hall wasn't available because a teacher was sick or whatever, I don't know). She's sitting on the bleachers drawing and a couple of other kids are hanging around on the bleachers as well. One boy in particular, a popular kid well-liked by students and teachers, is talking to her. I saw this and something about the way Emma looked made me stop playing dodgeball and walk over. As I approached I hear the boy calling her "trailer trash" and asking if her trailer home had a shower. He was laughing and a couple others nearby were laughing too, some of whom I'd considered friends before. Lost all respect for every one of them. Emma wasn't crying or anything, just ignored them and kept drawing. Unfortunately I let my emotions get the better of me. Punched him right in the face.
LucyWithTheHorns


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Have a Free Hands-on with Trials Rising Before it Launches
By Chris Wray
Feb 14, 2019 08:40 EST
In a move that could almost be considered a Demo for the game, Trials Rising is going into "open beta" for four days, from the 21st to the 25th, before the game launches the very next day on the 26th of February. The four days are being made available for every format, specifically the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, Nintendo Switch and PC.
How this is a beta for the game, I can't truly explain - the game is bound to be gold by then. What is most likely is that they could be stress-testing the servers. Why do I think that? Because of the content that is going to be made available during the open beta.
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The features that are to be made available include
18 tracks from easy to extreme, including four University of Trials onboarding tracks
Five bikes (Squid, Rhino, Mantis, Helium and the hilarious two-player Tandem bike)
The exclusive Turbo Bike Exhaust for the Helium Bike, which makes it roar like a real motorbike. All players who unlock the in-game Trials Turbo Bike item during Open Beta will be able to keep it once they purchase the game.
25 Contracts, Challengers game mode and 8 tracks playable in Online Multiplayer
Customization editor with over 2000 stickers
For information on how to enter the open beta, you can read about it on the official site.
Earlier this month I was able to get hands-on with Trials Rising at an event held by Ubisoft. I genuinely enjoyed the game, though I had misgivings regarding the inclusion of loot boxes. Despite that, I still have to say it's looking to be an enjoyable game and a step up from the previous iterations of the series. I had this to say at the time:
Trials Rising is genuinely looking like it could be the best game of the series yet. Yes, there are downsides such as the dreaded Loot Boxes. I would have much preferred direct microtransactions. In that situation, I would have barely covered them, but these gambling mechanics are sadly becoming a reality of the industry. Looking at the rest of the game though, and having played it on the PS4 and Switch, It really is something I'm looking forward to.
Trials Rising will launch on the PC, PS4, Xbox One and Nintendo Switch on the 26th of February.
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This was the first time Lileikite and Wagner played together in over two months, as their last match as a pair came March 17, also on Baylor's courts.
"Steffi and Sinead are two great players. They have been leading our program all season," Miami coach Paige Yaroshuk-Tews said.
Although Lohan's match started a few minutes earlier, it was Wagner who finished first, as she rolled to victory over Gumulya. The First Team All-Atlantic Coast Conference selection dropped the first two games, and then rattled off six wins in a row to take the first set, 6-2.
Wagner, ranked No. 11 in the nation, took the first two games of set two to make it eight straight victories. Gumulya, a Second-Team All-ACC pick, then began to battle back and eventually tied the second set at 3-3.
The second-seeded Nova Southeastern Sharks won their second match in a 5-0 semifinal round shutout over third seed Central Missouri to advance to the championship round of match play at the Division II National Championships in Conover, North Carolina.
It's the second consecutive year and third time in four seasons that the Sharks will advance to the final, where they will meet Sunshine State Conference rival Lynn on Friday.
Nova won each individual matchup by at least three strokes.
Lynn defeated No. 4 seed Saint Leo in the other half of the bracket, 4-1-0.
The Sharks look to build on last year's runnerup finish and claim their second-ever men's national title and first since 2012. The first of five individual matchups begins at 9 a.m. Friday.
The Nova Southeastern men's and women's track and field teams opened the day with strong performances the Division II Outdoor Track and Field National Championship in Allendale, Michigan.
Talyn Washington qualified for the finals in the 400-meter dash.
In the first heat of the event, he clocked in at 47.09 and finished third. Only the top two in each heat automatically qualified for the finals, leaving Washington to watch the second and third heats to see if he was one of the three fastest remaining runners.
In the end, his spot in the finals was never threatened, with Washington finishing with the fourth-best overall time and the fastest among non-automatic qualifiers. Washington will run in the 400-meter finals Saturday.


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Getting Gennady Golovkin vs. Vanes Martirosyan instead of Golovkin vs. Saul Alvarez has left me feeling cheated by Alvarez and his two positive tests. It reckoned to be one of the most intriguing rematches in boxing history. Now we have to hope that Martirosyan does not prove to be a banana skin for Golovkin-highly unlikely- and that Alvarez stays away from Mexican meat so we can get the fight in September. If it does come off in September then Alvarez will have been inactive for a year which can't help his chances.
That leaves the other big question as to whether we will get to see Anthony Joshua vs. Deontay Wilder. At this moment this is not a fight between Joshua and Wilder but their respective promoters who are both desperate to stage the fight. Eddie Hearn wants it in the UK and Shelly Finkel wants it in the USA. Hearn offered Wilder $12 million and Finkel responded with an offer of $50 million. Hearn has responded by asking to see the contract and Finkel has replied by saying that for some past fights Hearn has offered and had agreement on purses first and discussed the contract afterwards. This really is just a couple of businessmen playing games. A purse of $12,000,000 may not seem much when you compare it to $50 million but it is a very large amount when you consider that the most Wilder has been paid for a fight was the $2.1 Million for the Ortiz fight whereas Joshua earned around $27 million for the Parker fight. Even if Hearn said he would accept the $50 million offer I can guarantee you that the chance of a contract being agreed would be somewhere south of nil and the $50 million would prove to be smoke and mirrors. Joshua gives Hearn the strong hand in these "negotiations" Wilder needs Joshua a lot more than Joshua needs Wilder. For a fight with WBA/WBO No 1 Alex Povetkin, although not as big a draw as Wlad Klitschko or Parker, Joshua would still take home about four or five times more than Wilder could earn against WBC No 1Dillian White, No 2 Luis Ortiz or No 3 Ortiz so if money talks Joshua shouts and Wilder whispers. Let's hope some sense creeps in to these media games and we get the fight we want.
At least we will get Tony Bellew vs. David Haye on Saturday and let's hope there are no injuries and no controversies and it end up being a great heavyweight scrap that gives us some clarity on which direction these two fighters are heading as it will throw another hat in the UK ring alongside of Tyson Fury and Dillian White.
So much shuffling has been going on lately that it makes me dizzy. Apart from Golovkin vs. Alvarez falling by the wayside and Vanes Martirosyan being parachuted in from nowhere we had Liam Smith having to pull out of the WBO title fight with Sadam Ali and Mexican Jaime Munguia coming in, Eider Alvarez reportedly switching his focus from Adonis Stevenson to Sergey Kovalev, Keith Thurman vacating the WBC welter title and Dillian White being shifted into a siding to fight Luis Ortiz so that the Anthony Joshua vs. Deontay Wilder gravy train can steam on towards huge sanctioning fees.
The typical machinations have gone on to approve and try to enhance the Golovkin vs. Martirosyan fight. With Martirosyan being drafted in even though he was not rated in the top 15 middleweights by IBF, WBA or WBC when the fight was announced. He was No 1 super welter with the WBC so their rules allow them to approve the fight as long as you don't question how a guy who had not had a fight since losing to Erislandy Lara two years ago can qualify for the No 1 position. The WBA just did a bit of cynical manipulation and Martirosyan magically appeared at No 12 in their ratings.
Well at least we have Jorge Linares vs. Vasyl Lomachenko to look forward to on 12 May. The good thing about the fight is that Top Rank and Golden Boy have worked together to make it happen. It will be a remarkable achievement if Lomachenko wins to become a three-division world champion after just 12 fights. On the other hand Linares can show that some fighters improve with age. When he lost back-to-back fights to Antonio DeMarco in 2011 and Sergio Thompson in 2012 it looked as though he might just be sliding down the slope. Now he has won 13 fights in a row and captured both the WBA and WBC lightweight titles and of the seven world title fights in that sequence only one has been a home town fight. Two great fighters it is just a pity that they can't both win and I always find a draw an anti-climax so I go for Lomachenko to come out on top. There are no big fights on the undercard but no shortage of probable stars of tomorrow in Michael Conlan, Carlos Adames, Fazliddin Gaibnazarov and Teo Lopez.
Mikey Garcia of course is already a four division champion having held the WBO feather and super feather title and the WBC light and IBF super light titles. He lost the WBO feather when he failed to make the weight and vacated both the WBO super feather and now the IBF super light, He has chosen to go back down to light to try to lift the IBF light title against Robert Easter. If he wins then a fight with the winner of Lomachenko vs. Linares would be the next target. His move leaves the super lights looking light with the WBO and IBF titles vacant and neither WBC champion Jose Ramirez or WBA champion Kiryl Relikh big names yet and right now it is a division bereft of any high level stars.
The position in the WBC lightweight rankings should be cleared up soon with No 2 Luke Campbell getting a chance to reverse a loss against No 3 Frenchman Yvon Mendy. That one is awaiting the outcome of private negotiations between the parties with a deadline of 27 May for agreement or it will go to purse offers.
It was good to see Isaac Dogboe fulfilling the hopes of Ghana by winning the WBO title. Perhaps it will give the sport a boost in his homeland and it needs it as there is not a lot of money in the sport there and the Sports Ministry does not seem to realise the boost the country gets from achievements such as this. Money, interest and investment in football is head and shoulders over all other sports in African countries and successes such as those enjoyed by Dogboe are earned despite rather than because of the Government there.
Spaniard Kevin Lejarraga was impressive in destroying Bradley Skeete inside two rounds and his win should also give Spanish boxing a boost. He comes from the Basque country and they breed them tough there although as far as I know the region has never produced a world champion. In Paulino Uzcudun they had probably the best heavyweight Spain has produced. He was Spanish and European champion and also somehow managed to win the Colombian title. He faced most of the big names of his day such as Joe Louis, Max Baer, Primo Carnera, Max Schmelling, Mickey Walker etc. Another well know heavyweight from there was Jose Miguel Urtain who was also Spanish and European champion. They both made their names before boxing by their feats in localised specialty sports. Uzcudun was a champion wood chopper and "Wood Chopper" became his nickname. Urtain was a champion at stone lifting another local sport. He could life a 220lbs rock with one arm and 400lbs with two. He was very crude but won his first 28 fights by KO/TKO and at one time there was said to be a $1 million offer on the table to Joe Frazier to fight Urtain in Spain. He won the European title by beating Juergen Blin. He lost it to Henry Cooper only to regain it by stopping Jack Bodell and again lost it to Blin. Obviously there are hopes on the West Coast of Spain that they might find their first world champion in Lejarraga.
National pride or face is very important to Japan and the Japanese Commission have reacted strongly to Daigo Higa's failure to make the weight for his title defence against Cristofer Rosales as it is the first time a Japanese fighter has failed in this way. He is in disgrace as is his coach Hall of Fame fighter Yukio Gushiken. The Commission has suspended Higa indefinitely and he has been fined 20% of his purse and he will undergo a period of monitoring on his conditioning before being considered for reinstatement. It is by no means a rare occurrence elsewhere these days and very little is done to tackle it and the punishments tend to be derisory. Just like banned substances the will to tackle it seriously and deal out severe punishment is just not there. Strong words are spoken and weak action is taken.
The Canadian scene will see unbeaten super light Mathieu Germain (14-0) take on Mexican Christian Uruzquieta (17-3-1) in Montreal; on 23 June for the vacant IBF North American title. Uruzquieta is 2-1-1 in four fights in Canada. Also on the show will be Steve Butler (23-1-1) vs. Carson Jones at middleweight with 18-0 Erik Bazinyan also billed to appear.
Before that on 26 May in Quebec City David Lemieux returns to start his rebuilding after being outclassed by Billy Joe Saunders and faces French champion Karim Achour for the WBC International and Francophone titles. Unbeaten Custio Clayton is also on the show with Dutchman Stephen Danyo in the other corner as they fight for the IBF and WBO International titles.
As Lemieux tries to keep his career alive Jean Pascal is winding his down. The Haitian-born Canadian was hoping to get a place on the Adonis Stevenson vs. Badou Jack show on 19 May but is now looking towards a show in 29 June in Montreal.
So Achour hopefully will get a good payday in Canada but Back in France although handed a one year suspended ban by the French Boxing Board Olympic gold medallist Tony Yoka has been asked to appear before the French Anti-Doping Agency to explain his missed tests. They took over Yoka's file and it is not impossible that they will deal more harshly with him than the French Board as they usually hand out a two year ban for three missed tests depending on the degree of fault of the boxer.
Still on France Karim Guerfi announced his retirement, The 31-year-old bantam was knocked out in four rounds by Filipino Michael Dasmarinas in Singapore on 20 April in a fight for the vacant IBO title. In his other attempt at a world title Guerfi lost on points to Juan Carlos Reveco for the interim WBA fly title in 2012. On the plus side he was twice European bantam champion.
Finally France lost one of its most entertaining fighters with the death at 79 of Jacques Kechichian. He was both French and European super welter champion and at the time he was fighting it seemed that there was a big show almost every other week in Paris. Although born in Marseilles his family was Armenian and they moved back to what was the USSR and he boxed amateur there ending up with a 96-21 record. I used to stop at a shop in Soho on my way to work to pick up a copy of L'Equipe for the previews and reports of those stacked Paris shows. Jacques fought Emile Griffith, Billy Backus and top Europeans such as Max Cohen, Jo Gonzales, Jose Hernandez, Carlo Duran and Johann Orsolics and was better than his 27-7-2 record might indicate. RIP Jacques
Also sorry to read of the death at 73 of Argentinian boxer Miguel Angel Campanino. I followed his career from its start in 1966 to it close in 1978. He won the Argentinian and South American titles and ended with a 93-5-4 record having won his last 12 fights. He challenged Pipino Cuevas for the WBA title in 1977 but was knocked out in two rounds. He is shown as having lost twice by KO/TKO but the other loss was when he was forced to retire with a dislocated shoulder and in fact the defeat against Cuevas was his only loss in his last 56 fights. When he retired he opened a gym and had a sports goods business. RIP Miguel Angel.
I can understand why BoxRec and the sanctioning bodies have started using the birth names of Thai boxers. There has been a tendency for Thai fighters to adopt as a last name the name of their gym or their sponsors so that name could change. I have found in the past that whilst they might change their last name they usually stick with their first name and I have used that. When reporting a fight or referring to them in a news item for current high profile Thai boxers I am going to continue to use their first name. This is partially to give continuity but if I am being totally honest I would rather refer to Kongfah than Jakkarwut Majoogoen I don't have enough years left to go typing names that I have to move my lips from letter to letter to type.!
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Tip 1: Ireland v Uruguay Total goals 2-3 @ 20-21 (B365) Some big strikers missing for this friendly international with Suarez, Keane and Doyle set to be missing but with Forlan and Long potentially on the team sheets, it's hard to see it being without action.
Tip 2: Shane Long anytime scorer @ 11/4 (WH) (check lineup) Huge price on a player that's hit the net 22 times for Reading this season. Should get plenty of service from the flanks and the likes of James McCarthy possibly making his full debut.
Tip 3: Diego Forlan anytime scorer @ 15/8(Boyle) Overpriced on Uruguay's main man hitting the net against what will be a very understrength Ireland defense and side.


Is the Sugar in Bananas Bad for You?
If you avoid bananas because of their sugar content, think again. You're passing up a healthy snack that provides numerous vitamins and minerals, including fiber, potassium and vitamin C. When health organizations, such as the American Heart Association, recommend cutting back on sugar, they're talking about added sugars — not the naturally occurring sugars found in fruits.
The sugar in a banana isn't bad for you. Unlike foods with added sugars, such as soda and cookies, bananas are filled with nutrients your body needs for good health, including fiber, potassium and B vitamins.
A medium banana, measuring 7 to 7 7/8 inches long and weighing 118 grams, contains 14 grams of sugar. This amounts to about 53 percent of its total 105 calories. The sugar in bananas is primarily naturally occurring fructose, although glucose, sucrose and maltose are also present.
Pure fructose added to products can cause elevated triglycerides when eaten in excess. However, when fructose occurs naturally — as in bananas — and comes with a bundle of nutrients and fiber, it's unlikely to cause problems.
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Americans consume about 17 teaspoons of added sugar per day, according to the University of California at San Francisco. These added sugars pad your diet with extra calories, which can cause weight gain and nutritional deficiencies as they replace more nutritious foods.
Added sugars may also play a role in high blood pressure, elevated triglycerides and inflammation that leaves you vulnerable to disease. For some people, these added sugars trigger mechanisms in the brain that cause you to crave more.
Added sugars are those not naturally found in foods. High-fructose corn syrup in bread, cane sugar in yogurt and honey in cereal are all examples of added sugars. Processed foods with added sugar usually have more sugar than whole, unprocessed foods and tend to be lower in nutritional value.
The American Heart Association encourages you to limit your intake of added sugars to just 100 calories per day or 6 teaspoons if you're a woman and 150 calories or 9 teaspoons if you're a man.
The sugar in bananas comes with a quality nutrition package. In one medium banana, you get more than 3 grams of fiber, 10 percent of the daily recommended value for a 2,000-calorie diet. Fiber helps with proper digestion and can lower your cholesterol.
A medium banana also provides 10 milligrams of vitamin C, an antioxidant critical to tissue repair and immunity, as well as vitamin B6, intrinsic to energy production and metabolism, and folate, for healthy blood cells and the prevention of neural tube defects in a growing fetus.
Bananas are a high-potassium food too, with more than 420 milligrams per medium banana — nearly 10 percent of your daily recommended value. Potassium helps keep your minerals and fluids balanced, promoting a regular heartbeat and muscle function.
Bananas also contain magnesium, manganese and small amounts of iron, all of which are needed for basic biological functions.
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