The weekend is approaching, and from Friday to Sunday it will be “fight-o-clock” somewhere in the world. Every Thursday, The Ring will bring you the most up-to-date information on the most relevant fights you need to see in this week-at-a-glance, one-stop enhanced fight schedule. A quick checklist for the cognoscenti, a useful nuts-and-bolts guide for the boxing neophyte is what we’re aiming at.

Here are this week’s most relevant fights:

Friday, September 15 – American Bank Center, Corpus Christi, Texas

Luis Alberto Lopez vs. Joet Gonzalez – featherweight – 12 rounds

A tough title defense for Lopez that was briefly in peril when Gonzalez originally weighed in at 126.4 pounds. Nevertheless, Gonzalez returned to the scale two hours later and he will finally be eligible to pick up the IBF trinket if he defeats the heavy-handed incumbent. Good luck with that!

Xander Zayas vs. Roberto Valenzuela Jr. – junior middleweight – 10 rounds

The unbeaten Zayas has enjoyed a smooth ride with Top Rank at the helm, and now it’s time to bring up the heat. Valenzuela will be the right man for the job at this stage.

Also on this card:

Emiliano Vargas vs. Alejandro Guardado – lightweight – 6 rounds

Jamaine Ortiz vs. Antonio Moran – lightweight – 10 rounds

Omar Aguilar vs. Julio Luna Avila – welterweight – 8 rounds

Tiger Johnson vs. Ricardo Quiroz – junior welterweight – 8 rounds

Where to watch it: ESPN/ESPN Deportes/ESPN+

Angel Fierro vs. Brayan Zamarripa – lightweight – 10 rounds

Erika Cruz vs. Melissa Oddessa Parker – women’s junior featherweight – 10 rounds

Sabrina Perez vs. Skye Nicolson – women’s featherweight – 10 rounds

Kevin Barron Crespo vs. Christian Olivo – featherweight – 10 rounds

Carlos Garcia vs. Daniel Pena – welterweight – 8 rounds

Federico Pacheco Jr. vs. Carlos Cardenas – heavyweight – 4 rounds

Where to watch it: DAZN

Friday, September 15 – Boeing Center, San Antonio

Rafael Pedroza vs. Ramon Cardenas – junior featherweight – 10 rounds

Mirco Cuello vs. Rudy Garcia – featherweight – 10 rounds

Freudis Rojas vs. Saul Bustos – welterweight – 8 rounds

Where to watch it: Showtime

Friday, September 15 – John Marshall Ballroom, Richmond, Va.

Jerry Forrest vs. Robert Hall Jr. – heavyweight – 8 rounds

Dusty Hernandez Harrison vs. Ronald Montes – light heavyweight – 6 rounds

Glenn Dezurn vs. Ernesto Guerrero – bantamweight – 6 rounds

Where to watch it: FITE+

Friday, September 15 – Live Casino, Philadelphia

Joey Dawejko vs. Colby Madison, rematch – heavyweight – 8 rounds

Brendan O’Callaghan vs. DeWayne Williams – middleweight – 6 rounds

Muhammad Robinson vs. Najeem Johns – junior welterweight – 6 rounds

Quadir Albright vs. DeMarcus Layton – welterweight – 6 rounds

Saturday, September 16 – Commerce Casino, Commerce, Calif.  

William Zepeda vs. Mercito Gesta – lightweight – 12 rounds

Zepeda is an unbeaten KO artist who has been clamoring for a title shot, and Gesta (a former title challenger himself) is one of the last roadblocks in his path towards that goal. One of the most intriguing bouts of the weekend.

Also on this card:

Victor Morales vs. Edwin Palomares – featherweight – 10 rounds

Yokasta Valle vs. Maria Santizo – women’s strawweight – 10 rounds

Darius Fulghum vs. Ricardo Luna – light heavyweight – 8 rounds

Eric Priest vs. Simon Madsen – middleweight – 8 rounds

Where to watch it: DAZN

Saturday, September 16 – Red Owl Perf. Center, Brampton, Canada

Carlos Nava vs. Armando Ramirez – junior welterweight – 8 rounds

Zamig Atakishiyev vs. Jorge Sevilla – heavyweight – 8 rounds

Mathusan Mahindas vs. Israel Martinez Arciniega – lightweight – 6 rounds

PG Tondo vs. Eder Clervoix – junior bantamweight – 6 rounds

Where to watch it: DAZN

Saturday, September 16 – Arizona Federal Theater, Phoenix

Danny Barrios vs. Jeronil Borres – junior featherweight – 8 rounds

Jesus Ibarra vs. Edward Ceballos – junior lightweight – 6 rounds

Monday, September 18 – Ariake Arena, Tokyo, Japan

Kenshiro Teraji vs. Hekkie Budler – junior flyweight – 12 rounds

Teraji is one of Japan’s finest, but South Africa’s Budler already knows how it feels to score a major upset in Japan after defeating Ryoichi Taguchi back in 2018 to pick up one of his many belts, and he will be trying to turn back the clock and do it again this time.

Also on this card:

Junto Nakatani vs. Argi Cortes – junior bantamweight – 12 rounds

Anthony Olascuaga vs. Giemel Magramo – junior flyweight – 8 rounds

Tenshin Nasukawa vs. Luis Guzman Torres – junior featherweight – 8 rounds

Takumu Tamagawa vs. Hayato Yokoyama – junior featherweight – 4 rounds

Where to watch it: ESPN+

Wednesday, September 20 – Whitesands Events Center, Plant City, Fla.

Batyrzhan Jukembayev vs. Hugo Alberto Roldan – junior welterweight – 10 rounds

Kazakhstan’s Jukembayev takes on Argentina’sHugo Alberto Roldan in a duel between once-beaten contenders trying to regroup and continue their paths towards greater challenges. Lots of knockouts between the two of them. Should be fun.

Also on this card:

Lester Martinez vs. Lionell Thompson – super middleweight – 10 rounds

Clay Waterman vs. Kareem Hackett – light heavyweight – 10 rounds

Ismael Villarreal vs. John David Martinez – junior middleweight – 8 rounds

Where to watch it: ProBox TV

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Following her debut show last September, entitled “RUSH,” which delivered a fast-paced lineup imbued by a rage towards the Russia-Ukraine war, Masha Popova’s sophomore collection, dubbed “MONSTER,” continues to convey the adrenaline of a furious ride.

This time, a car becomes a monster truck, and the idea of “maximum destruction” takes over hero denim pieces, along with “rough-and-ready” separates. “MONSTER,” both figurative and metaphorical, is a journey of “anger, desire, sadness, shame, love, loneliness and excitement,” explains the Ukrainian designer.

WHERE: Masha Popova returned to the British Fashion Council’s NEWGEN space inside The Old Selfridges Hotel.

WHO: Influencers Mira Al-Momani and Charlotte Roberts, as well as singers Abby Roberts, Grace Carter and Ray Blizzy supported the designer by wearing total Masha Popova looks front row.

SEE: The collection featured various techniques like over-dyeing, flocking, patchwork, scratching, fraying and the label’s distinctive “close and reveal” approach across skin-hugging cropped tees, halter neck tops, silk-velvet shirts and midriff-baring hoodies. Additionally, Masha Popova maintains its commitment to sustainability and ethical practices by collaborating with a new textile solutions specialist, Pizarro, and producing the collection in Ukraine.

TOUCH: Masha Popova’s affection for denim is evident as she continues to explore deconstructed shapes and her signature “rugged effect.” This rough texture contrasts beautifully with soft, radiant velvet fabrics in shades like “Grave-Digger” green, “Max-D silver,” and a vibrant “Bigfoot Blue,” as explained in the collection notes.

HEAR: The runway experience was further brought to life by a pulsing soundtrack featuring roaring engines and screeching tires, courtesy of Portuguese musician Ivo Pacheco.

TASTE: With clogs currently in vogue, Masha Popova’s denim interpretation of the classic European style is something to look out for. On the other hand, other models sported well-worn Dr. Martens, which is a cool way to add “weight” to flowy silhouettes.

The makeup, executed by Grace Ellington, featured metallic gold lips and vibrant eyeshadows, complemented by shaggy-style haircuts with rainbow highlights by Janina Zais. Liia Zotova’s hefty nail designs matched the ensembles’ colors and the jewelry collection, in collaboration with Rebekah Kosonen Bide, combined natural materials with metallic elements. This season is all about prints and textures, mixed and unmatched, and we are loving it.

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There are three ways to get your vegetable garden growing:

• Sow seeds directly in the garden.
• Start seeds indoors and transplant them to the garden when the weather warms.
•  Transplant seedlings purchased at the garden center into the garden.

Starting seed indoors will give you the following:

• Earlier harvests allow you to stretch the growing season.
• Wider choice of cultivars than available for sale at garden centers.
• Protection from early pests, soilborne diseases, and unpredictable weather
• Savings: seeds are cheaper than store-bought transplants.
• The satisfaction that you have grown your very own plants.

Good Products for Seed Starting Success at Amazon:

• Jump Start Germination Station w/Heat Mat Tray, 72-Cell Pack, Dome
• Espoma Seed Starting Mix
• 200 Count- Jiffy 7 Peat Soil Seed Starting Plugs
• Seed Starter Kit with Humidity Dome (120 Cells Total Tray)
• AgrobriteT5 Fluorescent, 2-Foot, Grow Light System

Crops best started from seed in the garden

Some crops are not easily transplanted into the garden. These crops simply want to be handled as little as possible; they are too small or too delicate as seedlings to be moved from one place to another. And when it comes to thinning, it’s best to simply cut the thinnings of these crops off at soil level rather than lift them from the bed. Start these crops from seed in the garden:

• Beets
• Carrots
• Corn salad
• Garden cress
• Parsnips
• Rutabaga
• Salsify
• Turnips

Crops best started from seed indoors

Some crops do poorly in outdoor germination conditions–the soil or air temperature must be optimal for success. Started indoors these crops gain the strength necessary to do well in the garden.

Cool-weather members of this group need a head start indoors because they must reach maturity when the weather is cool, before spring turns warm. But the cold air and soil temperatures of late winter are too cold for them to begin growing. Start these crops indoors and set them in the garden to come to maturity before it gets hot.

• Broccoli
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Cardoon
• Cauliflower
• Celeriac
• Celery
• Florence fennel
• Kale

Warm-weather members of this group generally take 100 or more days to reach harvest. Started from seed in the garden when the weather is finally warm enough (temperatures consistently in the 60s or above) they are likely to run out of growing season or hold space in the garden that could be used by quicker-maturing cool-weather crops earlier in the season. They are best transplanted into the garden when the soil and air temperatures are right. Started indoors these plants will be well developed when they go to the garden; you won’t have to thin these plants. These crops include:

• Cucumbers
• Eggplant
• Melons
• Peppers
• Squash
• Tomatoes

Good Products for Raised Bed Growing at Amazon:

• Galvanized Raised Bed 8×3
• Cedar Raised Bed 4×8
• Elevated Cedar Planter 4×2
• Walk-In Greenhouse Tunnel 15x7x7
• Row Cover for Freeze Protection 10×30

Crops to start indoors or outdoors

Some crops start outdoors just as well as they will start indoors. They are not finicky. Cold climate gardeners–gardeners with short growing seasons–often add these crops to those started indoors. The indoor start allows these crops to go into the garden as soon as the soil is workable (with the exception of corn–which will prefer to wait until outdoor temperatures are consistently in the 60s or above).

• Chinese cabbage
• Chard
• Collards
• Sweet corn
• Endive
• Escarole
• Kale
• Kohlrabi
• Leeks
• Lettuce
• Mustard

Crops to direct sow in the garden or biodegradable pots

Several warm-weather crops do not like being transplanted–their roots are too sensitive. These crops are best started directly from seed in the garden or in individual containers such as biodegradable peat pots or newspaper pots that can be set in the garden.

If you start these crops in plastic pots avoid bending or squeezing the root mass when you transplant them to the garden.

If you sow these crops directly in the garden, thin extra seedlings by cutting them off even at the soil level rather than lifting them and disturbing the roots of the seedlings nearby.

• Beans
• Cucumbers
• Muskmelons
• Okra
• Peas
• Pumpkins
• Squash
• Watermelon

Crops easily started indoors

First-time seed starters should start with seeds that are easy to germinate and seedlings that can withstand transplanting. If you want to gain experience starting vegetables indoors and avoid first-timers’ frustration, start with any of these crops:

• Asparagus (dormant)
• Basil
• Broccoli
• Brussels sprouts
• Cabbage
• Chinese cabbage
• Cauliflower
• Celeriac
• Celery
• Chives
• Collards
• Eggplant
• Endive
• Escarole
• Garlic
• Kale
• Kohlrabi
• Leeks
• Lettuce
• Mustard
• Okra
• Onions
• Parsley
• Peppers
• Radicchio
• Rhubarb( dormant)
• Shallots
• Sunchokes (dormant)
• Tomatoes
• Tomatillos

Crops not grown from seed

Not all vegetables are started from seed. Root divisions, cuttings, and cloves are used to get some vegetables started. Most of these crops are best started directly in the garden, but many can also be started indoors and transplanted out: artichokes: start from root divisions.

• Asparagus: start from 1-year-old roots.
• Garlic: start with cloves.
• Horseradish: start from root cuttings.
• Onions: start from sets, seeds, or small plants.
• Potatoes: start with “seed potatoes”–pieces of potato.
• Rhubarb: set out root crowns.
• Shallots: start with cloves.
• Sweet potatoes: start from slips transplants

Garden Planning Books at Amazon:

• Vegetable Garden Grower’s Guide
• Tomato Grower’s Answer Book
• Vegetable Garden Almanac & Planner
• Kitchen Garden Grower’s Guide Vegetable Encyclopedia

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We lived in Mac Iver Street, along which, at great speed and with equal noise, tanks, tanks, trucks with army soldiers and carabineros of the ” creeping general ” Mendoza were running. Named after President Salvador Allende for joining in the assassination carried out by General Augusto Pinochet, when his superiors in the police force had refused to add the necessary police forces to the coup d’état.

By Freddy Pacheco León

British Hawcker Hunter fighter-bombers were flying at very low altitude, charged with weapons to attack, on the orders of General Gustavo Leigh, La Moneda Palace, President Allende’s residence in Tomás Moro, the transmission antennae of the Corporación and Portales radio stations, and other sites allegedly “dangerous” to “state security”.

Months went by, and eventually, the admiral of the naval force, Toribio Merino, who in a meteoric “academic career” of the highest level, was appointed to appoint the “military rectors” of the universities, chose General Ruiz Danyau as head of the subjugated University of Chile. A military man trained to kill, and also an imbecile, became the rector of the most important house of higher education in Chile, to prevent anti-democratic thoughts from being spread from there, they said. General that a year after the coup, he was decorated by the Spanish dictator Francisco Franco, with whom he had many things in common, mainly in terms of intellectual abilities.

That Tuesday 11 September, a day full of brutality, by order of the spurious military junta presided over by Augusto Pinochet (remembered as a thief and “murderer of life”), the Armed Forces and the Carabineros mobilised in pursuit of their supreme objective: to assassinate the President of the Republic, Dr Salvador Allende. That was their trophy! A constitutional president who had been elected and assumed the presidential office three years earlier, and who had growing popular support, which, paradoxically, made him more dangerous for the civilian and military aristocracy, accustomed to the enjoyment of unjust privileges, which they were not prepared to lose with a Popular Unity government. Conspirators who began their actions even before Dr. Allende took office. Allende took office, on the way to which they assassinated in one of the streets of Santiago General René Schneider, who at the time, as Commander-in-Chief of the Army, had declared himself ready to defend the popular will expressed at the polls and to ensure respect for the constitutional order, even before Allende’s election, against the representative of the ultra-right, the former president Jorge Alessandri, who was later appointed by the military coup plotters as a member of the so-called Council of State, as a reward for his complicity.

As the bombs fell from the war planes, paradoxically acquired to supposedly defend Chile’s borders, the shrill and criminal noise of the machine gun and cannon fire was multiplied by the echo of the pavement of the streets and buildings of downtown Santiago, occupied by the militiamen and some workers running home, under the bullets of soldiers playing target practice. Bestial savagery was unleashed.

The night before, on Monday 10 September, while life seemed to be going on normally, we were sharing a dinner in the Las Condes district with the participants of an international course that had ended that same day at the Biochemistry Department of the Faculty of Medicine, attached to the José Joaquín Aguirre Hospital in Santiago. What we did not know was that cowardly, under the shadows, all over Chile, the military coup plotters had begun to carry out a criminal coup d’état, forged by “experts” from Chile, the CIA, the White House and the Pentagon, because it was a terrible continental example that a socialist president had been elected in free elections. That had to be stopped at the root! It could not be allowed! And that is why concepts such as human rights and democracy became obstacles to the ends of the military caste that so enjoyed the royalties that their peers in the political aristocracy, mainly, used as payment for their indecent services.

Much has been written and will continue to be documented about what happened after. The “military coup”, repudiated by the world’s democrats, was cynically denied as such by Pinochet and his henchmen. “It was a military pronouncement carried out to defend democracy and the rights of the Chilean people”, they claimed, while prohibiting even the mention of the word “coup”, because a “hero” cannot be described as a coup leader….

They were equally indignant when he asked about the thousands of murdered people who were being added to the figures in some morgues from Arica to Magallanes, because for the murderer of life (so we heard), “those corpses that you see in the course of the Mapocho River, with their faces smashed by shots fired in their heads, are common criminals who are killing each other”, he sarcastically mocked at press conferences, where pseudo-journalists were used to ask the questions dictated to them minutes before by those in charge of the dictatorship’s propaganda.

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