Steve Collins, Jr, makes Pro debut at London?s York Hall on Friday 5th July

Over the past few months legendary two time, two division World Champion, Steve Collins, has been receiving some serious column inches in the press, due to his proposed return to action against Roy Jones Jr.

However, before the man known as the ?Celtic Warrior? gets to go toe-to-toe with Florida?s finest, he has a very different ?boxing related? role ahead of him, as the proud father ringside when his son Steve Jr. makes his professional debut, at York Hall in London this coming Friday.

Speaking from his Hertfordshire home earlier, the ?Celtic Warrior? spoke briefly on son Steve?s upcoming professional debut.

?First of all I?m absolutely delighted, I?m proud that Steve?s going to give boxing a shot.

He?s a terrific athlete, he?s definitely dedicated and a tough kid, you know, not just Boxing, he has a great career as a Rugby player too.

I personally feel he?s done the right thing, by going straight into the pro game, his style of boxing is right for the pros.

We thought he?d have to campaign as a Heavyweight, but because of the boxing training he?s dropped a lot of weight and so will fight as a Cruiserweight.

Boxing training is very different from Rugby training and he dropped quite a bit of weight.

All through training we thought he?d be Heavyweight, we were confident he?d be able to hold his own in the division. He?s not lost any of that power or strength so he should be very strong at Cruiserweight.

People are bound to expect him to fight like I did, but no, he has his own style, he?s very much a come forward boxer, he?ll come forward and crowd his opponent.

I think he?s a very exciting boxer to watch, the fans will love him. Stevie?s not the only Irish fighter on the show, so we?re hoping there will be a big turnout of Irish fans on Friday to cheer Stevie and the other boys on.?

As we reported previously, , recently crowned WBU Lightweight World Champion Stephen ??The Rock?? Ormond also stars on the card as well as a trio of Irish lads taking part on the night.

On his last visit to York Hall, in July last year, Ormond convincingly beat Canning Town?s Mickey Coveney. Of the back of this superb win, Ormond was presented the opportunity to face Hungarian Laszlo Robert Balogh for the vacant WBU crown.

On the 3rd May 2013, at the Carlton Hotel in Tyrrelstown, Dublin, on just his fourteenth pro outing Ormond stepped into the ring to face thirty three fight veteran Balogh.

Ormond utterly dominated the opening round, before going on to stop the Hungarian in just one minute and fifty four seconds of the second stanza.

On the 5th July the Dubliner will be facing tough Czech battler Michal Dufek.

Joining his fellow countryman on July 5th is Irish Light Middleweight Lee Murtagh who, even though he has fought the majority of his fifty career fights in the UK, will be making his first visit to the famous home of boxing in the English Capital, as preparation for his upcoming IBO Inter-Continental title battle.

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BEIJING, June 30 (Xinhua) -- A 5.0-magnitude earthquake jolted the border region between China and Tajikistan at 12:59 p.m. Sunday (Beijing Time), according to the China Earthquake Networks Center.

The epicenter, with a depth of 10 km, was at 39.2 degrees north latitude and 73.4 degrees east longitude, the center said in a statement.

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Same-sex marriage: 'Inevitable' in light of Supreme Court rulings?

US Supreme Court decisions this week on same-sex marriage didn't settle the issue. But some prominent conservatives say the court set the country on a path to universal legalization of gay marriage.

By Brad Knickerbocker,?Staff writer / June 29, 2013

Jeff Zarrillo and Paul Katami are married by Los Angeles Mayor Antonio Villaraigosa Friday at City Hall in Los Angeles. Zarrillo and Katami were plaintiffs in the Prop. 8 gay marriage case decided this week by the US Supreme Court.

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In knocking down the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA) and effectively doing the same to California?s Prop. 8 ban on same-sex marriage, has the US Supreme Court made it inevitable that gay marriage one day will be legal nationwide?

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Read literally, the two decisions don?t go that far. But many analysts and legal experts ?prominent conservatives among them ? believe that to be true, including Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, who wrote an angry rebuttal to the 5-4 majority?s decision on DOMA.

Exactly ten years earlier, Justice Scalia had done the same thing in the high court?s landmark ruling striking down an anti-sodomy law in Texas, which affirmed the right of gay couples to have consensual sex.

Following on from the majority?s ruling in that case, he wrote (again in dissent), ?What justification could there possibly be for denying the benefits of marriage to homosexual couples??

Scalia meant that as a fearful warning, but it turns out that his prediction can only be seen as correct, as this week?s rulings show. And again this time, the most strident conservative voice on the Supreme Court is forecasting the same kind of result, in this case as it relates to the 35 states that prohibit same-sex marriage in their constitutions or state laws.?

?By formally declaring anyone opposed to same-sex marriage an enemy of human decency, the majority arms well every challenger to a state law restricting marriage to its traditional definition,? Scalia wrote in his DOMA dissent.

In his majority opinion, Justice Anthony Kennedy did not use the phrase "enemy of human decency." But he wrote that DOMA ?places same-sex couples in an unstable position of being in a second-tier marriage? and ?humiliates tens of thousands of children now being raised by same-sex couples.?

The law?s ?principal purpose is to impose inequality,? Justice Kennedy wrote, and he said it had been motivated by ?a bare congressional desire to harm a politically unpopular group.?

Such language, writes Dominic Perella, a Washington lawyer who has argued many cases before federal courts, ?draws a detailed road map for courts to hold that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right nationwide.?

Beyond invalidating DOMA, Mr. Perella writes in a column for MSNBC, ?Justice Kennedy?s majority opinion went much further ? it offered passage after passage that reads like it was lifted straight from an opinion holding that same-sex marriage is a constitutional right.?

Jonathan Rauch of the Brookings Institution doesn?t go that far, but he sees something very consequential about the court?s decisions in DOMA and California?s Prop. 8 in any case. ?The rulings will have a modest effect on legal doctrine but a major effect on cultural momentum,? he writes.

?As a practical matter, although not doctrinally, the court seems to imply that a law discriminating against gays ? whether by excluding them from marriage or, implicitly, by doing something else ? is presumed guilty of being based on animus until proven innocent, and so its constitutionality is going to be suspect,? Mr. Rauch writes.

?California ? is a big change all by itself,? he writes. ?The state is so big that it takes the percentage of Americans living in gay-marriage states up to 30 percent, from 18 percent. Soon, when Illinois or a few other states come in, more than a third of the country, by population, will allow gay marriage. If that is not mainstream, nothing is.?

Conservative columnist Charles Krauthammer of the Washington Post foresees the same eventual outcome.

In a column this week about DOMA headlined ?Nationalized gay marriage, now inevitable,? Mr. Krauthammer writes: ?If discriminating (regarding federal benefits) between a gay couple and a straight couple is prohibited in New York where gay marriage is legal, by what logic is discrimination permitted in Texas, where a gay couple is prevented from marrying in the first place? Which is exactly where the majority?s second rationale leads ? nationalizing gay marriage?.?

?This is certainly why David Boies, the lead attorney in the?companion Proposition 8 case, was so jubilant when he came out onto the courthouse steps after the ruling,? Krauthammer writes. ?He understood immediately that once the court finds it unconstitutional to discriminate between gay and straight couples, nationalizing gay marriage is just one step away.?

Although it could have waited up to 25 days, the?Ninth?US Circuit Court of?Appeals on Friday lifted its hold on gay marriages in California while the US Supreme Court considered the case. Within minutes officials were performing same-sex marriages in San Francisco, Los Angeles, and other cities and towns around the state.

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Contract Resources Middle East Refineries Deal Tipped... | Stuff.co.nz

A New Zealand oil, gas and petrochemical services firm is confident of securing a deal in Kuwait and the booming Middle East refinery sector.

Contract Resources provides specialised catalyst handling and mechanical services, as well as environmental and industrial services to companies around the world.

The firm was valued at $116 million after an 85 per cent acquisition by Auckland-based investment firm Hellaby Holdings. It bought Wellington investment company Rangatira's 50 per cent stake in Contract Resources late last year.

Contract Resources chief executive Andrew Wells said the company, which does about 90 per cent of its business overseas, was confident of securing a five-year contract with the Kuwait National Petroleum Company, which in 2011 recorded a net profit of about $2.1 billion from revenues of nearly $50b.

Wells said the firm now had a very small market share in the Middle East, but the refineries and petrochemical plants there were of enormous potential.

"New refineries and petrochemical plants in the Middle East [are] nothing new but the scale of them is quite impressive.

"As an example, Kuwait has three refineries; it would be the largest user of catalyst in the world.

"Those three refineries, and if we win that contract that's the largest catalyst handling contract left in the world."

Wells said there were not many companies in the world that offered specialised catalyst handling services, an essential component to refineries.

"You have reactors which are full with catalyst and during the process over time that catalyst becomes spent or used or inactive and it has to be taken out and replaced.

"During the process it becomes contaminated with a whole lot of quite nasty stuff and we have to come up with solutions to be able to handle it," Wells said.

The process was hazardous because catalyst burnt when exposed to oxygen, so work had to be completed in reactors filled with nitrogen.

"It's high hazard but the hazards are very well managed.

"If you take maintenance services, more people are being killed undoing nuts and bolts on a petrochemical plant than they have been getting into nitrogen atmospheres."

Contract Resources is forecast to achieve revenues of $150m this year, which Wells said was comparable to similar overseas companies.

"If you go like-for-like, some would be a bit bigger than us and some would be a bit smaller than us, but we're not talking sheep stations, so there's probably about five of us that are all pretty similar in size."

Hellaby Holdings chief executive John Williamson said Contract Resources, which employed about 600 people, allowed the investment firm to diversify its portfolio to include more overseas revenue earners.

The diversified investment firm is active in the automotive parts, packaging, industrial equipment and footwear markets.

"The attraction of Contract Resources is firstly it's a New Zealand company that's done extremely well overseas, it's one of the larger New Zealand export service providers and it's a business that provides central services in a central sector."

He said the company operated in four key geographies, the largest of which was Australia, as well as New Zealand, the United States and Middle East.

- ? Fairfax NZ News

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Slacker Radio

Slacker Radio just keeps getting better. The thirteen-million song strong service still offers an oh-so-sweet mix of customizable, curated channels, playlists, news and sports talk, and on-demand streaming, but adds a recent redesign, the information-filled Music Guide, and content from The Weather Channel. Slacker continues its forward push to become your all-inclusive streaming audio service.

A Softer Interface
The recently revamped Slacker ditches the slick, black design that's been the service's face since its 2007 debut for a mostly white page that's interspersed with a soft blue. Although Slacker now looks like it could be "baby's first streaming music service," there are benefits to the new design. If, like me, you spend the majority of your day staring into the white void that is Microsoft Word, glancing over to a white Slacker is easier on the eye than the black one.

The tabbed area that contained the "Home," "Now Playing," "Create Your Own," and "Devices" sections are no more. Slacker has a new panel-driven interface that features large, square icons that make identifying items far simpler. The upper-most section that houses album art, song title, and playback controls crib elements from the Slacker Apple iPad?app's original design. The area is larger and easier to read, but it has a few issues. The volume control is positioned a bit too close to the "Up Next" preview square that lets you take a peek at an upcoming track. I'd sometimes preview instead of adjusting the volume as a result.

On the upside, I like that you can view artist info or lyrics by clicking the artist name or song title, respectively, but that requires some exploration to find. Unlike Slacker's previous design, the new build lacks an identifying icon.

Customization and Discovery
Slacker Radio has three main areas: "Slacker Stations," "Music Guide," and "My Music." Visiting/logging into Slacker takes you to Music Guide by default?don't worry, you can still play tunes there. Music Guide is an information hub that fills you in on the latest music happenings and points you toward cool content. For example, Prince?at the time of this writing?was the Artist of the Week due to The Purple One turning 55 years old. Slacker created a channel that not only highlighted his rich music offerings, but those who inspired him as well.

Slacker Stations houses the services many news, talk, comedy, and music channels and displays them as large panels with eye-catching art design. There are over 40 top-level (including Alternative, Blues, Chill, Comedy) and multiple sub-genres within each. You can, of course, key in an artist name or song title into the search engine. Typing "Hendrix" and then clicking the search icon returned numerous results, but I liked that I could filter by artists, album, song, or station by clicking a tab to the right of the results.

My Music is where you'll find your playlists, custom stations, and recently played stations. The playlists and custom stations areas have large, hard to miss icons that let you build fresh playlists and custom stations. A diagram displays how you go about build either when you click the respective icons.

I fine-tuned my "The Wind Cries Mary" channel by clicking the "Fine Tune" icon, which is now located in the same area as the playback controls (the old Slacker design buried it in the settings menu). The fine tune options include a keyword stream that displays an artist's most popular songs and their relative number of songs based on the popularity and size of the keyword (color represents popularity and size represents number). Like the SiriusXM MySXM beta I recently tested, Slacker Radio has sliders that you can use to tweak playback metrics in the related artists, favorite songs, popular songs, and new/older song categories. Unlike SiriusXM MySXM, Slacker's sliders remained the same from station to station. Still, the additional customization options open the door to more tightly crafted custom stations.

As always, clicking the "Ban" icon prevents a song/artist from appearing. Clicking the heart-shaped "Favorite" icon, however, gave a song extra weight, causing Slacker to play it more frequently. You can also turn on/off Slackers DJ, ABC News, and ESPN updates.

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Kerry: Will look into claims US bugged EU

BANDAR SERI BEGAWAN, Brunei (AP) ? U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry says he doesn't know all the particulars about allegations that the U.S. bugged European Union offices. But he says many nations engaged in international affairs undertake lots of different kinds of activities to protect their national interests.

EU Foreign Affairs chief Catherine Ashton raised the issue with Kerry on Monday during a meeting on the sidelines of a security conference in Brunei.

The Obama administration is facing a breakdown in confidence from key U.S. allies over secret surveillance programs that reportedly installed covert listening devices in EU offices.

Several European officials, including officials in Germany, Italy, France, Luxembourg and the EU government itself, say the new revelations could scuttle ongoing negotiations on a trans-Atlantic trade treaty.

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