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Vasiliy Lomachenko to Face Unbeaten Contender Jamaine Ortiz

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Published: September 13, 2022

NEW YORK — Ukraine’s former pound-for-pound king, the man known as “Loma,” is back. Vasiliy Lomachenko, a three-weight world champion, will make his triumphant New York City return in the 12-round main event Saturday, October 29, against undefeated contender Jamaine “The Technician” Ortiz at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. The 10-round featherweight co-feature sees two-time Cuban Olympic gold medalist Robeisy “El Tren” Ramirez attempt to author a career-best win against former world champion Jessie Magdaleno. U.S. Olympic silver medalist Richard Torrez Jr. (3-0, 3 KOs), who is coming off a 44-second knockout over Marco Antonio Canedo in August, looks to make it 4-0 in a six-round heavyweight special feature. Lomachenko-Ortiz, Ramirez-Magdaleno, and Torrez Jr. headline a card that will stream live and exclusively on ESPN+. Promoted by Top Rank, tickets starting at $56 go on sale Thursday, September 15 at 12 p.m. ET and will be available to purchase at Ticketmaster.com. Lomachenko was set to fight then-unified lightweight champion George Kambosos Jr. earlier this year, but when Russia invaded Ukraine, he put his boxing career on hold to join a territorial defense battalion in his homeland. “Vasiliy Lomachenko is a credit to his country and the sport of boxing,” said Top Rank chairman Bob Arum. “When his country needed him, Vasiliy did not hesitate. We are thrilled that he is safe and fighting once again at Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden, his home away from home. Jamaine Ortiz is a young, hungry, undefeated fighter who understands that a victory over a living legend like Loma would be life-changing.” Lomachenko (16-2, 11 KOs) has a résumé that is unmatched in modern boxing. A two-time Olympic gold medalist for Ukraine, he had a 396-1 amateur record, won a world title in his third pro fight, and became a three-weight world champion in his 12th bout. Lomachenko unified three of the four lightweight titles before a loss to Teofimo Lopez in October 2020 derailed his quest for undisputed supremacy. Last year, he came back with one-sided victories over Masayoshi Nakatani and Richard Commey. Lomachenko is 5-0 at Madison Square Garden Entertainment’s venues, including the win over Commey and his one-sided drubbing over fellow two-time Olympic gold medalist Guillermo Rigondeaux. He arrived in Southern California last month to resume his career and work towards his goal of capturing the undisputed lightweight title, which is currently held by Devin “The Dream” Haney. Lomachenko said, “I love my sport, and I am so glad to be back. My goal is to win the undisputed lightweight title, but I will not take Jamaine Ortiz lightly. Madison Square Garden and Hulu Theater at MSG have been special places in my career, and I look forward to making more great memories on October 29. I want to dedicate this fight to all my Ukrainian people. I wear the flag proudly every time I step in the ring.” Ortiz (16-0-1, 8 KOs), from Worcester, Massachusetts, enters this bout hoping to stun another former world champion on the comeback trail. He last fought May 21 in Las Vegas, wearing down Jamel “Semper Fi” Herring down the stretch to earn a 10-round unanimous decision. Ortiz is a six-year pro who plied his trade on the New England club scene. Three months before the Herring triumph, Ortiz won the NABF lightweight strap with a clear decision win over Nahir Albright. Ortiz made his Top Rank on ESPN debut in April 2021 with an eight-draw against Joseph Adorno, surviving a pair of knockdowns in one of the year’s best action battles. Ortiz said, "I'm excited about this fight. Vasiliy Lomachenko is a great fighter, but I'm here to win. Once I win this fight, I'm targeting a world title opportunity. This is a dream come true." Ramirez (10-1, 6 KOs), from Cienfuegos, Cuba, starred at the 2012 London Olympics alongside Lomachenko. He won the first of his gold medals, while Lomachenko dominantly captured gold medal number two. Ramirez ruled the amateur ranks for another six years before defecting from Cuba. After a stunning loss in his 2019 professional debut against Adan Gonzales, Ramirez has been flawless during a 10-fight winning streak that has seen him avenge the Gonzales loss and crack the top 15 of all four major sanctioning organizations. He authored his most notable victory to date in June at Hulu Theater at MSG, knocking out the previously undefeated Abraham Nova with a left hand in the fifth round. That one-shot knockout propelled Ramirez into the title conversation, and he hopes to get that shot before long. But, first, a former world champion stands in his way. Ramirez said, “It is great to be back at the iconic Hulu Theater at Madison Square Garden. I am particularly excited to do so as co-main event of the evening that marks the return of the great Vasiliy Lomachenko, whom I admire and consider one of the greatest talents of all time. It’s rare to have two two-time Olympic gold medalists on the same card, and it is an honor for me. As far as Magdaleno is concerned, he represents an important challenge as he is an excellent boxer, a southpaw, and a former world champion.” Magdaleno (29-1, 18 KOs) ascended to the top of the junior featherweight division in November 2016 with his decision victory over Nonito Donaire. His title reign ended at the hands of Isaac Dogboe in April 2018, but he is 4-0 since losing to Dogboe and subsequently moving up to featherweight. He shook off an extended layoff in May to shut out Edy Valencia over eight rounds. A native of Las Vegas who has showcased his talents at many of the city’s most storied venues, Magdaleno will be making his New York City debut against a recently unstoppable train. Magdaleno said, “I am coming to shock the boxing world. I know what a victory would mean for my career. My goal is to become a two-time world champion, and Robeisy Ramirez is in my way. Just know that I am ready.” In addition to Torrez, three of his Olympic teammates from Tokyo will see action under the lights. Tiger Johnson (5-0, 4 KOs) makes his New York City debut in a six-round junior welterweight bout, featherweight silver medalist Duke Ragan (7-0, 1 KO) steps up in his first scheduled eight-rounder, and Troy Isley (7-0, 4 KOs) tests the junior middleweight waters in an eight-rounder. Cleveland-born lightweight sensation Abdullah Mason (4-0, 3 KOs) will fight in his first six-rounder, while junior lightweight Haven Brady Jr. (7-0, 4 KOs) makes his division debut in an eight-rounder.

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From IPOs to trading cards, market euphoria is everywhere

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From IPOs to trading cards, market euphoria is everywhere

What’s happening: The S&P 500 and the Nasdaq Composite finished Thursday at new record highs. Bitcoin prices hit an all-time high of $48,975, while more tech founders and athletes are looking to raise hundreds of millions of dollars via special-purpose acquisition companies, or SPACs.

More traditional fundraising methods also continue to generate huge interest from investors looking for places to park their money. Dating app Bumble, which started trading on Thursday, priced shares at $43 apiece, above its expected range. Its stock surged immediately upon opening and closed at $70.31, a 64% increase.

In a piece just published, I report on how Wall Street, flush with cash, is piling into an even more obscure corner of markets: sports trading cards.

Industry insiders told me that the price of popular cards is soaring as sophisticated investors as well as small traders transform the world of sports collectibles from a fusty hobby into a major investment market.

One example: Earlier this month, a Michael Jordan rookie basketball card in pristine condition sold for a record $738,000 at an auction. It went for nearly $215,000 just weeks before.

“There’s never been a time like this in the history of the business,” Ken Goldin, whose company ran the auction, told Appradab Business. “I would bet that for every person who wanted a Michael Jordan rookie card in 2019, there’s 100 [now].”

Professionals like Goldin — who’s fielding calls from interested hedge funds — acknowledge that factors such as rock-bottom interest rates, which have encouraged investors to hunt for returns in creative places, are benefiting their business. But they think the enthusiasm will hold.

“This is now part of our culture,” Goldin said. “I wouldn’t go anywhere near the word bubble.”

Watch this space: It’s not just big money getting into the game. Fractional trading has also reshaped the trading card industry, allowing everyday buyers to purchase a small stake in a LeBron James or Patrick Mahomes card that would have otherwise been too costly.

“We realized the potential fractional ownership could have to break down a massive barrier to entry,” said Ezra Levine, the CEO of Collectable, which buys sports cards and converts them into tradable assets registered with the Securities and Exchange Commission.

Other hobbyists are gathering on social media as they rip open new packs of cards, hoping they’ll contain younger talent that can later be sold for a huge profit on eBay. Some are making even bigger bets and bragging about their gains on TikTok. Read the full story here.

Disney is still getting hammered by the pandemic

The pandemic continues to slam Disney’s theme parks and movie business. But its streaming service, Disney+, is shining.

The latest: Disney’s revenue came in at $16.2 billion during its most recent quarter, down 22% compared to the previous year, the company said Thursday. Yet Disney+ is growing, and Wall Street is still loving it.

The streaming service now has nearly 95 million subscribers, up from the 86 million it had in December. The news sent shares up 1% in premarket trading. They closed Thursday at a record high, despite the massive hit from Covid-19.

Disney (DIS) is banking that huge investments in content like its Marvel “WandaVision” series will pay off in an increasingly crowded space, as it faces off against competitors including Netflix, Amazon Prime Video and Appradab parent WarnerMedia’s HBO Max.

Still, CEO Bob Chapek made clear on a call with analysts that Disney doesn’t plan to abandon movie theaters altogether, my Appradab Business colleague Frank Pallotta reports.

The company faces questions about what it will do with “Black Widow,” its latest Marvel film due to open in theaters on May 7. Could Disney put a film from the biggest blockbuster brand in the industry on Disney+, as it did with “Mulan” last year?

Doesn’t look like it. At least, not yet, per Chapek.

“We are still intending it to be a theatrical release,” he said Thursday.

Bumble’s IPO is a milestone for female founders

Bumble’s Wall Street debut isn’t just a win for its investors. It’s also a milestone for female founders.

See here: At 31, Bumble chief Whitney Wolfe Herd has become one of the youngest female CEOs in tech to take her company public, my Appradab Business colleague Sara Ashley O’Brien reports.

“You don’t have to be one type of person to find success in the business world or in the tech industry,” Wolfe Herd told Appradab Business in an interview Thursday. “I’ve truly just always tried to build what I wish existed, what I wish could help make lives better for the women I care about and the people I love, and I think it doesn’t always have to follow the same path.”

Wolfe Herd, who is based in Austin, Texas, started her career at another dating service, Tinder. She initially set out to create a women-focused social network before landing on the concept of a female-focused dating app. Bumble requires women searching for heterosexual matches to make the first move, a feature meant to boost women’s empowerment.

Sarah Kunst, managing director of early-stage venture capital firm Cleo Capital and a former senior adviser to Bumble, told Appradab Business that Wolfe Herd’s IPO sets a meaningful example to other founders who don’t fit the mold of what a “tech entrepreneur” typically looks like.

Wolfe Herd’s success story bucks the notion that “you can only start a company credibly if you have multiple prestigious degrees [and] all the right experience,” Kunst said. “She played this game on her own terms.”

Up next

MSG Entertainment (MSG) and Newell Brands (NWL) report results before US markets open. The University of Michigan releases its consumer sentiment survey for February at 10 a.m. ET.

Coming next week: The House Financial Services Committee holds a hearing on the GameStop (GME) frenzy. Robinhood CEO Vlad Tenev is expected to testify.

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Each of the forwards can become an unrestricted free agent July 1. The trade deadline is Monday at 3 p.m. ET.

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Datacenter RPCs can be general and fast

Datacenter RPCs can be general and fast Kalia et al., NSDI’19

We’ve seen a lot of exciting work exploiting combinations of RDMA, FPGAs, and programmable network switches in the quest for high performance distributed systems. I’m as guilty as anyone for getting excited about all of that. The wonderful thing about today’s paper, for which Kalia et al. won a best paper award at NSDI this year, is that it shows in many cases we don’t actually need to take on that extra complexity. Or to put it another way, it seriously raises the bar for when we should.

eRPC (efficient RPC) is a new general-purpose remote procedure call (RPC) library that offers performance comparable to specialized systems, while running on commodity CPUs in traditional datacenter networks based on either lossy Ethernet or lossless fabrics… We port a production grade implementation of Raft state machine replication to eRPC without modifying the core Raft source code. We achieve 5.5 µs of replication latency on lossy Ethernet, which is faster than or comparable to specialized replication systems that use programmable switches, FPGAs, or RDMA.

eRPC just needs good old UDP. Lossy Ethernet is just fine (no need for fancy lossness networks), and it doesn’t need Priority Flow Control (PFC). The received wisdom is that you can either have general-purpose networking that works everywhere and is non-intrusive to applications but has capped performance, or you have to drop down to low-level interfaces and do a lot of your own heavy lifting to obtain really high performance.

The goal of our work is to answer the question: can a general-purpose RPC library provide performance comparable to specialized systems?

Astonishingly, Yes.

From the evaluation using two lossy Ethernet cluster (designed to mimic the setups used in Microsoft and Facebook datacenters):

2.3µs median RPC latency

up to 10 million RPCs / second on a single core

large message transfer at up to 75Gbps on a single core

peak performance maintained even with 20,000 connections per node (2 million cluster wide)

eRPC’s median latency on CX5 is only 2.3µs, showing that latency with commodity Ethernet NICs and software networking is much lower than the widely-believed value of 10-100µs.

(CURP over eRPC in a modern datacenter would be a pretty spectacular combination!).

So the question that immediately comes to mind is how? As in, “what magic is this?”.

The secret to high-performance general-purpose RPCs

… is a carefully considered design that optimises for the common case and also avoids triggering packet loss due to switch buffer overflows for common traffic patterns.

That’s it? Yep. You won’t find any super low-level fancy new exotic algorithm here. Your periodic reminder that thoughtful design is a high leverage activity! You will of course find something pretty special in the way all the pieces come together.

So what assumptions go into the ‘common case?’

Small messages

Short duration RPC handlers

Congestion-free networks

Which is not to say that eRPC can’t handle larger messages, long-running handlers, and congested networks. It just doesn’t pay a contingency overhead price when they are absent.

Optimisations for the common case (which we’ll look at next) boost performance by up to 66% in total. On this base eRPC also enables zero-copy transmissions and a design that scales while retaining a constant NIC memory footprint.

The core model is as follows. RPCs are asynchronous and execute at most once. Servers register request handler functions with unique request types, and clients include the request types when issuing requests. Clients receive a continuation callback on RPC completion. Messages are stored in opaque DMA-capable buffers provided by eRPC, called msg-bufs. Each RPC endpoint (one per end user thread) has an RX and TX queue for packet I/O, an event loop, and several sessions.

The long and short of it

When request handlers are run directly in dispatch threads you can avoid expensive inter-thread communication (adding up to 400ns of request latency). That’s fine when request handlers are short in duration, but long handlers block other dispatch handling increasing tail latency, and prevent rapid congestion feedback.

eRPC supports running handlers in dispatch threads for short duration request types (up to a few hundred nanoseconds), and worker threads for longer running requests. Which mode to use is specified when the request handler is registered. This is the only additional user input needed in eRPC.

Scalable connection state

eRPC’s choice to use packet I/O over RDMA avoids the circular buffer scalability bottleneck in RDMA (see §4.1.1). By taking advantage of multi-packet RX-queue (RQ) descriptors in modern NICs, eRPC can use constant space in the NIC instead of a footprint that grows with the number of connected sessions (see Appendix A).

Furthermore, eRPC replaces NIC-managed connection state with CPU-managed connection state.

This is an explicit design choice, based upon fundamental differences between the CPU and NIC architectures. NICs and CPUs will both cache recently used connection state. CPU cache misses are served from DRAM, whereas NIC cache misses are served from the CPU’s memory subsystem over the slow PCIe bus. The CPU’s miss penalty is therefore much lower. Second, CPUs have substantially larger caches than the ~2MB available on a modern NIC, so the cache miss frequency is also lower.

Zero-copy transmission

Zero-copy packet I/O in eRPC provides performance comparable to lower level interfaces such as RDMA and DPDK. The msgbuf layout ensures that the data region is contiguous (so that applications can use it as an opaque buffer) even when the buffer contains data for multiple packets. The first packet’s data and header are also contiguous so that the NIC can fetch small messages with one DMA read. Headers for remaining packets are at the end, to allow for the contiguous data region in the middle.

eRPC must ensure that it doesn’t mess with msgbufs after ownership is returned to the application, which is fundamentally addressed by making sure it retains no reference to the buffer. Retransmissions can interfere with such a scheme though. eRPC chooses to use “unsignaled” packet transmission optimising for the common case of no retransmission. The trade-off is a more expensive process when retransmission does occur:

We flush the TX DMA queue after queuing a retransmitted packet, which blocks until all queued packets are DMA-ed. This ensures the required invariant: when a response is processed, there are no references to the request in the DMA queue.

eRPC provides zero copy reception for workloads under the common-case of single packet requests and dispatch mode request handlers too, which boosts eRPCs message rate by up to 16%.

Sessions and flow control

Sessions support concurrent requests (8 by default) that can complete out-of-order with respect to each other. Sessions use an array of slots to track RCP metadata for outstanding requests, and slots have an MTU-size preallocated msgbuf for use by request handlers that issue short responses. Session credits are used to implement packet-level flow control. Session credits also support end-to-end flow control to reduce switch queuing. Each session is given BDP/MTU credits, which ensures that each session can achieve line rate.

Client-driven wire protocol

We designed a wire protocol for eRPC that is optimized for small RPCs and accounts for per-session credit limits. For simplicity, we chose a simple client-driven protocol, meaning that each packet sent by the server is in response to a client packet.

Client-driven protocols have fewer moving parts, with only the client needing to maintain wire protocol state. Rate limiting becomes solely a client responsibility too, freeing server CPU.

Single-packet RPCs (request and response require only a single packet) use the fewest packets possible. With multi-packet responses and a client-driven protocol the server can’t immediately send response packets after the first one, so the client sends a request-for-response (RFR) packet. In practice this added latency turned out to be less than 20% for responses with four or more packets.

Congestion control

eRPC can use either Timely or DCQCN for congestion control. The evaluation uses Timely as the cluster hardware could not support DCQCN. Three optimisation brought the overhead of congestion control down from around 20% to 9%:

Bypassing Timely altogether is the RTT of a received packet on an uncongested session is less than a low threshold value.

Bypassing the rate limiter for uncongested sessions

Sampling timers once per RX or TX batch rather than once per packet for RTT measurement

These optimisation works because datacenter networks are typically uncongested. E.g. at one-minute timescales 99% of all Facebook datacenter links are uncongested, and for web and cache traffic Google, 90% of ToR switch links (the most congested), are less than 10% utilized at 25 µs timescales.

Packet loss

eRPC keeps things simple by treating re-ordered packets as losses and dropping them (as do current RDMA NICs). When a client suspects a lost packet it rolls back the request’s wire protocol state using a ‘go-back-N’ mechanism. It reclaims credits and retransmits from the rollback point.

Evaluation highlights

This write-up is in danger of getting too long again, so I’ll keep this very brief. The following table shows the contribution of the various optimisations through ablation:

We conclude that optimizing for the common case is both necessary and sufficient for high-performance RPCs.

Here you can see latency with increasing threads. eRPC achieves high message rate, bandwidth, and scalability with low latency in a large cluster with lossy Ethernet.

For large RPCs, eRPC can achieve up to 75 Gbps with one core.

Section 7 discusses the integration of eRPC in an existing Raft library, and in the Masstree key-value store. From the Raft section the authors conclude: “the main takeaway is that microsecond-scale consistent replication is achievable in commodity Ethernet datacenters with a general-purpose networking library.”

eRPC’s speed comes from prioritizing common-case performance, carefully combining a wide range of old and new optimizations, and the observation that switch buffer capacity far exceeds datacenter BDP. eRPC delivers performance that was until now believed possible only with lossless RDMA fabrics or specialized network hardware. It allows unmodified applications to perform close to the hardware limits.

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When The Doomsday Clock Struck Twelve

PROLOGUE: Ever since the timeless immeasurable coalescence of consciousness viz wrought higher thought propensity, and bequeathed the rudimentary tools of the then nascent malevolent (though unbeknownst to themselves, innocent looking, knee high primates, would attempt a futile declaration of independence, nonetheless their biological constitutional bound them to chromosomal amendments), would affix the seal of disapproval alluding to archaic contraband arms trade (those most primitive hominids forged sticks and stones as defensive means), yet unwittingly, jarringly, and alarmingly – in due millenniums got cursed with their own demagogic demise.

The prism of hindsight allows, enables and provides a peg leg up for us grand children to the power of googleplex from those nattering nabobs of…nature scant survivors to parse and piece together an anthropological spectrum analysis.

We can advantageously, yet delicately isolate (much more easily than those bipedal millennial lowbrow swedish, nor wee gin, and dane hush knuckle dragging forebears of contemporary residents of Lake Woebegone) that roamed vast expanses and virginal plains on the prowl for seedy stems, root stock, and grubs that formed a zigzag pattern of trial and error asper what did not kill them got the shortish brutes (yet to attain the realm noble savages).

These early primates rode a figurative and veritable zip line toward domination upon the healthy terra firmae, and unstintingly planted the spores for vast generational realms spelling beasty boy modern day prairie home companions, who accidentally stumbled upon the long lost culinary delicacy earning the equivalent of Michelin awards for high demand best selling powder milk biscuits comprising raw bits of NON GMO, gluten and msg free vintage Triceratops ground horn meal circa millenniums ago.

Inconclusive questions still abound asper how one wimpy, scruffy, and outlandishly kooky band of ambling ape like creatures attained the rand and file of most dominant, hogtied, and lukewarm pygmies strode right topmost uber valiant warlords.

One school of thought ascertains highly touted punctuated equilibrium theory. This hypothesis ordains a sudden and inordinate burst of species differentiation versus gradual feints evolving determination to cope.

A brush stroke of chance graced one great descendent of a monkey’s uncle (christened matthew scott harris – who just by beginners luck linkedin with all in his family inside a radiation proof arched bunker) with empirical and unique wisdom – at least in comparison with other feral and furry jungle loving spoonful sized swinging creatures.

No matter whether one attributes bytes of divine intervention, a mere crapshoot in the dice throw of fate, the scattershot fits and starts among Darwinian survival of the fittest brought an undeniable net result, which in toto spelled light years away complete and utter extinction for a biological experiment that went seriously awry.

Over the course of millennial generations, a combination of beginners’ dumb luck, coevals of circumstance and happenstance proffered the L'Enfant terrible civilization with the subtle trappings of preponderant transcendence and imminent domain over all the other life forms great and small.

This godlike domination and mantle to rule with an iron maiden fist would eventually and in short order cook to a crisp the supposed ribs from cosmic creator.

Mushroom became a hot commodity and premium especially as invisible shackles proved to chain these prehensile beasts acquired, reveled in unbridled power.

This inimitable coterie of chest thumping missing links into deluded them into owning a fools’ paradise.

A parabolic trajectory arced elliptically toward chaos of lex Lucifer at that atrocious, nefarious, and heinous explosion.

An innocent, innocuous and subtle series of incremental transitions fostered physiognomy of arboreal mammals to climb, crawl, shimmy and slide across various and sundry terrain.

At some metastatic stage, these informal claques and clicks spurred an inexplicable brainstorm to tap out a manifesto and stand up for vaguely grunted inalienable rights.

Who knows really knows how, what or when precipitated one unsuspecting ring leader to prompt a horde of hairy brutes to lurch ahead of the pack?

Once in an upright pose, the de facto leader probably received the first standing ovation.

An erect and more upright posture stepped up the advantages, which ironically enough set the stage for one after the other epic tragic 2017 spatial odyssey.

In the end one nasty, shortish, brute could end up wielding a bigger club, rattle a sharper saber and sadly and lastly fire off a deadlier warhead.

Fain to argue against the existence of diabolic ambitions and concomitant sinister treason against scripted virtuous blueprint fleshed out on the divine creators’ drawing board, when tell tale signs abundantly litter the byways and highways of the actual and information superhighways of this human lot.

That slow but inexorable ascent from the primordial ooze thence reaching upon the highest summit of egoistic grandeur also condemned and forebode a relatively terrible swift descent from what would turn out to be a hollow and precarious precipice.

Difficult if not well nigh impossible to discern any traceable handy dance blues clue of such demonic motives in the rather cute and furrowed brow, heart and soul of those ape men, women and children that happened to be above average.

Although anthropological lineage can be traced with a rather jagged line from that hazy humid dog day afternoon, an ordinate amount of energy plus a preponderant exuberant expenditure of crusading conviction found pitched battles with battle axes and crucifixions following pomp and circumstances infusing the exploits with pomp and circumstances of the fighting machine.

Like overgrown children egging the enemy for a zealous fight, that lethal brinkmanship set in motion an irreversible lethal assault.

Instantaneous electronic and satellite communications automatically instructed formerly hidden weapons of mass destruction to get launched from their respective silos only to bore down heavily on the designated pre-coded targets.

Tracers arced and lit up one fatal view of the celestial orb, gamut of constellations and cosmic mysteries burned as one collective blinding nihilistic imprimatur – upon billions of seared retinas!

This veritable blitzkrieg zeroed in on major metropolitan centers before extinction of détente ripped a black hole in the heartland.

Time seemed to be suspended and still for one brief yet glorious moment before those sinister mushroom clouds sprinkled spores, sprouted and populated the radioactive heavens.

A deafening ear-splitting sound filled the air just before the cherished landmarks got rent a sundered by this encompassing apocalypse now, with critical up to date emergency specification blared via national public radio, yet audio soundcloud muted by the sonic threshold waking up the recently grateful dead.

All phenomena became liquefied into gruesome, macabre and twisted shapes.

Entire populations became hostage to an evil genii loosed from the bottle of atomic energy.

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abeyance promulgated by Prometheus

reigning eternal radiation to glow

no more splendiferous raiment

nor sylvan paradise

bloweth gale like from thine beau.

A small number of multi-cultural Homo sapiens from Lake Woebegone (myself included plus a claque of hearty strapping Norwegian Bachelor farmers, whose diet of powder milk biscuits and raw bits a possible preventive inoculation) in addition to a cadre of various and sundry other species chanced to be on a reconnaissance mission ironically to broker negotiate word peace.

This motley crew (a typical representative sampling of most all the gamut per creed, nationality, race, religion, et cetera) of humankind experienced a collective gasp of horror at the blinding flash that cleft the globe into smithereens and shattered the atmosphere into at least a millions little pieces.

No more ability to support life in all those various and sundry manifestations with a newly forged asteroid belt birthed into existence.

Such an ignominious end and total destruction of mother earth (formerly replete with all the attendant diversification of flora and fauna) far exceeded the ability of our shell- shocked vestigial eclectic tribe.

This emotionally tattered remnant (once part of a now vanished misty, mythic, swashbuckling and vainglorious past) awash with self proclaimed manifest destiny and emancipation a little to late swore unbridled allegiance to all manner of god and country (incorporating hidden and inconvenient truths to boot chrome windows) no longer inhabited the four corners upon the plane of Gaia.

Prognosticators of yore spouting this, that, and the other end of world hypothetical scenarios could never even approach this catastrophe on a biblical scale times the power of google.

Witnesses in now way, shape nor form could capture even a paltry approximation the fury nor wrath of these tectonic nuclear blasts.

Classic literature steeped in the annals of the noble savage banging the tom-tom and emitting that blood curdling and ear-piercing scream.

This eruption of ferocity meant to breed fear and sought (perhaps in addition to a scalp or two) nothing short of being heir apparent sovereignty, a salient trait to bank upon.

How quaint that now iconic image frequently reminisced by artists, musicians, writers, et cetera contrasted with those last surviving exploitative ideologues qua demigods, who in the name of busy whacking democracy similarly plundered and raped with reckless impropriety and nonchalance.

Those pulverized remain permanently ensconced forever pinwheel thru the air of those skeletal concrete and steel reinforced fortresses.

Hot vicious thermal winds blew the thick mass of cremated ashes across the rubble strewn and severely cratered landscape.

The devil made mince meat oye vay

as like one huge lumbering ogre massive as Uruguay

and grim reaper got feedstock upon lovely bone covered tray

rolled up into one not so jolly green giant did slay

good will to all men

and spat out pox with an emphatic nay

triumphing over godly salvation

using eponymous accursed pitchfork

made merry and rolled in the hay

simultaneously sneering out in delight

at wanton death and decay

whereby civilization forever mutilated

and perforated said spindled World Wide Web structure

where once proud and strong spikes radiated

now sundered in total chaotic disarray.

EPILOGUE: Ever since the beginning of time, when one select group of primates owned an advantage to survive and transcend pitfalls and predators, their abilities to forage, hunt and scavenge for food and safety likewise eclipsed other equally adept tribes.

Vagaries, vicissitudes and voices initially in the form of primal groans and grunts began to weave the rudiments of traditions, which in no short time seem to thrive on sacrifice, superstition and many aspects of the kill.

At some juncture, one branch from the tree of homo sapiens would practically subsume the entire trunk line, thus render the once almighty, beastie boy, crafty duty enemy fly guy humbled.

Thus, the varietal genes and chromosomes encapsulating latent internecine torture and extermination bred dreadful heathen jimmied, linkedin, nasty pirated reprehensible totemic vicars xing zone.

Eons would elapse with negligible yet faintly perceptible notches of sophistication. Ever more egregious methodologies would be dreamt up, employed in peevish mock war games

Only to be inflicted on innocent civilians or military personnel as collateral trophies in the name of mortal combat.

#one misadventure of chance events would not pave the figurative way for me #you any other mortal from yesterday

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Mohamed Said Guedi: Improving East Africa

#Aid and Assistance #Business #Construction #Djibouti #East Africa #Independent Tobacco #Mohamed Said Guedi #MSG Group #MSG Trading ETS #Somaliland #SOMCABLE #Telecommunications

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Thunder vs. Knicks 2017 live stream: Time, TV schedule, and how to watch Carmelo Anthony's return to MSG online

Anthony's nearly seven-year stint in New York ended with a trade in September. Now, he will return to MSG with Russell Westbrook and Paul George at his side.

Carmelo Anthony's much anticipated return to Madison Square Garden is finally here. The New York Knicks traded Anthony in September to the Oklahoma City Thunder for Doug McDermott, Enes Kanter, and a 2018 second-round pick via the Bulls. Now Anthony will return with Paul George and Russell Westbrook by his side to go head-to-head against the Knicks on Saturday at 7:30 p.m. ET. NBA TV (live stream via fuboTV) will broadcast the action.

Oklahoma City (14-14) has been inconsistent this season. Indeed, the Thunder have three superstars, which gives them the edge over most teams in the NBA. But Westbrook, Anthony, and George are still learning how to coexist on the court. The good news is that all three players are averaging more than 17 points per game.

The Knicks (15-13), on the other hand, have been better than expected. Players like Kristaps Porzingis, Enes Kanter, and Frank Ntilikina have all managed to play well as a cohesive unit. New York isn't necessarily a playoff team, but it's encouraging to see such a young team exceed expectations early.

Still, the Knicks will have a hard time beating this new-look Thunder team. Even though the Thunder are struggling a bit this season, they can still go on offensive barrages quickly. New York will have to force the Thunder to attempt bad shots to try to disrupt their rhythm.

Time, TV channel, and streaming info

Time: 7:30 p.m. ET

Location: Madison Square Garden, New York

TV: NBA TV

Streaming: fuboTV | NBA TV

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Paul George’s return to Indiana was full of moments, both on and off the court

Paul George made a bittersweet return to Indiana as a Pacers opponent on Wednesday night. In his first game back after forcing a trade to Oklahoma City in the offseason, the Thunder narrowly squeezed out a five-point victory.

George’s visit was full of memorable moments — both off the floor and on — showing his complicated relationship with the fans he spent seven seasons playing in front of.

After forcing the Pacers to trade him or risk losing him for nothing, George was back in Indiana. The Oklahoma City Thunder narrowly squeezed out a five-point victory in George’s first game back, but the emotional trip was full of moments — both off the floor and on.

When the Thunder arrived in Indiana for shootaround, George was expecting to be booed:

Four problems the Thunder still need to solve

Westbrook’s most endearing quality is his unflinching refusal to ever back down. You cannot intimidate him with physical defense, or spook him with cheap tactics.

But there’s a problem: Sheer determination sometimes isn’t enough in basketball. Westbrook hasn’t ever been deterred by the way he wants to play, even when that’s being used against him.

This does not mean Westbrook is a problem for the Thunder — they remain better with him on the court than any other rotation player but Andre Roberson. But Westbrook’s stubbornness on the court can certainly hurt the Thunder, too, even as his dynamism keeps them afloat.

Westbrook’s efficiency is a problem. Even as he averages 23 points, 9.8 rebounds, and 9.1 assists per game, he’s shooting under 40 percent from the field. He’s also shooting career lows on two-pointers outside of 10 feet. Small adjustments could yield better results.

Locked on Knicks, Episode 224: Offensive and defensive schemes

On today’s ‘sode I’m joined by P&T maestro Zach DiLuzio to talk about what the Knicks are doing, SCHEMATICALLY, on offense and defense. We discuss what we like, what we don’t like, and what we think the Knicks should do more of.

ALSO DISCUSSED: what the starting lineup should be while Timmy is out, Michael Beasley’s polarizing play, Black Star and MORE!

Listen!

Thunder vs. Knicks prediction:

You have to like what you see from the Knicks. This young team is on the rise, but the Thunder will overwhelm them in this game.

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Elite Sports NY

https://elitesportsny.com/2017/12/07/new-york-islanders-3-pittsburgh-penguins-4-highlights/

New York Islanders frustrated in 4-3 OT loss to Penguins (Highlights)

The Islanders scored two goals in the last five minutes of the third period but ultimately came up short in a frustrating loss.

Pittsburgh Penguins (16-11-3, 35 points) 4

New York Islanders (16-9-3, 35 points) 3

NYI Goals: Jordan Eberle (12), Mathew Barzal (8), Brock Nelson (8)

PIT Goals: Jake Guentzel (13) PPG, Phil Kessel (14) PPG, Riley Sheahan (2), Matt Hunwick (3)

NHL, Final, Box Score

PPG Paints Arena, Pittsburgh, PA

For a moment it seemed the Islanders were destined for a little more. Relentless pressure applied late in the third period brought them to overtime, but a missed clear on the puck after a scramble in front cut it short and earned the Isles a point.

Despite losing back-to-back games for the first time this season, Doug Weight‘s club can take a gritty, well-earned point out of an otherwise lost contest.

The special teams absolutely buried the Isles, 0-for-4 on the power play and 0-for-2 on the penalty kill. If you want a primary reason to blame the loss, look no further.

Recap

The game started off with the ice deeply slanted in Pittsburgh’s favor, the Isles were outshot by more than a 2-to-1 margin in the first period and were fortunate to be down just 1-0.

The Islanders tallied the lone goal in the second courtesy of Jordan Eberle. It was his 12th of the season with assists to Nick Leddy and Mathew Barzal.

Eberle ended on the ice, the puck ended in the net #Isles pic.twitter.com/g8CU9YB8uW